chopped fine, half a pound stale bread crumbs, one-quarter of a pound sugar, teaspoon salt, grated lemon peel and spice to taste. Boil in a mould or bag four hours. Serve hot with rich sauce. This is a winter dessert, and a nice, inexpensive pudding.

Plain Macaroni or Vermicelli Puddings. -Put two ounces of macaroni or vermicelli into a pint of milk, and simmer until tender. Flavor it by putting in two or three sticks of cinnamon, while boiling, or some other spice when done. Then beat up three eggs; mix in an ounce of sugar, half a pint of milk, a teaspoonful of salt, and a glass of wine. Add these to the broken macaroni or vermicelli, and bake in a slow oven.

Green Corn Pudding. — Twelve ears of corn, grated. Sweet corn is best. One pint and a half of milk. Four well-beaten eggs. One teacup and a half of sugar. Mix the above, and bake it three hours in a buttered dish. More sugar is needed if common corn is used.

English Fruit Pudding. — One pound currants, one pound stoned raisins, one pound sugar, one pound suet, two pounds grated or soaked bread, six eggs, one-half teaspoonful saleratus, one teaspoonful salt, and one grated nutmeg. Crumb the soft part of the bread fine; soak the crust with boiling milk, or water will do; beat up the eggs and put all together. Mix thoroughly with the hands. Take a square piece of cotton cloth and lay it in a tin pan; put the pudding into the cloth and tie down close; put into a pot of boiling water and boil five hours. As the water boils away, add more boiling water.

Chocolate Pudding. — One quart of milk, three tablespoonfuls sugar, four tablespoonfuls cornstarch, two and one-half tablespoonfuls chocolate. Scald the milk over hot water. Dissolve the cornstarch in a little scalded milk, and before it thickens, add the chocolate, which has been dissolved by placing in a small basin, which is set in a still larger one of boiling water. Stir until sufficiently cooked. Use with cream, or sauce of butter and cream, stirred to a cream.

Rice and Apple Pudding. — One cup of rice, boiled very soft; stir well to keep from burning. Eight large apples, stewed; pass the pulp through a sieve. Mix it thoroughly with the rice. Add one-half teaspoonful of butter and the yolks of two eggs, well-beaten; sweeten to the taste; bake. Beat the whites of the eggs and put on top, and return to the oven a few moments to set the frosting. It is better almost cold.

Orange Pudding. Peel and cut five good oranges into thin slices, taking out all the seed. Put over them a coffee-cup of fine white sugar. Let a pint of milk get boiling hot by setting it in hot water. Add the yolks of three eggs, well-beaten, one tablespoonful of cornstarch, made smooth in a little milk. Stir all the time, and as soon as it thickens, pour over the fruit. Beat the whites to a stiff froth and spread over the top for frosting, and set in the oven to harden. Best eaten cold. Boiled Scrap Bread Pudding. Any odd pieces of bread. Put into a bowl and pour boiling milk over them. Let them stand till well soaked, then beat up with a fork. Add a small piece of dripping, a few currants or raisins, a little moist sugar. Mix well up, put into a greased bowl, tie a floured cloth over the top, and boil for an hour. Good either hot or cold.

Plum Pudding for the Million. One-half pound chopped suet, one-half pound flour, one-half pound bread crumbs, one pound grated carrots, one pound potatoes, one pound currants, one pound raisins, one pound apples, one teaspoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of allspice, one teaspoonful of bakingpowder, half a nutmeg (grated), one pound sugar, a good pinch of salt. Mix the

flour, bread crumbs, suet, carrots, potatoes, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, baking-powder, salt, and sugar well; then add currants, raisins (stoned and cleaned), and apples. Mix with water or milk into a soft paste. Boil in floured cloth for four hours, or in a basin or mould for five hours. Good.

Brown Suet Pudding. One pound flour, one-fourth pound suet, one-half pound treacle, one-half pound raisins, salt, half nutmeg (grated), one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, milk. Warm the treacle, chop the suet very fine, mix the flour with a pinch of salt, soda, cream of tartar, nutmeg, cinnamon, all well together; add treacle, suet, raisins, and put in a well-floured cloth, and boil quickly for three hours.

Fig Pudding. - One pound figs, one-half pound flour, one-half pound bread crumbs, one-fourth pound suet, two ounces sugar, half a teaspoonful nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one small teaspoonful baking-powder, milk or water. Chop the suet and figs fine. Mix flour, bread crumbs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking-powder well together. Add suet and figs, with enough milk or water to make into dough. Roll it into a floured cloth, leaving room for it to swell, and boil very fast for three hours.

Indian, Pudding. One quart milk, one-half pound Indian meal, one small cup treacle, one tablespoonful dripping, one teaspoonful ginger, one egg, one teaspoonful baking-powder, a pinch of salt. When the milk is nearly boiling, wet the meal with some of the cold milk and let it boil; then add the treacle, dripping, ginger, pinch of salt, and egg well beaten; lastly, the baking-powder. Turn it into a pie-dish and bake for two hours.

Cottage Pudding. - One cup milk, one teaspoonful (large) butter, one teaspoonful sugar, three-fourths pound flour, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, yolks of two eggs. Mix sugar, yolks of eggs, and butter to a cream; then add the milk and flour by degrees. Beat very light; then add soda and cream of tartar, and bake for one hour.

A Few Hints on Pudding Making. — When a pudding is to be boiled, see that the cloth to be used is very clean, and that it is dipped in boiling water, dredged with flour, and shaken well before the pudding is put into it.

If a bread pudding, it must be tied loose. If a batter one, it must be tied tight. When a shape or basin is to be used, it must be well greased before the pudding is put in. When it is ready, care must be taken in lifting it out. Allow it to stand for a few minutes before unloosing the cloth.

All puddings must be boiled in plenty of water, turned frequently, kept closely covered, and never allowed to go off the boil.

If the pudding is to be baked, the dish or pan must be also greased before it is put in. Bread and custard puddings require time and a moderate oven, to raise them.

As a rule, steamed puddings are put in an earthenware dish, covered with a tight cover or greased paper, which is placed in a pan of boiling water, which must not come more than three parts up the sides of the pudding-dish. If the water boils away, more boiling water must be added, and it must be kept always boiling. Be careful in removing the lid that no drops fall on the pudding. Puddings, etc., when steamed, do not require so much liquid in them as when baked. The dry air of the oven dries them; steaming keeps them moist.

CHAPTER IV.

RECIPES FOR HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, ETC.

HORSES.

Sure Remedy for Bots. — When a horse is attacked with bots, it may be known by the occasional nipping at his own sides, and by red pimples, or projections, on the inner surface of the upper lip, which may be seen plainly by turning up the lip. First, then, take two quarts of new milk, with one quart of molasses, and give the horse the whole amount. Second, fifteen minutes afterwards, give two quarts of very strong, warm sage tea. Lastly, thirty minutes after the tea, you will give three pints (or enough to operate as physic) of courier's oil. The cure will be complete, as the milk and molasses cause the bots to let go their hold, the tea puckers them up, and the oil carries them entirely away. If you have any doubt, one trial will satisfy you perfectly. In places where the courier's oil cannot be obtained, substitute for it a double handful of salt, dissolved in just what warm water will dissolve it.

Cure for Colic in Horses. — Spirits of turpentine, three ounces; laudanum, one ounce; mix, and give all for a dose, by putting it into a bottle with one-half pint of warm water, which prevents injury to the throat. If relief is not obtained in one hour, repeat the dose, adding one-half ounce of the best powdered aloes well dissolved together, and have no uneasiness about the result.

Symptoms. The horse often lies down and suddenly rises again with a spring; strikes his belly with his hind feet, stamps with his fore feet, and refuses every kind of food, etc. I suppose there is no other medicine in use, for colic, either in man or horse, equal to this mixture.

Dose. For persons, a dose would be from one to two teaspoonfuls; children or weak persons, less, according to the urgency of the symptoms; to be taken in warm

water or warm tea.

Positive Cure for Poll Evil and Fistula. Take common potash, one-quarter ounce; extract of belladonna, one-half drachm; gum-arabic, one-quarter ounce. Dissolve the gum in as little water as practicable; then, having pulverized the potash, unless it is moist, mix the gum water with it, and the potash will soon dissolve; then mix in the extract and it is ready to use; and it can be used without the belladonna, but it is more painful without it, and does not have quite as good an effect.

Directions.— The best plan to get this into the pipes is by means of a small syringe, after having cleansed the sore with soapsuds; repeated once in two days, until all the callous pipes and hard fibrous base around the poll evil or fistula are completely destroyed.

Grease-Heel and Common Scratches. - Take lye made from wood ashes, and boil white oak bark in it until it is quite strong, both in lye and dark ooze; when it is cold it is ready for use. First, wash off the horse's legs with dishwater or castile soap, and when dry, apply the ooze with a swab upon a stick which is sufficiently long to keep you out of his reach, as he will tear around like a wild horse; but you must wet all well once a day, until you see the places are drying up. The grease-heel

may be known from the common scratches by the deep crack, which does not appear in the common kind. Of course, this will fetch off the hair, but the disease has been known to fetch off the hoof; then, to bring on the hair again, use salve made by stewing sweet elder bark in old bacon. Then form the salve, by adding a little resin, according to the amount of oil when stewed, about one-quarter pound to each pound of oil.

Contracted Hoof, or Sore Feet. No. 1.-Take equal parts of soft fat, yellow linseed oil, Venice turpentine, and Norway tar; first, melt the wax, then add the others, mixing thoroughly. Apply to the edge of the hair once a day.

wax,

No. 2.- Benzine, one ounce; salts of nitre, one ounce; alcohol, three ounces; aqua ammonia, two ounces; Venice turpentine, eight ounces. Mix. Apply to the edge of the hair and all over the hoof once a day for ten days; then twice a week for a short time.

No. 3.-Resin, four ounces; lard, eight ounces. Heat them over a slow fire. Then take off and add powdered verdigris, one ounce, and stir well to prevent its running over. When partly cool, add two ounces spirits of turpentine. Apply to the hoof about one inch down from the hair.

Favorite Recipes for Heaves. — No. 1.

Assafoetida pulverized, one ounce;

camphor gum pulverized, one-half ounce. Mix, and divide into four powders. Feed one every other night for a week.

No. 2.1 - Resin, two ounces; tartar emetic, two ounces; Spanish brown, two ounces; cayenne, two ounces. Mix, and give two teaspoonfuls twice a day, in the

feed.

No. 3. A horseman with whom I am acquainted says he has cured several cases of heaves with oil tar. He gives the ordinary case a teaspoonful every night, or every other night, by pouring it onto the tongue, and then giving some grain, which carries it into the stomach. He says he has given very had cases two or three tablespoonfuls at a dose, with grand results.

Distemper. Hops, two ounces; carbolic acid, thirty drops; boiling water, two gallons. Mix the hops and carbolic acid with the boiling water, and compel the animal to inhale the steam for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time. Repeat three times a day. Apply a strong mustard paste to the throat, and place a warm poultice over the paste. Feed warm mashes and boiled vegetables. Keep the stable comfortably warm and the air pure. Give the following powders once a day: Powdered Peruvian bark, two ounces; powdered gentian, one ounce; powdered copperas, one ounce. Mix, and divide into eight powders.

Founder cured in Twenty-four Hours. -Boil or steam stout oat-straw for half an hour. Then wrap it around the horse's leg, quite hot. Cover up with wet woollen rags, to keep in the steam. In six hours renew the application. Take one gallon of blood from the neck vein, and give one quart of linseed oil. He may be worked next day.

Cure for Staggers. - Give a mess twice a week, composed of bran, one gallon; sulphur, one tablespoonful; saltpetre, one teaspoonful; boiling sassafras tea, one quart; assafoetida, one and one-eighth ounces. Keep the horse from cold water for half a day afterwards.

Cracked Heels. Tar, eight ounces; beeswax, one ounce; resin, one ounce; alum, one ounce; tallow, one ounce; sulphate of iron, one ounce; carbolic acid, one drachm; mix and boil over a slow fire. Skim off the filth and add two ounces of the scraping of sweet elder.

Ring-Bone and Spavin Cure. - Venice turpentine and Spanish flies, of each two ounces; euphorbium and aqua ammonia, of each one ounce; red precipitate, one-half ounce; corrosive sublimate, one-quarter ounce; lard, one and one-half pounds. Pulverize all, and put into the lard. Simmer slowly over coals, not scorching or burning, and pour off free of sediment. For ring-bones, cut off the hair and rub the ointment well into the lumps, once in forty-eight hours. For spavins, once in twenty-four hours for three mornings. Wash well with suds previous to each application, rubbing over the place with a smooth stick, to squeeze out a yellow matter. This has removed very large ring-bones.

Cure for Mange. — Oil of tar, one ounce; lac sulphur, one and one-half ounces; whale oil, two ounces. Mix. Rub a little on the skin wherever the disease appears, and continue, daily, for a week, and then wash off with castile soap and warm water. To grow Hair. - Mix sweet oil, one pint; sulphur, three ounces. Shake well, and rub well into the dock twice a week.

For Worms. Calomel, one drachm; tartar emetic, one-half drachm; linseed meal, one ounce; fenugreek, one ounce. Mix and give in feed at night, and repeat the dose for two or three times, and follow with one and one-half pints of raw linseed oil, about six hours after the last powder has been given.

Physic Balls for Horses.- Barbadoes aloes, from four to five or six drachms (according to the size and strength of the horse); tartrate of potassa, one drachm; ginger and castile soap, each two drachms; oil of anise or peppermint, twenty drops. Pulverize and make all into one ball, with thick gum solution. Feed by giving scalded bran, instead of oats, for two days before giving the physic, and during its operation.

Sweeney Liniment. - Take alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each eight ounces; camphor gum, pulverized cantharides, and capsicum, of each one ounce; oil of spike, three ounces. Mix all; or perhaps the best plan is to tincture the capsicum first, and use the tincture instead of the powder, by which means you are free of sediment. Bathe this liniment in with a hot iron. The first case has yet to

be found where it has not cured this disease, when faithfully followed.

Sprint and Spavin Liniment. — Take a large-mouthed bottle and put into it oil of origanum, six ounces; gum camphor, two ounces; mercurial ointment, two ounces; iodine ointment, one ounce. Melt by putting the bottle into a kettle of hot water. Apply it to bone spavins or splints twice daily, for four or five days. The lameness will trouble you no more.

Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment; also Good for Curbs, Splints, RingBone, and Spavin. ---Take pulverized cantharides, one ounce; mercurial ointment, two ounces; tincture of iodine, one and one-half ounces; spirits of turpentine, two ounces; cosive sublimate, one and one-half drachms; lard, one pound. Mix well, and when desired to apply, first cut off the hair, wash well and anoint, rubbing it in well with the hand, or glove if preferred. Two days after, grease the part with lard, and in two days more wash off and apply the ointment again. Repeat the process every week, as long as necessary.

Unhealthy Ulcers. — Nitric acid, one ounce; blue vitriol, three ounces; soft water, fifteen ounces.

Water Farcy. No. 1.-Saltpetre, two ounces; copperas, two ounces; ginger, one ounce; fenugreek, two ounces; anise, one-half ounce; gentian, one ounce. Mix, and divide into eight powders; give two or three each day.

No. 2.— Gentian, one ounce; ginger, one-half ounce; anise, one ounce; ele