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158 AGRICULTURAL. DANIEL LEE, IV. D., Editor. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1859. WHEAT CULTURE. There seems to be little attention paid to the cultiration of wlieat in Franklin, Rabun, or any counties in the northwest part of Georgia, where this editorial is written. We learn that the rust is often ruinous to this crop, and, for two years, has been hardly less destructive to oats. Clean culture, that is, keeping the crop free of weeds and grass, appears to be strangely neg lected, if one may judge from the stubble fields where wheat, oats, and rye have grown. Weeds, weeds, and nothing but weeds, with a sprinkling of crab-grass, cover the ground. The land could not have been properly tilled for small grain, of whatever kind, or it never would become so foul. Indeed, it is quite out of the question to raise good wheat in connection with a crop of weeds, or one of grass. Better try to obtain a bale of cotton from an acre of weeds and grass, than a fair crop of wheat from foul land. It ought to be summer fallowed on many farms to sprout by repeated plowings, every seed in the soil, and kill the young plants. In place of cleaning fields for wheat, we see many thickly seeded by ripe weeds and other pestiferous plants, which will be sure seriously to damage the crop of next year. Clean cultivation cannot be too strongly urged on the attention of all wheat-growers. Plow the ground repeatedly, that all bad seeds may germinate before tho wheat is committed to tho earth, if you would raise clean and plump wheat, instead of that which is shrunken and worthless. The foulness of meadows and grain fields, not excepting corn, is the most prominent feature in the agriculture we have seen for the last ten days. The true remedy for this state of things, is to practice a more thorough system of tillage, in conjunction with renovating crops, like peas, clover, or tur nips, that will not leave the ground foul with weeds, briars, sassafras, persimmons, and other annoyances. Rich, clean land is needed for tho production of superior wheat, at a good profit. But, in place of this, most farmers sow wheat on land naturally thin, or impoverished by crop ping, and still farther damaged by a large growth of unsubdued and injurious weeds. What these do not extract from the soil, the feeble and choked wheat plants are allowed to imbibe from the bard earth, if they can. This policy of starving young wheat, when it ought to spread, tiller, and cover the ground, is as unwise as it is discreditable. By all means, prepare tho land well before seeding, if you do not sow the seed before January. With no rival grasses nor weeds to contend with, and a plenty of aliment, in a mellow soil, wheat grows rapid ly, and iu great perfection; but it is impatient of injustice, whether in the shape of defective tillage, or unsubdued weeds and grass. Fence corners should be kept free of all plants that will yield bad seeds, to bo scattered by winds and birds over the whole field. Wet places, that need only a little ditching, are frequently given up to the production, not of good hay, but alders and other bushes, brambles, or aquatic plants. The only reason why wheat culture does not abound and prosper, that we can discover, is tho lack of thoroughness of agricultural industry. This important staple demands first-rato farm ing, to enrich the producer. A slip-shod, care less cultivator, may as well not attempt to grow wheat for a living, or hardly for his bread. There is much land too poor for this crop, but as deep cultivation greatly improves a poor soil for the growth of grasses and fruit trcc3; so deep tillage is known to increase the quantity of wheat that may bo grown on an acre. If tho ground is not fertile, be careful not to seed too thickly, lest each plant starves its neighbor. Thick planting on poor land, is a common error. Be careful to leave the surface so that the light mould and soil will not wash off during the winter and spring rains; and roll the ground after tho seed is sown, if practicable. After the ground has been repeatedly plowed and har rowed, then sow the seed, and cover it by a one-horse plow, unloss you have the excellent gang-plows, used by Northern wheat-growers. A good wheat drill is better for putting in seed. Wash it well in brine or bluestone, dissolved in water, and dry in lime or ashes. Look after the water-furrows, the fenees, and be careful to keep all animals from treading on the soft earth and young plants. Pull up by hand, or dig up with the hoe, all cheat, cockle, rye and other plants, but wheat. Neither sow nor reap any thing but clean wheat. In the beat stock-growing and dairy counties of New York when the land was fresh, as it is now in Rabun county, farmers rarely put a plow' near a field until after it was from three to five years seeded in grass for pasture or meadow, so that the roots of nearly all stumps and dead trees might be rotten. The ground w r as thor oughly harrowed with a good iron harrow', drawn by a brisk pair of oxen, before the grass seed was soon. The latter w r as not even rolled on new land; and the seed rarely failed to pro duce a fine stand. Both the hogs and horses which I have seen in the mountains of Rabun, within a few days, are now spring poor. The range will about half keep young cattle as they ought to be kept—nothing more. There is little mast this year for hogp, and I am told they are uncommonly poor. They greatly need extensive fields of rich clover, and the sow's with pigs require three or four gallons of good buttermilk each, every day. Where one milks one hundred choice dairy cows, as some farmers do in New York, he can then give his pigs and slioats a fair start. If a beginner wishes to raise fine neat cattle, he had better purchase one or tw r o hundred good heifers, say one, tw'o, and three years old, and 80VSK8SU9 DW AND VXRBBXDS. two or three pure blood Devon bulls, and let the j calves have all the milk, and run with their mothers. If the herd has a plenty of fresh clo ver and English grass the year round, (in hay when too cold for grazing) and a plenty of salt, it will rapidly improve from year to year. The cattle of the mountains here are superior to those in the counties about Athens and below, yet they are quite inferior to the improved breeds of New York and New England. It is a wild and savage system of stockhusbandry to de pend on the poor and spontaneous herbage of forests for the support of cattle, horses, sheep and hogs. Half the inhabitants of this county, who de pend mostly on live stock, kept in the mountains for the comforts of life, have no other roads to their dwellings than bridle paths, or narrow foot paths. To many a half-grown child a wagon track would be a curiosity ; and yet it is by no means a very formidable task to construct a fair wagon road over any of these mountains by se lecting the ground and pursuing a zig-zag course up and down them. A few hardy and enterpris ing northern mountaineers, to settle in Rabun, and bring their herds and flocks with them, as well as grass seeds, would do much to open car riage roads, build school-houses and churches, and introduce that system of husbandry which is best adapted to the soil and climate. In nor thern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, the people would starve, if half as improvident as the people here appear to be, where fair gra zing lands may be had in fee simple for a few cents an acre. Industry and enterprise are as liberally rewarded in upper Georgia as in any country in the world. Good examples, rather than good precepts, are needed to elevate the general standard of comfort and intelligence.— In one family where I passed a night, the father complained that they could obtain no school teacher that would pass the examination requir ed by law; and therefore his district would be without any school this winter, which he re gretted. I am now writing at the summer residence of Mrs. S. A. Few, near the turnpike, some three miles north of Clayton, which is near the divid ing line where a part of the water flows into the Tennesse river, and part into the Savannah.— The place is elevated, cool, healthy and delight ful. I have just put a tliermometer into the wa ter of a largo spring near the house, and find the temperature fifty-four degrees. At another spring on the same farm, but on the north side of a spur of the mountain, I find the water only fifty-two degrees. One could hardly wish for a better dairy farm, or summer residence, with proper improvements. Apples, peaches and grapes are grown in great profusfon. Most fruits subject to be destroyed by frost when the trees arc in blossom, should be cultivated or the north side of high hills and mountains, if prac ticable. In such situations the trees bloom late, and the frosts are past without injuring tho fruit. Apples keep hero the year round, and are raised as easily as in any northern State. Mrs. Few has made wine, and speaks very favo rably of her native grapes. There is no luxury produced at the North, which may not bo had here, from a cake of ice and an irish potato up to a venison ham, or a mineral fountain. L. -»•«. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Tunnel Hill, Pickens Dist., S. C., ) Sept. 26th, 1859. j Tunnel Hill, in Pickens District, S. C., is a place of considerable interest, as well on ac count of its agricultural as its railroad peculiari ties. The Tunnel is a mile and a quarter in length, and now three-fourths excavated. Tho rock removed at the central shaft, is stratified granite, and very compact. It is elevated 280 feet by steam power; and there are four of these shafts, tho shortest of which is IGO feet- There arc several other Tunnels on the same Road, which is designed to extend from Pendle ton to Knoxville in Tennessee. The country is mountainous, and tho grading expensive, while the population is quite sparse. This whole region is better adapted to stock raising, wool-growing, and dairy-husbandry, than to any other industrial pursuit. Vermont farmers would know how to coin money here, by rearing Morgan horses, Merino wool and sheep, and fine cattle. New York dairymen would supply the South with the choicest butter and cheese, in great abundance; while the fruit growers of the North, if located here, would soon rejoice in their extensive apple, pear, plum and peach orchards. Having a cool climate, it is iu fact, a purely farming, and in no respect a planting country. But, as yet, very little is done to develop its great agricultural capabili ties. The enterprise and capital of the South are so much absorbed in planting, that little is left for the improvement of other equally impor tant branches of agriculture. Hence, millions of acres, admirably adapted to grazing purposes, in the upper part of this State and Georgia, re main, to this day, in a state of nature. Let the Railroad be completed to this place, and it will greatly facilitate the settlement of Pickens Dis trict, Rabun, and other counties in Georgia and North Carolina. In descending on the north-west side of Tun nel Hill, the soil is found to be better than it is on the south side; particularly as one approach es the river. Tho rocks are different, the forest trees larger and more thrifty, and the crops better, so far as any are cultivated. The Abies Canadensis, (Northern hemlock,) and the soft, white pine, are first seen within six or seven miles of Tunnel Hill, in a deep gorge. Rabun’s Gap, Sept. 29th, 1859. Since writing the above, I have spent three days exploring the mountains and valleys of Rabun county, with my friend William Car, Esq., of Athens, who owns many lots of land in the county. Nature could not put more mountains on the same territory, unless she made them smaller. They all join each other at the base, and rise, sometimes in parallel spires, and sometimes in sharp cones. Occasionally' the granite is naked, but generally it is covered, either by its own debris, sufficiently disintegrated to bear a few . small, stunted chestnuts, oaks and locusts, or gneiss, and the old red sandstone overlie the granite, and furnish material for a much more productive soil. Rabun county contains the largest poplars, oaks and hickories, that I have yet seen in the State of Georgia; and, judging from all vegetable appearances, as well as geo logical indications, most of its numerous valleys and hill-sides will yield abundantly, with proper cultivation. The hills and mountains are gene rally too steep for plowing, and ought to be con stantly set in the best English grasses. The great abundance of everflowing springs of clear, cold water, and of living streams, suf ficiently indicates the facility with which green pastures may be maintained. So long as bread, Irish potatoes, and other vegetables, meat, but ter, cheese and wool, have any value, and so long as horses and mules find a market, these gushing perennial fountains will yield gold and silver much easier and cheaper than they can be acquired by raising cotton. This opinion is nei ther hastily forced, nor thoughtlessly expressed. It is true that Mature has not sown all needful grass-seeds over this extensive mountainous re gion ; neither Iks she fenced in large fields, plowed the groind, and planted cotton-seed in any of our best otton-growing districts. Before a large crop of tie great staple of the South can be sent to market every i telligent reader knows that much labor las to be performed; and the sume is true, btr to a less extent, in producing horses, mules, f t cattle, sheep and wool. The land must be fenced, the timber deadened, and the ground secd-d to the best perennial grasses; which can be done in this county without plow ing, in most places. L. - —. -Mm- Kidney Worm in Swine. —The Germantown Telegraph says this disease may generally be known by the animal appearing weak across the loins, and sometimes by a weakness in one or both hind legs As soon as these symptoms appear, give the r.nimal corn that is soaked in lye of wood ashes or strong soap-suds, and at the same time rub the loins with turpentine.— An Ohio farmer fares this disease by giving one opnee of copperas daily, for six or eight days dissolved in warm water, and mixed with two quarts of com meal and dishwater. - Alpacas in Australia. —By the Sydney Morning Herald, of June 13, 1859, we learn that the alpacas imported into Sydney, at’so much expense, by Mr. Ledger, have finally been pur chased by the New South Wales government for §15,000, and tho sum of $5,000 per annum allowed for the expense of keeping them at the public domain till it is decided that they can be successfully acclimated and disseminated among the flock masters of that country with profita ble returns. We believe there were 280 in tho flock, and it is said that Mr. Ledger has lost $35,000 by the operation. — mm*- . Ml - Burning tiie Prairies.—A correspondent of the Indiana Farmer says that in very dry sea sons the wet mucky spots on the prairies have in many instances been burned out to the depth of two feet ; and that, instead of the result being a crop, next season, of waving pasture grasses, these spots have become overgrown with swamp willows, from three to ten feet high; and he strongly condemns the practice of burn ing such land, as mistaken economy'. Management of Milk. —The Homestead says: The milk-room and dairy management have something to do with the production of butter, and thinks an improved style of milk-room would be quite as likely to increase the yield of butter as an improved breed of cows. There is much truth in this ; though there is no reason why we should not have improved breeds of cattle as well as improved dairy-houses and more skillful management. In fact they' often go together. — Charcoal for Fatting Animals. —The Val ley Farmer advocates the use of finely pow dered charcoal mixed with the food of fatting animals, especially hogs, once or twice a week. It says that it serves as a medicine, and is also extremely fattening, either in itself or by render ing the food more available by strengthening and stimulating the digestive powers. We can not believe that it is, in itself, nutritious. mm •» —- Linseed Cake for Heifers before Calving. — C. S. Flint, in his new and valuable work, Milch Cows and Dairy Farming , says that heif ers fed with a little linseed cake, in addition to their other fodder, for three months before calving, acquire a larger development of the milk vessels, and yield more milk afterward, than others fed as usual. He thinks cotton seedcake would answer equally as well. Keeping Milk Sweet. —A correspondent of the Homestead found that, in sending milk to market, though it lett the dairy perfectly sweet, it was often curdled on delivery to customers. To remedy this, tho cans were covered with cot ton cloth soaked in salt water. By this method the curdling of the milk was entirely prevented. ■***- —- Old Radish Seed. —A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer says that radish seed that has been kept six years or more, will produce rad ishes of a better quality than new seed. hi Heaves in Horses. —It is said, in a recent number of an agricultural paper, that a quart of a decoction of smart-weed, given every day to a heavy horse, will cure the heaves. Wo doubt it; but there is no harm in trying. Hogs fed on Acorns. —A correspondent of the Country Gentleman asks why hogs fed on acorns for weeks will not gain anything for the same length of time if afterwards fed on corn. Is such the case ? He has killed hogs from the woods, and found that their insides were com .pletely black. He attributes this to the astrin gency of the acorns. — English Beans. —Col. B. B. Johnson men tions in the Journal of the Ktw York State Ag ricultural Society, that Mr. Waixwright, of Dutchess county, has been raising English beans for feeding stock. His crop last year suc ceeded well, and this year it promises an abund ant yield. ■■ i *•* THE ROLLER. The roller, though seen but comparatively sel dom in use, is one of the most serviceable im plements for farms and gardens. On soft, loamy soils, abounding in stones too small for gather ing up by hand, it is very convenient to be able to sink them below the surface with a roller. They will then be out of the way of the scythe and the reaper, when they sweep over the fields gathering in the precious harvest How much time this will save in scythe-grinding, and how much ill-temper, the tiller of the soil need not be informed. Every farmer knows that the roots of his clover and grass are often thrown out of the ground by frost and if not killed, are much weakened in growth. Passing a good roller over such fields in the Spring would settle those roots back into the soil, and cause them to start vigorously. The roller is also useful in leveling down all the little hummocks made every year by frost and other causes, and so keeping the surface smooth and handsome. On soils that are very wet and adhesive, it should be used with moderation, but on all others it may bo used with great benefit. Fields, on be ing sown with grass seed or grain, are much improved by the roller. It breaks down the lumps left by the harrow, presses the soil finely about tho newly-sown seed, and ensures its rapid germination. It sinks the loose stones be low the surface, and leaves the ground in a bet ter state every way for harvesting. Eor the gardener, the roller is scarcely less useful than for the. farmer. It is hardly possible to make a good lawn and keep it in proper order without this implement. It levels ine qualities of surface; it keeps the roots of grasses in their place, and gives the turf a smooth, vel vety look, which it can get in no other way. It is very useful, too, in making gravel walks, and in keeping them smooth and hard throughout the season. Farm rollers can be made of logs. These should be cut in two sections, each about four feet long, with iron bands around the ends to prevent splitting, and strong shafts running through them, to which the frame-work, etc., for drawing it are to be attached. They are sometimes made of narrow planks, two inches thick and four inches wide, forming a sort of drum. They are also made of cast iron. Those made of planks are larger than the log-rollers, and can be drawn easier. They generally need some extra weight in the box above them. Those who have tried each sort, prefer tho cast iron. They are made in several sections, for ease in turning about, and ease in draft. They almost never wear out, and a re-always in work ing order. Garden rollers can bo made by any one skill ful with tools. A round log with a handle to it, will answer; but a plank drum is better; a granite roller is still better; and a cast-iron rol ler is best of all. These last can bo bought at any agricultural store. Our own experience in the use of the latter has confirmed our views of its great value.— [American Agriculturist. — HINTS TO FARMERS. Be Systematic. —Here we have one of the first principles of successful agriculture. Let all transactions be conducted in a business-like manner. Take note of every operation, wheth er you buy or sell, receive or disburse, sow or reap, make a promise or a bargain. To do this, it will be necessary to keep a diary, and we would say, do so, if for no other object than ns a ready means of comparison. Be Thorough. —Never half-do anything your self, nor permit your men to glide over their la bors* “If it is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well,” would prove a golden maxim to thousands of farmers if they would not only adopt it as a portion of their creed, but exem plify its teachings in their daily life. Away with these scratrhers —men that go beneath the surface are the kind wanted. Leave your Land in good heart. —lt should be the object of every tiller of the soil to leave his land in good condition after the removal of a crop, and, at the same time, obtain as remu nerating returns as possible. This can be done only by husbanding all the sources of fertility upon the farm, and adding thereto in every available manner. This is the Alpha and Ome ga of progressive agriculture. Never boast of a “ bank account,” if it is obtained at tho ex pense of your farm. Study your Profession. —It is not alone the energy that wields the spade or holds the plow, that insures success. The culture of the mind must go hand in hand with the culture of the soil. The relations of science to the farmer’s calling are intimate. Good books are aids in the attainment of knowledge, but never pin your faith on the ipse dixit of any individual— think, experiment and judge for yourself. Stick to the Farm. —Amid your plans for the future, never, for one moment, harbor the idea of bettering your condition by entering the arena of commercial life. Do not exchange a home of quiet, real enjoyment, for the turmoil and illusion of a city residence. Barter not sweet repose for visions of empty wallets, nor let notes due on the morrow assume tho prerog atives of the nightmare. Very poor comforters for care and anxiety are these little realities in the commercial world. Stick to the farm. What though hard labor be the every day command, it is noble, healthful, and conducive to the full de velopment of the whole man.—[Ohio Valley Farmer. V in'e Makixq. —After all that has been ac complished, there is an absurd idea prevalent, that wine cannot be profitably raised in this country; that labor is too dear, and European competition too great. On the contary, wine raising is at this instant the most profitable branch of agriculture in America. It will pay from one to three hundred dollars an aero, yield ing a higher profit on capital, skill and labor in vested, than any other planting. The wines, which can be most easily raised, are like those of Germany, light and very innocuous.— [Rural Register. — Grasshoppers are degenerating in Virginia.— They liavo begun to chaw tho tobacco. Fowl Manure. — No manure obtained by the farmers is as valuable as the manure from the poultry-house. Os this there is no question, and yet we can hardly answer the question “in what way is it best to use it ?” The manure is made only in small quantities, and it may be that, as a general thing, much of it is wasted. It may be thrown with other manure, muck and refuse on the compost heap, but our plan is to save it for special purposes, and we generally use it in the vegetable garden, where it is not only valuable, but exceedingly convenient. When dry, it may be sown with onion or other seeds in the drills, at planting time, and four or five quarts put into a barrel of rain water makes a most superb liquid manure for any beds of young plants that need stimulating. In this form we use it for our melons and cucumbers, as soon as they appear above ground, to put them out of the way of the “ bugs,” and on the beds of cabbage, cauliflower plants, Ac., for the same purpose. Celery plants, after being set out in the trenches, may be hurried up amazingly by being watered two or three times a week with this liquid food. If magnificent sweet com is wanted, half a pint of the dry hen dung, finely scattered in each hill will give it, and no mis take. If you have been able to grow only hard, hot, wormy radishes, next spring sow the seed in very shallow drills, (not too early,) in a warm, sheltered place, then cover the bed with a thin dressing of coal ashes and water, with the liquid hen manure each alternate night, and if the season is favorable as ordinary, you will have no cause to repent the trial. A little char coal dust is better than coal ashes.— [Rural New Yorker. —♦♦♦- THE BAROMETER FOE FARMERS. A correspondent requests some remarks on the use of the barometer to farmers. We have employed ono for many years, and have often found it of groat advantage. Farmers generally, it is true, may predict the character of the weath er for some hours ahead, by their own observa-. tion of the sky and wind, but the barometer is an important auxiliary in this guessing. The rule is a very simple one: If the mercury #is rising, fair or settled weather is sure to follow— this we have never known to fail. If, on the other hand, the barometer continues to sink, wind or rain will follow—rain if in spring or summer, and wind in autumn or winter. It sometimes happens that a moderate sinking of the mercurial column will not be followed by rain; and at other times the rain has been known to commence simultaneously with its fall, and both go on together. But these occurrences are rather exceptions. Sometimes the shrewd est guessing by observation has failed, while the indications by the barometer have been ve rified. In one instance, for example, there was every appearance of a fair day after a rain—the clouds broke away, and the wind was “from the fair quarter of the sky.” No farmer would have hesitated to begin cutting his hay, with a certain prospect of good hay-weather. But the barom eter, singularly enough, began to sink, and short ly after rain came up, and a succession of show ers continued through the day. In many other ' cases the appearance of the clouds and the course of the wind indicated rain, but the ba rometer remained unmoved, and no rain came. During the continuance of a long rain, it some times begins to rise, and as certainly shows the actual approach of fair weather, some hours be fore the rain ceases. During “ unsettled ” weath er, its rapid sinking always correctly forebodes a storm. Wo are told that in some localitiesits indications are more uncertain; but we have, as a general thing, found its use of much value. No doubt there are many instruments that are imperfectly constructed, and* are consequently unreliable. Theso furnished with a dial plate are rarely as correct or sensible to changes ns the simple mercurial column. We greatly pre fer the latter, and would not on any account pro cure the former. A good barometer may be bought for twelve dollars, sufficiently accurate for all ordinary purposes.— [Exchange, — JOHN JOHNSTON’S WHEAT CROP. The following extract from a private letter from John Johnston, of Genova, N. Y., will be read with interest, and we hope Mr. J. will ex cuse us for publishing it: “My crop ot Soule's yielded over forty-one bushels per acre. It is all weighed, except the rakings, which got wet and sprouted, and are kept separate from the other. The field was summer-fallowed for wheat, and very highly manured, the fall previous, with rotted cattle and sheep manure. My red wheat—say twen ty acres of it—l expect will go nearly as much, if the threshers are correct. This shows what dung does, as I have twelve acres of red at the extreme east of my farm that has not been ma nured in twenty-four years that only gave a little over thirty-one bushels per acre. Dung is the staff of life, and that’s the fact. The red wheat that is so good was on that twenty acre field that grew the large com you saw. I always thought it the worst field I had for wheat; in fact, it never had a good crop of wheat until I drained it in 1843 and ’44. The Soule's was on the twenty-eight acre field, the second field east of my house, where you a few years ago saw large clover, very highly manured the fall of 1857, intended for corn, but summer-fallowed last year and sown with wheat, commencing the 18th of September last. I have always the best Soule's wheat, when sown about that time.”— [Genesee Farmer. — Night Son. —Its Value.— The best of all manures is the one which in our country is the most universally wasted. In Belgium, where agriculture is carried to great productiveness, they “ order things differently.” There, the es timate is, by nice calculation, that it is worth $lO for every individual, man, woman, and child. t We traverse sea and land, send to Africa and South America to bring elements of fertility, which, at homo, wo throw away on every farm in the country. What an immense amount is wasted in our cities. It must be the most val uable, containing the elements of all kinds of food consnmed by man, and in returning these . to the soil, we return the identical constituents which former crops and animals had taken from the land. Night soil contains the phosphate of lime, which is indispensable to the growth of animal’s bones and to the nutriment of all plants, and which not supplied from the at mosphere like carbonic acid and ammonia. All fluid and solid excretions should be preserved by mixing with burnt clay, sawdust, ashes, peat or wood charcoal, etc. We have a great deal to learn, and, alas, much more to practice, that we have learned.—[Plant ers’ Banner. Indian Toast. —Place two quarts of milk over the fire. When it boils, add a tea-spoonful of flour to thicken, a tea-spoonful of salt, a small lump of butter, two table-spoonfuls of sugar.— Have ready in a deep dish six or eight slices of light Indian bread toasted. Pour the mixture over them. Serve hot. How to make a clean sweep. Wash him.