Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
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sage, pack in a pan and cover With lard.
T6is will save it sweet and fresh till spring.
"A correspondent of the american Ag.
..;,,Lturist thinks every farmer Should
endeayor to have one or more horses that
ore identified with his farm as home. He
Sbould raise them himself and never sell
House plants may be protected from
frost in winter in rooms not always sutfi-
rientlv heated, by conical caps of paper
nlaced over them. Light frames made Of
wire or splints and covered with muslin
or paper are used for protecting large or
small plants, by some persons.
Jenny Lind's Pudding.-Grate the
cr,,mb of half loaf, butter the dish well,
and Law in thick layer of the crumbs;
mare ten or twelve apples, cut them down,
and put layer of them and sugar, then
crumbs alternately, until the dish is full |;
nut bit of butter on the top, and bake it
tn anoven. An excellent and economical
pudding. Gu -,
slices onepound of brown bar soap, andput
Il in Junk bottle, with half pint of alco-
hol. Without corking the bottle, place it
in basin containing water, put the basin
IN the stove and boil ten minutes; then
remove the bottle from the water and
turn out the liquid to cool. Before cold,
add few drops of the oil of bergamont or
lemon to scent.
A prominent sheep breeder of New
York, who has travelled extensively in
Europe recently gave his opinion Of the
cause of the superiority Of English and
Continental mutton over that in America,
in the simple sentences "They feed tur
nips." The Practical Farmer endorses
this opinion, and insists that our sheep
breeders, to raise the best mutton, must
raise ruta bagas and turnips.
AT q recent meeting of the Little
Falls, N. Y, Farmers Club, Hon. Harris
Lewis said, as reported by the Utica Her.
aid, he considered that land best adapted
to dairy purposes which had clay soil
with lust gravel and sand enough to break
up the tenacity of the clay naturally
moist but well drained and inclning slight
" to the north. Mr. Myers thought some
What uneven and broken land preferable
for grazing to perfectly flat or dry hill
land.
-Suel Foster, of Iowa, in the German
town Telegraph, says; 81 keep twenty
five hogs to run in my orchard for the
good of the fruit, the trees and the hogs
a year ago last June, gave ten dollars
for four W eeks' old Chester-white. At
eighteen months / sold him, and he weigh
ed four hundred and forty pounds, while
my common hogs in the same pen weigh
ed but two hundred and sixty pounds By
utaithfulness in selecting better stock
of hogs, l this year lose 1890 pounds at
81 cents-$350 49,"
Remedy for In.growing Toe Nails
The best remedy for improving toe nails
is to cut notch, about the shape of V
in the end of the nail, about e-quarter
the width of the nail distant from the In
glowing side. Cut down as nearly to the
quick as possible, and one third the length
of the nail The pressure of the boot or
shoe will tend to close the opening you
have made in the nail, and thus soon af
ford relief Allow the in-grown portion
of the nail to grow without cutting it till
it gets beyond the flesh.
Essence of Beef.-Take a pound of
fresh beef, as free as possible from fat; cut
1t up into very small pieces, or, what is
better, shred it with fork. Sprinkle
over it little salt, and put the meat into
stout stone bottle, such as mead or
Scotch ale come in; cork tightly, and tie
the cork down with string. The cork
is usually not put in until steam begins to
escape from the bottle. Stand the bottle
in vessel of cold water, which should
slowly be brought up to the boiling point,
and kept at it for at least four hours To
prevent the bottle from breaking against
the side of the vessel, by the movement
of the boiling water, it should be secured
by piece of cord. Strain through
piece of coarse linen; then let the liquid
stand awhile in cup, and with a spoon
carefully skim off any fat which may
have arisen to the surface. 1t may be sea-
soned to the taste with pepper and salt.
The liquid obtained in this manner is one
of the most agreeable and highly nutr-
tious articles of diet which can he pre-
pared for the sick.-Erchdnge.