Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-01-13

Farm, Garden and Household.
SWEET RxRAps make nice relish for
either ten or breakfast They must be
first scaled in water in which little salt
has been dissolved, and the stringy parts
removed. Take them out and put them
IN cold water five or ten minutes. Drain
them in towel, dip in egg and bread
or cracker crumbs. and fry in butter a
light brown When they are done, il
wished, place ON dish, pour in little
cream, salt, and pepper, and n very little
chopped parsley; sprinkle in a little
-four, let it boil up, and pour over the
sweet-hreads.
MERNeuR FOR DEsEsr. .-Nake rich
cup cake as you would for Jelly cake.
Bake IN jelly cake pans While it is balS-
ING prepare thin starch of pint of
water, one tablespoonful of corn starch,
piece OF butter the size of q walnut,
lemon enough TO make it highly favored,
and sugar 10 taste. Keep it hot, and rs
soon as the cake comes out of the oven
remove from the pans, spread thick
layer of the hot starch, place cake on
top, and so alternating until the cake is
the last layer. Ii must not be allowed
to cool at all, or the cake viii not absorb
the starch, and ii viii not be ameriqgue.
When cold, ice 10 ike an ordinary cake,
or drop on rs You do floating island, and
brown in the stove very slightly. 1t viii
keep very nicely for two weeks, and
should not be iced until wanted.
SA1r FOR SwrSE--Swine are such
greedy feeders that not a few farmers
pay very little attention to their feeding.
The swill-barrel is often very little better
than sink, and the poor hogs are ex-
pecsed to eat any thing and every thing
which is refused by the other animals,
human and brute alike This short
sighted treatment, however, works its own
cure, or punishment rather, for swine
thus treated make poor pork, and often
die before killing-time. Others who are
particular about feeding their pigs torget
to supply them with salt, as they do
other animals. They require to be salt
ed. however, just as much as cattle,
horses, or sheep, and suffer as much
when neglected as any Of these animals.
If the food be not regularly salted. there
should be trough or box in every sty,
IN which salt may be deposited regularly
for the use OF the animals. Sailing the
food Iudiciously would be much the best
way.
Is causing so much distress among the
cows of New York, Massachusetts, and
Connecticut, came from Canada, accord
ing to Professor Daw, Is q sort Of crup-
tive fever, the symptoms being hot
mouth, cOstiveness, lameness, and tight
ness of the skin These symptoms are
followed by ulcers, which are likely, al
though not certain, to result in perma-
nent injury TO the feet and udders. The
milk then becomes diseased, and if drunk
by man produces similar diseases in him.
The disorder lasts for fifteen or twenty
days According to Mr.. Harrison, Sec
retarS of the New York State Agriculture
Society, the sickness is not a new one,
but was noticed in great Britain in 1889.
when it attacked all kinds of stock, and
even poultry, cats, dogs, and deer were
affected by it. As the malady is conta-
gious, but not infectious, the 6rst thing
to be done when it is noticed Is the sep
aration of the diseased animals from the
healthy ones after which, car5olic acid
is to be freely used about the parts where
the symptoms appear.
CHEAP LABOR -The great want of the
farmer-cheap labor-we think, is in a
fair way to be mes The tendency of
gold is steadily downward, and all are
looking forward TO specie payments at
no distant day In 1869 the premium
averaged about 4. In 1870 about Is, a
falling off Of 10 per cent on u.arly one
fifth Of its value. All farm products
have fallen, with two or three exceptions,
and laborers can purchase about as much
with four ffths of dollar now as they
could with whole dollar two years ago.
1t is but fair that farmers should avail
themselves of this change in the price of
gold end farm products to make change
in the price of labor. This is already
done in some parts of the country, and
men can be hired by the day or by the
season for about twenty per cent under
former rates. We all want more labor
upon our farms, even with all the advan-
tages of improved tools and machinery.
If we can get our labor on terms to make
It pay small profit, we can afford to
enlarge our labor-bills every year. We
want more labor applied, especially to
digging muck and peat, and making
compost-heaps ; to draining and saving
manure to making barn-cellars for
tillage, draining, and subsoiling. In
short, we want to work less land and
make it deeper and richer.-Heartk and
Home.
SPREADING MANURE-In going through
tie country we see much of the manure
drawn out lying in heaps-and it is apt
to lie there till spring. VIII people never
learn the great error of treating manure
in this way? Here is the principle -
Take lump of manure, apply it to the
soil. What comes in contact with the
outside-th only part that can come in
contact--win receive some benefit from
the manure /; but the rest, the greater
part by far, remains hound up In the
lump. III on the top of the ground.
much of the strength goes off the at
mosphere gets it; the rest goes into the
soil Immediately in contact with it, max
ing this part of the land too rich, the
other not rich enough. If the lump is
buried, much the same is the result, only
the ground gets all the strength, but only
that part coming in contact with it and
Immediately below it, thus giving the
subsoil part which should have gone into
the soil above.
IL will be clearly seen that this is an
evil. This same lump scattered, pulver-
lied thoroughly, mixed intimately, all
its parts would act at once and give ali
the benefit to the soil, whether applied
at the toy and left there, as in meadows,
or narrowed in, as in the popular and
good way. 1t is the contact of all the
manure at once that is wanted. Then
it is secured; then it is immediate in it's
effect
Now, 10 draw manure out and Let ii
remain In haans. as Ia done, liz to treat ii