The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-18
Farm, Garden and Household,



MOUNTAIN CAKE.-One cup sugar,
two eggs, half cup butter, half CUP
milk or water, two of -four, teaspoonful
cream tartar, half teaspoonful soda,
nutmeg.
SPIoED FRUITS. To seven pounds of
fruit add three pounds of sugar, one
pint OF vinegar, and tablespoonful of
every kind Of spice-cloves, cinnamon,
allspice and nutmeg.
SLvERING AND GLIDING WHEAT EARS.
Gold and silver shells may be pur-
chased at artists furnishing stores. A
solution of gum arabic and camel's
hair brush are used in applying silver
or gilt.
PUDDING SAUoE.-Four tablespoons
of sugar, two tablespoons of butter,
one tablespoon of -four beaten to q
cream. Add the white of an egg beaten
to froth, and pour into the whole a
gill OF boiling water, stirring it very
fast. Flavor with lemon, rose water,
nutmeg or wine.
To PRESERVE CLOTHING PINs.-They
should be boiled q few moments and
quickly dried once For twice a month,
when they become more flexible and
durable. Cloth lines will last longer
and keep in better order for wash-day
service, if occasionally treated in the
same manner.
Corn FRITTERs. Young, sweet corn.
pepper, salt, nutmeg, butter hot in the
pan. Crate the corn from the cobs
into basin, season and drop by spoon
fuls into the pan, and fry until brown.
This is delicious breakfast relish,
but requires q considerable time to pre-
pare.
Tea CAKE.-One cup white sugar,
half cup butter, one cup sweet milk,
one egg, one-half teaspoonful soda, one
of cream tartar, and flour enough to
make it like soft gingerbread. Flavor
with the juice of small lemon. This
makes a good-sized loaf.
GINGER COOKIES. cup of molas-
es, one-half cup of sugar, two thirds
up Of butter, one-half cup of water,
one egg, two teaspoonfuls of saleratus,
one-half teaspoonful of alum, one tea
spoonful OF ginger, flour enough to roll
out soft. Bake quick.
FILTER FOR CIsTERN WATER.-Per-
forate the bottom of a wooden box
with q number of small holes place
inside piece of flannel covered with
coarsely-powdered charcoal, over this
coarse river sand, and on this small
pieces of sandstone.
Stacking Corn Fodder.
Considerable care is required to stack
corn fodder in such a manner as to pre-
vent waste. 1t requires not only to be
put up so that it is safe from the wealth
er and the ravages of vermin, but that a
part may be taken down for use with
out exposing the remainder to damage.
In the ordinary stack the fodder is
taken from the top, and when part is
removed for use the rest of the stack is
left without covering. A stack built
upon the ground Immediately becomes
the prey of innumerable rats and mice,
by which it is not only cut up and de-
stroyed to a large extent, but what is
not directly destroyed is so soiled as to
become almost unfit for use Now that
the value of the corn fodder is becom-
ing more widely recognized, means are
to be taken to preserve it more effectu-
ally. In very rare cases is there room
beneath the barn roof for it, and it is
necessarily stacked out.
A long stack built in sections, which
will contain the whole supply, is prefer
able to any other plan. It may be
built along the north side of the barn
yard, or any other exposed side, and
may be made to serve as q valuable
shelter.
By setting posts in the ground and
placing beams or poles upon them with
loose flooring of rails as foundation,
the double purpose may be served. The
open bottom giving free access for air
will tend to ventilate the stack, and if
an opening be made, either by placing
few rails fastened together in the cen
tire, or by placing the bundles a few
inches apart in the centre, there will be
no danger of the corn becoming mouldy.
The posts should be dressed smoothly,
so that yermin cannot mount them, and
If they do succeed in gaining tempor-
ary occupation, it will soon be termina-
ted if cat is allowed to range around
the premises.
The stack is to be built so that the
bundles of fodder do not bind length
ways, and that it may be opened at one
end and taken down piecemeal, as, in
deed, it is put up. Each days supply
may be thrown down, and no part of
the stack can be exposed long enough
to become injured.
Thoughts on Thras ashing.
If there are 500 bushels of grain to be
thrashed, it will pay farmer to own
machine. But if the farmer cannot pos
sess a machine and must hire the
thrashing done, there are a few things
which be should consider. If this job
is to be done, it were well that it were
done quickly. The sooner it is out of
the way now the better. The straw
should be carefully stacked that it may
be used with economy as litter. When
thoroughly soaked and intermingled
with the droppings of the cattle it soon
rots and becomes available as manure.
Otherwise 1T will resist decomposition
for many months or years. The refuse
grain from the screens should be care
fully gathered, boiled, and fed to hogs
or poultry, that the weed seeds among
it may be destroyed. Many pestiferous
weeds are spread over a farm by neg
lect of this precaution.
Before the grain is stored in the gran
ary the bins should be carefully swept
out and all the rubbish burned. There
will probably be many weevil among it.
The walls should then be washed in
boiling hot lime wash, especially the