The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-03-17
Farm, Garden and Household.



Practical Recipes.
CorcASSoN.-This popular Irish dish
IA usually made with cabbRges and po-
tatoes, but caulilower will make more
delicate dish. Take half rs much cauli-
flower as potatoes, both Of which must
have been boiled previously and COM
pletely cooled. Chop them separately
and very fine. Put little milk and
butter into saucepan, and when boil.
ing hot, turn in the potatoes and cauli-
flower well mixed together. Place
fat tin or dish over them, and let them
warn through. Then remove the cover,
and add salt and pepper to the taste !;
mako tho dish boiling hot, and serve.
Another way is to prepare it with strips
OF salt pork, Gut the pork into strips
an inch long and as narrow as possible,
and fry it to q crispsd brown; then
turn in the chopped caulihower and po-
tatoes, and mix well with the pork strips
and fat. Heat very hot, and serve on q
platter. Tt is delicious dish and
little vinegar is considered an improve
ment to 1t.
ORANGE JRLIY.-Peel OF two Seville
and two China oranges, two lemons, the
juice Of three Of each, quarter OF o
pound OF loaf sugar, quarter Of a pint
OF water and two ounces OF isinglass::
Crate the rinds of the oranges and
lemons, squeeze the juice Of three OF
each, strain 1t, add the juice TO the
sugar and the water, and boil until it
almost candies, Have ready quart OF
isinglass jelly made with two ounces Of
isinglass, put it to the syrup, and boil
it once up. Strain of the Jelly, and
let it stand 10 settle before it is put into
the mould.
NOTTINGHAM PuDDNo.-Three large
apples, one ounce Of sugar, half pint
OF batter for pudding. Peel the apples
and take out all the core ill them up
with sugar, and place them in pic
dish. Cover them with light batter,
and bake half IN hour.
swindisrs.
II is astonishing how many farmers
are the victims OF all sorts OF swindlers.
They can be induced TO buy fruit trees
OF agents whom they never saw before,
and pay two prices, with tho probabili.
ty that the fruit will be small and taste
less they will listen with open mouths
to smooth-tonged fellow describing .
worthless invention or patent-right, and
they will almost sign their names il
blank, by which they get swindled Out
OF hundreds Of dollars. In fact there il
no miserable game in which farmert
cannot be induced to engage. But it il
to be said that these victims do moi
read, and that they despise agricultural
papers. An authority asserts that there
are many thousands OF farmers in I'LL
noia who have never seen IN agricul'
tural paper, and this is true Of many
farmers even in the State of New York
and in NIL other States. A few years
ago hundreds Of farmers were induced
to sign what turned out to DO notes oil
hand, with the inducement that they
were TO become agents Of some wonder.
fully profitable machine. The only
remedy is for farmers TO becomoinform.
cd, and to do so they mast take some
paper which is devoted 10 theirinterestG
and read it every week. The time SO
spent will often save them more money
than all their labor can bring.
Experiment In Feeding Horses.
Tho London Omnibus Company use
six thousand horses. To economic in
feed is an important matter, and has
led 10 several tests, the result OF which
isrecoried Us follows: Toeach Of three
thousand OF their horses they gayo a
daily allowance Of ground oats sixteen
pounds, ground hay seven and one-half
pounds, md cut straw ono and one
eighth pounds-the hayand straw being
cut into pieces about half an inch long,
and well mixed up with oats in little
water, and somaking twenty.six pounds
of food for each horse. And to each
of their other three thousand horses
they gave daily allowance Of whole or
unbrliised oats nineteen pounds, and
uncut or whole hay or straw thirteen
pounds, without any water, in our old
fashioned way, making thirty-two
pounds Of this food for each horse.
And what was the result? Why, it was
soon discovered that tho horse who was
fed on the twenty.six pounds Of ground
oats remained in as good condition
huh tuulA PeLlullu lubb ho luuSu NOtA
aud do it Just MS well, too, MS the horse
did who consumed thirty.two pounds
OF food ms aiorcsaid-thus showing o
saving Of six pounds OF food per day in
favor Of bruised oats and cut hay.
BARK Splitting of Apple Trees.
What is the cause OF this very destruc.
tive evil, and what the remedy to be
used for IL? When it oncc begins, ap,
parently but little can be done to save
the tree. Last year we had five beauti
full trees totally destroyed. Tho bari
split up the side OF tho tree facing the
south and southwest; not one showed
any injury in any other aspect. W,
tried binding up and various curatives
but all OF no use. The trees were also
killed only one plum tree was, how
ever affected in similar way. Frsn
the aspect of the tree invariably facing
the sunny side OF the tree, l becamt
convinced the evil rests in some way In
tho sun itself. Had II been otherwise
the split would have occurredin various
positions. The evil cannot be due tc
too much moisture. Our orchard il
well underdrained, and, being situated
on sandy soil, could not well be sup.
posed to be affected by this cause.
In thinking over the trouble became
almost convinced the sDlittinp Of barl,