Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-02-14
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

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spring potatoes begin to grow old and de-
cay, when they become particularly uu-
wholesome. Never eat OF these. If there
is any taiat about, any bad taste or smell,
never put them in your stomach. People
10 the country do not suffer so much from
inability to get good potatoes as people in
the city do. In the city they are exposed
20 much to cold and heat and light. and
get so bruised that they are never so good
as when they come from the farmers cellar
While on this subject we will give our read.
ers receipt for raising wholesome and de-
licious potatoes. Choose a soil thatsfs dry
and sandy, loan if possible; but any soil
will do except where it is positively wet.
With a pillow mark out your fur ows three
and half feet apart, and eight OR ten inches
ieep. Now ell this furrow four inches deep
with thoroughly rotten tan bark, or chip ma
uure. on which is good sprinkling OF salt.
Over this spread the soil half an inch thick,
and plant the. bert varieties of potatoes
Strictly fell w this role. and nutritious aud
delicious potatoes will be the result Try
and you will be richly repaid for subscrb.
ing for our journal for 1878, if you should
not learn another thing.
EGGS IN WINTER "A great many people
complain that they get no eggs during the
winter. This fault does not belong to the
chickens, for they alone are at the mercy of
their owners for living; hence if hard
corr once day is given. and nothing more,
how can the fowl be expected to yield hen
fruit? Our method is this: for fifty fowls
take twelve quarts of fine, well cured clover
heads or timothy hay, and cut up fine scsld
this thoroughly with boiling water; having
sufficient hay tea, admit two quarts of corn
meal or bran, so as to mix with the scsl1ed
hay. If you have any scaled thick milk,
add as you wish to b. lp cool it, but don't be
afraid t? mix too much Put in iroughs OF
pans; then call up your family of fowls,
chickens, turkeys, etc., and see how freely
it will be partaken of. and mark the Increase
Of eggs. Soon after discouraged hens will
begin to sing; careless roosters will soon
crow every hour in the day. This is cheap
food, and supplies the fowls with what con-
etitutes large part of their food in summer.
Coal OIL LAMPS INJURIOUS TO M1LK.-
1t will interest some of our very precise
housekeepers to learn that one of our dairy.
men. whose butter has reputation in the
market, informs us there had lately been
some complaint about it. the cause of which
he for long time was unable to discover,
but finally traced it to the fumes of the coal
oil lamp used in lighting the milk room. 1t
| shows OF such word is proper) the ex.
| treme sensitiveness of milk to the least i'm.
purity in the atmosphere, and its rapid row.
er of absorption. The difficulty was entire
ly remedied by putting in tin veltilating
tube. leading from the top of the chimney
to the outside of the roof The butter was
not afterward complained of. He writes:
ut may as well be stereotypsd that it will
DOT do to use lamp in dairy house with.
out providing way to carry off the fumes"
How TO SAVE Coal IN CRATES.
most practical suggestion yet made toward
economy of coal seems to be the use Of solid
bottom in ordinary fire CRATES. 1t is assert.
ed and indeed proved, that in any fire. place
not excessively small plate of iron placed
upon the CRATE will save the consumption
of coal, reduce the smoke, and leave cheer
tul, free.burning fire. Quite sufficient air
enters through the bars. no poking is neces-
sary, and the fire never goes out till the
Goals are consumed. There is no ash and
no dust, every particle of fuel being con-
sumed. Any householder can try this ex.
pertinent, and reduce his coal bills say thir.
ty per cent, at the cost of a shilling
| Snow CUsrARD.-Take one quart of milk
and four eggs; set the milk on top of the
stove in clean vessel; then separate the
eggs; beat the whites in stiff froth when
the milk is scalding hot, slip the whites on
top of the milk, turning them over gently.
20 they will cook; then lift them out and
dish whip up the yolks with two table,
spoonfuls of sugar; pour in the milk. STIR
ring rapidly all the time it is scslding. The
very moment it comes to the boiling point,
lift it off. if it boils it will curdle. When it
eools sufficiently pour it into the f rat dish
with any kind of favoring, then put the
fresh on top, and it will be delicious.
STEwED RABBIr.-Skin rabbit, but do
not wash or wipe it; empty it, and cut it
into pieces. Put quarter Of pound of
butter in a stew-pan, and toss the pieces of
rabbit about in it till they are nicely Drowned.
Take out the meat, add pint of boiling
water to the butter. a tablespoonful of -four
stirred to paste in cold water an onion
very finely minced. and tablespoonful of
salt. Let this boil up, and add the meat
SIMPLE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. Boil
small potful of potatoes, and battle the part
affected with the water 10 which the potatoes
were boiled as hot as can be applied, imme.
diately before going to bed. The pain will
be removed, or at least alleviated, BY the
next morning. Some of the most obstinate
rheumatic pains have lately been cured BY
one application of this novel and simple
remedy. G
The LESLIE sTEAK.-A splendid tender
steak out of tough beef is the invention of a
lady near Staunton. 1t is called the Leslie
steak. The beef is taken, beaten and run
through a sausage machine. The pulp is
then formed into shapes an inch thick and
the size OF common steak. cooked like one
and we'll seasoned. 1t is admirable.
CRouP.-A word to mothers, just here.
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