The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-24
FIELD AND FAMILY.

IHE Poultry World declares that q
thrifty fowl will drink fifteen or twenty
times day if it has the chance, and still
oftener in close coop or hot weather.
Il. L. HART tells the Nep England Far
n,er that horse may be speedily cured of
cribbing by following out trough two
inches deep in the upper edge of the man.
ger and keeping it filled with yellow
snuff.
ToMATo-SoUP.-Boil one pint canned
tomatoes for twenty minutes in one pint
water, then add one pint milk very grad
ually, that it may not curdle; season as
for oyster-soup, and serve with hot crack
ers or squares of toasted bread.
CHILDREN's BIBs.-Do all mothers
know that children's bibs, made of light
rubber cloth, and pinked, or bound with
ribbon, are very serviceable for table use,
only needing to be cleaned by rubbing
with damp cloth?
SUET PUDDING.-Take one teacup Of
chopped suet, one of sour milk, and one
of molasses also teaspoon of saleratus.
Add flour to make it stiff. Use one teacup
of raisins, one of currants, one teaspoon OF
each kind of spice, and three eggs. Boil
three hours.
MOUNTAIN CAKE.-Take one pound of
sugar, one-half pound of butter, one
pound of flour, six eggs beat the eggs
separately. Add one cup of sweet milk,
one teaspoon of soda, two of cream-of.
tartar. Make frosting of three eggs and
lay the same as jelly cake. Flavor the
cake with lemon, but the frosting with
vanilla.
MARBLED VEAL.-Take some cold roast
ed fillet of veal, season it with spices. and
beat it in mortar. Skin a cold dried
tongue, cut it up, and pound it to paste,
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ter; put some of the veal into pots, then
stow in Jumps of the pounded tongue.
Put in another layer of veal, and again
more tongue; press it down and pour
clarified butter on the top. This cuts
very prettily, like veined marble. The
dressed white meat of either fowl, rabbit,
or turkey, will answer for the purpose as
well as veal.-Ohio Journal.
RHUBARB PIE.-Prepare the stalks by
peeling off the thin, reddish skin, and cut
ting in half or three-quarter-inch pieces,
Which spread evenly in your crust-lined
tins. Sift on little flour, to which add a
bit of butter and teacup of sugar, if for
large pie. However, when it is desira-
BILE to economise sugar, or when very
sharp, sour taste is not relished, pinch
of soda may be used to advantage, with
less sugar, as it goes far toward neutra-
liZing the acid. 1--WE would here add
save all your surplus pie-plant, prepare
as for use, and dry in the sun, as stove
heat turns it dark colored. Soak and stew
for winter use, with sugar and soda as
above for pies. 1t makes also a nice sauce
for tea. a.)-Wood's Magazine.
EARLY LAMBs.-We do not mention the
subject of caring for early lambs because
farmers are not aware of their duties, but
as reminder. 1t is well kGown that for
81 yat ri io hor
late one, and it follows that extra care
should be taken of the first. 1t is not
economy to attempt to watch the flock
in the field, and assist the lambs as they
appear, but provision should be made fo1
their protection before that period. Ewes
that are soon to suckle should be sepa.
rated from the flock, and put where they
will not be subject to exposure, even il
the lambs should not come on stormy
night Sheep have again become valua
BILE. both for the wool and meat they fur
nish, and these should be incentives tc
watchfulness, if humanity does not lead
to it. Where lambs become chilled, take
them at once to the house, and after being
i'm warm room for half an hour, put
them under the stove where it is quite
hot, and give them milk from the mother
until they become able to walk, and ther
take them back to the sheep. If the
mother is not inclined to her own Off
spring, shut the two up in small pen OF
box together for day or two, and holt
the eve few times for the lamb to draw
his rations.-Ohio Farmer.
FRUITS AND WORKMANSHIP fruit
growing, remember that fruits are like
grain and vegetable crops, in this, that they
must lave manure to keep up fertility
Unlike vegetables and grain, however
their feeding roots are mostly at the sur
face. 1t is best, therefore, annually to
top-dress fruit trees. If manure cannot
be had, any fresh earth from bitches ol
road sides, spread half an inch or so un
der the trees, will have a wonderful effect
Inl eed, we do not know but that for the
pear tree thin layer of road sand is one
of the best of manures. We have seen ap
piles thrive amazingly with coating O.
coal ashes. In vegetable garden culture
it must be remembered that we have tC
operate the reverse of what we do in fruit
culture. A woody growth is what We
require for fruit trees; but we need fol
vegetables soft, spongy, succulent char
acter, the very reverse of this. For this
end the ground cannot be too deep, toe
rich, or too much cultivated. The hoe
and the rake should be kept continually
going, loosening The surface and admit
ting" air and light" as the old books used
to say. There is not only an advantage
in this for the direct benefit of the plant
but an early use of those tools keeps dowI
the weeds, and thus we save labor. 1t il
great thing to be 'sforehanded" in tht
weed war -Gardner's MOnthLy