Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
RECIPES, ETC.


and lll-treatment, and is sure to revenge
itself upon those who are guilty of them.
The Rhode Island greening and Tall
man sWeeting apple trees will, it is said,
pear good crops in any locality where
other varieties can be cultivated with sat
| lsfactory success.
Two quarts of hot water, one pound
OF Indian meal, and a quarter of pound
of unbolted wheat flour will make more
| eggs when fed warm to hens than twice
the amount of whole grain.
| When horse stables are not properly
ventilated nor lighted, it is an excellent
| plan to make small window where each
horse may thrust out his nose when he is
not eating, and breathe pure air.
Gypsum is frequently ground very
coarse. 1t should be reduced as fine as
wheat flour, or the effect on crops will not
| be perceived, as the small particles must
| be dissolved by the rain before it will OPP
| crate as fertilizer
Ground feed is often greatly adulter-
ated with bran to give it bulk, and with
plaster of Paris to render it heavy 1t
Will pay well to procure portable grain
mill for grinding all kinds of grain for
teams, swine, neat cattle and fowls.
If sheep are not more than six years
| old their teeth will cut so closely that
kernels of grain will always get thor
oughly masticated during the process of
rumination. For this reason it will not
pay to grind grain for sheep.
-Buckwheat bran when fed to cows
will produce large quantity of milk,
but the milk will be as thin as water, and
of blush color Meal of peas, wheat
and corn will make the richest milk, and
of a yellow color. Meal of peas and
wheat bran will make excellent feed
Almost all plums, with the exception
of green cages, are good for canning );
never remove the skins or the pit, most of
| the flavor is contained in these; use only
Just enough sugar to sWeeten them. The
large varieties make an excellent pickle :;
remove the stems, wipe them clean and
| pickle same as cherries.
"A New Way to Serve up Peaches
Take good-sized freestone peaches, wipe
them with towel, halve them, and place
them fiat-slde down, in hot butter or lard
Let them fry to nice brown, then turn
and fill the seed-cup with sugar, which,
by the time the fruit is properly coated,
will be melted and form with the juice of
the peach rich strip Serve up hot.
and if you don't like them you need not
repeat the experiment. Most persons
| think the dish superb one Medical
writer's caution people against eating
peaches served up in any form in the
evening. 1t is asserted that they are de-
pressive to the circulation, and exhaust
the system by the prussic acid which they
contain. 1t is better to eat them in the
morning, or not later than an early din
ner, so that some exercise may follow
eating to aid their proper digestion.
Prevention of Rotting in Fine Fruit.
1t very often happens that fine fruit, es-
pecially pears and apples, is attacked by
birds and insects SO as to make wound
which, if left to itself, will cause the
fruit to rot. 1t has been found that by
cleaning out the places affected and re
moving all the dirt and disorganized and
bruised matter, and filling up The cavity
| with plaster of Paris, farther decay may
| be arrested and the fruit become fully
ripe. A little space may be worked out
| from under the edge of the skin, so that
when the plaster is pressed inward it will
keep its place. The exclusion of the air
consequent upon this application is all
that is necessary to prevent the progress
of decay. This would, of course, be in
expeaient in many cases; but when large
and valuable apples and pears are in
volved, the trouble will be but trifling in
comparison with the result accomplished
| Pork and Beans-This is the way the
| down-e east lumbermen cook them, who eat
| them twice day four or five months each
| year: Take one quart of beans first soak
| if pea-beans, until they are swelled full
| it will take over night certain; if yellow.
eyes parboil until the skins crack open
when blown on with the breath; drain off
the water, put about twOthirds the beans
in the pot put in one and one half pounds
fat salt pork, then the rest of the beans
bake not less than twelve hours, first Gov
ering the beans with hot water These
are genuine Yankee pork and beans The
way they are cooked in the woods is this
A hole is dug at the foot of the fire, filled
with hot Goals, the bean-pot put in, filled
around with Goals and covered with hot
ashes, where it remains from about three
p. II. until breakfast the following morn
| ing--about fourteen or fifteen hours.
There are probably more beans eaten in
Maine than in the whole State of New
York
Whenever a horse shows signs of
being overcome with heat he should be
Immediately released from work and
placed in shade Or in a cool box, his
head should be bathed with cold water,
and a stimulant should be administered
without delay, such as sulphurous ether,
nitrous ether, or some of the preparations
of ammonia, well diluted with cold water.
In cases where he loses complete power,
great care is necessary in giving medicine,
and it is generally advisable to apply to
the body blankets wrung out of warm
water, and at the same time battle the
head with cold water, or apply pounded
ice to the poll Whenever the patient
shows signs of returning power, indicated
by the pulse, and beginning to notice
what is going on around him, endeavors
then should be made to get him on his
feet. Give small quantities of cold water,
and when he regains sufficient strength
allow him small bran mash. A horse
that has suffered from an attack of sun
stroke requires to be very carefully used
for some time, until the system RECEIVERS
from the severe shock to which it has
been subjected.