The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
Farm, Garden and Household:
Prepare for Spring Work,

There is usually O great deal of
weather during March, when outdoor
work cannot be done, and all bad days
can be spent to good advantage in the
shop in finishing up some of the innu-
merable little jobs which in summer
were deferred until winter. Repair and
oil harness, any get any new that is
wanted ; see that the lines, traces, &C.,
are in good order.
Form some idea of the number of
teams to be worked, and have harness
ready for all. Examine plows carefully,
and replace and broken or weak parts,
tighten all the nuts well, and then give
the plows a good painting. Nothing
pays SO we'll as to keep plows, harrows,
reapers wagons, and all implements
which are exposed to the weather at
times, well painted. One days work
at painting during each winter, will
save many a dollar in the course of d
few years.
If you need new reaper, order it
now and set it up, and see that all is
right, and ready for work.
If any new tools are needed, it will
pay to buy early, as you generally get q
better article, and then there will be no
difficulty in getting o handsome dis
count. None but the very best tools
should be used they may cost more at
first, but the saving of muscle, to say
nothing about the durability, aud the
difference in the work done, will soon
pay for them. Oil the handles of all
the small tools, such as hoes, forks,
rakes, &C., with linseed oil it will pre-.
vent the wood from shrinking, and the
more they are used, the smoother they
will get. Just here let me say that il
the mold-board of plows, and the parts
of all other tools that need to be kept
bright, are coated with linseed oil, as
soon as the seasons work is over, they
will be in good order, when wanted fol
work again. Get the seeds to be used
on the farm ready. Don't wait until
plnating and sowing time to make youl
selections or, if the seeds are to be
obtained from distance, order them al
once.
Household Receipts.
BED BUG Poison. to Prof
Hirzel, the troublesome little bed bus
can be easily destroyed by an aqueous
solution of sulphurous acid.
LOAF CAKE.-Three eggs one cup O.
sugar half a cup of butter one cul
of cream; one teaspoonful of soda; one
cup of raisins one cup of currants
flour and nutmegs.
DoUGHNUTs.-Two eggs two cups O.
sugar two cups of sweet milk little
salt; five pints of flour ; with two even
measures each of acid and soda O
Horsford's preparation mixed well will
flour.
CREAM CUP CAKE.-Four cups O
flour two Of sugar /; three of sweet
cream; four eggs mix hard. Bake il
quick oven bake in square tins, ant
when cold cut in squares about two
inches wide,
RECIPES FOR ROLLS. Mix one pint O.
milk half pint of fresh lard on,
tablespoonful of soda; the same of salt
mix stiff and roll up about the size O.
your hand; sprinkle with sugar anC
ground cinnamon or cloves.
CHEAP PIE.-One cup of sugar, on,
half cup of butter, one half cup of milk
two heaping cups of -four, one table
spoonful of cream tartar, one half tea
spoonful of soda, one egg and the yolk,
of three more. This makes cake TO-
two pies.
PICKLE FOR HAMs.-For one hundred
pounds OF ham take six gallons of water
nine pounds of salt, one quart of molas
ses, three ounces of saltpeter and on
ounce OF saleratus. When ready tt
smoke they can be soaked and fresheneC
to taste with salt.
PoTATo CAKES. Take mashed potatoe
flour and a little salt to make then
sweet add a little powdered loaf sugar.
mix with just enough milk to make til,
paste stiff enough to roll, make it tn,
size and thickness of muffin, and bake
quickly.
Limitations in Poultry Keeping.
For a hundred dollars spent in tn
purchase and careful keeping of fey
fowls, a hundred dollars may be gaiuet
each year. But if this business i
suddenly increased ten times with tn
expectation that the profits will b
multiplied proportionally, a failure is
sure to result-as q rule. We bav
known this to be the case many a tim
and oft. On the other hand, where tn
experimenter has been content to fee
his way cautiously, and, having on
successful colony in operation, to plan
another without over-crowding tina
already existing, he has succeeded, an
afterward again successfully repeate
the extension. But we would cautio
our readers-so many think that if on
hundrow fowls may be kept profitabl
that one thousand may be maintained
against believing in the possibility G
poultry in large numbers without a
extended range of clean grass, or with
out the closest attention, governed b
the greatest skill and experience, an
without every appliance known to th
art of poultry keeping through whic
the fowls may be obliged to conform t
the needed requirements. The il
stincts of these birds are keen an
strong, and the poultry keeper mus
have the knowledge, skill and patienc
to conduct his business so that thes
instincts are not obstructed, but az
led, as it were, in the ways in whic
they should go. Otherwise strife oc
ours and failure is inevitable.
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