Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-17
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-Wafers.-One quart of flour, one
teaspoon of butter, pinch OF salt; NIX
with milk into dough, then roll out into
very thin circles Bake in pans, quickly
One quart of flour makes twenty-five
wafers.-Coaatry Gentleman.
Coal ashes are chiefly valuable as
absorbents, and in stiff soils where the
mechanical effect is necessary. For in
stance, applied to soils that do not con-
tain humus, and to which unfermented
manure is applied, and to stiff clay or
clayey loan soils. Lime proves benc-
fetal to'any soil in which it has not ex-
isted-especially sandy soils and alluvial
soils and sandstone soils generally.-N.
Y. World.
Cottage Cheese.--Place thick, lop-
pered milk on the stove, and let it heat
thoroughly, not to cook, or it will be
hard Pour into hot cloth, and let 1T
drain until dry; season with salt and but
ter Should it be rather dry, moisten
with milk or cream, and make into balls.
Some prefer what is called smear
kase" Prepare the milk as stated above,
but, instead of making into balls, thin
with sweet cream and add little pep
per.-Country Gentleman.
Smut in wheat may be prevented by
soaking the seed in strong brine. Pour
the seed slowly into the brine in large
tub. All light, imperfect grains will float
and should be removed. Str the seed,
and then scoop it out on to the barn
| floor, and leave it for an hour to dry, or
| few handfuls of finely Stacked lime
will dry it at once. Picking the seed is
so great an advantage, and SO little
| trouble, that it should never be neglected,
even where smut is not prevalent
Rural New Yorker.
? MIR. Patrick Shirref gives the follow
| ing practical directions for accomplish
| ing the crossing of wheat: First fix upon
| two varieties for crossing. Second,
| shorten the ears of the seed parent as
| soon as il is clear of the sheath, remove
every alternate spikelet, and leave only
| two florets in each "notch" or "chest.
| Third, the valves of the chatf may then
be opened widely and kept in that posi-
| ton until the anthers are removed from
| the floret, and anthers from the pollen
| parent are introduced. The chaff scales
are then closed by gentle pressure of the
| fingers. These manipulations are best
performed by two persons operating to-
gether, the one attending to the valves
of the chaff and the other to the remov-
ing and changing of the anthers from
the one fioret to the other, which can be
best performed by fine pincers.-For-
ney's Press.
Consumption of Feed.-A horse will
consume eighteen pounds of hay and
twelve quarts of mixed oats and corn,
ground into coarse meal, per day. A
COW will need eighteen pounds of hay
and six quarts of meal if she is milking.
If at pasture, three quarts of meal may
be profitably fed per day. One hundred
hens will require one hundred bushels of
corn in a year, in addition to what they
can pick up on their range. They will
need very little corn in the summer, but
at least aquarter of pint day in winter.
The quantity of corn needed by hog
depends much upon its size, breed and
appetite, in all of which hogs differ very
much. 1t would be safe to allow half a
bushel of corn, ground into meal, a week
for a hog of 100 to $50 pounds, and more
in proportion to larger ones. At fatten-
ing time there can be no limit given;
the hog should have all it could be in
duced to eat or made to digest.
England Farmer.