The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-12
farm, Garden and Household.
HnusehnId Recipes.


MOUNTAIN CAKE.-One cup sugar,
two eggs, half cup butter, half cup
milk or water. two of flour, teaspoonful
cream of tartar, half teaspoonful soda,
nutmeg,
Coon CAKE.-Two cups of sugar,
one-half cup of butter, two eggs, one
cup of raisins chopped, one-half cup of
milk, one-teaspoonful of cassia and
Glove and one nutmeg.
TRIMMING LAMPs.-You must keep
your lamps trimmed if you do not wish
them to explode. The wick becoming
charred far down in the tube, the fire
creeps down TO the oil below.
CRACKERS. Take nine cups flour,
one cup lard, two cups water, two tea
spoons cream of tartar, and one tea
spoon ,saleratus. First rub the lard
into the flour ana add two teaspoons
salt.
SILvERING AND GLIDING WHEAT EARS
Gold and silver shells may be pur-
chased at artists furnishing stores. A
solution of gum arabic and camel's
hair brush are used in applying silver or
gilt.
COLD SAUcE.-Fonr tablespoons of
sugar, two of butter. When these have
been rubbed until very white and
smooth, add the beaten white of an
egg. Flavor it and mold it into some
pretty shape.
PUMPKIN PIEs.-Pare the pumpkin,
CRATE it, and add sugar and ginger to
taste, and milk enough to make it of
the proper consistency. Then line your
tins with pie crust, put in your pumpkin
and bake in the ordinary way.
BUTTERM11K PUDD1NG.-Two eggs,
two cups of sugar, half a cup of butter,
one teaspoonful of soda sifted in two
cups of flour, three cups of. milk stir
the -four in lightly. Grease your tin
and bake one hour. 1t can be turned
out.
To REMOVE BERRY STAINs.-If you
should be so unfortunate as to crush @
berry on book or engraving, strike O
birthstone match and let the fume come
in contact with the stain and it will
disappear as if by magic.
BATTER PUDDING.-Three eggs, seven
tablespoons of -four, one quart of milk
boiled, preserving to wet the flour to
gether, and pour them into the boiling
milk. Add little salt. If berries are
used, add one-third flour. Bake, and
serve with sauce.
PUDDING SAUcE.-Four tablespoons
of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter,
one tablespoonful of flour, beaten to g
cream. Add the white of an egg beaten
to froth, and pour into the whole @
gill of boiling water, stir it very fast.
Flavor with lemon, rose water, nutmeg
or wine.
Better Farming.
A writer in the Country Gentleman
furnishes the following:
My text is better farming. My brother
FARMERS will say, why not advocate goo6
farming First, because wish to ad,
vocate what is practically within The
reach of every farmer. no matter wha
his situation. He need not wait unit
next month or another year, or for NOR,
means, or something to turn up-bu
may commence to-day to farm better
Good farming generally is in the fa
distant future it is work of years
We need not give ourselves any trouble
about good farming; if we only persis
certainly at that in time.
One great reason why we do not hav
better farming is because farmers ar
satisfied with measuring themselves b,
themselves, and comparing themselve
among their neighbors they do not g
forward. I should like to write wha
would make farmers dissatisfied, no
with farming, but with the manner il
which they are farming. A farmer wh'
is satisfied is of no benefit to the farm
ing community by his example. Whel
man is satisfied we need not look fo
improvement. would say for the en-
couragement of those who desire t.
become good farmers, that by beini
better farmers is the only way to attail
to the high position of good farmers
To those who do not / have nothing t
say, as they are not worth talking to a
farmers they may be as good men q
there are in the world, but as farmer
they are of no good to the cause.
Planting Apples.
George Plumb, Franklin County, n
Y, asks: "Will it pay to set an appl
orchard of fifty acres in Franklin county
n. Y, and if so, what varieties of tree
and what proportion of each? Also
how old should the trees be when Sc
and what distance apart, and should tn
trees be raised from the seed or roo
grated ? The trees to be set on newly
cleared land"
Reply.-There is no property that
more certain of large profits than a
apple-orchard. From a four-acre orchar
OF Northern Spy apples, O promineI
farmer near Rochester, N. Y, last sci
son sold over 81, 200 worth of fruit.
there is any crop that would have pal
better we do not know of it. But b
knows how to take care of an orchard
and if every orchard in the country We
cared for as his is, apples would be sol
for 81 barrel. But that will neve
happen. Now, it is impossible to sa
what varieties of trees should be plante
without knowing the exact soil, e.
posure, and various other matters.
respectable nurseryman would give
competent opinion upon that. TIL
trees should be raised in nursery, an
when one year old set out forty fe,
apart and top-grafted TO the varietit
chosen. The ground should be cult
waited for few years with corn, pot
toes, or turnips.
How to Measure the Length of IRE
Take a forked stick measure I'll
length so that it will come exactly L
to your eyes then measure the lengt
of your timber wanted-say forty fe
in line out from the tree and allo
for the stump; then set up your stak