Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-15
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Burned Custard.-Fill glass bowl
nearly full with three pints of nice bolied
custard. Beat until perfectly lght the
whites of six eggs. TO each egg allow
one Tablespoonful of pulverized white
sugar. which add gradually, beating all
the time. Heap the bowl with this
meringue. and with an iron plate or
clean shovel heated red-hot brown well
all over until the delicate, much-admired
flavor is impaired that gives this the
name of burned custard.
-Cabbages from which seed is to be
raised must have the stump preserved
quite as carefully as the head. Some
set them in trenches deep enough to hold
the whole cabbage, and when they are
little frozen over cover them plentifully
with litter to keep them at uniform low
temperature. Others open furrow, and
set in the cabbages included one upon
another in the direction of the furrow,
and carefully cover the stumps with
earth. When freezing weather comes
on, earth is drawn up TO cover the heads
sufficiently to prevent freezing and
thawing.
Marking Tools Much bother can be
saved by marking tools with the owners
name, especially in neighborhoods where
communistic ideas prevail upon the sub
ject of the ownership of implements, and
where constant lending and borrowing
are among the chief burdens of life. An
easy way to do it is to coat over the
tools with thin layer of wax or hard
tallow by first warming the steel and
rubbing on the wax warm, until 1t flows,
and let it cool. When hard mark your
name through the wax with graver and
apply aquafortis nitric acid; after
few moments wash off the acid thor
oughly with water, warm the metal
enough to melt the wax, and wipe it OIL
with soft rag. The letters will be
found etched into the steel.-Western
Rural.
Wood hoops, once in universal use
for baling hay, are now used but in
few sections, and where used are rapidly
giving way to the more convenient ties,
and it is now an established fact, all
things considered, that wire is the most
practicable material for securing baled
hay. Stats are not essential in baling
hay; they are, however, profitable where
they will ptss for hay, but it should be
born in mind that heavily wooded hay
sells at discount, and moderate or light
ly wooded hay will be found much the
more profitable, even in markets where
the wood passes with the hay. We are
of the opinion, however, that there is
now no profit, if indeed there is not an
actual loss, by wooding hay, as people
have learned to discriminate between
hay and wood, and generally purchase
it enough less, SO that the wood hardly
brings its cost and freight.-Hay Reporter.
N f.o hara nnoa cinn tn
sell turkeys by live weight, and wish to
know what is the fair relative price be-
tween live aud dead weight. In turkeys
dressed for the New York market, where
the blood and feathers only are removed,
the loss is very small. For the Eastern
markets the heads are cut off and the
entrals are taken out. This makes
loss of nearly one-tenth in the weight.
A large gobbler was recently killed
weighing Give 81 pounds. After bleed
ing and picking he weighed 29i pounds,
a loss of two pounds, or about one-fif-
teenth. When ready for the spit he
weighed 2St pounds, loss of 81 pounds,
which is very nearly one-tenth of the
weight. When the market requires the
New York style of dressing, and the
price is Is cents pound, farmer
could afford to sell at IA cents live
weight, or less, if he counted the labor of
dressing anything In the other style
of dressing, if the price were 20 cents,
he could sell for Is cents, or less, live
weight, without loss. Farmers who
never tested the loss of weight in dress
ing sometimes submit to deduction of
three or four cents pound from the
middlemen, who arc interested in making
this large diffcrence.-NeU York Tribune.