The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-30
Farm. 9srden and Household.
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Hints About Work,

Hints About Work.
Ewes and lambs need warm, dry,
sunny quarters. Feed the ewes a plen-
ty of bran, early cut clover or other hay
and as many roots as can be spared.
Unless the ewes are very fat, q pound
of oats each per day may be fed with
great advantage. Be careful to avoid
exposing the sheep and lambs to rain.
storms.s If lamb gets chilled, wrap it
in warm blanket; or, in extreme
cases, put the lamb in tub of warm
water. lambs apparently dead have
been restored in this way.
Feed horses literally and allow plen-
ty OF time to rest and digest their food.
1t is better to work them steadily for
eight or nine hours than to keep them
in the field ten or twelve hours, letting
them stand still one third of the time.
When man needs to go home to lunch
or supper the horses need food also. A
pail of water with pint of corn or oat
meal stirred in it is capital thing for
tiredS horse. 1t will enable him to
work en- hour or two longer in an en,er
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Cows should be carded every day. II
is especially important to feed new
milch COWS Literally and with good
Judgment at this season. Do not be in
hurry to turn them out to grass. Give
plenty of early cut hay and have enough
to keep their bowels moderately loose.
If thin, give little corn-meal or oil
cake meal in addition. Gut the hay.
moisten it with water, and mix about
two quarts of bran and a quart of corn
meal with bushel Of the chafed hay
and let the cows have all they will eat
up clean. When turned out into the
yard, let them have little long hay in
the racks to pick Mt. A COW giving
milk needs great deal of water Let
her have access to it all day, or at any
rate night and morning. IF you can
give each COW half bushel of mangels,
or beets, or parsnips, or carrots daily it
will be of advantage. ..s% .#.-.-'
It now looks as if pork would next
fall and winter bring higher figures
than for the last two or three years.
Many farmers in the West say it does
not pay to feed out " fifty cent corn"
we think they are wrong. At any rate
one thing is certain, if pigs are kept at
all it will pay to keep them in good
growing condition.
Last fall pigs should be fed very lib
orally at this season, in order that when
they are turned, out to grass or clover
they may be strong and vigorous. If
they are fat now they will keep fat all
summer on good clover. With us this
is the cheapest way to make pork.
A SOW should be placed in warm
comfortable pen some days before she
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let her get accustomed to the new pen.
1t is we'll to let her out every day for
exercise before she pigs and OCCASION
ally afterwards. Give little fax-seed
tea or oll-meal slops and bran to keep
the bowels open.-Agriculturist.
Household Recipes.
CURE FOR EXPLANATORY RHEUMATISM
Half an ounce of pulverized saltpeter
put in half a pint of sweet oil bathe
the parts affected, and a sound cure
will speedily be affected.
SILVER CAKE.-One cup of white
sugar one-half cup of butter; one
and half cups of -four; one teaspoon
full of cream tartar half teaspoonful
of soda one teaspoonful of extract of
lemon.
CREAM CUsTARD. D.-NIix pint of
cream with one of milk, five beaten
eggs, tablespoonful of -four and three
OF sugar. Add nutmeg to the taste, and
bake the custard in cups or pie plates
in quick oven.
NICE LIGHT BUNs.-One pound of
Hour, six ounces of bntter, two tea
spoonfuls of yeast powder, quarter of "a
pound of sugar beat the yolk of an
egg separately, half a gill of milk, and
few drops of essence of lemon bake
Immediately. .... ..
SWEET APPLE PUDDING. one
pint of scalded milk, half pint of In
dian meal teaspoonful of salt, and
six sweet apples, cut into small pieces,
will afford an excellent rich jelly. This
is one of the most luxurious yet simple
puddings made.
NERVOUS PAINS IN THE HEAD AND
FACE.-To half q pint of rose water
add two teaspoonfuls of vinegar, apply
cotton cloth wet with this lotion to
the part affected, three or four times a
day. An excellent tonic Pour one
pint of boiling water on several dande-
loiD plants, root and leaf, cover it until
cold, drink teacupful every night and
morning.
To BONE A TURKEY. = Remove the
flesh from the bone nth sharp knife,
scraping downwards, being careful not
to cut it to pieces. Begin at the wings,
and do not break or tear the skin =;
loosen the flesh from the breast, back
and thighs; draw the skeleton by the
neck from the flesh, then stuff it with a
dressing prepared in the same way as
for roast turkey. if there are any
broken places, sew them up bake ii