The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-01
HOME AND FARM.

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If any farmer, or farmers wife reads this
column in the Sentinel, he or she is invited :
to contribute word, a thought, a fact or
fancy, q good recipe or rule, anything which
is known to be valuable as information or :
advice on the subject of home and home
industries. These are the topics of real in
terest and most entertaining study. III you ,
can do no better. ask questions. That may
be the very best thing to do.
A NICE WAY TO BAKE APPLES. Take
sour apples, dig out the cores, place the
apples in deep dish or tin, fill the cavities
where the corSs came out with sugar, pour
cup of hot water in the tin, bake in aquick
oven, and you will have healthful and
palatable dish.
The Plainfield Horticultural Society held
. great talk at Clayton on the 2lst. All
about grapes, apples, pears and tomatoes
was told, and besides the talking there was
no small amount of eating done, from all
accounts. These horticultural meetings are
not bad places to be, especially If one Is
hungry.
1t seems that babies are to take leading
part in the county fairs this fall. The
managers have taken it into their heads to
encourage the growth of Hoosiers. Par
ticular attention will be paid to improve
ment of the quality, as well as numbers
| This is one eff the fruits Of the granger
\ movement.
If all the corn in this State which is not
worth harvesting, the failure of which is due
solely to bad culture, the loss of labor in
blowing and planting would astonish the
most thougutless. That is the secret OF
farming being Improbable. Planting with
out harvesting is bad business operation,
yet great many shiftless people practice II.
APPLE PUDDING WITHOUT PAsIRY.-Pare
and cut enough apples to weigh two pounds.
t Boil them and rub through colander. Add
large spoonful of butter while hot, and
when cold add half pound of crushed
j, white sugar, six well beaten eggs and the
2 grated nnd of lemon. Pour the mixture
into a deep dish and bake for half an hour.
. RANCID BUTTER MADE SwEEr.-Rancid
butter can be made as sweet as when first
churned by the following process: To one
g quart of water add So drops of the liquor of
@ chloride of lime; then wash thoroughly in
4 this mixture five pounds of rancid butter.
$ Then wash twice in pure water and once in
/ sweet milk; add salt. This preparation of
% lime contains nothing injurious.
n Did you ever have a neighbor who was a
o confirmed borrower? What a nuisance.
= = When the habit becomes chronic it has no
n limit. He will borrow anything, every.
a thing. Nothing is secure. Every nipple
u meHt, tool, garment, Ingredient OF food he
o or she will borrow. He watches the pur-
r chases YOU make, and wants to borrow a
N new thing soon as it is bought,
'e often before you have had time to use
+ it yourself. Such people are about the only
% class with whom it pays to keep on bad
d terms. The true way is to make enemies OF
them, and keep up hostilities forever.
: SEASON TO KILL BUsHEs.-The Live Stock
d Journal gives hint in season about killing
B. sprouts from stumps and bushes that spring
E. up in fields: This is done effectually in
10 August, when the season of growth is near
70 ly completed; as the roots receive large
amount of returning sap or noUrishmept sf
ter this period, this supply is cut off by sew
ering the top the last of August. When
RS bushes are cut in the spring the root holds
L a magazine of nourishment and pushes ou
IG new sprouts with great vigor. Trees girdlet
in spring will often make vigorous growth
Mt above the girdle, through the season; but al
80 no returning sap can pass this girdle th'
vi root dies at the end of the season for want o
nutriment.
KEEPING BUTTER FREsH.-Y., Dayton
IT o., asks how butter that is prime can b.
ne kept so for several weeks in summer. Tn
re best way to keep butter is to exclude the al
lie. from it and put it in cool, sweet place; bu
ur the first is the most important. Ii the but
;s- ter is in pail, tub or jar, cover il one o
:, two inches with the strongest brine mad
Oh Oh from the best Onondaga butter salt. Re
Gu member, il will not do to simply cover j
~. with salt; the air will pass through the salt
no but not through the brine. If the packag
70 has a tight fitting cover, so much the better
We The best butter exp posed to the air in sum
'rs mer will not keep perfect for "a hours. But
Oh ter for the family should be kept constantly
10 under brine.-Live Stock Journal.
PREVENTION OF HOG CHoLERA.-Th
100 Rural World says that one of the larges
k hog breeders in Missouri, who frequentl
'n' has several hundred head at once, neve
ar ar has any sick. He gives them salt, just as
,r- does other stock. In cooking food for hog
at (which he does in large wooden boile
Id holding so or 40 bushels-he has the coal
ne and ashes throw in the boiler and boile
" with the food. He also sometimes puts i
ms salt and sulphur. His hogs eat burnt char
en- coal as freely as they do corn. They are she
tered from the cold and storms by movabl
in sheds. Occasionally he dissolves coppers
(sulphate OF irop) in water and mixes it wit
lst their food. This destroys internal worms
at and is also a tonic. Hogs are subject to cold
ICE and pneumonia as human beings. The in
he ternal organs of the hog more closely resen
AS BILE those of man than any other animal.
to JUST How IT WAS DoNE.-Wm. T. st,
les phenson writes to the Plymouth Democrs
'u' the exact process by which he raised cap
tai crop of wheat: To begin with, 1 had {
list acres of fallow ground, which was broke
in when the ground was very dry and from
- to IL inches deep,) principally in th
month of July. We then LEI the ground la
he exposed to the summers sun and heat unit
an the last of August when we stirre
ON the ground with double shoveis an
then narrowed. The first week
u" September we commenced drilling with
rid rolling drill (Which, by the way, cannot
ON. surpassed for all kinds OF ground), sowin
mo from 10 to II acres per day until completed
~ Result: The entire crop (36 acres) yieldin
Ills 29H bushels per acre-the best ten acre
oSe vieldinO 20 bnshels per acre