The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24
HOME AND FARM NOTES.

'Twixt the bliss of the earth ana heaVen.'
HOME AND FARM NOTES.
Here is the newest floral sentiment: "It
YOU wish for hearts ease, don't look to mar
igold."
Mr. Davis, of Portland, has paid 900 to
Ira Batchelder for black Spanish cock
considered the best game bird in the coun-
try. Look out for that rooster to have
gapes He'll soon follow the duchess of
Geneva.
The agricultural societies of Pennsylvania
send committees of intelligent members to
visit the state agricultural college at unex-
pected times, thus having the advantage Of
accurate and fair reports and of keeping
professors and students in state of anxious
readiness.
The Kansas wool-growing association have
arranged for strengthening festival this
sprinp at which shall be shown to the pub
lie the quality, length and weight of the
wool growth of one sheep in one year."
At a largely attended meeting of the
peninsular fruit growers association, held
at Dover, Del, on the 18th inst, the general
tenor of all the reports favored the expecta-
ton of very full yield of peaches so far
can be at present foreseen.
Corn CAKES FOR BREAKFAsr.-One pint
of butternlilk, or rich sour milk, one tea
spoonful of Soda just sufficient to neutral
ize the acid of the milk little salt, heaping
spoonful of sugar, one or two eggs tossed mp
light and put in the last thing, corn meal to
make the batter of the consistency of sponge
cake. Bake Immediately.
BoLINe PORK WITH BEEF.-A woman
writes to MOore's Rural this direction: With
a long, narrow, sharp knife, make an incision
in the beef leugthwise of the fiber: press into
it closely a strip of fat pork, which should
not be more than one inch square. At inter-
walls of an inch or two, make other incisions;
fill with pork as before; and boil as usual.
This beef is more palatable, particularly to
those persons who like "streak of fat and
a streak OF lean," and withal is quite snowy
when cut in slices to be eaten cold.
WATERING CATTLE A writer in the Ohio
Farmer very justly insists on some care as
to the manner of watering cows, especially.
Take Two cows in equal health and flesh,
and which give about the same quantities OF
milk, aud while one is watered regularly
early every morning out of doors, give the
other in the stable, water at the same hour
from which the chill has been taken, and
the effec: will be marked in the product OF
milk in favor OF the warm water. Cattle
which remain out of doors day and night
are not so susceptible to the chill of cold
water, and, of course, are not affected so I'M
favorablv by it.
BIRDS NEST PUDDING.-PeeI and core very
pleasant apples; if they are large, cut them
in halves; cook slowly until about half
done. FIJI the hollows with sugar. Make
a thin custard OF two or three eggs, leaving
out one or two of the whites and add few
fine crumbs of bread or crackers or little
boiled rice; flavor and pour over the apples.
Bake slowly till the custard puffs up. Then
whip up the whites, add two spoonfuls of
white sugar and spread over the top of the
pudding. Set it in the oven a minute, with
the door open. This is cheap and whole
some dish and is very palatable to most per
sons. few trials will make it popular. 1t
weather.
CHEAP AND GOOD MULcH.-D. w. Her
slime informs the Practical Farmer of his
success in seeding down oats as mulch for
his Strawberries. 1t seems to answer ex-
actly, and is perhaps less trouble and ex
penSe than any other ct command. He
sowed the oats broadcast all over his straw
berry patch about the 18th of Septemb Der.
Their growth is of course small at first, and
does not interfere with the straw berries.
When it has made larger growth it is OF
course checked by severe frcsts and after
ward killed by the winter, when 1t tails
down over the plants, making a complete
and sufficient covering till spring, when the
young plants readily push through it.
To RAISE MUsHRooNs.-Some people are
passionately fond of mushrooms. Thomas
Prosser, in the Cottage Garden, gives a clear
description how to raise them: "The house
should have a north aspect, in which case
you may grow mushrooms nearly all the
year round; and the roof of whatever mate
rial il may be, should be ceiled, as its being
so tends 10 keep the temperature more uni
form. The heating medium should be hot
water pipes, or a brick fiue. The beds, or
shelves, ought to be arranged as convenient
ly as possible; prefer them of wood, one
foot deep and three feet wide. 1 usually
commence forcing about the first week in
September. Horse droppings are collected
every morning from the stables and placed
under cover, and when I have enough
for a bed / make it up at once, mix
ing with the droppings one barrowful of
loam to six droppiDgs. The bed should be
made quite firm. AS soon as the heat begins
to rise make holes with a dibber eight
inches apart over the whole bed. In three
or four days the heat viii begin to decline;
when it is about 75o the bed Is ready to
spawn. It is then covered with one inch of
loan and beaten quite smooth and moder-
ate covering of hay placed upon it. In four
or five weeks the greater portion of the hay
may be removed, leaving just sufficient to