The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
Farm, Garden and Household,
Drill Sowing wheat.

IN Seed, ana gives O better crop, The
difference in labor is at least $1.OO an
acre, or the cost of two harrowings
after sowing, or one cultivating. The
difference in seed is at least half
bushel, or 30 cents to 81 90 an acre.
and the difference in the crop is fully
one. fourth, or upon fairly good soil, six
bushels or nine dollars per acre. Eleven
dollars per acre upon ten acres will
more than pay for The best drill made,
which will SOW ten acres o day. But
If the means of purchasing a drill are
not available, and there are less than
ten acres of wheat to be sown, it will
yet pay to hire drill, which may be
done from some neighbor, fortunate
enough to possess one, for so cents per
acre. We have not yet seen part of
the country where drill could not be
purchased or hired, and very few fields
upon which drill could not be used,
II the ground was properly prepared.
1t is one of the greatest advantages re-
sulting from the use of machinery upon
farms, that it to great extent ne
cessitates good farming. At least that
1t compels improvements, and the farm
er who once enters upon the march of
Improvement rarely stops and never
looks back. Thus when drill is used
for the first time, the farmer finds his
crooked fence in the way; his narrow
gates, or his awkward bars are incon-
venient, the brush and weeds around
his fence interfere, his poor plowing
is troublesome, the baulks and hard
spots that have been left, nuisance
to him, and the weeds, trash, rough
nj Oh 1,
severe tax upon his patience. The
next season all these faults will be
remedied, because discovering the
profit of the machine, he is obliged to
prepare for its use. This is like the
entrance of light into dark places, and
a number of things that were never
noticed or suspected before are now so
conspicuously apparent that they cam
not be any longer left undone. The
same is true as to the use of the mower
or the reaper, and thus the money spent
for any of these needful machines is
repaid in more ways than one.-Aqri-
culturist.
Household Hints.
SwEETENING OLD LARD.-Take
small bunch of slippery-elm bark and
put it in the lard, and cook one hour.
Stove POLISH AND SoAPsUDs.
stove polish is mixed with very strong
soapsuds, the luster appears imme-
diately, and the dust of the polish does
not fly around as it usually does.
CREAM PUDDING.-One pint of milk,
one pint of -four, one teaspoonful of
salt to this add six eggs, well beaten,
with three tablespoonfuls of white
sugar, and the grated rind of one
lemon. Bake in buttered dish.
TOMATO OAELET.-Beat up six eggs,
mix two tablespoonfuls of -four with
little milk, and add pepper and salt to
taste. Peel and chop very fine four
tomatoes, stir altogether and fry in
butter. Oyster omelet is made in the
same way, substituting dozen chopped |
oysters for the tomatoes.
BARLEY SUGAR. and boil
one pound and half of loaf sugar in
half a pint of water and the white of an
egg; when it is at candy height, add q
teaspoonful of strained lemon-juice, and |
boil it quickly till it RECEIVERS it's former
state pour it over a marble slab, and |
when it becomes stiff cut it in strips
and twist it.
10 ExTERMINATE VERMN.-A most |
effective insect powder is feverfew.
This, pulverized and pure, added to an
equal weight of powdered borax and |
scattered i'll the haunts of bedbugs,
reaches, or any other vermin, will scare |
them away sure; it can be rubbed on q |
dog to kill feas, and will do its work
effectually.
RANCID BUTTER MADE SWEET. Rancid |
butter can be made as sweet as when |
first churned, by the following process
TO one quart of water add fifty-fve |
drops of the chloride of lime; then
wash thoroughly in this mixture five
pounds of rancid butter. 1t must re-
main in the mixture two hours. Then |
wash twice IN pure water and once in |
sweet milk add salt. This preparation
OF lime contains nothing injurious.
LEMON PUDDING. One quart of sweet |
milk, two tablespoonfuls of pounded |
one tablespoonful of butter,
six eggs. Crate the yellow rind of two |
large lemons, press out the pulp and |
Juice of the lemons, and strain. Then |
mix with six large tablespoonfuls of |
white sugar, add this to the milk, mix
ing well together, turn into dish lined |
with puff paste, and bake from 25 to 80 |
minutes. 70 be eaten cold, with Or
without sauce.
SWEET POTATO PUDDING.-To large |
sweet potato weighing two pounds al
low half pound of sugar, half pound of
butter, one gill sweet cream, one grated
nutmeg, little lemon peel, four eggs
boil the potato until done, mash up
fine, and while hot add the sugar and |
butter. Set aside to cool while you
beat the eggs light, and add the season
ing last. Line the plates with puff
paste and pour in the mixture. Bake
n a moderate but regularly heated
oven.
Wetting Fuel.
AS many persons are at this season
aging in their winter stock of fuel, it
s important that they should be again
'eminded of the danger attending the
common custom of wetting coal in cell
ars. Even the fre-damp which es-
apes from coal mines arises from the
low decomposition of coal at temper
lture but little above that of the at
but under augmented pres
'ure. By wetting mass of freshly
broken coal and putting it into q warm
cellar, the mass is heated to such de-
,ree that carburetted and sulphuretted
hydrogen are given off for long periods
If time and pervade the whole house.
There are several instances on record
If spontaneous combustion of coal
When slowed into the bunkers or holds
If vessels.