The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-12
Farm, Garden and Household,
To Make Farming Profitable.

3. Keep out of debt.
4. Own no unproductive land-thai
is, do not pay taxes on land that is moi
either paying good interest on the in.
vestment by its annual appreciation in
value or that you cannot make yield
profitable net income on its market
value and the money and labor you OK.
pend upon it annually.
b. Turn everything you produce tc
account-that is, do not spend time OF
money in producing any crop for which
you do not know there is market de.
mand, or which cannot be converted by
feeding to stock or by manufacture into
a form that will command O paying
price.
6. Buy only such tools as are neces.
sary to the economical prosecution OF
your work do not invest in tools and
implements when you can hire them
more cheaply than you can own them.
z. Remember it is better to buy food
for stock and convert it into beef, pork,
wool, mutton, butter, cheese, etc., upon
your farm, than to sell raw products of
the farm without a return of fertilizinp
agents.
8. Do the work which needs doing on
the farm, when it should be done. Do
this If you have to borrow money TO
pay the wages of your hands; for as a
rule the loss that will result from neg
Letting to do farm work at the proper
tlme will be far greater than the inter-
est you Will have to pay on the money
with which to secure its accomplish
ment.
y. Economic time by systematizing
labor. if you haul manure to the field,
arrange, If possible, to return from the
held with a load of some sort or if
you draw load to market, manage to
secure return load of something that
will add to the productiveness of the
farm.
10. Convert all refuse and all material
that is so convertible into fertilizers.
Gather such material from whatever
source it is obtainable. The compost
or manure heap is the food upon which
your plants must depend. You cannot
safely, nor economically, nor wisely,
forego any reasonable effort to add to
this resource. Be generous to the soil
IN the matter of providing it with plant
food, and thorough in its preparation
for the seed, and wise in your selection
OF crops you cultivate, and you cannot
fail to succeed.
II. Sell your products whenever you
can get good paying price for them.
10 not speculate with them, holding
them for extravagant prices. Keep
turning your money over. Do not in
vest largely in new experiments, but
experiment with new things sufficiently
to determine their value for you and
act accordingly. Settle upon system
OF husbandry to which your farm in
character of soil and location is adapt
ed, and adhere to that system so long
as you can make it profitable. Do not
make radical changes because somebody
else is making more money than you
are by some other system.
IL. Always have something to sell,
know just what it cost you, to dollar,
and you will then know when you can
afford to dispose of it. Always keep
money on hand with which to make
purchases OF stock, implements, seeds,
when you deem it profitable to do so,
but do not be so ambitious to have a
large bank account so as to starve either
your farm or your stock, nor act pc
nuriously with your family.
Cheap and Good Soups.
Recipes for two soups that are very
wholesome, palatable cheap and quick
~ made. To a good many, in part,
they may be old, to some entirely new
Sift pint. or little more, of -four into
the bread-pan break in one egg add
little salt and about a gill of sweet
milk (Which is much better than sour
milk and soda or all eggs) mix together
rather stiff. Divide into about three
parts roll quite thin; flour plentifully
so as to prevent it hanging together:
fold from each side; cut in two the
middle, lay one piece on the other and
cut the corners off-frst one side, and
then the other. This keeps them from
being long and stringy. Put about
quart of water into vessel, salt and
pepper and piece of butter as large as
an egg. Let it come to boil and put
in your noodles;" let them boil few
minutes and send them to the table:
they yspoil by standing. 1t is one of the
dishes that never hurts one, though
everything else may. Chicken broth
may answer; but for dyspeptic or an
invalid the above is the most digestible.
This is enough for family of five or
six.
Another way is to take half q pint of
Poo in uiJ pan, UIedh Ill oSS
into it; rub all around with the hand
until all the -four is wet and it is even
Jumps; cook same as the other, or it is
nice to put in almost any kind of soup;
stirred into milk it is also good.
CALF's HEAD SoUP.-Boil the head
until quite tender in salt and water.
Take the meal from the bones and cut
it in small pieces. Strain the water and
then put in the meat with teaspoon
full of cloves, two grated nutmegs and
as much red pepper as will lie on sill
yer five cent piece. Add piece of but
ter the size of an egg, and one pint of
Drowned flour rubbed up in cold water.
Boil all together for half an hour, then
add two chopped eggs. A whole head
liver and lights, make about three gal
Ions OF soup. The liver should only
boil half an hour. A skinned head.
with the bone of leg of veal, will make
about as much.
For force-meat balls, take equal
quantities of veal, pork and pounded
bread, chopped together, season with
pepper, cloves. nutmeg, salt and small
bit of onion. Wet with an egg, and roll
into balls and fry in butter or lard.