The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


farmerS IN une WeSb are aiming tOget
better stock of cattle and hogs, till less
land and do it better, buy fewer goods
and pay cash.
A large number of grange cooperative
stores, mills and elevators have been es-
tablished in various sections of the West |
and South.
The ox-eye daisy is weel, is to be |
treated as a weed and may be killed like |
any other weed with good cultivation if
cut when in bloom. Stock like it and
thrive upon it.
Lima beans have brought good prices
the last two or three years, and those who
raised them have made it pay.
Sour milk and buttermilk are excel
lent food for all kinds of poultry, and are
greatly realished by them. Earthen
dishes are the best vessels to feed them
iii, as wooden ones soon become sour.
When thickened with bran or meal, it
isa very nourishing diet for young fowls,
and is good to make hens lay.
An Ohioan, who has three fourths of
an acre of ounce orchard, from which
last year he sold three hundred bushels
of hrst-class fruit, spades the ground
in spring, and scatters a peck of coal
ashes around each tree, applying at the
same time quart of salt and another
quart when the ounces are half grown.
We would give no meal to cows for a
month before calving, nor for ten or
twelve days after A little mess of wheat
bran, fed daily, would be better and
safer, as it is not as heating in its ten
dency. Much judgment is needed in
feeding cows.
If it could be avoided, ground to be
cultivated should never be carted over
in the spring, or be plowed or narrowed
when too damp to crumble by working.
A method which will break the most
vicious COW from kicking, and which
should supersede the cruel practice of
beating and whipping, and is the work
of but few minutes, is IS follows !:
Take strap the size of common
bridle-rein and buckle tightly around
the COW [while milking), just forward of
the bag. This practiced a few days, will
have the desired result, as we are aware
from actual experience.
Does Wheat Growing Pnys
James Adams says : Ny experience
of twenty years in the production of
wheat in a wheat growing section of
Mouroe county, n. Y, is that bushel
of wheat, on the average, costs the pro-
ducer sum equivalent to the cost of
one days labor, or more, besides inter
est on the money invested in the soil
upon which it was produced, and a
bushel of wheat produced on the aver
age at less expense than the cost of a
days labor has been at some expense to
the soil; or, in other words, the soil is
not in as good condition for future crop
as when the last crop was removed prior
to sowing the wheat. A crop of wheat
sown upon land after barley or other
spring crops that had been previously
manured, may have cost less per bushel
than the cost of days labor, so far as
the cost of fitting of the soil, seed, har-
vcsting, etc, of that crop, because part
of the expense chargeable to that crop
had been previously applied. Labor
that cost S24 per month and board for
eight or ten months would average not
less than $1.25 per day for the entire
season, board included. Estimating the
crop at twenty-five bushels per acre
(Which is above, rather than below, the
average), land at $50 per acre, 81 fol
taxes per acre, and charging the crol
with interest and taxes for one yeal
only, we have found that our crop ha'
cost us above $3.50 per bushel. The
animal decrease of the area sown tc
wheat in the State of New York is suf-
ticient proof that my estimate of the
cost per bushel is low rather than high
I find by my journal that the average
price received for wheat for the pas
twenty years has been above $3.50 pei
bushel. If there was a profit of 81, o
even fifty cents, the area sown woulC
largely increase instead of decreasing.
Household Hints.
LIQUID GLUE.-Melt half pound o
the best Flanders glue in pint of vine
gar, and add four ounces of brandy.
PoTATo CAKEs.-Take mashed pota
toes, -four, little salt, and melted butte
(to make them sweet, add little pow
dered loaf sugar., mix with just enoug
milk to make the paste stiff enough t
roll, make it the size and thickness of
muffin, and bake quickly.
SPICE CAKE.-One and one-half cup
butter, two cups sugar, two eggs, on
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in one GU
cold water, four and one-half cups foui
one tablespoonful each of cinnamon an
nutmeg, quarters spoonful cloves
as that is a strong spice. Fruit is gres
improvement.
GRAVY FOR VEAL OR CHICKEN.
tablespoonful of butter in hot frying
pan. When it begins to brown dust
tablespoonful of flour into it, stirrin
constantly with a spoon add salt an
pepper then pour in one pint of mil
cream, if you have it let it boil fly
minutes and pour over the dish of mea
GERMAN APPLE PUDDING.-Take
deep tin pudding dish and cover it wit
layer of the best pie crust. Have son
good tender apples cut fine, and sprea
over the paste layer of apples, wit
sufficient sugar for sweetening, and Gil
namon and nutmeg to taste again
layer of apples, etc, until your dish
filled, when you pour over it teacupfl
of cream, add your cover and bake to
light brown.
Two Farmers.
There are two of my brother farme
of whom think a great deal, that a
uniformly successful in business. The
are both intelligent, honest, sensib
men. Their farms join, and althoue
they are equally respected in our col
munity, still strangers often speak of Il
one as shiftless, while the other is praise
for his thrift. We who live neighbo
to them know that this is false classi
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