The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-16
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Notes.


best soil for potatoes when quality as
well as quantity of product is to be CON
sidered. Such soil, all things consid-
cred, is the best garden soil.
A very good fire kinder can be made
OF ordinary potter's clay mixed with
sulphur, and nodded in the shape of
an egg. When thoroughly burned it is
rendered porous and will absorb enough
oil to light fire several times. It
should be kept in tin box.
"What do you do for a liying2"
asked farmer of burly beggar who
applied at his door for cold victuals and
old clothes. "I don't do nothing much,
but traveller about" was the answer.
care You good at travelngG" asked the
farmer. "Yes," replied the beggar.
"Then let's see you travel" said the
farmer.
We hear from the Prairie Farmer
that it is becoming the custom in the
West, in raising fruit trees from the
seed, to allow many of them to bear q
year or two with view to the discovery
OF new and valuable varieties. This is
ommendable-and we may add, is the
only way that new, fruits can be de-
veloped.
The worst of everything is the greedi-
ness of men for land. A new conner will
put his last dollar in land, and 90 in
debt for his house and farming tools,
and In ninety-nine cases out of q hun
dred he will, after striving hard and
living poor, find himself, at the end of q
dozen years, worse off than when he first
began. This is the general rule of those
who choose farming for their profession.
No poor man can afford to buy goods
on credit, for if he does, he usually pays
more for the same article than he would
II he paid cash; he is more liable to buy
goods he does not need, and is liable
to incur debts which he may not be able
to pay, and which may involve him in
financial trouble and ruin. A man who
habitually buys goods on credit is like
man who, in an open boat, risks the
current OF the Niagara; the current of
debts gets stronger, and it carries him
down.
Get the best hands, and keep them.
When a man has become used to his
work and employer, he is worth. more
than stranger. There is way to make
men interested in their work, of satisfy
ing their self-respect, treating them
courteously and reasonably, giving them
credit for success, while holding them
strictly responsible for failures, and
above all, by paying them promptly and
hberally, that will make their work
worth double what it would otherwise
be. AS land advances in price, more
labor must be expended on it to make it
pay profit, and by-and-bye we must
have settled laboring class. We are
now In process of educating this class
of men, and must do it by good manage
ment,
Household Hints.
LEMON PUpDINa.-Half a pound of
apples grated, half a pound of fine
sugar, six ounces of butter, eight eggs,
emitting the whites of four; rind and
Juice of three lemons, with or without
pastry; bake three-quarters of an hour.
To be eaten cold.
P0TATo CAKEs.-Take mashed pota-
toes, flour, little salt and melted but
ter Ito make them sweet, add little
powdered loaf sugar., mix with Just
enough milk to make the paste stiff
enough to roll, make it the size and
thickness of a muffin, and bake quickly.
A GooD AND INEXPENSIVE Sour
The following is good soup for the
family dinner-table, and one that does
not cost much: Three pounds of the
neck of beef, one cow heel, q penny
worth of carrots and turnips, half head
of celery, one bunch of tied up sweet
herbs, four onions Drowned, one pint
of peas, all put together in three quarts
of water, and after boiling some hours,
well strained. The best part of the cow
heel may be cut in square pieces and
served up in the soup.
STRAWBERRY SHoRToAKR.-With one
quart of sifted -four mix thoroughly two
teaspoonfuls of cream tartar and one of
soda, or the equivalent of these in bak-
ing powder, rub in bit of butter the
size of an egg, add q little salt, and
sweet milk enough to form soft
dough. Roll half an inch thick and
bake in shallow, pan fifteen or twenty
minutes; have ready two quarts of fine
fresh strawberries; split tie cake, place
half the strawberries between and cover
thickly with white sugar and cream; !;
put the other half on the top and cover
In the same way serve as soon as
DONE. .H
TESTS OF WkLL-MApE BaKAp.-Good
bread will feel light in the hand when
lifted in it, which will not be the case
with that which has been imperfectly
kneaded. Good bread when cut will re-
semble fine sponge of uniform texture,
anu 10 equaliy Tree from the spaces
caused by large air bubbles and from
the dark streaks which show either that
1t has been made with adulterated flour,
or that it has been inattentively pre-
pared, or too heavily kneaded when it
was made up for the oven. The loayes
also OF well-made and well baked bread
VIII retain their shape, and not spread
about like unsightly forms, as they will
when the dough has been rendered too
moist. They will also be eoually