The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


t1NGER SNAPS.-One pint of molasses,
one cup of sugar, one cup of butter or
lard, one tablespoonful of ginger and
cloves each, one teaspoonful of cayenne
pepper; flour enough to roll out very
thin. Bake on flat tins.
APPLE FRurERs Take one quart of
sweet milk, three eggs well beaten, q lit
tie salt, and flour enough to make bat
ter stiff enough for pancakes. Mix it
with it very thin slices of sour apples.
Drop by the spoonful into hot lard, and
fry like doughnuts. Servo with cider
and sugar, or a foamiug wine sauce.
WATER CAKE.-Take four cups of
slfted flour, two cups of white sugar,
half cup of butter, two eggs, and one
cup OF water. Turn the water over the
butter stir the sugar into it. Add the
eggs well beaten. Dissolve small tea
spoonful of saleratus in little boiling
water stir it in; mix two small tea
spoonfuls of cream of tartar with the
flour. Nutmeg, lemon or mace for
fiavoring.
APPLE JoHN--Pare, quarter and core
enough apples to fill three or four
quart crock. Make batter a little
thicker than for pancakes; put layer of
apples on the bottom of the crock, then
pour over some of the batter then an
other layer of apples, then batter, and
so on until all is used; then put thick
soda crust on the top and bake for three
hours. To be eaten with a sweet sauce.
Very nice.
CREAM MUFF1Ns.-One quart rich
milk, or if you can get it, half cream
and half milk; one quart of -four, heap
ing; six eggs; one tablespoonful of but
ter, one of lard, softene6 together.
Beat whites and yellls, separately, very
light; then add flour and shortening,
and a scant teaspoonful of salt, and
stir in the -four tine last thing, lightly
as possible, and have the butter free
from Jumps Half fill your well-buttered
muffin rings, and bake Immediately in
hot oven, or your mullins will not be
goC :. Send them to the table the mo-
ment they are done.
The Potato Bug.
A correspondent writes It may be in
teresting to some of your readers to
learn what the potato bug is doing in
these times of political nominations and
financial trouble. In Milford Pa, a
great change has come over this scourge
since the potato harvest. They are seen
crawling almost everywhere, even in our
houses at times. Every little ditch and
excavation has been almost alive with
them, where they have fallen in, and
numbers are found floating upon the
streams that run near our village. We
saw almost quart crowded into cor
ner by our back door, and nearly half
peck at the eastern end of trench that
is now being dug for the water pipes of
this place.
Since the cooler weather they are un-
able to fly, and only crawl along at q
very slow pace. Nothing seems to go
anliss to them in the way of food in
these days, although they still show q
partiality for the potato. Crushed pota
toes lying in the road are soon covered
with them, and peelings and cut patio
toes are their special delight. However,
we have seen them in large numbers as
sailing bruised tomato vines and the
fruit, too, while cucumbers and other
vegetables do not seem to be unpalat
able. Anything from which a juice
exudes appears to satisfy their wants,
and there is reason to think that they
are not at all particular in their diet
The cool weather, we would add, has
very greatly hindered their peregrina
tions-or migrations. if it be so-thougf
they are still seen crawling pretty lively
on the sidewalks in the middle of the
day.
Sulphuric Acid and Weeds.
A correspondent Of the Journal O
Horticulture writes Take an old black
ing bottle, with wire around it to carry
it by, and stick to dip with. The
stick should not be pointed, but should bt
notched round for an inch or two at the
end, the better to hold the liquor. JUS
one drop quite in the heart of the plan
tain is sufficient to cause death, and the
notched stick will contain at one diI
enough to destroy three OF four plants
Ii the acid Is good, the work of deatl
can both be seen and heard, for the
vitriol hisses, and it burns up the plan
tain in moment. A row of plantain
a foot wide sprang up on lawn wher,
an iron fence formerly ran. The owner
seeing at place he visited the goot
effect of vitriol, put the hint in practice
The plantains were killed in an hour
and have never appeared again. 1t i
three years since, and it is impossible tt
recognize the line of the fence it com
plcUoiy DuluS Ullo TOOuS OuU nave
tried it on large dandelions with tht
same result. One of the young mel
there amused himself by hunting ou
the longest thistles he could find t.
experiment on; the vitriol completef
killed them by eating the roots out
One drop will do. Care is required tina
it does not touch the skin, boots O
clothes; it is not safe in the hands O
children, but O man OF woman with tel
minutes practice can kill plantains mucl
more quickly than any lad can eat goose
berries.
Selecting Seed.
One Of the first aid most importan
considerations in the cultivation of whea
is the production of superior seed
Seed of prime quality will often max
difference of more than one-half in tn
crop. Grain that has not been savet
with reference to seed is seldom suitable
for sowing. The seed of wheat shoult
be culled, selected, assorted and picket
over for several successive seasons TO
the purpose of developing the prolifcac,
or productive habit of the variety. Tht
farmer who sows the grain of small ant
half-matured ears can never expect t,
raise forty bushels of plump grain pc
acre. Numbers of farmers have al
their wheat thrashed by machine ant
stored in one bin, from which their seet
is taken. As like will always produce
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