The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD


Cheese CnKes.
Put q pint of warm cream into sauce
pan over tho fire, and when it is warm
add to it five quarts of new milk. Then
put in some rennet, stir it, and when it
is turned put the curd into linen cloth
OF bag. Let the whey drain from it,
but do not squeeze it too much. Put it
into mortar and pound it as fine as
possible; add half pound of sweet
almonds, blanched, and half pound of
biscuit powder, then add nine we'll ll-beaten
yolks of eggs, a grated nutmeg, little
rose or orange flower water, and half n
pound of fine sugar.
Slice small leaf or roll rs thin as pos
sible, first cutting off the crust pour on
to it pint of boiling cream, and let it
sand two hours. Beat together eight
eggs, half pound of butter, and q nut
meg grated. Mix them into the cream
and bread, with half pound of dfrants,
well washed and dried, and spoonful of
brandy. Bake them in patty pans on a
crust raised on the edges.
Boil four ounces of rice till it is ten
der, and then put into sieve to drain
mix it with four eggs well beaten up,
half n pound of butter, half pint of
cream, six ounces of sugar, a nutmeg
grated, and glass of brandy. Beat all
well together.
Working Cows.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Lire
Nock Jo,un0l, who has Il small farm of
ten acres, is trying the experiment of
having all his farming done with cows,
thus saving the expense of keeping
horses. He broke pair of two-year-
old hcifcrs, with view of llsins, them
when they got old enough and of suf-
cient strength. He finds them gentle
and teachable, and, from what he has
used them the past fall, just in the way
Of making them handy, he finds they
yield as much milk as his heifers usually
have done. He argues that on so small
farm it would require large proper
tion of it to keep n span of horses,
whereas if a COW can be made to per-
form the necessary teamwork and at
the same time yield good supply of
milk, the saving on account of not keep
ing the horse will be at least one hun
dred and twenty dollars annually. He
proposes to adopt the system of soiling,
and to keep eight COWS ON the ten acres.
If the COWS are all broken to the yoke,
this would give him four teams, and
thus, by frequent change of teams, no
animal need be put to long or excessive
labor during any day.
Rcpclling Wire Worms.
1 give you my experience with the
wire worm, says j. B., in Country Gen
Henian: Being troubled with the little
pests one year, [ was advised to soak
my seed corn in solution of copperas
n1l g
pound each to bushel of ears of com.
mon eight-rowed corn. The result was
that my seed all grew, and L lost none
by the wire worms, andI never saw corn
have so dark and vigorous color before
Since then l always soak my seed twelve
hours after being shelled. L do moi
know as it would effect the cut worm,
but have never been troubled with
them since I used the solution of cop
peras and saltpeter. Neither was / evel
troubled with them when 1 plowed my
corn ground in tho fall, which woult
invariably do on old sod. Some farmer;
exterminate them by hunting them out
in the hill and killing them by hand
but this is slow and tedious work, ant
is liable to be sighted by hired hands
An ounce of prevention is worth pount
OF cure, is aproverb true in this case.
Setting Out Trees.
Gen. Brisbin, of the United State
army, i'll an article on tree planting, say
the ash is one of the best trees to Sc
out. The walnut is favorite tree also
while the oak is the most valuable of all
Birch makes excellent fuel and is valu
able for cabinet work. In northern
Miphioon thn lNirn1, f,N ,
height of seventy feet. Its bark is white
and the tree highly ornamental. SEED
can always be obtained in Wisconsin
The seed bed should be light, sand,
loGm, and the seed should be covered
but lightly and well sheltered from tn,
sun until the plants are two or thre,
valuable. AS a wind-break it can b.
grown rapidly, and for protection o
farms from hot and cold winds, sun
be overrated. When planted singly i
ettains growth of seventy to eight,
feet in height, with an immense trunk
but its value is most realized whel
planted i'll rows as road shades.
Raspberry Vinegar.
The following is a good recipe fo
raspberry vinegar Pour over one poun,
of bruised berries one quart of the bes
cider vinegar next day, strain the liquo
on one pound of fresh ripe raspberries
bruiso them also, and on the followin
day do the same. Do not squeeze tn
fruit, only drain the liquor thoroughly
Put the juice into stone jar and ad
sugar in proportion of one pound to
pint. When the sugar is melted, plac
the jars i'll q saucepan of water, whic
heat skim the liquor, and, after it Ina
simmered for few minutes, remov
from the fire, cover, and bottle.