The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-30
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Save the Scraps.

Every good housewife should utilize
to the best advantage the scraps left
over from each meal. Every bone mot
left on plate) should be stewed down
for gravy, or stock for soup. With n
siight covering of meat they nav be de-
vlled. Cold beef may be rewarmed or
corned, minced, and served will, poacb-
ed eggs, scalloped with bread crumbs.
etc, or served in cold slices, steeped in
mixture Of vinegar and mustard. and
garnished with slices of hard egg or
heetroot. 1t may also be made into
croquattes, olives, or cakes.
Gold mutton may be rewarmed as hash
or curry.
Gold lamb is best eaten as it remains
with lettuce,
Gold veal is best minced; it also Cur
rles well; scalloped is excellent or it
makes good blanquettes.
Gold pork can be curried.
Gold salt beef makes excellent bubble
and squeak, or curry, or cold slices.
Cold rabbit can be fricasseed OF cur
ried. 0
Gold fowls may be fricasseed, minced,
curried, or put into q mayonaise.
Gold turkey-The white meat may be
mlnced, and legs broiled and laid in it:
't ~ uaheS capital frlcaSSee.
The secret Of economical housekeep-
ing Is In knowing how best to utilize the
scraps.
Fertilizers for Cabbage.
5. W, asks: "May mstly conclude
from your article that guano on good
land will insure luxuriant crop of cab
page for any unbroken series of wears
without any other manuring? Is there
any advantage in hill-planting in the
field over plants set out from the bed 2'
Reply.--Such conclusion would not
be warranted by anything in the article
referred to. All cabbage-growers know
that this crop is very subiectto a disease
known as "club root " (Which is caused
by small insect), when it is grown
second time upon tho same ground. |
Inns Is sometimes, but not always, pre-
vented by liberal application of lime, |
Ahen cabbages contain large portion |
OF sulphur, so that some fertilizer con- |
tanning sulphur would be needed. |
H''ano IS very good fertilizer for cab
page, and upon good ground 1000 |
pounds OF it per acre would doubtless
give handsome crop. But for the |
reason mentioned it might be risky to |
h't1ard second crop without another in
teryenlng. We have no doubt that by |
proper 1ertlllzing corn might be profit |
aoly grown year after year, or wheat,
oats, barley, or beans; but cabbage, tur-
mps, and other plants of the same bo-
tanical family, are affected to so greata an
extent with this disease that they would |
probably fail. We would rather plant
out cabbage from bed than SOW them
N the field in hills.-NeaU York Times |
Shutting in Bees in Winter.
If bees wintered upon their summer
stands are confined in their hives bv
slides OF perforated tin or zinc, or by
wire cloth, it does very well at first, SO
long as the weather is cool but aft.r n
month on two they want to take flight
to discharge their faces, and if the
weather be very mild, and the ground
free of snow, they should be allowed to
come ont; but as spring approaches the
pees, when not safe to allow them to
come out, will gather at the entrance in
a mass, shut off free circulation of air,
become chilled and die there by the
handful; and every day these dead bees
must he removed, and at last, in some
cases, almost the entire family of a hive
may thus perish. If the bees are not
saus shut In, they will leave their hives
often when there is snow on the ground
and will drop down and be lost in this
manner; or they may come out when
there is no snow and become chilled bv
cold winds and be unable to return to
ehelr hives. What we need is a method
OF arranging the passageways SO that
40 light shall be admitted, while the
bees shall have all the air that is neces-
sary, and not be confined, and their
owner be able to admit light without any
trouble and allow them to take fight
whenever 1T shall be proper to do so.
Weaning Lambs.
A letter was read before the American
farmers club as follows: An article T
read on "weaning lambs" the other day
was very appropriate, but think might
be extended. had a friend who used
to make speciality of bagging lambs !
after they had been weaned. He had 1
some fine meadows which he sowed {
early, and thus had a good spring of I
young grass, into which he turned the I
lambs with few old sheep, and taught $
them to eat salt from board troupbse v |
shaped first. Wnen the early frosts G
came he would begin to feed corn in the
ear, usually the "nubbins. The lambs !
easily masticate only round corn, and it :
compels more thorough mastication if I
they are compelled to pick it from the .
sob. In his winter managing he usually
allowed about one hundred in flock, I
With free access to plenty of straw. ii a
,he lambs We're well handled, as they 3
we're in his yards, they were in condi- U
ion for the butchers in February. and v
,ould be found in the markets as spring II
ambs, as in truth they were. His theory G
vas that if a lamb was well kept from a
veaning till February, more money "
ould be cleared from them than in any II
'ther time of their lives. His practice q
'roVed the truth of his theory b