The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-08-26
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

To make barley water, cleanse an
ounce of pearl barley by boiling it few
moments; pour off the water and put the
barley into quart of cold water; add a
little salt; let all simmer an hour.
| To make crackers, take fourteen cups
Of -four, one cup of lard, three cups OF
water, four teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar,
| two teaspOOnfuls of soda; do not put in
any more water, but keep kneading in
the flour so you will not need to pound,
but will have tender, brittle crackers,
good enough for anyone to eat.
To make blanc mango, take one pint
of new milk, two eggs we'll beaten, four
tablespoonful of ground rice, flavor with
lemon or rosewater, sweeten to taste; let
it boil in a porcelain kettle, and when
cooled little turn into a mold or dish,
and when wanted turn it out, mix little
cream, sugar and tlavoring, and pour
around it; ornament it with bits of red
currant jelly.
To make cottage pudding take two
eggs, halt cup sugar, we'll beaten together,
add five tablespoonfuls melted butter, stir
we'll, then add cup of sweet milk, teaspoon
of soda, two of cream of tartar, two and
one-halt cups Of flour, bake in square
tins and serve with sauce made as follows,
which is nice for almost any pudding
Teacup of sugar, teacup OF vinegar, teacup
of water; set over the fire and when it
boils add tablespoonful of flour and but
ter rubbed together.
An experienced horse-trainer in Cali
fornia says: "The education of my colts
has in great measure been accomplished
by kind treatment. The horse is so con-
stituted that by proper management and
kind treatment his confidence and affec-
tons may be acquired to such degree
that his will becomes completely absorbed
in that of his friend and trainer. l will
say, further, that the horse naturally pos
sesses far greater degree of intelli gence
than he has ever been given creditor"
In keeping fowls healthy we have
found nothing equal to onions chopped
fine and thoroughly mixed with meal, or
meal and mill-feed. They eat it readily.
In the incipient stages of most of their
common diseases, including cholera, we
have always found this an eftectual rene
dy. AS sulphur enters largely into the
formation of the feathers it should be fire.
quently fed to them. In winter or when
meal often, and pounded bones, the fresher
tAC DCttCl, VI W otCA oACAlo. IL ACu WIN
these plentifully, with such variety of
grain as they like best, and we'll housed
and watered, they will lay nearly as we'll
in winter as in summer, and will seldom,
if ever, eat their own eggs.-Cor. N. Y.
Tribune.
Every plant-raiser knows the green
fly, and he knows, too, how destructive it
is if left to itself. The plants which this
insect attacks are the softest and most sue
culent, and at the ends of the young shoots
and the sottest leaves. 1t sucks the juice
so as materially to injure the plant in a
short time. OF all the means that have
been employed for the destruction of this
insect, that which has proved most eff
cient and the one now most universally
practiced, is fumigation with tobacco.
Some plants, such as heliotropes, salvias,
lantanas, and some others with soft, downy
foliage, will not bear ordinary fumiga-
tons without injury to leaves, and these
plants, therefore, should not be subjected
to it. Many plants in full flower, but es-
pecially pelargoniums, will throw off
their expanded blooms after smoking, and
therefore it is best to remove these before
fumigating. Care should be used also to
have the foliage of all the plants dry, for
if they are wet or damp the smoke will
be apt to injure such as are of a soft text
ure.-Erchange.