The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-01-06
FARM, GARDEN AND aousrHoID.
Seasonahle Hinfa,

to the stable at ever milking time. The
teats and udder shonld be washed and
wiped dry, previous kcxrid after milking.
If the teats are chapped, some flesh lard
will soften and henl them. Newly calyed
COWS should be kgtarded against cold,
and their drink Should be SLIGHTLY warm.
Irregular feeding of sheep will show
In the wool. Every time the sheep falls
OF IN condition, there will be weak
spot i'll the fiber, and the wool will snap
there when stretelaed. Wool BUYERS
don't neglect to look for this, and the
wool loses 5 OF 6 cents pound in value,
where theyRad it. Regularity in poor
feeding IS not SO bad as good and bad
feeding alternately. The sheep do not
suffer so much. Half pint of grain
day will keep sheep in good condition,
with good straw or sweet corn-fodder.
A little sulphur in the salt is a preven-
tive OF stretches, which is simply in
digestion.
When carefully cured, corn-fodder is
6y many regarded next in value to hay.
To throw it in bundles into the yard, to
be picked over and trampled under foot.
Is wasteful and it is a nuisance when
the manure is TO be moved in the spring.
When cut Ill. fodder cutter, a bushel of
1t mixed with meal Il to 3 auarts),
makes an ample feed for horse or cow.
Stock may be kept in good condition
with no other fodder through the whole
winter, with great economy.
There is point beyond which it does
not pay to feed either hogs, sheep, or
beeves. When they fall off in their feed.
feed is wasted. AS long rs young ami
mails will eat well, it may pay to keep
them. But full grown animals when
fully fat, will eat and eat and keep sta
tonary. 1t is well 50 keep watchful
eye upon such. - =
Wherever water stands upon wheat or
rye fields, furrows.or difcbes should. be
made to let it of. Drains should be
e made or looked t9 before the ground
As rule, too much of pasturing grain
is done. But where the1 wheat or rye ia
very thrifty, few.sheep may be allowed
to run oyer the, fields without injury.
Where the grain Is heavy with the frost,
coming soon after rain, q flock ofsheep
will trample ,nonssnd dssof the plants into
the soil again.
Manure may be ghauled at any time,
but it should usually be spread e it is
hauled apd not left in heaps. As.-:e.#
How to Make Sour.
There is nothing which costs so little
that is so relished by all as soup-that is,
If the soup is good. There is no excuse
spondent writes: syIsneyers buy fresh
meat to make soup unlsss it Ebe for com
pany. The bones hpd bits Of meat left
from the 'troastsD and "broils" are suffi-
cient. takea slice of salt pork, and,
cuttingsit up fpAlL 4 .put trim, the. bot.
tom OF my soup Kettle with three large
or six sman onions sliced, half teacnp
of watefy yalleny- y--bones- and scraps of
meat (but no fat wbatevcr}, two heaping
teaspoonfuls of salt and q small quarter
teaspoonful OF peppsr EIet all these
sumner ten minutesS or oyer Stir
them often, but do not let them scorch,
and, when just ready to dry up, pour on
five pints of cold water. Add two good
sized carrots and a turnip cut in slices,
and let all boil together moderately for
an hour or two. Of you have large
pfop0ftieh 9f nneat ON your bones an
hour gi4 make IT'D Strain it through
sieve and skin off the fat, if any, and it
Is fit for the everyday table.
While boiling, the kettle must be
covered tight to keep it from boiling
away. Like Fto make, my soup after
breakfast and Set it away, as then. by
dinner time, the fat which may be on It
will have harderisd and is easily SKINNED
off. Any grease floating on soup is un-
pardonable. Send it to the table boiling
hot, and if you add to it little boiled
macaroni, rice, or barley, or a few green
peas, or shvers of string beans or even
OF despised carrot, it will improve it.
When you have tomatoes, celery-tops,
parsnips, bay-Ieaf, a bit of thyme,
green-pea hulls-anything in to en-
rich and compicate the flavor. AS the
wife of distinguished Cambridge poet,
who ls very particular about his dinner,
said to me Everything goes to make
soup-like cologne" Most housekeep
ers make awful preparation in getting up
soup-a whole shin of veal, boiled all
day, etc, etc. But after few expert
ments the housekeeper will find that the
above recipe is cheaper, quicker and
quite as good. II < r &. -.
Preventive Against Insects.
Every kind of crop has it's peculiar in
sects which feed on it, in the different
stages of its growth. Many of these in
sects deposit their eggs in the ground,
and from these proceed, in course of
time, after their regular transformations,
insects and worms that feed on each
particular kind of crops. As long as the
repetition of the same kind of crop takes
place, the new generation of injurious
insects find their favoFite food, nsd in
crease and multiply until they become
SO numerous that;a considerable part of
the crop is destroyed by Them.
Ii; instead OF q repetition of the same
kind OF crop, five or six course rota-
tion Is followed, the destructive insects.
being deprived, of their fayorite food for
hveepr six yeats n succession, soon be-