The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-09
FARM, GARDES AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes.

soft water to cover it, with small piece
OF butter to keep from burning, while
the juices are extracting. Set on the
back OF the range, and cook slowly for
six hours, then strain, and when cold re-
move every particle of fat. Place in an
other pot five carrots, five onions, one
cup of rice, half bunch of celery, and
small bunch of parsley. In this pot
may be placed any bones, or pieces of
cooked meat. Let them also stew slow
]y for six hours, then strain through q
colander, and add to The soup, with half
q cup of tomato catsup. Let all come
to boil together, then serve. II kept
in an earthen receptacle, this quantity
of soup will serve for small family for
week.
CoLLEGE PuDDINa.-Take one-half
pound grated bread crumbs, suet
chopped fine, and currants; mix with
four ounces of flour and one egg.
Season with nutmeg, and boil three
hours in mold. Serve with cold sauce.
FISH SoUP.-Take one pound each of
any fresh water fish-pike, perch, eels,
etc; wash iu salt and water, and
then stew with carrots, leeks, sweet
herbs, and onions, in rs much water as
will cover them. Stew until all is re-
duced to pulp, then strain, and boil an
hour, with little mace, celery, and
mushroom catsup, or any high-seasoned
sauce.
To Com BEEF IN THE Por.-Cover
eight pounds of lean beef with boiling
water, add one teacup of salt and boil
until tender. 1t will be found much
nicer than when corned in brine. If it
is to be eaten cold, when it is cooked
quite tender, draw out the bones, lay it
in tin basin the bottom of which is
perforated like colander, press plate
firmly down upon it, and put smooth
ing iron on top of the plate. OF course
the plate must fit inside the basin. The
meat turns out in shape and cuts very
solidly. A colander will answer, but
has the disadvantage of sloping sides,
and care must be taken to have the plate
so small as not to rest upon the sides OF
the colander, and yet large enough to
cover the meat almost entirely.
Gravel ms n Mulch.
In the spring of 1870, says a cores
pondent of the Horticultural, had the
superintendent of planting some two
hundred trees of various kinds in anC
around our public grounds. The spring
aud succeeding summer was one of un
usual and excessive drought. About
eighty of these trees, white elm, soft
maple, American linden, catalpa, etc.
were planted on the sidewalks for stree
trees; they were on an average ten an(
fourteen feet high. They were plantet
in rather poor soil (mixed in planting
with q rich, black, sandy loam), ant
within few inches of the curbstone
the cutters being shallow and wei
bowldered. The walk was covered will
about four inches of gravel. Every on,
of these trees grew finely, many of then
making q growth OF branches two o.
more feet in length. Some of thes
elms when planted seemed almost dead
but they started and grew well. None
of them were watered artificially. Th
same kind of trees planted within the
Enclosures in much better soil, but with
out the gravel mulch, grew very little
many of them, probably half, died, not
withstanding constant care in watering
in, mulching with grass and litter, etc
The same fate attended more than hal
the trees planted, by others all over tn
country. Hence 1 conclude that grave
and small stones are unsurpassed as
mulch. They allow the rains to readil
penetrate the soil, retain moisture, alb
sorb heat and equalize the temperature
The practical utility of gravel as mulch
where it can be easily procured, shoul
be tested by all tree planters. 1t wi
not iniure heavy clay soil at least, bu
will be beneficial.
BnIky Horses.
Says correspondent 1 once hear
of an unfortunate gentleman who ha
become insane, but was restored t
sound health simply by causing th
mind to make sudden revulsion whic
was done by skillfully causing him to bt
come jealous of hiswife, who was mo.
excellent lady, and aware of the process
On this hint we might learn to mana9
a balky horse. He is insane on the sui
iect of going, that is self-evident.
we can manage to make him think o
some other subject he will naturally fo
get about going, and go before he know
it. The following devices have bee
successfully tried to accomplish the d
sired end:
First-Tying a string around til
horses ear close to the head.
Second-Hitching the horse to til
swingle-tree by means of cord instea
of the tugs the cord fastened to I'll
horses tail.
Third-Filling the mouth full of son
disagreeable substance.
Fourth-Tying a stout twine aroun
the leg just below the knee, and then r
moving it when he has Travelled son
distance.
Never whip balky horse, for I'll
more he is whipped the. crazier he WI
become. Let everything be done gentl
for boisterous words only confuse hi
and make him worse. Treat him in I'll
mild manner you would crazy man, an
you will succeed.
CIover-Sick Soil.
In treating of clover-sick soil, M
Bruce, an Aberdeenshire farmer, stat
that in some districts of Scotland I'll
clover plant dies out after taking roo
Having noticed in several fields whel
this occurred that there was q goc
growth of plants near the gate, and hes
and end ridges, which was much tro,
den upon, Mr.. Bruce procured hea,
roller, and rolled the field twice befo
putting in the grass seeds. The expel
ment was perfectly successful, fl
plant of clover being the result, {
though the field had for years befo
showed signs of sickness. Again, {
one of the largest farms in Aberdee
shire there We're several fields which I
fused to grow clover. The farmer got
roller which weighed fifteen cwt., al
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