The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domest HELPS.

WASHINGTON FRUIT CAKE - On
pound OF brown sugar, half pound O
butter, one and one-half hounds O
hour, half pint of sweet milk, fou
eggs, well beaten, one and one-half tea
epoconfuls OF baking powder. Fruit :,
suit yourself. ~
To PREPARE PoTAroEs Ia LYON
NAIsE. Take cold boiled potatoes j,
sufficient quantity, cut in slices and sea
soned with salt and pepper; put in
large frylngpan four ounces of buttel
with two sliced onions; fry two minutes
add the potatoes; fry again until they
are OF nice brown color, drain most o.
the butter of, sprinkle in the pan {
handful of chopped parsley, mingie vel
and serve.
APPLE SNow.-Stew two pounds O,
apples with four ounces of loaf supa,
until tender. Beat the yolks of 81,
eggs with two ounces of loaf sugar
and pour over them one pint of boiling
milk. Put this custard into kettle and
cook until it is as thick as corn starch
pudding. Beat the whites of six eggs
to stiff froth, with one tablespoonful
of powdered sugar. Put the apples
into dish, pour the custard over them.
cover this with the frosting, place in
the oven and brown lightly. .
To MAKE PUREE OF CHICKEN q Ia
Retne.-Put in stewpan large
chicken, a knuckle of veal, salt, car
rot, an ouion with two cloves stuck in n
b1nch of parsley, two leeks, two stems of
O 'lery and five quarts of cold water: set
on the fire, skim well and let boil:
when the chicken is done take it out,
take all the meat out of it, put the skins
and bones back in the stewpan, and let
it boil two hours longer; by this time
have IN saucepan pint of well washed
rice, with quart of broth, strained and
freed OF its grease, from the stewpan;
season with little white pepper and
grated nutmeg and cook an hour; then
chop the chicken meat and pound itvery
fine in marble mortar, add the rice
and pound again, strain the rest of the
broth through napkin, take all the
grease out, dilute gradually the chicken
and rice with it, it must be rather
thick, and pass it forcibly through fine
sieve with a wooden presser; warm the
puree without boiling, and stirring all
the while; finish with pint of boiling
sweet cream and two ounces of table
butter in small bits; mingle we'll and
serve with small square cuts of bread,
fried white in clarified butter.
Protecting Trees AEninst Mice.
Wherever snow falls to any consid-
cradle depth in winter there is always
more or less danger of mice enawi,Ig the
bark from the stems of fruit and other
trees during cold weather. Apple
orchards in particular are frequently
seriously injured in this manner, and
it is very difficult to remedy the evil.
although it's prevention is easy enough.
AS the mice work mainly under the
snow and near the base of the stem il is
plain that if this part of the tree is pro-
tectei there will be little danger of
further injury. The best way to pro-
tect trees in an orchard is to wrap the
lower part of the stems from the ground
upward foot or two with some mater
ial which the mice either cannot or will
not eat or gnaw.
Perhaps one of the cheapest materials
for the purpose is tar paper. such as is
used for lining buildings, and which
may be found in almost every village.
1t can be cnt up into strips of the size |
required to go around the trees, and
then tied In place with strong twine. |
Where this material cannot be con-
veniently obtained, strong brown straw |
or Manila paper may be used by first |
coating one side with coal tar, and then |
applying it as in the first instance, keep |
ing the tar on the outside.
Bark pulled from other kinds of trees. |
old pieces of tin and sheet iron can also
be employed for this purpose, but tar
paper is the most readily applied and
removed. A few honrs' work in pro-
tecting the trees against mice may be
the means of saving orchards which |
have taken years OF waiting and much
money and labor to produce.
Fences.
The fence question is on the tapis
again, which means "fences or no
fences" We haveseveral times alluded
to 1t, says the Germantown IeleqraDh,
and never could come to any other CON
clusion than that it was one-like MANY
others-to ho left to the Judgment OF
each farmer. This Judgment will de-
pend upon the size, form, aud use to
which the land is put. If it is for stock
some interior fences are indis-
pensable. If the farm is of small size
and used for cropping, where a few
cattle only are kept, interior fences can
largely be dispensed with. If, for rails
ing vegetables and fruits, there is little
need for any but line fences. No doubt
on many farms double the extent of
fences is used that there is really any
need for. On small places, movable
fences, which are now made to perfec-
tion, are all that are necessary. It is
folly TO be always harping upon the
cost OF the fences in State or the
United States, as if all farmers were
fools and were throwing all this money
needlessly away. Good farmers-and
we are yearly getting more of them
don't waste any money if they know it.
and we can say of them that they know
what they are about as well as any other
people in the world.
Cement for Cracked Hoofs.
NJ. Delay hes discovered a prepara-
lion, by means of which sandcracks or
fractures in hoof or horn may be dura-
ply cemented up. Even pieces of iron
'an be securely joined together by its
means. The only precaution necessary
,or its successful application is the care
ul removal of all grease by spirits of
'al ammoniac, sulphide of carbon, or
ether. nj. Delay makes no secret of its
which is as follows Take
'ne part of coarsely powdered gum am.
noniacum and two parts of gutta per-
'ha, in pieces the size of hazelnut. [
nj thny1 in | 1