Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-17

degree of civilization Is required fol-
planting gardens than building fine
homes"
TO make hominy mullins, take two
cups of fine hominy, boiled and cold;
beat it smooth; stir in three cups OF
sour milk, half cup of melted but.
ter; two teaspoonfuls of melted salt;
two tablespoonful of white sugar;
then add three eggs, well beaten; one
teaspoonful Of soda dissolved in hot
water; and one large cup of flour;
bake quickly.
An excellent filling for lemon pie
is thus made: Rub smooth in some
cold water two tablespoonfuls of
corn starch; add two cups of boiling
water and stir until it looks clear.
Pour into dish, add two cups of
sugar and a small piece of butter.
When almost cold add the yolks of
three eggs, and juice of two lemons.
Save the whites for frosting.
The expenses Of conducting farm
are about the same whether it yields
much or little. 1t costs about as
much to harvest i half ton of hay
per acre as two tons, and costs as
much to cultivate corn, that pro-
duces 10 bushels, as it does one that
produces 100, besides the use of the
land, cost of fencing, care, manage
ment, etc. Seek then to produce
heavy crops, for there is where the
profit lies.
To make cracker pies, roll six
crackers fine, and put them in a four
quart pail Or kettle, pour over them
three-tourths of pint of vinegar,
two cups of molasses and quart of
boiling water. Boil on the stove
half an hour, adding moro water if
necessary to make quite thin. Add
salt, raisins and all kinds of spices,
and make short crusts for four pies.
Bake about twenty minutes, or until
the top crust is put on.
Gravy for Roast Beef-When
your joint is "done to turn,' dish 1t
and place it before the fire; then
remove the fat from the dripping
pan and pour the gravy into the dish,
not over the meat, as is the custom
of inexperienced cooks, who, more
over, not content with this, ruthless
ly drown it with a cupful of boiling
water or highly-favored made gravy.
This is a vulgar error, for there is a
sufficient quantity of natural gravy
in good meat to render the use of
foreign sauces superfluous.
At recent lecture before the
kingscote Farmers Club, reported in
a Bristol paper, Professor Mcbride
is stated to have given the following
method of dosing pig: To dose a
pig which you are sure to choke if
you attempt to administer drink to
him while squealing, halter him as
you would for execution, and tie the
rope end to a stake. We will, as we
all know, pull back until the cable is
tightly strained. When he has ceas-
ed his uproar, and begins to reflect,
approach, and between the back part
of his jaws insert an old shoe, from
which you have cut the toe leather
This he will at once begin, from what
ever cause, to suck and chew. -
Through it pour your medicine, and
he will swallow any quantity you
please.
A correspondent gives his way of
building wire fence as follows: Set
good posts ten feet apart; have five
wires, and put stays half way between
the posts; bore the posts with a half
inch hit, and brace the corner posts
well. For stays get good fat pickets
from the lumber-yards, and rip them
in two, putting them on with small
staples. So much for the fence
Now, cultivate your ground close up
to the fence, in order to keep down
the grass, so AS to discourage stock
from putting their heads through the
wires. Use No. 0 annealed wire
Thirty rods, or, say, half coil, >of
wire Is sufficient length between roll
ers, the stays or posts being five feet
apart obviatcs the necessity of having
the wires SO very tight. Level ground
suits this kind of fence the best.
From peck of pumpkin seed drop
ped and covered in the gaps of q
corn-feld, dairy of nine cows has
been kept up to summer milking and
the quality of the butter is super-cx-
cellent, and six heifer calves, raised
from the above are fat as moles.
The COWS are fatter, too, than ma
jority of the cattle slaughtered.
These cows have been making about
SIX pounds of butter per week be-
sides supplying new milk and cream
for 4 gentleman's house with sixteen
inmates, The pumpkins arc chopped
up in the managers with Il spade,
morning, noon, and night, about half
bushel each time when cut into
pieces. They eat while being milk
ed, morning and night, and they
come to the yard and 60 into the
stable for half an hour at noon.
Beets, carrots and some other roots
and small cars of corn will follow,
SO as to keep up the milk during the
winter.
Oyerwork often produces nervous
ness. and the cure Is rest. Many
people think they must go on killing
themselves by slow degrees in this
way, and when they have succeeded,
lockers on are no wiser than before,
but keep on taxing themselves be-
You'd their strength and paying the
penalty. OF all the causes of ner-
vousness the most prolific is acorry.
II, having done our best, we could
only leave the consequence to the
Higher Powers; if we could but be
content to take life rs it is and make
the most of it; to do the duty of the
hour promptly and with fidelity and
think no more about it; to open our
hearts to all the gentle influences of
nature that WOO us, and enjoy with
out murmur or question the good or
the evil that fall to our lots, confident
that they are alike beneficial, to live
Alright in the present and leave the
future to God, what u world of troub-