The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Hints.

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under the beef, if it is OH the spit;
serve separately on q sauce dish with a
bowl of gravy.
To MAKE CHICKEN HAsu.-Pick the
meat from two cold boiled or roasted
chickens; chop it fine; put in q small
saucepan two ounces of butter, with two
tablespoonfuls of flour; cook little; di-
Lutte with pint of chicken broth; boil
five minutes, add the yolks of four
eggs, mixed with little cream, the
juice of lemon, two pats of butter,
salt, pepper, grated nutmeg and table
spoonful of chopped parsley; then add
the chicken, and warm well without
boiling; serve with eight soft poached
eggs, set i'll row over the hash, and n
garnisbing of heart shsped cuts of white
bread, fried in clarified butter.
To PREPARE SHEEp's HEAD.-Take
large sleeps head, cleanse, trim and
wipe it well; place it in well buttered,
oval, fiat, we'll timed copper bakingpan,
with salt, grated nutmeg, two onions
and green pepper chopped fine, two
ladlefuls of stewed tomatoes, highly
garnished bunch Of parsley, few bits
of butter on the top, and place but
tered paper over all; set on Che fire,
start slowly, let simmer gently for about
forty minutes, taking care to OCCASION
ally sprinkle the fish with its gravy;
when done, place the fish on q dish, and
keep it warm take out the parsley and
transfer the tomato sauce, etc., to q
saucepan, with a pint of ESpagnole
sauce reduce to proper consistency;
add the juice of lemon and table
spoonful of chopped parsley; serve up
the fish in large dish pour the sauce
over, and serve dish of plain boiled
rice with the fish.
SALT RISING BREAD.-Take a stone
jar (or a pitcher will do) that will hold
about two quarts and half; scald it out
with hot water; then put into it pint of
water just warm enough to bear your
finger in, a teaspoonful of salt, and flour
enough to make thin batter. Put the
jar into kettle of warm water; cover it
and set it by the side of q stove, where
it will keep warm. After it has remained
there quite while, water and bubbles
will come on the top then stir in thor
oughly more -four until quite thick, and
let it remain until it has risen to the top,
or ring, nearly. Put flour into pan
pour in pint of water just warm enough
to hold your hand in then pour in your
rising and mix. Work it we'll, and then
make into loaves put into your pans;
grease the tops of your loaves with but
ter, and set in warm place to rise.
When light enough, bake in mode
ratelv hot oven one hour. If the rising
doesn't seem inclined to come up, set
the kettle on top of the stove for few
minutes.
Spare the Birds.
J. J. Mechi writes as follows to q
friend who had asked for his views on
the bird question I am great be-
lever in birds as farmers friends. A
friend of mine recently shot several
wood pigeons, and found their crops
full Of small snails with their shells on.
Early one foggy morning this summer
my bailitf was surprised to see wheat in
one field with dropping heads. On ex-
animation he found snail on nearly
every stem. In half an hour, when the
fog cleared. they were all gone. As
soon as let out, my poultry search the
fields and appropriate eagerly every
worm or insect. Those who watch the
habits of poultry and birds will pro.
nounce them to be farmers friends.
Ducks will gorge themselves with slugs,
and find them where man may search
almost in vain. Flies have no chance
with them, if they settle within reach.
Two hundred ducks would have cleared
many acres, and pay well by becoming
fat on the caterpillars. Every farm
should have shrubbery for bird breed.
ing.
Straw for the Fields.
If L could have my entire farm GOV
cred with boards lying fiat on the ground
a whole year, says a correspondent,
would expect more benefit than from
twenty-five loads of barnyard manure tc
the acre. Now SO far as the straw goes
it has similar effect. l believe The
very best use Of straw, except as litter
for the stables or barnyards, is to spread
1t on the fields. [ put straw on my
wheat last season with manifest improve
ment as compared with places where
none was spread. [ expected improve
ment to the clover, but in that I was
disappointed. l noticed small spcts
where the straw had been in bunche;
the clover was out, having been smoth
cred apparently. l took up boards from
q space about twenty feet square, aftel
they had laid two years, and planted
potatoes, the surrounding ground beinf
also planted. Where the boards hat
laid had three times as many bushel!
as on like plot adjoining.
House Scraps for Fowls.
AS the weather gets colder fowls arr
cut OF from many insects, fruits, seeds
etc. To compensate for this it is neces
sary to supply your birds with an equiva
lent in nice bits. This can often b,
done with scraps from the table, leaves
OF vegetables, etc. This is especial,
required if fowls are limited to small
run, for though every one who keep
fowls may not own a five-acre lot fo
them to run in, yet he can keep them il
health and with profit to himself by
giving them proper attention. WheI
fowls are supplied with the change o
food they require they seldom peck of
each others feathers, but if they one,
commence, it is very hard to break then
of such habit. Pieces from the tabl
are used with more profit to feed poul
thy than pigs, and they supply tina
variety which nature requires.
Wheat Culture.
At a meeting of the New Hampshir,
board of agriculture, s. @. Pater, in al
essay on this subject, advocated thor
ough preparation of the soil in the au
tumn, previous to spring sowing; a ju
dicious selection of seed, which shoult
be soaked in strong brine and dried of