Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-04-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The HonseIkeener.


HoT SLAw.-One head of cabbage,
half pound of pork, and try it out and
take out the scraps. Chop up the cab
bage and put in the fat with water and
pepper, if liked, mustard. When nearly
done, add one cup of vinegar.
INDIAN PANCAKES. pint meal al
most; fill up with flour; scald the meal,
but not the -four; thin with milk; salt;
last thing add one teaspoonful cream tar
ter, and one-half of soda, mixed to-
gether; ring and bake right away.
STEwED CARRoTs.-Boil the carrots
until tender; also boil separately five
small onions; cut the carrots into any
small fanciful pieces you may choose;
mince the onions, and chop sprig of
parsley; have a pint of milk boiling,
which season with a little pepper and
salt, adding a small piece of butter
rubbed in a tablespoonful of flour; put
in the carrots and onions, and let sim
mer ten minutes; stir in the parsley, and
dish at once.
WHITE BEANs.-Soak one pint of dried
beans over night; parboil in plenty of
water, with a small piece of soda in it;
drain perfectly dry and place in a baking
dish; rub one and one-half tablespoon
fuls of butter into four even tablespoon
fuls flour, until it is a cream; beat in
this two spoonfuls condensed egg, add
ing slowly gill of vinegar, and
sprinkle Of salt; pour over the beans,
place q plate, inverted, over them and
put in rather cool oven one-half hour.
PICKLED FIsH.-Clean the fish thor
oughly and cut into pieces about five
inches long; rub each piece Oh, (which
side with salt. .ae TaekH FISH, put layer Of
VIII VII 81 the bottom, then a few whole
peppers and allspice and blade of mace,
then another layer of fish, spice, ETC.,
till the jar is nearly full; then pour good
cider vinegar over it until the fish is
quite covered. Tie paper over the top
of the jar, and cover this with flour
paste; this keeps in all steam. Put the
jar in the oven and bake for three hours.
The fish is fit for use as soon as cold,
and will keep, in the pickle, for six
months. The white fish, pickerel, ETC.,
of the lakes are very nice for picking,
while the land locked sturgeon of the
great lakes is almost as good as picked
salmon if it be scalded in water before
spicing, etc. Shad is excellent picked,
as all the bones disappear.
Cnrting Out Manure.
In hauling out manure at this season
of the year, says 7. B. Miner in the Sun,
upon fields to be plowed in April or May,
if the heaps be made of size to equal
ize its distribution, the same as would
10 IAla1o If tlc land were TO be plOwed
without delay, there will be a great loss
in the manure by the escape of its am
monia and drying of the surface of the
heaps. Suppose a two-horse load of
first-rate stable dung be placed in six
heaps in field in February, and this ma
nure remains in these heaps to the middle
! Of April or the fore part of May, and are
then spread and the land plowed, how
Not less than ten per cent. There must
be certain degree of loss-more than
farmers can afford to lose-and the ques-
tion is, how is this loss to be prevented
One way is to wait till the ground is to
be plowed, and then haul out the ma
nure, and pillow it under as fast as it is
spread. But farmers are too busy to
haul it out then, and are compelled often
to draw it out in the winter. If one
must do so, it would be a good plan tc
make the heaps large, but not too large
to be spread properly with little extra
hard labor; pack them as solidly as pos
sible, and if they be well built up and
trodden down, they may be made SC
compact with little labor that not over
one or two per cent. loss will take place
Another way is to put only three or foul
very large heaps to the acre, making
them compact, as in the foregoing case
and when the time comes to spread the
manure take team and sled with NOV
able sideboards and proceed to remove
some of the manure to other places, sc
that when it is spread it will be evenly
distributed. 1t would be but a shor
operation to remove part of the ma
nure in that way, and think the labol
can well be afforded by farmers, rather
than lose SO large portion of their stable
dung by evaporation, as the ordinary
method of hauling out manure in thu
winter is sure to cause.
oihCA ltcLu
A. S. Plummer, Edinburg, o., sent tt
the American farmers club two blacl
teeth which he had just extracted. Th
hogs in his county (Portage) are begin
ming to be troubled with these teeth
which, if not removed, are certain t,
cause death. The symptoms are: First
the hog refuses its feed; second, ther
comes a weakness about the back, anC
finally the animal fails to getup and dies
These teeth are found in each jaw-il
the upper one near or over the tusks, an
in the under jaw some are found betweel
the front teeth and tusks.
} AS no one present could give any infor
nation on the subject, the club desire
farmers who may have any knowledge q
to its causes and cure to communicat
the same to them.
Soft Eggs. a.
O. e. f., writes My chickens la
eggs with soft shells. What shall 1 Civ
them
Reply.-Give them a rest They ar
laying too many eggs, more than the
: have material to finish properly. Som
bones burned and powdered should a
| ways be given to fowls when laying, bu
if the hens are supplied with variet
of food and can get plenty of gravel an
earth or coal ashes, and are in perfectl
good health, they will not lay soft eggs
This defect is an indication that they al