The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


ing; one cup sour milk; two teaspoons of
soda; one teacup brown sugar; half a cup
of molasses; two eggs; one tablespoon Of
Make the batter 80 it will drop from the
spoon in drops as large as IA egg.
The Oleander usually cultivated as q
house plant in winter should not he placed
out of doors for tt e summer, until toma-
toes may be safely transplanted. The
same rule will apply to pelargoniums, and
in fact to all plants usually cultivated in the
house during thewinter. Prairie Farmer.
INDIGESTION IN HoRsEs.-Horses that
eat too rapidly for good digestion should
have their grain ground, and the hay or
straw should be steamed or wet with hot
water, and the meal sprinkled over it for
few hours before feeding it. Give
several times week bran mash, with a
handful of oil meal in each one, and the
addition of q little extract of gentian or
Jther tonic to the mash could do no harm.
-ErchGnge.
To Boil HAL1BUT. Take a small hall
but, or what Is required from large one.
Put the fish into the fish-kettle, cover it
with cold water, in which a handful of
salt and bit of saltpeter the size of a
hazel-nut, have been dissolved. When it
begins to boil skim carefully, and then
let it Just simmer till it is done. Drain
the fish, and garnish it with horse.radish
or parsley. Serve with egg sauce or plain
melted butter.
SCRAMBLED HAM AND EGGs.-Break six
eggs into bowl, with teaspoonful of
chopped parsley; beat the eggs enough to
break the yelks; mince very fine small
tablespoonful of ham for each egg; put q
piece of butter in a sauce-p and when
it is melted turn in the ham. Stir for q
minute, and add the eggs and parsley,
with sprinkle of pepper. Keep stirring
with a fork until the eggs are cooked,
which will take about two minutes. Serve
quickly.
STARTING TUBERosEs.-Ac correspond
ent in Vick's Floral Guide says: II plant
them in old tomato cans, without punch
ing any holes for drainage, set them on
the mantel over the kitchen range, and
keep them warm and wet. When we'll
started, move them to more cool place,
and at the proper time set them out in
the garden. In this way have raised,
during the past two years, vigorous
plants, yielding from twenty five to thirty
blossoms each.''
OMELET WITH CHEEsE.-Break up and
beat well six eggs; add to these four ia.
blespoonfuls of cheese finely chopped. and
a piece of butter the size Of an egg, and
salt and pepper. Put these into sauce
pan on the fire and stir until soft and
thick; then throw the substance into your
frying pan and proceed as for the plain
omelet. A sweet omelet, for dessert, may
be mace by putting into the plain omelet
little sugar instead of the salt and pep
per, inclosing in the center any kind of
marmalade or jam. When turned on the
dish sprinkle sugar over the top.
Sort SoAP.-Spring is at hand, and we
farmers wives are thinking about making
soap. 1 have quit making an lash
leach" and occupying two or three days
in making soap. l p-ocure cake of
concentrated I've at the drug store. put it
into three gallons of soft water, adding
four pounds of soap grease. When it has
boiled till quite clear, | put it into bar
rel and add twelve gallons of soft water.
When it gets cold, you will have nice
lot of soap, and made with little trouble.
My man" says it is cheaper than ashes,
manure than for soap.-Aunt Nancy, tn
Ohio Farmer.
GETTING PURE SEEDs.-One of the
greatest nuisaLces and damages that a
farmer is compelled to undergo is the
mixture of seeds. Even seedsmen who
have the cleanest seeds send forth those
which contain foreign matter, although
their machinery is much better than that
of the regular farmer. But mixture from
thrcshing is probably the worst of the
causes. A NOW of rye is put on the floor
and finished, and on the next day a NOW
of oats, and the latter are sure to be mixed
with some of the former. The seedsmen
ought at least To be held to strong account
for the purity of their seeds; and where
the farmer uses his own they should be
especially watched and guarded.-N. Y.
Herald.