The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-21
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Items Of Agricultural and Domestic Interest


Hints About Work.
FIRE WooD.-Make provision against
more hurried season, when every hour will
be worth two or three hours of this time OF
the year. There is nothing that pleases the
good wife better than nice lot or clean, dry
chips and light stuff to make quick blaze;
and il she or her maid has to run to the
woodpile, tear of splinters, pick up damp
chips; and so spend five minutes out OF the
kitchen Just at the critical time when the
dinner needs attention, the farmer must not
complain If the potatoes burn in the pot,
and things go wrong.
LABoRERs.-Look out early for good farm
hands, The best men are the first to make
engagements; common hands may be picked
mp more easily. On every large farm the
farmer should have a man he can make
foreman, to allow himself little freedom
from the constant attention 10 minor de-
tails. Such man may pften be obtained for
IS month more than a mere clodhOpper,
who can only be trusted to work under the
eye of a "boss.
PLows AND HARRows-Farmers living at
a considerable distance from mechanics
should have not only good plows, but plenty
of duplicate parts, that they can themselves
attach in case of breakage; several new
shares, at least one new beam for each
breaking-up pillow, and several pillow handles
that may be adapted to the piows most used
Have wood ready to mend harrOws, if they
are to be subjected to any trying work
among stumps or on rough, rOOty ground.
Give coat of paint to all tools of this class
being particular to work it well into the
Joints, and it is well to give these spots sew
eral coats, so that water can not get in.
Paint tools only when thoroughly dry.
WAGoSs.-Don't forget to put the wagons
in good order.
-la$I for rTaa1
runners, should be made use of, so that there
shall be no need to deliver sold goods when
the roads are breaking up in the spring, nor
to do heavy teaming, like hauling home
lumber, coal and provisions.
WORKING CATTLE Save the strength of
the OK for the pillow and for the heavy work;
feed him little grain; keep him in first
rate working order, and give just work
enough TO prevent hrs neck getting soft;
then when the time for hard labor arrives,
give good feed and all the work he can do.
Cows.-Feed dry cows well; give them a
daily feed of meal of some kind, cornmeal
and wheatbran, or corn-meal and oil cake,
or some other Reproducing or fattening
diet. You will get it all back when you be-
gin to milk. Keep neat stock of all kinds
sheltered and warm. Do not pose them to
the spring storms, which are more trying
than those of the autumn and early winter.
YOUNG CATTLE should never stop growing
until they come to full maturity. They
will surely stop, and thenceforth have that
stunted, weakly look so common among
scrubs" unless they are sheltered and so
well fed that they do not lose flesh.
HORSES AND CoLrs.-The same remarks are
applicable to these animals as to neat stock
except that the horse will thrive under
much severer exposure than cattle, If he has
enough to eat and a shed to go under. IL is,
however, the worst policy to put the tough
ness of any animal to severe tests. Horses
must be fed up for the hard work of spring.
SHEEP.-Have an eye to evidences of para
sites, and apply strong solution of carbolic
soap, thrown into the parted wool, on the
parts most affected, from bottle having
quill through the cork.
Sailing stock of all kinds must not te
neglected; irregularity is nearly as bad as en-
tire neglect.
SPRING WORKS. soon as the frost is out
of the ground, and the weather is favorable,
RESET FENCES, and renew rails and posts,
wherever they are failing.
REPAIR THE ROADS by filling soft spots
with stones, and covering them with good
sharp gravel, leaving the cart paths and
farm roads rounded up, free from water, and
as even as you can with the time and labor
you have 70 put upon them.
DIrcHTSe AND DRAINING may be at once
undertaken and pushed at odd times, when
the ground is too wet to pillow.
The Housekeeper's Column.
The New York World of Sunday contains
the following admirable suggestions for what
is termed "a poor mans dinner" but which,
well cooked, is good enough for anybody:
POOR MANS DINNER.
Beef soup.
Reef n LI mode POtatOos In their Jackets
Msearooi. COlesiaw
Birds-nest pudding.
IL must be understood from the beginning
that poor mans dinner is to be always very
good eating. The slender purse which for
bids the fat things and delicacies OF the mar
ket must find its compensation in skilful,
judicious cooking and neat, deft serving.
The bill OF fare here offered. in the actual
cost of the materials, comes within the means
of the humblest reader. just so far as he
enjoys il is altogether the affair of madame,
and il is to her assistance we come with a
few hints. In selecting beef il must be kept
in view that il is To furnish also the soup.
As this is the case, it Is only as beef
a Ia mode that it can do no double duty at
the same meal. Let no housewife reject
any one of the articles necessary for this