Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-30
,rpICULVURAL AND DOMESTIC.

If takes blood and corn 10 make
.oven cents per pound cattle. When d
sormar sees reports of such sales he
annrlndes he may have the right kind
- corn. but not the blood. Hence
,ride-awake farmers are looking about
" combine the two. But even then
tbey will not grow, like evil weeds,
without attention. State Regis
ter.
To make French toast, take slices
At stale bread, and, having heated a
niece of lard the size of an egg in
your frying-pan, dip them in the fol-
loving batter and cook in the lard as
npickiyas possible. Batter: One cup
Of sweet milk, one egg, and flour
enouch to make batter as for pan
axes, Add salt. Eat for breakfast,
with meat gravy or with strip. For
desert use cream and sugar.
"A wash made of one part liquid
carbolic acid, to eight parts of water,
sprinkled about places where the ants
are troublesome, even if it is in a safe
where cakes, pies, etc., are Kept, VIII
not harm anything (unless sprlnkled
on them) but the ants. The same will
keep squash bugs away (only take
one cart of the acid to t1CelDe parts of
the water try it first on one vine to
see whether it is too strong, as it will
kill the vine if too strong. | have
forgotten the exact proportion | used.
Apply with a feather or syringe by
shrinking the vines nell on the stems,
under the top sides of leaves as often
AS the bugs appear. Sometimes once
ar twice will be sufficient, but some
seasons the vines have to be watched
all summer. The same proportion as
the first is excellent to rid lighthouses
of mites, lice, etc.-COr. Journal Of
agriculture.
TO make rye drop cakes, mix into
two cups of rye flour, two teaspoon
fuls Of baking powder and one even
teaspoonful of salt. Stir in two eggs,
a teaspoonful of sugar, and milk
enough to make Mick batter. Drop
this into hot creased muffin pans or
in balls on a large pan and bake in a
quick oven. Or, into two cups of
sour milk beat one tablespoonful Of
butter. two poonfuls of molasses,
and rye flour enough to make stiff
batter. add one even teaSpoontul of
soda dissolved in one tablespoonful of
boiling water and drop from spoon
into hot CREASED pan. They should
be stiff enough to retain their shape.
Bake in a very hot oven. These are
also very nice if dropped into boiling
lard and fried like doughnuts, then
Sprinkled with powdered sugar
Prairie Farmer.
In selecting corn for seed, it is
often the practice to merely choose
large ears from the general crop. 1t is
suggested that this is not the beSt
method, for, while the plant may be
strong and vigorous and bear large
ears, the corn may have been fertilized
by pollen from feeble or stunted plants
near it, and the seed may retain and
repeat these adverse qualities in spite
OF the yigOr Of the plant upon which
il grew. 1t is said that better plan
would be to plant some of the seed in
a small plot by itself, at a distance
tom the main crop, and to give this
patch plenty of room and high culture.
When the tassels appear in this seed
bed every plant should be examined,
and all feeble stalks should be pulled
out or cut off below the tassel before
II has an opportunity to bloom. By
this arrangement both the plant ON
which the ears grow, and the pollen
scattered from its own and neighbor-
ing taSsels, will he alike strong and
vigorous, and the seed will partake of
the strength of both its parents
| HTtJHer for JuHe.