The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Notes.

nalf an hour one cupful sugar, one
cupful flour.
LADY CAKE.-One cupful butter, two
cupiuls sugar, four cupfuls flour, one
cupful milk, three eggs, one-half tea
spoonful soda, flavor to taste.
FLANNEL CAKES. To one pint of flour
teod one-half pint of corn meal, four
eggs, one tablespoonful yeast, with milk
enough to make stiff batter set to
rise over night. Thin with warm milk
and water before baking next morning.
JUMBIEs. four eggs, three cup
fuls sugar, very little nutmeg, one
teaspoonful baking soda, one cupful
butter stir in the flour until it will
roll cut in rounds with hole in the
center. Will keep good two or three
weeks.
To MAKE MILK SoUR.-If persons
wishing to make milk sour will take an
ordinary bean pot and put in a warm
place near the stove, and from time to
time add little milk, keeping covered
all the time, they will always have good
sour milk when the pot is empty wash
it we'll
OYSTER CATsUP.-Chop one quart of
oysters and boil in their own liquor
with teacupful vinegar skim scum as it
rises; boil three minutes, and strain
through hair cloth; return the liquor
to fire, and add one teaspoonful cayenne
pepper, one tablespoonful mace, one
tablespoonful salt boil fifteen minutes,
and when cold, bottle.
CRAZY BISCUIT. Three pints of milk,
five teaspoonfuls of yeast, one teaspoon
full of salt boil the milk, and then COO,
stir in -four, making it little thicker
than pancake batter; add the salt, and
when lukelarm put in the yeast. In
the morning, add one egg, half cupful
sugar, one teaspoonful saleratus, mix,
and let stand to rise when light, make
into biscuits let raise again, and bake
in a medium oven.
To PRESERVE EGGs. When the eggs
are taken from the nest, if they are
brushed entirely over with solution OF
gum arabic and laid in a cool place they
will keep perfect two years, and chick
ems have been Matched from eggs sc
treated at the end of that time. If farm
ers as soon as they gather the eggs
would cover each one with fresh melted
mutton suet-just enough to cover the
pores of the shell-they would confer
boon upon thousands.
PRESSED Corn BEEF.-Choose a plate
piece, fat and lean put in pot little
larger than itself, and cover with colo
water pepper we'll let it boil moder
ately till the bones will come out turn
it several times while boiling; wher
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and fold up firmly let it be thick an,
short in shape place plate over, ant
three or four irons or bricks to press it
let it stand till perfectly cold, or four O.
five hours ; cut thin for the table, an(
garnish with sprigs of parsley.
Foes to the Farmer.
AS the spring advances and the insec
foes of the farmer, gardener and orchar. .
ist begin to emerge from their winte
hiding places, a few general observation
Ill reference to preventive and remedia
measures may not be amiss.
The horticulturist should carefully eX
anime his trees, i'll order to ascertain hoy
many, and which, are infested with bar
lice, SO as to be ready to attack them a
soon as the young are Matched an
emerge from beneath the mother scales
rs then is the only real vulnerable pc
riod of their existence. AS the yoln
are very minute, it would be well fo
him to carry with him a small pocke
magnitier, so that, when passing througI
his orchard OF nursery, he can always b
prepared to ascertain whether the egg
are Matched or not. Ii no young ar
seen, a few scales can be raised with tn
point of knife blade and the conditio
of the eggs observed. As soon as til
young appear then let him attack thel
at once with his brush and acrid solr
tion Of lime, soap, or diluted kerosene
If the punches of eggs, cocoons an
particles of crumpled leaves, so ofte
seen glued to the twigs, have not bee
removed during the winter, this ought t
be attended to at once. They should /
removed and burned, or carefully IL
stroyed by crushing, or otherwise. Fac
egg, nest or cocoon destroyed now, wi
be equivalent to the destruction of hun
dreds of caterpillers during the summe
The collar Of the trunk Just below IL
surface Of the mulch or soil, should |
carefully examined, and if there are an
signs OF the woolly aphis it should |
treated with strong soapsuds, and afte
ward some leached ashes should |
placed around it. If on the contrar
nothing or only black ground beetles
lady bags are found, leave it undi
turbed, these friends will look after
If the cankerworm has made lodgil
in the orchard, the tin bands ought
be at once fastened ON the trees; eve
now it is probably too late in some orc
ards. Remember-frst tack piece
rope around, and on this the tin stri
three or four inches wide, leaving wi,
projection below and also a projectit
above. If the inner side of the rol
which is to go next the tree is first tarr,
so much the better; the rope should
of sufficient thickness to cause the rol
to atnnl ont wall fro,nn tho tr,,nnlr