Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-13
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Client number of ripe ears of corn to
make quart; rub together quarter of
pound of sugar and three tablespoonfuls
of flour, a pinch of salt, stir into this one
quart of rich milk, eight eggs well beaten,
and lastly the grated corn; if not thick
enough little more -four may be added;
fry In hot butter, or bake in pudding
dish. You may bake half the quantity.
SWEET Milk GEMs.-There is no more
de icious Graham bread than gems
mixed with sweet unskimmed milk,
without salt or baking powder. Like
water gems, they require hot oven.
As there Is no soda, yeast or baking
powder to make them light, all depends
upon the thorough stirring together of
the flour and milk, and a quick, steady
baking. Skinned milk is a little better
than water.
BLACKBERRY WINE.-To ten quarts of
blackberry juice put one quart of water,
three pounds of A sugar, one-eighth of
an ounce of tincture of ammonia; let
them boil up then strain, and when
cold put in one quart of pure French
spirit; mix thoroughly together. Let it
remain in a cool place: it will be ready
for use in few days Do not bottle it
until after year or so, and keep cool
all that time, otherwise it may ferment
and spoil.
FRIED CUCUMBERS.- that
are too large to use in an ordinary way,
even when they begin to turn yellow,
may be sliced, and treated in the same
way as agg plant. Slice the fruit crosswise
about half an inch thick, peel and stack
up; put plate with fiat-iron on top,
or lay the slices in strong salt and water
to remove slight bitterness. At the
end of two hours drv the slices on a
cloth. and dip in thin batter of egg and
flour, and fry to light brown, or instead
of the batter, dip first in beaten eggs
and then in cracker powder. Serve hot.
FEEDING CATTLE.-A correspondent of
the Rural Sun gives his experience in
feeding cattle as follows: If they are
sometimes stuffed and at others
starved, they will soon 90 through the
process of ''eating off their heads" In
feeding meal, [ always want it ground
fine, as my experience is that three
bushels of fine meal is equal to four
ground coarse, though an over feed of
fine meal will scour worse than the
coarse; this the feeder must guard
against. Always give each one box to
himself, so you know he eats what you
give him, and accustom them to being
tied up from calves; if this is not CON
venient when you begin to feed, tie
them up at night and let them run loose
in the lot of a day. Keep them well
bedded, and never allow a hog in their
stalls, or you will lose much of the
manure they make, and that with me is
big item. When your stall begins to
get too hot to be healthy, clean out and
haul directly to where you want the
manure
SAWDUST FOR WALKS.-In the extern
sive wild garden adjoining the well-kept
pleasure grounds at Cadland, near South
hampton, the gardener, has used saw
dust as dressing for the pathways cut
out among the heath and trees in the
woodland. The transition from smooth
mown lawns, bright, clean gravel walks,
to the adjuncts of this wild garden, is
both pleasing and refreshing, and seems
especially enticing when the sun sheds a
tropical heat, and quietness and solitude
are most appreciated. The walks are
firm and yet soft to the tread; the saw
dust soon becomes of neutral tint,
closely allied to the crushed, dried leaf
age of the beech, which here so much
abounds. Weeds seldom grow, and
these are easily kept in check with hoe,
and light sweeping with broom keeps
all clean and neat
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING One
I+Ioo,,co,,I oh lai1 oh
to the weather will cover over
face, and five pounds of shingle-nails will
fasten them on. One-ffth more siding
and flooring is nee ed than the number
tof square feet of surface to be covered,
because of the lap in the siding and
matching of the floor. One thousand
laths will cover 20 yards of surface, and
IL pounds of lath nails will nail them on.
Eight bushels of good lime. 16 bushels
of sand and one buShel of hair will make
enough mortar to plaster 100 square
yards. A cord ofstone, three bushels Of
lime and cubic yard of sand will lay
100 cubic feet of wall. Five courses of
brick will lay one foot in height on
chimney. Nine bricks in course will
make fue eight inches wide and twenty
inches long, and eight bricks in course
will make fue eight inches wide and
sixteen inches long.
CRUSHED WHEAT-Cracked wheat on
the breakfast tables of the best hotels is
now standard dish, and it figures largely
on the table of many families. When
properly cooked-not made a mash Of
it's not only healthy and nutritious, but
decidedly palatable. Many do not know
how to cook it, and hence spoil it in the
attempt. But our particular business
Just now is not with Cracked"
but With "crushed" wheat. The
whole grain is crushed in such
manner as to retain all its particles.
Nothing is lost or sifted out. 1t cooks
more readily than the cracked grain,
has more gluten, and all the sweetness
and flavor of the wheat. | cook it just
as [ do oatmeal; having quart or two
of boiling water on the fire, stir in two
handfuls of grain for each quart of
water; boil rapidly for twenty minutes,
stirring frequently to prevent its adher-
ing to the bottom of the kettle; then let
it simmer over a slow fire for ten min
utes, covered tightly; I like it better
when cool; the gluten forms jelly,
and when moulded makes handsome
dish for the table.
TREATMENT OF BURNS AND SCALDs.-
"What is proper hygienic treatment of
burns and scalds?" If the burn or scald
| is a. severe one. eccaSiOning a general