Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-03-29
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

No cattle, horses or hogs should be
| allowed to tramp over meadows. 1t
| poachessthem in holes and tramPs the
ground hard.
There is much surface water in the
| spring Of the year running in the cutters
of the roads and along rayines. Where it
can be turned to run over meadows, pas
lures or even land intended for corn or
wheat, it will be valuable as q fertilizer.
There is nitrogen and ammonia in surface
water from rains or melting SHOWS
Boiled Mutton Break and turn in a
shank bone into saucepan, with couple
| of carrots and two or three turnips, two
bay leaves, two or three sprigs of parsley,
some pepper, whole, and salt Qudntuna
| sJ.;: pour in boiling water enough 10
cover; boil slowly from one and half to
| two hours; serve garnished with carrots
and tuTnips and with caper sauce in a
boat.
Mutton should be chosen from good,
solid animal, with layers of fat, carefully
| avoiding that which is blue in tint and
thin, as it often is so thin as to be trans
parent when held up to the light. There
is one fact worth knOWing-if the skin is
| pulled off the meat the strong muttony
odor disappears. 1t is by this simple proc
ess that butchers make lamb chops out of
| old sheep
-Insects.-If a farmer or gardener
| raises crop he must battle noxious in
sects. There is an insect for every sort of
grain and for all kinds of fruit. Tillers
| of the soil should study entomology far
more than they have done, that they NAV
understand which insects are injurious to
| their growing crops and which are ScIt-
cl,n
! be eXteTminated.
Potato Cakes.-Boil some white po-
| tatoes, mash them very fine, adding salt,
| butter and milk, as if used as vegetable
| then mold in them sufficient sifted -four
| to make them into a soft dough; roll them
out on the paste-b board about an inch
thick; cut in small square cakes; fry on
griddle creased with equal parts of lard
and butter; cook slowly, turning but once.
| Nice for breakfast or an ordinary lunch.
Lady Fingers.-In one pound pow
| dered sugar break eleven eggs, and beat
together until so light that no hair line
will form In the fruit; then add one pound
OF sifted flour; stirring in very lightly
butter some sheets of paper, pour the cake
through pipe made for the purpose or a
paper funnel, on the paper, in cakes three
| inches long and very narrow; sift pow
! dered sugar over the top bake in a rather
quick oven, and do not take them from
the paper until cold.
French Loaf Cake.-Two cupfuls
white sugar, one scant cupful butter, one
cupful sweet milk, three heaping cupfuls
! flour, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls cream
tartar, one teaspoonful soda. Put sugar,
butter, soda, cream tartar, eggs mot pre-
viously beaten), ali together; beat to a
froth; add the milk, beating well; flavor
with lemon extract; add the flour gradu-
ally; pour into cake-tin, lined with but
tered paper; sprinkle little powdered
sugar on the top before baking.
-Joists.-When erecting buildings it is
always better to have broad joists deep
up and DOWN than to use square stick, in
which there is as much timber as in the
deep joists. AS the length of joists is in
creased, the depth should be made CORE
spondingly broader. A joist one inch
thick by twelve deep will sustain much
heavier superintendent weight than a
joist two inches by six, although there is
no more timber in one than in the other.
If joist has browning or bowling edge,
that should always be placed up when the
stick is put in frame. Never use joist
with the browning edge down.-N. Y.
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