Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-05-18
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

AT large meeting Of the Western
New York Farmers Club, the honey
locust was generally condemned as q
fence, except for ornament, on the ground
that IL would not turn cattle.
Horses which eat too rapidly for
good digestion should have their grain
ground, and the hay or straw should be
steamed, or wet with hot water, and the
meal sprinkled over 1t for few hours
before feeding it.
Farmers and gardeners should exer.
else special care in the selection of seed.
Half the crop may depend on the quality
of the seed. Buy only Of seedsmen who
have a reputation to lose. When you
once have good seed, raise your own,
and do not chance too often.
Lemon Cream.-Peel three lemons
and squeeze out the juice into one quart
of milk; add the peel cut in pieces, and
cover all for few hours; then add six
eggs well beaten and one pint of water
well sweetencd; strain all and simmer
over a gentle fire till it thickens.
Plain Fruit Cake.-One cupful
brown sugar, one cupful butter, one cup
full molasses, one cupful milk, three cup
fuls flour, four eggs, one and one-half
teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoon
full soda, one pound raisins, chopped fine;
one pound currants. Bake in slow
oven.
"A Rice Pudding Without Eggs.-One
cup of rice put in tin pail set into a
kettle of boiling water; add milk to
cover the rice; as the milk is absorbed
add more, not much at a time, until the
rice is cooked soft; then pour out into a
pudding dish, add pint of milk, sugar
to taste, little salt, and handful of
raisins, or flavor with cinnamon or
lemon.
Chocolate Cake.-Two small cups of
sugar, half cup of butter, three eggs,
one cup of milk, four ounces of choco-
late, three cups of -four, one tablespoon.
full of soda, two of cream of tartar; mix
the cake first, and when it is well beaten
take the chocolate and stir it in care
fully. This makes a dark-colored cake,
but children like it very much. Crate
the chocolate on coarse crater.
Owls are of immense service as YER
min destroyers. An English gamekeepeI
found an owls nest with one young bird
in it. He visited it for thirty consecu
tive mornings, and in that time removed
from it 105 rats, forty-nine mice, clever
shrew mice, two robins, and one spar
row. This was, and we'll it might have
been, over and above what the owls con
sumption demanded.
Goldfish with Cream.-Pick up thC
fish quite fine, lay in water one hour
pour off the water, add fresh, and bring
to boil; pour this off and fill up will
just milk or water enough to cover. i
milk, add a little butter, little -four
and pinch of pepper. Beat up two o.
three eggs, and stir in after removing
from the fire. Plain boiled potatoes
should always be served with this dish.
"A good soil rarely fails, even in
poor season, of returning a paying in
come for the labor expended upon it il
the cultivation of any crop adapted to it
The idea that the number of acres il
crops indicates the farmers income mus
be abandoned, and the number of bush
els per acre must be looked for instead
There is rtainly less profit in plowinI
fifty acres to raise 1 200 bushels of grail
than in plowing but twenty-five to grow
the same amount, and trusting to goo
seasons for fair crops will usually max
fair returns in what we call bad or un
favorable seasons. - Valley Farmer.