The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hints nbOmt Work.


be plain enough to his Southern CO.
worker, who works, or may do SO, in his
fields the year round. Round potatoes
planted in the Southern States, in
January will makea first crop in time
for second to be planted in July.
The second crop that may now be in the
ground, may be left for table use, or
kept covered with litter or leaves, to keep
out frost The newly planted crop should
be earthed mp as they appear above
Oats sown at the South will ripen almost
MS soon as fall sown oats, and will be
more likely to escape rust and drought
than if sown later. The oat crop may be
made very valuable one, and by good
management will yield large quantity
of fodder.
COMPOST HEAps.-Much may be done
i'll making compost heaps. In the South
there is a greater choice of materials than
at the North, and anything that can be
secured to add bulk to stable manure,
whether it be cotton seed, bone dust,
guano night soil, or other readily fer
mentable matters, should be collected
and saved. Where salt marsh mud OF
swamp muck can be procured, these
make a good basis for compost heap.
SPREADING MANURE.-For some years
we have spread manure during the win
ter upon meadows, clover sod to be plow-
ed for corn, and ground plowed for spring
crops. The practice is economical OF
labor and convenient, and we have no
reason to believe that the manure loses
any valuable constituent. The ammonia
of fresh manure is i'll a nascent or inactive
condition, and is not wasted during the
cold weather. Those who may find it
convenient to use manure in this manner,
can do no harm by making the expert
ment. Dairy farmers can not do better
than spread manure upon their meadows
and pastures as fast as it is made.
LIVE STOCK K-Regular attention to all
live stock is very important. If an animal
is only half fed, it is better that it be half
fed regularly, as it will suffer less injury
than if attended to one day and neglected
the next. But it is poor economy to
stint food. "The liberal soul shall be
made fat" To see ones stock contented,
comfortable and happy, is not only a
happiness to a good farmer, but money
i'll his pocket. Regular hours of feeding,
regular watering, regular rations, and
regular rest, are conducive to comfort.
With regularity there is no haste, no
waste, nothing is forgotten, and nothing
is done twice over. Animals then digest
what they eat, and thrive. -Agriculturist
The Houselsccpcr.
DEPOSIT IN TEA KETTLES. s.-The stony
deposit at the bottom of kettles is gen.
orally carbonate of lime. 1t was origi-
nally held in solution by excess of car
bonic acid, which the heat has driven off.
Weak muriatic, nitric or acetic acid will
Immediately dissolve it with etfervescence
Care, however, must be taken to remove
the acid as soon as the deposit is dis
solved, or it would attack the iron
Should the deposit be sulphate of lime,
it must be dissolved by repeated wash
ings with the acid.
PUFF PASTE WITH BEEF SUET.-Where
you cannot obtain good butter for
making paste, the following is an excel
lent substitute Skin and chop one
pound of kidney beef suet very fine, put
it into mortar and pound it well,
moistening with little oil, until be-
coming, as it were, one piece, and about
the consistency of butter; proceed ex-
actly as in puff paste, using it instead OF
butter.
PARsN1Ps. -Scrape and wash your
parsnips, and put them on with Just
enough water to boil them, and no
more when they are doue they should
be nearly dry. Then dish them and
pour over melted butter and little salt,
or some drawn butter. Or, boil them as
directed above, and when done cut them
in half, grease the bars of your gridirou.
put them on it over some lively Goals
and brown them.
To Cook AND SERVE LON OF BEEF.
Select twelve pound loin of beef of
good quality, bone, season the inside
with salt and pepper, roll and tie it
firmly with strong strings, cook the same
way as beef q ia mOdc, emitting the
calf's feet; when done Gt takes at least
four hours) drain, pare, glaze and keep
it warm till wanted free the gravy of its
grease and reduce with a quart OF
Espagnole sauce ; dress the beef on a
layer of brazed red cabbage, garnish
around with alternate groups of glazed
onions and boiled and glazed beet roots,
nicely rounded; pour the same over the
garnishing and serve.
To PREPARE APPLEs.-Peel aud take
the cores out of eight or more large cook
ing apples, cook in light syrup and
drain them on hair sieve; have as
many round pieces of sponge cake as
there are apples-cut the same size and
an inch thick sprinkle fine sugar over
and lay them in moderately hot oven
serve the apples on the cake, set a
candied plum on the top of each, reduce
the syrup with half glass of red currant
jelly; pour over the apples and send to
table serve hot.
Pennsylvania Poultry.
The chickens and capons from Bucks
and the adjoining counties in Pennsyl-
vania have the best reputation in the city
markets. Capons are made to weigh
twelve pounds, and sell at thirty-fve to
forty cents a pound. The poultry is
mostly of the Dorking, Dominique and
common breeds, but it is the manage
ment rather than the breed, that pro-
luces the high quality. The chickens
are brought out early in the season, and |
are well fed from the first. The cocks +.
before marketing the birds are put up in .
,oops and fed upon soft food, consisting
If corn and oat meal, potatoes and some ,
scraps of fat meat or chopped suet. This |
S given several times a day in small .
Quantities. Many spring chickens are
ient to market from these localities which /
,ring the highest prices, generally at
bout fifty cents per pound.
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