Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.

four well-beaten eggs, one teacup and a
half of sugar; mix and bake in butter
ed dish; bake three hours. Sweet corn
should be used.
TOMATO SALAD.-Wipe and slice about
half dozen tomatoes, lay them in
salad boil on bed of green salad; pour
over them the following: Salad dressing
Put in the bottom of pint bowl the
yolk of raw egg and quarter of salt
spoonful of salt; stir up, drop by drop,
three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one of
vinegar or lemon juice and half salt
spoonful of dry mustard, stirring until
smooth.
Sort GINGERBREAD one cup of
dark molasses, one-half cup of brown
sugar and one-half cup of-Dutter (or part
butter and part lard) into pan and set
it where it will Just come to boil.
Cool, and add one teaspoonful of ginger,
one-half of salt. and one egg. Stir in
one-half cup of sour milk and two and a
half cups of flour; beat well, and last of
all add two even teaspoonfuls of soda
dissolved in one-third cupful of hot
water. Bake in moderate oven until
well done. r.
A CUCUMBER DISH. Peel cucumbers,
cut them lengthwise in half, scrape out
the seeds if preferred, boil them in
water well salted until tender, which
takes usually about half an hour; toast
nicely few slices of light stale bread;
lay the cucumbers upon them, and pour
over the whole sauce such as is used
for asparagus, which should, of course,
be prepared while the cucumbers are
cooking. al.
PEACH CoBBLER. Make rich biscuit
crust; put it, rolled thick, around the
dish; put in layer of peaches, then
butter and sugar, and very little -four,
then peaches, and so on till the dish is
full; cover with thick crust, cut slit
in the center, and pour in boiling water
till full; bake in moderate oven.
A NICE WAY TO Cook New POTATOES.
Pare and slice thin; let stand in cold
water half an hour; then drain and put
in half pint of milk, tablespoonful Of
butter and little pepper and salt. and
bake in the oven one hour.
GROUND RICE PUDDING.-Mix three
large spoonfuls of ground rice in little
cold milk; let it boil about fifteen min.
utes, stirring all the while. When cold
add four eggs, a little lemon; sugar tc
the taste, and bake it one hour. Line
the dish with paste, OF not.
| stump Sucking in Horses. Il.
A correspondent asks: Is the habit
commonly termed stump sucking" the
manifestation of some disease? If SO
please give remedy. L have never reat
anything on the subject, but / know tina
there are quite number of horses which
have this disease, if disease it is.
Wind sucking, stump sucking ant
crib biting are all one and the same
habit, and, in some instances, are th,
manifestation of disease; in others, tn,
habit may have been acquired from ole
and confirmed crib biters. Some veteri
narians attribute it to distortion of thu
teeth, which have become worn away OF
their interior edge so as to show more O.
less of the yellow inside instead of tn
enamel. Prof. Law says: These worl
teeth are associated with the serious vic
of wind sucking (swallowing) and eructi
cation, which leads to tympany, diges
tive disorder, and rapid loss of condition
The horse seizes the manger or othel
solid object with his teeth, arches an,
shortens the neck, and makes gruntin|
noise. The wind sucking may exis
without crib biting. It may be Learned
by standing idle near a crib / tier, ant
always goes on to disease and loss of con
dition. The same authority prescribe
the following treatment: Smear the from
of the manger with aloes or other bitters
cover all exposed woodwork with shee
iron; muzzles may also be put on afte
the horse has done feeding. Othe
equally good authorities recommend nut
ting lump of salt and one of whit
chalk or magResia in box before tn
horse, and keeping these constantl,
within reach. AS we have said, tn
habit may be learned, but, in most in
stances, it may be considered as kin
of dyspepsia, and the burning acidity c
the stomach prompts the horse to get re
lief by sucking in cool air. The salt an
magnesia or chalk affords a similar mo
mentary relief, and frequently leads to
permanent cure.
A Good Word for the Crow.
A letter to the Chautauqua IN. Y.
Farmer says: Let me speak for til
crow. Last year as was narrowing
corn with a vibrating harrow havin
teeth (you know it is noisy thing),
uncovered a great number of whit
grubs, which you could see all about th
ground. They are very destructive
vegetation of all kinds. They ate @
destroyed thousands of hills of corn tha
year. You could see the track of th
grubs as they travelled to get somethin
to eat, for they travel when in search {
food. You could see the surface of th
ground little elevated, and checke
when the surface is hard and dry. Wei
you see, when l was narrowing, as 500
as the crows heard the harrow at worl
theJ would come and light on the groun
thatwas being narrowed, and the freshe
the better they liked it; when going on
way they would light after I had passe
slong; when I returned, and came With
s x or eight rods of them. they wou'
rise gently and circle around in the res
again. / have counted as many {
seventeen grubs that one crow had pickle
up at one lighting. They take any an
everything, large and small-that i
worms, grubs and beetles. Grows can
pull corn when planted with machine
we have no fear of them from th,
source. Finally, wherever civilizatio
is, there are rocks and crows.
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