Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06
FARM AND HOME.

To CLEAN CoLoRED SILK.-Wash in
warm soap-suds, rinse in clear. warm
water, dry quickly, and iron the wrong
side while yet rather damp. If there
are grease spots on the silk, press with
a tolerable warm iron under brown
paper.
BAKERS GRAHAM BREAD.-Make
sponge as for white bread with wheat
flour, say one square of compressed
yeast to two quarts Of water; when
light, make up the dough with Graham
flour and One-half teacupful molasses;
! let stand to rise again; then make up
the loaves with the hands, and when
light bake.
ORANGE JELLY CAKE.-Juice and rind
of two oranges, thickened with pow
dered sugar; stir in one packet of desic-
Gated cocoa-nut, leaving enough to
sprinkle on top layer; four eggs, half
cup Of butter, two cups sugar, one cup
of water, and -four enough to make the
batter, bake as for jelly cake, spread
ing the dry cocoanut on top layer.
BLEEDING AT THE NosE.-Two small
arteries branching up from the main ar
h,
passing over the outside of the Jaw
bone, supply the face with blood. IF the
nose bleeds from the right nostril, for
example, pass the finger along the edge
of the right jaw till the beating of the
artery is felt. Press hard upon it five
minutes and the bleeding will cease.
STEWED BEEFSTEAK. Peel and chop
two onions, cut into small parts four
picked walnuts, and put them at the
bottom Of the stewpan. See that the
rump steak be cut off proper thick
and beat it flat with rolling-pin. Place
the meat on top of the onions; let it
stew for an hour and half, turning it
over every twenty minutes. Ten min
utes before serving up throw in dozen
oysters, with their liquor strained
| through a fine seive.
Snow FLAKE PUDDING. box of
gelatine, the whites of three eggs sugar
and vanilla to the taste. Soak the gel
atine in enough cold water to cover it
for an hour; then add q teacupful of
boiling water. After it is dissolved, add
enough cold water to make Il pint of it
altogether. Strain this on platter, put
the whites of three eggs in it, and beat
it until 1t is a stiff foam. When half
| beaten, sWe6ten with white sugar, add
the vanilla to this, and finish beating;
then put it in cups. When moulded in
the cups, turn them out and eat with
cream.
THE destruction of weeds should be
constantly attended to, for, like insect
pests, they multiply enormously. A
weed plucked before it goes to seed will
prevent the growth of hundreds the
following year, or here the old adage is
uncommonly true, that cone years
seeding causes fifteen years wedding"
The Cow-If civilized people were
ever to lapse into the worship of animals,
the COW would certainly be their chief
goddess. What a fountain of blessing
is COW She is the mother of beef,
the source of butter, the original cause
of cheese, to say nothing of shoe horns,
hair combs, and upper leather. A gen
tie, amiable, ever yielding creature, who
has no Joy in her family affairs which
she does not share with man. We rob
her of her milk, and we only CAFE for
her that the robbery may be perpetu-
ated.-H0usehOld Words.
MORE SHEEP.-Last year we paid for
eign countries $50,000000 for wooden
goods, and 81 100000 for unmanufac-
tured goods. When we have in the
country 100000 more sheep than we
have now, we shall only produce the
wool we use: and yet there is no count
ry on earth where sheep could be raised
so profitable as in the United States. But
we are coming every year nearer to sup
! plyiny our own markets with the wool
they demand. In 1875 the wool clip of
| the country was nearly 100000
pounds, while in 1860 it was only 5000,
! 000
EARLY MADE CHEESE.-The american
Dai,yma,1 says: " The early-made skim
med cheeses that have appeared on the
market this spring, are not meeting
with the most cordial greeting; while
full creams are sought after and COM
mand top figures. Fine old cheese finds
a ready sale, often at fraction over quo
tations; but that which is inferior, or in
any way impoverished by the use of
the skinner, drags heavily, and has
to make concessions to the buyers.
These are among the indications which
factory men had better heed, Throw
away the skinner before it throws YOU
away. 1t has no legitimate business in
the cheese factory"
LARGE POTATOES FOR SEED.-In the
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soci-
ETY. of New South Wales, is the follow
ing experiment relating to the differ
ence in yield from the sets of large and
small potatoes planted 20 In the month
of September, relative of mine (who
was at the time commanding one of the
regular traders to this port gave me
small quantity of u very fine potato,
which he had brought from England. /
selected two of the finest, which weigh
ed one pound two ounces, and these
were cut up SO as to make thirteen sets.
In row next to them [ planted SINH
lar number. cut from the same weight
of these potatoes, but all small in size;
in fact, such as are usually used as seed
potatoes. On January Z [ dug up the
crop, and found that two large potatoes
produced nine pounds twelve ounces,
While the product of the smaller seed
was only six pounds. But the most re-
markable part of the experiment was
that amongst the produce of the large
seed there was hardly a small potato,
while the produce of the smaller con-
sisted of great many small tubers, land
scarcely any large. If calculation be
made on this basis, it will be seen that
one cwt. of large potatoes would pro-
duce over Sin cwt. of a saleable crop,