The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-06-20
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HO USE.
NICE Holsters make very good eating,

But to say that they're healthy is cheating,
For they're always afflicted with boils.
The clip of Angora goat wool last
year, sold at prices ranging from thirty
seven and eighty-seven cents per pound,
an average of sixty-one cents per pound.
These goats are worthy of propagation by
our farmers.
PASSING the early radishes at the ho-
tel table, an amiable guest empties them
all into his plate. "Hi, there, you!"
cries another guest; some of us like
radishes, too." Z" Not half so much as
1 do," philosophically replied the first
guest.
RICH New England cookies: One
teacup of butter, two of sugar, two eggs,
teaspoonful of saleratus dissolved in
cup Of milk, half grated nutmeg, or
two tablespoonfuls of caraway seeds, and
sufficient -four to roll them out easily.
Mix and bake the same as plain cookies.
The Journal of Health gives the fol-
lowing remedy for earache: There is
scarcely any ache to which children are
subject so hard to bear and difficult to
cure as the earache. But there is a
remedy never known to fail. Take a
bit of cotton batting, put upon it pinch
of black pepper, gather it up and tie it,
dip in sweet oil, and insert into the ear.
Put flannel bandage over the head to
keep it warm. 1t will give immediate
relief.
GRAHAM bread: For two loaves of
Graham bread, take two quarts of -four,
small cupful of good yeast, two table
spoonfuls of molasses, one teaspoonful
of salt; wet up with warm water or
milk; have it about the consistency of
brown bread. Let rise over night. In
the morning have your pans we'll but
tered, and pour in without stirring at all.
Let it rise again till it comes up light;
then bake in moderate oven one and a
half hours.
THE total number of hogs packed in
this country during the past winter was
6, sos, ,446, or an increase of ], ,404, 13e
head over the previous winter, and at
the average weight of 1867, equal to
an increase of i, ,709, III head. The larg.
est number packed in any previous win
ter was in 1915, when the aggregate
reached $3.50, ,226. For the year ending
March l the whole number packed was
9,048, ,566 head, or !, ,639, 1892 more thar
the previous year.
| n GkEAI CuduSo HAS CdhcH place IL
the taste of consumers with regard Il
the age at which cheese is ready for use
Formerly it was preferred somewha
old, and many farmers kept their chees
and sold it only two or three times
year. Cheese is now preferred, es
pecially for export, new, perfectly sound
rich and mild in flavor. When it is KEEP
warm, at temperature from sixty de
grees to seventy degrees, it is ready fo
, market at from four to six weeks afte
, it is made; and it is the present custor
of cheese-producers to sell the chees
each month, as fast as it is ready.
TAKE three pounds of breast or neck o
: mutton, cut in pieces, put in a stew-pa
with just enough water to cover, addin
pinch of salt; let it stew gently fo
one hour, skim off all the fat; peel an
slice six potatoes and four onions, the
sprinkle and put all the ingredients il
, to another stew-pan in layer of vegt
tables, then one. of meat, and sprinkl
, seasoning of pepper and salt and SAVIOR
! between each layer; cover closely, an
t let the whole stew very slowly for on
e hour, shaking it frequently to prever
I its burning. This is a good dish for
: family dinner, and is easily made.