Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-10-18
Farm AND HoUsEHoLp.


The cash value of the farms in the
United States is set down at S9,262,-
S03, 1861.
The Postmaster-G General has put a
quietus on transporting queen bees by
mail, as reported.
Bury your dead animals at the
roots of your fruit trees. You will find
that it pays good percentage.
When one with the human form
kicks horse in the belly with his
heavy boots what shall we call himP
Card Ginger Bread. cup
buttermilk, one cup melted butter, two
cups molasses, two eggs, one table
spoonful of ginger and one teaspoonful
of soda; mix as soft as can roll, and
roll an inch thick; this will make four
cards.
1t is q mistake to expect to succeed
at farming without plenty of good hon
est work. Some men may have made
money without work, but no farmer
ever made a crop without good deal
of that indispensable article.
The farmer who keeps all the cat
tie his farm will safely carry and
"feeds them fat" soon has fat acres,
even if they were not originally so,
from the manure returned to the soil,
and the fatter the cattle are made the
better the soil will become. So fat cat
tie make fat farmers.
Sour Kraut.--Chop the cabbage
with a spade, and then 1t will not need
pounding as it packs in cutting, and to
one barrel of cabbage put in three pints
of salt and seven of sugar, and you will
have kraut that you will not be ashamed
to cook for company.
Mashed Potatoes. Boil some pota-
toes in their skins, peel and pass them
through a coarse hair sieve. Put them
into a saucepan, with a good lump of
butter, and salt to taste; add a little
milk, and work them well with spoon
on a slow fire for some minutes, adding
small quantities of milk as they get dry.
Birds Nest Pudding. Take eight
or ten good-havored apples, pare and
core, leaving them whole; place in a
pudding-dish; fill the cores with sugar
and little grated nutmeg. Then make
a custard, allowing five eggs, a quart
of milk, and sweetened to taste. Pour
this over the apples, and bake about
half an hour.
Scotch Shortbread. Rub together
into stiff, short paste two pounds
-four, one pound butter and six ounces
loaf sugar; make it into square cakes,
about half inch thick, pinch them all
along the edge at the top; over the
whole surface of the cakes sprinkle
some white comfits; put the cakes on
tins so as to touch each other on their
edges, and bake in slow oven.
Egg Bread.-To one pint of corn
meal take two eggs, one-half teaspoon
full of lard, and salt to taste; four table
spoonfuls of cider vinegar, mixed with
boiling water enough to make the meal
into batter; lastly stir in teaspoonful
of soda. This recipe makes excellent
egg bread without either buttermilk or
cream of tartar. With corn meal and
flour mixed half and half, delightful
watfies and batter cakes can be made
by the same recipe.
TO Get Rid of Mold in Cellars
correspondent recently asked for a
simple and effectual remedy for fungus
and mold in cellars. A German agri-
cultural journal gives the following:
Put some roll birthstone into pan, and
set fire to it; close the doors, making
the cellar as nearly air-tight as possi-
BILE for two or three hours, when the
fungi will be destroyed and the mold
dried up. Repeat this simple and in
expensive operation every two or three
months, and you will have your cellar
free from all parasitical growth.