The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-07
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

laDA0'PooAuulS VI sour cream, One-half
teaspoonful salt; spice to taste; stir to
thick batter, and drop by the spoonful
into hot lard and fry like crullers.
Filled Peppers. the lids off
two dozen large green peppers, leave
out seeds and soak in salt water over
night; slice line cabbage, mix with it
one ounce white mustard seed and one
ounce cloves, fill the peppers and tie
the lids on; cover with cold boiled cider
vinegar.
Baked Pears.-Peel and bake ripe
pears, with but little water. When
cold, cover the top and sides with a
cake-icing favored with vanilla, and
serve with cream and sugar. This
makes delicate and healthful dessert,
and but little time is consumed in its
preparation.
Tomato Sauce.-Take full-grown
tomatoes while yet green, cut out the
stems, and stew until tender; press
through sieve; season highly with
pepper, salt, ground cloves, allspice
and nutmeg; boil the pulp until thick.
Worcestershire sauce may be added if
liked. Nice with cold meats.
Lemon Pie.-Take the juice and
rind of one lemon, one cup sugar, the
yelks of three eggs, one teaspoOnful
of butter and sufficient milk to fill the
plate; bake in rich paste, beat the
whites OF the three eggs to stiff froth,
with two tablespoonful of powdered
sugar aud spread over the top; return
to the own and brown slightly.
Fruit Cake.-This is not only an
excellent cake, but is light and digesti-
BILE: Three cups of sugar, five of flour,
two OF milk, two Of butter Or lard, seven
eggs, three teaspoOnfuls baking pow
der, one of salt, one bound raisns, one
half pound citron or candied lemon,
one-half pound of English currants OF
figs; spices. This will make three cakes.
Bake one and one-half hours.
Drilling Wheat.-It would be an
interesting and we believe profitable
experiment to SOW at least one acre of
wheat in drills, so far apart, that the
crop could be cultivated. This may be
done by tying each two of the drll
spouts together, and thus discharging
the seed into one furrOw; sowing some
what less seed. Then the rows will be
twelve, fourteen or sixteen inches apart;
and the spaces may be cultivated by
adapting an ordinary spreading cult
vator, or using a wheat hoe. A yield
of sixty to eighty bushels per acre has
been obtained in this manner.
Vienna Rolls.-Have ready in a
bowl tablespoon of butter, made soft
by warming a little and stirring with a
spoon. Add to one quart unsifted flour
two heaping teaspoons baking powder,
mix and sift thoroughly, and place in
the bowl with the butter, add sweet
milk and form an ordinarily stiff dough,
first stirring into the milk half tea
spoon of salt. Knead the dough and
roll half an inch thick, cut with large
round cutter, fold each one over to
form half round, wetting a little be-
tween the folds to make them stick,
place on buttered pans so as not to
touch each other, wash on top with
milk to give a gloss, bake in hot oven
for twenty minutes. 1t will do no harm
to let stand half an hour before baking
if desired
A change of rotation. the
present rapidly changing demands upon
farmers for a greater variety of food
products, we need a changed system of
agriculture. The production of meat
will have to be the chief aim of a large
number. There is widening demand
for milk and cheese, and for the best
grades of mutton sheep. All these are
the products of the highest systems of
| farming, in which the soil must be en-
riched and kept clear of weeds, so as
to produce maximum crops of fodder
that can be manufactured on the farm
into the most salable articles. The old
plan of rotation-grass and clover,
corn, oats and wheat-in which the three
grain crops following each other, are
not well adapted to cattle feeding,
especially the last two-must be aban-
doned if we are to derive any advan-
tage from the new demands and mar
kets so auspiciously opening for us in
Europe.
Weeds are like Banquo's ghost.
They will not "down at your bidding"
| 4NO HOW JOu
them, and disturb the soil under
them, if you leave them on the surface
on a rainy day they will still persist in
growing. They cling to life like cats
and some other animals, which, strange
as it may seem, prefer to live rather
than die. But no tender hearted senti-
mentalism must be allowed to come in
to weaken the efforts of the agricultural
army in its war of determination
against the weeds. No looping of
here and there a leaf or sprout will
amount to anything. No halfway
work will answer the purpose; the evil
must be removed root and branch, pro-
hibited, suppressed, obliterated. If you
adopt the false theory that mild
measures are best, and merely cut of
the tops while the roots are left in the
ground, you will soon find them spring.
ing up with more vigor and power for
mischief than before. Radical meas
ures and no other are in order among
weeds. 1t is not necessary for the legis
lature to proclaim prohibitory law
against them. The law of nature anC
self-preservation requires that they b(
exercised, banished, put down, ant
this law must be enforced, or they vii
get the advantage of the corn and pota
toes, and when harvest time comes
there will he nothing Int weeds tC