The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


III keGIle bn6n TuD an egg 1nJO ury hour
and mix thoroughly until the noodles
are quite fine, then add them to the broth
slowly, stirring until all are in; boil fif-
teen minutes, season to taste.
A PLAIN BoI1ED PUDDING. Slice up
loaf of bread in the morning and pour
milk over it. Let it remain so until half
an hour before dinner. Then beat up
four eggs very light, and mix them with
the milk and bread. A teaspoonful of
yeast-powder is an improvement. To be
served with sweet sauce. Twenty minutes
are sufficient to allow for the boiling.
| APPLE DUMP1Nds. Quarter and core
one apple for each dumpling; then put
the parts together, with sugar in the
middle; surround each apple with pie
crust; if you wish to bake them, put
them on pan like biscuits, and set them
in the oven. If boiled, tie each in a
separate cloth, and boil for half an hour
Serve, both baked and boiled, with
liquid sauce.
LEMON PIE.-Grate the rind of one
lemon, squeeze out the juice; beat the
yolks of three eggs with four tablespoon
fuls of sugar; add one cup of milk; stir
all together and bake with an undercrust;
then beat the whites of your eggs to a
froth, add one very large tablespoonful
of pulverized sugar, pour over the pie
and brown in the oven. This makes one
\ pie.
To Corn BEEF.-For fifty pounds of
meat allow ten pounds of salt and three
ounces of saltpetre; rub each piece of
meat with portion of this mixture and
lay it in a cold place over night; on the
next day repeat the process and again
lay the meat in a cold place until the
following day; to the balance of the salt
and saltpetre add pound and a half of
brown sugar, half an ounce of potash and
four gallons of water; boil the brine for
fifteen minutes, then skim and set it away
to cool; on the succeeding morning pack
the meat, having first wiped every piece
perfectly dry, pour the brine over it and
put heavy weight on top to keep it
under; examine often, and if there is the
least indication of the meat not keeping
we'll turn off the brine, boil and skim it
and add more salt, or else make new
and stronger brine; let it get perfectly
cold before turning over the meat
Farm Notes.
Loppered skim-milk is good feed. for
barn-yard fowls.
According to Lawes' tables, the ma
nure of one hen fed with the usual
quantity of grain, is worth about forty
seven cents per year.
In 100 pounds of dressed pork there
are usually fourteen pounds ham, six
teen pounds shoulders, forty pounds
sides, sixteen pounds lard and fourteen
pounds waste. The hog products are
| now Io1uo,. kbo7, fbaxy houa hoap oipoa
the war.
No feed produces finer favored milk,
butter, cheese or hams than parsnips,
and no roots are better relished by hogs
or bovines 700 bushels may be grown
per acre.
From a chemists view, the roots q
an acre of clover contains 1876 pounds of
nitrogen, 240 pounds of lime, forty-five
pounds magnesia, seventy.five pounds
potash, ten pounds soda, twenty-four
pounds sulphur and seventy pounds
phosphoric acid.
A farmer of twenty-five years expert
ence finds that it pays well to roll pas
ture as we'll as meadows, wherever the
frost has loosened the grass roots. 1t
may be well to scatter little grass
seed on the bare spots.
He who houses his farm implements
in the corners of fences, whose fowls
roost in the trees during the winter,
whose manure-pile teaches into road
side ditch and who wipes his nose on his
coatsleeve, makes piteous complaint
"that farming don't pay"
A acre of soil one foot deep contains
1000, 900 pounds. An average acre OF
Apao ofw 10
mated to contain II, 1888 pounds of pot
ash, 1880 pounds lime, 10000
pounds magnesia. 5000 pounds soda,
pounds phosphoric acid, and 500 pounds
chlorine.
An English grape-grower, whose vines
were much affected by the mealy bug,
applied, with a small brush, a mixture
of pint of spirits of wine and four
ounces of petroleum. He describes the
result as wonderful ;" the insects were
destroyed and the plants suffered no
harm.
Hens in the Orchard.
Speaking of keeping hens in orchards,
the Poultry World says Last fall we
visited an orchard in which fowls were
kept, the owner of which told us that
before the fowls were confined in it the
trees made little or no growth, and a
corresponding amount of fruit was OBJ
tanned. But what change was evident.
now. The grass was kept down, the
weeds were killed and the trees present
ed an appearance of thrift, which the
most enthusiastic horticulturist could |
not but admire and envy. The growth |
of the trees was most vigorous and the |
fOlia0a ranoarkablv luxuriant The fruit /
was abundant, of large size, and free
from worms and other imperfections. |
This excellence was accounted for by the
proprietor, who remarked that the "hens
ate all the worms and curculio in their |
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