The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-07-04

as The horse moves on Its rouud-, no stop
being required.
70 Make Good Potato soup.
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Pare, slice and boil in three pints OF wa
ter, six or eight commou-sIzed potatoes.
Crumb fine and brown in butter, three
large slices OF rather dry bread When
the potatoes are done, add to them a quart
Of rich, sweet milk, and the bread crumbs;
salt, pepper, and butter to suit the taste.
think you will find it at least palatable.
Give it a trial.
The Hest Plants for HOney.M0kinE.
lCor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
The Alsike clover is one Of the most val
liable Of plants for honey. r.pf this plant
Professor Cook says: at will often pay
apiarists to furnish neighbor farmers with
seed, as an inducement TO grow this par-ex-
cellent honey plant. Like white clover, it
blooms all through June into July. Both
of these white and Alsike) should be sown
early in the spring with timothy. five or
six pounds OF seed to the acre, in The same
manner that red clover seed is sown."
Among the other valuable honey plants are
rape, mignOnette, catnip, and Rocky Noun
tain bee plant.
Cultivate Your q round Thorough h1 y,
10 Its Only a Little .Paich'' at .
Time.
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When you break up a field completely
subdue it and thoroughly enrich il before
you seed it. Do NOT go over your whole
iarm with a small heap of manure but en-
rich one field at time. Your farm is
your mine, and in order toobtain its wealth
you must work in the best manner to draw
from it all the wealth theres Is in it. In
short, in order to have our income sufficient
to meet our necessities at the present low
price Of our products We must increase the
quantity and improve the quality.
How TO Keep u BOuques Fresh.
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In order to keep cut flowers fresh, NJ.
Fremont, q French horticulturist, recon-
mends the use of five grammes- about one
sixth of an ounce avoirdupois-of chlorhy-
drate Of ammonia or sal ammoniac in a
litre not quite a quart-of water. After
numerous experiments, he finds that the
flowers keep fresh for a fortnight, if the
stalks are inserted in this liquid.
The Value Of Eggs.
IAmerican Agriculturist.l
As hen may be expected TO lay about
l2 dozen of eggs, weighing Is pounds, and
to consume TO pounds OF corn in the year,
it follows that for each pound OF eggs, 80
pounds of corn are used. There is NO other
animal product afforded so cheaply. Five
pounds OF corn costs now about q cents, and
a dozen eggs, which are the product OF that
quantity OF corn, are worth on an average
during he year 20 cents. \ brood of 10
chicks may be brought TO weight OF lbs.
each upon bushel of mixed corn and
wheat, so that 20 lbs, of live weight can be
produced from 90 lbs of grain. There is
then no more profitable farm stock than
poultry.
Prairie Grass will Not Rum out.
lCor. Kansas Farmer.l
There is common impression that the
prairie grass will run out if pastured, in a
lew years. | have not found it so; have
twenty acres near my stable that have been
pastured for eight years and it has steadily
improved. Some kinds OF grass have dis
appeared, and ether kinds have come in,
but the sward is much smoother and the
grass much better than it was eight years
ago.
Relief for :wind.BrOken Horses
American Agriculturist.l
Broken wind consists of violent breath
ing, with Wheeling after severe exertion.
1t is caused by permanent thickening Of
the lining membrane of the bronchial
tubes, and is therefore incurable. All that
can be done to ease is to feed lightly to be
careful against distending the stomach with
food or water, and to avoid unusual exer-
ton Arsenic, in daily tive-grain doses,
has been given with benefit. 1t is contin-
ued for several days, then suspended for a
time, and afterwards repeated. This dose
should only be given under the supervision
OF competent surgeon.
Why should Kansas Farmers Not
Profit by "a,
kansas Spirit, 26.I
Professor Lawes makes, in letter TO
MooTes RuGl, the striking statement that
the destruction OF weeds and more careful
cultivation would be quite as eticaciOus in
increasing the produce of the State OF New
York crops as the employment of artificial
manures." Who doubts that clean culture
the complete extermination of weeds
would be equally as eficacious for the
increase of crops in the State OF Kansas as
in New York?
To Make Cucumber Pickles.
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Take ten pounds Of very brown sugar to
four pals common wooden pails) OF rain
water; stir up we'll, tie a cloth over your
keg, set it in a warm place until it sours Ia
porch is a nice place.; when quite sour,
strain, put in the cellar, pick your cucum-
bers, wash, put in the vinegar; to every
IL ,.ail, 81 har, aIl
sugar. If your pickles show signs Of get
ting soft, add more sugar, they are much
better than when they are salted, and you
always have plenty of vinegar 10 Use for
other purposes. They are very good made
with sorghum molasses-one quart to three
of water.
Weeds Can Only he Killed by Being
Put Deep Under Ground.
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The seeds of most of our wort annual
weeds, such as pig-weed, green amaranth,
fox-tail, rag-weed and mustard, are quite
small, and will not grow ii buried in COM
pact soil over an inch in depth. This is
the reason that when the ground once be-
comes infested, it takes so long time to
eradicate them, The plowing and the har-
rowing must be repeated many times, until
every part of the soil, down as far as the
plow reaches, is successfully exposed to the
action of the air. In this way crop after
crop of weeds is destroyed, until the soil is
purged of them.
BE sure 20 Let i'm the Fresh Air.
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No good housekeeper ever leaves her
room, or allows any member of the family
to leave theirs, in the morning, without
open a window and turning the
clothes down from the bed, thus giving
them plenty OF time to air before the cham
ber is attended TO. The impurities arising
from the body are more injurious during
the night than during the day. Professor
Youmans SAYS: 1.-The escape OF offensive
matter from the body becomes more obvi-
Gus when, from out Of the pure air in the |
one enters an unventilated bed
room where one or two have slept the night |
before. Everyone must have experienced |
the sickening and disgusting odor upon 60
ing into such a room, thoug h the occupants
themselves do not recognize it. The nose,
although an organ OF excessive sensibility,
and capable OF perceiving the presence Of
offensive matter where the most delicate
chemical tests fail, is nevertheless easily
Dlunted, and what at the first impression is
pre-eminently disgusting, quickly becomes
ess offensive to the smell but the impure
lir has not departed. Two persons occupy
ng bed for eight hours impart to the
heets by insensible perspiration, and to the
lir by breathing, pound of watery vapor
,harged with latent animal poison. When
he air in other inhabited rooms is not oft
N changed, the water Of e1halation, thus
oaded with impurities, condenses upon the
urniture, windows and walls, dampening
heir surfaces and running down in unwhole-
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