Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-26
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

but poor. ,.
In San Joaquin Valley, Cal, there
are 1,000,000 acres in wheat, averaging
twenty bushels to the acre.
Every enterprising farmer should
make an experiments station Of his farm,
himself being the dictator.
Pudding Sauce. Stir half a cup Of
butter with half a cup of sugar; little
flour. Pour boiling water over the
whole.
Your farm is your fixed capital inn
provements are your investments; and
your crops over the cost of your pro-
duction, are your dividends.
--Thirty-seven car loads of clover
seed, which means about 13, 900 bushels,
costing some $4,000, are said to have
been shipped to England and Germany
during March and April.
Coffee Stains.-If you desire to
have your table linen free from coffee
stains after being washed the stains
must be soaped before putting into
water; this will make them disappear.
The largest strawberry farm in the
world is probably that of John r.
Young, Jr., about two miles from Nor
folk, Va. 1t comprises about 250 acres.
The yield last year was 1900 quarts to
the acre. ...
-Corn-Starch. "A secret not known
to many housekeepers is that a table,
spoonful of cOrn-starch is equal to one
egg in cake-baking; if you must have
four eggs and you only have two, add
two tablespoonfuls of corn-starch, and
you will have cake as light and as
good as the one with four eggs.
Butter Pie.-Very rich. Take a
piece of nice butter, not too salty, large
as a hens egg; two-thirds of cup of
sugar, one cup of sweet cream, one ta-
blespoonful of flour. Stir butter, sugar
and flour together; then stir in the
cream; add nutmeg, if liked; pour into
a crust; put crust in strips across the
top; bake until slightly Drowned.
-Split-pea Soup. pound of bacon,
a pound of split peas, a small onion cut
in slices; put together in a pot with a
quart and half of water, let it boil
slowly for an hour and half; salt and
pepper to suit taste. This makes a
cheap and excellent soup. Fry crumbs
of bread brown in butter and serve with
soup.
Government Whitewash. Slack q
half bushel of unslacked lime with boil
ing water, keeping it covered during
the process; strain it and add peck OF
salt dissolved in warm water, three
pounds of rice boiled until it is a thin
paste, half a pound of Spanish whiting
nd ,NA,,n1 af nloo,. crl,,n IsgeAlx-nI -,
warm water. Mix these we'll together
and let it stand several days.
Tout Fait.-For this nice dessert
cake are required the yelks of four eggs,
three tablespoonfuls of sugar, the same
offlour, about two tablespoonfuls of milk
and the juice of half small lemon; the
whites of three eggs are beaten to stiff
froth and mixed with the yelks, flour,
etc., the compound then being put in a
buttered pan and placed in a quick
oven.
Fish Chowder. pounds of fish
-sea-bass is the best; take off the skin
remove the bones, and cut in small dies
half an inch thick; throw these into q
pan of ice for one hour or more t.
harden, with little salt; one and a half
pounds salt, fat, streaky pork, cut in
dies quarter of an inch thick; three
quarts potatoes, cut in dies half an inch
thick; two punches of young carrots, cut
in dies quarter of an inch thick; two
quarts of onions, cut small; two quarts
fresh tomatoes sliced, skins removed
one pound soda crackers, broken small
half bunch of parsley chopped; plenty
of white pepper and salt to taste; three
or four punches of thyme rubbed off the
stalks. First put the pork, onions ant
carrots in large pot, with six or eigh
quarts of water, to boil half an hour ol
more; then add the potatoes and toma
toes; let them boil up good; then ado
the fish and thyme, and lastly the
crackers, parsley, and seasoning tC
taste.
Sand for Bedding Cattle.-Sand, i
not the best, is one of the best article!
used for bedding cattle. 1t is a gooC
deodorizer, and keeps the stable sweet
AS the cattle work it back into thu
trench under their feet it mixes with thu
manure and thus divides it and makes i
more suitable for the use of plants. If thu
distance to haul it is not too far its very
| cheapneSS ouSnt 10 recommend lCS use
In barns that have no cellars, where i
is used freely, it would absorb larg,
amount of urine that is now wasted
Soil and muck are dirty things to us,
in a stable, but sand is clean. Then
too, it is nice thing to use under hen
roosts to receive the droppings, whicl
can easily be raked off and kept in bar
rels, and in the spring mixed with fin,
COW manure-one part of the former t.
two of the latter. This being shoveleC
over thoroughly two or three time
makes a mass of rich manure. A larg
handful of this in the hill will set corr
to growing finely. Flowers, too, grow
and blossom far better in a soil that ha
an admixture of sand. So clayey ant
peaty soils are benefited by its combi
nation with them, and Uice Uersa. Whel
spread on heavy soils in grass it pro
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