The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HO USE.

A HOG was killed at Beloit, Wiscon-
sin, the other day, which weighed nine
hundred and sixty pounds.
THROUGHOUT the cotton-produc 'lg
States, the average yield of cc t7l
per acre is 17S4 pounds, valu at
$1964.
ONE cent per bushel makes differ.
ence of $10,000,000 in the value of
the annual crop of corn in the United
States.
Mr.. MECHI, the famous scientific
farmer of England, estimates that fifteen
hundred sheep folded on an acre of land
| for twenty-four hours, or one hundred
sheep for fifteen days, would manure the
land sufficiently to carry it through
| four-years' rotation:
| SAVANNAH NeUs: A Virginia farmer
has reported an odd little incident that
he has seen on his farm. He planted
some weeks ago timothy seed with his
wheat The timothy failed to come up,
although the wheat grew splendid. A
careful examination disclosed the fact
that the ants had gathered up all the
grass seed, and made piles of it at the
entrance of their underground home.
All over the field this had been done,
and great quantity of the seed had been
carried across the road and piled up in
the field there.
PROF. HALL lays down some positions,
which, if followed by dairymen, butter
and cheese would be eaten with better
appetite. He says there are thorough
bred men as we'll as animals. Your
thoroughbred man is essentially cleanly
in his habits, and in his work. Hence
such in dairying will commend them
selves to their customers. Among such,
even fly in the cream will not be toler-
ated, and to such want of tidiness
in dairying processes would be intoler-
able.
ALL kinds of puddings are In vogue,
and it is we'll for families to have a
change in the table dessert. We give
here a receipt for cocoanut pudding y
which is. highly recommended: Crate
half q cocoanut meat; stir into a good
custard, and bake in buttered basin
Make the custard of four eggs to a quart
of milk. This may be baked with an
under crust. A quick oven for this
thirty or forty minutes. Serve with the
following wine sauce: One cup of butter
one cup of sugar; stir to cream; ther
one cup of wine added slowly. Put the
, bowl into vessel of hot water one-halt
hour before using it. 1t must not be
stirred.
HERE is another pudding, called "the
curate's" pudding: Beat the yolks o1
, two eggs with two ounces of flour and
one tablespoonful of milk; set half s
pint of milk, lacking the tablespoonful
+ on the fire, with two ounces of sugar
and two of butter; make them hot, bu
! do not let them boil; when the foul
and eggs are beaten quite smooth, ado
the hot milk, ETC., also the whites O.
! eggs, beaten very light. Mix thoroughly
and pour into four saucers, butteree
,, and heated hot; bake twenty minute
,, in quick oven. When cooked ligh
brown color, lay two Of them on disl
spread with plum or other jam, plac'
the other two on, and serve at once.
To keep roots sound and nlump, Mr.
j.. Benjamin P. Ware, of Marblehead,
Y successful gardener, cuts off the fin
a roots close to the body, and pares ava,
o the crown of the turnip or beet suffi
y GENTLY to destroy all buds or rudiment
a of buds. The thus doctored roots ar
}, then placed in barrels of sand or GOV
|, cred with earth in the cellar to proven
IS willing. Removing the buds and root
o lets prevents that corkiness so common
t with these roots when kept till late il
S winter, which is caused by the supper
n of sprouts and rootlets using up muc
d of the more tender and edible substanc
s. of the roots. Turnips and beets thu
:, treated are as nice for the table i
e late winter or early spring as when frs
o harvested.
r To thirsty souls, who fear the action G
: the Prohibitory Law, we recommen
d the following, which has not been inaptl
|. called "Cream Nectar" as a thirs
o assuager. 1t is better than the bes
d "mow topped julep'' that was eve
h manufactured: Take three pounds whit
8 sugar, three OF. tartaric acid and on
:, quart cold water; put them into bras
d or copper kettle, and when warm ad
= the whites of three eggs; beat up wit
|, three teaspoonfuls of -four; stir till
boils three minutes; when cold, add on
gill of essence, and bottle up. Dire,
r tions for use-Two dessert spoonfuls
a the nectar to each glass; then fill thel
d two-thirds full with ice water, and ad
+ little carbonet of soda.
IS A LOVER of roast leg of lamb writ,
thus, telling how to prepare it for di,