The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND .HOU USE.

ALMOST every year we have some
germs of disease in the potato crop. If
the weather is dry they are mostly harm
less; but in the cool spell they develop
rapidly. One affected potato in the
middle of large heap will soon cause
heavy loss in its vicinity. Last summer
in England was cold and wet. Potatoes
rotted badly in consequence. The
wonder is, in the moist climate which
there prevails, that potatoes should ever
be free from disease.
To marble paper, mucilage of gum
sweet Oil, and placed in shallow trough.
The colors are sprinkled on the gum and
disposed as fancy may dictate. The
sheets of paper are taken, one by one,
bent in the form of bow, and gradually
let fall on the composition in the trough.
The colors, which float on the surface,
and portion of the mucilage adhere to
the paper, which is then taken up and
hung on racks to dry. The paper is
then finished by furnishing.
A CAKE called General Washing
toms breakfast cake" is made by using
two pounds -four, one quart milk, one
ounce butter, one teacupful thin yeast,
three eggs, one teaspoonful salt; warm
the milk and butter together, and pour
it lukewarm into the -four, and add the
other ingredients; mix this at night,
and put in pan three inches deep; in
the morning bake in quick oven three
quarters of an hour. This cake was al
ways on General Washington's breakfast
table the last few years of his life.
CUsTARD pies may be made without
milk. Beat together thoroughly five
eggs, five tablespoonfuls of sugar and a
little salt; pour into this one pint OF
, boiling water, stirring briskly while
adding the water; flavor with spices
most pleasing to the taste, and complete
the pie the same as other custards
This quantity is sufficient for two pies
They are very nice, and custard made
, in this manner may be eaten after
, pickles, or any sour fruit, by people
any disagreeable effect.
} GREAT BRITAIN imports eight hun
I dred million of dollars worth of fooc
t every year for her thirty millions O.
} people. Her farmers only raise forty
per cent. of the food consumed in thu
country; the rest is purchased from
e abroad. We can have the bulk of thi
4 trade if we want it. And besides this
e our working population is increasing
: very fast. There is no danger of over
production, if products are properl,
e assorted. Farmers, miners and artisans
\ in due proportion together, will no
}, flood the country with unsaleable pro
a ducts. Plentiful food is the basis O
n prosperity.
i A CORRESPONDENT of the Los Angelo
/ Herald relates the effects of placing
o few leaves of the castor-oil plant unde
+ trees that were being destroyed by grass
;, hoppers So remarkable was the resul
that an actual count of the numbe
e killed under one tree was four hundre
T and ninety eight dead choppers" wit
y about twenty more in dying condition
> Judging from the effects so soon pre-
q duced by the small portion of the leave
&c eaten, there must have been materis
e left to kill ten times as many. Th
IL poison Of the leaves works rapidly, th
a grasshopper at one becoming stupefiet
and when he attempts to fly, falls on hi
head or back and remains PROSTATE unit
y he dies.
"a The following method of renderin
" raw meat palatable to invalids is give
AZ in the Iadustrie Bldetter: To 81 ounce
is of raw meat from the loin add 2
is ounces of shelled sweet almonds, J.
"a ounces of shelled bitter almonds and 2
at ounces of white sugar-these to |
"a beaten together in a marble mortar to
en- en- uniform pulp, and the fibers separate
lie by a strainer. The pulp, which has
rosy hue and very agreeable taste, do
ar not at all remind one of meat, and ms
be kept fresh for o considerable tim