The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-27

F4RM AND HONE.


Farm RakfnKs.
BLANKET your horse when waiting at
the hitchin-post, while the driver is IL
some warm place doing business, for
''the merciful man regardeth the life of
his beast"
DURING the'last four years the farming
interest nag extended itself over p, $780,
900 acres Of land in the United States
This lis Indicative of genuine national
prosperity.
-MACARoNI SoUP.-BoiI one quart of
tomatoes one hour; strain them; add two
teaspoonfuls oil butter, salt and pepper;
put. in the maeagoni and boil half an
hour slowly.
VEGETABLE SoUP.-Peal and slice two
potatoes and two turnips; chop fine a
small piece of cabbage; use large spoon
fuI of butter; put it all into three pints
of water; boil slowly for two hours.
GREEN SAUcE-Beat together thor
oughly for twenty minutes the following
Ingredients: Four teaspoOnfuls Of best
olive oil; two and halt of French mus
tard; two teaspoonfuls of chopped pars-
ley; tri6e of garlic; yolk Of a hard
boiled egg. This is a most delicious
sauce for fish and for cold meats.
NAsTURTIUM SEED. Take the green
seed after the flower has dried OF. Lay
in salt and water TIVE days, in cold water
one day; pack ia bottles and cover with
scaiding vinegar, season With mace and
white pepper eorns, and sweeten slightly
with white sugar. Cork and set away
four weeks before you use them. 7, ey
are an excellent substitute for capers-
BEEF SoUP.-Take' five pounds Of
round steak and a small beef bone; pit
il in cold water; when il comes to boil,
skim il; then put in the salt, and the fol-
lowing vegetables: two carrots, one tur-
nip, branch of parsley; FIVE stsiks of
celery one tomato; h1il siowiysix hour;
Just te.Ote setviHg out put IN 8 table
seocBtat at Surnt sugar. 7 veGetaf5is 5
are taken IN cs,e't!lly aho ed to gar
nish the meat platter. a..s-.-.
MIXED PICKLB.-Take one pound
ginger root and one-halt pound garlic
(both previously salted and dried; two
gallons vinegar; ene-half ounce timerix;
and one quarter pound long pepper.
Digest together two or three days near
the fire in stone jar; or gently simmer
them in piPkin or enameled saucepan.
Then put in almost any vegetables ex-
cept red cabbage and walnuts, all pre-
viously sailed and dried.
A BRITISH sgriculturist says he ex-
tracts the honey from his combs IN the
fall, returns them to the hive and feeds
the bees On a strip made by boiling for a
few minutes, two pounds Lost sugar in
each pint of water, "thus replacing for
pense, three pounds of honey" and he
THINKS the strip forms Gas good, whole
some food IS honey." The pc rpetual
ri IL \
quart glass bottle through two or more
tiH-holes in thin stopper OF vulcanite
or tin. ..
AJWRITER sends TO the Elmira Farm
ers' Club the following cure for gals on
the shoulders of d raugbt animales. which
he says Is the besthe ever used: Dissolve
six draehms of iodine in half a pint of
alcohol, and apply it on the sore with a
feather ,sssss0a as the collar Is removed
and when at rest, twice day, morning
and evening. The article should be in
the stable of every farmer,.as it is an
excellent application on horses where the
skin is broken by kicks or other ACCT
dents and - suIe care for Hplints, If
used in q proper manner.
LICE on CATTLE A good remedy for
lice, 50 cattle Is water. in whiehrpotatees
were boiled. For every one of your
cattle. staks two quarts5 o. water and
eight middle siz~d potatoes cut in half
ItSeu haye ten cattle, you must TAX
eighty -potstoes and twenty qusrts az
water. When the potatoes sre -oh take
them out. Get large sponge and wash
them freely, choosing warm dsy.
Comb them with eurrycOmb, and you
will be astOnished to sec the effects OF the
potato wster.
PRoF. 8. w. CLARK, of Parma. told
the Western New YORK Farmers' Club
that his family ''prefer rather smaIl-size
potatoes for their own u-e," and have q
novel way of cooking them: "They keep
kettle for the purpose, in which they
keep beef suet, and after pairing the DO
tatoes and wiping them dry, they drop
them into the boiling suet and fry them
as they do doughnuts. In the ordinary
way OF boiling, much of the nutritious
properties o. the potato escape into the
UeteE,rPut Ehen fried in hot suet the. ex-
terpsi pores are closed at once, and al
OF the properties retained.'' &c s.eE /.
IT is wellcknown- that CLAW soils pro,
duce waxy and sandy soils mealy potatoes
But the condition of the land also exer-
cises material influence both upon the
growth and quality. When, for exam
pie, potatoes are planted in rich, nevis
broken up land, they run up greatIy,Sf c
tops, producing generally fewer smaller
tubers, and of inferior eating quality
= because they frequently do not riper
befoye- The frosts set.ins The quantity
sot stst ch-is lar2 or in potatoes which are
or upon land long in Srable culture
thai upon suchSss ia newly brought into
cultivation az Frtk-n up from grass.