The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-21
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOf1SE

APPLE meringue: Fill a dish one
fourth full of stewed apple, cover with
the beaten whites of five eggs, mixed
with five tablespoonfuls of powdered
sugar.
IT is estimated that the loss to agri-
culture from the growth of weeds in
stead of the useful grasses, in pasture
and meadow land, is not less than $780,
000,0 a year in the United States.
Potato noodles: Crate one dozen
of boiled potatoes, add two eggs, little
salt, one-half cup of milk, enough -four
to knead stiff, then cut in small pieces,
and roll long and round, one inch thick ;
fry in plenty of lard to nice brown.
MILK paint for fences or barns is
made by mixing water lime with
skinned milk to proper consistency to
apply with brush. 1t will adhere we'll
to wood, either smooth or rough, and to
brick, mortar or stone, where oil has
been previously used.
In many households there are of ten
whites of eggs to spare which are usually
thrown away. If they are put in jam
pot and placed in a sauce pan with boil
ing water in, and boiled for quarter of
an hour, they are most useful when cold
to be cut in strips for salad.
The roots of clover have a natural
tendency to decompose after having
produced the plant in perfection, and it
is the effect of this decomposition that
renders crop of clover so good prep
aration for growth of wheat. Decay
ever furnishes regenerative food. while
the roots pierce and divide the soil, loos-
ening the ground.
A TURNIP pest has appeared in Ire
land in the shape of an insect a quarter
of an inch long, which is preying on the
turnip in various counties. In forty
eight hours one field of twelve acres was
almost totally destroyed. The worm
speedily ravages all the leaves except
the center one, and shows wonderful
power of getting over the ground.
If any man wishes to pasture the
roadside adjoining his land-as he has
perfect right TO do-let the flock be ac-
companied by sufficient escort to pro-
tect it from annoyance and his neighbors
from damage. If the quarrels and ill
will generated among neighbors by this
practice could be rightly estimated, they
would be found to exceed many fold all
the good that comes from it.
If milk is colder than the surround
ing air, moisture will be deposited
upon the cream, which will be very i'm
pure and injure the quality of the butter
seriously. A good COW, weighing one
thousand pounds, should give i've or six
thousand pounds of milk, or five or six
times her weight in a season. A good
mixer must be good feeder. Give a
COW no more salt than she will freely
eat. Do not force her to eat more than
she Graves, but give her all she wants
all the time.
POTATOES may now be kept in heaps
in some shady place, and covered with
straw. Dampen the straw occasionally,
and provide for ventilation at the top of
the pit. For winter use, store potatoes
in we'll ventilated cellar, in bins made
of strips of wood with space between
them. Let the bottom and sides of the
bin be made in this manner, the whole
resting on legs to raise it from the
ground. If economy of space is an OBJ
ject, these bins may be placed one upon
another. If too large quantities are not
placed in each bin, the potatoes may be
kept without any loss in the way of rot.
AS flesh producer, one pound of
eggs is equal to one pound of beef. A
hen may be calculated to consume one
bushel of corn yearly, and to lay twelve
dozen, or eighteen pounds of eggs.
This is equivalent to saying that three
and one-tenth pounds of corn will pro-
duce, when fed to hen, one pound of
eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary
requires about five and one-tenth
pounds of corn for its production.
| When eggs are "a cents dozen and pork
10 cents pound, we have bushel of
corn feed, producing $288 worth of eggs,
and $1.06 Of pork. Judging from these
facts, eggs must be economical in their