The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-12
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND Ho USE.

APPLE meringue: Fill 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,
100000 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 lssd to nice brown.
MILK paint for fences or barns is
made by mixing water lime with
sk mined milk to proper consistency to
apply with brush. 1t will adhere well
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
ing water in, and boiled for quarter of
jill HOuI, Luey art ulUSb uSSluI WHICH COlu
to be cut in strips for salad.
The roots of clover have 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 a growth of wheat Decay
ever furnishes regenerative food. while
the roots pierce and divide the soil, leos-
ening the ground.
A TURNIp pest has appeared in Ire
land in the shape of an insect a quarter
turnip in various counties. In forty
eight hours one field of twelve acres was
almost totally destroyed. The worm
speedily ravages ali the. leaves except
| the center one, and showsywenderfu
power of getting over the ground.
If any man wishes to pasture the
roadside adj ,ining his land-as he has q
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 neighhers by this
practice could be rightly estimated, they
would be found to exceed many fold all
! the good that comes from 1t.
If milk is colder than the surround
ing air, a 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
.milker must be a 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 d Hcsu pIouuCeT, Ouo pouHu VI
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 oi
eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary
, requires about five and one-tentf
pounds of corn for its production
When eggs are "a cents dozen and porl
{ 10 cents pound, we have bushel o.
, corn feed, producing .SS worth of eggs
and $1.05 of pork. Judging from thess
, facts, eggs must be economical in theil
, production and in their eating, and es
: pecially fit for the laboring man in re
{ placing meat.
AS the housekeeper of moderate
/ means spends much of her time in tn,
8 kitchen, there is no reason why it shoult
3 not be as tastefully furnished as posi-
! BILE. when get my lounge recovered
3 / shall put it in the Kitchen" I said tn
other day, and the party to whom wa
speaking evidently thought me given t.
r Incidence, and the answer came, "Wha
r in the world do you want lounge il
J, the kitchen forT in the same indescrit
l. able tone sometimes have people say t
me, pictures in the kitchenl' rs if tn