The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

WARMTH and cleanliness will keep
the young calves in good condition
with light feeding, while, without these,
heavy feeding will do more harm than
good. It is useless to over-feed young
animals in the effort to make up for
the want of care.-State Register.
BAKED FIsH.-Take any mice fish,
boil it. remove the bones, and chop
considerable parsley very fine, with one
small onion. Have about as much
bread crumbs as fish. Take pudding
dish and butter it, then lay in layer
of bread crumbs, then a layer of fish,
ending with the bread crumbs. Mix
your parsley and onion with salt and
pepper through your bread crumbs.
Put Jumps of butter over the top, a
very slight grating of nutmeg, and
pour over it all sweet cream, or very
rich milk, till it rises nearly to the top.
Bake in quick oven till it has a nice,
rich brown crust.
Few men who handle horses give
proper attention to the feet and legs.
Especially is this the case on farms.
Much time is spent of a morning in
rubbing and smoothing the hair on the
side and hips, but at no time are the
feet examined and properly cared for.
Now be it known that the feet of the
horse require more care than the body.
They need ten times as much, for in
one respect they are almost the entire
horse. All the grooming that can be
done won't avail anything if the horse
is forced to stand where his feet will be
filthy. In this case the feet will be-
come disOrdered, and then the legs will
become sadly out of fix, and with bad
feet and legs there is not much else
of the horse fit for anything. Home
Journal.
SPARKLING BROTH, OR BEAN SOUP.-
Procure one quartof small black beans,
or white ones will do, and soak them
in boiling water over night. In the
morning put the beans in six quarts of
water in large boiler, adding some
beef or mutton or any kind of cold
meats that you may have in the house,
first cracking the bones and cutting off
the fat from the meat. Put to it one
large onion, some nutmeg and whole
peppers. Set it on the fire where it will
simmer nine hours. Then strain it,
rubbing all the mealy parts of the beans
through the sieve. Wash the boiler
and return the soup to it to heat up.
When served, cut up half a lemon in
very thin slices and lay in the bottom
of the tureen, pouring the soup, boiling,
over them.
A COMMON specific for WORKOUT
lands is rest. There can be no greater
error. WORKOUT lands are starved
lands and require food and work, and
not more starving and rest. Ordinarily
the very best method is to add manure
enough to get some green crop to
grow which in turn may be added to
the soil, to increase its fertility. AS
soon as clover can be grown, this crop,
with plaster to aid, is the great reno
vator of poor soils. It needs capital
to take a poor farm, one that has been
drawn upon heavily with nothing re.
turned, and bring it to a state of fertil.
ity which will give a return upon the
investment. But in case such land is
nicely situated for market purposes
there is no doubt but capital so invest
ed will reap its reward.-Detroit Free
Press.
THIS may seem absurd advice to
offer to farmers, but our experience
has shown us that every farmer does
not know how to milk properly, or,
rather, that he does not always carry
out the knowledge he may have. In
the first place, never allow the hands
or udder to be wet with milk before
milking. When ready to milk take the
pail upon the left arm, and with both
hands brush off every bit of dust and
all particles of bedding from the cows
udder. If the udder is not readily
cleaned in this way use a sponge and
warm water. Milk quickly, and allow
no Impractical hand at a COW, unless
you intend to dry the animal. Above
all, milk clean. A very little inatten-
ton here will soon render a valuable
cow unremunerative in the dairy.-M.
Y. Herald.