The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-06-19
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND FARM

Is OIteQ CQc only ktHu ny WHICH tle COW
can slake her thirst, and yet it is pro
ductive of disease. We have a law to
prevent watering milk, and yet farmer
is not prohibited from permitting his
cows to quench their thirst in the most
filthy and poisonous water. ii r'i-'0rsl
GRAvIEs: To have gravy always on
hand you must do as the French do,
namely, save .gristle, and every bone left
from cold meat or fresh. The bones
must be chopped small and put on to
stew with enough water to cover. Leave
the fat on until you need to use the
gravy. By this means it will keep
longer. a-iu-la77.:92 e7sA s7-sc7.
! LEMON jelly: Take paper of gela-
| tine and let it soak in a pint of cold
| water for one hour at least, but the
longer it is soaked the better. Then
add to it a quart of boiling water, the
| Juice of two or three lemons, and pint
and half of sugar. Set it away, with
out cooking at ali, in a form to cool,
and an excellent article of Jelly will be
the result. M .t,..- rs
| DUTCH roll: Sift three quarts of
-four; break three eggs into a pint of
cold milk, in which put teaspoonful of
yeast, and stir up; cut spoonful of
butter up fine and work it in your flour j;
mix the milk and eggs and yeast with
the -four, knead thoroughly. Make into
rolls, butter the pan, and stand by the
stove to rise. Bake in quick oven.
| DRIED apple cake: Two. teacup-
fuls dried apples, soaked over night and
chopped fine; stew them in two cupfuls
of molasses until we'll cooked. Then
take two eggs, one cup butter, one of
sour cream, one of sugar, little salt,
two teaspoonfuls of soda; stir some flour
with the first before mixing with the
rest; spices to taste; the.more the better.
This makes an excellent cake
In planting trees, first dig the holes
full large enough to receive the roots
nicely spread out, from twelve to four.
teen inches deep. Throw the top soil
and subsoil in different piles. Then fill
in enough of the top soil to receive the
tree about the Same depth it stood in
the nursery, but no deeper. Be care.
full to cut all the bruised roots back to
sound wood, and by all means cut the
tops back, as the sapis all in the tree to
make it grow, and by leaving all on the
sap will soon be exhausted and a large
per cent. will die. Put the tree in and
ill the balance of top soil in around the
roots; then fill in the subsoil and give
them good mulch of barn-yard manure
before dry weather comes. -
| The octagon, or eight-sded form, il
esteemed by many as best suited for 8
barn. A 80 foot octagon barn has an
outside wall of 29Ss cubic feet, while
each side is but 81 feet 81 inches long
An oblong barn having the same capac
ity would need to be 40 feet by 180 feet
with the same height of posts, and hav
ing the same capacity for stabling ano
storage for crops. This barn would
have circumference of 40 feet, or az
outside wall 142 feet longer than thu
barn of octagon form-requiring 1861
square feet of siding above the base
ment, and about 1900 cubic feet ot
basement wall more than the octagon.
/ To prevent saddle gals the saddle
should be lined with some smooth, hare
substance. Flannel or woolen cloth IL
bad A hard-fnished, smooth rawhidt
lining, similar to those of the military
saddles, is preferable. Then, if the sad
die is properly fitted to the horse'l
back, there will be no gals unless the
horse is very hardly used. Calls shoule
be washed with soap and water, anG
then with solution of three grains o.
copperas or blue vitriol to one table
spoonful of water, which will harder
the surface and help to restore ths
4 growth of the skin. White hairs grow
ing upon CALLED spots cannot be pre-
vented. -.-.-- ..---
FRENCH custard:' Separate th'
whites and yolks of eight eggs, Beat tE'
yolks UP very light and add them to on
quart of milk, which you have sweetene<
4 to taste and favored with vanilla; pu
it in farina-kettle, place over slov
fire, and stir it all the time until it be
comes custard; then pour it into pud
4 ding-dish to cool; whip up the white
until they are perfectly stiff and dry
have all ready pan of boiling water, o.
the top of which place the whites, cove
,, them, and place them where the waite
will keep sufficiently hot to cause stear
, to pass through and cook them. Put i
,, dish. suitable for the table, layer O
the custard, and CRATE little nutme
with teaspoonful of wine, and pou
; over it: then a layer of the whites, an
!; so on until it is all used up, reserving
! layer of white for the covering, owe
! which you CRATE nutmeg.