The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-02
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE.

BAKED tomatoes: Take off stalks, cut
in thin slices, add pepper, salt, and but
ter; put in deep baking dish; cover with
bread crumbs and little oiled butter;
bake half an hour.
NITRATE Of soda, besides being plant
feeder and the best source of nitrogen for
plant growth, furnishing it in the best
form for assimilation, is also a distributor
of plant food by aiding in the diffusion
of other elements upon which plants grow
through the body Of the soil
BEEFsTEAK with tomato sauce: Take
one and half dozen ripe tomatoes; skin
and scald them; put them in saucepan,
with one-half pint of good beef gravy;
season with salt and pepper, put them to
stew for one hour. When the steak is
nicely broiled, pour this sauce upon it,
and send it to the table.
In the care and management of the
dairy COW, the milking should be done
with regularity as TO time, and each COW
be MIXED by the same person, and in the
same order from day to day if possible.
No change of mixers or change of time
for milking should be allowed, except for
the most urgent reasons.
THE Importance of an occasional relish
of salt and wood ashes for all kinds of
stock cannot be too highly appreciated.
The most convenient form in which these
materials are offered is in solid mass,
which admits of diligent licking on the
part of the animal without getting more
of the mixture than is desirable.
VERBENAs should be grown in tenn
perature of from fifty to sixty degrees.
After proper towering, and before the
plants become exhausted, they should be
cut back to some extent, and manure
water applied around the roots once a
week, and the soil loosened. This is to
prevent the black rust. If too dense
trim out some of the branches.
CHICKEN dressed with tomatoes: Fry
the chicken light brown; putt into
dish; then pour into the pan in which it
was fried one quart of boiling water, one
onion chopped fine with parsley, four to-
matoes little stewed, one tablespoonful
of butter rolled in one tablespoonful of
flour. Let it stew for fifteen inmates,
and then pour it upon the fried chicken,
and serve. This receipt is for two large
chickens
WATER can be kept cool for drinking
in warm weather by the following
method: Get fresh water, let it be kept
in an unglazed earthenware pitcher
wrapt around with two or three folds of
coarse cotton cloth kept constantly wet.
The theory of cooling water in this man
ner is the absorption of heat from it by
the evaporation of the moisture i'll the
cotton cloth Expansion produces cold;
compression, heat
AN experienced gardener gives the
following method for eflectually destroy
ing insect pests, both indoors and out.
Take barrel half filled with coal tar and
fill it with water and let it stand awhile.
Then the water may be sprinkled on the
leaves and stems. This will kill all the
insects that come in contact with the
plants IF coal tar cannot be obtained,
Paris green may be used.
THE Lewistown Gazette says: Every
paper in the United States ought occa-
sionally to keep the fact before its readers
that burnt corn is certain and speedy
cure for hog cholera. The best way is to
make pile of corn on the cobs, effectu-
ally scorch it, and give the affected hogs
free access to it. This remedy was dis
covered by accident by +. f. Locke,
ESQ.,, at the time his distillery was burned
in this county, together with large lot
of stored corn, which was so much in
jured as to be unfit for use, was hauled
out and greedily eaten by the hogs,
several of whom were dying daily. After
the second day not single hog was lost,
and the disease entirely disappeared.
The remedy has been tried since in a
number of cases and has never failed.