The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

1t is said that the milk from Al
pine dairy farms differs from other
good milk merely because it contains q
high percentage of sugar of milk, and
because it possesses peculiar flavor,
derived from the aromatic plants on
which the animals feed.
An Ohio lady writes: 81 agree
with B. when she says that darning
stockings and mending clothes are Of
more importance than fancy work, al
though l am not averse to fancy work,
but l love to darn stockings, not simply
pulling the holes together, but making
lacework of them"
-Bright-green cardboard, almost
without exception, contains arsenic. In
a box of kinder. garten toys. recently
examined, some slips of such card
board for making letters were found
to contain enough Scheele's green to
have poisoned q small class. As the
color may be readily removed by mois-
ture, it is easy to see what dangerous
playthings these might have proved to
the children.-Eachange.
Goldfish Balls.-Two pounds bone
less fish, soaked and boiled over night,
and well. beaten before breakfast; boil
twelve or fifteen good-sized potatoes;
mash them very smooth with milk and
a large tablespoonful of butter; beat in
the Goldfish; add one egg; if not soft
enough. add little more milk; make
into cake and fry. The secret of good
fish-cakes is to have the potatoes fresh
boiled. and beaten very light.
Pure drinking water is of the first
Importance. More dangerous poisons
are taken into the system with the
water used, than in any other way.
That from brooks is dangerous, as wash
from MANFRED fields and soakage from
the soil flow into them. Water from
clear wells and springs only should be
given to cattle. and if such precaution
is needed for them, it is equally so for
the owners. Much avoidable disease is
due to impure water. american Agri-
cultxrist.
How to water horses. In cold
weather give one pailful at time,
three times day. This is enough I'M
less you are working them regularly;
then give little more, but not to ex-
SScoA AouA pssAAAuAo ~ Od>ys All WdI III
weather when they are brought in, first
sponge out the mouth and nostrils we'll
with cold water. After few spongings
they will wait for it to be done. Then
give them not to exceed a pailful
apiece, and after feeding give one more
pailful before you commence work.
Don't let them 60 without long enough
to make them want more than this. If
allowed, thirsty horse, when warm,
will drink too much. A common twelve
quart pail is the size referred to above.
Exchange.
-Cultivators adhere long time to
old practices, whether right or wrong.
We have long since ascertained by ex-
pertinent, that if potatoes are planted
at least five inches deep in such a mel
low bed of earth as good blowing gives
there is not only no necessity for hill
ing, but that it is absolutely detriElen-
tai and diminishes the product. A
writer in late number of the London
Garden furnishes detailed Instructions
how to make the ridges "sharp and
neat throughout" He complains that
some cultivators place the rows so near
together that they are compelled to
make the hills with the hand hoe, or
else do nothing. We decidedly recon-
mend them to edo nothing" except to
keep a clean, mellow, well-cultivated
flat surface. after having planted deep
enough. Woons0cket Or. L. Patriot.