Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-11-21
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.

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FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Kitchen Helps.
- ToTAKrs INK OUT or LINEN Dip the
ink spot IN pure melted tallow, then wash
out the tallow and the ink will come out
with it. This is said to be unfailing.
GINGER DRors.- One half cup of butter,
one cup OF molasses, one cup OF sugar,
one cup of cold water, one heaping tea
spoonful Of soda, ginger and salt toiasye.
Dropin tins and bake in quick ovens
KErrrcKY PoTAToEs. = Raw potatoes
peeled, sliced very thin put in puc,s,r
dish and covered with milk add peppo-'
and salt and teaspoonful OF -four, wet;
bake till nicely Drowned do not put
them in water after they are sliced.
\ ], '9.s I.3ls9
cool not cold) break into it the whites
of three eggs beat all to a stiff froth
make soft custard with the yelks of
the eggs, adding three others, and
quart of milk pour the whites into
molds and when ready for use turn
them ut, pouring the custard over.
GRANDMA Ho two hand
fuls of hops in q sack aud then put in a
kettle with two quarts of water; let them
boil ten minutes peel and steam three
or four good sized potatoes put in two
quarts of flour in pan pour the boiling
hot water on the -four mash the pota-
toes and stir them into the mixture
while hot; when the whole becomes
milk-warm, add one half teacup Of sugar,
same amount of SALT and one coffee cup
OF bakers yeast.
SWEDISH JEILY- Cover knuckIe of
veal with water, add a small onion and a
carrot and let it boil until the meat is
ready to fall of the bone. Take tho
meat and hash 1t fine and return il to the
Hquor after 1t is strained, and give il an
other boil until it iellies Add salt
pepper, the juice and rind of a lemon
cut fine, then pour il into form. Put
it in cold place. 1t makes a nice dish
for lunch or tea. II the knuckle of veal
IS large use three quarts, and let it boil
slowly three or four hours.
Farm Hints.
II matters not what a man attempts
on the farm, to be successful he mnst
attend carefully and constantly to busl-
rtess.
Hogs may be kept from the measles.
trichinosis, etc, by mixing handful of
good wood ashes with their food twice
week. Fo. .tt4 #rf.
Additions should be made to the ma
nure pile on every possible occasion.
The amount Of fertlizing material repu.
stes the farmers prosperity.
Cellars in which roots are stored
go shouid be kept cool, or the roots will
ebrivel and lore their freshness. Roots
keep fresher in pits, or when covered
BE- with earth in tho cellar The supply
FOR present use may be kept in barrels
or boxes of sand in the house cellar, and
Hplenieh from the pits as needed
Parsley may be grown for winter use
lv boring numerous holes in the side OF
beg a crown of parsley is put At IL
ss hole, the roots extending inside the
& q kee, which isa gradually filled with Soil
The tops grow ont OF the holes THE
neg may be placed in sunny window
and when properly watered. makes an
ornament ms well as furnishes a coed
crop of parsley when green things are
Ea.sa scarce.
French mode of killing poultrv .
Open tie beak of the fowl. and with a
" sharp pointed narrow. bladed knife make
nm iaolsiOn at the back of the roof of
the month, which will divide the verte
n blR and cause instant death, after which
the fowls are hung mp by the legs
They Will bleed perfectly with no disfig-
urement; picked while warm and. if de
s9s sired, scalded. In this way the skin
presents more natural appearance
than when scalded
ss Large -boned animals are ant to ba
weak, and with small muscular devclop-
ment, generally from imperfection in the
digestive organs. If the defect is con.
stitutional, this is intensified. On the
contrary, animals with firm hard bonas
usually show large muscular doyelop-
ment, and here again This is intensified
ny hereditary transmission. In Il is tho
male is held to be prepotent, and hence
the necessity that the sire at least e fine
'' aud come Of such families The male
should have large development Of luno
power, and good digestion. especially.
Fhe female good lungs and roomy in the
barrel When both sire ard dam are
good the transmission Of these character
sizes is potent.
~ no tHs'en Pig IN - Wn3o,
When it is desired TO carry ,,ic,
49, on Dox, the animal may be secntad
n tue manner described by correspond
emit IN Kansas, as follows Nuke a
90 loop IN double rope, and put it around
the Throat, carry the rope over the head.
- and tasten it around the BODY behind /
d the fore-legs, leaving two ends free over /
b the shoulders. The pig being lifted into
II the wagon is held down by fastening the
~ ends of the rope in any safe manner, SO
that he can not jump over the sides of
the boz, and is compelled to stay in the
middle.
SoilinE and How to start
Pennsylvania farmer furnishes the
following suggestion on this topic: 1t
has been shown that soilng enables the
sSricF'hurist to keep more stock III pro.
D. portion to the extent of his farm. and
that the number may, with the best
management, amount to one head per
acre. This result is attained by increas
lug the produce Of the soil AID prevent
ing the least waste of that produce. 1t
has further been shown that the fertili