Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


-Charring posts before setting is con-
sidered beneficial, but immersing the
end to go in the ground in hot oeal tar
is decidedly better.
Beds of strawberries should be re-
set every third year, at which time they
cease to be of much account. We are
all prone to believe that fruits will take
care of themselves when once planted.
Pan Doddies. New England Drop
Cakes-One pint milk, two eggs, two
tablospoonfuls of molasses, one-half
teaspoonful of soda, half teaspoonful
of salt, equal parts of Indian and rye
meal, until the mixture comes to a stiff
batter. Drop from a spoon into boiling
lard, and cook to light brown.
A good recipe for grating
wax Melt and stir together four
parts of resin, one of tallow and one
of beeswax; then pour into n bucket of
cold water. AS soon as cool enough to
be handled, work the mass over, and
draw it like shoemaker's wax until it is
entirely pliable. 10 may be used at
once, or if laid away carefully will keep
for years.
Fig Pudding. One pound flour,
six ounces fresh beef-suet, with half
teaspoonful of salt, and one pound figs,
with one teaspoonful of baking powder.
Chop the suet as fine as possible, re-
move all strings; mix we'll with the
flour, salt and baking powder; make
this into paste with iced water, and
roll out in sheet; cut the igs into long
slices, cover the paste with them, tie in
a cloth, and boil in fast-boiling water
for two hours. Eat with a sauce.
Bread and Butter Pudding. Butter
a mold well; take any stale bread
crusts or cake, CRATE or crumble it; put
layer of crumbs an inch thick in the
mold, then strew some jam or sultana
raisins, then layer of crumbs, and so
on alternately till the mold is full;
then pour very equally over it custard
made as follows: Beat up one egg, add
n tumbler or breakfast cupful of milk
to it, then tablespoonful of sugar and
little grated nutmeg. 1t requires 10
be poured slowly into the mold, that
the crumbs may absorb the whole.
Bake it about twenty minutes or half
an hour, according to the heat of the
oven.
In Spain there is proverb that the
man who eats fruit that was planted by
a former generation is unjust if he does
not plant for future generations. So.
when Spaniard eats peach or a pear
he digs hole with his foot and covers
the seed. In Spain, therefore, trees
grow by the roadside, and there is fruit
for all. William Cullen Bryant, in his
poem on 1.-The Planting of the Apple
Tree" told, il solemn numbers, how
he did not expect to eat the fruit of the
tree, but that his pleasure came from
knowing that long after he was dead
people yet unborn would see its BIOS
SONS and have its fruit. Too many
people depend upon the old orchard
planted by their grandfathers.
Onions chopped fine and fed to
fowls is good preventive of diseases.
A very common disease among young
fowls is the gapes. Some say it is
caused by worms in the windpipe, while
others say they have seen many with
the disease that had no worm about
them. The symptoms are too well
known to need description here. 1t is
generally caused by wet, cold raw meal
mixed and fed at once, impure water,
and many other causes. A good remedy
is soda dissolved in water, and mixed
with meal, and baked and fed warm.
This bread soaked in milk is a good
cure. The disease has been prevented
by mixing a small quantity of spirits
of turpentine with their food, about ten
drops to pint of meal to be made in
to a dough. Feed wheat screenings
while there is any symptoms of the dis
ease. Give your fowls plenty of warm
sun in spring, and a dry place when
wet, with fresh water every day.