The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-16
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,


| Hectpess
PoTATo CAKEs.-Mix thorough,
with cold, mashed potatoes left from
dinner the well-beaten yolk of an egg
make into cakes as you would sausaqes
place in skillet with a tablespoon ho
ham or beef drippings, cover tightly
and, in five minutes, when lower side i
Drowned, turn, remove cover, fry unit
the other side is q nice brown; serv,
hot Make up after dinner ready fol
frying for breakfast.
APPLE SNow.-Pare, core and bring
to boil in as little water as possible six
tart apples, cool and strain, beat wei
and add the well-whipped whites O.
three eggs, sweeten to taste and bea1
thoroughly until dish of snow is the
result, flavor with lemon or vanilla, OF
add tue grated rind of lemon; serve
with sweetened cream. Or make Gus
tard of yolks, sugar, and pint of milk
place in dish, and drop the froth on il
in large flakes.
PICKLED ONIONs.-Select small silver.
skinned onions, remove with a knife al
the other-skins, so that each onion will
be perfectly white and clean. Put them
into brine that will float an egg, for
three days; bring vinegar to boiling
point, add little mace and whole red
peppers Cor sprinkle with cayenne, ad-
bark, with few cloves), and pour ii
hot over the onions, well drained from
brine.
| MARCH PUDDING.-One cup dried ap-
Piles, cup molasses, one and one-fourth
cups flour, fourth cup butter, one egg,
one teaspoon each of soda and cinna-
| no oil nd
soak apples over night, cut fine and
mix with water in which they were
soaked, add molasses and spice; mix
egg, butter and flour together; stir soda
with apples and molasses; add and bake
immediately; serve hot with sauce
| made of half cup butter and one cup
sugar, beaten smooth and fievored with
nutmeg, lemon or vanilla.
Fowls Beneficial i'm Orchards
Last fall the editor of the Poultry
| World visited an orchard in which fow is
were kept, the owner of which told him
that before the fowls were confined in
| it the trees made little or no growth,
and only a corresponding amount OF
| fruit was obtained. But what change
was evident now! The grass was kept
down, the weeds killed, and the trees
presented an appearance OF thrift, which
the most enthusiastic horticulturist
could but admire and envy. The growth
OF the trees was most vigorous, and the
! foliage most luxuriant; the fruit was
abundant, OF large size, and free from
worms and other imperfections. The
excellence was accounted for by the
proprietor, who remarked that the
"hens ate all the worms and curculio
in their reach, even to the canker
worm" He found less trouble with
their roosting in trees than he expected,
and a picket fence six feet high kept
them within bounds. His orchard was
divided into three sections, and the
fowls were changed fl ON one to another
as the condition OF the fowls or the
orchard sections seemed to require.
The Supply of Cattle.
The Indianapolis Price Current says {:
1t seems to be the opinion of those who
have examined this matter pretty
thoroughly that a considerable decrease
will be found in the stock of the United
States and Territories, after this years
shipments are over. We are of the opin
ion that this may be the case in regard to
such as are sufficiently well bred for
shipment to foreign markets; but as to
inferior stock, we question whether
much, if any, deficiency will be found.
Yet in any event there will unquestion-
ably be a considerable advance in the
price of cattle another year, as well as
in sheep and swine. There are two
reasons why this may be so; the first of
which is the greatly increased tide of
emigrants to our country this season,
who will be consumers instead of pro-
ducers for twelvemonth to come; and
the second reason is, so numerous are
the losses sustained in Great Britain
and Ireland during the past eighteen
months in domestic animals, that their
wants for this year will doubtless be
larger than the past have been.
An Old Farmers Wisdom.
One who has titled the soil for forty
years, and meantime accumulated a
competence and given his children a
good education, says his experience has
taught him these things: l. One acre
of land, well prepared and well culti-
waited, produce more than two which
received only the same amount of labor
had on one. Q. One COW, horse, mule,
sheep or hog well fed, is more profitable
than two kept on the amount necessary
to keep one well. 3. One acre of clover
or grass is worth more than two of cot
ton where no grass OF clover is raised.
a.. No farmer who buys oats, corn,
wheat, fodder and hay, as a rule, for ten
years, can keep the sheriff away from
the door in the end. s. The farmer
who never reads the papers, sneers at
book farming and improvements, al
ways has leaky roof, poor stock,
broken-down fences, and complains of
bad seasons" 6. The farmer who is
above his business and intrusts it to
another to manage, soon has no busi-
ness to attend to. Z. The farmer whose
habitual beverage is cold water is
healthier Mealthier and wiser than he