The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-02-12
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Kitchen Hints,


Kitchen Hints.
BUTTER TAFFY.-One half.pint mo-
lasses, one half-piDt water, one pound
loaf sugar, one quarter pound butter.
Let boil without stirring until, by drop.
ping a little in water, you find it is
done.
LEMON SNAPs.-O One coffee.cupful Of
sugar, two-thirds Of a cupful of butter,
two eggs, one level teaspoonful soda
dissolved in a quarter of a cupful of hot
water; -four to roll thin; flavor with
lemon; bake in a hot oven.
A Coon Sort GINGER CAKE.-Take
one cup of molasses, half cup of butter
or drippings, one cup boiling water,
one ~teaspoenful of cooking soda, and
half %teaspoonful of good ground gin
ger. Nix soft, bake quickly.
MOTHERS TEA CAKE.-Break an egg
In a teacup, fill with sugar. beat thor
oughly together, add one cup thick, Soul
cream, one t%easpoonful soda, a little
salt, half a nutmeg and -four to make q
stiff batter; bake twenty minutes in a
moderate oven.
OATMEAL PoRRIDeE.-This is O very
healthy dish for children, and may be
made quickly by having q saucepan of
boiling water ready. Put in a little
salt; as it boils drop the oatmeal in with
m hand, stirring gently with the other.
Boil it well, and keep stirring, as it
burns very easily. Pour it into a basin,
and in a few minutes it becomes firm.
Eat with cold milk or sugar and butter.
1t can be made quite stiff or thin, Just
as a person f%anoies, and is very nice
fried the same as mush.
0il-Cnke Meal.
Oil cake meal is made from the cake
which remains after pressing out the oil
from h~axseed-the latter being called
the linseed oil of commerce. This cake
is sometimes fed in pieces to sheep and
cattle, and sometimes after having been
ground into meal. 1t las great fatten-
ing properties, and is placed in the first
rank as a feeding article, being richer
and more nutritious than either corn or
meal. 1t contains all that the seed itself
contained except oil, and ever of that it
contains a suficiency OF fatty or oily
matter to act on the digestive
organs and keep them vigorous and
healthy. The seed, like the egg, con-
tains just what is wanted as q flesh
former.-a large proportion of albumi-
noids. 1t also contains a mass Of gela.
tine, as we'll as q large amount of
oleaginous matter, 80 that it is q con-
centrated mass of digestible matter that
supplies the animal growth with all its
needs, while the hay, the straw and the
turnips with which, in England, it is
mixed, supplies the bulky -carbonaceous
matter that is needed to fill up the
stomach, and thusienables the mechan-
ism Of digestion to be so elrried on that
the system absorbs all the nutritive
matter there is in them. As a flesh
former, therefore, it is universally ad-
mitted that fax seed is the best and most
thoroughly adapted substance known to
the ~breeder-not only loosening, relax
ing and lubricating the whole system,
but giving a new property to the skin,
and causing the coat to turn glossy.
Cottonseed cake and meal are now being
used to an almost equal extent, and
considered quite as important for feed.
ing purposes as linseed cake itself.
The Saw In the Orchard.
OF all the blunders that the common
farmer, and some others, make with
trees, none is 30 commou or 30 hurtful,
and which is so long finding out, and
which he might know so certainly, as
the practice Of cutting of lower limbs,
All over the country nothing is more
common than to see mutilated trees on
almost every farm-bjg limbs cut of
near the body Of the tee, and, Of course,
rotting to the heart. Tho very limbs
necessary to protect the tree from wind
and sun, and Just where the limbs are
needed most they are cut away. But
the greatest injury is the rotting that
always takes place when n big limb is
sawed oT-toO big to heal over, it must
rot, and being kept moist by the grow
ing tree, is in the right condition to rot,
and, being on the body, the rotting goes
to the heart and hurts the whole tree.
II is COMMON all over the country to see
largo orchOrds mutilated in this way.
We often SEQ holes in the trees where
big limbs have been cut away, where
squirrels and ever raccoons can crawl
in. Perhaps the only reason these
trimmers would give is, that lower limbs
were easier got at, and some would say
they wanted TO laise a crop under the
tree.
Cut the Litter.
n the litter is cut into 3-inch lengthS,
or even smaller, it will hold more mois-
ture, will make better and finer manure,