Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-03
HOWE, FARM AND GARDEN.


J 0AT STRAW, as a rule, Is superior to
wheat straw as stock food, inasmuch
as il contains larger per cent of fat
forming and heat-proiuoing ingre.
dients.
To KEEP bugs OF melon aud squash
vines. plant tomato plant in each hill.
By doing this the bugs did not bother
them for me, while across the fenee.
where there were no tomatoes they
were all killed. by the bugs. Cor. Er-
ckdaGe.
FEw realize the necessity Of manur-
inNnnahRras When lonse planted, the
trees are. 70 remain in the same soil
thirty or forty years, at least. They in
u few years exhaust the food in the soil
that they are most fond OF, and then
they win cease to be productive and
thrifty unless properly fed.
SPONGB CAKE. Take five fresh eggs,
their weight in pulveri6ed sugar; the
weight of three in flour. Beat yelks
and sugar TO creamy paste, whip
whites to a stiff froth, and add to yelks
and sugar, Sift in the ilonr gradually;
add teaspOonful of ilayoring extract,
and sir only Just enough to mix we'll,
pour immediately into pans lined with
buttered paper. Sprinkle over little
pulyerlzed sugar, and bake ia a quick
oven for twenty-five or thirty minutes.
Coon WHEArEN BREAD. Take six
good-siaed potatoes. peel and boil in
two quarts of water; when done put
pint OF Hour into suitable vessel, and
pour the water oil the potatoes on the
Hour tD scald it. Then rub the potatoes
through eolandor and add to the flour,
Add cold water enough 10 wet what
bread you want TO bake at one time /;
when cool, add pint of good yeast
md handful of salt; let 1t rise over
night. In the morning mix stiff in the
bread tray and let it rise again. When
light. put into tins and let il rise again.
Bake in moderate oven one hour
STRAwBERRY SHoRr-CARE.- Make n
crust sufficient 10 cover the bottom Of
two pie. dishes, rolled thin, of the in
gradients which would make raised bis
cults; bake both at once; have two boxes
or two quarts OF strawberries thorough
I " cleansed and well sweatened; rs
| soon as the paste is baked, while hot,
! spread with good butter. cover with
! half of the berries, sprinkling more
7 sugar ON top; cover with the other
/ baked biscuit, butter as before. add the
/ other half of the berries, with more
/ sugar, aud wrap we'll with q clean
towel. and cover with q blanket, to re-
I main 10 steam until cold.
A WRITER in the Fdncisrs' Journal,
( IN speaking of ducks, pronounces the
/ Aylesbury and Pekin the best varieties,
the former being noted for its large
white eggs aud dolicately-tayored
! flesh, and the latter for the richness OF
/ its eggs, good constitution and rapid
\ fattcning The Rouen is pronounced
only slightly inferior in flavor and in
quality OF eggs TO the above, natures
earlier aud is harder. The Aylesbury
and Peliin commence laying in Febru
nry, and continue for five months, with
two or three brief intcrmissions Wher
the duck wants TO SIT she should have
from twelve to fifteen eggs, and shoul,
sit in separate division of the duck
house kept for this purpose. The doc
should always be open during the day
and she should have sufficient watc
near by to bathe in. The time of ineu
baton is twenty-eight days. After th,
ducklings are all hatched they shoult
not be disturbed for twenty-four hours
when they are ready for food, whicl
should consist Of hard-boiled eggs wei
mixed with oatmeal When three o
four days old they may have oatmea
4 mixed with milk and little grain, Th
ducklings should not have access Il
water, except TO drink, until they re
ceive their feathers, when they ca
swim without injury.