Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-07-10
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horses, as they furnish more nourish-
ment and Matchmaking material than
any other food.
A GARDENER recommends that to
keep bugs OF melon and squash vines n
tomato plant be set in each hill. saying
that when he had followed this plan his
young plants were not molested
To clean brushes and sponges use
spirits of ammonia and hot water. Wash
them vel! and shake the water out,
drying on a coarse towel with the
bristles downward. Little or no soap
is needed.
To REMOVE ANTS.-Place pieces of
raw meat in Scupboard, and after the
ants nave clustered upon them. plunge
into boiling water. Persevere in this
for two or three weeks. and you will
soon be entirely free from ants.
MUSTARD That WILL KEEP.-Take
four ounces of the best mustard, one
ounce salt; mix thoroughly, and into it
stir six ounces of water that has been
boiled and allowed to cool. Mix well
and keep in small jars well covered.
A GENTLEMAN at the head of large
fruit-drying establishment states that
fruit sliced very thin across the axis,
placed on tray in the sun and covered
with thin muslin (not mosquito netting),
will present an appearance closely re-
sembling that prepared by evaporation
and bleached by sulphur fumes.
Troy RoLLs.-One pint of milk, one
half cup of butter. one-quarter cake of
compressed yeast, two quarts of flour.
Heat the milk and butter until the but
ter is melted; add the yeast, pour the
mixture in the middle of the flour, stir
a little. If mixed at nine a. m, mold
at enc p. m, without adding any more
-four Four hours later, or one before
baking, mold into rolls. Bake twenty
minutes
SWEET ONELETs.-Two eggs, two
tablespoonful of cream, two ounces of
sifted sugar, preserves. Beat the yelks
OF the eggs and cream together. The
whites must be whisked separately.
Have 4 well buttered pan on the fire.
Mix the eggs together, beat = moment
and turn into pan. When brown under
meath, slip into hot dish, spread half
with any preserve preferred. turn over
the other half, sprinkle with sugar and
serve hot.
The advantages of spreading manure
from the wagon as it is drawn out are
saving of labor, and more even distri-
button of the double salts (ammonia,
potash, phosphates. etc. in the soil by
rain. Ii the manure is heaped on the
field, and gets a heavy rain before
spreading, the ground under the heaps
receives an undue share of the best
part of the manure, which not infre-
quently renders these spots barren for
a season or two.
HORSES AND FLIEs.-Carbolic acid
soap is recommended as an excellent
preventive against flies. Ii rubbed on
the legs and neck of horse he will not
be troubled with flies. 1t is also claimed
that if couple of handfuls of the COM
mon black walnut leaves are put in a
vessel of water all night, and next
morning boiled for fifteen to twenty
minutes, then when cold take a sponge
or rag and moisten the eyes, neck, legs,
ETC., of horse. the flies will give those
places wide berth.
A MASSACHUSETTS farmer who is
noted for the excellence of his corn
crops says tina: his plan for years has
been to sow clover on third part of |
his plow land. and let it grow and re- I
main uncut through the entire season,
blowing it under late the next season |
and planting corn upon it. His expert
ence, he SAYS, teaches him that the
clover with its vast amount of roots is |
fully equal to twenty-five loads of ma
nure per acre. Then he takes another
third part and proceeds in the same
way.
BAKED TOMAToES.-One-half dozen !!
of large ripe tomatoes, bread crumbs,
salt and pepper, two ounces of butter.