The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-01-29
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Hints for the Housewife.

Hints for the Housewife.
GRAM ONIoNs.-Boil in two waters,
drain, and if they are large, cut into
quarters and pour over them a cup OF
scalding milk in which a pinch of soda
has been stirred; set over the fire; add a
tablespoonful Of batter, half teaspoon
full corn starch wet with milk, a little
minced parsley, with pepper and salt.
Simmer and pour out.
CccoANUT CAKE.-Two cupfuls of
sugar, half a cupful of butter, thee
eggs, one cupful Of milk, three cupfuls
of -four, two teaspoonfuls of cream Of
tartar, one %teaspoonful of soda. Filling:
To half the grated nut add the whites of
three eggs beaten to a stiff froih, and
n cupful of sugar; place This between
the layers of cake. Mix with the other
half Of the nut four tablespoonful Of
fine ~pulverized sugar, and strew thickly
over the top Of the cake.
NEST EocG.-When you use eggs for
cooking, break a small hole in one end
only; sav the shells and dry them
then coat the inside with shellac. Then
get q few cents worth of calcined plas-
ter, wet it up with water until it is about
as thick as griddle cake batter, and pour
it into the prepared egg shello; it will
harden in a few minutes; then smooth
off the ends where you put in the plas-
ter, and you have nest eggs that will,
not freeze, and will last forever almost.
] read that somewhere half a dozen years
ago, and made some nest eggs that are
still in use and as good IS new.
CHICKEN SALAD.-Cut the meat from
two chickens, or one if you want small
dish. Add an equal quantity of shred
lettuce alter you have cut the chickens
into narrow shreds two inches long,
Mix in a bowl. Prepare a dressing
thus: Beat the yelks of two eggs, salt
lightly and beat in a few drops at q time,
four tablespoonful of oil; then, as grad.
ually, three teaspoonfuls Of hot vinegar
and half a t%esspoonful of best celery es-
sepce. The mixture should be thick as
cream; pour over the chicken, mix well
and lightly; put into a salad dish and
lay sections Of two hard boiled eggs on
top, with a chain Of sliced whites around
the edge.
When TO Feed Corn for Fattsning.
This question has been asked and an
swered many times, with varying results,
according to the breed, the care and at
t%ention, the shelter, time of year, etc.
Store hogs in a healthy condition and Of
good breed should lay on q pound of
additional weight for every five and six
tenth pounds of m~erchantable corn fed
to them, and will do it on the average,
with reasonable care. When they do
not do it we think there is a defe CT some
where.
II the above statement, which in our
experience we have verified, be true, n
bushel OF coma part meal and fed as
slop, and a part, all the animal will eat,
in the ear or shelled, changing frequent.
ly-- should make ten pounds addition to
the weight. Ten bushels of corn will
then represent 100 pounds OF pork. The
following conclusion is then reached;--
1t pays, when corn is worth thirty cents
per busbel, TO convert it into pork when
it sells for SO per 100 pounds, as the
manure will a%bundantly pay for the care,
when properly saved. SO when corn is
forty cents, pork should sell at "a per
100 pounds; corn at fifty cents, pork 50;
sixty cents, pork 49,; corn seventy'ive
cents, pork should sell at ST. so. When
corn is worth 81 30, pork NUT sell at
$l5 per 100 pounds. II the pork sells
for less than is thus represented by the
corresponding price Of corn, it is fed at
q loss; il more, the advance is profit
in each case regarding the manure as
pay for the trouble.
Fattening is accomplished most profit
ably as the cool weather OF autumn adj
vances, the animals having plenty Of
water or mud in which to roll when they
choose, with good shelter and warm
quarters in which 10 lie. The feeding
place should be kept clean, and corn in
the ear or shelled, fed night and morn
ing, as much as they will eat up clean,
aud slop or meal at noon, with pure,
clean water night and morning, The
iatter they become, the closer their
quarters may be. In the early stages
OF fattening they need room for exercise,
with wheat bran, charcoal and sulphur
occnaionally to keep them in condition
aud increase the size OF bone and mus
Gle, for when quite heavy they need
only rest ohio Farmer.