Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-12-30
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.



Use dry muck freely in stables.
Good shelter for stock saves fodder
Have water in the yard for your
stock.
Don't fail to fodder your stock reg
ularly.
Avoid damp cellars. They are un-
healthy.
Cornstalks contain more potash than
any other fodder fed to cows.
A uniform use of water is essential to
the healthy growth Of plants.
A coat Of mail has been invented to
protect sheep when attacked by dogs or
| wolves.
Sheep manure is much richer than
that of COWS. Practically it is esti
mated at nearly double the value of that
of cattle.
One-balf ounce salt to the pound of
butter is the rule for sailing adopted by
the makers of the celebrated butter
which sells at fancy prices in Boston.
A good hay cutter will save its cost in
one season. Hay or straw is not made
more nutritious, but it is more easily
masticated when chaffed; and saving
of exertion is equivalent to saving OF
food.
Flat warts on the inside of horses
leg may be removed by scraping off the
top aud applying muriatic with a small
stick or camel's hair brush. They may
be cut from q cows udder aad killed in
the same way.
One Of the great advantages of drain
ing the soil is to insure the free access
of oxygen. A plant cannot any more
live without oxygen than can an ami
NAL. Oxygen is one of the best fer
tiGZers, tor by its action in the soil it
prepares the minerals for food for plants.
Plants vary greatly with respect to
their demands for food, their capabilities
of gathering the ingred tents from the
soil and air, and the effects of different
fertilizers upon their growth; hence
the proper fertilizer in given case
depends upon the crop as well as upon
the soil.
An exchange says: Do farmers know
that shcrt-legged stock is the best
short-legged cattle, short-Iegged horses,
shorl-legged sheep and hogsP Do they
know that all short-iegged animals have
greater depth OF rib, of body, more
strength and vitality and better con-
stitution than long legged animals? In
breeding, this should be remembered.
Short legged bulls, stations, boars and
bucks are always the best, other things
being equal. Good judges will always
pay more for them. Eschew long legged
ock. Breed to the best always. Like
will beget like is an old and true saying.
Hilltop" an observing farmer of
the Connecticut valley, tells the Boston
CultiUat0r how he and his father have
for fifty years always thinned their po-
tatO vines at hoeing time to two stocks
in the hill, with an increase of large,
handsome potatoes. Six or seven per
cent, all told, of second-rate potatoes
is mentioned as an ordinary proporti
under this treatment. Of course, the
large. strong vines would be saved, and
this looks like a genuine bit of potato
science, coming into print in time Of
scarcity.
Horses are quite sensitive to chilling
draughts of air blowing upon them,
and especially upon their heads; hence,
in construction of stables this should be
borne in mind. Many stables have the
horses face an alley, along the sides of
which are doors, Oh o large space is left
the rear stable door and the one leading
out of TIE alley are open, the horses
stand in q chilling draught, from which
they cannot escape. Horses. like many
people, can stand much wind in an
open field, but will catch cold when in
a draught only a short time. With
proper ventilation, the doors OF the
stable should be kept closed in cold
weather that no draughts may occur.
Recipes,
PRESSED CHICKEN. Take one or two
chickens, boil in a small quantity Of
water with a little salt, and when
thoroughly done take all the meat
from the bones, keeping the light meat
separated from the dark, chop fine and
season; put in q pan q layer OF dark and
light, ado the liquor it was boiled in,
which should be about 3 teacupful, put
on Il small weight; when cold cut in
slices.
CATsKILL MILK POTATOES. = Take
good. sound potatoes, cut them in slices
ira W, and put the milk, according to
the quantity you wish to make, in a
pudding dish, then after you have put
the potatoes in the milk put it in the
oven for about twenty minutes. then
take out and put the potatoes with the
same milk into saucepan to boil until
done; season before you put to boil.
DRIPPNG.-To form good substi-
tute for butter, in making pastry, the
meat must be roasted with water in the
pan to prevent the tat from burning !;
when the meat is cooked pour the drip
ping in 8 basin and let it stand till cold,
pouring off the gravy at the bottom,
then placing the dripping in the oven
to melt, and the next day it will be quite
fit for use, and will make excellent short
pastry.
APPLE TAPIocA PUDDING
tablespoonflls of tapioca, one and one
half pints of cold water, one teaspoon.
full of salt; soak three hours; seven ap.
pies; take out cores and Eli with sugar:
pour the tapioca over the apples. Bake
an hour. Sauce: three eggs ard one
cup of sugar well beaten together ant
favored without cooking.
There seems to be great anxiety anC
impatience on the part of the people tx