The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

HE TOO common practice Of cover
ing lawns with manure in the autumn
making them look like barn-yarde II
most cases, does more harm than good
To SOFTEN the skin if rough, rul
clarified honey vigorously into tn,
parts affected, each time after washing
and allow it to remain for at least sr
hour. Then rub of with cold cream.
INDIAN PUDDrNG.-Stirf five spoon.
fuls OF Indian meal into three pints 81
boiling milk. add little salt, four well.
beaten eggs. one cup sugar, teaspoon.
1ul OF ginger. Bake three hours: one
hour before taking out add one pint Of
milk without stirring.
10 MAKE nice biscuit, sift two tea,
spoonfuls OF cream tartar and one OF
saleratus through the sieve with the
Hour (twice if you use coarse sieve),
then add one small tablespoonful white
sugar. mustard spoonful salt, and mix
thoroughly and quick with one pint of
thin cream; mold rather stiff, and cut
out and bake quick.
To CLARITY FAr.-Cut, into small
pieces fat of either beef or mutton. Put
into saucepan and cover the pieces
with cold water. Stir until the water
boils. skim carefully and allow to boil
until the water has all been discharged
in vapor-the fat will then be of The
color OF salad Oil--strain, and it will
keep any length of time.
CAKE TO BE EATEN WARM FOR TEA.
Mix two teaspoonfuls of baking DOW
der in one pound of fine flour. Rub in
quarter of a pound of butter, lard,
or clarified dripping, mix in quarter
OF pound granulated sugar, tea
spoonful of ground caraway seed, grated
lemon peel, or any other fiavorine.
When ready to bake, stir in as quickly
as possible two well-beaten eggs mixed
with gill and half of milk, or, if
convenient, cream. Put into we'll
buttered tin, and bake in a hot oven.
SHOEING HoRsEs.-The London Live
St0ck Gazette says: If the farriers or
blacksmiths are anxious to do something
useful at small expense, let them
publish an illustrated broadside fit for
hanging in blacksmith shops, telling
smiths and their masters what not to do.
.'Don't carve the frog; don't open the
heels; don't rasp the outside of the
hOof; don't cut the hoof to fit the shoe,
but, after shortening the toe, if needed,
tit the shoe to the foot" and so on. as
common sense dictates.
To MAKE VINEGAR.-1. Boil either
corn, wheat, barley or rye. about one
pint of the grain to gallon of water,
strain, and to the liquor thus obtained
add sirup or sugar until pleasantly
sweet. Let stand in a warm place, and
you will soon have good vinegar. The
stronger and sweeter the liquor the |
stronger will be the vinegar and the |
onger in making. 2. Pack in jar the
skins and cores of apples made in pre-
barring pies and sauce, and cover with
polling water. When another lot is
made, add them and more hot water till
he jar is full. In warm weather set
he jar in the sun, carefully covered
With cloth; in cool weather in a warm
'lace in the house. The apples do not
OF at all. In six or eight weeks the
Vater is turned into excellent vinegar
nd of an amber color. No yeast, nor
pirits, nor acids, nor sugar, nor mo-
asses are matchmaking whatever
ut the skins and cores and water.
GATHER THE LEAVES. Forest leaves
re excellent to supply the stable-yards,
nd where straw is scarce also the cow
tables and hog-pens. They can be
lost conveniently gathered just after
alling, when there is some weight in
hem, or after the first snow and before
ne wintry blasts have scattered them.
hey then lay compactly, and being
loist or heavy can be handled with
reater facility. A cart with few
stuck in the sides will hold
,nsiderable quantity; and the best {
ling to gather them or load them with
a wooden mandrake; wooden four
ned straw-fork is also very handy
hen the leaves are moist. Leaves abb
'rb large quantities of the liquid ma
ire and are an excellent fertilizer in :.
e spring. They can be gathered too
hen other labor about the farm is
ack. Germastown Telegraph.
KEEPING ONIONS. "A Minnesota {
ritter says, in the New York San, that
makes as deep pit as he can with '
e pillow for onions and cabbages in q G
y. sheltered place near the house, d
raping out all the loose dirt with q T
e, and putting in some chaff or straw
pm the straw stack, and tramping
wn well. Then he hauIs the onions
,m where they grew and piles them
carefully on this, and puts more a
aft on top and covers up with foot 8
dirt from each side, AMI packs it : :
tooth with the spade. where they can
main part or all of the winter. or G
til wanted. They we're quoted at <
70 70 last +. winter .h and spring in Mime \
they will come out all right b
len the frost leaves the ground. Cab =
ges may be pulled up on q dry day IS