The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-08
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.


DEF AND OIAIO = ueep
dish, butter it and put in it o layer Of
mashed potatoes, season with butter,
salt and minced onions. Take slices Of
beef, season them with pepper ard salt,
and lay them with pieces Of salt pork
over the potatoes, then FL the dish with
alternate layers Of potatoes and meat,
having the upper ones potatoes. Bake
about an hour and fifteen minutes.
TABLE SALT IN MILK FOR CHILDREN
DR.. Q. @, Smith, in the Pacific Medical
Journal, gives the following useiul
hint, which, by the way, is confirmed by
other excellent authority: When cows
milk is found to disagree with hand fed
babies or small children, it may in many
cases be rendered entirely wholesome to
them, by adding to il q small portion Of
table salt, just enough to be p~erceptible
to the taste. I have for years directed
the practice of this e~xpedient among our
people. and know ii to be of real value
PRESERVING CABBAGE.-Our mode in
saving cabbage during the winter is to
stand them in rows upright, as they
grew, buried up to the lower leaves
After al oblong bed of them is prepared,
cover with leaves or straw, and place
over it an %improvised roof formed of
bean-poles laid across a rough frame,
covered with cornstalks, and to lean
enough to carry Off the water. Wehave
often kept our cabbage to the first Of
May in this wav. Some people put the
heads down and bury up to the stalk;
but we don't think they keep as well,
and it entails more labor. - German.
toaOn Telegraph.
PUMPKIN PIE. The less water you use
to boil your pumpkin in the better
Slice the pumpkin. and don't scrape it
too much inside-the inside is the best,
stew with water, in which you put a
pinch of salt, until the meat is tender;
mash it and pass il through a fine sieve
while it is hot; after straining, add az
eight of q pound Of butter, if you have
about two quarts of stewed pumpkin;
now, to every quart add a quart OF milk
and three eggs, beating up your whites
and yolks separately; use white sugvr,
and sweeten to taste, with cinnamon and
nutmeg; 1 don't use any ginger; when
you bake your pies you want q hot oven;
pour it on thick; a thin pumpkin pie is
not right.-Old HouSekeeper.
II Farm Hints. h HaHv'
A correspondent Of the Connecticut
Farmer thus describes a homemade
churn with which he is much pleased:
An oblong box suited to the size Of
dairy, made OF white wood, a hole SI1O
inches cut in the top, and fitted with a
tight cover, and q hole to draw off but
termilk in the bottom. Suspend from
the ceiling by two iron rods, fastened on
the churn at either end with q link, and
to the ceiling by rings. The rod should
be long enough to give a good swing,
as that is the motion used to separate
the butter. II can be swung by hand,
or have it by a sheep power connected
by levers to the churn. This gives the
oscilating motion so desirable in churn.
ing, without much loss of power from
friction
Poultry was shipped from Canada and
the United States for the recent Christ
mas trade, even more extensive than last
year. One vessel carried no less than
5000 turkeys and an almost equal num-
Der of geese, ducks and chickens -
Prairie hens and fresh eggs were also
forwarded in considerable quantity, and
some of these consignments were placed
in Partisan markets.
An Indiana gr~ape.grower, who covered
Fifty punches OF Concords with paper
bags 4y6 inches, when the berries were
about the size of peas, tells the New
York Post that they ripeued perfectly
without spot, ekin much thinner than
usual, and pulp sweet as honey, while
those not thus protected we're gone three
weeks before, many being destroyed by
birds and bees
An American hog cholera sure COM
pany,' was founded by IN investigating
committee Of Iowa farmers, occupying
for Office and mandatory q sort Of
she'd in Corning, with father for presi-
dent, wife for treasurer, aud son for
secretary-a nice family party, the re-
port says, but FRAUDULENT, the neighbors
affirm.
Cattle like a cha 90 OF diet occasion.
ally, as men 10. Keeping cattle on hay
and SHAW alone is n little like living on
bread or potatoes, or meat alone, with
nothing except that ono dish. There
fore feed some roots, rs we'll as hay and
meal or shorts. II you haven't the roots
on hand, I've sure and have n supply next