Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
-Buckwheat is recommended as the
best remedy for the wire worm. Two
or three crops sowed in succession will
completely starve them out, as they will
not eat it to any extent.
If there is not sufficient rain to
keep compost heaps moist water should
be supplied, even if it has to be hauled |
and poured on them. Decomposition |
IS arrested when the heap becomes dry. |
A few barrels of water from the well |
will soon start up heat and decomposi-
tion in dry pile of compost.
Fish Cakes.-Take the remnants of |
any cold fish, pull them to pieces, and
thoroughly mix with them a small piece
of butter and some mashed potatoes;
season the whole with pepper and salt
to taste, and little cayenne. Form
the mixture into cakes, and fry in but
ter till of a golden color.
Angel Pudding.-Two ounces of
flour, two ounces Of powdered sugar,
two ounces of butter melted in half
pint of new milk, two eggs; mix well.
Bake the above in small patty pans un-
til nicely Drowned, and send to table on
dish covered with a serviette. A lit
tie powdered sugar should be sifted
over each pudding, and slices of lemon
served with them. The eggs must be
well beaten before they are added to
the other ingredients.
Hop Yeast.-Take a handful of
hops in bag to two quarts of water
and boil few minutes until the
-
also boil four potatoes, pared and cut
in small pieces, with the hops; turn
the mashed potatoes and hop water
into a jar and stir in flour while the
liquid is hot; when cool put in three
soaked yeast cakes and set to rise in a
| warm place; after rising put in half a
tea cup of salt, also the same quantity
of sugar. This will keep for weeks in
cool place.
-Maccaroni Pudding.-Put four
ounces of small maccaroni with small
| stick of cinnamon into pint and
quarter of boiling milk sweetened to
| taste. Do not let it burn; let the whole
boil until the maccaroni has absorbed
all the milk; remove the cinnamon and
put the maccaroni into bowl to get
cold. Stir in the yelks of four eggs
and the whites of two whisked to a
froth. Butter and bread crumb a
plain mold. using very fine bread
crumbs; put the mixture into it, and
bake about twenty minutes; then turn
out. and serve the pudding with jam
sauce.
Flax Culture.-Flax requires good
soil. Moist, rich meadow land newly
plowed, or new prairie land is excellent
for this crop. A bushel and half of
seed per acre is sown, and the treat
ment is much the same as for oats or
any other small-grain crop. Thin
seeding encourages branching and the
formation of seed stalks, although the
best fiber is produced from a thickly
grown crop cut before the seed is ma
ture. When both seed and fiber arere-
quired, moderately thin seeding is prac-
ticed. The yield common in the West
ern States is twelve bushels of seed and
one ton of straw per acre, although 8
good crop should produce twenty five
bushels of seed per acre. Flax leaves
the ground in good condition for
wheat, as it shades and mellows the
soil as much as buckwheat or peas.
How to Clean Brass and Copper.
The following mixture will be found
the best for cleaning brass, copper, tin,
stair-rods, taps and even windows, and
, it is quite worth the trouble of making
, once year. as the quantities 1 give
, will last that time, and the best way is
J TO store it in wide-mouthed pickle jars
of glass or stone: One pound whitening,
one pound rotten stone, one pound soft
| soap, one teacupful vinegar, as much
water as will make it thick paste.
) Let it boil fully ten minutes, and when
/ nearly cold add half pint of spirits of
turpentine. When you use it put very
: little on rag, and rub the article you
wish to clean well with it until becomes
bright, and then polish with leather
7 dipped in powdered Bath brick. I'm
+; less you use Bath brick it soon tar.
< nishes, but Bath brick preserves the
3 polish.-Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
< To Prevent Kicking in the Stable
| Take strong strap sufficient IL
length to reach crosswise from the hine
! leg he kicks with to the opposite foreleg
. with from six to nine inches slack. Tht
E strap proper to be two inches in width
with end straps sewed on to this ont
inch and half in width, and made o
:. strong and very pliable leather. I'm
| mediately before feeding your horse ad
just the ends of the strap in the follow
ing manner: Buckle one end arount
the hind leg your horse kicks with, be
!, tween the fetlock-joint and the hoof
and the other end around the opposit
fore-leg, between the fetlock-j Joint an
the hoof. This preventive will caus
> him, when attempting to play with hi
: heels, with the side of his stall or kick
: ing his companion in the stall next t
) him, to lose or greatly disturb his equi
librium when desiring to kick either
: : He cannot in the least injure himsel
y ;t with this strap if properly made an
= ! adjusted, and this treatment will n
doubt cure him entirely of the habit b
L has acquired. after a few applications