Iron County register., 1880-04-08
FARM AND FIREs1DE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE.
-Cold-frames can be utilized with
great profit in raising early mint near
large cities. 1t is also well to place a
few of them over the asparagus bed, to
Iorce an early growth.
Try making a compost heap this
year. Use the refuse vegetable matter
and whatever will decay. Pile it in a
heap, soak it SO as to assist fermenta-
ton, and the result will be valuable
lot OF utilizing material.
To start cucumbers and melons,
cut grass sods six inches deep and six
inches square, invert them, and plant
the seeds in them, and place in cold
frames. When ready to plant out, lift
the sods, and plant in the hills where
the melons are to grow. This is better
than potting.
-Caulifower is the most delicate and
delicious of the cabbage family, and
grows and heads best in warm, damp
weather, with cold nights. To keep the
mead from sprouting or spreading, draw
the larger leaves over it, and lay stone
on top to keep them in place.
-Orchardists endeavor to train their
fruit trees low, allowing their branches
to grow out about a foot above the
ground, in pyramidal shape. The
leaves shade the stock from the heated
rays of the midsummer sun. The bark
is not SO apt to crack and get wormy.
It is easy to pick the fruit. The tree is
well balanced, and is not easily toppled
over by strong winds.
1t is not impossible to get rid Of
ticks on sheep. Take fine dust tobacco,
put in box such as ground spice is sold
in, making openings with an awl in the
cover to suit; part the wool just behind
the fore legs, around the body, and dust
a ring around the sheep quite thick Do
the same also in different places on the
body wherever the ticks are most likely
to congregate.
elf oil Or grease has been spilled on
marble or stone, getp fuller's earth or
pipe clay, well dried and finely pulver-
lied, make it into thin paste with
strong lye, put it quite thick over the
spot, and place warm-nOt too hot
fat-iron on the paste until quite dry,
then wash itsoff, and if the stain has not
entirely disappeared, apply the paste
and warm iron once or twice more. One
application, washed off with strong
soap-suds, quite hot, is usually sufficient,
unless the stain is of long standing and
has soaked in. In that case it may re-
quire to be applied two or three times.
Summer Plum Pudding.-One pint
of bread-crumbs, one-half pound of
currants, one-haf pound of raisins,
twelve ounces of moist sugar, three
ounces of butter, two ounces of candied
lemon, orange, and citron; eight eggs,
and one teacupful of apple sauce, or
half q teacupfu1 of milk. Rub the but
ter into the bread-crumbs add the fruit,
sugar, candied fruit, and spices; then
the eggs, well beaten, and mix the whole
together. After standing twelve hours,
add the apple sauce or milk, and boil it
in buttered mold for four hours; let it
stand for some time in the water. Serve
with cream or sauce.
Ham Omelet: Beat up three or four
eggs with heaped tablespoonful of
ham or bacon, half lean and half fat,
cut up to the size of very small dice;
ry. Put piece of butter, the size of
is melted pour in the omelet mixture,
and, holding the handle of the pan
with one hand, stir the omelet with the
other by means of a spoon. The mo-
ment it begins 10 set cease stirring, but
keep on shaking the pan for a minute
or so; then with the spoon double up
the omelet and keep shaking the pan
until the under side of the omelet has be-
come of a golden color. Turn it out on
q hot dish and serve.
"A thoroughly good housekeeper
says that when washing black calico, or
all goods whose colors will not look
clear when dried, she first washes the
goods clean, rinses thoroughly, and then
puts them into tub of clear, cold water
and lets the articles remain soaking in
this water several days, changing it
once or twice day. She says she has
kept these goods, if at all inclined to
fade or run, in this clean cold water ten
days or fortnight, changing the water
daily, and in the end they came out fresh
and bright as if direct from the store.
There is no trouble in this except the
extra work of changing the water. 9th
ers boil plain black calico or muslin in
vinegar before putting it in water at all,
brown or rusty. This seems risky ex-
Dor1m6uUs UuC IL di all SkepGlCdl ABOUT
Che result, take small piece of the
goods and experiment on it before ven-
turing on the whole dress.
Fish Balls: One pound of cold
boiled fish, one pound of raw potatoes,
two ounces of butter, two eggs, four
heaped tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs,
one grain of cayenne, one teaspoonful
of salt, one-haf teaspoonful of pepper.
Separate the skin and bone from the
flesh with two forks, and put tho fish,
cut in irregular pieces, into = large
bowl. Boil the potatoes, putting little
salt into the boiling water, plnce sieve
over the bowl containing tbe fish, put
the potatoes while hot ir.to the sieve,
and rub them through Ever the fish with
the back of a wooder. spoon. The pep
per, salt, and cayenne should now be
added, drop In also the yelks of the
eggs, and tbs butter, mix together
thoroughly, and form into round flat
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