The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-02-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Farm hints.
Roors FOR Stock FEED. Roots have
become a necessity with progressive
farmers, as a winter stock food, did
their great value in this connection
sfiidiId commend them to those who
have not essaJ8f their cultivation. Even
the owners of work ana driving horses
in the large cities, where no opportunity
Is had to raise them, annually buy hum
dreds of btshelsof carrots, mangel-wuTt-
EeiS, etc., TO be fed In connection with
grain food to their horses, and they are
well assured of the pf67tsbleness OF
using them; for the animals are always
sleek, fat and glossy in appearance, and
never become hide-bound or sickly.
Eaas--Hgw INcREAsED.-H an in
crease Of eggs be desired in the poultry
ward, before large stiifis are expended in
the purchase of everlasting layers, we
would recommend the system of keep
ing no hens after the first or at most,
after the second year. Early pullets
give the increase, and the only wonder
is that people persist, as they do, in
keeping up stock of old hens, which
ay one day and stop the next. In some
parts of Europe it is the invariable rule
to keep pullets only one year. Feeding
will do q great deal-a surprising work
ihdeed-ih the production of eggs, but
not when old hens are concerned.
WINDOWS IN STABLES. 1.-The matter
of windows in stables is one OF vastly
more importance than some farmers
think. Animals, no more than vege-
tables can thrive in the dark. Our long
winters are stuff iciently trying to the con-
stitutions of otir farm stock under the
best circumstances, and all animal upon
which the sun scarcely shines at all for
Ave or six months, will come out in the
spring in a bad state of health, even
though the feed and Ventilation and the
temperature have been all right.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The ewes will
now be in lamb, or should be, excepting
where late lambs are desired. Where
wool and mutton are Che chief objects,
May lambs will be preferable to earlier
ones. There is no better place or time
for lambs to be dropped dthan in pasture
on fine, sunny May day. Where
lambs for market are wanted, the ewes
will now be in breeding, and will need
some extra care. An abundance of good,
nutritious food, and water, are the pin
cipal requisites. Sheep may be the last
animals to be brought into winter QUAR-
ters.
WINTER FEEDING FOR Cows.-The
yield of milk and butter in the summer
depends greatly tiyon the winter feed
ing. All the food given to cows Is not
consumed without return. The mahtire
gives good dividend upon the outlay,
and the animals are storing up energy
and strength to be made available after
ward. The winter is the season for lib
eral and judicious feeding. and not for
"short commons" which is but an
other term for half starvation.
BURNED BONES FOR HENS. can
hardly give too much burned bones to
your hens to provide the necessary
amount of lime for egg shells, and the
next best thing for that purpose Is oys-
ter shells, which can be obtained by the
barrel (and generally without cost ex-
cept taking away athotels and restaur-
ants in your nearest city. Ny new ter
ant goes eighteen miles for them, and
considers them cheap enough at thar.
The hens eat them when pounded into
fragments as easily as they pick Up the
shelled corn, and they furnish the
needed material for the egg-shell more
completely than anything else. do not
quite believe in giving broken earthen-
ware as some propose doing. The sharp
corners are more likely to cut OF other
wise injure the crop than the more easily
digested oyster shells = Correspondence
PoVsiry Yard.
INTzAl.. 2UDpINa.- One quart boiling
milk poured on to three tab lespoonfuls
of meal, let the milk curd, add three
eggs, sugar, spice. and salt to taste.
DoUGHNUTs. One cup of sugar, two
eggs, one cup of milk, nutmeg, two tea
spoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoonful
| Of saleratus, piece of butter the size OF
an egg.
CREAM CANDY.-A pound of sugar. a
half teaspoonful of water, half tea
spoonful of vinegar, a tablespoonful of
| butter; boil fifteen minutes, and stir 1t
up only once at the first.
SAUsAGEs.- every hundred pounds
of chopped meat, take two and half
pounds OF salt, one ounce of sage to
every ten pounds of meat and one-half
ounce black pepper; mix well and fill.
BRowN BREAD. One cupful of Indian
meal, one cupful of -four, one cupful of
molasses, two cupfuls of Graham meal,
three cupiuls of water, one teaspOonful
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STEWED IoTAToEs.-Boll the potagoes
and cut in thick slices take nan a table
spoonful OF Hour. little salt ana butter
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saucenan and let them stand about
twenty minutes.
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/ Pop CORN BALLS.-Inese are easily
MADE. TO one gallon OF popcorn take
nan q PINT OF molasses or sugar' pI puIs
INTO a Skillet ana let IL Doil up once, ana
then pour IL over Ghe corn; grease your
hands with sweet butter, ana make tne
whole into oails OF sucn size as you
please.
| WHIPPED CREAM.-Take one pint OF
very thick cream, sweeten it with very
fine sugar and orange flower water; boil