The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-19
USEftLInH SUGGESTIVE.

GOLDFISH BALLS should have very lit
tie Goldfish in them.
IvtEs growing within doors are great
ly benefited by washing the dust from
Ter lYdvfs once 2 week with = sponge
GUINEA fowls will keep all bugs and
insects of every description off garden
vines. They will not scratch like other
fowls, OF. harm the most delicate plants.
:: Eeanngs = III = - - at !.
Throw your a coal ashes around fruit
trees and under currants and gooseber-
ries. Don't throw away Or sell wood
ashes, but use them around your fruit
treess-F Farmers Revjev. =.
AN old and careful farmer of Indiana,i
after tFrty-three, years experience,
says he has made most on sheep for the
amount of capital invested, and the
least on horses.--IosUa State Register. i
L'" FARMERS who are fortunate enough
to have on their premises an excellent
spring bursting from hillside might
at no great cost construct fish-pond
and raise speckled trout in abundance.
-Erchange. s.
A SENTIE56Ar m England has discov-
cred that water-cress wall grow in dry
soil. Some seeds were dropped by
birds near his house, which produced
plants that grew very finely. The stalks
and leaves were smaller than those of
plants growing in a spring brook, but
were highly favored. II f..
! The New England Farmer says that
gardener of some notoriety carried
several articles to fair in Vermont,
and among them beautiful specimens of
the egg plant The judges inspected
the article, and very wisely awarded
the gardener the fifth premium on a
new variety of turnips. ..r,.s.
If hens get into the habit of eating
eggs, take enough bran and corn meal
Of 6aual parts Tor one feeding, and
epou9h vinegar. warmed to, make the
meal wet enough for the hens to eat.
Mix together and feed it to the hens.
Repeat this once the same day.-Far7n-
er's Boy, in Country Gentleman.
MER1NGUE RICE PUDDING. One tea
cup of rice, one pint of milk, butter
the size Of an egg, five eggs, two lem
ons. Boil the rice soft in the milk, add
the butter, the yelks of the eggs and
the grated rinds of the lemons. Bake
this twenty minutes. Beat the whites
of the eggs to froth with two table
lspoonfuls of white sugar, add the juice
of the lemons, spread this on the pud-
ding when little cool, and set it back
in the oven to harden and brown
lightly. p.
B1RD's-NEsr PUDD1NG.-Take six OF
seven cooking apples, pare them, and
remove the cores without breaking the
apples. Place them in a pie-dish; next
I wash thoroughly four heapede table.
spoonfuls Of sage; mix with sufficient
cold water to fill the dish containing
the apples, and bake in moderate
oven. Cherries, prunes, ETC., may be
used instead of apples, or tapioca in
stead of sage; and, if well made, the
pudding is palatable, wholesome anf
inexpensive. To be served with sugar
and milk, or cream if practicable.
FARMERS, now that they have time t.
think over things, should consider
whether the space they allow for thei1
E&SlNcuS Is dS AdIS0 do ~ COuAO PAOACtsOly
be. There has been some improvement
in this respect during the last ten years
but there is room for a great deal more
A garden should be large, enough t.
raise full supply of all kinds of desir
able vegetables for both winter ant
summer. Some vegetables, it is true
cannot be kept for use through thu
winter, but many can, and they ar
about as palatable as in the summer
months. Every family should put VI
their own tomatoes, corn, okra, bean
(winter and lima), cabbage and sauer
kraut, onions, carrots, celery, radishes
horse-radish Tin bed), and SO on
When once done, so as to meet full,
the wants of the family up to May. the,
will then only appreciate the desirable
ity of it.-Ger,na,stoUn Telegraph.