Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1880-02-20
FOR rnE FARMER,s HOUSEHOLD.

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Eco OMEnKTs. -Four eggs veil beat.
en-; two tablespoonfuIs OF corn starch,
mixed with half cupful Of milk; and pep
per and salt to taste, and fry in hot lard.
The noise Of squeaking doors and
drawers is a nuisance. Black lead is
excellent TO lesson friction between two
ces Of work. The slides and rests Of
deJks and bureau drawers may be made
to move easily by spreading common
stove backing evenly with cloth OF
the finger over their surfaces.
SrKwHD CusKnN. ~ Cut up your chick
en- pretty fine, wash careful and set on
the stove with cold water nearly to cover
it: skim carefully as it Gomez to boil;
cook till tender, and season with salt,
pepper, and butter. Have ready some
hot biscuits shortened a little, split
them open, and lay them in your dish,
pour over your meat and gravy, and
send 10 the table.
SrEwRD BEEF. Gut thick slicegfrom
the tougher portions of beef; lay two Oh
three slices Of salt pork in the bottom Of
your kettle, and fry it till crisp; take oul
the pork and lay ia your sliced beef
season with salt, pepper, and little
Glove; pour in water nearly to cover it.
and cook slowly for three or four hours
when tender, take up the beef, thicker
the gravy with little -four wet witt
water, and pour over your meat
BAKED FrsH.-Take a fresh Goldfish
weighing several pounds; clean very
carefully; make . stufing Of bread
crumbs moistened with milk and sea
soned with pepper, sage, and little
salt pork chopped; stuff the fish, sew il
together carefully, and lay in your drip
ping-pan with a little water; ley thir
slices OF salt pork on the top, aEtel
sprinkling with salt and -four; q good
oven will bake it nicely in two hours
add little -four and butter to the gravy
and serve with the fish.
Turkey STuFFNa Boil the liver
until perfectly tender in just watsl
enough to cook them, with half sal
spoonful Of salt; take the crumb Of I
five cent loaf OF stale bakers bread
crumb it in the hand, and mix the well
chopped liver with it; add q tablespoon
full OF butter, half grated nutmeg,
salt-epoon Of salt, the same of whit,
pepper, as much cayenne as will go OF
the end of pocket-knlfe blade, and abou
gill Of milk-just enough to make il
hold together. think the general faul
OF stufing is that it is too soft. TfieC
the turkey stuffed with Jerusalem arti
chokes and found excellent.
e PoIuNrA. This may be really nothing
more than our Indian mush, but, having
lived in northern Italy, my cook mad,
polenta which thought was very good
About O pint Of water was put into
stew-pan 10 boil, in which a pinch o
salt was added. The Indian meal wa
ground coarser than we use it, was stir
red into it until it was thick. As sool
az it pulled mp, tia bubbles Of stean
escaping from it, II was taken from tn
are and poured into a thick cloth On
2 table and made into big ball. WheI
cold it was cut in slices, sprinkled witt
grated Parmesau cheese, and fried il
oil or butter. II sausages were fried
slices Of poIenta were cooked with them
Selecting seed Potatoes.
Those farmers who have no settIeS
pratice of selecting their seed potatoes
would do well to consider CAREFUL,
whether the same rule which govern
the selection Of seed corn will not appll
equally as well to potatoes. We havi
no doubt that 1t will and therefore advis,
that the larger-sized tubers, such as ar,
used for the table, be selected for seed
and that very economical way Of doing
so is, when selecting such for the table
to cut each one horizontally in two, re
serving the smaller half, or that con
tanning the crown end, for seed, anG
using the other or larger half for culina
ry puYposes-the smalleY-sized tuberl
to be fed the cows, or boiled and mixed
with meal for the pigs. Before planting
however, these crown halves should b.
cut lengthwise in two, and rolled il
plaster, the better to prevent their dry
ing. To tesl the difference in protluc
between whole and cut potatoes, th,
most carefnl experiments were recently
instituted in Germany, where it wal
found that an acre Of ground plantet
with tubers cut in half lengthwise pro
duced Ave tons, another acre planted
with whole tubers produced seven and
half tons, while from an acre OF GROUND
E4NA@AeA WAAh VIZ CiONA AlnlA Vi tuBtEi
cut lengthwise in two tho yield vas min.
and half tons. Other experiment.
but confirmed these results, while Their,
was no evidence Of any well.ordered ex
periments showing the contrary. Repeat
ed trials also demonstrated the fact tina
the largest potatoes yielded tbs largee
potatoes in return. There are two rsa
sons for this: one, that it is in accord
anee with uniform law Of nature tina
like will produce like, and the other tina
the nutriment afforded the embryo DO
iatoriE in proportion to the size Of til.
tuber. 1t is all mistake, there
suppose that all that is necessar.
hre its full yield is to plant Thu
6f the potatos, without reference Il
amount Of nutriment itreceives from
de tuber containing it.
Aarly Spring Pigs.
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