Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-03-10
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

snermaceti and one ounce of white wax,
melt and run into thin cake on plate
A piece the size of a quarter dollar add
ed to a quart Of prepared starch gives
beautiful luster to the clothes and pre-
vents the iron from sticking.
FARISA JeLLY.-Boil one quart ..
new milk; whilst boiling. sprinkle IN
slowly a quarter of a pound OF farina-
Continue the boiling from half an hour
10 a whole hour. Season with hve
ounces of sugar and teaspooniui OF
vanilla. When done. turn into mold.
and place it on ice to stiiien Serve 1t
with whipped cream.
AN extensive apple grower. OF York
County, Pa, states that he cultivates
his orchards six or eight years after
planting. and fertilizes with bone'iust
and wood-ashes. Then the soil is sown
to grass and annually enriched with
good stable manure rs a top-dressing or
mulch. Strong I've is used As a wash for
the bodies of the trees, and the pruning
is done in late autumn and early winter.
A HEN-s-N PCDDING.--Pare and
core twelve apples; fill them with
sugar, white or brown; stick Glove in
each apple. or scatter over them the
thinly shredded peel of one lemon.
Make a rich custard OF two quarts of
new milk, eight yelks of eggs, and ten
ounces of white sugar; flavor the Gus
tard delicately with vanilla. unless the
lemon already with the apples will SUI
fee in your estimation. The tastes OF
different families diverge so widely that
margin must always be left in the
most exact recipe for such notifications
as shall render it more or less palata-
BILE. according to circumstances. This
pudding needs careful baking. Let the
fire be slow. but kept up to the same
heat with which it is started. More
buildings are spoiled in the baking than
any other way.
To CURE A FELON--Dr. T. c. Bran
non in the 1herdpeutic Gazette, pre-
scribes the following treatment tor this
painful malady: Take of soft I've soap
and ilax-seed meal sufficient quantity,
stirring the meal in slowly with spatia
or case knife. manipulating thoroughly,
SO as to form a salve or pOultice. Corn
meal is good substitute for the flax
seed Envelop the finger in this. ap-
plying snugly, and occasionally press
new the pOultice every twelve to twenty
four hours. Don't try. every prescrip-
tion YOU may hear OF. Depend on this.
Ii will. il applied in time, abort the dis
ease: if adopted later. it will bring it to
q small g head" Gf too far advanced to
be scattered"O, when i: may be
picked almost painlessly.
FODDER corn is corn grown only for
feeding, and not for grain. 1t is planted
in drills, with the seed dropped close
together. two or three inches apart.
With drills three feet apart and pants
three inches apart, there will be $4,000
plants per acre. If each stalk weighs
two pounds, the crop will weigh fifty
eight tons green and fourteen tons
cured. This is very possible crop on
good soil, as the stalks will grow nine
10 twelve feet high planted in this way.
The crop cut when in tassel may be
cured as other corn is and left in the
field. put up in shocks of eight to ten
stocks, and tied closely at the top to
keep out the rain, until it is required
for use. BY the new practice of ensi-
lage. the crop can be cured green and
used for winter feeding in q moist con-
dition.
RAISING DUCKs.--Ducks are as easily
kept and as profitably raised for market
as fowls. when there is good run for
them. The eggs are hest Matched by
hens. as then the ducks continue to lay
until eighty or more eggs are produced
by each. The young ducks need no
brooding. II a dry and warm nest is
made in box, they may be taken from
the hen when n week old. A pen
made of four boards. twelve inches
wide. set upon the grass or sand. will
confine them until they are fully feath-
cred, when they may have the run of
brook and a marsh or q meadow. The