The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-01
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III. w. Hill & Co., Decatur, H., re-
port 100, 900, 900 of Hills triangular
hog rings sold since 1879, using $50, 800
pounds of wire measuring 8, 4O8 miles.
-Alsike clover gives smaller crops
than red clover, but of better quality.
1t is especially recommended for soils
liable to heaving by frost, and affords
excellent ground for bees.
The red louise or spider, if once they
get good foothold in the hennery, are
more tenacious and troublesome to hens
than are the common body lice. The
ordinary methods employed to dispatch
these insidious pests fail to dislodge the
red louise. Kerosene oil rubbed through
the feathers to the flesh is good REM
edy.
Cake or Fruit Standardization
eggs, their weight in -four, sugar asd
butter; warm the butter and beat it to
cream, then stir the flour and sugar into
1t gradually, beat up the eggs and stir
them in. Beat the cake well for about
half an hour and bake in q rather quick
oven. If for sandwiches slice the cake
in half and put preserves between.
teachings from the manure pile
were poured eight or nine times during
tho season into small holes made with
sharp stick four or five inches from
young rose plants set in clay soil, and
the surface stirred with hoe the follow
ing day, and the result, according to the
Rural NeU Yorker, was a s'wonderful''
show of bloom, continuing through the
summer into October.
-Float.-One pint of sweet milk, six
eggs; separate the whites from the
yelks. Beat the yelks with two table
spoonfuls of sugar. Pour the yelks and
sugar into the milk and boil it till thick.
Flavor to taste. Beat the whites to
froth. Put few spoonfuls of the whites
in dish and pour the boiled custard in
it and then put the remainder of the
whites on top of the dish.
Stomach staggers is the common
name for congested or apoplectic con-
diton of the brain consequent upon in
digestion. The stomach, being overload
ed with food, acts upon the circulation
in such way as to gorge the brain with
blood and produce excessive pressure.
The result is temporary loss of sight,
giddiness and inability to stand; the
horse falls and struggles for few min
utes, and then gets up, bat remains dull
and stupid for some time. The remedy
in bad cases is to bleed at once from the
neck, and then to give quart of lin
seed-oil to relieve the bowels. In mod
crate cases it is better to give a pint of
oil and repeat it the third day for three
times. Then feed lightly and give a
dram of ginger and as much sulphate of
iron in the feed twice a day.-N. Y.
Times.
Strawberry Tartlets.-Make some
short paste with two OF. of sugar, two
OF. of butter, the yelks of four eggs, a
little water, pinch of salt and flour just
enough; work it lightly and roll out to
the thickness of one-eighth of an inch.
Line some pattypans with it, fill them
with uncooked rice to keep their shape,
and bake them in q moderate oven till
done. When brown remove the rice
from each tartlet and fill it with straw
berries which have been previously
heated through in an oven in covered
dish, with sugar, but no water. To be
served c)ld.
-Manuring of grapes should be regu-
lated by the nature of the soil. II it be
damp-in most cases bad condition for
grape growing stable manure in great
quantities means diseased vines. In dry
ground, it has beneficial effect. Many
persons of small places have grapes in
damp ground, or can have none. They |
must take care to keep the roots near |
the surface; never crop the ground |
about them to destroy the small fibres,
ii it can be avoided, and even good may
often follow, when the vines seem fail |
ing, to carefully follow up the roots left
near the surface, and encourage, as
much as possible, those remaining there.
Wood ashes, bone-d dust, and such like
fertilizers are best for grape vines in low
ground.
I'm preparing salads for the table
great care should be exercised in clean
ing them. Vermin of various sorts may
be inadvertently taken into the mouth.
This is particularly the case in regard to
those boiled, such as spinach, turnip-
tops, beet leaves, corn salad, or aspara-
gus. They should be boiled in clean
water with little salt thrown in and
drained quite dry. They look nicer
chopped fine, pressed still drier, and
formed into shape in the dish, seasoned
with little butter before shaping, and
slices of hard-boiled eggs placed around
the pile. In selecting the menu for a
dinner, two sorts of vegetables are sell
dom too much, and this dish will occa-
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