Osage Valley banner., 1881-10-27
nOnr, FARM AND aAnnES.

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prevents The straw from turning yeI- /
low.
Too many varieties OF fruit is one
OF the dangers OF the novice in fruit |
culture. For home use % variety is
well enough, but Tor market only y very
few are wanted.
--PWr Paste with Milk. Mix with a
spoon three-iOurths Of a pound Of butter
with one pound OF -four, then add milk |
enough to mo.stcn tho whole, so as TO
roll easily. DO not mold it with the
hands at all, or as little as possible, and
the crust viii be found much nicer made
this way than by the old methods re-
quiring more labor.
Horse Radish for Winter In the
fall mix the quantity wanted in the fol.
lowing proportions: A coffee cup pi
grated horse radish, two tablespoonfus
of white sugar. half teaspoonful OF salt
and pint and half OF cold vinegar;
bottle and seal. To make horse radish
sauce, take two tablespoonfuls of the
above, add one dessert spoonful olive
oil (or melted butter or creamy and one
of prepared mustard.
Wagons need to be painted every
year, especially the wheels. In which
all tho cracks should be well filed with
putty, Red lead aud boiled liuseed-oil
make a good body paint for the run.
ning-gear Of wagons. Another good
paint is asphalt vanish mixed with oil
a dark reddish brown is good color
for wagon wheels. rs il is pretty near
mud color. FOR finishing the wheels OF
wagon the mineral paints will be
found durable and cheap.
In boiling n ham. ii the ham is not
required hot. let il get cold in the liquor
in which it has been boiled If you
place boi.ed ham on a dish TO gel
cold, YOU will lind a quantity Of Jelly
has run out OF il and has got cold on
the dish. II You let the ham get cold
in its liquor, this jelly will settle in the
ham, which will consequently be juicy
instead OF dry. IS is too often the case
with cold ham. Let the vessel in which
it gets cold be uncovered. and it is az
well TO take oil the scum when il is hot.
--Rice-C Cake With Peaches. Cook
some rice in a steamer with milk and
while IL is still hot add a little butter,
sugar and two eggs. Butter a plain
! pudding mold, strew the butter with
bread-erumbs and put in layer OF rice
half an inch thick; then layer of
peaches, aud continue the alternate lay
ers Of each until the mold is full Bake
this for about fifteen or twenty minutes
in m oven; when done turn the cake
ont Of the mold and pour into the bot
tom Of the dish boiled custard sauce
Favored with anything preferred.
--Suet Padding. One cup finely.
( chopped suet, two-thirds cup good
+ sirup, one cup sweet milk with half a
! teaspuoulul soda dissolved in il, one
/ cup stoned raisins, ono teaspoonful
cream tartar siited with -four enough
I to make n stia batter. Boil in pail set
/ IN kettle of water, or steam in q
steamer if preferred, two hours, and
serve with sauce prepared as follows:
/ One teaeOp sugar, batter the size of an
egg, a large tablespoonful of -four, all
/ stirred together. On this mixture pour
( nearly pint OF boiling water. Let ii
/ cook n few minutes, and season with
/ nutmeg or to taste.
The potato was discussed recently
et the Central New York Farmers
I Club, The fact developed in the ex.
perienco of farmers present was, that,
! though soil and season unquestiUnably
/ have much 10 do with the flavor OF
potatoes, the late potatoes retain their
favor over winter aud into spring bet.
tor than early sorts. Prof. Roberts
found that, under the same conditions,
small potatoes Tor seed gave the poorest
result, the middle part of large pota.
toes next, the seed end next. aud the
stem end the best 4 whole large
potato with a single eye is the best
! possible seed. More work Is needed
but better crop secured. by oultiyat-
ing IN rows or drills, rather than in
hills.
1t is poor practice to be continu.
ally dosing animals When we see a
farmer frequently visiting the drug
store for medicines for his stock, the
impression is that there is something
radically wrong in his management
be is the 'sick one, and needs the aid
( oil gocd physician-some one to show
him that sickness rarely happens ON a
well ordered farm, that clean, warm
stables, and plenty OF good feed. pure
{ WdtNi Au dVuLANtAuNot N'N't ar lai bSttcl
than their opposites, with all the PHI sic
that tho largest drug store can supply,
Z Nothing Is m0rv clearly proved than tho
/ importance OF care and keeping Of the
right sort for the health OF farm ami
mails and their profitable growth and
( increase. Sickness viii sometimes come
with the very best management, and
when Il does it Is better TO employ
skilled hands 10 cure than to " doctor y
and "physe,' y aud perhaps Kill the val-
uabie animal Yourself. that under
proper treatment might have been
saved at trilling expense AgriCult-
Hrist.
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