The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-03-04

5oou enough 20 puf on shoe
when the colt has reached two years.
WHEN anything 4 accidentally mad,
too salt L can be countcractcd by ndd
ding teaspoonful of vinegar and 4 fca
spoonful Of sugar.
STARCH POLisH.--Take one ounce a
spermaceti and one ounce III white wax,
melt and run into q thin cake on plate
a piece the size Of quarter dollar add
81 20 q quart Of prepared starch gives 4
beautiful luster 20 tho clothes and pre.
vents the iron from sticking.
FARiNA JELLY. Boil one quart ~
new milk; whilst boiling. sprinkle II
slowly q quarter ~ q pound ~ farina.
Continue the boiling from half An honr
20 whole hour Season with five
ounces Of sugar and 4 tcaspoonful 81
vanilla. When done. turn into q mold.
ana place u on ice 20 stiiien Serve il
with whipped cream.
AN extensive apple grower. Of York
County. Pa. states that he cultiyatcs
his orchards six or eight years after
planting. and fertilizcs with bonedust
and wood-ashes. Then the soil Is sown
y grass and annually enriched with
good stable manure as q top-dressing or
mulch. Strong I've Is used rs wash for
the bodies of the trees. and the pruning
= done in late autumn and early winter.
krsKs. One quart Of light bread
sponge, two cups Of sugar. one-half cup
81 shortening and q beaten egg. Make
into a soft dough. When very light.
roll out an inch thick and cut into
rounds Let rise again and bake III 4
moderate oven "a heat that viii not
form hard crust al top or bottom.
these are very nice with coffee or tea
When stale. split them. toast slightly.
butter and eat Al once.
A HENs-SEsr PUDDING. Pare and
core twelve apples; till them with
sugar. white Or brown; stick = Glove in
each apple. or scatter over them the
thinly shredded peel OF one lemon.
Make rich custard Of two quarts OF
new milk. eight yelks Of eggs. and ten
ounces Of white sugar; flavor the Gus
tard dclicately with vanilla. unless the
lemon already with the apples will sui
lice in Your estimation. The tastes Of
different families diverge 50 widely that
= margin must ALWAYS be left in the
most exact recipe for such notifications
as shall render il more or less palata-
bic. according 70 circumstances. This
pudding needs careful baking. Let the
fire be slow. but kept up to the same
heat with which it is started More
puddings arr spoiled in the baking than
any other way.
To CURE A FELoS.--Dr. r. G.. Bran |
non in the Therapeutic Gazette, pre-
scribes the following treatment for this \
painful malady: Take Of soft I've soap \
and flax-seed meal sufficient quantity. |
stirring the meal in slowly with spatula I
Or case knife. manipulating thoroughly.
SO as 70 form salye or poultice. Corn I
meal j. good substitute for the flax
seed. Envelop the finger IN this. APP \
plying snugly, and occasionally press
ing i 70 bring II in closer contact. Re-
new the poultice every twelve to twenty
four hours. Don't try every prescrip-
ton You may hsar Of. Depend on this.
Il will. II applied In time. abort the dis
case; If adopted later, il will bring il to
q small head (if too far advanced to
be :. scattered"). when II may be
picked almost painlessly.
FODDER corn - corn grown only for
feeding, and not for grain. II Is planted
in drills. with the seed dropped close
together. two or three inches apart.
With drills three feet apar. and pants
three inches apart. there will be $4,000
plants per acre. If each stalk weighs
two pounds. the crop will weigh iifty-
eight tons green and fourteen tons
cured. This u very possible crop on
good soil. Is the stalks will grow nine
n twelve feet high planted IN this wav.
The crop cut when In tasssI may be
cured as other corn II and left in the
field. put up in shocks Of eight 10 ten
stocks. and tied closely at the TOP 10
keep ont the rain, until II II required
for use. BY the new practice Of ensi-
lage. the crop can be cured green and
used for winter feeding in moist con-
Iiition.
RAISING Ducks Ducks are as easily
kept and - probably raised for market
~ fowls. when there j. a good run for
them. The eggs are best Matched by
hens rs then the ducks continue 70 lay
until eighty or more eggs are produced
by each. The young ducks need no
brooding. II q dry and warm nest II
made in box, they may BE- taken from
he hen when week old. "A pen
made Of four boards, twelve inches
vide, set upon the grass or sand. will
,oniine them until they are fnlIy feath-
red, when they may have the run d
brook and marsh or 4 meadow. The
God should be AZ first bread-crumbs
md corn-meal given in shallow pan Of
water. and some fine gravel should be
upplicd. BY liberal feeding with oaf-
neal and corn-meal mush they may Be
aftcncd for market 1t three 81 four
months, and will weigh six pounds.
The koucn u the best variety; the Pc
lin Is 2 monssrous eater and not very