Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-04-14
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

BE careful 10 remove your sick AMI
mails from the healthy ones. Every
keeper of stock should have box OF
shed apart from the regular stable in
which TO keep them.
A delicate white sponge cake is
made thus: Take one tumbler and a
half of sugar. one tumbler Of -four, the
well-beaten whites OF ten eggs. two tea
spoonfulS of cream of tartar (no Soda
flavor to taste.
Cream Pie.-One Up sugar, one
egg. piece OF butter size of an egg, one
teaspoon soda, dissolved in cup of
sweet milk; add to this when mixed to-
gether, two teaspoons cream-tartar rub
bed in three cups of -four, and bake in
three jelly cake tins.
= The drippings from apaint-brush on
a floor can be removed by first covering
the spots with caustic potash; leave
which will be from twenty-four to
thirty-six hours. according to the time
the paint has been on. Then give the
floor thorough securing.
Cottage Pudding.-By taking two
teacups OF flour, two teaspoons of
cream-tartar, and one of soda mixed
through il do not use baking powder),
one egg, one teacup of sweet-milk, a
little salt; when mixed, put it in a
round pie tin and steam twenty minutes
A cup of fruit makes ii very nice. To be
eaten with dressing.
For cribbing, give the horse in his
feed. daily. for few weeks, one dram
of copperas and half an ounce OF ground
ginger. and feed him upon cut feed,
with crushed or ground grain, and an
ounce of salt in each feed. This will do
very well during the incipient stages of
the disease; but when it has become
habit the better way is to arrange the
stall so the horse has nothing to crib
upon. and fix his manger low SO he will
have his head down, which naturally
indisposes the horse to cribbing.
-Beefsteak Smothered in Onions
Take Juicy beefsteak two inches thick;
broil it nicely; then have ready six
onions, sliced and fried in butter; be
careful not to let them burn; fry them a
light brown. When the steak is done,
and ready to serve. put several lumps
of butter upon it, and pour two table,
spoofuis OF boiling water over it; then
pour on the hot onions. and serve i'm
mediarelv. The onions should be
allowed to lie in salt-and- for an
hour. and then wiped dry before putting
them in the butter to fry
Raw linseed oil is recommended rs
4 physic for cattle and horses, and wise
". A man called at Rochester paint
store and ordered a pint OF linseed oil.
- Boiled or rawg' was asked. =
don't suppose it makes any difference
which," was the reply. He was given
boiled oil Shortly he returned and re-
ported the death of valuable cow,
charging the dealer with carelessne>s.
Often oil left at painting is handy when
II COW or horse is sick. Whether it is
boiled or raw has been forgotten. but
as both are supposed TO be harmless. it
is given. and the result is often disas-
trous. Boiled linseed Oh contains pois-
onous ingredients called dryers, put in
to make it dry rapidly. 1t should be
stated that the oil is for a medicine when
purchased. as many times raw oils are
tHtt 70 cfttHs t1 ~.
y. Irib9tne.
Rhode Island Chowder.-Cu six
ounces of picked pork into dice. Put
it, with two large onions sliced, into
the pot; fry till the onion begins to
brown: remove the pork and onions
Slice five or six medium-sized potatoes
and three pounds OF fresh cod or other
firm fish. Put into the pot layer of
potatoes, then one OF fish, seasoning
each LAYER as you proceed with a
sprinkling of the fried onions and pork.
also {. little soup herbs. pepper and
salt. Pour on cold water enough to
barely cover the whole. and boil
twenty minutes; then add three large
ship biscuits soaked in milk, also. half
a pint of not milk. AS soon as it boils
again remove it from the fire, and