The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-07-21
HOUSE AND FARM.
Household Notes.

milk submerged in a tin-pail in a cistern
over thirty years ago, and if he wished to
repeat the process he should do so regard
Jess of any patent.
Small cheess souffles are not to be do
spised. Make them as follows: Melt half
pound of butter in saucepan, and stir q
tablespoonful of flour into it. When the
two are amalgamated stir in small qnan-
tty of milk and about three ounces of Par
mesau cheese g; continue to stir over slow
fire until the mixture is of the consistency
of cream. but do not let it quite boil; add
some white pepper and a little salt, stir for
another ten minutes, take the saucepan Oft
the fire and contiue to stir occasionally un-
til the contents are cold. Take the yolks
of three eggs, beat them with little milk,
strain them, stir them into the cold mixture
add the whites of five eggs whisked into q
stiff froth; half fill little paper cases with
the mixture, put them into brisk oven for
ton minutes, and serve Immediately.
Says Time, ''To watch woman trimming
her husband to fetch and carry is a delight
full pastime for those who are inclined to
instinct the wife knows exactly when to
smile and when to frown, and where touch
of the whip or tongue will be more etfectual.
Graclously giving way to his wishes, after
they have been suggested by herself, she
turns him round her little finger, and holds
him up laughingly to the gaze Of the Won
dering world. Women are not generally hum
orists, but they cannot help feeling the fun
of the thing when they SO successfully man.
age their husbands, who all the while think
they are managing them. This artful ap-
pearance of innocence and obedience is,
indeed, the surest sign that wife is having
all her own way"
Gather the flowers to be pressed when
the dew is quite dried off from them and
before the sun has become SO warm as to
vii; them. Place them between newspa-
pers or any other porous paper, and place
them under press; change them every
day to fresh paper until they are dried; all
the thin leaved flowers it will be found best
to use for this purpose.
TO destroy cockroaches, scatter pow
dered horax about the places they infest
and it will soon exterminate them.
The utmost neatness should be e1er-
ercised about the premises i'll hot weather.
Garbage of every kind should be disposed
off bad odor.
The lustcr of morocco leather is restored
by vanishing with white of egg.
Mix little carbonate of soda with the
water in which flowers are INNER sed and it
will preserve them for fortnight.
Wax candle light, falling through rose
colored or red shades, throws the best,
and ccole st, and most becoming shade
over dinner table.
Common soda is excellent for securing
tin, as it will not scratch the tin and will
make it look like new. Apply with piece
sc ~, ,l
dry piece. Wood ashes are good substi-
tute.
Take new flower pot, wash it clean,
wrap in wet cloth and set over butter;
| it viii keep 1t as hard as if on ice. Milk
| if put into al earthern can, or even tin
one, will also keep SWEET fol long time if
we'll wrapped in wet cloth.
When the excellence of rice as diet is
fully understood its use will he more fire.
| quent and Of daily occurance in every
household. At this season Of the year es-
| pecially it may properly be classed as SUI
| pe1ior to any of the cereals which are in
| such general use fer the morning and mid
die meals. No other food is SO easy Of d.
| gestion.
When Mrs. Carlyle was married she knew
absolutely nothing about household duties
and spent her honeymoon crying because
| her husband was not satisfied with f.od
either raw or burnt. Then she turned in
and mastered every detail of housekeeping.
! That is why Carlyle regarded her as re-
| markable woman. Experience had taught
him that most women keep on as they
! begin.
| Green Oates For Folder.
Mr.. ". A. Armstrong. Elmira, N. Y,
| hnl e. NJ,
green oats for fodder. Of cutting, curing
and value Of the crop he spoke as follows at
a meeting of the local farmers club:
! I have fed many crops cut when grain
was nearly full, period indicated to the
eye by the gray appearance of the field. At
this stage there is almost completed growth,
but the ripening process has not begun; the
sap is in the stalks and the heads almost
formed. After willing in the swath few
hours in good weather-longer time in poor
weather for curing-the oats are bound in
sheaves of moderate size and ut once set
two-by-two in shocks, where they are left
until dry enough to draw in, the degree of
curing dependant somewhat on the condi-
ton Of storage. If tie sheaves are to be
| put on scaffolds and not packed to great
thorough curing in the field. Now as to
value, l must say that oats so gathered arc
worth more for feeding mich COWS thar
the best hay, if made part of the dali,
supply. I have never fed exclusively or
oats. Cows in milk, and doing we'll or
good hay, will at once show increased yielG
when given a suitable allowance of oats
cut green and cured in the way have de.
scribed, and they will eat all the straw al
Clearly as they consume the best hay. The
fodder is also good for horses, better than
ripe oats for horses not steadily employed
for they keep the coat good and digestion
unimpaired."
Ladies should Ride on Horseback.
We once heard, says the Cincinnati
Gazette, an enthusiastic admirer of the Sc: