The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-22
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

The feed we continually squander
IN attempts to keep our stock in good
trim would annually buy the lumber to
build them good warm shelters. -Ioua
State Register.
"A small early maturing hog is much
more valuable than aalarge one, and no
more food will be required to raise two
good quick-growing ones than it will
for large but slow all lard hog.
The Farmers Home Journal SAYS
Ii the cucumber which grows neares,
the root be saved for seed for number
Of years, the result will be a smaller
and earlier variety. If the fruit on the
extremity be saved it will make larger
and later variety.
Chill Sauce. Twelve large ripe to-
matoes, four ripe or three green eppers,
Two onions, two tablespoonfuls of salt,
two of sugar, one of cinnamon, three
cups vinegar; peel tomatoes and onions,
chop (separately) very fine, add the
peppers (chopped) with the other in.
gradients, and boil one and hall
hours. Bottle and it will keep long
time.
Gaming Grapes.-Separate the
skin from the pulp, having vessel fol
each, put the pulps on to scald; when
thoroughly heated put through colan-
der to remove the seed, then add this
Jelly to the skins, boil few minutes,
sweeten to taste, and your fruit is ready
for canning; use glass jars; keep in a
dark place, and the result will be a com
plete success.
Professor A. E. Blount, of the Col.
orado Agricultural College, expresses
himself very strongly in favor of ligh,
seeding of wheat. He says that so
single grain of wheat cannot carry GU.
its habit and develop according to its
nature on less than sixteen square
inches, and that every pound of seed
wheat should be made to produce its
bushel all over the world"
Tomato Sauce. Stew ten tomatoes
with q few cloves, and pepper and salt,
for fifteen minutes; add a sliced onion
and sprig of parsley, or not, as is pre-
ferred; strain through a sieve, put on
the stove in saucepan in which a
lump of butter the size of an egg and a
level tablespoonful of flour have been
well mixed and cooked; stir all until
smooth, and serve. Canned tomatoes
may be used as substitute.
Mixed Pickle or Higdon.-Chop a
gallon of green tomatoes, sprinkle over
them half pint of salt, and let them
stand over night In the morning drain
off the water and add to them six onions
chopped or sliced, six peppers chopped,
half cabbage cut coarsely and then
chopped, half a pint of grated horse
radish, the same of mustard seed, one
tablespoonful of ground cloves, one of
black pepper, two of dry mustard; mix
all well together, pack in jars three
fourths full, and fill up with cider vine
gar.
Apple Fritters.-- First pare the ap-
pies and then with an apple-corer
cut out the core from the center of
each; then cut them across in slices
about one-third of an inch thick, having
a round opening in the center Next
make fritter batter by the following
recipe: Beat three eggs well; add part
of one pint of milk and a little salt;
then the remainder of the pint of milk
and one pint of flour alternately, beat
ing it all quickly. The slices of apples
must now be Immediately dipped in
this batter and fried in boiling lard;
sprinkle over with sugar and serve in a
circle, one overlapping the other, with
or without sweet sauce in the center.
F. d. Slocum says in the Philadel-
phia Medical Reporter: - About wear
ago analysed a sample of a cider pre-
sentative that was being sold here at
the rate of two dollars per ounce; it was
simply salicylic acid. 1t has been ex-
tensively used, and samples of cider
that have been kept from six months to
a year still have the peculiar flavor of
sweet cider and are sweet cider One
ounce is sufficient for barrel of thirty
two gallons. Put the acid in the sweet
cider and mix it well; then bung up. 1t
will not ferment. The salicylic acid is
quite cheap, an ounce costing but a
trifie at the drug store; while the pack
ages sold as cider preventative were
TWO dollars EACH"
OF all dreary places, deliver us from
the dreary farm houses which many
call home. Bars for Il front gate, chick
ems wallowing before the door, pig pens
elbowing the house in the rear, scrag-
gy trees never cared for or no trees at
all. no Towering shrubs, no neatness,
no trimness; and yet a lawn, and trees,
and neat walk, and pleasant porch,
and plain fence around, do not cost
great deal. They can be secured little
by little, at odd times. and the expense
hardly felt. And if the time comes
when it is best to sell the farm, fifty
dollars so invested will often bring
hive hundred, for man is wrong who
will not insensibly give higher price
for such farm when he thinks of the
pleasant surroundings it offers his wife
and children.