Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-05-19
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SPIDER and all other insects from alt
slants and shrubs without the slightest
danger of injury.
AS soon AS the leaves of the cur
rant and goose berry a-e fairly expand
ed the worm NAV be looked for.
The eggs are laid upon the under side
of the lower leaves, and if these are re-
moved and DESTROYED much trouble is
ayeried. G-4r-
i'm sowing the new asparagus seed.
or any other seed hard to eermnate it
is a good plan to SOW few radish seeds
among it. They come mp soon. are
good to mark the rows before the tardy
seeds are ready to come up, and the
roots are off the ground before they
become troublesome.
The New York Times gives the fol
lowing recipe for an easy washing
liquid. Four ounces of soap. one table
spoonful of turpentine. and two of am
monia, mixed in ten gallons of water.
is not III any wav injurious to the per-
son using it, The effect IS to more
easily dissolve the dirt in the clothes
and to render the washing much easier
There is nothing in it to injure the
clothes.
Here is rule for making Boston
brown bread. as it is called outside OF
New Engiand; although like Boston
baked beans. it is common throughout
New England, and is known as brown
bread: Take four cupiuls of Indian
meal and four cupfuls of rye meal mot
four); sift through a coarse wire sieve;
add two teaspoonfuls of soda, little
salt. one cupful of molasses. one cupfur
OF sour milk, and water sufficient to
make "a soft dough. Bake four hours
in moderately heated oven, or what
would be better, twenty hours in a
brick oven.
A good whitewash for outside work
can he made as follows: Siake one
half busheI Of stone lime in boiling WA
ter; strain it when cool enough, aud add
to it one-ha!f peck of salt previously
dissolved in warm water; also three
pounds of rice made into thin paste
by boiling. and one-half pound OF pow
dered whiting. aud one pound Of glue
dissolved in warm water. Mix all to-
gether and allow it to stand for several
days before using. When ready to ap-
hot water to the proper consistency.
If the fact can bedemonstrated to
a cook that meat can be made tender
by softening the fibers with the action
of 4 little vinegar there will be no
reason why she should send tough
steak to the table. If she can be con-
WINGED that it is better to turn it over
on plate containing little vinegar.
salad oil and pepper fourY or five times
in couple OF hours, instead of trying
to make it tender by battering it with
rolling pin or cleaver. and SO forcing
out all lis Juices, she must be obstinate
indeed if she prefers the latter method,
and the sooner her services are dis
pensed with the better for the temper
and stomach of her employer.
-Fuchsias in summer--Dr. Wolcott
had a lot of fuchsias planted under the
shade of high apple tree, and all sum-
mer hong they kept growing and blooms
ing better than any | have seen in the
neighborhood. Next to them ranks
lot of fuchsias planted in front Of an
east facing house on Garden street, in
a rather cool, shady place. and where
they were freely showered from the
hose on Summer evenings Fuchsia
gracilis and virgata bloom freely with
us in sunny exposures, and are graceful
and pretty, but as fuchsias the smallness
of their blossoms is drawback TO their
favor. Most of the other tuchsias we
have tried in sunny places are not sat
isfactorv. Gardeners Monthly.
Ribbons which are very much
soiled can be made clean and will look
almost like new ones if washed in am
monia and water. Usehalfa Teaspoons
full of ammonia to one pint OF water
Some ribbons after washing or spong-
ing. do not need to be ironed, and, in
fact are injured nv II These shOuld