Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-10-27
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

water. and then wiped dry. The salt
prevents the straw from turning yell
low.
Too many varieties of fruit is one
of the dangers of the novice in fruit
culture. For home use a variety is
well enough. but for market only very
few are wanted.
Puff Paste with Milk.-Mix with
spoon three-fOurths of a pound of butter
with one pound of flour. then add milk
enough to moisten the whoie, so as to
roll easily. Do not mold it with the
hands at all. or as little rs possible, and
the crust will be found much nicer made
this way than by the old methods re-
quiring more labor.
Horse Radish for Winter. In the
fall mix the quantity wanted in the fol-
lowing proportions: A coffee cup nj
grated horse radish, two tablespoonful
of white sugar. half tablespoonful of salt
and pint and half of cold vinegar;
bottle and seal. To make horse radish
sauce, take two tablespoonfuls of the
above, add one dessert spoonful olive
oil (or melted butter or cream) and one
of prepared mustard.
Wagons need to be painted every
year, especially the wheels. in which
all the cracks should be well filled with
putty. Red lead and boiled linseed- oil
make a good body paint for the run
ning-gear of wagons. Another good
paint is asphalt varnisL mixed with oil.
A dark reddish brown is a good color
for wagon wheels. as it is pretty near
mud color. For finishing the wheels OF
a wagon the mineral paints will be
found durable and cheap.
In boiling ham. if the ham is not
required hot, let it get cold in the liquor
in which it has been boiled. If you
place a boiled ham on dish TO get
cold, you will find quantity of jelly
has run out of it and has got cold on
the dish. If you let the ham get cold
in its liquor. this jelly will settle in the
ham. which will consequently be juicy
instead of dry, as is too often the case
with cold ham. Let the vessel in which
il gets cold be uncovered. and it is as
well to take OF the scum when it is hot.
Rice Cake With Peaches.-Cook
some rice in a steamer with milk and
while it is still hot add little butter,
sugar and two eggs. Butter a plain
pudding mold, strew the butter with
bread-crumbs and put in a layer OF rice
half an inch thick; then a LAYER of
peaches, and continue the alternate lay
ers of each until the mold is full. Bake
this for about fifteen or twenty minutes
in an oven; when done turn the cake
out of the mold and pour into the bot
tom of the dish boiled custard sauce
favored with anything preferred.
The potato was discussed recently
at the Central New York Farmers
Club. The fact developed in the ex-
perience of farmers present was. that,
though soil and season unquestionably
have much to do with the flavor of
potatoes, the late potatoes retain their
favor over winter and into spring bet
ter than early sorts. Prof. Roberts
found that, under the same conditions,
small potatoes for seed gave the poorest
result, the middle part of large pota-
toes next, the seed end next. and the
stem end the best A whole large
potato with single eye is the best
possible seed. More work is needed.
but better crop secured, by cultivat-
ing in rows or drills, rather than in
hills.
1t is poor practice to be continu-
ally dosing animals. When we see
farmer frequently visiting the drug
store for medicines for his stock. the
impression is that there is something
radically wrong in his management.
He is the "sick one," and needs the aid
of a good physician-some one to show
him that sickness rarely happens on n
well ordered farm; that clean. warm
stables. and plenty of good feed. pure
water in abundance, ETC.. are far better
than their opposites. with all the physic
that the largest drug store can supply.