The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-27
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The PFC Pasture.

We always have the best success with
breeding sows when they are allowed to
feed on grass. This is The only food they
REQUIRE until the young pigs are a week
! or two old, when milk or meal of some
sort may be gi en- TO them TO increase
the flow of milk l. they require it. Sows
thus managed are never ugly and never
d stroy their pigs. Whyp Because they
are in a natural and healthy condition
The grass also increases the flow OF
milk and is, quite often, sufficient food
for a SOW while rearing her youLg.
Young pigs soon learn to eat tue grass,
which is alike natural and healthful for
them. We never have case of scours
or thumps among young pigs when rum
ming in pasture. The grass serves TO
counteract the fleet of corn, and many
pigs on grass can be fed heavily with
this food without the injury which it
would do them If confined and
convinced us that no farm is complete
without pig pa ture. Clover is the
best of all the grasses for this purpose,
and next to it we prefer orchard grass
for the reason that it starts up promptly
alter being eaten offs the earliest in the
spring and is relished by the pigs. 1t is
Lot necessary to have specia' field for
the pig pasture, but they may be al
! lowed 10 run in any lot If properly in
closed. There should be water in the
field and pl ,nty OF grass. A patch OF
sweet corn sowed in drills will be found
convenient TO supplement short pas.
ture in the late summer. There should
also be another patch of turnips or
other r OTIS into which the pigs may
be turned for fall breeding With the
three auxilarios of pasture, sweet corn
stalks and root patch, the cost of rear
ing and feeding pigs may b. reduced to
less than one half of their expense W en-
ttey are confined and fed in pens, to
say nothing about their better condition
for tood.-RuraI NeV Yorker.
| Rapid Churning Undesirable.
AS rule the best butter is produced
by using moderate motion in churn
ing. The operation at the commence
ment should always be slow, in order
that the cream shall be we'll mixed to-
getter. After tEis the motion may be
faster, but its rate of speed should be
made uniform and adapted to the con-
struction OF the churn. The objection
10 very fat churning is that the larger
butter glObule come tirs and are gather
ed into Jumps before The smaller ones are
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churning is stopped at this point, and il
continued under very rapid motion the
butter globules that come fiist are liable
to be injured. We have never seen any
of the so-cal1ed three minute churns "
that uniformly made good butter hy
churning in this short time. OF course
there ls q difference in creams; tha
from IL milk of Jersey cows will ordi-
narlly churn moic quickly than cream
from the milk of common cows. But
uncer anv circumstant very rapiG
motion tends to do injury to the cream
and especially is this the case when the
butter tcgins to come. In churning, the
object sought should be to have all the
cream churned alike ard in about the
SAFE time, and when the butter appears
in granular form the churning should
cease. OF course we shall not pretend
to say that inventions and processes for
chnrning very quickly cannot be broug
out, and which will make uniformly ii
drst-cldss butter; we can only say i
there be such q churi.-one that is made
to DO its work, for instance, in three
minui es, and can in that time produce
the hest butter-we have not yet seen it
- Ddi, yneGn.
The Difference.
From actual experiments made it is
demonstrated beyond a doubt that the
grinding of grain adds one third to it,
value Tor feeding purposes This is II
matter of good deal of Importance to
the agricultural community, and, IL
fact, to all classes who have animals to
feed. AS far US dollars are concerned,
perhaps it is not of go much moment in
the Northwest, where grain is so cheap
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of the country, where less grain is
raised, but it is worthy of the consider
alton OF those who have not full bins OF
oats and corn. Since the introduction
of cheap fee! !.mills, it is the province o.
every farmer to own one, with which
all grain intended for the stock on the
farm could be ground.
Recipes
GooD WHITE BREAD.-Ha.f pint OF
nice light bread sponge, one heaping
tablespoonful tf sugar, stir in graham
Hour elough to make stiff batter; let
i; rise, then stir it down and put it into
he baking tins, let it rise again, then
bake a little longer than white bread
Use good yeast but DO soda in thi:
bread.
CHEAP. COOP SPONGE CAKE.-Whisk
together Tour eggs, large cuptul oI
powdered sugar, add lemons to taste
also three tablespoonfuls OF water, hal
a large cupful o; flo r, with two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder in IL
Thoroughly but lightly mix, adding
more water il required. Bake this il
buttered tins or fancy molds.
BARLEY SOUP Boil one pint of pear
barley In one quart OF stock till it is re
duced to pulp, pass it through siev,
and add as mucn more stock as will be
required TO make OF the consistency oi
cream; put the soup on the fire; wher
it boils STIR into it, off the fire, tue yolk
OF an egg beaten up with a gill of tresl
butter, and serve with small dice o
bread fried in butter.
IRISH PoTATo PIE.-Oue pounC
mashed potatoes ruooed through {
colander; one half-pound butter
creamed with sugar; six eggs, whit
and yolks separately; one lemon
squeezed into the potatoes while hot
one cupfpl of milk one teaspoonful @
nutmeg, and the same of mace; tw,
cupsiul Whit sugar; bake in ope
shells Of paste; to be eaten cold. Com
mon Sense IN the Household M rion.