The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-24
FARM AND PRESIDE.

If raw potatoes or the Feelings are
cut fine and sprinkled ON the carpet be-
fore sweeping they will be found more
ctfectual than salt or cornmeal.
Fried Potatoes. Take cold, boiled
potatoes, CRATE them, make them into
fiat cakes, and fry them in butter You
may vary these cakes by dipping them
in the yelk of an egg and rolling them
IN bread crumbs, frying them in boiling
lard.
Hot Sauce for Meats. Four onions,
two cups of sugar, thirty-two tomatoes,
one quart of vinegar, four peppers, two
tablespoonfuls of salt, two tablespoon
fuls of cinnamon, two tablespoonful OF
cloves, three tablespoonful of red pep.
per; cook, strain and bottle.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, good
authority on domestic economy, says
that ten pounds of the toughest kind OF
meat may be made very tender by soak
ing seven hours in three quarts of water
calculated with little more than half
pint of vinegar. Then wash, wipe
dry, and cook as desired
Apple Trife. -Scald as many an.
pies as, when pulped, will cover the
dish you design to use to the depth OF
two or three inches. Before you place
them in the dish add to them the rind
of half lemon, grated fine, and sugar
to taste. Mix half pint of milk, hall
pint of cream, and the yelk of an egg
scald it over the fire, keeping it stirring,
and do not let it boil ; add a little SUI
gar, and let stand till cold, then lay it
over the apples, and finish with the
cream whip.
The average results of experiment
and theory, $50 to speak. makes fifty
seven pounds of Indian corn equal to
100 pounds of hay, or l,14O pounds of
corn to the ton of hay. But it must be
remembered that the nutritive effects
of food upon an animal are varied by
many causes, and also that the compar-
ison of foods is affected by the object
sought, as fat, growth, labor, milk, etc.
The above is the relative amount of nu-
tritive matter in corn and hay, as deter
mined by experiment and theory.
Lettuce for Winter and Spring
Almost any time from the middle of
September to the middle of October.
lettuce may be sown in cold frames in
sheltered situation, covered with glass
and exposed to the air when warm or
moderately warm. 1t will give a very
fair article the early part of winter, say
throughout December. Lettuce can also
be sown the last of October in the open
beds for early spring heading, taking
some of the earliest and latest varieties,
and covering the plants carefully, but
not too heavily, through the winter
Very good heads can be thus raised,
and it comes very opportunity in April.
Mixed Pickles. Three hundred
small cucumbers, four green peppers
sliced fine, two large or three small
white cabbage shaved fine, nine large
onions sliced, one large root horse rad
ish, one quart of green beans cut one
inch long, one quart of green tomatoes
sliced; put this mixture in a pretty
strong brine twenty-four hours; drain
three hours, then sprinkle in one-fourth
pound black and one-fourth pound of
Write mustard seed; also one tablespoon
tul black ground pepper; let it come to
good boil in just vinegar enough 10
cover it, adding a little alum. Drain
again, and when cold, mix in one-half
pint of ground mustard; cover The whole
with good cider vinegar; add tumeric
enough to color, if you like.
Ex-Governor Seymour said recently
that 1.-THE spirit of gambling is the
greatest evil our farmers have to con-
tend with. Take hops, for instance
That is an extreme case. More men
have been ruined by holding their hops
for higher prices, when they could have,
sold at thirty cents pound, than have
been hurt by selling in season when the
market ruled at ten cents per pound.
So with wheat. Farmers are always
holding out for higher prices. This
popularity seems to be confined to the
native or American farmers, and that is
the reason why they are put at disad
vantage when they have to compete
with German and other foreign born
farmers, who sell whenever they can
realize a fair profit. Not until the
American farmer rids himself of the
gambling mania can he compete on
terms of equality with his neighbor
abroad"