Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-07-07
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and much of the damage they do to
tomato plants may be avoided by max
ing a compact mound about the plants
as large as an inverted tea cup.
DR. Harlan reports that some years
ago he raised 500 bushels of potatoes
to the acre by planting the sets on
plowed and mellow ground. foot
apart, and covering them with straw
from twelve to eighteen inches deep"
Somebody may not know that if
she makes more pie-crust than she
cares to use it will keep for day or
two. Sprinkle little Hour over it and
set it in cool place; it will be flaky
and crisp without being rich; OR you
may make tarts of it. to be filled with
Jelly. jam or lemon custard.
1t is a not uncommon error to
imagine that animals that eat but little
are the most protitable; so long as an ami
NAL is capable of digesting and assimi-
lating it. the greater the amoant OF
food il consumes the more profitable
are the returns; for the proportion OF
the food that goes to supply the waste
of tissue and run the animal machinery
is less when large than when a small
amount is eaten.
Cream and Egg Toast.-Cheese
crumbs: half pint OF milk; two eggs;
salt and pepper; butter, toasted bread.
Put cuptul of cheese crumbs in the
milk, and boil till melted; add the
eggs. we!lbeaten. with butter and
seasoning to taste; stir rapidly few
minutes, take from the iire-have ready
the bread well toasted. and the slices
cut in quarters; pour the cheese on,
and serve at once very hot. This is
nice relish for tea or lunch.
To keep fresh eggs in good order
through the summer. dip them in
melted paratiine and place them on the
small end in ordinary moist sand in 4
tight barrel. When the barrel is
nearly full. fill up with sand and tie
sheet of packing-paper over the head OF
the barrel, and keep it in a cool place;
or the eggs may be packed in semi
liquid lime-wash. The paraliine is
odorless and tasteless, and can be re-
moved by dipping the eggs in warm
water. and is by far the neatest and
cleanest method.
The profits of small flock of
sheep are usually very large. and prob
ably no investment the farmer can
make paws so large dividends. 1t may
be claimed that profit of fifty per
cent. can be annually made, and excep-
tional instances are recorded of the
wool and lambs at the end OF the year
pa, ing the first cost. Sheep are the
greatest success upon cheap lands, as
it would be difficult to have an acre OF
500 land afford subsistence Tor sheep
enough to make it pay. an argument
that would apply rs well to other stock,
though no other stock pays so complete
a double dividend as does a sheep with
her fleece and lamb.
Cream sauce for pudding. To
make bowlful of cream sauce take a
and beat it up with powdered sugar
until it is light cream. Then SET it
aside. Then into small tin saucepan
put a coileecupful of water and add to
it teaspoonful of -four mixed in
little cold water. Cook this thoroughly
until it is Ike thin starch. Then taSe
up the butter and sugar mixture. and
while you are beating it energetically
let some one pour into it slowly and
gradually the hot -four sauce. Ii the
beating is not stopped for a moment
the whole sauce will rise and be as
sea froth. Flavor with Vanilla. This
is the best sauce made. Potato flour
is sometimes used instead of wheat
-four.
Here is recipe for coffee cake
which is sure to please any one who is
fond of coffee las beverage" Take
one cup Of strong coffee. one cup OF
molasses. one cup of butter, one cup of
sugar, one cup of raisins, and one OF
currants. Jour cups o. flour. one nut
meg grated, one teaspoonful of CHINA
mon. half teaspoontul OF soda or sal