The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE
--Gladiolus bulbs may be kept
through the winter in sand in the eel.
lar, or wherever they will not freeze.
-Loaf-Cake Doughnuts. --One cup
of sugar, half a cup Of milk, one cup OF
yeast, spices and salt to taste. Stir IS
stiff with -four as possible with spoon
and let it rise as for bread, then
mold them up and cut and let rise an
hour by the fire, or till they seem light,
then bake. t.as, - .' s. - ID, t''' 81 :.
Even when damaged wheat is con.
sidered unfit for stock it may be used
with profit in tho poultry yard. There
is no food so favorable to egg produc.
tion,, and at two dollars q bushel 1t will
pay to feed it in moderation to laying
hens. Wheat screenings, although not
SO good as wheat ITSELF, is excellent il
alternated with some other grain. sfry >
Vinegar Candy. =, Three cupfuls of
white sugar. and a cupful and half OF
clear vinegar; stir the sugar into the
vinegar until thoroughly dissolved; heat
to u gentle boil, and stew uncovered un-
til it ropes from the tip of the spoon.
Turn out upon broad. well-buttered
dishes, and cool; and. as soon as it can
be handled, pull. 1t can be pulled
beautifully white and porous.
Apple butter is made by boiling
sliced apples, first pared and cored. in
sweet cider. The cider is boiled down
to about one-haf its bulk before the APP
pies are stewed in it. The butter is
packed in kegs, jars or bottles, and will
keep long time. A large quantity is
made for use on sea- going vessels. Any
kind of tiavoring spice may be used, but
no sugar is required. ~. FL E.5-s
( -Musk-rat skins and those of other
small animals are dressed as follows:
II they are dry they are soaked in
water, and the following mixture is
thickly sprinkled over them. viz: four
ounces of salt, two ounces of alum, and
one ounce of copperas, all finely pow
dered. The skins are then doubled,
the flesh side together, and rolled up
tightly and put away in a safe place for
two weeks. They are then opened,
shaken out. scraped, and, if necessary,
wetted, and fresh supply is sprinkled
over them as before. After one week
the skins are stretched and rubbed
with chalk and pumice-stone until dry
and soft.-M. Y. Times.
-Pancakes.-Beat up three eggs
and quart of milk; make it up into q
batter with flour, a little salt, q spoon
full of ground ginger, and little grated
lemon peel; let it be of a fine thickness
and perfectly smooth. Clean your fry-
ing pan thoroughly, and put into it a
good lump of dripping or butter; when
1T is hot pour in a cupful of batter, and
let it run all over of an equal thickness;
shake the pan frequently that the bat
ter may not stick, and when you think
it is done on one side. toss il over; if
you cannot, turn it with a slice, and
when both are of a nice light brown,
lay it on = dish before the fire; strew
sugar over it, and so do the rest They
should be eaten directly, or they will
become heavy.
custard is dainty dish, suit
able for dessert or for tea. Use half a
package OF gelatine, three eggs. one
pint OF sweet milk, two cups of sugar,
and the juice of two good-sized LEM
ons. Soak the gelatine in teacup of
cold water: it will need to soak for an
hour at least; when it is entirely dis
solved add one pint of boiling water
and twO-thirds of the sugar and lemon
juice: let all come to boil; then take
from the stove and pour in the dish in
which it is to be carried to the table,
Or put it in mold to cool. Make a
custard OF the milk, eggs and the rest
Of the sugar and lemon juice. When
the gelatine in the mold is ready to
serve, put the custard around the base,
Dr. cover it entirely with the custard.
F. ID. Curtiss says, in an exchange,
in regard to the use of buckwheat:
Four bushels of buckwheat will make
100 pounds Of flour, leaving the remain
Ter of the four bushels (2OO) pounds in
bran, which Is excellent feed for mich
COWS and young animals. A hundred
weight of -four will average in price 50,
and buckwheat bran is estimated in
value to be half that of corn meal
Buckwheat is variable in Yield, and
ranges from ten to fifty bushels per
icrc. If the straw is carefully stacked
it can be made valuable in the winter
for bedding. and also for feeding once
1av. 1t is good absorbent. do not
believe in the notion that it poisons the
ground, but the straw should never b.
used for bedding pigs, as it causes an
irritation of their skin. but it never
affects other animals. The grain, how
ever, is excellent for pigs.
The London Farmer, speaking of
the destructive habits of weevils, states
that about $4,000 species have been
described, and it is thought that there
are fully as many more yet to be added
to the list. The weevils. principally in
their lower stage, feed upon every part
of vegetable tissues and on all forms Of
plant life, from the ferns and MOSES
up to the largest forest tree. Buds,
bark, wood pith, and even the roots are
equally their prey. The adult beetles
are not in themselves, as rule, iniuri-
Gus, but the Larvae in many cases are
very destructive, not only to forests
and orchards, but to seeds and cereals
stored in warehouses. They are foot
less, cylindrical grubs, somewhat mar.
rowed and curved behind. Some few
species are leaf-runners and have
straight bodies, and the larve of the
Calandra group. so destructive to
grain, and to sugar and palm-tree plan
tati0ns in the tropics, differ in being
f'exuous. instead of being simply curved
toward the tail. q n - =
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n g,.e ,,-r Borrowing.
Dear Girls. let me entreat you never
to form 0 habit of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing in season and out Of season;
borrowing dresses and wraps, ribbons
and pins, scissors and thread, dimes
and pencils. until your friends will ex-
pect to hear You say, Please. may /
borrow" each time you look into their
rooms. Lending is real kindness,