The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-02-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.

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Farm and Garden Notes.
Calves in winter need god feed, bet
ter than yearlings.
In purchasing bulbs buy mixed va
rieties of the hardy sorts.
The Massachusetts Rlougbnaan asks if
oxen have not been abandoned tor
horses t O much in doing farm work.
Add q little wood ashes to the flower
pots of favorites. and see how quickly
it will flourish and improve the
growth.
The old adage which says lime ap-
piled to the land will enrich the father
but impo 7erish the sou contains much
truth.
To purify q sink or drain: Dissolve
one-half pound of copperas in two gal.
Ions of water. Pour half of this liquid
one day and the other half next.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
writes to that journal that he has raised
three heads of cabbage on one stalk by
pinching off the first n which
appeared.
The National Live &ock Journal thinks
that wildness and bad temper in a mare
may be remedied by breeding them, and
cites several instances where this has
succeeded.
A Maine farmer, who has been very
successful in cultivating the BURBERRY,
says his best success has been on the dry
uplands. and he has always transplanted
his bushes from where he found them.
Filling a horse rack with hay, as some
persons do, and permitting a constant
supply, is one of the most probable
means of producing disease, and the
most positive to render animals unit
for fast work.
A surgeon in the German army calls
attention of all who have to do With
horses to the danger of using the
pocket-handkerchief to wipe away any
foam which may have been thrown upon
their clothes. Chambers have been COM
municated in that way.
Plymouth Rock pullets Matched in
April will, if well fed and cared for right
along, commence laying by the middle
OF September.
The meat Of turkeys that arc kept
supplied with charcoal during the period
of fattening. is said TO be superior in
point OF tenderness and flavor.
When hogs are put up to fatten and
fed on dry corn il is the practice to give
them but little water; but they require
some. 1t would not be possible tor a
hog to live for weeks" without water
or other drink when feeding on dry
corn, although when fed on new "sott"
corn a very small quantity of water will
be sufficient, and possibly, if the corn is
very soft and unripe, water might I OF
be Indispensable.
Recipes.
TEA BIscUIT.-With q spatula soften
hall q cupful OF lard or butter in a bowl,
add a quart of -four with Two full tea
spoonfuls of baking powder sifted in it.
Mix into a middling light dough. With
about three quarters Of q pint OF milk
with one %teaspoonful of salt dissolved
in it. When mixed turn out on your
board, knead it a little, roll it in u sheet
half an inch thick, cut them out with a
plain round cutter, place them close to-
gether ina quick oven and bake.
FINE SWEET RUsKs .-Soten two table
spoonfuls Ct butter in q bowl, whisk
two tablespoonful of sugar, three eggs
and favoring 10 your taste (lemon gene:
rally, together with q pint OF milk. ado
to your butter il. the bowltw Two quarts OF
flour with four teaspoonfuls of baking
power sifted in it, then add milk, eggs.
ETC., and mix, adding q little more milk
if required to make it Of the desired
consistency. Bake in balls size OF large
wa.nuts placed together on buttered
pans with sides 10 them. Moderate
oven.
STEwED CARRoTs.-Scrapc and boil
whole forty-ive minutes. Drain and
cut into round slices 2 quarter of an inch
thick. Put on Il cupful of weak broth
a little soup if you have it-and cook
halt an hour. Then add three or four
tablespoonfuis of milk, q lump Of butter
rolled in -four, with seasoning to taste.
Boil up and dish.
STUFFED SoUAsH.-Pare q small
SQUASH and cut off q slice from the top;
extract the seeds and lay Z hour in
salt water; then fill with p good stutnng
of crumbs, chopped salt pork, parsley,
etc., wet with gravy; put on the top
slice; seL the squash in a pudding dish;
put a few spoonfuls of melted butter and
twice as much no. water in the bottom;
cover tic dish very closely and set in
the oven two hours, or until tender;
lay within n deep dish and pour the
gravy over it.