Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-12-29
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Pigs are able TO consume far NOR,
food in proportion TO their weight thai
either sheep or oxen.
A horses hoof is of the same natur'
as horn. II yoJrdesire to know the ef
fects of applying a bot shoe to a horse
hoof place your comb on a hot stove TO
minute or two, then let it cool and SEE
how easily it will break. A hot sho,
makes the hoof brittle instead of tough
A smoke-house should be well ven
tilated. and the hams be hung at leas
eight or ten feet above the fire, and the
smoke given out in moderate quantities
and come from corn-cobs or hickory
wood. 1t is important that the hams be
kept cool and dry through the whole
operation. Proper ventilation of tbs
smoke-house secures this. If they be.
come moist by improper ventilation, oil
are placed so near the fire as TO bt
heated. their flavor is greatly injured.
How to Make Shirts Glossy.-Tc
secure gloss when ironing shirts, take
of raw starch. one ounce; gum arabic,
one drachm: white of egg or blood al.
NAN al Spiublf
quarter of an ounce; water. Make the
starch into fine cream, dissolve the
gum in little hot water, cool and min
il with the albumen. and beat up the
mixture with the starch liquid; then add
the water-glaSs (solution) and shake To-
gether. Moisten the starched linen
with a cloth dipped in this liquid, and
use a polishing iron to develop the
gloss.
Coffee Custard.-,Make n good
strong extract of coffee-by dripping il
AS slowly as possible through a percola-
tor; for ten people YOU will want two
cupfuls; take eight of the same measures
of milk, and beat into the milk the yelks
of six eggs: add three ounces of pow
dered sugar; mix into this the two cup
fuls of coffee; as coffee differs in strength,
taste % see that it is strong enough;
pour the mixture into cups, and put the
cups in not too deep pan, with boiling
water; the level of the water ought not
TO stand higher than half the cup; do not
boil the water too hard: about fifteen
minutes of boiling is necessary.
lit 10 tiistt
freezing of wheat lands late in the fall
is very damaging, but an old wheat
grower gives it as his opinion that the
light fall freezes are decided benefit.
The result of the fall rains is 10 form a
crust upon the surface Of the wheat
fields, which is against the perfect
growth of the plant. These slight freez-
ings, not enough TO heave the land and
injure the roots, loosens up the soil and
makes it mellow, so that in the warm
DAYS that intervene between the frosts
the wheat roots get n better chance to
50 feed" and so it results after all in a
benefit equal to a slight coating of fine
manure.
A farmer tells us, says an exchange,
that he has tested the value Of his corn
put into hogs with the following result:
He commenced with lot of hogs
weighing 175 pounds each on the 10th
of September. He fed them two weeks,
and when weighed he found that at the
price of pork then ruling. $3.50 per hum
dred, his corn so fed had brought him
sixty cents per bushel. The two weeks
We're mild weather. He again weighed
and fed them two of the coolest weeks
in November and found that the corn
fed, at the same price for pork, had
brought lin only fifty cents per
bushel. He says this teaches him that
hogs ought to be fatted early in the
warm weather to get the greatest value
for the corn fed.
=" Noodle" if properly made, is a
grea. addition TO soup; and is preferred
by many people to the best "A b c
macaroni." For family of four, two
eggs will be sufficient; beat them until
they are very light; stir in -four as long
as it is possible to work it in; salt it well;
roll it out on kneading board until it
is almost as thin as paper and is per-
fectN smooth; put clean paper on a
chair or table near the stove and lay the