Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21
HOME AND FARM.

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Never feed decayed roots of any
kind to cows giving milk. One decayed
turnip fed to a COW would affect the milk
of fifty COWS if mixed together.
When washing fine laces do not use
starch at all; in the last water in which
they are rinsed put little fine white
sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the
result will be pleasing.
Cherry Fritters.-Make batter OF
a pint of milk, four beaten eggs, a pinch
| of salt, two even teaspoonfuls of baking.
| powder and enough flour to make little
/ sitter than pancake batter. Beat thor
oughly, then stir in a pint of stoned
cherries and drop by the spoonful into
hot fat. As you take from the fat, drain
on an old but clean napkin, dust with
| powdered sugar and season with liquid
/ sauce.
| Preserving Eggs.-In answer to nu-
| merous inquiries, the Poultry Yard gives
/ the following recipe for preserving eggs
| To one pint of salt and one pint of lime
add four gallons of boiling water. Slack
the lime first in small quantity of hot
water. When cold put this solution in
! stone jars or any vessel that will not alb
/ sorb the liquid. Then, with a dish,
carefully let down the fresh eggs into it.
! Put the eggs in as soon as laid each day.
Keep covered in cool place.
| The most troublesome summer
weed upon our gardens is purslane; it
is easily killed when it first breaks
| ground, but once it gets rooted it will
grow just about as well with its roots in
the air as any other way, and will bios
som and ripen seed after it has been
hoed up and turned with roots upward.
The only way to get rid of it is to cart it
off and bury it in hole. Hogs and hens
eat it greedily, but they do not destroy
all the seeds.-Nev England Farmer.
"A writer in The Rural New Yorker
speaks thus of sweet-corn breeding and
distribution: cat the end of six years
could RELY upon three or four ears to n
stalk. When this improved corn was
distributed, however, no care was taken
in the selection of the seed by those into
whose hands it fell, and, in consequence,
it gradually deteriorated. Let it be I'M
derstood that such corn can not be long
grown without careful selection of seed
and good cultivation. improvements in
corn made by selection can only be
IN Aintained by selection; and the same
remark will apply to some other things
as well as to corn
"A writer in the Kansas Farmer tells
how neighbor exterminated chinch-
bugs: ''When the bugs came into the
cornield from the wheat they plowed
three deep trenches about four feet apart
and started horse with a log in these
trenches. By having three the last one
would catch what would get through the
first. This was kept up with vigilance.
If it had been started as soon as the
bugs began to move they could have all
been taken, but about fifty rows in one
place had been covered before anything
was done. To save these they took a
caldron kettle, a load of wood and two
barrels OF water. By having a teakettle
to set on the water to bring to boil each
pailful they could keep at work, pouring
with a pint cup the water on the stalks
covered. The scalding kills effectually,
so that in some places the ground would
be red with de id chinch-bugs. This is
giving them warm reception