The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Give your stock plenty of bedding.
Keep farm accounts during the year
1881.
Industry and economy lead to pros
perity.
Good shelter for stock is cheaper than
| fodder.
Don't fail to institute improvements
this year.
Always give the soil the first meal,
| IF it is well fed with manure it will feed
| all else-piants, animals and men.
Add little wood ashes to the flower
pots of favorites, and see how quickly
| it will nourish and improve the growth.
Cornstalks contain more potash than
any other fodder fen 10 cows.
| The comb of a fowl is sure indica-
| ton of the state of its health. If it loses
| its bright, rich color it is diseased in
some way. and as the disease approaches
| its worst stages the comb turns black.
A piece of beef is much more tender
and Juicy when the animal has been fed
on roots than beef made where no roots
are fed.
A large per cent. of food given to pigs
| is wasted when uncooked, Pigs will
not assimilate raw food like older ami
mails, and they can only be fed economi-
cally by first cooking their feed.
All feeders who have studied the
habits of the animals they feed, have
discerned that they take special note OF
time, and are disappointed If the time is
delayed only few minutes.
A French writer recomm ends novel
mode of enriching and promoting the
growth especially of geraniums.
Namely, watering the plants with a
solution of $50 grains OF glue in about
two gallons of water.
Professor Roberts says that fifty BUSH
els OF wood ashes per acre increased the
yield of grass iii a certain location more
than any other manure, while ground
bone improved the clover.
Exposure to cold rains is very inju-
rious to fowls. A few hours under the
rigors OF storm Of snow o. sleet will
pu, them back for davs and sometimes
weeks in laying, besides the danger Of
their getting cold or becoming cr0upy.
Hanging floral decorations in pots or
baskets should he placed where they
can have an abundance of light and
sunshine, and not near the stove or reg
lister. II the light comes from one side,
th2 basket ought to be turned every day.
When the orchard is young it is best
TO cultivate thoroughly, and hoed crops,
like potatoes. roots, etc, can be grown
as present pay for the trouble, but as
the trees get older and shade the ground,
nothing else but fruit should be ex-
pected from the orchard.
Pumpkins are an excellent food for
cattle, but # fed to milk cows great care
should be exercised that the animals do
not ca too many seeds, the best plan
being to remove the seeds when cutting
them up. TIE seeds have . diuretic
effect, thus lessening the flow OF milk.
Last spring j. n. Marden, OF Balti
more, Md, tried the experiment o.
keeping the frost away from 2, 500 of his
near trees by building fires around
them on severe nights. His orchard
contains Is 600 trees, and those treated
as above described yielded fruit that
sold for more than S6,000 while the bal
ance OF the orchard produced compare
lively little.
sRousehoId Hints.
The following is said to be a remed,
for rheumatism: Four ounces of salt
peter in one pint of elcohol; shake wei
and bathe the parts affected; wettin
red flannel with it, lay it on. 1t doe
not cure, but takes away the redness
reduces the swelling, and relieves tn
tol ment and agony.
Beef omelet, which is good for break
fast or tea, is made of one pound c
chopped beef, two we'll beaten eggs
three soda crackers rolled fine, three Q
four tablespoonfuls of milk or cream
Season to your taste with, pepper, sa
and sage. Make this into roll, cove
it loosely with a well-huttered clot
and bake half an hour in a basin with
little water in it. When cold, cut
into thin slices.
A little English work, "Sleep an
how TO obtain it," says that insomni
is not so dangerous as commonly sup
/ posed, for the author knows an eminer
man of letters who has suffered from
! for many years without injury. When
man begins to dream of his work b
! may know that he is under too great
, mental strain. The authors plan {
, inducing sleep is to reckon up friend
! and acquaintances whose name begir
with q certain letter.
, Cabbage salad may be made wit
/ haTd-boiled eggs chopped, or with ra'
, eggs beaten into tie dressing; for or
small head, or half OF q eood-sized on
use three eggs, beat them till they al
light, then add six tablespoonfuls ,
. vinegar, two tablespooniuls of mao
> mustard, piece OF butter the size of
, walnut. Cook this dressing until
, begins to thicken; when it is cold DO,
i. over the chopped cabbage. Whe
; boiled eggs are used, chop the whites
> the eggs with the cabbage, and aft
rubbing the yolks till they are fine st
them irto the dressing. When the eg
I are cooked, the rest OF the dressing do
! not need cooking.
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