The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-11
USEFUL, AND SUGGESTIVE.


USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Cast aside tooth brushes are rood
for cleaning carved woodwork. espe-
cially ornamehted bedsteads and other
furniture that has 4 high polish.
What in the world can induce aq-
ricultural papers to repeat nowadays
that the mole is driven off by the Rici-
mus or Castor-oil plantP The mole has
no repugnance to this plant whatever.
Rural Neso Yorker.
Cabbage Stewed. Shred the
cobbage coarsely, and parboil in fast
boiling water for five minutes; then
drain and add rich milk enough to COW
or. Cook until tender, and season with
butter rolled in flour, salt and white or
red pepper.
Cabbage, containing as it does q
large per cent of phosphoric acid,
makes one of the most valuable kinds
Of food for young pigs. calves and
chickens. All young animals require q
bountiful supply of phosphate food to
make bone. Clover is next in value to
cabbage.
Potato Pudding Cold Boiled Pota-
toes. one half pound; butter, one-half
pound; sugar, one-half pound; eggs, six.
Mash the potatoes; cream the butter,
and mix. well with the other things,
and beat all to light batter. Flavor
with nutmeg, or orange or lemon peel.
Bake in pie-pans, lined with puff paste.
There is no remedy against the pea
weevil. except for every person to SOW
only such seed as is free from the beetles.
1t every one would destroy the beetles
found among the seed and the seed in
which beetles still remain at seeding
time there would be great diminution
OF the pest. As it is, we 20 on pro-
pagating the weevil year after year.
Chopped Pickle.--One peck OF
green tomatoes, two quarts of onions
and two-of peppers. Chop fine sepa-
rately and mix. adding three cupfuls of
salt. Let them stand over night, and
in the morning drain well. Add half
q pound of mustard seed, two table,
spoonfuls ground allspice, two of
ground cloves and one cupful of grated
horse-radish. Pour over it three quarts
OF boiling vinegar.
There is much refuse fat from the
Kitchen that can be turned to good &C
count by feeding it to the hens. OF
course where soap is made it will be
used up in that way, but it is question
whether it is not much easier and more
profitable to buy soap and make hens
lay by feeding them with fat. Every
thing that is not wanted for drippings
hn I'D
up with the vegetables for the fowls.
Fish Pie.-Pie crust; bacon; cod
fish. fresh; one onion; pepper and salt.
Make pie crust of suet, Hour and warm
water, put it round the baking dish,
place at the bottom a few pieces of
bacon, then the Goldfish; .sprinkle over
it the onion finely chopped, salt, pep
per, and little flour, few pieces
more bacon, and very little water,
cover with crust, and bake in quick
oven. Serve with boiled parsnips, tur-
nips, and baked potatoes.
-Bowdoin Pudding. one quart
of Indian meal with four ounces of but
ter or finely minced beef suet and four
ounces OF brown sugar, or one pint of
molasses, add two teaspoonfuls of pow
dered cinnamon and one pint of milk;
add two eggs well beaten, then pour
over the whole three pints of boiling
milk. Stir few minutes, then pour it
into pudding pan and bake it four or
five hours in a moderate oven. Every
hour pour little cold milk on the top
OF the pudding to prevent its becoming
tough.
The best beef is young beef, reach
ing its greatest point of superiority at
from two to three years. The same is
true of sheep and swine. A wether,
for the best mutton, should be in mar
ket at two years. As general rule, a
two hundred and fifty pound pig is
| much better in quality and more profit
able than hog that weighs five hundred
pounds. The point of appreciation Of
reached, though somewhat gradually,
and it remains to improve the various
breeds, especial regard being taken to
carefully select those animals to breed
from that come to maturity at an early
age.
The most effective timber preserv-
atives are creosote, sulphate of zinc,
and lime and salt. These may be ap-
piled by sleeping the timber in the solu-
tions. A method has been used very
effectively as follows: The trees are cut
down when in full leaf; q receptacle
for the solution is built around the butt
of the tree and kept filled. The leaves
draw the sap from the stem, and its
place is filled with the preservative So
luton, which soon reaches the leaves
and kills them. The pores of the wood
are then filed with deposit of mineral
matter from the solutions, which great
" increases durability of the timber.
Fence posts may be operated upon by
getting them up in pits with lime and
salt packed around them, and then
shaking the lime with water; the heat
| of the slaked lime drives the air out of
the timber, and as the timber cools the
lime and salt are absorbed to q large
extent, filling the spaces which the air
and sap formerly occupied.
| Corn Smut.
Every farmer is familiar with the APP
nQaranoa IF IS smnt'' in Indian corn II