The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE,

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Plants grown in the house are best
kept in good shape by pinching the end
buds OF those shoots that grow too Wig
orously.
i, Ginger Snaps. teaspoonfuls of
lard, four of water, one of soda, and
one OF ginger; put in teacup; fill the
cup with molasses; add sufficient flour
to roll out thin, and bake quickly.
Chocolate Kisses.-One pound of
sugar, two ounces of chocolate pounded
together and finely sifted; mix with the
whites of eggs well beaten to froth;
drop on buttered paper and bake
slowly.
Evergreen and other trees, and
shrubs with brittle wood, should have
the snow shaken off their branches
after every heavy snow fall. Many val
liable trees become permanently dis
figured from the bending or breaking Of
their limbs by heavy masses of snow and
ice.
-Leached ashes are an excellent APP
plcation on poor grass-l land. They
may be spread now or in the spring, as
early as possible. It would be we'll to
run harrow over the poor spots and
sow some fresh grass-seed. Apply
twenty to forty bushels per acre, or
even ten bushels will be useful.
-Citron Cake.--One cup of butter,
two OF sugar, three of flour, four eggs,
one cup of milk, one teaspoonful of
soda, two of cream tartar and a pinch
of salt. Make the cake. put in the
pan, cut the citron thin and put
in the cake endways; push down until
the batter covers the citron, and this
will prevent the citron from falling to
the bottom of the pan.
- A correspondent Of the Prairie
Farmer says: Coal oil, such as is used
in lamps, poured on the stockings in
the morning will heal up all sores or
pains caused by frost. An experience
of fully twenty years proves this. Feet
are often frozen without knowing it,
caused by too tight boots, or some
other obstruction to the circulation of
the blood. Coal oil is sure cure in all
such cases.
For House Plants.-Four ounces of
sulphate of ammonia, two ounces of
nitrate of potash, one ounce of white
sugar, one pint of hot rain-water; cork
tight. with kid tied over the cork. Use
one tablespoonful to one gallon of water
once week at first, then twice a week
at regular intervals. DO not wet the
foliage. only the earth. A few drops
every ten days will hasten blooming
yt,nv, IN, hid NJ ut n,n
young plants.
Yorkshire pudding, to be eaten with
roast beef, as one would eat a vegeta-
BILE, is made in this way: Stir three ia
blespoonfuls of flour into one pint of
milk; add three eggs and little salt;
pour into q shallow tin baking pan. put
it into the oven an hour before dinner
time. After ID has baked for about ten
minutes put it under the roasting beef.
When the meat is taken up, leave the
pudding in the oven for five minutes,
then pour off the fat and serve with the
meat.
Colts should be accustomed to the
harness early in life. If well trained
they will never need ''breaking." Gen.
tleness and kindness should always be
shown acolt, and they will be found bet
ter tanners of horseflesh than whips and
brutal treatment. In training a colt
one should show him what is wanted of
him, and if the trainer fails in this he
is to blame, and not the colt: 1t would
be folly to abuse the colt because he
did not understand what an ignorant
trainer wanted him to do.-Lewiston
Journal.
For neuralgia in the face or other
acute suffering elsewhere, the following
remedy has been tried with good effect:
Cut thick slice of bread all across the
loaf--fresh bread is best. Soak one
side for minute in boiling water, and
rapidly sprinkle cayenne pepper over
the hot side. Apply while still smoking
hot to the painful surface. The bread
retains the heat long enough for the
cayenne pepper to begin to act, and
cayenne does not affect delicate skins
as mustard does. It acts as a rubefa-
cient, but not a blister. Another ex-
cellent remedy for congestion from
cold is to apply poultice of tlaxseed
meal and cayenne pepper. BY keeping
a bit of oil silk on the outside of the
poultice cloth it will retain both heat
and moisture for long time.
Orchard trees thrive best where the
roots are kept cold. A writer in the
Germantown Telegraph gives his expe-
rience,f showing the great benefit his
apple orchard received from mulching
OF salt hay. In the Country Gentleman
it is stated that Mr.. Morse, who has
been manuring his pear orchard for
some time, has now concluded to SOW it
down to grass. Pears delight to grow
in deep, cool soil, hence it is that nurs-
erymen in States having hot dry sum-
mers cannot raise pear seedlings as
we'll as those living where the summers
are cooler. A good mulch is excellent
for trees. 1t keeps the ground cool,
moist and soft, and with these condi-
tons trees do we'll. The pear, which
requires more attention than any other
kinds of fruit trees, especially likes this