Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-05-05
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

If little vinegar or some cider is
mixed with stove polish it will not take
much rubbing to make the stove bright.
and the backing is not likely to fly off
in Sne dust.
The best grass fer wet land is red
top; to this may be added meadow
spear grass. fowl meadow-grass and
perennial rse-grass. OF these about
six pounds each may be used to the
acre.
Spice Cake.-One cup of sugar. one
cup of moiasses. two-thirds of a cup of
butter. one cup of buttermilk, two and
half cups of Hour. one cup of chopped
raisins. three eggs, one teaspooniul OF
soda, one teaspoonful ground CHINA
mon, one-half teaspooniul o. cloves,
one-half teaspoonful grated nutmeg.
-Cucumbers for pickles are grown
best on light sandy or gravelly soils.
planted in hills six feet apart, and well
manfred in the hill with rotten ma
nure. The Green Prolific is usually
grown for pickles. The cueumbers are
gathered when from two to three inches
long. and by picking them in this con-
dition Il very large number are pro-
duced on each vine. Four plants are
left in each hill and the ends of the
vines should be pinched in to encourage
side shoots. which bear most fruit.
Dolly Warden Cake.-Three eggs.
two cups OF white sugar. two-thirds of
cup of butter, three cups of flour. one
cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of
Of hoI II II
soda, take half the mixture, favor it
with lemon and bake in two tins, as for
Jelly cake; TO other half add one table
spoonful OF molasses, one cup of
chopped raisins. one teaspoontul each
of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Bake
in two tins. Put the cake together
with Jelly. light-colored LAYER at the
bottom, the light one being less likely
to crumble.
Lice on cows, calves, dogs and
poultry should be attacked by means OF
kills them Sulphur is also fatal to
them. Persian insect powder is the
best of all remedies. This is To be had
at all the drug stores. Whatever REM
edy is applied should be rubbed into
the hair and onto the skin. so as to
reach the vermin. Linseed-oil and
sulphur well mixed together is an efiec-
tive remedy when it is thoroughly well
applied. But it is useless to kill the
lice all over the back of an animal and
leave colony alive on the brisket or
under the thighs, where they usually
abound. as in this case they soon spread
all over the animal again.-N T.
Times.
Dreamed Mackerel.- Wash a salt
mackerel. and soak it all night in cold
water. To prepare it for breakfast,
wipe il well to get off the salt crystals
that may be lodged in the creases. put
into broad pan Of boiling water. and
COOK steadily half an hour. Drain
when done. and transfer to hot dish.
Pour over it 4 sauce made by stirring
into a cupful of boiling water heap
ing teaspoonful OF corn-starch. two
teaspoontuls of butter, one of vinegar,
and little Pepper. Instead of the
vinegar you can put in a teaspoonful of
green pickle minced fine. Stir over
the lire until smooth and rs thick As
=sustard. when add minced parsley. if
convenient. Pour upon the fish; cover,
and let it stand five minutes in warm
place before it goes to table.
1t is not always true that a pile of
manure steaming with heat and SMELL
ing strongly is losing ammonia. Am
monia is a very volatile and pungent
gas, and might be known by its pecu-
liar scent. which is freely given OFF by
close ill-ventilated horse stables. or by
the cost of ill-cleaned horses. But If is
not often that this peculiar scent es-
capes from manure heaps; on the con-
trary it is more disagreeable odor,
similar TO that of rotten eggs. This is
sulphuretted hydrogen. and not am
MONA, ana occasions no loss to the
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