The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-12-31
FARM AND FIRESIDE.


Take one quart of sweet milk .(have it
part cream if you can get it), the yelks
OF i've eggs, sugar enough to sweeten to
your taste-say half cupful-fiavor
with vanilla or with almond extract.
The wise farmer treats the orchard
with manure for enrichment as he would
treat his fields for any other crop. 1t is
an unquestioned fact that apple trees
need manure. Next to wood ashes, no
fertilizer is better than barnyard manure.
"A strong, good-sized table is almost
a necessity in the cellar. Jars that are
too heavy to be lifted ON and. off shelves
may be set on the table. Many cellars
are sometimes infested with ants and
other bugs. One way to keep them from
crawling over the jars is to take the tin
cans in which peaches or tomatoes came,
set the legs of the table in the cans, and
fill them half full of water.
Pasture grass contains about eighty
per cent. of water, and the nutriment in
a hundred pounds of it is supposed to be
worth twenty-four cents. The nutriment
of nineteen pounds of bran is equal to
hundred pounds of pasture grass; ten
pounds of cotton-seed meal to twelve
pounds of linseed meal, or nineteen,
pounds of corn meal to hundred pounds
of grass; hundred pounds of pasture
grass is ration for an ordinary cow.
Seed Cake.-Beat three-quarters of
pound of butter to cream with wood
en.spoon; then add one pound of sifted
sugar. Beat them together till like
snow. Add nine eggs, one by one, into
the batter Beat it twenty minutes, then
mix in lightly one pound of flour, well
dried and rolled. Put all into a pan,
with three folds of paper under it, and
bake it in well heated oven, but not
too hot. Add wineglassful of seeds.
To Make a Cheap Filter.-Take a
jug that will hold one gallon or more,
according to the size desired Turn it
bottom up, knock in the bottom, then
stuff in wad of cotton batting in the
mouth not very tightly; on this put one
or two handouts of small pebbles. Then
add charcoal broken to about the size of
peas (not DUST. Over this place cloth
to prevent the charcoal being displaced
when the water is poured on. Now
place your jug over vessel to catch the
liquid, pour on your liquid, and as it
filters through keep adding until all is
finished. This makes simple, cheap
filter, and good one, too.
Here is recipe for dessert for a
plain dinner: Make crust as for baking
powder biscuit, roll it thin as for pie
crust; cut out round cakes with cold
water; drop tablespoonful of either red
or black raspberry jam in it; fold it to-
gether as for a turnover; bake from fifteen
to twenty minutes in hot oven. This
is to be eaten with sauce. Take one
tablespoonful of butter, two of flour and
three of sugar; put them in basin on
the hearth of the stove. When the but
ter is soft rub all together and add boil
ing water enough to make the sauce as
thin as you like to have it; flavor with
nutmeg, cinnamon and white wine vim
egar. l.. fsr.I
How to Carve a Turkey. Place your
fork in the lower part of the breast, SO
as to have the turkey at perfect command
If you understand your business the en-
tire carving of the fowl may be done
without extracting the fork First re-
move the wing and leg on one side, then
the other wing and leg. Then slice off
the breast, remove the wish-bone," the
neck bones and the neck itself. Then cut
through the ribs and the job is fairly
done. With proper care there is no ne
cessity of firing the bird off the table into
anybody's lap, but if this should happen
it is perfectly proper to ask the person to
please pass the turkey.-India,aapoliS
Times.
I have yet to hear of the first per-
son who has succeeded with the Japan
persimmon all the year round, in the
open air, at the North. 1t grows well
during the summer, but dies in the win
ter. In California it is doing splendidly,
and bids fair to become one of their
most profitable fruits, Judging from the
many encomiums passed upon it by
those who have tested its merits in that
section. In the Gulf States It has also
succeeded satisfactorily, although l be-
lieve not sufficiently long to recommend
without reserve. Judging from what
have experienced and observed, the
Japan persimmon will not live in the
open air during winter in Ohio, where
an inquirer resides.-Josiah Hopes, IN
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