The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-15
FARM AND PRESIDE.


-Axle-grease and lard, we'll mixed in
equal proportions, and rubbed on young
trees, will protect them from rabbits.
Very little need be used, as only the
scent is necessary.
The well, with its broad arbor of
cedar posts and poles, covered by twin
ing vines of mingled use and beauty,
would make less cool water seem re-
freshing. drank under such an awning.
-NeO England Farmer.
"A good way to cook liver is to fry
il in butter, with an onion cut in small
pieces scattered over it. Cook slowly;
when done, add lump of butter and
little flour; stir well, and turn over the
liver. Serve with Saratoga potatoes.
Picked Onions. Select the small
white onions, remove with knife all
the outer skin so that each onion will
be perfectly white and clean. Make
strong brine Zone that will float an egg,
put the onions in and let remain three
days. Take out and cover with hot
spiced vinegar.
Chicken Cholera. a few cents
worth of garden rue at your nearest
druggists and break up fine and mix
with chopped vegetables, meat and
cooked corn meal. Put a pinch of the
rue leaves in the food every day until
there are no further signs of the cholera.
Every poultry keeper should have a bed
of rue in his garden to use whenever
it is needed. Five cents worth of rue
seed will produce plants enough for a
neighborhood, and they will grow al
most anywhere. Y Sun.
"A writer in the New York Times
says that a years experience with broad
wagon-wheels is conclusive as to their
value. A four-inch tire will carry two
tons over soft ground with greater ease
to the team than two -and-a-half-inch
tire will carry one ton. The wheels are
not SO much strained by stones and
rough tracks on the road and the road
is not cut up, but, on the contrary, is
packed down and keeps smooth. The
prevalent idea that the draught is in
creased by widening the tire is alto
gether baseless; on the contrary a
wide tire reduces the draught. The
extra cost of the tire is repaid many
times over every year in the extra work
that can be done by team.
Kentucky Corn Dodgers.
your griddle where it will heat, for this
is much better than bread pan, there
being less danger of scorching at the
bottom. Take an even pint of sifted
meal, a heaping tablespoon of lard, a
pinch of salt and scant half pint of
cold water; mix well and let it stand
while you grease your griddle and
sprinkle some meal over it. Make the
dough into rolls the size and shape of
goose eggs, and drop them on the grid
die, taking care to fiatten as little as
possible, for the less bottom crust the
better. Place III the oven and bake
until brown on the bottom. Then
change to the CRATE, and brown on top,
taking from twenty to thirty minutes
for the whole process. Eaten while hot,
with plenty of good butter, they are
better than any other bread.
In buying horse, says Turf, Field
and Farm, look first to his head and
eyes for signs of intelligence, temper,
courage and honesty. Unless a horse
has brains you cannot teach him to do
anything well. If bad qualities pre-
dominate in a horse, education only
serves to enlarge and to intensity them.
A square muzzle with large nostrils
evidences an ample breathing appara-
tus and great lung power. Next, see
that he is well cut under the
jowl, with jaw bones broad and wide
apart under the throttle. Breadth and
fulness between the ears and eyes is
always desirable. The eye should be
full and hazel in color. ears small and
thin and thrown well forward. The
horse that turns his ears back until
they almost meet at the point is not to
be trusted. He is bitter or a kicker,
and is sure to be vicious in other re-
spects. A horse with a dashing face is
cowardly, and cowardly brute being
naturally vicious, can never be trained
to anything well. A rounding nose,
tapering forehead and broad full face
below the eyes is always mischievous
and treacherons. Avoid long-legged,
Stilty horse. Select one with short,
straight back and rump, withers high
and sloping, well set back and broad,
with good depth of chest, forelegs
short, hind legs straight with the hook
low down, short pastern joints, and a
round mulish foot. BY observing the
above hints horse may be selected
that is graceful, good-natured, service.
able and q prize to the owner.