The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-05
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
Wood Is more valusble when sea,
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soned under cover
BE careful to emove your sick ami
mails from the healthy ones Every
keeper of stock should bsve 3 box or
shed apart from the regular stable in
which TO keep them
TO clean zinc rub it with q piece OF
cotton cloth dipped in Kerosene. AT
erward rub with a dry cotton cloth and
il viii be as bright - when new.
Il delicate white sponge cake is
made thus: Take one lumber and \
bali of sugar. one tumbler OF -four. the
well beaten whites VI ten eggs. W tea
spoonfuls of cream Of tartar (no soda)
flavor TO taste.
Cream Pie.-One cup sugar, one
egg. piece of butter size of Al egg. one
teaspoon soda, dissolved in a cup OF
sweet milk; add 10 this when mixed to-
gether. two teaspoons cream-tartar rub
bed in three cups Of flour, and bike IN
three jelly cake tins.
Tne drippings from a paint-brush on
= floor can be removed BY tir,i covering
the spots with caustic potash; leave
this on until the paint Is dissolved.
which will be from twenty-four 20
thirty-six hours. according TO the time
the paint has been on. Then give the
floor \ thorough securing.
-Beefstcak Smothcred in Onions
Take q juicy beefsteak two inches thick;
broil il nicely; then have ready SIX
onions. sliced aud fried in butter; be
careful not 10 let them burn; fry them a
light brown. When the steak is done,
and ready 10 serve, put several lumns
OF butter upon it. and pour W. table
spoofuls of boiling water over il; then
pour on the hot onions. and serve I'M
mediately. The onions should be
allowed Ia lie in salt-and-water for an
hour. and then wiped dry before putting
them in the butter 10 fry.
For cribbing. give the horse in his
feed. daily. for afew weeks. one dram
of copperas and half an ounce of ground
ginger. and feed him upon Gu feed,
with crushed or ground gram, and an
ounce of salt in each feed. This will dn
very well during the incipient stages OF
the disease; but when it has become n
habit the better way is 10 arrange the
stall so the horse has nothing To crib
upon. and fix his manager low SO he will
have his head down. which naturally
i~ndisposes the horse TO cribbing.
Raw linseed oil is recommended rs
a physio for cattle and horses, and wise
". A man called az a Rochester paint
store and ordered a pint OF linseed oil.
Boiled or raw?" was asked. Il
don't suppose il makes any difference
which," vas the reply. He was given
boiled oil. Shortly he returned and re-
ported the death of a valuable cow,
charging the dealer with carelessness.
Often oil left at painting is handy when
4 COW or horse is sick. Whether il is
boiled or raw has been forgotten, but
as both are supposed 10 be harmless. it
is given. and the result is often dlsas-
trous. Boiled linsced oi. contains pos
onous ingredients called dryers. nut in
to make it dry rapidly. II should be
stated that the oil is for amedicine WHEN
purchased. as many times raw oils are
adulterated.- Charles 4. Green, IN y.
y. Tribune.
Rhode Island Chowder.-Cut six
ounces of picked pork into dice. Put
it, with two large onions sliced. into
the pot; fry till the onion begins to
brown; remove the pork and onions
Slice five or six m~edium-sizcd potatoes
and three pounds of fresh cod or other
firm fish. Put into the pot a layer OF
potatoes. then one OF fish. seasoning
each LAYER rs you proceed with a
s~prinkling Of the fried onions and pork.
also .. little soup herbs. pepper and
salt. Pour on cold water enough TO
barely cover the whole, and boil
twenty minutes; then add three large
ship biscuits soaked in milk, also, half
a pint of hot milk. AS soon as it boils
again remove it from the fire. and
serve it ut once. CLANS are frequent
" used instead Of fish, in which ease n
LAYER of sliced or canned tomatoes is
added.