The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-12-24
FARM AND PRESIDE.

If YOU permit those lead weeds to
stand about your young trees, look out
for girdled trunks by the mice next
spring.
Lace curtains that shrink when they
are washed can be heightened by let
ting out the hem and facing with thin
muslin. .kEEfs.
Professor Riley says that kerosene
oil is sure death to insects in all stages,
and the only substance with which we
may hope to destroy their eggs.
"A good way to serve oysters to
tempt the appetite of an invalid is to
make a stew wherein cream is substi-
tuted for milk; salt it well then line
small vegetable dish with thin slices of
buttered toast, and pour the stew in.
inventive genius filled small
tarletan sack with spoonful of cayenne
pepper and tackled it over a rat hole.
When the rat bounced out his eyes
were peppered by the sitting from the
shaken sack. He squealed like pig
and escaped: The whole tribe have
since migrated.
Pork chops fried and served with
apples are not to be frowned upon; put
the meat in the frying pan. and then
scatter little sage and pepper and salt
over it; cook thoroughly; If it is fat
enough so that there is plenty of gravy.
fry the sliced apples in that; if not, add
lump Of butter, brown the apples,
and lay them over the pork.
-Jumbles made from this recipe are
Jal;oofa and doinfx,. nna ,,,ortar ~
pound each of butter, sugar and flour;
one egg; beat the butter and sugar to
cream; add the well-beaten egg; stir in
the flour little at a time; flavor with
rose water; bake in gem pans, or add
flour enough to roll them out and bake
as you do cookies. If you follow the
latter method, after the jumbles are in
the tins take a fork and pick the
tops of the cakes to make them look
rough.
Chicken Cream Soup.-Boil an old
fowl with an onion in four quarts of cold
water until there remains but two
quarts. Take it out and let it get cold.
Gut off the whole of the breast and
chop very fine. Mix with the pounded
yelks of two hard-boiled eggs, and rub
through colander. Cool, skim, and
strain the soup into soup-pot. Season;
add the chicken and egg mixture; SIM
mer ten minutes and pour into the
tureen. Then add small cup of boil
ing milk.
TO make fishballs cut or pick cod
fish in small bits, taking care to remove
every piece of bone; let it soak in cold
water; let it cook slowly for twenty-five
minutes; season with milk, butter and
eggs; mix with this about double the
quantity Of boiled potatoes; add milk or
cream to give the desired amount of
moisture; shape in round cakes, roll in
flour and fry until brown in hot lard.
If the lard is not hot when they are put
in they will soak up the fat aud will be
unpalatable. ...a .l---'
Mixed Feed-One of the points in
favor of the much-praised ensilage is
that animals eat it with relish. No
food, however rich it may be in food ell
ements, will prove profitable if the farm
stock cannot be made to take to it kind
ly. 1t is on this account that a mixing
of feed has been so successful. Same
ness pals upon the appetite-a change
of diet encourages and sharpens it. A
few roots cut, or better, pulped and CIV
en- to the animals, will make them eat
the corn fodder or cut straw with all
the greater relish. Try and make q
little change in the diet of the animals,
even though it be only once week,
with some roots, potatoes, apples, etc. /;
twill pay.
"A cracked hoof can only be re-
paired by new growth from the coronet.
where the new horn is secreted. Horn
consists of precisely the same elements
rs hair, and is really solid, compact
form of hair growth; the hair of the
skin enSs where the growth of horn be-
gins, and this goes on downward to re-
pair the constant wear at the sole of the
hoof-crust. But crack in the hoof
will always extend up into the new and
weak growth because the horn is ex-
banded by the pressure of the horses
weight upon the foot. To prevent this
the sides of the crack must be sup
ported and held together by some
means. This may be done by boring
holes through the horn on each side OF
the crack and putting horse shoe nails
through and drawing the hoof together
and clinching the ends of these nails on
each side. The topof the crack should
then be burned across SO as to obliterate
the opening and form a solid starting
place for the new growth. The hool
should be kept soft and elastic by fire.
quent dressings of equal parts of glycer-
inc and water.-NeW York Times.