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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
rARx LAND WORKSHOP y,orss.

The friction of a belt is double as
much ON wood as it is on cast iron.
Galvanized iron will corrodc --aftcr
six or seven years, exposure to wet.
To make paint DIR y quickly use alarge
proportion of japan varnish in mixing
for use.
Silver is the most perfect rejecting
metal, absorbing less than 9per cent of
the rays Of light.
What an equal amount of metal a
round column cast hollow is far strong
or than one which is cast solid.
Land ploughcd after the middle Of
May will generally yield better crops Of
corn than if ploughed in April.
Ifyou wish to produce glue that
will resist water boil one pound of glue
in two quarts of skinned milk.
A gentleman in Colorado says that
by irrigation he grew cauliHowcr heads
four feet three inches in circumference.
A steel bar held in the natural di-
rection of needle, and struck several
blows with hammer, will become mag
nctizcd.
One horse power may be rated as
that Of about six men. The force Of a
horse is rated at A, 900 pounds ,onc foot
per minute.
A thin coat Of varnish applied to
straw mating will make it much more
durable and keep the mating looking
fresh and new.
Iron or steel immersed in a solution
of carbonate Of potash or soda for few
minutes will not rust for years, not
even when exposed to damp atmos-
phcre.
The miners inch is the amount of wa
ter flowing in one second from an Orficc
one inch under head of six inches,
measured from The upper side ~ the
oriice.
Concerning the time for Matching the
eggs Of bees, the worker takes Fl days
to hatch reckoning from the laying of
the egg The dronc "a days and the
qucnc II days.
A celery garden in 46 acres believed
to be the largest in the world is culti-
waited in the suburbs of London, and
produces annually about half million
plants
One of the oldest and most successful
corn growers in the country says that he
invariably obtains more shclled corn
to the acre from the eight rowed than
from the twelve rowcd varieties.
Those who desire good large currants
should trim the bushes, cutting out the
old wood. The present is also good
time to work in some manure. Cur
rants will pay for extra care and cul-
f,lrc
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
WORTH KNOWING.

The correspondent of the London
Times says: The following method of
dressing potatoes will be found OF
use at this season Of the year, when
skins are tough and potatoes are wat
cry: Score the skins of the potato
with a knife, lengthwisc and cross, quitc
around, and then boil this potato in
plenty of water and salt, with the skin
on. The skin readily cracks when it is
scored, and lets out the moisture,which
otherwise renders the potato soapy and
wet. The improvement to bad potato
es by this methcd of boiling them is
very great and all who have tried it
find great advantage in it, now that
good potatoes arc very difficult to be
obtained.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
HOUSEHOLD KNOWLEDGE.

Mrs. Custis' Virginia Crumpets.-
Onc-half gill yeast into one quart warm
milk one teaspoonful salt; flour to
make stiff batter; put in warm
place to rise when raised very light
add one cup full of melted butter, and
bake in muffin rings.
Baked Hominy Grits.-OEe quart of
milk, one cupfull of hominy, two eggs
and little salt salt the milk and boil,
for twenty minutes set aside and fully
cool beat eggs to stiff froth, and then
beat them well and hard into the hon.
my bake half an hour.
Buttcrcd Lobsters.-Shell and break
up the lobster, take out the meat, cut
it into small bits. and put it into stew
pan with plenty of fresh butter, little
pepper, salt and vinegar, and stir until
it is hot. Surround the mincc on the
dish when served with border of wa
ter-crcss Frightened here and there
with lobster claw.
Lemon Cakc.-Beat to cream one
cup Of bitter and three cups ofpowdcr-
ell sugar. Add the yolks of five eggs,
previously well beaten, the juice and
grated rind of one lemon, and cup of
milk with one tcatpoonful of salcratus
Tor baking powdeD dissolved in it.
Then add the whites of the eggs beaten
to a stiff froth sift in four cups of flour
and bake.
Almodc Becf.-Take round Of beef,
make a great many holes through it,
rool strips of raw salt pork in a season.
ing made of one half-teaspoon each of
thyme, salt, pepper and cloves. Then
draw these strips through the holes in
the beef. Put six onions, two table
spoons milk. and one quarter pound of
butter in saucepan stew the onions
tender put beef, onions and all into a
pot, with just enough water to cover
them let il cook slowly five hours.
Just before taking up add a pint ofclar-
ct if you choose.
Beet Salad.-The new beets must be
thoroughly boiled-nothing is worse in
the way Of food than half cooked beet.
When done, cut them, while hot, in
rather thin slices, and marinadc them
in a mixture of two tablespoonful oil,
one spoonful vinegar and a small pinch
of salt. OF course more than this must
used if there is to be large dish Of sal
I'd. When ready for serving put them
in a salad dish with some very young
and tender leaves of dandclion (uncook-
ed) Dress with oil, vinegar, salt and
pepper in the usual way.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
CORN STARCH CAKE.

One cup full Of pulvcrizcd sugar, hall
a cup full of butter, and stir until il
looks like thick cream ono easpoonful
soda dissolved in half teacup Of sweet
milk beat the whites of three eggs and
put them iu with two teaspoonfuls OF
cream tartar mixed with tcacup of
flour; stir, and add teacup Of corn
starch season, and bake in a moderate
ly quick oven, frost or not, just as you
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
GOLDFISH FOR BREAKFAST.

Shred bowl two thirds full of cod
fish wash it through cold water sever
al times, or until it is fresh enough ;
drain off the water, put il into your spi-
der with pint Of sweet cream and a
halt pint of sweet milk let it come TO a
boil, beat well together one egg one la
blespoon of -four and two of sweet
milk turn it into the spider and stir it
continually until done; boil only a few
minutes, then turn it into "a dish and
put in a piece of butter as large as a
butternut. The potato to be served
with this fish should be the cold mashed
potato left over from the previous dim
ner, cut in slices and crispy Drowned in
fresh butter.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
TO BEAUTIFY TEETH.

Dissolve two ouuccs of borax in three
pints of boiling water and before 1t Is
cold add one teaspoonful of the spirits
of camphor aud bottle foruse. A table,
spoonful Of this mixture with an equal
quantity of tcpid water, and applied
daily with a soft brush, preserves and
beauties the teeth, cxtirpates all tartar
Gus adhesion, arrests decay, induces a
healthy action of the gums, and makes
the teeth pearly white.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
BLUE-wAsH FOR WALLS.

Get pound of blue vitriol from a
drug store, and have it powdered in a
mortar. Provide also two quarts OF
lime. Take six cents worth of glue.
boil it in quart of soft water till thor
oughly dissolved. Put the powdered
vitriol in a wooden bucket, and when
the glue-water is cold, pour it on the
vitriol, mix and stir it well. When the
vitriol is dissolved in the glue water,
stir in by degrees two quarts of lime.
Try the color by dipping in piece of
white paper, and when dried, you can
judge if the color is blue as you want.
If too pale stir in little more powder
ed vitriol. 1t is well TO provide an ex-
ira quantity of each article, in case a
little more of one or the other should
be required.
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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
TO KEEP BREAD MOIST.

Keep a1arge carthcn jar-a cover of
the same material is better than a
wooden one-and have it well aired
and fresh let the bread be well cooled
after it is takcn..from the oven. and then
place in the jar and cover closely.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
DEUS A La CR0QURNITAME.

Put into stcwpan three tablespoon
fuls of cream or milk, little grated
tongue or beef, pepper and salt. When
quite hot put in four eggs well beaten
stir all the time until the mixture be-
comes quite thick. Have ready q slice
of break toasted and buttered; spread
the mixture on the toast, and send it to
fahla vary hot
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thereby inspired. Past lessons should be fti-
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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
PAULE Ala CRIME.

This is dainty dish for an invalisd.
Boil q chicken, chop or pound the flesh
to paste, rub it through a wire scive,
mix with cream and two or three eggs,
season with pepper and salt, put in a
mould. steam and serve hot.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
CELERY FRIff1RS.

Boil some thick but tender stalks Of
celery in sailed water. When:donc.dry
them on cloth, cut tncm in equal
lengths about one and a half inches, dip
them in batter, fry to golden color,
spriukle fine salt well over and serve.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
THE DAIRY.

There is no reason why " cream
ery', butter should be better than that
made in a private dairy. 1t is only lack
of care that makes the latter inferior in
quality. The product OF some diaries
is SO superior that it is always snapped
up for private consumption before 1t
reaches the markets.
=" Cream from the milk of COW
eighteen months after calving," says
Professor Arnold, requires about one
and half the time for churning as at
one month after calving." The longer
the time which has elapsed since calv-
ing, the longer, as a general rule, the
cream will be in turning to butter.
"A COW will consume such feed as
bran and shorts in far greater proper
ton than can be turned to butter. The
capacity for changing food into butter
varies in cows, and the extent OF this
can only be learned by experiment; for
what one COW may do another may not.
Usually four to eight quarts OF mixed
feed of shorts and corn-meal can be
given to COW profitably, but not more
than eight quarts.
When COW drinks a large quantity
of water, it all goes into the blood, a
portion helps to make milk, but no
greater part of it than in proportion to
the solid matter which helps to make
milk. If the feed is increased in guam
tity or quality more of the water will
be used up in making milk; but the
water alone will not make any milk. If
salt is given to increase thirst the water
drank goes only to supply that carried
off from the blood by the effect of the
salt upon it, chiefly through the kidneys.
The remainder of the water escapes by
perspiration through the skin and
through the kidneys, so that it is use
less to force a COW to drink more water
than she actually requires.
Milk Refrigerators. -Cool rooms
constructed on the most approved plans
such as used by our city butchers, have
proved failures. The cold air in the
cool room would not cool the milk
while in bottles, sufficiently to
serve out on the milk route. The milk
would get warmed up in transit, and to
cool it properly, the bottles had to be
taken out of the shipping boxes and
immersed in ice water up to the shoulder
of the bottle, and Jumps of ice placed
on the tops of the bottles. A zinc lined
box with double sides, filed in between
the sides with pulverized charcoal and
a tight fitting lid would give satisfaction.
This has been the experience of Brook
lvn milkmen who receive bottled milk.
We cool our milk in large can such as
is used in cheese factories. it is placed
in zinc lined box that is filled with
ice water and follower inside the can
rests upon the milk; this is also filled
with ice. In the hottest weather, our
nights milk is down to forty-ive de-
gress in the morning when we begin
bottling. This milk is thoroughly
stirred to mix the cream evenly through
the whole before bottling. The morn
ing's milk is cooled below sixty degrees,
then bottled, sealed and placed in ship
ping boxes, and with the nights milk,
taken to the depot for the 6:15 a. m.
train in the summer months. Cor.
Country Gentleman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
Change OF Food.

The testimony of the best dairymen
and stockgrowers, as well as the teach
ings of common sense, prove that the
change from dry to green food should
be gradual. Sometimes however, a
man is met with who holds that COWS
should be allowed the run of the pas
lures and grass lands in early spring, or
at all times when the weather will per-
NIT, arguing that many tufts left of last
years grass supply considerable nutri-
ton, that should at the same time be
removed so as not to obstruct the new
crop just ready to start; besides this
some stress is laid upon the assertion
that the health of the animals is pro-
noted by the exercise they get, and the
saving in the quantity of fodder required
for spring feeding.
This plan is not good economy nor
judicious for several reasons. 1t is true
that where q pasture was not grazed
late and close in the preceding fall,
there is considerable dead grass which
the cattle will eat, but it contains very
little if any nutrition, and is only useful
as roughness." 1t may be of some
value in this way, but the injury to
the pasture with the ground Just
as the frost is leaving it, is to be
considered at the same time. While
the pastures are in a soft and unset
tied condition the roaming of cattle over
them, cuts them up and peaches them
badly killing out the grass in a great
many spots. But this is not the only
injury done. AT this season nature whets
the appetite for green grass, after con-
finement of months and diet largely of
dry food, and cattle not only Craze the
young blades clear to the surface but
often gnaw down into the ground and
pull out the grass by the roots in their
eagerness to obtain the fresh and sue
culent morsel. Every one knows that
the productiveness of pastures thus
treated is much injured, and it is scarce
~ necessary to add that such grass
lands must deteriorate, for where the
sod is thus broken and destroyed, weeds
almost invariably spring up and become
fruitful source of annoyance. This is
one cause of the running out of pastures,
making 1t necessary to pillow them up
and re-seed.
There are those, however, who pur-
eue lne opposite course ana carry 1t too
far, or wait until the grass has obtained
too large a growth before turning their
COWS to pasture. In this case the COWS
frequently overfeed, and gorge them
selves, and this deranges their health,
often resulting disastrously.
The judicious method is middle
course. When the ground is well set
tied, as q rule the grass will have oh
tanned fair start, and then the cows
may be turned to pasture four or five
hours each day, and then supplied with
sufficient dry food to satisfy their wants.
In this way they will gradually get &C.
customed to the change from dry to
green food and receive no injury, while
the pastures will remain in tact, Weld
ing better results than when cropped
too soon or later than is necessary
Prairie Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
Sweet Corn.

Our readers will pardon us if we bring
this subject frequently to their attention
We do it now for the reason that it is
near the season of the year that it has to
be adopted for this year or left until an
other time. And some facts stated by
that practical and reliable man, Asa
c. Bowen, of Sand Spring, Iowa, tempt
us to present them. He is radical on
the subject. He plants and cultivates
about the same way heretofore stated in
these columns. Mr.. B. has dairy of
45 COWS, and keeps over 100 head of
hogs. He kept up the flow of milk
through the heated period and late into
the fall, and his cows were strong and
healthy to enter the winter. The hogs
fattened finely on it, and even his herd
of brood sows were pushed forward after
weaving with such rapidity that their
average was fully up to their herd of
barrows that had been fed all the season
on good old corn. This result was OBJ
tanned from twelve acres, which lasted
till the new crop of Dent corn was ma
tured, and the finishing feed was quickly
and cheaply done, with the results
named. There were no signs of disease
HAANhS5 OthOA SesoOlO vi mugs. ne CldlIQS
that this experiment is sufficient to prove
the value and economy of sweet corn in
the dairy and for hogs. He says that a
litter of young pigs, dropped August
18th, were fed sweet corn, when about
a week old the kernels were shelled and
placed on board to which they had ac-
cess. They soon learned to eat it, and
increased pound day from the start.
The sow was fed the same, and in six
weeks was shipped to market in fine
order.
Young calves are also very fond of it
and make rapid growth. And it is
especially valuable for old horses, whose
teeth are defective. As winter fodder
it is not only excellent for cattle, but
hogs will eat both stalks and corn when
cold, and store hogs can be carried
through the winter on it. This is the
testimony of one of our most reliable
men.-IoOG State REGISTER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

AT social gathering the other day on the
sidewalk of Galveston Avenue, the re-
spective merits of Pete Freer and Bill
Hoefing as conversatonalists were discussed
Ed. Braden, who was present. contended
that, while Bill Hoeaing had the most beau
tiful flow OF language, Pete Freer used the
best grammar, and more of it, and was the
best-iooking man of the two. "That may
be-" responded Gilhooly who was present,
"but l had rather listen to Bill Hoefling
keep his mouth shut for half an hour than to
hear Pete Freer talk all day." Then the
caucus went into executive session over in
George Horner's saloon. -Galveston Neos.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

WHEN Mrs. Darlington heard of the propo.
sition of Senator Blair regarding the protec-
ton of Undertaking, she was just engaged
repairing pair of Ike's galligaskins. "Well, :"
said she, sit seems to me that though Con-
gressmen may think it dutiable to make UNI
derwear considerable, over wear would be far
the most sensible and benefcious to look aft
er. I don't know anything about the tariff,
out The tear is very pTepossessing duty and
plenty of it, with nothing to do but" 'Darn
itl' said Ike, as he stuck pin into his finger.
The ejaculation seemed so much part of her
own thought that she failed to rebuke it,
deeming she had said it herself.-Harttord
Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

SAID Mss Posigush to Syntax, the college
tutor: $50 you teach at Harvard That must
be so delightful, I'm sure. But then should
be frightened to death to meet any of the stu
dents, with half dozen foreign languages at
their tongues end. l suppose they never
speak English at ALL" every seldom speak
It." said syntax, in dreamy way. "There /
gush. ''What language do they speak most,
Mr.. Syntax, Greek or Latin, Or"
"Slang," replied the tutor, with laconic sim
plicity.
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