The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-30
HOME AND FARM.


When washing fine laces do not use
starch at all; in the last water in when
they are rinsed put little fine white
sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the
result will be pleasing.
Cherry Fritters. batter OF
pint of milk, four beaten eggs, pincn
of salt, two even teaspoonfuls OF baking.
powder and enough flour to make little
sitter than pancake batter. Beat thor,
oughly, then stir in a pint OF stoned
cherries and drop by the spoonful into
hot fat. As you take from the fat, drain
on an old but clean napkin, dust with
powdered sugar and season with hquld
sauce.
Preserving Eggs.-In answer to nu-
merous inquiries, the Poultry fGrd gives
the following recipe for preserving eggs:
To one pint of salt and one pint OF lime
add four gallons of boiling water. Slack
the lime first in small quantity of hot
water. When cold put this solution in
stone jars or any vessel that will not alb
sorb the liquid. Then, with a dish,
carefully let down the fresh eggs into it.
Put the eggs in rs soon as laid each day.
Keep covered in a cool place.
The most troublesome summer
weed upon our gardens is purslane; it
is easily killed when it first breaks
ground, but once it gets rooted it will
grow just about as well with its roots in
the air as any other way, and will BIOS
som and ripen seed after it has been
hoed up and turned with roots upward.
The only way to get rid of it is TO cart 1t
0ff III = ;,,o hN1n n hoY q
eat it greedily, but they do not destroy
all the seeds.-Ne,o England Farmer.
"A writer in The Rural New Yorker
speaks thus of sweet-corn breeding and
distribution: eat the end of six years |
could rely upon three or four ears to a
stalk. When this improved corn was
distributed, however, no care was taken
in the selection of the seed by those into
whose hands it fell, and, in consequence,
it gradually deteriorated. Let it be I'M
derstood that such corn can not be long
grown without careful selection of seed
and good cultivation. Improvements in
corn made by selection can only be
maintained by selection; and the same
remark will apply to some other things
as well as to corn"
"A writer in the Kansas Farmer tells
how neighbor exterminated chinch-
bugs: "When the bugs came into the
cornfield from the wheat they plowed
three deep trenches about four feet apart
and started horse with log in these
trenches. By having three the last one
would catch what would get through the
first. This was kept up with vigilance.
If it had been started as soon as the
bugs began to move they could have all
been taken, but about fifty rows in one
place had been covered before anything
was done. To save these they took q
caldron kettle, a load of wood and two
barrels of water. By having a teakettle
to set on the water to bring to boil each
pailful they could keep at work, pouring
with pint cup the water on the stalks
covered. The scalding kills effectually,
so that in some places the ground would
be red with dead chinch-bugs. This is
! giving them a warm reception-
A HOrseshOer's Experience.
Nine persons out of ten will say that
corns in horses feet are caused by bad
shoeing. My experience will Justify me
in saying that nine-tenths of the corns
are caused by the owners of horses ne
giecting to get them shod as often as
they ought. We are nearly all agreed
that horses should be shod as often as
once in every four to seven weeks, ac.
cording to circumstances. Now, a great
many horse owners, particularly farm
ers, will get team shod and, unless
the horse becomes lame, will permit the
shoes to remain on till they grow off.
Ii the horse has round foot, and the
shoe was fitted closely all around, in
four or five weeks the shoe will have
been carried forward by the growth of
hoof, so that one or both of the heels
will be off the wall, and in short time
corns will be produced. Now, if the
owner would take his horse to the shop
on some fixed date every month, instead
OF leaving the shoes on from seven to
seventy weeks, horses would have fewer
corns. In shoeing prefer wide heel.
and mule the heels of the forward shoes.
whether they have corns or not, on
horses that have fiat feet.
For interfering, level the foot and fit
the shoe all around close. Then mule
the inside heel slightly. In winter it is
Soou pan TO turn tne outside heel
calk, as it keeps the foot out of the
trough of the road.
For over-reaching, 1 have the best
success shoeing with long shoes all
around. Let the heels of the forward
shoes stick out an inch and the hind
shoes three-quarters of an inch. AS the
forward foot raises, the long shoe will
raise enough so the hind foot will pass
under, while with short shoe the shoe
will raise just enough for the hind shoe
to hit the heels, causing disagreeable
clicking. l can do better and quicker
work with knife and rasp than with
buttress.
If the foot is grown out very long /
take the cutting pliers and nip the hoof
off from quarters to toe. This insures
the removal of the stubs of nails, and
with sharp knife and rasp the foot is
soon ready. Practice cold fitting al
though | do not think hick-shelled
foot is injured by touching it with red
hot shoe that was previously fitted. A
thin-shelled foot L never press with a
hot shoe. l was taught to weld toe
calks on shoes first, and heel up after
ward, but practiced heeling shoe first,
and put on the tOe-calk when ready to