Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-06
HOME AND FARM.

| Exposure to sun, wind and rain, I'M
der the caves of the stable, annually
wastes the best half of the manure thus
exposed.-N. E. Farmer.
Pumpkins are excellent for hogs.
They are a sovereign remedy for intes-
final parasites. They are just what
swine need to make them healthy. Feed
| them raw. They will be relished.
| -Raisin Pie.-One pound raisins, one
lemon, one cup white sugar, two table
spoonfuls flour. Boil the raisins, covered
with water, an hour; add the lemon, SUI
gar, and flour. Will make three pies.
The glossy appearance of starched
linen is procured by mixing little par
affine, or white wax, with the starch,
and using small iron having arounded
point, very smooth, which is rubbed over
the linen with great pressure and for
considerable time. A good deal of eel
bow grease" is necessary.
AS a rule, small breeds of hens lay
best. The Leghorns are especially
noted for their reproducing powers.
Their eggs are medium sized, but make
up in number what they lack in size.
| The Plymouth Rocks are strongly recon-
mended as winter layers. Among large
breeds the best layers are the Brahmas.
But any hen, to lay well, must be well
fed.
"A fig pudding made from this reel
pc is not only delicious, but furnishes
still another way in which the frugal
housewife may use her crumbs of bread
to good advantage: Take half a pound
Of the best figs, wash them and chop
them fine, two teacupfuls of grated
bread (crusts for one may be used), half
q cup of sweet cream, one cup of sweet
milk, half cup of sugar, mix the
bread-crumbs with the cream, then stir
in the figs, then the sugar and the last
thing get in the milk; pour into a mold
Or pudding-dish and steam for three
hours.
An old and experienced beekeeper
Of Maine writes to local paper that the
ma ority of beekeepers are ignorant of
the required makeup of good hive for
their especial wants, and seem willing
to adopt almost any continuance that
| has patent right to be paid for, until
patent beehives have come to be a nui-
sance in the land. He also remarks that
he does not believe in movable comb
hives for general use, ssbecause they are
equipments to ruin in the hands of q
novice" They are good enough in the
hands of experienced apiarians, who
may desire to change races of bees or to
divide up colonies at will; otherwise
plain hives with surplus boxes for stor-
ing honey are best. This is sound ad-
vice, and doubtless from one who
knows.-N. Y. Sun.
-Curculi,s.-In the report on plums
made by j. D. Piper to the Illinois Hor-
ticultural Society he says that Daniel
Billig kept his chicken coops under his
plum trees, and his trees were so heavi-
ly loaded that he had to prop OF tie them
up to keep them from breaking down.
Peter Myers made apen around his trees
with fence boards only as large as one
length of the boards would make, and
put two pigs in each pen, and he too
had to prop his trees to keep them from
breaking with. loads of fruit. These
cases are mentioned to show how effect
ually destroying the fallen and infested
fruit protects the crop, which would
only clear the insects for another year
were it not that the presence of the
fowls and pigs served to brighten away
the timid curculios from puncturing the
present years crop.