The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Soaking calico just previous to tho
hrst washing in . strong solution of
either salt or alum is excellent to pre-
serve the color.
-Combe says, in preserving beef, the
ribs will keep longest-five or six days
in summer-the middle of the loin next,
the rumF next, the round next, and,
the shortest of all, the brisket, which
will not keep more than three days in
hot weather.
Farmers Pudding.--One cup of
Indian meal; one-half cup of flour, one
half cup of sugar, moisten with q little
milk. Boil three pints of milk; pour
slowly on the meal and stir until quite
thick; add one-haH cup of molasses and
little salt. Bake in an earthen dish
two hours.
-Chocolate.-Put into a coffee-pot
set in boiling water, ose quart of new
milk Tor q pint each of cream and milky;
stir into it three heaping tablespoonful
OF grated chocolate mixed to a paste
with cold milk; let boil two or three
minutes and serve at once. If not
wanted so rich use half water and half
milk. .. ..--....
Snow Pudding.-Soak one-haf q
paper of gelatine in just enough water
to cover it; add one pint of boiling
water, two cups of sugar, and juice of
lemon; strain it after it is thoroughly
cooled, 90 it commences to thicken; add
the beaten whites of three eggs; beat
all together until creamy, then turn in
to mold. The same is made with a
pint of milk and yelks of the eggs, sugar
to taste, and flavor; this makes a thick
custard.
Ashes operate with greater or less
efficacy on different soils and in differ
ent seasons. and any precise quantity
cannot therefore be prescribed, the
amount usually applied being made to
vary with the supply-say from ten to
fifty bushels per acre. A limited aud
given quantity would probably produce
greater results if widely and thinly
spread, than if concentrated within a
narrow space. leaving the rest of the
land without it.
How to Remove Warts from Cat
tle.-Small ones may be removed with
scissors; large ones, having a narrow
base, may be strangled by means of a
strong, waxed thread, such as shoe
makers or saddlers use. It should be
tied tightly around their base, and if
the warts do not drop off in the course
of a week. another ligature may be ap-
piled. Whichever process of removal
is resorted to, the remaining wound
should be touched daily with some
tincture of iron. AS the operation is
painful to the animal, only q portion
of the warts should be attended to at q
time.-Live Stock Journal.
"A subscriber sends the following
method of treating poll-evil which he
has found successful. Open the pipe to
the bottom with a probe that will not
break, such as doubled wire with the
loop end downward, take equal parts
of bi-chloride of mercury and sulphate
of zinc; put large pinch in piece of
thin muslin cloth and tie this to string;
put the bag to the bottom of the pipe
with the probe, leaving the end of the
string with ball of cotton cloth tied to
it hanging out of the top. Repeat this
weekly for three or four weeks until the
pipe comes out. Then keep the parts
clean with soap and water and the fistu-
In will soon heal.--N. Y. Times.
Baked Apples.-Take a deep pie
tin and scatter sugar literally over the
bottom; a half an inch of sugar if the
apples are pretty sour. Pare the apples
and cut into halves. Remove the cores
carefully, then lay them, core side
down, into the sugar. Add a small
cupful of water and bake till perfectly
tender, but do not let them stew to
pieces. When cold take up in a deep
dish, and if any juice remains in the tin
turn it over the apples. Add little
sweet cream in dishing them out, and
with good bread and butter this makes
as relishable dessert as one can desire.
Russets. Greetings and Belmonts are
all especially nice baked in this manner: