The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-01-21
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Corn Fritters Two cups grated
corn, three eggs, two tablespoons midi.
two OF flour. little salt and butter.
Fowls seldom tir, OF milk They
may eat too much grain or meat Tor
health, but mi in any form is both
palata3le and healthy.
Some persons protect their trees bv
tying pieces of thick bark around the
trunk of the tree, from the ground up,
at least foot or more.
Pan or Griddle Cakes. One pint
milk. two eggs, two teaspoons yeast
powder and little salt; make still
batter with Aour or rye meal. if the lat
ter add two tablespoons molasses.
The yellow stain made by the oil
used on sewing-machines can be re-
moved if, before washing in soap-suds,
you rub the spot carefully with bit of
cloth wet with ammonia
Gold cake make the most satisfac-
tory foundation for a chocolate cake;
use half a pound of sugar, quarter pound
of butter, half pound of flour, the yelks
of five eggs, one teaspoonful of baking
powder; flavor with vanilla.
Both for its Select upon fattening
and upon health a small amount of wood
ashes should be given TO swine. The
food without this is rich in phosphoric
acid, but has little lime, and the equiv
alent should be thus supplied
-Broiled Sweetbreads.-B the
sweetbread twenty minutes, then split
it, season with salt and pepper, rub
thickly with butter and sprinkle with
-four Boil over rather quick fire,
turning constantly. Cook about ten
minutes and serve with cream sauce.
President Mccain, of the Elmira
On. W Farmers Club, rates rutabagaS
fed to cattle with grain us worth twenty
eight cents bushel when corn is dol
lar bushel. Another writer rates them
at less than twenty-five cents, while he
regards potatoes as worth nearly half as
much as corn.
For four weeks thirty-two oxen and
steers have been feed on ensilage made
OF corn cobs and husks of sweet corn at
j. w. Jones 81 Co.'S corn factory at
Bridgeton, Me. In eight days the
eighteen oxen, it was found, had gained
an aggregate of l,065 pounds The
greatest gain of one pair was 100
pounds, and the next highest pair no
pounds.
1t is now matter of fact that no
branch of the livestock business suits
the masses of the people better than
fowl-raising. 1t is a paying vocation,
and is adapted to the young as well as
the old and to all sections of the coun-
try. Prime poultry is desirable in every
poulterer's beginning. The wisest
methods are the best and cheapest in
the end. Pure-bred stock costs more at
the start; but once established in the
breeders yard, its beauty, prolifcness,
stamina and courage. and the conse-
quent value of all the specimens pro-
duced from the original breeding birds
more than make up for the extra outlay.
spent at the outset, while procuring the
very best stock that money can buy.
AS to the manural value of differ
ent cattle foods we find that the oil
cakes yield the richest manure, as they
contain the largest amount of nitrogen
and phosphoric acid, with a considerable
amount of potash. Next to these, beans
and peas, malt dust and bran. Clover
hay yields a richer manure than oats,
wheat, barley or corn, while meadow
hay stands before the cereal grains.
The various grains of the roots, like
turnips, carrots and Swedes contain
about the same proportion of nitrogen
in their dry substance; the roots, how
ever, supply much more potash. Pota-
toes stand below other roots in manu-
rial value. Straw takes the lowest
place as Misunderstanding food, bean
and pea straw being more valuable for
this purpose than the straw of the
cereals.