South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-07-07
Farmer and House Keeper.

verified sugar, two-thirds of cupful
OF butter, four eggs, half a curful of
milk, bali teaspooniul of soda. ono
teaspoouful of cream of tartar. three
cupsiul of flour. Bake in ielly-cakc
pans and spread between the lay
ers tho following :-Cream-IIalf
pint of milk, two full teaspooniuls
OF corn starch, one egg, one teaspoon
iul OF vanilla, half q cup.ul of sugar;
let the milk como 10 a boil and etir i'm
the corn starch. made into smooth paste
/ with - littla cold milk. take on. a little
ofthe boiling milk and add il gradually
to the We'll beaten egg aud sugar; stir
TINS INTO the rest OF the milk and con.
time TO stir constantly until il be-
comes quite thick and smooth.
/ Welsh Rarre. Bit.--Stir together in
a saucepan over the Gre, one quarter
ot pound of grated cheese, two Ia.
/ blcspoonatul of butter, a quarter OF II
! teaspoonful each OF salt, dry mustard
and pepper, with dust of cayenne
pour these on u large slice OF buttered
f., toast and serve nj once.
Chicken and Green Peas.-Cut cold
roast or boiled chicken in small pieces
brown them IN butter, stir in table,
| spoonful OF flour. and when II is brown
add pint OF stcwed peas with their
liquor, (or one can il green peas are
not III season,) add salt and pepper,
heat five minutes, and serve on
! toast.
A little spirit, OF turpcntiue added
to the water with which floors are
washed will prevent the ravagcs of
mo,hs.-Exchange
Seed corn over one year old is un.
certain and not reliable, no matter
how safely il has been kept. Onion
seed, also over one year old should
.ever be used. But cabbage seed ia
safe when two or three years old.
Keeping bees ia the old-fashioned
box hive ID entirely out of date. The
trouble with it is that the internal
economy OF the colony cannot be reg
| ulated, but the bees must be left 10 do
pretty much az they please. 1t il q
fact often preached but seldom prac-
ticed, that beea need management and
care the same IS horses, cattle or poul-
! Try, or amy other kind Of farm stock.
Grease Your Wheels. season
has now arrived for The almost con-
slant use OF vehicles OF all kinds,
/ from the FARM wagon 20 The sulky.
and few words in regard to ercasing
Will be timely 10 those who wish to a.
void delays, damages and ofttimes
/ considerable danger. An ordinary
/ farm wagon, one which, willie it may
be used nearly every day for heavy
! hauling, is seldom driven faster than
the walk OF an average farm team.
: should be creased we'll every Monday
morning, as should be the cart, and
! by making q set time TO DO il, il will
rarely be forgotten. A farm wagon,
a spring wagon, which goes to mill, to
market, and divers other places. az am
ordinary jog trot, should be creased
after il has run forty or fifty miles ac-
cordlng TO the speed, while light
carriage being driven faster and hav.
ing less surface or room for the grease.
should be creased after il has run @.
/ very thirty miles or SO. always wiring
the spindles clean aud bright before
applying the grease. For Carriages
use only sperm or castor oil, aud but
a few drops on each spindle, but for
heavy business or farm wagons, use the
common axle greece, free from salt.
Thu9 speaks the Utica Observer. and
we would suggest, in addition, that az
the busiest days OF the year are upon
farmers, when fine temper is liable TO
be soFeiy tried that they shoud be oc-
caslonally oiled, also.
! An Illinois horticuitnrist has con.
structed fruit.hoCse which is 10 be
protected alike from summers heat
aud winters cold. Two rows OF posts
are set in tire ground, two and a-half
feet apart, boarded up inside aud out.
and the intervening space filed with
; straw, packed as closely as possible.
Two sct5 Of rafteFs are then put in.
the upper get three feet above The low.
CT, which are boarded on the under
side aud ihe space closely packed wiih
straw, after which cheap board roof
is put or On the 11ib of ! Ut Au.
gusi, with q temperature IS degrees
IN the shade, it was as cool as an ias.
house, and contained n quantity Of
apples as sound az when taken from
the trees ten months before.
a WOOL and wheat grower says II
is ny belief that the real roason why
or wheat crops only yield half az
much % the English crops is, that in
England farmers utilize sheep ~ grain
growers, while we ouly consider them
wool and mutton makers.
Paint pays for itselfin the protection
* affords - Jgiill.ngs and fences.
The Msrtinsburs Siaiesmsa savs tic
two b'anchcs 81 he MethoIist Church
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