The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUG6ESTlvE.
ID. B. Wier, Of Illinois, reports the
Seneca hlack-cap as the hardest of all
the black raspberries, and able to with
stand the most intense cold.
Delicate Cake. Take the whites Of
eight eggs. one-fourth Of pound each
OF corn-starch, flour and butter; one-half
pound OF sugar, one teaspoonful Of
cream OF tartar, One-half teaspoonful Of
soda Flavor with almond or vanilla.
Scotch Toast. Take four slices Of
bread half an inch thick; toast and but
ter well; remove the crust and spread
over them some anchovy paste; lay
them one on the other, pour over them
thick melted butter made with milk,
send to table very hot.
"A great deal of time may be saved
II knee-pads are made for children who
creep. or who in playing, are upon their
knees much. Take pieces Of heavy
cloth; cut them to fit the knee; make
them as thick as you please; tie them
on with tapes or fasten them with rub
Der bands.
Stock should be well sheltered
during the winter, for when unprotected
from the cold winds and snow storms a
great deal of the food goes to maintain
animal heat, instead of adding pounds
of flesh to the animal. The scarcity of
grain and the consequent high prices
will make this winter good time to try
the experiment of economizing food by
sheltering stock.
1t is reported upon good authority
that upwards of 600 American horses
are now doing service in the French cav.
airy, and have given so good satisfaction
that the French army officers induced
their Secretary of War to send two OF
their most trusty officers to this country
last season to inspect our horses. They
want a compact, hardy. active animal
about fifteen and three-fourths hands
high.
Here is an excellent rule to follow
in making mince pies: Four pounds OF
beef Ground steak is good), two pounds
of suet, eight pounds of apples, four
pounds of sugar, two pounds Of raisins,
two tablespoonful Of cinnamon, one
tablespoonful of allspice, one nutmeg,
two quarts of boiled cider, half pint OF
molasses, one-half cup of salt. OF
course you can vary this rule; in place
of salt you can use butter, and less
quantity will answer.
"A correspondent of the Indiana
Farmer says he has been manufacturing
molasses for the past twenty years and
has never known of hog dying with
cholera while being fed on the waste
from sorghum factory; but has known
cases where hogs after beginning to take
the disease and after some of them had
died, the remainder-though some of
them sick-were entirely freed from the
disease by eating the waste. His neigh
bors frequently haul away the waste and
use it.
There is the saying of an ancient
philosopher that "The study of man.
kind is man." and we would add that
the study Of farmer is the farm.
To diversity proftably, the farm must
be studied, tested and proven in prac-
teal manner, Just as the attorney would
study his clients case, or the physician
would diagnose the case of his patient.
Soil, subsoil, slope to or from the sun,
drainage, manures, etc., must be decid-
ed and acted upon with all the light that
can be brought to bear, for this is an age
of progress, and we cannot be caught
mapping.
-Corns are the result of mechanical
injury to the sole of the foot, such as
blows by stones or pressure of the shoe.
To cure them, the corn, which is really
blood tumor, like blood blister caused
by blow on the skin, should be opened
and the blood or matter collected in it
let out. A sole-leather shoe should then
be put over the whole hoof and the iron
shoe fitted over this. The iron shoe
should be carefully fitted so that the part
of the foot which has the corns upon it
would be wholly relieved from pressure
If thought necessary little compound
tincture of benzoin may be injected in
the corn to stimulate its recovery and
healing.-N. Y. Times.
The owner of village garden form
erly used asparagus tops as winter Gov
ering for the strawberry bed, moving
them off during the Christmas month,
and laying on when the ground was
frozen hard enough to bear, for shelter
from wind and change of temperature.
But the asparagus seed would drop
down, and in spring would vegetate and
cause so much trouble to get the young
plants pulled out by the only means that
will save the strawberries--the fingers
and thumb, used as pincers--that he
gave up the asparagus plan and was put
to wits end to find substitute. Last
June, however, he pulled from the as
paragus bed all the female plants. Now
there is not a berry to be seen on the
haulm, and he returns to the convenience
of using it as strawberry shelter, for
which it serves well, retaining the snow
without excluding light.