The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-04
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Small doses of salt viii check
hemorrhage of the lungs or stomach.
Potash, whether in the shape of
wood ashes, or in the form of sulphate
or muriate, is special fertilizer for
melons.
The practice of running hay
through hay-cutter and reducing it to
as short pieces as possible, and then
mixing with corn and sending to an or
binary grist-mill to be ground into
provender for poultry, has been followed
for several years by certain breeders
with good results.
Steamed Pudding: One cup of mo-
lasses, one cup of sweet milk, one cup
of chopped suet or one-half cup Of but
| ter, one cup of raisins, or any kind of
dried berries, three cups of flour, two
teaspoonfuls of soda, one teaspoonful of
salt, and one-half teaspoonful of all
kinds OF spices. Steam two and one
half hours. To be eaten warm with
sauce. The Household.
-Tapioca: An easily prepared des-
sert is made of tapioca hardly seems
| appropriate to call so dainty a dish
| pudding. Soak cupful OF tapioca for
an hour in cold water, then boil, adding
warm water enough to allow it to ex-
! pand; when tender sWeeten it, and take
| from the fire; add an orange cut in
small bits for flayoring. Serve with
cream. The AdUance.
1t is easy, according to Mr.. w. D.
Philbrick, to get a good supply of let
tuce for the table by planting few
dozen plants from the hot-bed, which
can be bought of any gardner, and SOW
ing at the same time seed of the black
seeded tennis-ball variety. Sow every
ten days and thin out the plants so as
to leave them standing ten inches apart.
The land can hardly be too rich for let
tuce, and if the weather should be hot
and dry it will need watering.
Don't uncover protected grape
vines, strawberry plants, etc., because
we may have warm spell. More harm
is often done in this way than the bene-
/ fit derived from the protection. 1t is
more Important to protect plants from
the quickening effects of warm weather
which is not to last than from the Sc
verest cold of midwinter. Remember
this: there is more harm done to plants
in March and April than in December
and January. -Rural NeaO Yorker.
Give the children each small
| piece of ground and let them play at
gardening. They will at least get
healthy amusement and some knowl-
edge of the growth of plants En-
courage them by helping them with the
hard work of spading and preparing
the ground, and if they succeed in
raising few nice, early strawberries
or peas, or any other vegetable or
fruit that they may take a fancy to
cultivate, buy the produce of them.
If you want them to become farmers it
can only be done by making farming
attractive.-N Y. Herald.
"A pretty way to cover the upper
| part of the back of handsome chair
is to buy a towel of fine quality, and
with heavily fringed ends; tie the cen
Ter of the towel with ribbon or cord
tightly so that the ends of the towel are
left hanging like the ends of neck
tie; put the tied center of the towel in
the middle of the back of the chair,
and spread the ends out, putting bow
| of ribbon at the center where the towel
! is tied. This is a particularly good
tidy for a gentleman's high-backed
chair, as he may lean his head on either
side without soiling the chair. N. Y
Post.