The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-11-24
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Hardness is the most essential
requisite in fruit trees. No matter how
beautiful the fruit and foliage. they will
prove Improbable unless able to with
stand severe winters. -ETchdnqe.
Orphan agricultural colleges are
about to be established in Algeria, to
relieve the overlooking institutions of
Paris and to give the children practi-
cal education which will fit them for
the designs France has in view con-
corning prospective colonies.
Every barnyard should have wa
ter-tuh. 1t does not pay to let cows
run a-field in the winter for their water.
If possible, tap some mountain spring or
stream If you cannot do that, a hy-
drSulic ram wial force water over an
ordinary hill from a valley stream.
Some way or ether, have water.-M. Y.
Times.
Farmers Tea Cake: To two cups
of sour milk allow one large teaspoon
full of soda, dissolve this in a little hot
water, then stir in the milk; half tea,
spoonful of salt is required, and enough
buckwheat flour to make stiff batter;
put this In well-buttered tin and bake.
for half al hour in hot oven.-TOledo
Blade.
The agricultural EpttoniStremarks
that las crops cease growing the farmer
usually ceases to fight insect enemies.
He evidently forgets that the fall in.
sects are many times the very ones
which prepare the mischief for the next
spring and summer. Fall web-worms
oh, ho
of borers come from eggs laid in the
early fall
A nice ginger cup-cake is made Of
two cups of powdered sugar stirred
into cream with two cups of butter.
The butter may be warmed until 1t is
soft, but not melted; add three well
beaten eggs, cup of molGsses, four
cups of flour, q tablespoonful of ginger
and one of soda, the soda dissolved in a
little hot water. Mix well and bake in
gem-pans in a moderate oven.- Chicago
Tribune.
Sauce for common fruit padding
Is nice made of one cup of sugar, an
even tablespoonful of -four, and one of
butter. Mix to cream, pour boiling
water over this and stir until there are
no Jumps, then PUT it on the steve and
keep it there until it is cooked, say for
ten or even fifteen minutes. Flavor
with nutmeg and put in large spoon
full of molasses to give it rich brown
,color-N. Y. Post.
-Over-crowding of fowls is she cause
of nearly all diseases that occur among
them. There is too much strife and
competition among them when kept in
large numbers, and the same is true of
animals. The largest breeder of fowls
in the world, Hawkins, of lancaster,
Mass, divides his large flock into many
smaller ones. He keeps over 1000
hens on the Same farm, and finds them
profitable. In addition to this number
of hens thousands of chicks are an
nually Matched and sent to the large
cities. Ctncj'3aah Times.
The pumpkin contains six or seven
times as much water as either corn or
oats; in a word, it is food in: a state of
much greater dilution. Analysis proves
that even if the pumpkin should be
freed from its large percentage of
water, corn and oats remain much
more valuable as feeding stuffs. While
pumpkins cannot be recommended as
fat-producing material, they possess ex-
'cellent milk-producing qualities, and
being cheaply aaised, may be counted
as valuable foSd for mich eows.-N.
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