Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-06-16
raRm AND HOUSEHOLD.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
PRESERVED STRAW BERRIEs.-Take pound
for pound of berries and sugar. Put them
in 4 preserving kettle over slow fire
until tho sugar melts. Boil twenty-five
minutes fast. Take out the fruit in per-
fersted SKINNER, and Gil number Of
small cans three-quarters full. Boil and
skin, the syrup five minutes longer, fill
up the jars, and seal while hot. Keep in
q cool, dry place.
MARBLE CAKE.-Light part-white su-
gar one and one-half cups; butter QUE
half cup; sweet milk oue-haif cup; soda
one-half teaspoon; white of four eggs;
-four two and one-half cups; beat and
mixed As "Gold Cake" Dark part
brown sugar one cup; molasses one-half
cun. butter one-half cup; sour milk one
half cup; soda one-haif teaspoon; cream
tartar one teaspoon; -four two enc one
half cups; yolks of four eggs; cloves, all
spice, cinnamon and nutmeg, ground, of
each one tablespoon. When each part is
ready, drop a spoon Of dark, then a spoon
OF light, over the bottom of the dish i'll
which it is to be baked, and so proceed to
fill up the pan, dropping the light upon
the dark as you continue with the differ
snt layers.
BREEDING HoRsEs.-A Western contem-
porary renarking upon the good demand
now felt for horses, expresses the belief
that il will stimulate horse breeding by
the farmer who keeps only one, two or
three mares. Itsays: ga mare can do a
large amount of work on the farm and
raise colt at the same time. At this sea-
son, when farmers are looking around for
their breeding stock, the question comes
I'D: What is the best stock TO breed from !
1t is not always what is the best horse for
the farmers. own use, but what will pay
the best, that is, bring the most profit.
One thing is certain, the ordinary farmer
il not in situation to try to breed horses
for speed. 1t is altogether out of his line.
The proper stock to breed from to insure
certain profit is not such as he keeps for
his own use, and the development speed
necessary to secure good prices is entirely
foreign to his business of cultivating crops.
The fast horse craze Of twenty-five years
ago. when every farmer thought to pro-
duce a 40 trotter from the cross OF a
BLACK Hawk or Messenger did an I'M
mense damage to the country. The great
production of small horses Of no speed and
entirely unsuited to the wants OF the coun-
try proved profitable to no o"e, while the
few really fast one1 produced gave profit
IL at all, only after they had passed out Of
the hands Of the farmer. AT the present
time the demand for heavy horses is so
great that farmers are turning their atten-
ton to breeding large horses by crossing
with the large Clydesdale, English
drsught, or the Norman Percheron. The
drst two are very much alike, both In ap-
pearance anG breeding, although the
Clydes have more hardened, enduring
look about them. Yetmany of the Clydes
are from English dams, and as such are
admitted to registry in the Scotch Clydes-
dale register. The Percherons are OF about
the same weight as the British breed, but
are cleaner limbed and rather more active.
Each have their friends and advocates.
At the present time it makes but little dif-
ference which breed is sought to increase
r. "a rnAnt the demand
and secure good prices; neither has the
advantage in this respect for grade STOCK
II then becomes matter OF individual
preference. Formerly, it was thought
iuadvisable to breed large sires to small
mares. but this view has been superseded,
and it is found that small mare will pro-
duce a symmetrical foal from large sire,
and one that will partake largely OF the
character Of the sire. Still, it is not adj
. visablo to go to great extremes, and we
would not advise the use of 2,OOe-pound
sire for the first cross on our common
mares. 1t is probable that we shall not
want as large horses as are used in the old
country. Our ways and methods Of using
will call for faster moving and lighter
weight even for heavy draught, aud
horse of 600 pounds in this country will
all the place for which one of ton weight
would be demanded in England. Our adj
vice would be to avoid mere weight and
look for symmetry, compactness, develop
ment Of muscle and action. The draught
horse needs good limbs and feet as well
as the driver. AS to the profit of using
good sire, the evidence is too apparent to
need discussing. The advance OF few
dollars for first-class sire is the total or
additional expense. The cost Of keeping
will be no more, or, if it is, will hardly
be realized, and it is we'll known that the
prices realized for irst-class, heavy horses
are twice that for light, common horses,
with the demand decidedly in favor of the
former. Horse-breeding has not made
the PROCESS in a general way, with the
other varieties of stock, but the outlook is
now more promising"
At the South Tredegar Iron Works IN
Chattanooga, Tenn, difficulty occurred
between two employees, Lafayette Brow
or and william Thomas. Brewer, who