Huntsville gazette., 1883-02-24
HOME AND FARM.

have known calves to refuse
meal and water, where if a little bran
or bran and the least bit of sugar were
added they would take readily to it.
sweet Apple Pie: For common
plate pie, CRATE one and one half large
sweet apples, add one egg, one cup OF
sweet cream, and milk sufficient to fill
the plate. Bake with one crust.-1he
Household.
Chocolate Pudding: One quart OF
milk, three ounces of grated chocolate
Scald them both together. When cool
add the yelks of five eggs and one cup
full of sugar. Bake about twenty-five
minutes. Beat the whites of the eggs
for the top. Brown in the oven. To be
eaten cold.-Erchange.
The Nev England Farmer can
hardly imagine greater misfortune to
an old horse than that he should fall into
the hands of an ignorant and passionate
person with intemperate habits. There
is no place where an old horse is or can
be worth more than on farm, and no
farmer should be inhuman enough to
trade off an old family pet to an un-
known or unkind person.
If winter grain is covered with deep
snow it will sometimes smother, espe-
cially near fences where the snow is
piled in drifts. A good plan to prevent
all danger is to punch holes through the
snow with a crow-bar, reaching to the
ground. This will admit needed air,
and the snow banks will then prove a
valuable protection to the plants. The
holes shoaid be three to five feet apart
all the length of the bank. ~. Y. Times.
Baking Corned Beef: Put ten or
fifteen pounds of the hind leg of beef
into large pan, and scatter over it one
teacupful of fine salt, mixed with the
same quantity of brown sugar, a table
spoonful of ground allspice, the same of
pepper, teaspoonful of saltpeter, and
three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Rub
these ingredients thoroughly into the
beef every day for week or ten days.
Then wash it clean and put suet,
chopped finely, all over it; cover it with
flour and water paste, and bake in the
oven for five or six hours. Serve cold,
cut into thin slices.-1oletlo Blade.
One of the peculiar features OF
farming in the district, covering $40
square miles, known as the wolds in
Yorkshire, England, is what is termed
the hind's, or farm foreman's, house.
Attached to, yet quite separate from,
the foreman's abode, is a sort of bar
rack, containing a mess-room, COM
municating with the foreman's kitchen.
Above the mess-rOOm are a couple of
rooms for sick men, and sleeping rooms
for the laborers are in an ad )ining con-
nected building. The men are hired,
by the year, and the foreman is allowed
from $3.50 to 81 per week for their
board, and also supplied with skim
milk and vegetables. On smaller farms
the laborers lodge ia the tenants house
The system is said to work well. Chi
cago NeiCs.
A farmer who has used wagon
with broad tires on wheels long enough
to ascertain their relative value as COM
pared with narrow tires, writes in the
Farmers RecieC ga four-inch tire will
carry two tons over soft ground with
greater ease to the team than two and
a-half-inch tire will carry one ton. The
wheels are not so much strained by
stones and rough tracks on the road,
and the road is not cut up, but, on the
contrary, is packed down and keeps
smooth. The prevalent idea that the
draft is increased by widening the tire
is altogether baseless; on the contrary,
wide tire reduces the draft The ex-
ira cost of the tire is repaid many times
over every year in the extra work that
can be done by team"