The clarion., 1883-10-31
FARM AND GARDEN.
There Is no better food for chickens
than skim milk.-Chicago Journal.

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The advantages of having early-ma-
turing corn have never been so well
demonstrated as this year. Bear it
in mind in saving seed for next year.
Exchange.
Hickory-nut cream cake is made Of
two teacups of sugar, half cup OF
butter, one cup of thin cream, three
and half .cups of flour, two teas
poonfuls of baking powder mixed
with ithe dry flour, three eggs, the
whites and yolks beaten separately,
and one large cupful of the hickory
nuts chopped or broken in small bits.
N. Y. Post.
An agricultural writer has found
salt sprinkled on q manure heap an
excellent application both for summer
and winter. he says: "In warm
weather it attracts moisture and keeps
the manure from ire-fanging or burn
ing from excessive fermentation. In
winter,it keeps the heap from freezing
solid, and at any season it makes the
manure more soluble.
A Nebraska farmer says hay is ben
efcially fed in his State. The hay is
cut short, mixed with bran, shorts or
middlings, and fed as other feed,
though hogs like it better if soaked
in swill or slops. at puts on flesh as
rapidly as anything that can be given
them"
Col. F. D. Curtis says: 81 do not
agree with our chemical brethren,
ycleped professors, who tell US tur-
nips are nearly all water and of no
value. Practical experience teaches
me that this scientific dogma is a mis-
take; and is it not curious that an
Englishman can make the best of
beef and mutton out of waterp-
n. Y. Times.
To expedite the making of lem
on pie use hot water in place of cold,
stir the cut-up lemon, the sugar and
corn starch or fo1r and eggs together,
rs if you were making pudding sauce;
then pour in hot water; if the pail or
basin containing this is then placed
in Ia vessel OF boiling water it will
cook in five minutes.-Exchange.
Here il an idea for housewives
afflicted with the pest of reaches.
1t is reported that the green peel Of
cucumbers laid along the edge of the
floor where they''most do congregate,
and repeated. freshly for two or three
nights, will drive every cockroach
from the premises. This is an unfail-
lug remedy, and the secret is in the
fact that the juice of the peel is alike
irresistible and poisonous TO the self
ish vermin.
Shoulda fowl become crop-bound
work the crop we'll with the hand,
and endeavOr to force away the OBJ
struction in the passageway to the
gizzard. Should this fail, draw the
skin TO one side and cut the crop suf-
iiciently to relieve it of the contents.
Sew up the wound with silk, and the
fowl will not be seriously damaged.
After the cutting besure the obstruc-
tion in the passage is removed as well
as the contents.-N. Y. Post.
For an oatmeal drink the proper
tions are a quarter of a pound foat-
meal to two or three quarts of water,
according to the heat of the day; it |
should be well boiled and then one
ounce or an ounce and half of brown
sugar added. If thicker than liked add
more water. Before drinking,it shake
the oatmeal well through the liquid.
In summer drink this cold, in winter
hot. 1t not only quenches thirst, but
it gives more strength and endurance
than any other drink. IF it cannot
be boiled take little oatmeal mixed
with cold water and sugar, but this is
not so good. N. Y. Herald
Jenny Lind Pudding: Peel ten or
Twelve good tart apples and slice them
very thin, or chop fine; CRATE several
-hick slices of dry bead or rub them
through colander; place in pudding !
lish, well-buttered, a layer Gf apple,
With plenty of sugar and grated lemon
peel, or powdered cassia; then layer
IF bread crumbs, with bits of butter
all over it; fill up the dish s
IN this way, and bake for three-quar-
Iers of an hour; serve with whipped
Household.
A favorite way to cook potatoes
now is to boil them with their Jackets :
until they are tender, and then dry ,
them off in hot oven. Swees potatoes !,
are excellent also cooked in this way.
Of course care must be taken to re-
move the potatoes from the boiling ;
water as soon as they are tender. N
There is no vegetable that gains more :
Dy being prepared with due attention :
han the potato, and the difference :,
between a soggy, water soaked potato =
md one that is properly cooked is Z
,reater than many women seem to : ),
,now.-Chieago Journal. Z Z
A correspondent of the Country 4
Gentlemen finds coal ashes of benefit. r,
lis unusual experience will be read Il
With interest. OF them he observes: D
While | am slow to praise or con- e
emn, can not, after long trial, re r,
use to say word to their credit, at II
east on my soil, which is rather ten Fl
eious clay; and the more readily do ci
t, every one says: What good gar o,
en- you have ? and another will say: is
You have the best garden l have h,
een; and when | tell them my only :
manure is coal ashes, either spread
roadeast at once or composted with
.eeds and the refuse of the house,
ightsoil, etc they will hardly be-
eve me. ii
The MODEL FARM-The Keota oil
owa) Eagle has at last found west q
n man who is satisfied with a fifty 10
re farm. His name is Artemns pa
isher, and he lives one mile and WI
Ilfsouth of Keota. The Eagle tells w
e story of his management and of ihl
5 success as follows: IN;
He keeps one team of horses, three an
st class mileh cows, and nice little I'M
oyeof the best hogs. He milks cows we
the creamery, and they made him wa
arly 5000 last wear; will perhaps Dy
better this year. He will sell $500 ,ne
nth ofhogs this year and have thir- lar
stockers to keepover. He has 5000 IN
nth of fax seed to sell; has an abun. va
nee of hay and grain to keep his Ini
'ck IN FIRST class condition during me
: winter. He keeps everything in dul
ple-pie order about his farm: his ON
vs. reveI in clover up to their eyes: sne
attends to feeding, Watering and als Is
king as regularly as the clock .1 lsiI