Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-10
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME, FAkM AND dAhDENs
Its found hy experiment that bar
lev terminates at lower temperature
of ground and air than oats. Hence,
barley should be sown as the first soil
ing crop after the fall sowing of rye has
been exhausted .,
The practice Off 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.-TAe Household.
-Tapioca: An easily prepared des-
sert is made of tapioca rit hardly seems
appropriate to call so dainty dish a
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 favoring. Serve with
cream.-Ihe Advance.
1t is easy, according to Mr.. w. D.
Philbrick, to get good supply of let
tuce for the table by planting a 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 tcnnis-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 a 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.-RurGl 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 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 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 a neck
tie; put the tied center of the towel in
the middle of the back of the chair,
and spread the ends out, putting a bow
of ribbon at the center where the towel
is tied. This is particularly good
tidy for gentleman's high-backed
chair, as he may lean his head on either
side without soiling the chair.-M. y.
Post.