Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-05
HOME AND FARM.

Poles cut in the summer will not
last as long as those cut in winter by
1--we years. Soil aud climate of course
make difference with the life of the
poles. Chicago Journal. So.
Too much clover hay fed to horses
IS injurious; they will eat so much of it.,
# allowed TO do so, that they can not
travel fast without injury. 1t should
always be well sprinkled with water be-
tore feeding.-N. Y. Herald. 49,
To take off warts on cows teats:
Touch each wart daily with sharply
pointed stick which has been dipped in
nitric acid (aquafortis), being careful
that the little drop on the point of the
stick vets nothing but the wart. Do
this for a week, and repeat in four
weeks, if any are left.
Rice and cheese form cheap and
palatable dish and liked by most gentle
men. The rice should be steamed until
tender, then seasoned, and enough new
milk added to make it quite moist: put
into buttered baking dish in alternate
layers, with grated cheese, the cheese
to be the last layer. Bake half an hour.
Rural Neao Yorker. -e
Another fraud that has been prac-
ticed is worked as follows: A farmer re.
ceives circular through the mails,
stating that a new and improved variety
of winter wheat has been discovered,
and the seed will be furnished free of
charge, until good crop of said wheat
Is raised, on condition that he sends 81
to pay for packing, etc. The dollar Is
sent, and nothing more is heard of it
Chicago Tribune.
Bread Cake: Dissolve teaspoon
full of soda in half a teacupful of milk
and strain it on three teacupfuls of
raised bread dough, add small teacup-
full of luke-warm melted butter, two
small teacupfuls of sugar, two
teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, and fruit if
you like. Work the whole well together,
put into cake tins, let it rise for an hour,
or till sufficiently light, and bake in a
moderate oven.-1he Household.
The hens that break and eat their
eggs are usually those which are fed
with kitchen waste. Feeuing with meat
or animal flesh seems to cause this bad
habit, and fowls that are supplied with
corn, wheat, scalded bran and meal in
abundance do not seem to practice this
vice. Once it is contracted there seems
to be no cure. A frequent provocation
of the habit is giving egg-shells to the
fowls; they eat these with avidity, and
then learn to break the eggs. Another
cause is too close confinement in a
house or yard and the leaving OF eggs
in the nest to freeze.-Prairie Farmer.
Horses have been successfully cured
of biting by putting piece of hard wood
an inch and half square in the ami
malls mouth, about the same length as
an ordinary snaf1le bit. 1t may be
fastened by thong of leather passed
through two holes in the ends of the
wood and secured to the bride. 1t must
be used in addition to the bit, but in no
way to impede the working of the bit.
Animals with this vice should be treated
kindly in the stable and not abused with
pitchfork handles, whips, etc. An APP
pie, crust of bread. piece of beet, ETC.,
and kind pat, but firm, watchful hand
and eve, with the use of the above wood
en- bit, will cure the most inveterate
bitter. The fact that he can not shut
his mouth or grip anything soon dawns
upon him and then he is conquered
Toronto Globe.