The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
FARM AND FIREsIpE.


DO not allow q single bone to lie
wasting about your farm or yard. Bury
them at the roots of grape-vines or fruit
trees. Chicago Journal.
The Birmingham Medical Rerteu
recommends for chilblains equal parts of
dilute nitric acid and peppermint waters
to be applied daily at first, and then
twice day.
Baked beets make good side dish.
Wash them clean, put them in q pan
with little water in it, and bake until
they are perfectly tender; when done
remove the skin and serve in the same
way as boiled beet.-Chicago NeUs
1t is stated that "quite host of
farmers there are who might make duck
raising profitable if they would only
make the effort; for there is as much
profit in breeding ducks for market as
there is in raising any other kind OF
stock"
Ginger cake: Three ounces butter,
five ounces sugar, half ounce ginger,
half ounce cinnamon, half ounce mace,
two large eggs, half pint of molasses,
one pint of milk (cold.) half ounce
salaratus (dissolved,) one pound flour;
mix the proportions successfully as they
are noted above and bake in small
moulds in a hot oven.-N Y. Herald.
Something worth knowing by who
ever uses kerosene lamp: 1t is better
to remove the crust from the wick by
brushing it off with a cloth or feather,
than to trim the wick with shears. The
brushing method is the one generally
followed in lighthouses, the experience
being that an even wick is more surely
obtained than by cutting. boston Tran
script.
For soft custard, boil one pint of
milk in double boiler; beat the yelks of
three eggs and add one-half a cup of
sugar and tablespoonful of salt. Pour
the boiling milk over the eggs and cook
in the double boiler until it thickens like
cream, stirring all the time. Strain, and
when cool add one-half of teaspoonful
of vanilla. Heat stiff the whites of three
eggs, scald them over a sieve, drain and
pile them lightly on the custard and
garnish with jelly.
For mango in dogs / would recon-
mend that you procure the following
wash: Pyreligneous acid, four ounces;
glycerine, three ounces; water, four
ounces. Mix together and battle the
skin diseased. Use a soft sponge care
fully until the skin is saturated with the
mixture. If the dog is long haired shear
him, but not too close. This mixture is
harmless, and will cure in nearly every
case. Remember and keep it well mixed
while using it.-MIrror and Farmer.
An English writer suggests the pos
sibility of COMPRISING green fodder into
small bales by means of press some
thing like a hay press, and piling these
bales in any convenient building, filling
up the crevices between the bales, and
the space between the bales and the wall,
with chaff. This ne thinks would be as
well as to pack the fodder in an under
ground silo, and press it all at once with
heavy weights, and at the same time
could be stored away or fed out much
more easily.
"A legacy of the war in Georgia is
plant called by the people Egyptian
clover. 1t is very hardy, kills out weeds
and other forage plants, is highly eS-
teemed by stock and affords abundant
pasturage where nothing else will grow.
If unmolested it will of itself take pos
session of field and produce sod, re-
quiring no seeding, cultivation or atten-
ton of any kind. So says Southern
paper, and, if true, the plant is a valua-
BILE one.-DetroI Post.