The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
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THE oMELET AS 1T SHOULD BE.

nave Mdue anu eaten OUl0t0G WIFI
they have not. Anything that is
made of eggs and milk and solidlfied
over the fire is called an omelet. Some
people put flour in it. Now, flour
takes fifteen or twenty minutes to
cook, and an omelet is cooked in one
minute. The true omelet is light,
puffy, quivering mass on your plate
porous, flakey, and delicious, and an
ornament to any table. Proceed with
care as follows and you will have an
omelet to be proud of: In the first
place be sure your eggs are fresh or
you will fail; break them in an
earthen dish and beat just enough to
mix the whites and yolks together
nicely, then add tablespoonful of
sweet milk or cream for every egg,
and beat them thoroughly as you
would for sponge cake. Have your
pan perfectly dry and hot
enough to melt but not to brown
your butter, then turn in your omelet
and place over the fire at once, but be
careful it does not burn Take thin
bladed knife and run carefully under
the bottom and let what is not cooked
get below. Do not cook the whole
mass solid or you will have it too hard
and dry, as its own heat will cook 1t
some after it is taken up; commence
at one side and carefully roll over and
over until the whole is in 4 roll, let 1T
brown nice brown. turn out on hot
plate and serve. Do not put a grain
of salt in it while it is cooking or it will
be tough and tlatten as fiat as a grid
die cake. The butter, if well sailed,
will make it plenty salt enough. 1t
requires some little experience and Il
good deal of care to meet with perfect
success, but ! have endeayored to
make it perfectly plain, and if proper
ly made it is very nice. If you wish
to have it very ornamental, spread
over the top whites of two eggs beat
en- to frOth anu set for a moment in
hot oven.
MISTAKES WISE MEN MAKE.
Do not abandon promising indus
try simply because some wise man
sneers at its production. Even scien-
| lists or OLD men give too much advice
| for it all to be sound. Ensilage, SOr-
ghum culture, and other novelties are
worth testing in safe way, nOtWith-
standing the croakerS. DIR. Lardner
| once said no steamer could transport
coal enough to make sufficient steam
to be propelled across the Atlantic.
Humphrey Davy said gas could not be
carried about the city in underground
pipes, aS a single explosion might
ruin the town. Not a scientist in
America would endorse the bell tele-
phone i've years ago. Commodore
Vanderbilt told his son to buy no
railroads outside of New Y ork state.
Seward thought $4,000 men would put
down the rebellion. All the wisdom
in Spain and Portugal discouraged
Columbus. Washington once decided
that the Erie canal was not practical
BILE. Sam Houston thought one-half
the money congress voted to Morse to
build the first telegraph line
ought to be devoted to
encouraging mesmerism. Cave
johnson, postmaster general, declined
to consider purchase of the telegraph
patents for the government for $780,
900, on the ground that it could not
earn expenses. Marsh was called a
lunatic while attempting his inclined
railway up Mount Washington. 1t is
not vouchSafed to any one man to
know everything. 1t is vastly more
conservative to be croaker than a
progressive man, but fortunately for
the world, there are some men en-
doWed with hope, courage and de-
termination Cultivator.
A western journal says There is
nothing improbable in the curing of
swine cholera by the use of kerosine
OIL KEROSENE oil contains carbolic
acid. Carbolic acid is very effective
antiseptic and destroys low forms of
organic life very quickly. By giving
an ounce of kerosine oil, mixed with
milk, to sick pig, the same effect is
produced as by giving small quanti-
ty of carbolic acid, and thus the oil
becomes useful medicine in the
treatment of any disease, such as chol-
era in pigs, which is produced by the
presence in the blood of certain para
site organisms. Charcoal is also an
active antlseptic, and so is burned or
charred corn, or even charcoal may be
given in this disease with good effect,
especially as preventive"
IMPROVE YOUR SOIL.
How to improve light, sandy lands,
munerative With the least expense
and labor, and at the same time bring
them into this condition as soon as
pOSolD1C, Ids 1OllsS OCCA d 1CclulAS RlOD-
lem. To render such soils highly fer
tile is Il work requiring time and
patience. but it is being done. Lands
that were naturally exceedingly bar
rem and worthless in their natural
condition. have, under intelligent and
judicious management, become rich
and valuable. The amelioration of
such soils, it hardly need be said, coz
sists in supplying them with constit-
uents necessary to plant the growth
which they lack in greater or less de-
gree, and in constantly improving
them. TO supply such constituents
in the form of manures of various
kinds at the outset is impracticable in
almost any case by reason of the ex-
pense and labor required; but this
course is not necessary. Nature is
ever ready to afford assistance and
generously second mans effort in this
behalf, if he will adopt proper means
to reach the desired end. She
has provided plants that are
especially adapted to such soils, and
there are others we need not stop to
name, which seize upon the slight
nourishment afforded, and by their
habits of growth, shade the soil, eX-
tract valuable and necessary material
for their own subsistence both from
the earth and the atmosphere, and
work as vigorously as possible to re-
cuperate the productive capacity of
the soil in which they live. Such
crops in time fill the soil with mass
of iibrous roots, cover the surface
with foliage, if there is possibility of
doing so, thus shading the ground and
preventing the evaporation of such
moisture from the earth, and extract
valuable fertilizing matter from the
atmosphere which contributes largely
to supplying fertility. The value of
turning under such crops is well
known, and need not be enlarged upon.
These, with the use of such suitable
manures and fertilizers us can be read
lily supplied, supplemented with
proper rotation of crops, and the keep
ing of live stock, will in time bring
unproductive, light soils into good
degree of fertility.-Fort Worth
(Tex.) Farmer.