The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-06-14
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improves the flavor.
A small piece of charcoal in the pot with
boiling cabbage removes the smell.
Do not salt fresh meat while frying until
it is nearly cooked as sailing makes the
Juice of the meat run out more and the
meat is not so tender.
Let the fat meat fry some time before
putting in lean pieces, as the latter Try
sooner than the former and become too
hard before the tat pieces are done.
One bushel of corn and oats ground to-
gether and ted to poultry will produce fiji
Teen pounds of flesh. How many pounds
of pork would the same quantity OF food
producep .
The skin of boiling egg is the most eff.
fective remedy that can be applied to a
boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply to
| ter and relieve the soreness in few hours.
Over 10000 carloads of live and dressed
poultry are carried into New York yearly
and $4,000, 900 dozen OF eggs go to the same
market. According to the best estimates,
the United States produce nine thousand
millions OF eggs annually.
In the western states or territories, where
the largest number of cattle are Kept, there
is great scarcity of good milking stock.
MANY of the cows are of southern origin,
and they are almost invariably Door milk.
ers. The hot and dry climate of Texas and
other parts of the south is unfavorable to
| the production OF good mixers.
Bee-keepers can easily exterminate ants
| by putting about two ounces OF lard Oil in
| small tin can without top. bury the can
about half way lin the earth near the ants
nest, and leave it until next day. II any
ants are seen outside of the can, pour lit
tie more oil into it, stir 1t with stick, and
let it stand little longer, when the last ant
within travelling distance will be drowned
in the oil.
In Vermont the dairy interest has been
more intelligently conducted than in most
other sections. The result is that the but.
ter yield of cows has increased in the last
fourteen years an average OF fifty pounds
per COW. The increase is nearly all clear
profit as the cost of keeping good cow is
no more than that of keeping poor speci-
men.
A very valuable fertilizer is lost by not
saving the manure from the hen-house,
which is nearly as strong as guano. The
health of the fowls demands that the
poultry-bouse be regularly cleaned, and at
each cleaning the droppings may be placed
in barrel, with alternate layers OF road
dust or coal ashes, each layer an inch in
thickness.
The Madison Journal last week devoted
considerable space 10 advising farmers to
4 o raising so much cotton. Among other
Innings il saws: "a four-year; old steer or
COW can be raised in Madison parish at a
cost not exceeding that of a turkey In
Illinois, yet all OF our corned and dried
beef comes from that country. Three
pounds of bacon can be made cheaper here
than one pound of lint cotton, yet we send
TO st. Louis pound and aquarter oil cotton
to get pound of the former"
Finely favored aromatic, sweet butter
can only be secured through the use OF
percentage Of new milch cows IN the dairy
at all seasons. Darlington, the famous
Philadelphia butter-maker, milks his cows
for butter only three or four months after
cheese or 10 the supply Of the city milk
trade. Butter made from the milk Of far
row cows is inclined TO crumble and taste
cheesy.
Suppose a farmer who keeps half dozen
or more COWS, and has not been In the habit
ofraising roots, were 10 sell one OF his cows
and use the entire proceeds for raising
beets for the remainder II he could thus
sell lust as much milk or butter as he
Otherwise would from the whole number,
he could certainly save the cost OF fodder,
and the labor of milking and caring for the
COW sold. These items would provide in ad-
vance for the next crop OF roots, and 30 on
Butter which Is well washed in good wa
ter. especially when IL is gathered in pellets
or granules instead OF in mass, has no
taste OF buttermilk, and Tor this reason those
who prefer that favor do not admire II 30
much as unwashed butter. Nine out OF
every ten persons, however, prefer the pure,
distinct and full flavor Of butter unadulter-
ated with buttermilk, or disguised with ex-
cessiye salt, and this flavor IL only obtained
BY washing every particle OF buttermilk
from Il, and avoid the working which must
follow when washing IL omitted.
The first impression made on the popu-
lar mind BY any great Improvement IN
maobipery or locomotion, amer the admit
sion Of their beneficial effect, is that they
will. in some way or other, diminish tie
demand for labor or for other machinery.
Hence II was that In Europe the introduc-
ton Of printing was denounced on account
Of lis supposed tendency 20 diminish the
employment OF writers OF copyists- twas
long before this preludice could Pe over
thrown. but the subject is nov much better
understood. II IL now established A. q
general principle that machines facilita-
ting labor increase the amount OF labor ~.
oufred. This dote chiefly BY cbeapening
the production Of labor % that more can
Be consumed, and ultimately more labor
employed- The Introduction OF cotton
and wool machinery was followed oy|
oufbresks Of workmeD against ms
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tben that hundreds OF Thousands Of men
nd women are employed In the manuisc-
turs Of cotton who would not have ben II
marhinsrv had not cheapenedc0tton cloth.
80 that Il would Be introduced into general
ne. 90 Il might Be assumed that tbe IN
PRODUCTION Of sewing machines would ~
oucs throw many sewing women out Of
srnrlovmeuf. bat such Il not the fsct.
Many more sewing women nre n0H employ
- ffst there were before the sewIng ms
~ffue ues frtroduced. 10 the sane vaT
the Influence 81 rsilroaos vas ~ nrst EeI5
---.-,k r-i.,onrrfvrd. There vas en- idea thaf
- f-rrrrrrfation 81 agricultural procucis
-r~H rrrrIt In Diminishing the M n oer q
$780, uarDnsrs and stearnbosis- Ihe -
~rlt however. proves rrecaeiy NE conilt
- Ho-eps havt multiplied more rApl1lJ
rfrre ~ lrtrod1ction q rEilrDsos tnsn
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