Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-16
FARM AND PIREsIDE.


Mr.. A. b. Darling. of NeY York
City, has refused $4,000 for his Jersey
COW "Bomba-"
Plant a few acres of artichokes.
When once seeded they need no replant-
ing. They will give the most feed for
pigs for the least money of any crop that
Is raised.-M Y. Herald.
Here Is n recipe for steamed brown
bread: One quart of Indian meal, one
pint of rye flour; stir these together and
add one quart of sweet milk. one cup OF
molasses, two teaspOOnfuls OF soda; add
a little salt, and steam for four hours
". y. Post
Simple dessert: Put eight crackers
In n deep dish, pour enough boiling
water over them to just cover them, and
when soaked (Which will not take longer
than five minutes) CRATE little nutmeg
over, sprinkle with sugar. cover with
cream, and serve. Try 1.-THE House
hold.
The layer cake so popular now,
made OF two LAYERS Of white cake with
one Of fruit cake in the middle. may be
varied deliciously by making the middle
layer Of walnut cake. For this, II the
cake Is large one. take two-thirds Of a
cup OF sugar, one-third OF n cup OF but
ter, one cup Of flour. one egg, one tea
spoonful Of baking-powder and nearly
one cup of hickOry-nut meats.-E1-
change.
-Roup in fowls consists in swelling
Of the head, eyes and throat and dis
charge of white matter. The remedy is
90 wash the parts with warm water and
then with warm vinegar. with a little
salt in IL. Clean the throat with n feather
dipped In the vinegar. Give the fowls
some meal mush warm. with n small
pinch Of chlOrate Of potash in IL for each
fowl.-DctrOa Post.
Lancashire Pie: Take cold beet OF
veal, or mutton. Chop and season as
for hash; have ready hot mashed pota.
toes, seasoned as II for the table, put in
n shallow baking-dish first a layer oil
meat, then n layer Of potatoes, and 50
on, till the dish is heaping full; smooth
over the top OF the potatoes, and make
little holes, in which place bits OF but
ter; bake until n nice BROWNE Chicago
Journal.
The best grass for n most, shaded
meadow is Orchard-grass. 1t may b,
sown in the spring by itself, and will be-
ready for pasturing in the fall. 1t would
be advisable to SOW with il an equa
quantity of blue grass, which will come
in and thicken up the bottom growth
after the second year, and will make {
late pasture for the fall. One or on,
and one-half bushels of each should b,
sOwn per acre. These seeds weigl
thirteen pounds To the bushel. Super
phosphate loses nothing by keeping owe
II II Is kept dry. In using IL with corr
Il should be scattered over the seed o
about il before il is covered. 1t will no
injure any Seed Toledo Blade.
For baked chicken-pudding cut NJ
n pair of young chickens and season
them with little pepper, mace and nut
meg. Put them into pot with tw,
large spOonfuls of butter and waite
sufficient to cover thep. When hal
cooked take them out and set them ava,
tocool. Pour oil the gravy, reserving !
separately. Make n batter of one quar-
of milk, six well-beatcn eggs, Hour an,
little salt Put n layer OF chicken il
the bottom of n deep dish, pour over
some OF the batter, then another lave
of chicken and more batter, until tn,
dish Is full. having n cover of batter o
the top. Bake To n light brown. Breal
an egg into the gravy you have set aside
give Il one boil and serve rs sauce to b.
eA'en with the pudding.-k. \. Herald