Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-02
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Pea vines should have plenty OF
sun and air Mold will attack them
II grown in the shade.
Good feed and abundant pasture
will not keep animals in good con-
ditior unless they have plenty of pure
water.
When fruit must be scalded to pre-
vent fermentation it should be boiled
Tor several minutes, or it will do no
manner Of good. and you will have your
trouble for nothing. This applies to
chopped pickle as well. Troy Times.
Hardening is regularly and prac-
tically taught in more than twenty
thousand primary schools in France.
Every school has its garden. and teach
ers must not only be good gardeners,
but qualified to teach horticulture, or
they can not pass examination.
--Rusk: Two tea-cupfuls of raised
bread dough. one tea -cupful of sugar,
one-half cupful of butter, two we'll
beaten eggs, and -four enough TO make
stiff dough. Set it TO rise, and when
light, mold into high biscuit and let
rise again. Sift cinnamon and sugar
over the top. and place in the oven.-
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"A Canadian hortieulturist advises
shading goOseberry bushes to prevent
mildew. He had been troubled with
the birds taking the berries, and had a
frame placed around the bushes. and
laths nailed to it near enough together
to exclude the birds. and this pro, ed To
be exactly the shade required. The Der
ries grew to large size and hung on
the bushes in perfe for long time.
The american Garden SAYS that the
scraping of fruit trees is ten carried
TO excess A healthy, vigorous tree
does not require to be scraped at all: il
needs all its natural bark for protection
against the cod, drying winds of winter
and against the parching sun of sum
mer, as much so as birds need theil
feathers and wild beasts their fur. The
superfluous. scaly part of the bark of 9
healthy tree is continually thrown of
by its own expansion.
When meal is fed plain to cows,
they often pass il with but half dlges-
ton, or in this shape it is apt to pas:
into the intestines without being re
tured with the cud to be remasticated
/ Ahho iOSSs anu 10 prevent
mix the food with wet cut hay. straw
fodder or other coarse food. 1t is saiC
that meal fed dry. if not mixed Will
rough feed, will be better masticateC
than when it is fed wet WesteysI Agyi
cui.Urisi
No garden will give satisfa ,lion /
it is cold and wet. The advantae., of s
few bitches or tiles under ground car
not be est mated. The earliest ve3eta
bles are produced on warm, dry. s',el
low soils, and this state can not be 1t
tanned until the garden is made so by
drainage. Sandy soils drain thcmSelva,
sufficiently. unless underlaid with elias;
when they. too, must be drained. in or
der to allow the surplus moisture t.
pass off Cleveland Leader.
Veal Salad: Cut fine some col
stewed veal, removing every scrap c
fat, gr.stle and skin; aid three quarter
of the same bulk of chopped celery
Pour over them a dressing made ~ fol
lows: Rub the yelks of two hard boile
eggs. smooth; add pepper, salt. suga
aud mustard; moisten with raw ego
well beaten; add the vinegar by de
grees, beating hard all the time
Spr. nkle salt over the veal and celer
before pouring on the dressing. Net
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