Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-14
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Some English landlords rent cows
to cottages. One third the cost of the
cow is charged each year.
"A little farm well titled and little
wife well willed, is better than a biz
farm which is maltreated and a big
wife who will maultreat you.-CeUe-
land Leader.
Put few ears of corn in the oven
and let them remain until reduced to
charcoal. Feed this to the fowls and
notice the increased egg production.
". y. Herald.
Less grain and more grazing tend
to better development of frame and
muscle thar when corn is fed to hogs
exclusively. Build the frame first. and
lay on the fat afterward.-M T. Times.
MIR. c. Nj. Clay tells the National
StoeSmdn that his mowing-machine has
been used fifteen years and is good for
as many more. 1t is put under shelter
every night, and so are all his farm
tools, small as well as large, no matter
how promising the weather.
"A correspondent of the New York
Tribune says that any one who allows
his fruit trees to slowly starve to death
and then adds insult to injury by
blaming them for not rewarding his in
-dolence with bonStiful crops, deserves
TO be debarred from good fruit the re-
mainder of his life.
Prof. F. w. Stewart, IL his recent
useful book, celebrates the cow as ''the
most remarkable producer among ami
mails. " She gives, at her best, nearly
seven times her own weight per annum
in milk, of food value tw ce as great as
the beef creature of equal size gains
during the same time.-Jticd IN. "
Herald.
To make an excellent apple pie
pare and slice thin six tart apples. Line
the pie plate with paste made of two
cups of sifted flour, one cupful of but
ter. ye.ks OF two eggs, one-half cup of
cold water; put in the apples and
sprinkle with brown sugar, cinnamon,
flour and pinch of salt; wet the edge :.
cover with paste rolled out thin, and
bake in n moderate oven.
-Beets fried in batter: Cut well
cooked bcetroot in slices and then place
between each two slices thin layer of
force-meat, composed of finely chopped
onion. parsley and any herbs that are
liked, with pepper, salt aud little mus
tard. Dip these double slices into a
good batter and then fry them in plenty
of dripping until they are a good color
Serve very hot, and with a little salt
scattered over
One of the best known remedies for
chilblains is a liniment made as follows:
Take an ounce of camphorated spirits
and one-half ounce of the liquor of sub
acetate of lead. Mix and apply three
or four times day. Another valuable
remedy is oil of turpentine, four parts;
sulphuric acid, one part; olive oil, ten
parts. Mix and apply night and morn
ing. In mild cases relief is to be had
by bathing the feet in one part of mu-
ratio acid in sixteen parts of water
Chicago NeOs.
Attention of drivers is invited by
the National Stockman 10 a horse fact
worth remembering. especially in
spring: Don't think Your horse in
best condition to endure a long trip OF
har.l drive because he has stood in
stable for weeks and done nothing. II
there is ever time that he is soft it i.
after long idle spell, but many un-
thinking men do not realize this, and
horses of standing and staying qualitie
are often injured BY being brought toe
suddenly from iGleness to hard labor