South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-05-02
Farmer and House Keeper.

Farmer and House Keeper.
HAsrY PupDINo.-Mix two cups OF
-four with one cup Of cold milk; have
ready one pins OF boiling milk and Stir
in gradually; pour back irto thick
vessel on the stove anil stir until 10
boils pour into deep disb. and servo
with molasses or butter and sugar.
VEAL CurLET. Veal requires more
cooking than any meat except pork.
1t is too dry 10 broil. and is best fried
and served with nice gravy. II should
be fiisd slowly, and Ii tEcro is not e.
nougA OF its own fat TO fry II. q little
fresh suet will answer. When Il Is
dose, remove the meat To u platter ana
pour some milk into the pan. adding a
small piece Of butter il you think il Will
not be rich enough. Moistcn some -four
with little milk. and stir il into the
milk in tue an. The gravy will he COL
ored beautiful brown from the juices
OF the meat that have dried ON the pan
Iii IL IL we'll stirred. Boat up an sxr
an stir it into the gravy just before
taking it up, aud then pour j, around
the mcat.-Mrs. c. G. HEaBEItr.
CLAcK Car PUDpfNa.-Oac opQ. one
cup OF nonr, two cups Of milk. Butter
a basin and throw in hal! cup OF clean
washed currauts; bolt or steam one
hour. and serve with butter aud sugar,
CocKrEs.--One cup Of sugar, one cup
OF butter, three eggs. ten 'tcaspoonsful
OF water, or milk, three teaspoonsful Of
baking 20 wder; flavor with lemon, roll
in sugar ard cut in diamond shape.
A simple and delicate desser. is made
ny dissolving hat an ounce Of gelatine
in pint of cold milk; when entirely
dissolved add quart Of milk and sugar
to your taste. and the yolks OF four eggs.
Boil until like custari; just before re-
moving from .hc Ere adj tic Whites OF
tho eggs well beaten, tlavor and pour
into moulds; when cold turn out Of tho
moulds and serve with cream or With
fruit.
Professor Stewart states that ten
pounds of turnips. with one and half
pounds OF corn, will fatten q young
sheep or lamb faster than three pounds
OF corn alone.
a mixture Of sulphur aud lard is n
safe and harmless remedy for the exter-
mination OF lice on cattle. Rub it "a
long the back and 5risket and anoint
parts here and thore wherever neces ,ary.
! Clinkcrs may be looscned from ilre
! hrirka hu ti.rnty,,.rx into
when very hot, two or three quarts of
oyster or clam shells, or less quantity
of salt, allowing the fire to 40 out, and
then cleave eff the cliukcrs,
To drill holes in glass, take n good
steel drill and wet with saturated So.
luton OF camphor in oil OF turpeDtine.
1t Is said that holes may be rapidly drill.
ed in this way tbro Igh he thickcst plate
glass.
| what we need on the farms are indie
pendent meD--men who have the cour--
| age TO leave the Old beaten track, and
reach out on ali sides after knowledge
aud accept the teachings OF science and
tho products OF Invention. which give
them promise of greater success. What
we need il higher education. We
cannot expect this OF oil he ads, but our
hope is in Che Using generation, who
are TO take up the implements Of labor
as they fall from the hands of the fatE.
ere. -Colman's Rural World.
Harness should never be hung In tho
horse-stable, and yet tl,is is almost Tho
universal practice. There Is always
moisture from the lungs and manure of
the animal, and the finest, therefore
! most offensive dust ia in the stable.
More than tbi', the gases arising fropi
the manure are very damaging, rapidly
rot,ing the harness.
I Gardening is regularly and practical :
ly taught III more than 10000 primary
schoo'sin France. Every school has IL .
garden, and teachers must not only be
good gardeners, but qualified 10 teach
horticulture, or tn y cannot pass exam
ination.
Ia planting cuttings of gooseberries
and currants single slcmmcd bushes
should always be preferred; therefore,
select Tue young growths of last year,
which should be AZ least 0 inches long.
IL inches or ID inches not being too
Euch. Gu. out all tho eyos or buds
except two or three At top, ard plant
firmly in rows Is inches apart and 6 in.
ches apart ia the row.
Leaks ia roofs, about cbimneys and
elsewhere, may DO stopped by thicken-
ening white lead pailt with fue clean
sand. Openings are easily 1lled with
J this cement and become durabIv water
tightly Y. Times.
Colonel +. ID. Curtis says in The Coun
try Gentleman that great many far
meis comfort themselves with the notion
thst u they change see5 with some 9th
or farmer they are doing good thing
ms IS mistaken idea. Seed should
he InnTnvaH o.H toI,o.. -