Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-12
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

How TO MAKE GOOD MILKERs.-No
matter what breed you have, something
further is necessary in order to reach the
best success in raising good mixers.
Good blood, Short Horn, Jersey, Devon,
Ayrshire, grade or native, is not every
thing, but lies at the foundations; some
thing can not come from nothing. Treat
ment in raising mixer should be some
what different from that in raising beef
animal, or an animal for labor. Begin as
soon as the calf is day old; see that it has
sufficient to eat, and is kindly treatsd and
regularly attended to. Never pamper or
overfeed. but give it good, generous food,
to cause regular. steady and early
growth. Accustom it to be handled, but
not to such an extent as to acquire OBJ
jectionable habits as COW, but rather to
be fond of the presence of the keeper,
Kindness helps to create quiet DISPOSE
ton, SO important in dairy COW, and
education must begin when the COW is
young-any habits acquired when young
are apt to cling to the cow when grown
For mixer would have the heifer
come in at two years old. She is then old
enough to become COW. Iwonld not, as
rule, allow her to 60 farrow, but milk
her up to within week of calving, even
if did not obtain but a little at milk.
ing. A COW thus trained will give more
milk and be more likely to hold out long
in milk, if her aftercare is judicious and
liberal, as it should be-. Such treatment
tends to form the habit of giving milk,
and as we know, habit is sort of second
nature. Couple the heifer with an older
bull, one, two or three years older than
she IS, is preferable to yearling, and
better stock is likely to come from such.
After the heifer has come in, her feed
should be regular and liberal. Good clo-
yer hay is the best of all, but we all may
not have this for stall feed; then we must
make up for what is lacking, in some con.
centrated feed such as oaJ meal, shorts,
oil meal or the like, but great care and
good judgment must be used not to over
feed or crowd as the future cow may be
ruined. Undue forcing shortens the USE
full life of the cow very rapidy.-W. II.
White, in Country Gentleman.
OIL CLOTH FOR STOVE STANDS
Housekeepers will hail with delight the
following sugge ,tion of a wise woman
who writes to an exchange that after
twenty-five years of hard work in kitchen
dnd parlor, she had come to the conclu-
sion that although it might cause re yo-
luton in the civilized world. she would
never put another zinc under her sitting
room stove. She ampllfied her statement,
saying: "The time I have spent on nv
knees securing that zinc, if otherwise en-
p,oyed, would have made me a Wellxread
woman, or if devoted to my children
would have been of great benefit to them
and comfort to me'' Her words seemed
to me to have great force in them, and the
result was that our own stove was put up
Without the customary zinc. Certain
members Of the family who had prcphe-
lied the destruction of the house by fire
were surprised to find we were just as we'll |
oH Wiououo ~. IA uodVy Oll GlOLQ Win !
papers under it, was put under the stove,
and although it is base burner, and we
kept large room warm with it, the expert
ment was a success. The oil cloth is east |
ly taken care Of. Wash it with warm suds. !
tLen with warm milk and water, wping |
with soft cloth,
EXTRA SPONGE CAKE.-One teacup
tine sugar, roll and put in a bowl; three
large or four small eggs, put the yolks in
to the sugar, and beat the whites to stiff
froth, add to others also beaten; beat five
minutes. Add little nutmeg and the
juice of one lemon. One cup of flour, stir
only just enough to get the flour in; here
in lies the secret OF success. Bake in a
quick oven.
DELICIOUS BREAKFAST several
slices of salt pork to crisp brown. Then
take five or six large potatoes, pare and
slice them, drop them in the hot pork
gravy, turn them on both sides to brown,
9our over them three well-beaten eggs.