The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-01
FARM n PRESIDE,

Boil a few more potatoes than you
want for breakfast and mash them up
with a little cotton-seed meal for the
calf.-TToy Times.
Never sit or stand with the wind
blowing on you for q single moment,
for it speedily produces a chill, to be
followed with a fever and then a bad
cold.
"A gill of strong green tea is said to
be a specific for sheep poisoned by eat
ing laurel. A farmer who has used
this remedy many years says he has
saved hundreds of sheep by it.
AS soon as there is food for insects
on fruit trees they will be on hand to
eat it. Be ready for them. Watch for
the first '.tents" of the caterpillar and
remove them while small Cleveland
Leader.
To make beef cakes chop some beef
| that is rare, with a little bacon or ham;
| season with pepper and a little onion;
| mix we'll and serve with some good
gravy made from soup-stock thickened
with Drowned fiour.-Al6any Journal.
Bread, biscuit, rolls and the crust
of pies are all greatly improvedinfavo
| and color if they are lightly brushed
over with milk just before they are put
into the oven, A little sugar dissolved
in the milk is an addition also.-M. Y.
Post.
Pumpkin Johnny Cake: Take
pumpkin stewed until it is very dry aud
sweet, and stir corn meal into it until
the mass becomes a rather stiff dough;
spread it on a baking pan on which dry
meal mas been sifted, and bake in a hot
oven.-BostoD Globe.
The best soil for plums, says J. B.
Moore, is one that is stony and heavy.
The plum is a hardy tree. and requires
the same method of pruning as peaches.
Never cut off the small branches until
they die, as it is on the small branches
that the most of the fruit grows
Chicago Journal.
"A nice tea biscuit: One-half cur
butter, two cups sugar, two pints flour
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ont
teaspoonful extract nutmeg. Sift the
flour, sugar and powder together;. rut
in the butter cold and add enough sweet
milk to make a soft dough, add the ex
tract last; roll out half an inch thicl
and cut out with a biscuit cutter; wasl
over with milk and bake twenty min
utes.-The Household.
There is no point about which tn
farmer is SO apt to be in error, tn,
american DdirynaGn says, as he is il
his calculation of the temperature o
wells and springs on his farm. He al
ways thinks they are colder in summe
and warmer in winter than they reall,
are. The only possible means of ap
proximating to the correct tempera
ture is to put a thermometer in tn
water, testing for the greatest hea
along in September, and for the great
est cold any time after January l an
before warm weather sets in. Many
man does his milk and butter a grea
injustice by over-estimating the coolin,
power of his spring or well water.
Care in the setting of trees is profit
ably employed. Do not hustle in tn
tree as quickly as possible, thinkin
that the sooner its roots are covere
the better. Dig a good-sized hole, an
before putting in the tree spade up tn
bottom of the hole as deeply as possible
On this well-pulverized bottom the tire
takes root quickly. Sift in fine cart
about the roots, and when the hole
filled pack the earth tightly about tn
tree. If in a dry place put a mulch c
straw or old horse manure, well supple
with litter, about the tree. In DIR
weather the mulch may be raised,
pail of water applied, the mulch II
placed, and its effect will last nearly
month.-GicaQo Times.