The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-16
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Butter tubs should b well soaked
in brine before filing. e. Farmer.
"A good market for home grown
fruit is the farmers own table.
i'm shipping butter, the style Of
package has great deal to d" with tns
price obtained by the seller.
DO not put salt into soup when
cooking until it has been skinned. -
salt prevents the scum from rising
Chicago Tribune.
One of the grandest secrets in feed
ing all live stock is to change to any
new food gradually and to give no moro
than will be ca, en- with good appetite.
Young animals need to be fed more ire
9uently than older ones.-Toy Times.
-Teach calf to eat whole oats by
the time it is three weeks or a month
old, by slipping few handfuls into its
mouth lust after it has drunk milk.
When it has learned to eat them, keep
. supply before it in little box.-Er-
change
-O.W. Bill, prominent Kansas farm
er, and President of the State Short-horn
Breeders Association. says that he
knows that young cockle-burs will kill
pigs. He found eleven head, about six
months old, dead in pile, and four in
another. from eating cockle-burs.-Ch'-
cGgo journal.
Baked Custards: One quart OF
milk. four eggs, nutmeg and two table
spoonfuls flavoring extract. Scald the
milk. pour upon the other ingredients.
stir together well, flavor and pour into
stone china cups. Set these in pan Of
hot water, CRATE nutmegs upon each
and bake until firm. Eat cold from the
cups.-TAe Household.
The greatest care ought always to
devoted to the cleaning of tho churn; it
should be carefully rinsed every day
with boiling water, and afterward aired
and well dried in the open air. Churns
that are not perfectly dry often give the
butter an old taste. If one can steam
the churn once q week, this is particu-
larly suitable.-ALbdny Journal.
Cheese and butter are among the
most valuable farm products in tho
country. but both are less in amount
than milk, as used and sold with no ex-
pense for manufacturing. This is partly
because fraud in the imitation OF butter
and cheese unduly reduces the prices of
these articles and also decreases the de-
mand. If we had only good, honest
butter the consumption would be enor-
mously increased.-N. y Herald.
Picked Lemons: Take eight lem
ons with thick skins. Into o muslin bag
put one cup of fine salt, one-quarter
ounce each Of cloves, nutmeg, mace and
cinnamon, two ounces of mustard-seed
and one chopped onion. Put this. with
the lemons, into two quarts of vinegar,
and cover closely in jar. Set it in .
kettle of boiling water and let it simmer
slowly till the lemons are tender. They
are improved by age, and are an excel
lent relish with fish or roasts.-I0iedo
Blade.
-Cheesecakes: Line tartlet pans with
puff paste, let the edges have three
thicknesses of paste. Fill them with
the following mixture: To pound of
loaf sugar, add the juice of three
lemons, two tablespoonfuls of brandy
and quarter of a pound of perfectly
fresh butter. Crate the rind of lemon
over it as small as possible. Beat six
eggs, and add them to it. Stir over the
fire till it begins to thicken like honey.
then let it partly cool Fill the patty
pans and bake in . moderate oven.-
Philadelphia Call.
of the 2.647, 900 women in occupa-
tons in the United States 595, 900 are en-
gagged in agriculture, most of them color
ed women in the Southern States; 632, 0C0
are in manufactures, of whom about
one-half are in New York, Massachusetts,
and Pennsylvania; 2S2, 600 are milliners.
etc.; $4,000 are tailors. OF the A occu-
pations recorded as personal service.
40 lind women in them. The 525 female
surgeons of 1870 have increased to
2,473; the lawyers to Is; the IS clergy
men to 165.-N. Y. Tribune.