Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-04-18
EARAr AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hints that win be found Useful to Farmers
and Their Families.

II ~ expected bnaC OUU,UUU sheep VIII
Be shipped to England from New Zealand
the coming year.
If the roots of tree are frozen out Of
the ground and thaWed again in contact
with the air the tree is killed.
Milking in the barnyard is an unclean
method, and the cleaner the process the
better the quality Of the products.
Ten-pound washed feeces and 125
pound mutton carcas5es should be the
average for MerinO hocks, says the Sheep
Breeder, and the value Of such sheep
should be from 81 to So per head.
If charcoal be finely pulVerized and
mixed with mashed potatoes and corn
meal as food r turkeys they will fatten
more readily than without its use, which
has been demonstrated by actual expert
ment.
The fourth Ensilage Congress will be
held at No. So Beekman street, New
York, beginning on Wednesday, January
q, 1885, and continuing until the sub
jects have been fully discussed. An in
teresting programme has been arranged.
CREAM RosE CAKE-Vhite of ten eggs,
beaten to a standing froth, one cup Of
butter creameG with sugar, three cups Of
powdered sugar, one small cup of sweet
cream, nearly five cups of prepared Hour.
Vanilla haVOTing and liquid cOchineal.
Stir the cream Unto which put a pinch
of soda) into the butter and sugar. Beat
five minutes until the mixture is Ike
whipped cream. Flavor with vanilla
and put in by turns the whites and the
-four. Color a fine pink with cOchineal.
Bake in four Jelly cake tins. When cold
spread with hlling-One and One-half
cOcoanuts, pared and grated, whites of
four eggs Whisked stiff, one and One-half
cups OF powdered sugar, two teaspOOnfuls
of best rOsewater. Heap the cake after
it is filed with the white mixture, beat
ing more sugar into that part intended
for the frOsting. The cOChineaI Is per
fectly harmless, and can be prepared by
any druggist IN liquid form, few drops
Of which will suffice to color cakes, or
you can get it pulverized, and, Wetting it
with a very small quantity Of water,
strain it, adding it drop by drop as you
stir your cake until you get the required
tint.
FAvoRrrB SPICE CAKE-One cup of
mOlasses, one cup of sugar. tWO-thirds Of
cup Of butter, one cup of sour. milk,
three eggs, one teaspOOnful Of soda, one
teaspOOntul Of nutmeg, one and on half
teaspoontals Of cloves and three cups Of
-four.
Cocoanut and Almond Cake-Two and
One-half cups powdered sugar, one cup Of
butter, four full cups Of prepared flour,
whites of seven eggs Whisked stiff, one
small cup of milk, with mere pinch OF
soda, one grated cOcOanut, One-haf tea
spoonful of nutmeg, juice and One-half
the grated peal Of one lemon, cream but
ter and sugar, stir in lemon and nutmeg;
mix well; add the milks and whites and
-four alternately. Lastly, stir in the
grated cOCOanut swiftly and lightly.
Bake in four jelly cake tins.
The Farmers Gazette Ireland) claims
that the operation of dishOrning cattle
made the animals much more valuable,
and that it rendered the dishOrned ami
mails more tractable, gentle and less dan
gerOus to man and each other.
In many portions of Europe, where Ia
Dor Is plentiful and cheap, with the land
closely occupied, the drilling of small
grains is generally followed. They are
drilled far enough apart so that the
spaces between the drills may be hand
cultivated.
Lambs can be taught to drink cows
milk and by adding oatmeal to- the milk
they will grow rapidly. From the first
day of It's existence, until marketed, the.
young lamb must be kept warm and COM
Portable, as it will make but little pro-
gress, even with the best of food, if it
suffers from cold or exposure.
Experiments with wheat in England
prove that when large crops are grown
by the application Of nitTates or salts Of
ammonia with mineral manures the soil
does not appear 20 have gained or lost
fertility. Notification of the organic
matter in the soil may have gone on as
usual, but the loss has been made good
by the amount Of nitrogen stored up in
the stubble and underground roots of the
large crops grown.
Beets, carrots or other roots may be re-
duced to a pulp in extreme cases for ami !
mails that cannot masticate and swallow
rough food. Let the roots be boiled, !
worked through cOlander, some wheat !
flour or oatmeal added, with enough wa
ter to bring 1t to a proper consistency for |
the animal TO drink. A little fresh grass
may also be finely cut and mingled with
the mass, or any other substance that !
may be suitable.
"CrOtalism" is the name given to a new
disease now affecting the horses and cat /
tie in Iowa and other Western States, /
where is found growing the wild pea or |
rattlebOX q OtGLGriG SGgettaLis). Prof NJ. !
Stalker, Of Ames, Iowa, has been expert |
menting with the plant on horses, and /
hnds II Virulent poison, affecting the !
liver, stomach and brain. Many thou !
sands Of horses have died, as 1t Is sup
posed, from eating the plant.
Vanilla Cream Cake-Two cups of
powdered sugar, two-thirds cupful of
butter, four eggs, one-half cupful of milk, |
one-half teaspOOnful of soda, one tea /
spoonful of cream tartar, three cups of /
Hour. Bake in thin layers as for Jelly 4
cake, and spread between them, when /
cold, the following mixture: One-half /
pint of milk Sweet, two small tea |
spoonfuls Of corn starch, one egg, one /
teaspoOnful Of vanilla, One-half cup of /
sugar. Heat the milk to boiling and stir /
in the corn starch wet with a little cold /
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