The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-11
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Wheat screenings and damaged
wheat make . good food for fowls.-M
E. Farmer.
The man who has not natural
liking for horses will never make . sue
cessful horseman.-N T. Tribune.
Two much grain is often sown when
seeding and too little grass seed. These
are two common errors.-Troy Times.
Learn to be neat about the farm
and its attachments. for in this lies one
of the great secrets of successful farm
ing.-Prairie Farmer.
Quick pudding for dinner: Two eggs,
one pint of milk. two-thirds of cup of
sugar, little salt, and few pieces of
bread broken up. Bake about twenty
minutes.-The Caterer.
"A Kansas journal. the Osborn Coun-
ty Ners, celebrates the good old COW as
the mother of all our beef, the great
mortgage payer, and she catches the
wolf on her horns and losses him from
the door.
DO not try to farm too much land
1t is much more profitable to thoroughly
till a small area, which can be managed
and kept in good condition. than to at
tempt to grow larger crops at the ex-
pense of cultivating two or three times
rs much land rs may be necessary I'M
der better system.-Indidndpol Sem
tinei.
-Molasses Cake: One tea cup of mo-
lasses. One-half cup of butter, One-half
cup of boiling water, one egg, two cups
of flour. and one teaspoonful of soda.
Bake in three layers. warm little mo-
lasses with little piece of butter. and
spread the layers with the mixture
Toledo Blade.
Beef fritters are nice for breakfast.
Chop pieces of steak or cold roast beef
very fine. Make batter of -four. milk
and an egg and mix the meat with it.
Put lump of butter into a saucepan.
let it melt, then drop the batter into it
from large spoon. Fry until brown;
season with pepper and salt and q little
parsley.-The Household.
Ground Rice Pudding: Boil large
tablespoonful of ground rice in pint
of new milk after first mixing it into a
smOothe paste with little cold water or
milk; add for tiavoring. half teaspoon
full of cinnamon and little thiniy pared
lemOn-rind; when cold add quarter OF
a pound of sugar creamed up with the
same quantity of butter, and two we'll
beaten eggs. Bake, with crust around,
in pie-plates. NeW YORKER.
The peachblow variety of potatoes
is now seldom grown, although it is es-
teemed IS the best quality. and q few
years ago was quite abundant in the
market. The reason it went out of IA
vOr with the growers was its long sea-
son of growing. which made it specially
vulnerable to the potato bug. but a.
that pest has been overcome in most
sections. it is now suggested that this
sort might be again profitably grown
from seed.-Cincinndti Times.
1t il little singular that this coun-
try can not grow its own eggs. We
bought from the Canadians last year
IL, 100000 dozen for which we paid
them S2,80O.OOO. When there is so
n.sch complaint of hard times and Of
lack of light employment for women, it
is a wonder that the poultry business
does not get greater degree Of atten-
ton. 1t is business which does not
admit of being carried ON in q whole
sale way. Large colonies of hens do
not thrive. They are subject to vistita-
tiOns of disease which carry them off by
hundreds. But fowls can be made .
source of income to thousands of small
farmers. paying them better than more
costly and labOrious investments.-Phii-
adelphia Record.