The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
FARM AND FIRESIDr.

Professor Stewart reminds us that
domestic animals are improved quite
as much by judicious feeding as by
skillful breeding. Home and Farm.
Pumpkins should be fed with grain
or mill feed for best results. n you
have corn meal to sprinkle over the
pumpkins you have the best of feed
In the absence of this mill feed comes
next.-RUraL NelU YOrber.
In seasons when apples are album
dant and cheap, as they are in most
places this season, many can be profit
ably fed to stock. Given in small
quantities they are excellent for mich
cows, though if an overdose is taken
nothing will dry up a COW more quickly.
Toledo Biade.
Dolly Warden Cake: One-half cup
of butter, one-half cup of sugar, one
half cup of milk, two cups of flour,
whites of three eggs, one teaspoonful
cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful of
soda; flavor with vanilla. Frosting-
The yelks of three eggs, fifteen tea
spoonfuls of powdered sugar.-The
Household.
One of the bestmethods for growing
tomatoes in the hotbed or greenhouse
is to put in a layer of moss and over
this an inch or so of rich mould and
sand mixed and as the roots strike this
moss, it causes them to strike out
through it in every direction, thus
making fibrous-rOoted plants, every one
of which will grow when transplanted.
Fruit Recorder.
Experiments made in growing trees
in pure sand, kept wet by water pro-
cured by distillation, seem to show that
water in the soil has some power in
disintegrating and making available
the nitrogen which is also in the soil in
contact with the moisture. This seems
to be the most plausible theory to ac-
count for plant growth in excess of
what can be explained by the waste of
fertility in the soil itself.-T3'0Y Times.
Sage Pudding: Boil a pint and a
half of new milk with four tablespoon
fuls Of sago well washed and picked;
add little salt, shredded lemon peel,
cinnamon and nutmeg; sweeten with
five ounces of moist sugar; add four
eggs well beaten; put paste around
the dish or pie-plates and bake; sprinkle
with graduated sugar when the
buildings are drawn from the oven.-
The Coob
Most persons who use Lima beans
do not know how excellent they are
when dried for winter use They are
as much better than the common bean
as they are when used in summer. he
seed almost always brings high price
in spring, and for this use is one of the
| most profitable crops that 4 farmer can
grow. The advantage in raising Lima
beans for seed is that they can be grown
by farmers so far removed from cities
that the cost of growing will be greatly
acknowledging.
President Barry stated to the West.
ern New York Horticultural Society that
to become really profitable apple orch.
ards must have soil the fertility OF
which is to be maintained with suitable
fertilizers, giving the trees a good an.
nual growth, with judicious pruning and
the destruction of noXious insects. Then
when the fruit is well grown, it must be
carefully gathered, assorted, packed and
= marketed, the whole requiring care and
skill at every step, and without which
orcharding can not be profitable.
Oatmeal Cakes: Into a quart Of
cold water in which has been dissolved
a little salt, stir enough oatmeal tc
make it about as thick as hasty pudding
! The meal should be sprinllled in SLOWLY
and the stirring be very brisk to avoiC
Jumps, Now turn it out into a tin thai
has been rubbed with suet or butter
and spread it out evenly with knife
! till it is about half the thickness of {
common cracker. Divide it with c
sharp knife into the sized pieces yor
wish, and place it in a warm oven
where it will bake slowly, being careful
not to brown it. Tccse cakes are very
nutritious, and will keep for some time
Boston Budget
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