The Osceola times., 1885-05-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

"A woman at Harmony Grove, Ga,
had her garden plowed when the
ground was covered with snow, claim
ing that the beautiful would act Us
fertilizer.
"A test for eggs is the following:
Dissolve one ounce OF salt in ten ounces
of water and put the egg in. Good eggs
will sink and bad ones will float
Toledo Blade.
In our experience In producing
milk, says the Dairy World, we have
succeeded best by using from sixteen to
twenty pounds daily of feed composed
Of 100 pounds bran, fifty pounds wheat
meal. fifty pounds buckwheat shorts
and fifty pounds corn chop. A ton Of
this mixture costs US, at present prices,
$l075.
AT Elmira IN. ~ farmer is re-
ported to have made an increased week
ly profit on herd of twenty-five cows
simply by taking the chill of from the
drinking water during the winter. 1t
was done by means Of stean-pipe in
troduced into the tank. 1t is easily
done in Q smaller way by adding pail
of hot water to each barrel capacity Of
the quantity given.
Sour Milk Cake: One cup of sugar,
one-half cup of butter. three we'll
beaten eggs, an even tcaspoonful OF
soda, stirred into half cup of sour
milk, two small cups Of flour. favor
with lemon; butter a small dripping
pan and pour the mixture into it; bake
for thirty or thrty-iive minutes; when
done cut it into squares with sharp,
thin knife. The cake should be eaten
when fresh. and il is very nice. The
Household.
To remove clinkers from the stove
ings when the stove is cold. Use plen-
ty of it. Build moderate fire-wood
and coal-and in . day or two the
clinkcrs will be gone. This is sure
remedy, and within the reach OF all,
and does away with the liability of
cracking the lining by the use Of ham,
mer and chisel. Clam shells are used
only for the salt in them Boston
Globe.
While waiting for the doctor, in
cases of Group, quickly apply several
sponges, squeezed out in the hottest
water. to the child's neck for about
twenty minutes. and place him in a-hot
blanket If the child is choking, give a
teanspoonful of ipecacuanha wine every
five minutes, until violent sickness takes
place. II is good thing for the child
to breathe over steam. Pour boiling
water into basin. or on a hot brick or
flat-iron, and let him inhale the vapor.
-Ciereiand Leader.
The need for good roads in the
country has often been urged both on
the ground of comfort and economy.
1t has been suggested that good use
to make of that at present most useless
creature, the tramp, would be to place
HIM (and good many of him) under a
competent officer and set him to i'm
proving the public highways. That
would give him something to do, and
provide him living--and perhaps
make man of him again.
Farmer.
Very few Americans have vet
learned how little land is required for
furnishing food to human being a
year, provided that little is well cult
waited, and the crops well chosen. A
woman in the Hudson River Valley,
who cultivates only six acres, supplies
her family with all that n garden will
yield, keeps COW and horse, and sells
beside some six hundred dollars to seven
hundred dollars worth of fruit and
garden truck each year. 1t is needless
TO add that she raises more than one
crop in a year, and allows no waste
plaoes.-M Y. Times.