Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-13
HOME AND FARM.

Trees grated last year will need at
tention. All suckers should be re-
moved.
Never let calf go hungry because
it will not drink cold milk. If you
have not time or patience to warm the
milk sell the calf to some one who will
do it.-Iroy Times.
For breakfast rolls without soda:
Take two eggs, one and one-half cup.
fuls of sweet milk, teaspoonful OF
salt, and flour enough to make thick
batter. These must be baked in an iron
gem pan to be success, and a quick
oven is desirable. Globe.
An exchange says that teaspoon
full of dry soda administered to sheep
within twelve hours after it has eaten OF
poison weed will invariably counterfeit
the poison and save such sheep from
dying.
Grounds about the house should be
cleaned up. Bones, sticks, and other
rubbish will gather during the winter,
which will make place look very UNI
tidy. Few things are more attractive
than neat homestead. Western Rstrdt.
The granulation or ''candying' of
honey is retarded by keeping it in a
warm place, and fastened by storing
it where it will be cold. This rule APP
plies generally, for some kinds of honey
rranuIate sooner than others Chicago
Journal.
Baked Indian Pudding: One quar-,
of milk, boiling; sift in meal to make
a thick batter, and one handful OF
flour. Before the milk boils put in
one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful OF
salt and one teaspoonful of ginger.
Remove from fire and add two quarts
cold milk and raisins. Bake three
hours-BoSt0n Budget.
There is more waste in the potato
crop than in any other, but if the small
er and scabby potatoes are boiled and
mixed with meal for pigs they will pay
nearly or quite as well as the sound po-
tatoes, which have been marketed at low
prices the two years. Other vegetables
may be added to give variety to the diet.
Toledo Blade.
Woodworking presents feasible
means of improving and making profit
able the poor and rough lands in differ
ent sections of this country. Such lands
are abundant. and are unsuited for pas
turing heavy cattle and for tillage, and
many poor owners of rough and thin
lands could be relieved from distressing
circumstances if they would stop pioW-
ing and stock up with good sheep.-
Louisville Courier-Jouyn0t.
Grain is always less injured by dry
weather than is at first supposed. If the
plant is somewhat pinched up, nature
concentrates her efforts on perfectne
the seed, thus insuring reproduction.
| The straw may be short, but the berry
will often be plumper than when much
moister, causing excessive growth Of
straw, also inducing mildew, rust ano
| other fungus attacks which feed on the
| Juices of the straw that should go tt
| perfect the grain.-Prairie Farmer.
To make glossy starch take two
ounces of white gum arabic powder
put into pitcher and pour on it pin
of boiling water, according to the degree
of strength you desire, and then, having
covered it, let it stand all night. In thu
morning pour it carefully from tn
| dregs into a clean bottle-keep it TO
use A tablespoonful of gum waite
stirred into pint of starch that ha
been made in the usual manner will Civ
lawns, either black or printed, look o
newness, when nothing else can restor
them after washing. 1t is also good
much diluted, for thin white muslin ant
bobbinet. Globe.