Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-01-22
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

have to remain IN Tue staoic VIZ" ""'
hair wet and matted either with per-
spiration or with the rain or snow 10
which he may have been exposed, and
his legs, especially the fetlock JOINTS
thoroughly cleaned, and all snow or
mud removed from the feet. He should
never be fed dusty or mouldy hay nor
damaged grain, and it will be better II
all hay be slightly wet before 1t Is FED.
Have regular hours for feeding and give
about the same quantity at each feeding.
The practice of keeping the rack or
manger full all the time, or throwing
in q forkful of hay every time the sta
die Is entered, is wasteful as well as in
furious to the horse.
Oats are as cheap as hay at present
prices, 80 that it is better to sell hay anu
buy oats than to keep without grain and
give all the hay the horses will eat. Oats
are also better than corn or corn meal
for horse that Is not worked all the
time, as they are not so heating. A few
roots each day serve an excellent pur-
pose in keeping the stomach and bowels
in good condition, and carrots and tur-
nips are the best for this purpose, some
horsemen prefcrring one and some the
other. Probably turnips are best for
growing colts which are not worked,
as they contain more of the phosphate
or bone-formine material. This is es-
pecially true when they are grown upon
super-phosphate or bone manures.
KEEPING THE cows CLEAN-Great care
should be taken i'm bedding in winter
time, and in cleaning the stables. Un-
less extra pains are taken foul smell
will be the result; consequently the
milk will be more or less affected. l
am we'll satisfied that filthy stables and
filthy habits of milking are 1.-The chief
causes of so much poor butter being
made in winter and in spring. l am
well aware that butter made in winter
lacks flavor and color, but with proper
care il can be made sweet and clean.
Very much depends upon the food the
cows eat; in order to have color, corn
meal with beans and ground oats fed
literally, and a little oil meal added, is
about as near perfect ration as can be
given i'm winter, with plenty of good,
bright timothy hay and mixture of clo-
yer. Its quite common sight to see in
this part Of the country cows i'm winter
time with their hips loaded down with
manure, their bags ditto, also their backs
covered with hayseed aud dust. The
brush and card are never seen in the
COW stables; to them the cows are total
strangers. Now, this is all wrong. AS
a rule the cows are we'll fed some have
bank barns, but there is a want of care
i'm grooming and handling. 1t pays to
card and brush the cows deily. They
look better and are better, aud certainly
the milking can be done more cleanly.
FOR A PLAIN HOME DINNER.-An ex-
cellent dish for plain home dinner is
made by stewing some veal until it is
tender, thicken the gravv with flour.
and season with pepper and salt. and
put In enough butter to flavor IL; then
make = nice crust like biscuit dough,
have it when baked an inch and half
thick. Put the veal and gravy into an
earthern pudding dish and cover the
dish with the crust. Bake and serve
hot.
POUND CAKe.-Beat three-quarters of
a pound of butter to cream, and mix
In the whites and yolks of eight eggs,
beaten apart. Have ready warm by the
fire one pound of -four and three-quarters
of pound of sifted sugar. Mix them and
a few cloves, little nutmeg and CHINA
mon, in fine powder, together; then by
degrees work the dry ingredients into
the butter and eggs. Butter a pan and
bake an hour in quick oven.
CHOCOLATE CANDY TO PULL.-Eight
ounces of sugar, s ounces of light-color-
ed molasses or syrup, = cupful of cream,
/ ounce of grated chocolate; vanilla to
flavor. Boil the cream. molasses and
sugar together about 10 minutes, then
throw in the chocolate and boil until
the candy sets brittle i'm cold water.
Pour on dishes, flavor when colo
enough to pull.
TRANSPARENT PUpDING.-The yolksOf
eight eggs beaten till very light, one
tablespoonful of butter aud one table
spoonful of sugar to each egg. Flavor
with tablespoonful of rose water or
other extract that is perfectly clear.
Beat all together well, and bake in
plates on puff paste. Serve moderately
warm, with granulated sugar sifted over
their tops.
Western reports confirm the opinion
of the East that Days Horse Powder is
the best.
All that have used it pronounce DR..
Bulls Baby Syrup the best medicine
known for the complaints of e9 rly child
hood. Twenty five cents bottle.
Why suffer the fortunes of indigestion
when one bottle of DR.. Bulls Baltimore
Pills will cure you?
Henry returns in triumph from the