The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-08-18
FARM AND F,REsIDE.

Buttermilk and lemon juice are
harmless cosmetics for removing sun
burn and frecklos. -Erch1ngc.
"A good mixture for sowing is a
bushel and q peck of orchard grass
and half u bushel of oat grass.-Cin-
cinadti Times.
1T is best to water plants in tho
evening. Make few holes around
the plant SO as to allow the water to
run down to the roots.-Troy Times.
Chickens should be fed at least
four times day till they are at least
twelve weeks old, and for the next few
weeks three times day.-Boston Post.
1T is unsafe to turn cattle in to
pasture in wet clover, rs 1t will some
times produce fatal cases OF indiges-
ton. Western Rural.
Sweet Omelet: Beat up the eggs as
usual. and Just before it is folded in
the pan. add a heaping teaspoonful OF
jelly, preserves or other ingredients
that fancy may suggest. chicago Jour
nal.
| Colonel Curtis. of New York,
states that alsike or Swedish clover in
troduced on his farm twenty years ago
still holds possession of the soil. He
regards it as preferable to either red
or white clover for pasturage or hay.
| -Omelet With Herbs: Beat up three
eggs and add to them a teaspoonful OF
chopped parsley, mixed with few
chives. Pour into the pan, and before
folding season with salt and pepper
fold and turn out on hot dish.-Bos.
ton Budget.
Members of the Elmira IN. "
serted that innumerable tests have
shown that posts made of red cedal
would last indefinitely, certainly 8
hundred years, for posts are now
standing in that vicinity which have
been set and reset many times. cover
ing q period of eighty years or more
and they are still sound.
dressed Potatoes: Put into stew
pan a piece of butter rolled in flour
q gill of cream, pepper, salt and a yer,
little nutmeg; also the juice of half ;
lemon; stir these over the fire till boil
ing. Then add slices of freshly boilet
!; new potatoes, and after warming then
up in the above sauce serve very hot
1-TOledo Blade.
Provide watering places for yon
, cows SO that they will not have to trave
long distances to drink. Unless you do
. your cows will go without water unit
|, they get very thirsty. When they d.
!. drink, they will drink too much an
make themself feverish- This is con
, dition unfavorable to the production
. of the largest quantity of the bes
quality of milk.-Montreal Witness.
= Veal Cream Soup: Boil the rem
{ nants of a roast veil until the meat fall
! from the bones. Strain and cool. Tk
, next day put on to boil with a slice q
: onion and one. third of II cupful of RAJ
n rice. Let it simmer slowly for an houl
\ Add salt and pepper to taste. Just b'
/ fore serving add one cupiul of rice mill
n or cream if you have ii, heated in
!. separate Daish.-The Caterer.
ell Apple Float: Six large apples. tw
spoonfuls white sugar, juice of on
l. lemon. whites of three eggs. Stew til
z apples very soft and day them on
Q sieve to drain and cool. Remove tn
% skins and cores before cooking. Whe
9 \ cool put them on fiat dish, add tn
1 sugar, lemon and egg. and beat wit
It an egg-beater to stiff froth. Fill yor
e bowl or cEstard cups witE soft custar'
= and pile tkae froth on il as high as
Is will stand. Exchange.