The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-29
home. EARN AND GARDEN.


lin pairing fruit for canning. use a
silver knife, so that the fruit may not
turn dark colored
Ham, to be eaten cold, should
stand IN the water in which it was
boiled until it is cold; it will not be so
dry and hard. Christian at Work.
Tin vessels rust and are of.en
worthless in a few weeks, because,
after washing, they are not set on the
stove for moment or in the sun to
dry thoroughly before they are pat
away.-Albaay Journal.
Whenever fowls can run at large
without detriment to the garden they
should be allowed to do so by all
means. Nine. tenths of the trouble
and diseases among poultry are the
result of keeping fowls too close.-N.
7. Herald.
From careful experiments it would
appear that there are definite limits to
the application of farm-yard manure;
for instance, up to a certain point the
increase is large; beyond it nothing like
the same proportion of increase is OBJ
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With fine ground raw phosphates
as the basis of operations, we can
now obtain complete manures for
every culture, made according to any
formula, and containing in readily
available and assimilable form all the
ingredients called for. Troy Times.
-Borax is a good disinfectant about
the person as well as about the house.
Scattered about the house it makes
cracks and corners uninhabitable for
insects, and taken into the human sys-
tenn it is prophylactic against infectives
or germ diseases. 1t is said that tea
spoonful daily may be taken without
any other than favorable Effects
Health Monthly.
If you have plain, boiled rice for
dinner, and have little left, it is by
no means necessary that this should be
thrown away; it will help to make de-
licious fritters; add milk and flour and
one egg for the batter; if you have
fruit to put in. SO much the better;
drop by spoonfuls in hot lard and fry
a delicate brown; little sugar in the
batter helps to give it brown tinge.-
N. b. Farmer.
Dried Apple Cake: Two cupfuls
OF sweet dried apples, soak over night
and chop; two cupfuls of molasses,
and let it simmer over two hours;
when cold add one cupful of sugar,
two eggs, one-half cupful of sour
cream, sour milk and butter, two tea
spoonfuls of soda, four cupfuls of
flour, four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon,
one teaspoonful of cloves and one nut
meg Chicago Tribune.
When green vegetable matter is
allowed to decay in the open air it is
gradually resolved more or less COM
pletely into carbonic acid, which es-
capes into the air and is so far lost.
But when buried beneath the surface,
this formation of carbonic acid pro-
ceeds less rapidly, and other COM
pounds preparatory to the final reso-
luton into carbonic acid and water
are produced in greater quantity and
linger in the soil.-IndianQpolis Senti-
mel.
While it is great convenience to
have all kinds of garden seeds for sale
at almost every store in the country, it
has been the means of making garden
ers very negligent about saving even
those seeds that would require but a
few moments to do so, and at the same
time give them much better seed than
they could buy. Gardeners should care
fully look this matter over and decide
what particular seeds they had better
save that will give them. better results
than will those they can buy. -Bostoas
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