Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-07-07


boiling soup and boil FIVE minutes. It
is enriched by placing two we'll beaten
eggs in the turreen before pouring in
the soup. 1865.
Domestic Hints.
Mix little powdered charcoal with
the soft feed, and it will assist digestion
and prevent disease. 1t is purifier.
All green and fair the summer lies,
just budded from the bud of spring,
80 With tender blue of wistful skies,
=. And winds which softly sing.
Plenty of gravel is an essential part
of poultry diet. See to it that your
fowls are fully supplied.
Watch the thermometer Look alive,
or butter will become too soft cream
will over-ripen. Don't trust to sense,
but use thermemetor.
! Cows should be MIXED by the same
mixer, and as quickly as possible, and
good, pure water and salt placed in
easy access.
A force pump throwing a spray is
used by some poultrymen in throwing
white-wash and other lice killing liquid
into the cracks and crevices of the
poultry quarters. 49,
: Never feed horse with hay from a
rack located above his head, as a
draught beats down which is injurious,
and the dust is liable to injure his eyes.
Cows should be kept in improving
condition: Cows in failing condition
have trouble in calving. A fat COW,
declining in condition at time of calv-
ing, will not do as wellas poorer one.
Card the COWS. Help nature to get
rid of the old hair covering; it relieves
them from great amount of discom-
fort. A good carding cannot be sub
stituted for more feed. Cows like it,
korinflammation or caked bags on
their COWS, writes correspondent of
Hoard 8 Dairyman. the worst case ev-
er saw was comparatively cured in four
hours by thoroug ely soaking and rub
bling with the juice of the pie-plant
stalk.
Horse-radish should be dug out in
be left over for another season. If this
be done, the main root will become
partially rotten, and assume such a
woody texture as to render it entirely
unfit for use.
Milk must never be allowed to stand
in cans after being returned to the
farm, and they should be thoroughly
washed in warm watsr al hen scald-
ed with water boilink hot, and thorough
ly secured with salt at least twice a
week. Soap, soda, or such alkalies
should not be used to clean cans or
pals.
Take two teacups of flour, one table,
spoon of "utter, one salt spoon of salt {;
milk to make dough. Knead with
the hands for ten minutes. Break off
into pieces the size of walnut and
roll as thin as paper. Stick with a
fork thickly to prevent blistcring.
Bake in moderate oven and you will
secure good crackers.
Small tin cans, in which prepared
cocoa is sold can be made into very
pretty match receivers by crocheting
with Florence knitting silk cover to
fit the box the ordinary single crochet
stitch is used with finish around tn
top of a row of full shells, draw the
cover over the tin and suspend with
bright ribbons.
Squash and sweet potatoe vines hay
ing rootlets that grow out from the I'M
der sides of the joints, which anchor
them and prevent the wind from dislodg-
ing them, should be lifted very carefully
when growing, as the rootlets not only
hold the plants in place but assist in
procuring nourishment, and any dam
age done in handling retards the vines.
If the current worm puts in an appear
ance dust the bushes with white helle-
bore till the foliage shows the presence
of the powder freely, or two spoonfuls
of the powder can be stirred in pint
of water and then applied with Il sprink-
Ter when the foliage is dry. Repeat
as often as worms are sem. The
application is equally good IJr goo,.-
berry or rose bushes.
There are many receipts for getting
rid of reaches. One as harmless rs any
is to slice up cucumbers and lay the
pieces in the way of the bugs. An
other, not quite so harmless but more
effectual. is to grind up white sugar
and calomel in equal parts and sprink-
lie the mixture over any sort of food of
or sweets the reaches readily eat. 1t
will kill them, and mice too, if not rats.
Peter Nj. Gideon, the well-known
fruiterer of Excelsior, MIMI, who has
originated many Siberian crab seed
ling, says: 'Perhaps l would not be
far from the truth to say about one to
to each 500 seedlings will produce II
fair-sized apple. There is no variety
without the Siberian crab in it that can
stand our greatest extemes of climate
hence the necessity of 8 cross. The
best we have to operate with are a
mass of mongrels. Our process is to
cross mongrel with mongrel and at
each repetition select the best and try
again, planting close together to give
. nature chance to mingle.'
Couture
Boston Record: There is no use
denying it; a new grief has been
added to the formidable sum total of
human woe by the style of female hair
dress;np that has Suddenly come in1o