The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-07-21
FARM AND FIREslcE.

Never set a hen that has scaly
legs. She will give the disease to her
ohieks. Cincinnati Times.
1T Is said that person troubled
with an oily face can keep it clean BY
washing it vigorously with a towel
instead of with his hands.-Good
Housekeeping.
"A stick, flattened at the end, will
be found help in planting flower
seeds. Make shallow hole with the
flat end of stick and scatter the seeds
into it, covering lightly.
Into pound of soft soap dissolve
one ounce Of carbolic acid crystals and
it becomes an excellent remedy for lice
on animals when they are washed in
warm water with the aid OF the SOAP
Troy Times.
-Caraway Biscuit: One pound of
crushed white sugar, four eggs. one
! teaspoonful of salt, the rind of one
lemon, caraway seed, one pound of
| -four. Stir all these ingredients well
together for one hour, adding the flour
last and then form into cakes. Boston
Budget.
For delicate puffs stir into half a
pint of sifted -four. to which a salt
spoonful of salt has been added, one
gill of milk. Beat the white of an egg
to stiff froth. Mix the well-beaten
yelk with gill of milk and stir into
the batter; add the white of egg and
bake in muffin pans in quick oven.-
Boston Globe.
1t is said that a pullet or one
year-old fowl is not SO liable to disease
as a two or three-ycar-old fowl. Seek
to improve your stock every year.
Market your old fowls and keep young
ones on your farms and in your poul-
try yards, and you will have no chicken
cholera. Western Rural.
"A rose jar may be made of rose
leaves gathered in their prime and free
from moisture. Mix with them the es-
sential oils of lavender, rosemary,
cloves, cinnamon, neroli and lemon.
Keep the jar closed until the perfumes
mingle in an indescribable compound
of .'Araby the Blest."- Prairie Farmer.
Pasture is the most nutritious when
composed of many species of grass.
and when young and succulent. As
grass gets older it contains less pro.
portion of albuminoids, and is then an
: inferior ration for milk. Cow peas and
corn ground together is excellent food
rs part of a ration for rich milk
Montreal With ess.
-Crumpets: One and one-half pints
of -four, one-half teaspoonful salt. one
teaspoonful of sugar, two of baking
powder, one egg. nearly pint of milk
and cream mixed together; sift to-
gether flower. sugar, salt and powder
add beaten egg and milk; beat all to
gether: bake in we'll buttered hot gen
irons; serve hot.-The Caterer.
Coffee Cream: Beat one quart o.
: rich, sweet cream to stiff froth. likt
white of eggs for icing; then mix will
one-quarter pound of granulated sugar
.. and, shortly before serving, beat int,
one cup of cold coffee extract, whicl
has been made by slowly filtering tw'
ounces of finely ground coffee. Serv
in glass dish with lady fingers o
fresh sponge cake.-The Household.
, Dwarf pears should be planted o.
, {; q spot that has moist subsoil, eithe
, natural or make SO by subsoiling o
! mixing some material with the sol
, that will give out moisture in dr.
weather. Trees already planted on
= dry, gravelly subsoil should have
, circle dug out two feet deep andtwo O
= three feet from the tree. This shoul
q be filed up with we'll enriched soil.
. the dwarf pear does not grow freely
is sign that something is wrong.
should be severely pruned, SO as to al
, in producing . vigorous growth. IN