The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-06
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-Sponging the body off with salt
water is good for night sweats.
"A WOODEN cloth Is better than a
brush to polish the kitchen stove
"A solution OF .pearl-ash in water
thrown upon fire will extinguish II
Immediately.
If the meal is fed too dry 1t will
make the hogs constipated. Hogs
must have plenty of water in their
food. Always mix one-third bran with
the meal, which should be soaked be-
tween meals.
-Hominy Pudding. - One cup of
boiled hominy. one and one-half pints
OF milk, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls
OF butter, three-fourths of a cup of
sugar, one teaspoon of baking powder,
bake in buttered pudding dish twenty
minutes.
Asparagus Beetle. This insect has
caused great damage. Slaked lime
busted upon the plants when the dew
is on them in the morning, once a
year, and cutting down the seed stalks
two or three times year are effective
remedies. -Americas Garden.
Il In lighting kerosene lamp never
touch the wick with the match, as 1t
has a tendency to roughen or spread
it. Keep the wick turned down below
the top of the burner, except when in
actual use, if you would not have oil
on the outside of the lamp.
Old current bushes can be made as
good as new by simply cutting away
the old wood and leaving a bare
stump. and then digging the soil thor
oughly down to the roots, and working
in plenty of well-rotted manure, with
a good handful of salt for each BUSH
Dreamed Parsnips. Boil tender,
scrape and slice lengthwise. Put over
the fire with two tablespoons of but
ter, pepper and salt, and a little
minced parsley. Shake until the
mixture boils. Dish the parsnips, add
to the sauce three tablespoons of
cream, in which has been stirred a
quarter spoonful of flour. Boil once,
and pour over the parsnips.' =
1t is claimed for the mutton breeds
ofsheep that with the same method Of
keeping them on the farm as is in use
in England land worth as much as one
hundred dollars per acre might be
pro6tably devoted to sheep, and that if
farmers would hurdle them instead of
giving them the range of the farm
large profits could be made.
"A Western farmer advises to tie
ears of corn together with husks, in
in some place where the grain can be
saturated with coal smoke. The odor,
he says, repels squirrels and worms
from eating the seed. The seed comes
up quicker, the plants grow more
vigorously, and ripen several days
earlier than from seed not so treated
Egg Salad.-Boil six eggs fifteen
minutes. Prepare dressing with table
spoonful of vinegar, half a teaspoon of
salt, little pepper, three tablespoon
fuls of oil, one tablespoonful of onion
juice. one of finely chopped parsley,
and one of taragon vinegar. Slice
the hard-boiled eggs, lay them on as
a salad-dish,po the dressing over and
stand in cool place two hours.
1t is important that gratis should
be cut before warm weather has caused
their buds to start. 1t kept In the Gel
lar, covered with dry sand, air will be
excluded, and they need not be set un-
til nearly the time for the tree to start
into leaf. Grape gratis should, how
ever, be set as early as the weather will
admit. If delayed until the sap begins
to run it will drown them out.