The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-01-12
FARM AND ElRESIOE.


Keep hogs away from their feed
except at meal times. Give only what
they will eat up clean.
If you want poached eggs to look
particularly nice. cook each egg in a
muffin ring placed in the bottom of
saucepan of boiling water.
-Poultry-raising is business that is
especially suitable for women. They
will attend to the numerous small
details which are necessary. while but
few men are willing to give the time
that is requisite.-St. Louis ReDub!t-
can.
If hives become daubed up with
propolus, lift out the frames, place them
in new hive, and clean up the old
one. This facilitates handling, and
hives should get going over at least
once year; and the time to do this is
in the summer when bees can be
handled.
"A slight leak in the roof of the
stable may not cause much damage, but
it will allow a certain am cunt of water
to reach the floor. thereby rendering
the stable damp. In cold weather dry
ness promotes warmth, while nothing
conduces so much TO lung diseases as
moisture.
-Macaroons: Hickory-nut macaroons
are very easy to make. Two cupfuls
of hickory-nut meats; beat them fine in
a mortar and add two cups of sugar,
four tablespoonfuls of -four and three
eggs. Mix well together and bake on
a well-greased paper. Put only little
of the mixture in each place.-Good
Cheer.
The Angora goat seems to be raised
in great perfection in Texas. We have
seen skin of the most beautiful de-
scription from the ranch of the Messrs.
Arnold, in Uvalde County. The hair
is brilliantly white and very long and
silky. They also possess the art down
there of dressing these skins in a man-
ner to make them as useful for rugs as
they are agre cable to look at.-Cticago
Nc1Us.
Bread Pudding: One quart Of
grated bread crumbs. one quart milk,
yelks of four eggs, well beaten, butter
size of an egg, one cup of sugar, two
teaspoons baking powder and two tea
spoons extract of lem ons; mix all well
together and bake; beat the whites of
the eggs with a cup of powdered sugar,
flavor with one teaspoonful extract of
lemon or orange, cover the pudding
with it end bake until Drowned little.
Boston Budget
Fig Pudding: Three quarters of
pound of grated bread, half pound of
figs, six ounces of suet, six ounces of
brown sugar one cupful of milk,
and CRATE in little MI tmeg.
Chop the figs and suet together; then
mix the bread, sugar, milk, and lastly,
one egg well beat en-. Roll the mixture
in mold for four no urs; it is to
be eaten with the sweet sauce.-Metho-
dist Magazine.
The greatest difficulty with wheat
growing is that it does not provide for
hCCiIiHp IiuSh SUM. n paw vi All
other grains grown on the farm is used
at home. and thus goes nto the manure
pile and is returned to the soil. Proba-
bly, nine-tenths of the grass crops, ex-
cept near the cities, is now consumed
on the farm where it is grown. The
grasses and wheat belong to the same
family of plants. and in a general way
most farmers know that timothy is
especially exhaustive when sold off
from the farm. But this constitutes so
small proportion of the hay grown
that few realize its exhaustiveness as
as they do that of growing and selling
wheat. &C Chicago Times.