The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-24
FARM AND FIRESlOE.

FARM ANU FIHESlOE.
The peach and plum is nearly
enough related to be budded or grated
on each other. The plum endures the
cold better than the peach.
Be careful of the water which the
COWS drink. Physicians say that ty-
phoid fever frequently is produced by
impurities in the milk OF cows drinking
impure water.
A good way to cook or heat hash is
to pack it in buttered baking dish
and let it bake brown in the oven; or
brown in a hot buttered skillet or
spider and then fold over like an
omelet.
1t is is claimed that If melons are
packed in sawdust and stored in the
cellar they will keep for several
months. Squashcs may also be kept in
the same way, but care must be eXer-
cised, as bruising causes them to rot.
A lamp standing for some time in
a cool room, and then filled full of cold
oil, will run over through the cXpan-
sion of oil when taken where it is
warm. Then the lamp is blamed for
leaking. To obyiate this, never ell
The lamp quite full
Baked Meal Pudding; One quart
of boiling milk, one cupful of cornmeal,
one teaspoonful each Of salt, ginger,
mixed mace and cinnamon, two table
spoonfuls of sugar and one-half of
cupful of molasses. Bake. - GOOD
housekeeping.
Farmers often say; MY we'll can
not be affected by my barnyard, etc,
because the well is the highest;" that
is, the ground at the well is the highest,
never thinking that the bottom of the
well is much lower, and that the draft
will be toward that point.
--Hoavy hogs do not SILL as readily
as do those of medium weight. A 300
pound hog is better fitted for the lard
tub than tor the table Small hogs are
always preferred, those weighing about
$50 pounds each producing d better
quality Of meat than those that are
heavier.
As calves pass out Of their baby
hood and assume languid indifTer-
euce to all about them. but flies and
grass, they are apt to be neglected; if
they are. the loss is irreparable. A
calf that has not made good start by
fall had botter be disposed Of at any
price, while having made good start
it must kept constantly gaining, at any
cost within reasonable limits
Fried Bread Cakes: Cut slices of
bread half an inch thick, from a stale
loaf; soak these for half an hour in
milk, then sprinkle them thicl<ly with
a mixture Of minced onion, herb pow
der, pepper, salt, and chopped parsley
Press this firmly into the cakes, on
both sides and fry Them in boiling fat.
Serve thom as hot as possible, on Il hot
dish covered with u napkin, and CUR
nished with parsley.
Stock sold in the fail, when in
good condition, just off the grass, viii
generally bring fair prices, and it viii
be found to be materially better to err
in ones estimate in the direction of
having a surplus of feed than in hav-
ing a surplus of cattle at the close of
winter. The feed will be salable,
while the cattle will hardly be so, eX-
cept at tho buyers own low figures.
Fowls need green food as well as
dry grains, and whom they have the run
Of the farm, as they generally do, can
readily supply themselves as they want
it. When they are confined in small
runs in towns, they need it just as
much, and it ought to- be supplied by
giving them clover and the like where
it can be done. 1t is quite Il good plan
TO SOW little plot of rich ground in
the garden very thicEly with turnip
seed. This, when grown up, makes d
great many leaves that keep green for
a long time, and my chickens like them
very much.-N Y WORTH.