The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-08-11
Home and Farm.

Salmon is considered the most nutritive |
of all fish.
When good many things are TO be
weighed and measured before commenc
ing.
-Giye potatoes that you want TO mature
early soil already rich of feed them with
well-rotted manure.
The human organism is n sayings-bauk
for the elements of vital strength, and in
the form of fresh air il accepts the smallest
deposits.
Cheese that seems dried up and unfit
for the table, can be made very palatable
by grating it fine on horse-radish CRATER,
Prepare only as much as is needed for
immediate use.
The common white clover grows where
ever our red clover is found, and makes an
excellent pasture grass. Where bees are
kept it is invaluable, as it furnishes large
amount of honey o exc ent guilty.
Puff Pudding: Beat the whites of six
eggs to stiff froth, beat six tablespoons
of flour with the yelks of six eggs and stir
| slowly into quart of milk. Add tea
spoon of melted butter, then the whites o
the eggs slowly. Bake in little stone cups,
well buttered, in quick oyen for twenty
or thirty minutes.
1t requires several years to secure a
pasture. For that reason it is better to
well manure old pastures, and keep the
stock off so as TO renew them, than to
plow the sod under and attempt to begin q
new pasture. The harrow may be passed
over the pasture where il can be done, and
the ground reseeded, but the manure is the
most important adjunct.
Strawberry Cream: Pass about half a
pot of strawberry jam, or a pound of fresh
pint of cream, add the strawberry juice,
sweeten if necessary, dissolve half-ounce
of isinglass in a little milk, mix with it,
stir well together, turn into mould and
let it set In warm weather it will require
ice.
Lemon Sponge: Soak one ounce oi
gelatine in one pint of boiling water unit
dissolved, them add half pint more oi
boiling water, and the juice of three lemons
and sugar to taste; when thoroughly mixed
beat to white froth, and add the white;
of four eggs well beaten; beat altogether
until quite stiff; put in mould and set OIL
ice.
A disease called "back rot' is attack
l | Al. Il, t1I Nata
with destructive effect. Some vineyards
that had been very productive and profitable
have been destroyed by the "back rot
u within four years. 1t threatens to be a
destructive as the phylloxera was to TIN
French vineyards. The question amoni
. grape-growers is. What is the remedy TO
the "black rot?'
Why have any dry fodder? Why no
put all the grass into the silo and cut al
all the grain with stalks? This question i
% often asked. Why not feed the member
of the family entirely on canned goods
Both questions can be answered alike
Animals, as well as men, need variety
Cattle like little dry hay with their silage
,s and there are many ways in which it
i cheaper to feed dry grain alone. Again
hay is good crop to sell when the silo
n in proper operation.
What radical and wholesome chang
10 it will be in American farming, says a
exchange, when sheep will be kepG for th
% good they co on the farm. On this basi
> there will be no stintng in food and shift
y lessness in their care and management
and these attentions will beget desire fc
: best. 1t costs so little to haYe q good floc
of sheep that there is no excuse for an
il farmer not avallng himself of these efiicier
and CHEAP aids