Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-01-19
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
-Prune the grapevines and lay them
down.
Affection can not be pounded into
animals. Kind treatment insures tho
affection of an animal, while rough
treatment is sure to cause its hatred.
-Tartlets. patty-pans with
pie crust; bake until nearly done, take
from the oven and fill with jelly or any
kind of preserves. and finish baking.
Boston Budget.
Every farmer ought to have tool
or implement house, or separate
room in tho barn or other building.
1t pays to buy the best tools and inn
plements, and then it pays to take care
of them.
-Custard Cake-Two small cups Of
-four, one cup of sugar, three eggs.
two tablespoonful of water. and butter
the size of an egg. Beat the whites
and yelks separately and bake the cake
in layers. -Mother's Magazine.
If you do not wish to be backward
with work in spring. do all your prun-
ing and cutting back now, as the work
can not be done should the season be
warm. To begin spring work should
be to work the ground, not the trees
or vines.
Graham Griddle Cakes.-Warm
one quart of milk. or water, to the
temperature of new milk. add a tea
spoon of salt and three tablespoons
of good yeast, and thicken with
Graham -four. Let it rise over night,
and in the morning add teaspoon of
soda. and fry.-Detro1 Free Press.
Fried Apples.-Make batter of
two eggs, pinch of salt. cup of
milk and six tablespoonfuls of flour.
Slice. pare and core tart apples as thin
as Saratoga potatoes. Dip them
spoonful at time in the batter and
fry. Eat with powdered sugar and
cream or liquid sauce.-Farmer and
Manufacturer.
dressing for fowls.-Take three
biscuit and three corn mullins and
crumble them fine; put into a bowl and
moisten thoroughly with hot water.
When the mass is soft. beat into it two
eggs, tablespoonful of butter, salt
and pepper to taste, and bits Of chop
ped onion and parsley. Stuff the fowl
about half or three-quarters of an hour
before it is done. Excellent Christian
Union.
Delicate cocoa-nut cake. cup
sugar, one-half cup butter, whites of
three eggs. one-half cup sweet milk,
two cups flour. two teaspoonfuls bak-
ing-powder. Bake in one cake in long.
square tin. Make boiled icing and stir
in one large cup of cocoa-nut. Spread
thickly on top of cake. sprinkling fresh
grated cocoa-nut on top of all. This is
beautiful to look at and delicious to
taste.-G0od Cheer.
Poultry manure is an excellent fer
tilizcr for strawberry plants. The
proper mode of applying it is to spread
it thickly over the plants in the row
after the leaves have dried. In the
spring the new leaves will push above
the manure and the rains will carry
the soluble portions down to the roots.
On light. sandy soils the manure should
not be applied before the middle of
January, but on heavy soils it may be
spread late in the fall. -Indianap0lis
Journal
Few men Of secretion, observes the
Husbandmam. fail to appreciate the add
vantage of regular rest day. one in
seven. The farmer values it for him.
self and for his work animals. The
reasons for it. aside from religious con-
siderations, are many and weighty.
This respite for one day in seven
gives an elasticity and vigor that pro-
duccs better results in work. than
comes from the slavish drag and drudg-
cry IF the lifo that ia horne down nv :,