The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-11-29
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Regular and exact hours for feed
.ng are necessary to have the best re-
suits in fattcning stock on the farm.
-Toads are the policemen of the
garden. They speedily transport in
,ect depredators to place where they
will do no more harm. And this in
erior Jail is quite capacious.
Fried whole potatoes. Peel small
potatoes and boil until half tender.
Then drop into hot lard as you would
1oughnuts. Excellent way TO use up
small old potatoes. Rural Ne,e Yorker.
The farmer who lets his fowls
roost in the trees all winter. or keeps
them in some old tumble-down shed.
will before spring make the old. old
complaint: "IIens don't pay their way.
lOhow.n
-Raisin Batter Pudding. One pint
of milk, two eggs beaten stiff, two
cupfuls OF flour, one teaspoonful OF
salt, one teaspoonful Of baking pow
der, one cupful OF raisins. Boil two
aours. Good Housekeeping.
For moving plants with delicate
,umbers, piece of eight-inch stove
pipe six inches long Is pressed down
INTO the earth three or four inches,
and then spade is run under the
chill and it is removed with the iron
ring to its destination.
Flowers are to be looked for only
IN plants which have not been allowed
10 blossom during the previous sum-
mer, but have their means stored up
ready for towering in the winter.
Steady warmth. high or low in de-
gree. according rs the plant is OF tenn
pcrate or tropical origin, is necessary
for this.
Ewes may be fed all the clover hay
they can eat, and they will produce
strong, vigorous lambs, while the
cases OF milk fever when lambing will
oe reduced. Too much grain Is not
beneficial. but with small allow
ance of oats at night, clover hay with
sliced roots will be cheap mode OF
feeding and produce better results
when the lambing season arrives.
-Custard Cake. -One cup sugar, two
tablespoonfuls melted butter. one egg,
.wo-thirds cup Of sweet cream. two
teaspoonfuls cream tartar mixed in,
one pint sifted flour, one teaspoonfnl
soda, salt. For the center, one cup
sweet milk, half cup sugar, one tea,
spoonful lemon extract, one teaspoon
full corn starch, one egg. Stir egg in
corn starch; let sugar and milk come
to boil, then stir in corn starch and
egg.--Albany journal.
--Alsike clover is supposed to be q
hybrid or cross between red and white
clovers. This is, however, yer,
doubtful, for, rs rule, hybrids are
infertile, or weakly fertile, while
alsike clover is as robust as an,
other kind 1t is not as valuable a.
the red clover, but not far be
hind it. 1t has a pale pink blossom
and grows to perfection upon moist
low land, where red clover would be
winter-killed. About twenty pound.
per acre is usually sown. 1t is mostly
prepared for mixture with grasses fol
pasture. It is perennial plant. and
natures seed at the first moving.
The young man who knows how u
lay of corn and potato rows and Il
regulate the distance of the same SO a.
to get at the crops is worth Il cow-per
full of nice, kid-gloved, fancy-over
coated fellows who know how to Lead
fashion waltz. Setting the pillow JUS
right. and adjusting the gears SO tina
backs and shoulders of horses vii
never hurt. are worth a thousand-folt
more to the country than knowing
now to pose in parlor. Yes, and ;
girl that can make Il loaf OF bread ant
make roll of sweet butter is wortl
whole seminary of those soft-hant
angels who sit in the ''pahlah' and le
their mas" do the kitchen work.