Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-18
HOME AND FARM.

HOME AND FARM.
!ast iron atoves and iron ware
should be heated gradually the first
time they are used.
EARLY rising, with the work done
in part before the heat of the day, will
save the horses during the warm days.
"A Virginia farmer finds that cattle
eat sorghum as fodder with q relish,
especially when the stalks are not
larger than a mans finger. i
Feeding in sheep husbandry is like
any other problem in live stock. How
ever good the breed, without good care
and feeding they must necessarily de-
generate.
To avoid having fat left in soups,
1t is safer to allow them to get entirely
cold, when the fat can be easily skim
med off. just enough. can be heated
each time the soup is served.
-Broiled fish, broiled ham, broiled
chicken, broiled steaks and chops, are
always satisfactory at summer din.
ner. Nothing can be less healthy or
less agreeable to the taste for dinner
on hot day than fried food.
DO not cut lawns too close in no.
weather, for heat and drought injure
the growth, if not the roots. The
beauty of lawn is not in being shaved
like a convict's head till the skull
shows through, but in its evenness and
deep green color:
For dish cloth "par excellence
make a cloth about twelve inches
square, of four or five thicknesses, Of
common white mosquito netting; then
sew across and back and forth on the
machine, to hold it firmly together.
Thus it is very soft and will hold no
grease at all.-Good Housekeeping.
Beef Fritters: Chop pieces o,
steak or cold roast beef very fine:
make batter of milk, -four and ar
egg, and mix the meat with it. Put a
lump of butter in a saucepan, let il
melt, then drop the butter into it from
a large spoon. Fry until brown; sea-
son with pepper and salt and little
parsley.
Potato and Corn Mullins: Two
cups cold-mashed potatoes, two cups
sweet milk, two eggs we'll beaten, two
cups cornmeal or enough for batter.
Soften the potato with the milk, work
ing out all the Jumps; then stir in
cornmeal until the batter is just thick
enough to drop easily from the spoon,
add the whipped eggs and beat hard.
Drop into hot gem-pans and bake in an
even oven from twenty to thirty min.
| utes.
For an improving toe-nail, dip a
rag in a strong solution of tannic acid
and water, and place between the nail
and inhamed parts of the toe. Do no
pare the nails around the corners and
sides, but curve in across the center.
which has tendency to make the nails
grow forward only. This treatment,
persevered in, should bring relief.
Dried Corn Soup: Soak a cup Of
dried sweet corn over night. The next
forenoon add water, a small piece OF
| salt pork, and a bit of red pepper.
Cook till the corn is tender. Half an
| hour before dinner make batter O,
one egg, a little milk, salt, flour and q
bit of soda. Drop from spoon in lit
tie dumplings into the soup. Remove
the pork and serve as soon as the
dumplings are done. This soup may be
made of canned corn.
Profit in agriculture means hard
work and plenty of it. Instead of few
old log gums and box hives and brim.
stone for the bees in the fall, with no
management, the present demands the
best movable frame hives with large
capacity for surplus, simple in con.
struction and admitting of ease and
speed in handling-one that will win.
ter we'll on summer stands withou,
further packing or protection, with en-.
trance easily contracted or enlarged,
| and with a brood chamber that can be
| expanded at will.