Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-13
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.


Regular and exact hours for feed
ing are necessary to have the best re-
suits In fattening stock on the farm.
-Toads are the policemen of the
garden. They speedily transport in
sect depredators to place where they
will do no more harm. And this in
terror Jail is quite capacious
Fried whole potatoes -Peel small
potatoes and boil until half tender.
Then drop into hot lard as you would
doughnuts. Excellent way to use up
small old potatoes. -Rural Neso 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: "Eens don't pay their way.
nohOw."
-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
hours. Housekeeping.
Flowers are to be looked for only
on plants which have not been allowed
to 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 as the plant is of tenn
perate 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 Landing will
be reduced. Too much grain is not
beneficial. but with small allow
ance of oats at night, clover hay with
sliced roots will be a cheap mode of
feeding and produce better results
when the lambing season arrives.
-Custard Cake.-One cup sugar. two
tablespoonfuls melted butter, one egg,
two-thirds cup of sweet cream. two
teaspoonfuls cream tartar mixed in,
one pint sifted flour. one teaspOOnful
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.-ADany Journal
-Alsike clover is supposed to be
hybrid or cross between red and white
clovers. This is. however, very
doubtful, for, as a rule, hybrids are
infertile, or weakly fertile. while
'alsike clover is as robust as any
other kind. 1t is not as valuable as
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 pounds
per &C 9 is usually sown. 1t il mostly
prepared for mixture with grasses for
pasture. 1t is a perennial plant, and
natures seed at the first moving.
The young man who knows how to
lay of corn and potato rows and to
regulate the distance Of the same so as !.
to get at the crops is worth cow-pen
full of nice, kid-gloved. fancy-over-
coated fellows who know how to lead
q fashion waltz Setting the pillow just
right, and adjusting the gears SO that
backs and shoulders Of horses will
never hu {. are worth thousand-fold
more to the country than knowing
how to pose in a parlor. Yes. and a
girl that can make loaf of bread and
lake roll of sweet butter is worth
q whole seminary Of those southland
angels who sit in the ''pahlah" and let
their mas do the kitchen work.