Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-04-19
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.
Take good care of your stock. and
there will be no cause to inquire what
is the best medicine for them.
Keep the burrows. both in the
orchard and garden open. SO that the
surface water can be drained off read
lily.
Buckets and all wooden pals not
/ in use. as well as wash-tubs. should be
turned bottom side up. to prevent leak
ing
Raw milk digests in shorter
Period than boiled milk; hence milk for
young stock should not be boiled, but
warmed.
Soils vary greatly in the capable
ties of supplying food to crops Differ
emit ingredients are deficient in differ
ent soils. The chief lack of one may
be potash, of another phosphoric acid.
of another several ingredients, and SO
on.
-Irregularity in the amount of food
given the cow will cause her sometimes
to dry up. So will worrying. fast
driving or excitement of any kind.
An animal giving milk is very sensitive
to bad treatment or surrounding influ-
ences.
"A New York bird man says that
canaries will take almost any infec-
tious disease which may affect MEM
bers of the household. He thinks that
hundreds of birds die of scarlet fever
and diphtheria, and says they should
always be removed from a sick room.
The way to build up the sheep in
dustry is to weed out the flock, go for
greater capacity for mutton and in
crease in the individual, and put a
small flock on every farm. where they
will pay their way, even if wool isn't
worth cent a pound.
Not only will coal ashes furnish a
fine place for hens to roll in, but if al
lowed free access to them they will eat
the small partly-burned bits of coal
that come through the seive. tits one
way the hens have of getting solid
material in their gizzards with which
to grind their food.
Lettuce, radishes. onions, peas
and beets are the earliest crops to be
sown IN the garden, to which may be
added a supply of early greens. All
of these can usually be sown as early
in the spring as the soil can be worked
in good condition. The larger major
ity of other garden crops should be
delayed until the soil is more thorough
ly warmed up.
Starch enters largely into the COM
position of many vegetables. and on
the prevalence of this element depends
the digestibility of the vegetable. To
free this element and have it thorough
ly incorporate itself with the other ele-
ments in the vegetable great amount
of heat is necessary. and hence it is
that all vegetables should be put down
to cook in boiling water.
Nothing about house is more I'M
slightly than old nail holes or broken
places in plastered wall, and nothing
is easier to conceal. Take nickel's
worth of plaster of paris. and reduce
it to the consistency of thick cream by
the adding of warm water. Then take
a knife and press it into the holes,
smoothing over nicely at the last In
few minutes you can not find the
places.
To whip cream solid and without
any waste, let it be not less than
twenty-four hours old and thoroughly
chilled on the ice; then whip steadily
without removing the beaten till it is
as solid as white of egg. If this is
done in a warm kitchen, it sometimes
hastens the process to stop and set the
cream on ice again for short time.
The froth need not be skinned off as
IL rises