The Osceola times., 1888-11-17
HOME AND FARM.


Whenever washing WOODEN arti.
cles and changing from one water to
another let each successive water be
hotter than the other, never any
colder.
Careful experiments show that the
evening milk contains more solids than
That drawn in the morning, due per-
haps to a greater variety of food being
allowed during the day.
The country is full Of common
cattle, many OF which are not source
OF profit to their owners. The owner
OF a COW that is good for nothing
throws away just SO much food, care
and labor.
One reason that there are so MANY
mortgaged farms is because so many
farmers sell corn, oats and hay early,
and then have to buy the same class
OF articles before the next crop is
raised.
Minced Dried Beef with Eggs:
Shave the beef and let stand in water
over night to freshen; put two table
spoonfuls of butter into frying-pan
and put in a pint of the beef; when
warmed through add .our beaten eggs;
stir until cooked.
Never whip horse when he is
frightened or nervous, or try TO force
it up to the object that has caused the
alarm; draw in on the reins. suddenly
speak out with assurance that you are
not afraid, then turn the animal little
way from the unpleasant sight and bid
1t go. A blow OF whip upon fright
ened horse gives it double cause for
violent action.
In setting out trees in the fall care
should be taken TO see that the roots
are kept moist; that the place made
for them is plenty large to admit all
the roots without crowding; that the
soil is carefully placed around the roots
and then made firm so as to have the
soil in close contact with the roots,
and then as soon as the ground freezes
apply good mulch, cut back all newly.
set trees from one-third TO one-half.-
Western Powman.
Daisy Crullers: Three quarts Of
-four, nine teaspoonfuls OF baking
powder IN the flour, three eggs, three
cups Of sugar, one lump of butter size
OF hickory nut but not a bit larger,
one cup OF milk, three good-size boiled
potatoes mashed, nutmeg TO taste.
Mash the potatoes while hot, put sugar,
butter, eggs and milk in when cool.
Makes one hundred crullers. Put into
stone pot and keep in cool place as
long as they last. They will keep
moist and good for some time. Rural
Neto Yorker.
Sweet Potato Pone: Peel and CRATE
raw sweet potatoes. To five teacup-
fuls of grated potato add three OF the
same cupfuls of best West India mo-
lasses, two Of good butter. one cupful
each of preserved ginger and candied
orange peel chopped in small bits like
citron for a cake; two tablespoonfuls
mixed spices beaten fine; one Of ground
race ginger, and teaspoonful Of salt,
unless the butter is salted. Mix all
these well together. and put into a
well-buttered. deep, earthenware bak-
ing-pan, and cook slowly. Good House.
keeping.
"A correspondent OF the New York
Times writes from Sitka that Alaska
can never become an agricultural or a
pastoral country of any appreciable
value. II the summers and exceed
ingly moist climate were not agains,
agriculture the topography Of the en-
tire Territory is. The country is SC
mountainous that the valleys are SIM
ply bogs where vegetation can not find
q footing. The rough nature OF the
country likewise renders numbering
Improbable except on the shores Of
the inlets. He also speaks very dis.
paragingly of the mineral resources OF
the Territory.
As rule fall blowing OF corn
stubble for oats next year is advisable,
but not the plowing of sod for next
years corn. The sod will not decay
during the winter, and it will be neces-
sary TO pillow the land again in the
spring, by which the unrotted sod will
be brought TO the surface and made
less useful for the corn; besides this
tho land will ha made waadv Rx,
leaving sod until the spring as late as
possible a large growth will be mad e
which will supply the corn with the
most acceptable and available food,
taking from tho soil some elements
which the corn might not be able to
get, and some from the air which the
corn could not get for want OF time in
the early spring.