Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-06
HOME AND FARM.

Milk Shake: Take half tumbler
If good milk, add two tablespoonfuls
Of powdered sugar, flavor with a few
drops of vanilla, and fill the tumbler
with broken ice. Shake thoroughly
| until the ice is nearly melted.
The Rural Ne,o Yorker says: One
| thing seems to have been quite well
demonstrated, that a larger quantity of
potatoes, as we'll as potatoes of bet
ter quality, can be raised with chem
ical fertilizers than with manure.
New beets make fine dish when
served as follows: First boil them ten
der and cut into small cubes; then mix
these with sufficient quantity of milk
and two or three well-beaten eggs,
pour into pudding dish, bake and
serve hot.
The following is recommended as
a sheep-dip: twenty-five gallons soft
water, five gallons soft-soap, one pint
crude carbolic acid. Lambs should be
dipped ten days to two weeks after the
sheep are shorn. The quantity given
will do for fifty to sixty lambs. 1t is
cheap and sure.
-Escalloped sweet potatoes can not
fail to be liked by any lover of this
delicious tuber. After parboiling
them and slicing them lengthwise put
layer in a baking-dish and add a lit
tie sugar, nutmeg and bits of butter;
fill up the dish this way, having sugar
and nutmeg on top. Pour milk over
the whole and bake.
In using kerosene Or coal oil in an
emulsion for destroying insects con-
siderable care should be taken to keep
it thoroughly mixed. If allowed to
water will separate, and often con-
siderable damage will be the result,
as the oil alone will injure the trees
and plants quite seriously if applied to
them.
The superior quality of properly
baked or broiled potato, over that one
served in the usual conventional style,
astonishes people of critical taste;
while the contrast between a dish of
light, snowy-looking mashed potatoes
and a dish of the coarse, greyish-col-
ored stuff so often served as mashed
potato, is too marked to escape the
notice of even the most obtuse indi-
vidual.
Rolled cracker meal for croquettes,
chops and outlets may be obtained
from the accumulation of broken crack
ers that are unpresentable for the
table, and trouble is saved by keeping
it on hand ready for use. instead of
waiting until it is needed before pre-
pairing it. Odd bits of cheese should
be grated, and the powder bottled or
put into jars where it will be dry and
safe from mice.
"A great many more men can sue
coed on small than on large farms. In
this latter case it may be almost said
there is no real success, the money APP
parently:: made being,generally less than
fair interest on the capital invested.
This is proved by the fact that those
who try to farm on a large scale on
borrowed capital are nearly sure to
fail. Men who try to farm moderately
are equally sure of a moderate though
substantial success.
1t is said that if a three-quarter-
inch hole be bored in apple trees af-
fected with the '~bitter-rot," and the
same filed with salaratus and then
plugged up, it will effectually remedy
the evil. A correspondent in late
number of the Ohio Farmer says that
he used this remedy on an old orchard
few years ago, the fruit of which
was not worth gathering, while since
that time the fruit on such of the trees
as are still living has been all that
could be desired.