The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21

Trees for Shade Around the House
Rust Stains in Clothiny-The Care
Of Hogs-Good Cooking

Hard boiled eggs and cornmeal makes
good first feed for ducklings.
To remove stains from machine grease
or oil, wash in cold rain water ard soap.
This will not injure colors.
Kerosene oil win soften leather shoes
4 that have been wet:ed ;or machine belts:
or harness that has been soaked with
/ rain.
Ammonia water will kill anv acid that
has been dropped upon clothes. In most
cases, few drops OF chloroform will then
restore the color.
Trees about the house make it more
homelike and attractive, and shield it
from the cold winds of winter and the
hot sun of summer.
1t is better to have close, warm pen.
excluding snow and cold, and not give
the pigs two much bedding If given the
chance they vii! cover themselves with
straw until they become steaming hot,
ana then 90 outside To the cold. thus
making themselves sick from colds affect
Ing their lungs.
A wholesome Dish Of Onions.-Boil
them in salt and water until they begin
to be tender, drain the water from them
and wrap each onion in soft paper, set
them side by side into dripping pan,
let them bake until done, then put them
into vegetable dish and pour rich brown
gravy over them.
Rust stains in clothing-or ink stains
which are about the same thine-can he
removed as follows: Add two parts of
cream OF tartar to one part of oxalice
acid, dry, and keep the mixture in a
bottle; wet the stained part and apply a
little OF the powder; wash out soon after
IN clear warm water. Repeat if neces-
sary.
Swiss Omelette.-Break six eggs in a
bowl, add gill of cream, quarter pound
OF grated cheese, some pepper and salt.
Pour into buttered pan. Stir the ONE
lette well about for few seconds. so
that it will not set like a sponge cake.
Let it brown quickly. Fold over on itself
and serve. Parsley and few fine bread
crumbs added before cooking improve
the dish for Some tastes.
Chicken and Macaroni.-Cut UP ten
der chicken in neat pieces and fry brown
in fresh butter with few strips OF bacon.
keeping the pan covered. Season with
pepper and salt. Boil a handful OF the
small Italian macaroni, for twenty min
utes, drain through a colander, add
large piece of butter. cup of rich, strong
gravy, and, if liked, some grated Par
mesan cheese. Arrange the chicken on
very hot dish around the central pile of
macaroni, which must be thoroughly
moist and rich with gravy and butter.
Screenings consist not merely of crack
ed or imperfect grain, but contain also
many heads OF weeds seeds that unfit
them for feeding whole to any kind of
stock. Small seed are seldom digested.
and some OF the hardest of them grow
even better after passing through the
st0machs OF horses and cattle 1t is this
that makes barnyard manure so prolific
OF weeds wherever it is applied. 1t is
safer to grind screenings, though if
they consist almost entirely of weed
seeds, it may be even better economy to
burn them.
While a eve is bearing lamb part of
her nutrition goes to sustaining that.
Her fleece is therefore not so heavy as
that OF the wether, that has no such de-
mand and is equally well fed. In lamb
ing time the eve has 1sdally some fever
which injuriously affects the quality of
the WOO, by making weak place in that
grown at this period. But in practical
selling the wool crop comparatively few
buyers can make such distinctions They
buy low enough so that poor wool will pass
muster and leave them a profitable COM
mission.
In very many places in the west where
wheat was once grown it now fails so per-
sistently that its culture has to be aban-
doned. Some parts of Iowa and South
ern Minnesota are now in this condition
The winters are not quite so cold as
formerly, but it is the summer heats that
wither the plant. Some wheat is still
occasionally grown by sowing the spring
variety with oats and harvesting both to-
gether, separating the grains afterward.
1t is not poverty of soil that causes wheat
failure, as the crop fails on land broken
up for the first time, as well as on that
long TILED.
Those who start cuttings in water will
use bottle with wide mouth, they will
find 1t an easy matter to remove the plant
when the time comes to pot it, without
injuring the roots. Or, after the roots
have reached the side OF the glass, they
can sift the fine earth into the bottle till
it is an inch or two in depth After the
roots have taken possession of this soil,
the top OF the bottle can he broken off by
a sharp blow with knife, and then the
mass OF earth can be slipped out without
disturbing the roots in the least, in ex-
actly the same manner as the ball of
earth in which plant is growing can be
removed from a pot.
Apple and Sago PGdding.-Pare and
core a half dozen sour, juicy apples, and
arrange them in buttered pudding dish;
fill up the hollow of each apple with
sugar and put a bit of butter on top.
Cover the dish closely and a set in the
oven to bake till the apples are thoroughly
done Meanwhile boil in double kettle
a scant cup of sago with two cups of
water and little salt. When done
which may be seen by the transparent,
Jelly look of the sago and by the taste
beat In a lump OF butter sugar to taste,
and favoring if desired. Pour the sago
over the cooked apples in the pudding
dish and set back In the oven to brown
on the top.
There is nothing nicer to serve with
the Sunday morning fshballs or baked
beans than green tomato sauce or picalili.
Chop peck of green tomatoes, five green
peppers and two onions; mix them well
in a wooden or earthen bowl, and sprinkle
a cup OF salt over them; put them aside
and let them stand until morning in cool
place. In the morning drain off all the
liquor, put the chopped fruit into pre-
serving kettle, and put in vinega- enough
to cover add one cup of sugar, one table
spoonful of powdered cloves, one table
spoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful of
nutmeg and one-half teaspoonful of
mace; set it over the fire and cook slowly
until the fruit is tender and well cooked,
stirring it quite often to prevent it burn