Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-06
HOME AND FARM.
PROFIT AND LOSS IN THE REARING
OF BLOODED STOCK.
The French Method of Packing Butter
Lime q Disinfectant-U Useful Hints
and Household Receipts
A Novel EXP riment.

Fresh pork should not be eaten unless
thoroughly cooked.
BY dipping fish into boiling water the
| scales will come off easily.
| The farmers who planted alfalfa near
Lodi, Cal, have all made money.
Onions are one of the most healthful
and beneficial OF all food products.
Keep a small bag of sulp lphur in the
drawer or closet as remedy Tor red ants.
Most of the sardines sold nowadays
are small herrings put up with French
labels.
Starch made with soapy water will
produce glossiness and prevent the iron
from sticking.
A poultice of stale bread soaked in
strong vinegar, applied on retiring, is
said to be sure cure for cOrns.
Three parts of resin, one part of caus-
tic soda, and five parts of water, make
good cement for glass and china.
1t is said that buckwheat flour, re-
peatedly applied, will remove obstinate
grease spots from carpets, woolens or
silks.
Raw meats should be placed in an
earthen dish, when putting in a refrige-
rator, and never put it directly on the
ice or leave it there in the brown paper
it usually is wrapped in.
1t is said that thousand sheep kept
~, a ,,iono Of ,rrcI1Dl ono ypar will lrn
the soil capable OF yielding grain enough
over and above the capacity of the soil
without the sheep manure-to support
1885 sheep an entire year.
See about few choice new trees. Set
grove of naples or chestnuts or wal
nuts. The trees will be profitable as well
as beautiful. Every year fill up vacan-
cies as they occur in your orchards. 1t
is the only way to keep fruit profitably.
Be sure to empty your tin fruit or veg
etable can when you open it. Do not
leave any of the contents in the can, if
YOU propose to use them. Put them in
an earthen dish They are very likely to
become unwholesome if they are left in
the can after it is opened.
In experiments made in feeding, it has
been found that Jerseys with grain feed
will eat on an average nineteen pounds
of hav or fifty of ensilage, and with en-
silage the butter yield will be about y
per cent more than on hay feed with the
same amount of grain.
The object in securing a good breed of
hogs should be to have them quickly
convert the food into meat. The profit
does not depend upon the size or the
quantity consumed, but upon the cost,
which depends, after all, upon the rela-
tive increase in weight in proportion to
food consumed.
A celery sauce for chicken: Cut into
small pieces six heads of celery, throw
them into boiling water and boil for five
minutes, drain. put into sauce pan, add
a quarter OF a pound of butter, half
pint of stock, teaspoonfull of salt and a
little pepper, cook slowly until the celery
is tender, then press it through sieve,
heat it again and add cream to make it
the proper consistency.
Lime is a good 'disinfectant. 1t is es-
pecially valuable to place in cellars
where vegetables have been stored, es- !
pecialIy such as have been put in wet or
show signs of decay. By abs or png SUI
perhuous moisture the lime prev 3nts the
rising of foul odors that dampness with
warmth is sure to generate. Most vege-
tables in cellars are better if covered with
earth and the lime sprinkled over the
top of the heap.
The Illinois Experiment station has
made some very interesting experiments
in oats during the past year, with the
following results: In seven plats sown to
test quantity of seed per acre: at the rate
OF from one to four bushels per acre, one
in which 215 bushels were used came
out first, with 63.S bushels, against an
average Of 59.7 bushels for the six other
plats. A little more straw, however,
was grown with three bushels per acre
An advocate of the soiling" system,
in the management of cattle, says: 1T
is claimed that digestion never proceeds
RAPIDLY. so long as the animal continues
eating. 1t is only when the stomach is
sufficiently filled that the circulation be-
comes accelerated, the temperature OF the
body more elevated, and digestion pro-
ceeds with the greatest activity. If this
view be correct, then it is seen that
COWS searching over scanty pasture all
day. for food, would less perfectly digest
it than with abundance of good food in
the stall.
To make sweetbread pies wash and
parboil one pair of sweetbreads, then
nick them into small pieces. Drain and
wash two dozen oysters. Put one tea
spoonful of butter in a frying pan, mix
until smooth, add half pint OF cream,
the yolks of two hard boiled eggs mashed
fine a half teaspoonful of salt and dash
of pepper. Put the sweetbreads and the
oysters in a baking dish, pour the sauce
over, cover with paste and bake for
twenty minutes in a quick oven.
In France butter is packed in bags,
not more than three inches in diameter,
for family use, nor more than two inches
for restaurants Each bag holds two
mounds. When filled they are tied and
hacked in brine in tubs or casks which |
can be headed tight. The cloth nsed is
quite free from lint, and should be slight
" starched-iust enough to make them
iron smoothly-then run together OF uni
form size. The bag is placed in mould
OF uniform size and shape while being
filed. The plan may not be unworthy
of trial in this country.
It is now so common for farmers to
provide stabling for their cattle, espec-
iallv for cows, that but few who are we'll
to-do neglect it. Still there are some
who even keep cows without any decent
provision for them, and will let them
stand out in rain and storm, and even go
out to milk without any protection Tor
themselves. That cows so treated will
rapidly shrink in their milk goes