Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-23
HOME AND FARM.
BARN BURNING IN THE
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
An Excellent Remedy for Cuts and
Wounds-To Promote the Flow of
Milk in Cows Valuable
Cooking Receipts.

| pdstuTdSe, coarse grain ana picking "
will not do for them. They must be sup
Piled with all they may require.
When potatos are taken from the oven
they should beput in a napkin or towel,
and the skin broken so as to allow the
steam to escape, and this will keep the
potatoto mealy. If cooled without
breaking the skins they will be watery.
For cuts, wounds and sores, take of
lard four ounces beeswax four ounces,
resin two ounces, carbolic acid one-fourth
of an ounce Mix the first three and
then melt; then add the carboIic acid. /.
stirring until cool. This is excellent for
man as well as beast.
For griddle cakes sift pint of corn
meal, add salt to taste, and piece of
lard the size of hens egg, mix into a
thin batter with sweet milk, add the
beaten yolks of three eggs, and just be-
fore cooking the cakes stir in the beaten
whites. Fry on a hot griddle well
creased, turn the cakes quickly, and send
to the table hot.
Whether it be hest to spread manure
on land intended for corn in spring de-
pends on the land. If too rolling, much
of the soluble matter of the manure will
| be washed out and carried off by the
rains, unless the land has been plowed
and left in an unharrowed condition so
that the rains may more easily carry the
matter downward.
A few roots or apples or potatos fed
daily to cows giving milk promote the
| flow of milk and help to keep the animal
in healthy condition. When consider
able meal is fed, some kind of green food,
at least occasionally, is very much need
| ed Farmers should raise more beets for
feeding to their farm stock. A little eX-
perience would soon give them facility
in securing large yield on suitable land.
To make chocolate creams Mould
small bits OF the cream favored with va
nilla into cone shape, and set them away
upon an oiled paper to dry. Melt some
chocolate in bowl set in a kettle of boil
ing water, or over a boiling teakettle.
Boil each of the dry creams in the melted
chocolate until well covered. Set aside
to dry. Use a new hair-pin for rolling
the cream, and keep the chocolate melted
while using.
A secretion of puss often takes place
under the corner of cows eye as the re-
suit contamination that often causes tenn
porary blindness. This may be caused
variously: Chaff in the eye, blow, cold
or constitutional tendency may all pro-
dnce it. 1t may be removed possibly by
the application of burned alum blown in
to the eye through a quill once a day for
few days. This viii cause an absorp-
tive action which may remove the white
cloud.
There are some crosses that do not re-
suit to the best advantage. With dogs it
is claimed that the union OF a hairy with
a smooth-coated dog will produce worth
less offspring, and with poultry the cross
! ing of birds with rose combs and single
combs has not been as productive of
such good results as when single comb
breeds have been bred together as cross
es. Experiments in this direction are
worthy of attention.
The cost of milk depends upon the cost
of the food, hence the more milk received
| from a COW in proportion to the food
given, the cheaper the cost. But unless
warm quarters be given, large quantity
Of food must be diverted to creating
warmth for the body, and it would, there
fore, be economical to keep the COWS
comfortable, in order to cheaper the cost
by lessening the amount of food required
for bodily warmth. In other words,
shelter is food, as it protects the animal
against cold and exposure.
To make escalloped cabbage, slice two
quarts of raw cabbage and let it stand in
cold water one hour. Drain and boil in
salted water until tender, then drain and
chop it little. Melt two teaspoonsfull OF
butter, one of -four, one of salt, salt
spoonful of pepper and one cup of
milk. Add the cabbage and simmer ten
minutes. Pour into baking dish that
has been buttered, covered with buttered
cracker crumbs, and bake until brown
If the cabbage was not baked with the
crumbs it would be creamed cabbage.
Four pints of soft water, two ounces OF
pearl barley, one pound of salt beef, one
marrow bone, six shank bones broken
| into small pieces, two large onions, one
stick of celery, two turnips, and two car
rots thinly sliced. Set the sauce pan
containing these ingredients over clear
fire; when it boils skim it and let it sim
mer slowly for five hours. Twenty min
utes before serving add teacupfull of
chopped parsely and some salt, and you
will have an excellent Scotch barley
| broth.
To make hominy drop cakes take one
pint Of fresh boiled hominy (or cold hon.
| inv may be used If the latter, break
into grains as light as possible with
| fork and beat in farina kettle without
adding water, one teaspoonfull of water,
two eggs, white and yolks beaten sepa-
rately Stir the yolks into the hominy
first, then the whites. and teaspoonfuil
OF salt if the hominy has not been salted
in cooking, or if it has use half tespoon-
| full Drop, in teaspoonsfull, on well but
tered tin sheets, and bake to a good
brown in quick oven.
Detectives are at work trying to clear
up the mystery of the incendiary barn
burning which has completely dazed the
farmers in York and Adams counties,
Pa, and in part of Carroll county. Nd.
About twenty barns have so far been de-
stroyed, and striking popularity about
the fires, is that in every instance the
owners have been first notified that their
| barns would be burned. After the farm
ers received the warnings they naturally
watched their barns with the closest Wig
| lance, yet were unable to discover any
one either approaching or leaving the
premises between the time of warming
and the burning. 1t is believed the fires
are started by means of chemical COM
pound, which is probably placed in the
barn before the notiGe is given. The OBJ
jeet for this destruction of property is un-
known. Some of the farmers have be-
come panic stricken and ascribe the visi-
tation to divine wrath or witches, and
are buying charms to break the spell.