Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-12

Feeding IN Warm westher-Plum Cui'
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Something Nice 70 Eat

into the soil. Tins enabling the plant to
endure drought
lawn grass seed should be IN the
ground. II deferred the growth OF the
grass will be delayed by the dry days oil
summer.
Cannas should he planted out when
the ground is warm. and the same with
iahilas, gladioIus, and ricinus or castor
oil plants.
The wife OF your youth il clearly en-
titled to the easiest pump in the house
well, and covered walk to 1t from the
kitchen door.
Sheep fescue grass grows on soil that
would not produce clover or other grasses
and should he sown for sheep. About
thirty pounds OF seed are required Tor one
acre.
For stock the mammoth long red man
gel werzel is the best ON light loamy soils
that have been deeply plowed. The
globe varieties are best suited for stlif
soils
A hen and chicks in a garden some
times prove beneficial, as they destroy
many insects, but they should he kept
away from plots that have been recently
seeded.
Outdoor cabbage beds may he prepared.
Have the bed rich and fine, and SOW the
seed in rows so as to keep the grass out.
| Transplant as soon as the young plants
are large enough.
Smothered Rice: Boil for ten minutes
one cup OF cold boiled chicken chopped
fine, two cups of cold boiled rice and one
pint OF chicken broth, seasoned with salt,
p .pper and butter.
Sardine Sandwich Wipe and bone
the sardines, lay them on the bread and
squeeze lemon orer them very lightly
taking care not to make them too wet or
the bread will be soppy.
Popcorn is valuable crop in some
sections. 1t is sold by the pound, grain
and cob together. The rice popcorn,
| which is uniformly clear and bright, is
| the favorite market variety.
The Cory is the earliest sugar-corn,
and grows but two or three feet in height.
For later crop the Evergreen may be
| planted. Do not put the seed in until
danger OF frost has passed.
| Millet seed should not 90 in until after
all danger OF frost is over. Like buck
wheat, it is a summer plant and re .uires
but short period for growth. 1t des-
troys weeds and yields enormously.
The smaller the field the more fence re-
quired and the more land taken from cul-
tivation. The more oblong the field, the
more fence required to inclose given
area conversely, the nearer a squire is
the field the less fence is required.
Fowls can stand considerable cold
weather without serious discomfort; but
they are not iron-clad like lamp-posts
Exposure to steady draught while on
the perches is very dangerous to them.
Stop up even as small openings as knot
holes.
Small lawns, or grass plots, are better
if sodded or laid with turf, but the ground
should be well enriched before laying
Where lawns, made by sowing, horde,
upon paths and roads or flower beds OF
borders, it is well to lay an edging OF tur
to give fine margin.
Animals, especially asters, zinnias, etc.
may be started in hot-beds or window
boxes, to be set out in settled weather
Sow abundantly the seeds OF mignonette
candytnft, etc, in place from which al
the family are free to cut. Also plan
sweet peas early and provide with sticks
Gingerbread: One cup of molasses
one-half cup OF brown sugar, one-fourtf
OF cup of butter. one cup of sour milk
one egg, one teaspoonful each of cream
tartar, soda, ground ginger and CHINA
mon, flour enough to make medium
batter.
BY far the greater part of poultry dis
eases are on the outside and their name
are hen lice and mites or spiders. Tn
best remedies are bubach and kerosene
the former to he used on the fowls an
the latter on the ptrches, in the nest
and in the whitewash. These two sub
stances give us absolute control OF tn
insects that iniest poultry and poultr
houses, and consequently control of til
so-cslled diseases resulting from insects
One of the novelties and luxuries G
the period is banana cake. Take one Gu
OF sugar, one cup of water or sweet milk
three eggs, four cups of -four, three SINAI
teaspoons Of baking powder. Mix light
and bake in layers. Make an icing q
the whites OF two eggs, and one cup an,
a half OF powdered sugar. Spread thi
on the layers, and then cover thickly an,
entirely with bananas sliced thin. TIL
cake may be favored with vanilla. Tn
top should De simply frosted.
Items % Plum Culture; good stron
clay loan is best sandy subsoil no
wanted. Wood ashes and bone dust ar
good fertilizers for plums, The curculi
can generally be depended upon to do a,
the thinning that is needed. Plum tree
in poultry yards are usually exempt iron
curcullo. Cultivation should be sballoy
Just enough to keep the weeds down
The more food you give the trees the bet
ter will be the fruit and the more Their
will he OF it. The Lombard is one of tn
hardest oil all plums, and often does wei
tor Twenty-Five years, while the tende
RENE Claude hardly ever lasts more thai
fifteen or twenty years at most.
A refreshing variety OF salad. to b
eaten along with cold meat, is made O
cucumbers and onions. The cucumber
are to be pared and then sliced crosswis
as thinly as possible; one or two larg
onions are slicedin the same manner an,
mixed with the sliced cucumbers and tn,
whole put into salt water this, in a shor
time, extracts the Juice; now drai,
them and dish they are then to be wei
peppered and half covered with good win
or cider vinegar; little olive oil NAV b
added II liked. This salad NAV also b
frozen and served with boiled fish.