Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-11


-Scalded bran makes an exceaent
food for pigs A little cernmeal added
improves it. Thin it down with skim
milk or buttermilk.
"A runty, scrawny pig in q good
lot is always an aggravatiou to the
feeder; and then at selling time it is g.
drawback. injuring the sale and cut
ung the average at the sccle--Swine-
herd.
FOR early potatoes prepare spe-
ciai plot, and after the plants are well
up thin them out so as to have only
one plant to the hill. The potatoes
grown this way will be more uniform.
in size and also earlier.
Use the roller upon those places
which have been uplifted bv the frost.
Remove sunken stones that the roller
Will not push out Of the way of the
mower. Digging hole and burning
them is often the readiest way of get
ting rid of large stones.-American
Agriculturist
When more eggs are boiled for
breakfast than are eaten, they are
easily utilized. Boil them again un-
til they are hard. then use for salad:
or, when quite cold, slice them and
lay between bread and butter, form
ing egg sandwiches. which are good
for luncheon.
Biscuit Cheese--Slice into very
thin pieces about a quarter of q pound
of fresh cheese. Let this stand on the
stove for a very few minutes after add
ing butter about the size of half an
egg, and a little pepper and salt. Then
sprinkle cracker dust until the desired
consistency is reached.
Pork chops should be cooked
nearly half an hour. When half done
pour off the fat and sprinkle the chops
with fine crumbs and a little sageS
brown nicely. and when ready for the
table pour over them the juice from
canned tomatoes heated hot, sailed and
peppered- Serve with boiled or baked
sweet potatoes.
The farmer, as producer of nee
essary articles of consumption, should
take the same interest in his business,
and be as anxious for its success, as he
who is engaged in manufacturing or
commerce, and should study the ways
and means carefully and intelligently,
being ready to adopt any or all meth
DDS that promise success.
To keep bread moist, have a board
made to fit the bottom of the bread
pan, but raised about three inches.
and then put the board in, which will
be two inches from the water. Put
the bread on the board and cover the
pan with an earthenware lid. The in
closed air will keep the bread beauti-
fully moist. The water should, be
changed every day.
Corn is a tropical plant. being
most probably indigenous to Central
America, from which part of the world
it may have been carried by ocean cur
rents to the coasts of Asia, where it
was cultivated in the sixteenth century.
But there was ample time for the seed
to have been carried from this hemis-
phere to the eastern part of the world
after its discovery by Columbus, and
the fact that maize was grown in Asia
in the latter part of the sixteenth
century can not prove that it was in
digenous there.
breeding for wool and mutton.
says New York breeder, can be COM
bined as well as breeding fowls for
weight and quality, of carcass and
quantity of eggs, which have been so
much improved in the last few years.
A patient man was thirty years breed
ing the large butts off corn-ears and
yellow kernels on cobs of white corn,
and / predicted that in much less time
our sheep will shear twenty pounds
and dress 200 pounds of as good NUT
ton as can be found in the Highlands
of Scotland.