River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-06-13
HOME AND FARM.


1T does not pay in the long run, or.
short run either. TO buy cheap farm
utensils or cheap stock. The best is
the cheapest.
Down in Texas they have super
'tition that an egg laid on Good Friday
will never spoil. The same belief is
held in New Orleans.
Cooking dandelions In frying
pan with little water and thin slice
Of bacon is the latest recommended
way for making a healthful spring
dish.
To rid a room of reaches and other
insects, pour hot alum or cayenne
pepper tea in the cracks, and. after
closing the windows and doors, burn
sulphur in an old tin pan till the fumes
penetrate every part of the room.
Two large oranges, sliced and
mixed with two sliced bananas. will
greatly improve the flavor of the lat
ter and will be quite sufficient for a
breakfast for six people. as only a
moderate quantity of fruit should be
taken on an empty stomach.
Baked Omelet: Beat two eggs
lightly and stir in two teaspoonsful of
-four and half teaspoonful of salt.
Heat one cupful of milk hot and in it
put one teaspoonful of butter. Pour
the milk on to the egg, stir quickly
and put into hot. buttered pudding
dish and bake fifteen minutes in a hot
oven.
To guard against rust on seed,
soak it in strong solution of sulphate
of copper. Corn should be treated in
this way especially. If the spores are
not destroyed the rust will appear in
the crop. Too much care can not be
exercised in selecting seed corn.
When space and convenience per-
nit, there is no better place for silo
than in the barn. This makes it con-
venient for feed and saves expense,
as no roof is required. If the barn is
a basement barn. the silo may extend
from the floor Of the basement to the
plates OF the barn. Dairy World.
One good fruit is worth more than
several poor ones. Whoever aims to
have the finest fruit must thin, begin
ming soon after the fruit is set, and
continuing until it is nearly full
grown, ultimately removing three
fourths of all set Thinning is now
recognized as the key to profitable
fruit growing.
Wheat is the best food for animals.
Oats for the horse. Corn is not a
good horse feed. Peas are the most
nutritious food there is for stock.
Corn-stalks are very carbonaceous.
Milk and grass are complete foods.
Wheat bran. linseed meal and cotton
seed meal are the main carbonaceous
foods; but they should be fed with
hay.
No sitting-room should ever be
considered furnished without the pres.
ence of good. commodious scrap
basket Its sides may flutter with rib
bons, or be as staid and matter-of-f
as possible. Nowadays we can have
any thing in this line. from the solid
peach basket, lined with cretonne, to
the most delicate wicker-work. laden
with coquettish bows and exquisite
flowers. Indeed, these are a blessing
if placed in every room in the house,
adding so much to the comfort of their
inmates.
--Grafting may be done even when
the trees are in bloom, provided the
cions are dormant At this time, when
a growth has started, some form oil
crown-grafting is preferable to cleft
grating At this time the bark
separates readily from the wood, and
unless great care is observed trouble
some accidents may happen. The buds
upon gratis will often start into growth
before there is any union with the
stock, growing from the moisture sup
piled. just as if the ciOns were placed
in water. When union has taken place
the graft should be treated just as if il
were young tree planted in the soil,
pruning. pinching. or otherwise shap-
ing ii, and cutting away all branches
of the stock that may interfere with
its development. American Agricult-
urist.