Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-06

With q good silo we can sell most
Of our hay at a large profit. and yet
keep our farms in fine condition
Dairy World
-Agriculture is the life blood OF the
Nation; impoverish this and the whole
| body becomes weak and nerveless; en-
rich the current and the whole body is
strengthened.
Keep your tools sharp. when the
| work is pressing. A man with sharp
tools can do more work in day than
two men with dull tools 1t may take
a little time to sharpen the tools. but
| it will be labor saved.
The farmer who persists in work.
| ing day after day from four O'Clock in
| the morning until seven or eight at
night, and expects his boys and hired
men to do the same, is not doing
Justice to himself, to his hired labor
ers or to his Creator.
The Southern Cultivator expresses
| the opinion that it is not best to turn
under a green crop or turn over the
soil at all in midsummer, unless the
| land can be sown at once with crop
that will promptly cover the surface
| again with vegetation.
One instance of the evil influence
of habit is the persistency with which
some farmers keep up the custom OF
killing their hogs at particular time
of the year. Fresh pork is wanted in
large markets all the time. and 1t Is
| often the case that the farmer loses
more than the price of the food by
keeping hog three months to wait
for killing time.
| Salmon Patties.-Cut cold cooked
salmon into dice. Heat about pint
of the dice in half pint of cream Or
Hollandaise sauce. Season to taste
with Cayenne pepper and salt Fill
the shells and serve. Cold cooked fish
of any kind may be made into patties
in this way. Use any fish sauce you
may choose; all are equally good.
There are several matters to be
considered in sowing the seeds of root
crops. The seed must be brought in
close contact with the moist earth.
either by rolling or treading in with
| the feet, and it must be in such guam
tity that its swelling and termination
will force away the soil and allow the
little plant to come to the light and
air. Hence of all such seeds we sow
many times more than should be al
lowed to grow. but they are given Wig
orous thinning. Agricult-
| urist
Self Freezing Ice Cream--Two
quarts of rich milk, four eggs, whites
and yelks beat in separately, three
cups of sugar, one pint of rich cream,
four teaspoonfuls of any favoring de-
sired. Heat the milk almost to boil
ing, beat the yelks to stiff froth.
add the sugar and stir it thoroughly,
then add the whites, which have been
beaten to a froth, and stir again, then
add this little by little to the hot milk,
beating it all the time, stir the mix
lures steadily about fifteen minutes,
when quite cold beat in the cream and
the lavoring.
The hog wallows in mud and en-
cases himself in a shining armor,
which suffocates his backbiters. When
it dries the mud and the cause of his
misery falls off. Horses seem to un-
derstard that dust is death to their
creeping foes, so they roll where they
can find dry earth. Hens free them
selves from parasites by the dust bath
And cows-who has not seen them
throw dirt over themselves? They,
too, want the earth, SO we might take
the hint and store away road dust or
dry earth for winter use in keeping
our stock free from the tormentors.