Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-02
HOME AND FARM.
J.. The Horns Must Go"-Compost Heap
The Pasture-Feeding Tor fa'
or Lean-Air Stacked Lime.


Tor compost heap.
II Won have a rough road across the
tarm where heavy loads are moved, make
il smooth before you use it again.
Air-slacked lime busted over the ground
around Young trees serves as partlai
protection against some xmas Oh ihseo''
One stone six inches high in a wheel
track causes more wear OF team and car
riaee than an additional half mile OF
smooth road.
The fact that systematic men do so
much work with so little effort is largely
due to their keeping their implements oil
labor in order.
Keep an eve on the future shape OF the
tree, and timely remove small needless,
crossing or crooked limbs. This Will OBJ
yiate heavy pruning in after years.
Haaff has discovered chemical de-
horner. If used on the cali 1t kills the
horn completely without leaving a scar.
Several years ago Mr.. HaaF piped up in
shrill 'falsetto, "The horns must go.
He was Joined by a few, then by hun
dreds. until the grand chorus swept from
ocean to ocean. Now he starts another
refrain, "The saw must go.
To have pasture well stocked with grass
the pasture should be divided into two
sections, which allows the grass to grow
in one while the cattle are grazing on the
other. When grass is kept too close. and
constantly trampled by the animals, it is
liable to be killed should drought come.
n i. Off thp
will grow better and the animals secure
more food with less labor.
As the hens can find large share OF
their food at this season they must be ted
very sparingly, or they will not lay. This
season grass has been plentiful in some
Quarters. and it makes excellent food Tor
poultry, either for those on the range or
that are confined, only that, in the case
OF fowls confined in yards, the grass
should be chopped into short lengths be-
fore being fed to the hens.
To Cook Tough Beef.-Season a thick
steak with pepper and salt and fry slowly
/ in little lard, turn it often so that both
sides are cooked alike, when well brown
ed add small quantity OF water, half s
( "a sliced onion, some minced parsley an1
thyme, thicken with a spoonful OF flour
cover close and leave for an hour on thu
back of the stove, where it may simme
slowly, then add pound can OF tomatoes
then let it cook until the meat is read,
to fall to pieces.
Biscuit.-One quart OF sweet cream o
milk, one and half cups OF butter o
fresh lard, two tablespoonfuls whit
sugar, one good teaspoonful OF salt; ado
-four enough to make stiff dough, kneat
well and mould into neat, small biscuit
with the hands, as our grandmother
used to do add one teaspooniul OF cream
tartar, ii preferred. Bake well and yo'
have good, sweet biscuit that will kee
for weeV in a dry place, and are yer
nice for Il travelling lunch.
Good Bread Save the water in whic
you boil your potatoes for dinner
mash two or three good sized pOts
toes and put in the water; when it
cooled Il little put in yeast cake. Ii
stand until night, then add enough ht
: water to make it of the required warmth
set in sponge over night and cover so
will keep warm. In the morning be;
the sponge until smooth and knead fl
half an hour, or longer if you have tt
time. Let rise and put in loaves, bal
one hour in moderate oven.
+, Dressed Eggs.-Boil six eggs hard, C
in halves take out the yolks and wi
them mix thoroughly the following:
little sugar, salt, mustard, pepper al
/ enough vinegar to make damp enough
r again form into balls same shape as b
# tore and replace one OF these in each h;
OF the eggs. These placed evenly on
dish and garnlshed with parsley make
e nice dish for lunch or tea. This is espe
: tally palatable for the warm evenin
e which are about upon us.
Cottage Cheese the clabber
+ milk in the oven, leaving the door ope
|, turn it round frequently and cut the GU
: in squares, stirring gently now and tn
till about as warm as the finger will bea
pour into a coarse bag and hang in a CO
e place over night ii made in the evenin
u when wanted turn from the bag, Oh
n rather coarse and add salt, pepper a
cream. Some prefer to dress it wi
q sugar, cream and little nutmeg, ON
Is ting the salt and pepper; or work il
"a little butter and mould it into balls.
Hauling out fresh manure for ere
a that are to he planted on the manure
:, nnwse. Before the plants can deri
=, benefit from the manure it must first
" decompose in the soil and its elemeI
dissolved by the rains. Well-rotted,
~ composed manure is always the best
t. any crop. Ii the manure is undeco
IS posed it will not become available
plant food to it's fullest extent until I
-, ,
= manure the slower the process of deco
as position.
Last year it was demonstrated by tn,
- who make special experiments to Diet
;; mine the matter of feeding for fat or lie;
=, that steer or a hog can be made to
u tain Il heavy weight, with fair prop
ton OF fat and lean, by feeding for Il
IL as by the former method OF feeding
v secure weight or fat only. The relat
is cost OF each system OF production is nea
the same, but the quality of the carcas
4 That we're evenly interspersed with b.
No lat and lean were far superior to the {
no casses that largely abound in fat.
Sc Grinding Oats With Corn. -Corn m
alon is not merely too hearty, but i
es decidedly too heavy for healthful 70
in For use on the table it is lightened
ev various ways, and generally eaten W
ny something else likely to compact in
stomach, 1t is necessary to do the sa
with it for stock, especially if the corr
a ground. There is nothing better to or
al with corn than oats. Their hull ma
es the mixture much lighter, and the gr
a. itself supplements some OF the defici
cies OF the corn. Oats are also excel
ha to put it with corn in the ear, when
,st latter is to be ground. Unless this
he done it is often hard for the miller