Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-30
HOME AND FARM.
INVESTIGATION INTO THE ORIGIN
OF HOG CHOLERA.
The Superiority of Carrots and Mansie
Wurtzels as Food for MIX
Cows-Yield of an Acre or
Land in STRAWBERRIES.

| Tho ,,overnment statistical bureau report, |
"A 612. s37 head Of hogs, breeding ant
mails and young pigs.
Select seed corn carefully from the
best stalks, choosing the choicest ears, |
and then hang them in perfectly dry
place where they cannot freeze.
A orindstone conveniently placed ready
for use leaves no excuse Tor working
with dull axe or other cutting instru-
ment that never does good work.
Leather, as it slowly decomposes,
o;vcs off fcrtiliZ,ng matter. Some people
like to bury old boots and shoes near
crane vines or trees where their valuable
qualities are realized.
To make hens lay, make mush OF
coarse corn-meal, boiling in large req
nenner in each two quarts of the water.
Cook for an hour and feed hot. Boiled
annie skins seasoned with red pepper IS
also good.
During the summer great deal oil run
Dish collects in the garden, ana perhaps
in the orchard. All this ought 10 nc
rakcd UP and burned, or otherwise dis-
posed OF. II lett on the ground, it fur
nishes food for insects.
Sweet Sauce: Beat up the yelks OF
four eggs with four tablespoonfuls OF pow
dered sugar; add tumbleriul OF sherry
and liquor glass of brandy, put the
mixture in a jug; place this IN a sauce
pan of boiling water on the fire, ana
= froth up the same with a chocolate mil.
OYSTER Saute: Drain two dozen oys-
ters. dry them on towel, sprinkle with
!, pepper and salt and roll in flour. Put a
quarter of pound of bacon (cut in thin
a slices) in frying-pan and let the lat dry
ont: remove the meat and put in the
oysters let brown and turn. Serve on
: toast
Mashed Potatoes: Boil quantity OF
Y potatoes and pass them through sieve.
Put them into saucepan with good
lump of butter, and salt to taste; add a
. little milk, and work them well with a
spoon on a slow fire for few minutes,
s adding small quantities of milk as it IS
!. required, until they get OF the desired
: consistency.
/. Potato Pudding: Boil four large po-
y tatoes and pass them through a sieve ;
Il stir into them powdered loaf sugar to
taste, and the yelks of two or three eggs ;
add a few drops of essence OF lemon,
IT then the whites of the eggs whsked to a
q froth mix quickly and well pour into a
plain mould, buttered and PREDETERMINED,
and bake for twenty minutes in quick
(, oven.
An acre OF land will produce five or SIX
ii times as many strawberries, i'll bushels
A. as it will of wheat, and the prices usually
obtained for Strawberries are more thar
three times as much as for wheat. One
l,r,y,f MN
n profit as fifteen acres of wheat, while The
cost ef raising the straw berries is proper
at tionatelv but little more than that OF pro
re ducing wheat
An extensive apple-grower in Illinois
III is said to plant only half as far apart a
n the trees should stand permanently, anC
then he brings three-fourths of them int
bearing as soon as possible by girdllng
us letting them produce all they will unit
y, the permanent ones need the room. TIL
girdled trees are then cut out and tn
ID others have all the needed space TO
e. growth and productiveness.
Have you a good stock of carrots an
n mangle wurtzes in your cellars for you
,r milk COWS? If you have you are luck
man. If you have not, it is too late nov
to provide them, but make your caicula
a tons to SOW the seeds of them LIBERAL
us the present season. You will never con
plain that you have too many of sue
IT'S roots for your stock Cows, oxen, horses
On and sheep actually need green food i
winter as much as in summer.
a. There is no doubt whatever about tn
he benefits to be derived from a well-cor
Quoted creamery, observes a Dakota fa
mer, not only to the farmers, but to eN
n cry one within the limits of operation,
or 1t gives the farmer a cash market for Ii
cream, and enables him to pay cash fC
,w supplies. 1t gives him an inducement
IL better his stock, and to employ bette
NJ and more profitable methods of caring fC
them, in addition to many other benefits
he Cold Saw Put three tablespoonful
n OF vinegar in saucepan with little sd
k and pepper beat two eggs very light an
mix with a teaspoonful of sfted -four
tcaspoonful OF butter, a teaspooniul
Is sugar and a half teaspoonful of grouu
ris mustard, Set the vinegar on the STOW
he and when it boils stir in the mixtur
adding half a cup of milk. Cool, for tv
Id minutes stirring constantly. Pour Il
es sauce over the shred cabbage and let
ID become cold before serving.
oysters a Ia BOulette: Tut one qua
of OF oysters in their own liquor Let con
No. to boil, turn in hot dish, strain. p
id two ounces of butter in saucepan, l.
heat, sprinkle in tablespoonful
sifted -four, let cook one minute, stir al
m add Il cupiul of the oyster liquor Tai
ny from the fire and mix in the yelks of tv
m eggs, little salt, very little pepper, OF
/, teaspoonful of lemon juice and one CRATE
nutmeg. Beat WELL return to the fir
he heat well, but not boil. Drop in the ov
yer ters. Dish and boil.
90 Salad dressing for Oysters: Take Il
!" yelKs OF three raw eggs, small tabl
spoonful OF mustard, teaspoonfu
TO salt, two tablespoonfuls of white suga
ST an atom of cayenne pepper, a cup OF {
nat or butter melted, small half-cup of vii
Use egar, the juice of lemon Beat the eg
very light with the sugar, add the mu
,ad tard salt and pepper. Mix in the butt
lin and vinegar in small quantities altcrnat
en- ly, and, just before pouring over the sal,
It'll add two cups, OF whipped cream. 7
viii p cream, let it stay on the ice fe
=, hours, then whip with an eggbeater
YES Potato Balls; Take half dozen pot
va toes, boil them, pass them through
he sieve, and work into them in bowl OF
.he gill OF cream and the yelks of three egg
add pepper, salt and nutmeg to fast
!, and some parsley finely chopped. VIII,
IA they are well mixed and smooth, tal
the them up by tablespoonfuls, roll each
ice ball, tiatten it and flour it slight