Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-06-18
uouE ANn FARM.
rna Gaze of Horses Something Coca
to Eat-To Keep Young Weeds
Down Bee eepinR Notes

the fdll anu pow IL uIi"Vi "a w.
II is mistaken idea that 4 hen $ nest
ought TO do duty year without renew
ing,
Bv planting the red raspberry, bee
keeiers would have one OF the best bee
pastures known, and crop oil fruit also.
Common wheat flour made into paste
with cold water, applied dry, Will take
out grease spots without inJurlng the
most delicate fabric.
A strong solution of carbolic acid ana
wafer. poured into holes, Kills all the
ants ii touches, and the survivors lmme-
diately take themselves oil.
To stop the bleeding OF horse or other
stock from a snag or wound, make an APP
plication OF dry horse manure, and 1t VIII
stop the bleeding every time.
One pound of green copreras dissolved
in one quart of boiling water VIII destroy
fouI smells. Powdered borax scattered
in their haunts will dispense cockrcaches.
For good returns for feeding, taking
one year with another, we would rather
trust bunch OF even, well selected
wetheIs than any other stock on the
farm.
Thin Biscuit: One quart OF flour, one
tablespoon OF lard and butter mixed, and
one tablespoon OF salt make into stun
paste, with cold water beat dough until
it blisters, roll thin, prick with iork
and bake quickly.
A gray linen spasher, with a figure
worked in scarlet in outline embroidery,
is serviceable rs well as ornamental in
the dining room back of the small table,
frequently used there to hold the ice
pitcher and goblets.
Ii YOU want to grow a good crop OF nice
potatoes in your garden, beware OF sprout-
ed seed. Ii your seed potatoes cannot be
retarded otherwise, keep them in the ice
house or refrigerator.
ANY man closely observant knows that
a compactly built hog with light bone,
weighing from 10 to $50 pounds, is tue
selling hog for the market and that these
weights are the most profitable to grow.
Ordinary buttermilk is a valuable food
not only for pigs, but for the family. 1t
contains per cent OF milk sugar, nearly
per cent of mineral salts, us well as
heterogeneous materials and proportion OF
butter tat.
Every Young weed that comes mp and
, is cut down is one less weed to 80 to seed.
The way to keep down weeds is to allow
the seeds to terminate and then destroy
the young plants In this manner the
work is easier and better performed.
A good way TO arrage fruit in a dish
for an ornamental piece, is to set glass
: tunblerin the center OF the dish, around
and over it put a thick layer OF moss
then not nearly SO much fruit will be re-
o quired, and it can be arranged very hand
S somely.
Baked Beans: Soak one quart OF beans
u in water oyor night; in the morning pu
/ them in an iron kettle with one-hai
pound OF salt pork aud water to cover
- When tender, but not broken, take on
i OF the liquor with skinner and put in
u baking pan with the pork on top ant
bake Until brown.
T, White Mountain Cake: Two cups o
q sugar, one cupof butter, one cup OF swee
milk, four eggs, four cups OF flour, tw'
d teaspooniuls of ha';;ac pow Ter. Cream
C butter and sugar together, add the beatei
yolks, then the milk. -four with the bak
ing power sifted through it, and last tn,
e beaten whites; tiayoring, Bake in ont
e loaf.
- Resin in soap is a fraud 1t make
:, poor soap hard and greatly lessons tn
: cost. Some say that rosin improves soal
because OF the turpentine in it. The'
ID might us well say dry bone makes goo,
IS food because OF the meat that was on
once. There is no turpcntine in rosin
- it was all taken out in the making, an
=, the rosin discolors and spells white good
and Shrinks wOOlens. But turpentine il
small quantities added to boiling clothes
n sweetens them and improves the colol
The best boys and girls we have eve
known on the farm were those hos
~ parents gave them an interest in some
III thing to raise or cultivate as their Owl
TO boy especially, the feeling of owner
N ship is a happy, proud, hopeful one. II
t. feels that he has something to work fol-
to look forward to. The pig will in du
time become lat, maj ketabe hog, tn
Is little lamb fine wool-bearing sheep, tn
n colt handsome horse, the chicken
grow to profitable hens, and the cali int
ne fine milk COW. Parents, give your chi
re dren chance in this direction, and vor
farms will be better cultivated and you
homes made happier by it.
re Something to Eat Between talks: Her
is another sweet dish thoroughly to SET
IL son. Take three pounds OF sweet a
Ho monds, two pounds and a half of crushe
~ sugar, and one pound of strawberrie.
Pound the almonds into a kind of paste
nd and mix them with sugar. Add the iuit
ar OF the Strawberries, which must be pre-,
n, iously crushed. Place the pan contain
ing these different ingredients on Il slo
a. fire, and stir them up continuousl,
IN When the paste seems to have ohtaine
ar certain consistency, take it out OF til
VI pan and spread it out on baking boar
powdered with sugar, till il is of the thicl
as ness OF a half-dollar. As soon as IL
at paste is cold, cut it ont in round or saual
y pieces, and put them till hot and crisl
into the kitchener, and then serve.
10, Cocoa as Food: As an article of foe
33t- cocoa differs essentially from both tea an
IL coffee While only an infusion of tho,
substances is used, leaving large Or,
Nv portion OF their total weight unconsume,
"a the entire substance of the cocoa seeds
tn prepared as an emulsion for drinkin
and the whole is thus utilized with ii
system. While the contents of a Gun
in tea or coffee can only be regarded
list stimulant in its effect, and almost e,
IS. tlrely destitute OF essential nutritive pro
m. critics, cup OF prepared ocoa is really
most pOurISbipu artipln of dict