Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-07
HOME AND FARM.
THE CULTIVATION OF CORN, PorA'
TOES, ETC.
In the Selection of Good Seed Lies the
Success in Farming Cruelty TO
Animals-Where to Build
the Pig Pen, Etc.

ing What can be more barbarious IMAM
to keen stock confined in close quarters
all winter, with but one or two kinds OF
food and with little or no exercise
If q new broom be immersed in boiling
hot water until it is quite cold, and then
thoroughly dried in the air, It Will be TAR
more pleasant to use, and will last much
longer. Frequent moistening OF the
broom is conducive to its usefulness ana
also saves the carpet.
To make nice edging, mold mashed po-
tatoes that are nearly cold into wet egg
Gun. then turn out the little cones, ar
ranging them in row all around the roast
of meat. Set in the oven, and brown
glazing with butter Just before taking out
Serve one of the cones with each slice OF
meat.
Rice Bread-One quart OF rice Hour, one
quart of milk, one tablespoonful! OF wheat
flour, three tablespoonful of butter, Tour
eggs, one teaspponful OF soda dissolved IN
milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream OF tartar,
sifted with the flour. Bake in shallow
tins In quick oven.
Don't have two cocks running in one
pen. They will fight constantly at this
season if good for anything, and each
will run to interfere with the other at
critical moment II you've got two cocks
in one pen you will get more chickens
this season, and good dinner now, by
making potpie of one, and giving the
other full range.
Take the weight of twelve eggs in white
sugar, take the weight OF twelve in flour,
the weight of nine in butter. Cream the
butter after washing from it all the salt,
then cream the flour into it by degrees
Meanwhile, having beaten the eggs sep
arately until very light, stir them in,
beating constantly, and add lastly sea-
sonng of mace or lemon rind and some
fiavoring-sav two tablespoonfuls of rose
water and you have an excellent pound
cake.
Take two large lemons and rub the rind
with one pound of loaf sugar, so that all
the yellow part is removed, place the
sugar in basin, squeeze the juice of the
lemons over, then add the yolks OF six
eggs and beat it all well up, and put it in
a jar for use. 1t will keep for years. Any
flavor, such as vanilla or cinnamon, may
he added if liked. When required for
use, having made the paste and lined the
tins, mix one tablespoon of the mixture
with teacupful OF good milk and place Il
little in each tart, and you have cheese
cake.
Where to build the pig pen, seems Of
ten to puzzle the farmer The pen should
be located at considerable distance
from the house, and in direction from
which the prevailing winds will not watt
the odors toward it. Better still the bad
smells should be reduced to minimum
by cleanliness and deodorizing at the
pen. This is easily done and profitably,
too, by throwing in few shovelfuls OF
dry earth on that portion where the pigs
resort, so that their manure is mixed up
with it in the pen, and still more thor
oughly when the pen is cleaned out
Every pen should be constructed so it
can be cleaned out from one of the sides
without entering it at all. Enough space
should be left between the floor and the
siding for introducing a long handle
scraper or hoe for the purpose of clean
ing it out If the pen has been literally
supplied with dry earth, bad odors will
be prevented and the value of manure
increased
Experiments show that cultivation
benefits the crop in more ways than by
the destruction of weeds, though if the
weeds and grass are kept down the corn
crop will be much benefited, as the
weeds rob the plants Of moisture existing
in the soil. The moisture rises to the
surface by fore of capillary attraction. the
compacted earth being porous. Ii the
earth is covered by any substance evap-
ration is thereby lessened and the water
is turned into the stalks of the plants.
When the ground is loosened, or the sur
face of the soil broken, it becomes a dry
mulch and prevents evaporation in the
same manner as though covering was
afforded. 1t is not necessary to cultivate
deeply. What is required is to keep the
surface soil loose, thus preventing evap-
grafton OF moisture and enabling the crop
to endure severe drought. The earth it.
sell is covered into storehouse of mois-
| ture, and the soil should be cultivated
and loosened even if not weed can be
seen.
On field cultivated level and the sur
face all mellow, the rain goes right down
where it falls, wetting all the soil and
carrying what fertility it has in it right to
the growing roots that extend all through
between the rows. Where shovel pillow
is used during heavy shower, much of
the water runs off in the burrows. The
ground in the hill instead of being a
yielding medium" often gets so dry
and hard that the yield is injured. Level
sand will withstand drought best. In n
wet season potatoes will stand milling bet
ter, button drained land even then hills are
an injury. When one takes soil from be-
tween the rows to pile up around the
hills he is laying bare, or nearly so. the
roots that are along in the center. This
IS abusing the plants, and on drained
land know of no possible benefit to be
derived. Better plant about four inches
deep and keep the ground nearly level.
In practice have to throw little dirt in
under the plants once with the Planet
horseshoe to keep the weeds down
without the use use OF hand-hoe, but
we keep the surface as nearly level MS
possible. After raising many thousands
OF bushels in this way, we find no more
greened or sunburned than we hilled nm
high-in truth, think not so MANY.
Selecting and planting good seed is very
essential to the farmer. 1t is often true
that farmers are too careless in SELECTING
pure seed, or, say the best theg can get,
Is also fact that, as Il general thing. il is
mourning unnecessary expense TO send
away Tor great variety of seeds. IT is
common error to suppose that ANYTHING
that Will grow at ALL is good enough to
plant. Seed corn should be carefully
selected at the proper time. By a little
extra trouble in this direction H. -. !