Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-23
HoME AND FARM
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Crops-Plowing Sod-How 10
Make Soap--Corn Fritters

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them in good shape and attractive.
Finely sifted coal ashes are excellent
for providing dust baths for poultry.
Fresh boiled milk with cut sugar Will
soothe cough when other things iail.
Sprinkle cayenne pepper in the resort
of rats and they will leave the premises
Better feed the inferior fruits and veg
etables to the hogs than to send them 10
market.
MANY vigorous, fruitful tree owes Its
existence to mulch, at this season, when
it was young.
How to Make Soap.-Three and hall
pounds of grease, four gallons OF salt
water. if possible; one box OF concentrat,
ed I've. After the I've is dissolved bon
three hours.
Horses should have at least two hours
rest at noon. On very warm days horses
suffer severely. They should be watered
often. and at night should be swapDeo
and wiped dry.
Filthy auartors cause lice on all classes
of stock. and at this season the vermin
multiply very rapidly. An animal that
il infested with vermin cannot be kept
in good condition, even with the best OF
feeding.
The hens will now begin to moult.
Keep the hens that moult early, as they
will Law in winter. Late pullets will
seldom lay before spring, but pulle.s
batched not later than April should lay
in November.
Corn Fritters cotfeecup OF
canned corn or grated corn, one of sweet
milk, two eggs we'll beaten, salt and flour
to make quite stiff batter. Drop with
spoon into boiling lard. These frltters
taste like fried oysters.
Cucumbers are sometimes served as an
entree when prepared thus; Take good
sized ones and peel them and slice them
lengthwise; dip each slice into cornmeal
seasoned with pepper and salt; fry them
in hot lard until they are delicate
brown.
Beef Croquets Take cold roast beef,
mince it fine, put in an onion chopped
! fine, sweet marjoram, little powdered
cloves, moisten with the beef gravy !;
make it into balls, dip in the beaten yolk
of an egg, roll in flour and troy them in
lard.
Plant turnip seed. The ground is in
excellent condition, being damp, and the
seed should terminate quickly. AS soon
rs the young plants throw out leaves
scatter wood ashes along the row. Give
| the crop extra attention when the plants
are Young, and but little work will be re-
quired later on.
The best time to use the cultivator is
on warm, dry days. All weeds and grass
will then be quickly killed by the sun,
and will have no opportunity to take
root and grow. If the ground is damp
when it is cultivated the weeds and grass
will not be entirely destroyed and the
work may have to be done over again.
Sweet potato plants should now be
spreading, and unless they are cultivated
the task will be more difficult after the
vines cover the ground. They should be
hiled up in order to avoid heavy rains.
1t is not too late to replant the missing
places if handful OF fertilizer be scatter
ed around the plants that may be set out.
Green tomatoes fried are preferred by
some people to the egg plant, and may
well take its place; cut the outer slices
off, and then cut the inner part in slices
about half an inch thick, roll them in
flour and fry in butter; sprinkle pepper
and salt on them. This may be used as
an entree or garnish with meat of any
kind.
A pretty Chair. A friend of ours with
more taste than money is constantly sur
prising her acquaintance with little ex-
hibltlons of ingenuity. One of the latest
OF her achievements is this: Somewhere
about the house was an old-fashioned
rush bottomed rocker, relic of the DAYS
OF our grandparents, comfortable chair
enough to sit in, but wearing CORES.
pondingly time-worn appearance. Out
of its hiding place my friend brought this
uncomely affair and applied couble Of
coats OF vermilion to it, which quite me-
tamorphosed its appearance. 4 square
of homespun linen, old put good and
strong and mellowed by time into a soft
cream color, made capital cover for a
cushion to the same. A spray of flowers
mingled with wheat heads, worked in
crewels, serves as ornamentation for this
cushion. and there isn't a prettier chair
In town for the amount of time and trou.
BILE expended upon it.
Flowing Sod.-It is a question rarely
decided among farmers at what time it is
best TO plow sod for corn crop. This
question Is best settled by considering
what is expected OF this operation. The
great point is that the corn crop shall
procure a large portion of its nutriment
from 1t another is that the corn NAV be
planted on fresh clean ground so that il
may get ahead OF the weeds by rapid and
vigorous termination. How. then. can
these important points be best secured
Clearly by permitting the heritage tc
grow as long as possible, and by defer.
ring the plowing until the last moment
lhen large quantity OF the most ac-
ceptapie 1000 Tor the young corn is
plo~ed under; the soil is mellow, moist
ana fresh; planting is done under the
best conditions. The seeds of weeds
will sprout quickly and light harrow.
ing before the corn is up will DESTROY the
germs and clean the ground of myriads
OF them, tightening the after-labor of cul.
tivating the crop. A top-dressing OF ma.
nure on the sod before the blowing will
be a great assistance. WA
Successive Crops,-The proper way To
manage garden plot is to keen some
crop growing in it from spring until the
lrosts appear late in the fall. Several
objects will be gained by SO doins
among them the destruction of ali weeds
finer condition OF the soil, and sunni
OF fruits and vegetable for the table a,
many vegetables grow quickly and give !
supply in a short time after the seed Is