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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19

oven and bake to crisp brown crust.
Very little bread, either white or brown.
is baked enough to be wholesome, and
the slack baked stuff sets up ferment
in the stomach which ruins health.
Bread made simply with baking powder
or cream of tartar and soda, with or
without milk in the water used to mix
it, is more easily digested than yeast
bread, especially in summer, but good
yeast bread of whole meal, with little
molasses and very little or no corn
meal, mixed In sponge, stirred up
without kneading, and thoroughly
baked is a good household bread, slice
thin and toast or bake crisp to preserve
its wholesomeness.
Bread in the slightest degree clammy,
sour, or musty is bad at any time. but
rank poison in summer, and much of the
disorder attributed to malaria and othes
things is set on foot by miserable bread.
/ Not one baker in ten sells bread fit to
eat. The -four is inferior, the bread
tray seldom cleaned properly, the
bread is acid enough to cause dangerous
ferment in the stomach in warm
weather, and SO slack baked as to start
fungus in a loaf in shor time. Healthy,
safe bread keeps longer by two days
than any other. The only safe bread
for dyspeptics in hot weather is a crisp,
with water, salt, and q tablespoonful of
butter to the quart of -four, roll lied out as
thin as possible, and baked brown in
hot oven. A little sugar may be added
if we'll borne, and the butter left out if
it does not suit the digestion, but the
cracker must be thoroughly baked
ShIrLeU Dare
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
The Care of Butter.

Farmers are often unjustly blamed for
the poor quality of butter, which was
quite good when bought, but quickly
deteriorates after it has been kept one or
two weeks. The city housewife. or
more generally the servant allowed
charge Of the kitchen, is largely to
blame for this. In summer we have
known butter to be placed in refrigera-
tors along with meats and even fish, the
idea being that as none of those touched
each other no harm could be done. Fat
is very absorptive of any odors, and
either cream OF butter is thus easily
tainted. In winter time butter should
not be placed where it will get direct
heat from stoves or furnaces. If the
house is heated from the basement, as
many city houses are, it has probably no
really good place for storing butter.
On shelf uear the kitchen it is sure to
absorb odors from the daily cooking.
In the country, butter is generally
kept in cellars, which in winter are
largely used at storehouses for all kinds
Of vegetables that the farmer is fortu-
nate or enterprising enough to produce.
But the prudent housewife does not
often try to store either cream or milk
in proximity to the odors arising from
fOSNI"OASO3 1OOcC3 01N 1oAeos IL C1C
buttery is not too close to the kitchen
stove, and is properly ventilated, good
butter may be produced but, as is gen.
orally conceded, this is much more diff
cult in winter than in summer, when
good ventilation seems to be much
more necessity that it is rarely neg
lected.
The butter house should, if possible,
be disconnected from everything else.
and be kept both cool and free from
noxious odors. Few farmers are able to
keep any large quantity of butter very
long without loss of quality, and never
if their cellars are filled up with fruits
and vegetables, as those of farmer in
mixed husbandry are almost sure to be.
Nor is the city resident any better pre-
pared for this business. AS conse-
quence it is better that the farmer sell
his stock off about as fast as he makes
them, and that the consumer should buy
small quantities, that may be quickly
used before danger of their being
o,oos1o1
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE STOCK RANCH.
What the Cow Likes.

The old adage says there is no disput-
ing about tastes. This is more true
of the brute creation than of man, W hose
appetite has been depraved by unwhole-
some viands and questionable modes of
living. The instinct of COW has not
been thus perverted, and it may reason
ably be assumed that she knows what is
best for her. We have heretofore COM
mended the practice of slightly warm
ing both food and drink given to COWS
in cold weather; but as some scientific
authorities question the propriety of
this advice, we are entirely willing to
leave the decision to the COW herself.
Our experience has been that she will
eat more heartily and greedily in cold
weather of food slightly warmed, as
compared with that given at the cold
temperature of the outside atmosphere.
Now the question is, does not the COW
presumably know better what is good
for b er than do the scientists, most of
whom eat good deal of stuff that they
would be far better without? Mans
reason can find full employment in con-
trolling his own actions, without step
ping aside to regulate the undepraved
instincts of animals subject to his care.
AS regards these, his proper position is
as learner, studying instincts that are
presumably better for their purpose than
his reason can be.-CWltiUGtOr.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
BlanQuette of Veal.

Cut three pounds of the breast of veal
in pieces two inches square, put them
in enough cold water to cover them,
with one saltspoonful of white pepper,
one teaspoonful of salt, a bunch of
sweet herbs, half carrot scraped,
turnip peeled, and an onion stuck with
three cloves; bring slowly to a boil,
skim carefully till no more scum rises
and cook gently for thirty or forty min
utes until the veal is tender; then drain
it. returning the broth to the fire.
Meantime make white sauce by stir
ring together over the fire one ounce of
butter and one ounce of -four until thew
are smooth. then adding one and one
half pints of the broth gradually; season
with little more salt and pepper and a
quarter Of q saltspoonfuI OF grated nut
meg; when the sauce has boiled up we'll
stir into it with an egg; whip the yolks
OF two raw eggs, put in the meat and
cook for five minutes, stirring occa-
sionally.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
How to Have Healthy Swine.


Keep large and small separate, and
not more than ten in lot.
Feed regularly and literally of whole
some food, always some bulky food, and
let each feed be eaten up clean before
more is given.
Give wallowing places, ashes, char
coal, and salt, and plenty of exercise in
timber pastures yielding shade, roots,
nuts, acorns, etc. But no doubly soured
Stops.
Provide ventilated shelters from wind,
rain and snow, but no litter. Hogs with
litter get to warm. If you wish disease,
put your hogs to the straw pile.
Maintain cleanliness in all things.
Breed only mature animals, and never
from show herd. The offspring of i'm
mature or pampered animals is predis-
posed to disease.
Give pure water, from deep wells pro-
tected from surface water. Well water
is not freezing cold in winter nor luke
warm in summer. Water from creeks
(unless fed by springs, ponds or pools
is disease eding.
Pigs should be farrowed in early
spring and kept only on growing foods
milk, bran slops, oats, green rye,
grasses, clover, sweet corn--until late
fall; then fatten rapidly, on corn m ostly,
but also green rye, blue grass, pump
kins, boiled potatoes, and turnips, with
bran, steamed clover, hay, etc.-Amera-
can Agriculturist.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Making Graham Bread.

In the first place see that the -four is
good and freshly ground, not to branny
or full of black specks, or in the.le bit
musty. Flour often spoiIs in hot
weather if Kept in bulk, or in damp,
ill-aired place, or near strong smelling
food. Sift it to see if the bran is clean,
and if satisfactory put it back with the
-four again. The best bread is made
the quart of -four, half tea
spoon Of salt. and sour milk
to make stiff batter, with a tea
spoon Of baking soda dissolved in cold
water to the pint Of liquid just as it is
poured into the -four A tablespoonful
Of melted butter may be added also.
The bread requires no kneading or rails
ing, but should 60 at once into a hot
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE DAIRY.
In the Cow Stable,

Where COWS are MIXED in the stable
cleanliness is the most important es-
sential. If the gutter is in the right
place the COW herself need not be soiled
by excrement. All should be removed
before milking begins. Many COWS will
void more after the milking has begun,
and it is better to stop to work and
cover the droppings with a handful of
land plaster than to continue milking
while every stream passes through air
filled with foul odors. It is not merely
for cleanliness that this should be done.
The plaster helps to fix in the manure
pile ammonia that would otherwise be
lost.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
HMm-um-um.


Said little br own BE to big brown Bee:
@Oa hurry here AMI see, and see,
Tia loveliest rose-the 1oyeliest rose
That in the garden grows, grows, grows.
Hhnl-um-um--hum- um- um,"
Sad little brovTu Bee = big brown Bee.
Saia little brown Bee to big brown Bee:
Much honey must be here, and we
Should beg portion while we may,
For soon more bees will come this way.
Hum-um -um-hum-u m-um,
Said little brown Bee to big brown Bee.
Said big brown Bee to little brown Bee:
1The rose is not for me, for me,
Though she is lovelier by far
Than many other flowers are.
Hum-um- um-hum- um-um,"
Said big brown Bee to little brown Bee.
Said big brown Bee to little brown Bee:
mo honey-cup has she, has she,
But many cups, all trimming over,
Has yonder little purple clover,
And that's the flower for me, for me.
Hum um- um-hum- um-um."
Said big brown Bee to little brown Bee.
Eyti'sge, IN st. Nicholas.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19

bloom very weak solution of Paris
green or London purple must be used,
as the foliage is tender.
Do NOT plant current bushes along the
fences where they cannot be easily Gull
tivated. Put them out where free &C
cess can be had on both sides of the
row. Keep the surface of the ground
where they grow mellow and clear Of
weeds. Fer the worms use white helle-
bore in the center of the bushes soon
after blossoming time. The secret of
success is to use it early, while the first
brood is quite small.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Household Helps,


The following is suggested as good
way to use up the hard small ends of
dried beef that cannot be sliced with a
knife: Crate the meat, and to every
cupful allow four tablespoonfuls Of
cream, four eggs we'll beaten, and a
little pepper. Put the meat and cream
into stirring pan; when hot. add the
eggs; stir until the mixture becomes
thick. Serve Immediately on squares Of
buttered toast.
The following is good recipe for
chocolote cream cake: Take one cup Of
sugar, one-half cup each of butter and
milk, two eggs, one and one half cups
of -four, and one teaspoonful of baking
powder. Bake in two layers. Cream
Two cups of graduated sugar, three
fourths of cup of milk, and piece of
butter the size of an egg. Place over
the stove until it comes to a boil, then
and spread on the cake. Melt two
squares of chocolate and spread on the
cream.
A BEAUTIFUL dish for tea is orange
jelly. Take half box of gelatine, one
half cup of cold water, one cup of boil
ing water, juice of one lemon, one cup
of sugar, one pint Of orange juice; soak
the gelatine in cold water until soft and
add the boiling water, lemon juice,
sugar, and orange juice; stir till the
sugar is dissolved, then strain. Lemon
jelly is equally as nice, substituting a
large half-cup oflemon juice instead of
the orange juice, and sleeping the
grated rind in the hot water ten 1oin-
utes. Make day before you wish to
use it and keep it in the ice box till it is
to be served.
The following is a good recipe for
lobster salad: Take one head of let
tuce, pick off the leaves and wash thor
oughly; remove the meat from two
pound lobster, saving out the coral and
claws; then chop up the lobster and add
one-eighth teaspoonful of cayenne
pepper, one teaspoon of vinegar, and a
little salt; mix together with the dress
ing and quarter of the lettuce, save
out the large leaves and place round the
edges of the platter, then break the
coral in little bits over the top of the
prepared lobster after it has been added
to the center of the platter, and place
the claws and slices of lemon around
the edge. Dressing for salad: Yolks
of two eggs we'll beaten, one teaspoon
mustard, and pour in gradually enough
oil to thicken we'll.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Grape Butter.

Stew the grapes and squeeze out each
pulp from the skin, removing the seeds;
keep the skins in a small thin BAG: to
each pound of pulp allow one pound of
sugar, half pint of cider vinegar, tea
spoonful of cloves, one of cinnamon
and one of nutmeg; boil this very slowly,
putting in the bag of skins tied sec ure ";
when it jellies by dropping in cold wa
ter, it is done. Put away in jars; for an
ornamental dish it can be heated over
and put into molds to Jelly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Cutting Corn Fodder.

The sharp cut stubs of cornstalks are
tften injurious to cattle and horses,
especially if given while hungry and
eaten rapidly. 1t is better to cut with
some machine that crushes the stalk as
it cuts it; but to do this satisfactorily,
run the machine with some other power
than your own right arm.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Preserved Grapes.

Take pound for pound of grapes and
loaf sugar; stem the grapes and put them
in preserving kettle with sugar,
slow fire, stirring constantly. AS the
seeds rise take them out. Stew for one
hour, set aside to cool and put into jars.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Spiced Peaches.

Pare. stone, and halve nine pounds of
peaches; boil in water till tender, add
four pounds of sugar, one pint of vine
gar, cloves, cinnamon, and mace, first
pouring off the water in which they
were boiled. Then boil half an hour or
less if they seem too soft and break
ing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
preserved Peaches.

Take six pounds of the best free stone
peaches; pare, stone, and quarter them;
stew three pounds of sugar over them
and set in a covered dish for several
hours; then put into preserving kettle
and boil very slowly for an hour or IN ore,
skimming them we'll.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE FARM.
Feed Hens SLOWLY.

In feeding corn to hens it is better to
she'll it by hand, and then scatter few
grains at time, than to throw guam
tity down, and allow them to gorge
themselves. 1t is still better to throw
small grain among straw, and let them
Scratch for IL
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
FertiIiZInp Lawns.

The NeaU England Farmer protests
against the custom of using stable
manure in the winter for fertilizing
their front yards and lawns. It says:
Stable manures spread upon farm
lands, or village gardens, and worked
into the soil with cultivator and spade
ire in the best place they can be put.
Many city and village people imagine
that farmers who save, cart, and apply
barnyard manures to the land are thereby
10 be pitied; these same overnice people
sometimes turn up their nose at the
sight of manure cart, and yet they will
annually endure the presence of large
quantities of stable manure on their
lawns, spread clear up to their walks,
and the windows of their dining room,
parlor, and bedroom. IF the surface
was covered by snow from Thanksgiv-
ing to the last of March it would not be
SO bad, but in many portions of New
England the ground is likely to be bare
much of the time in winter.
1t lawn is attractive in summer be-
cause of it's clean turf, it is also at
tractive in winter when clean. If one
will use manure for topdressing lawn,
the manure should be thoroughly rotted
and fine enough to sift down into the
grass nearly out or sight But the labor
of preparation would make such COM
post more costly than good commercial
fertilizer. Dealers now sell fertilizers
for topdressing that are odorless, and
just the things for lawns; they need not
be applied till the grass begins to grow
in spring. Next spring the MANFRED
lawns will have to be raked or swept
over at considerable expense, and the
collection carried off, much of it being
too coarse to be worked down into the
sod. Fertilizers are best for the lawn
every time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Ma itching Horses.

Color goes for great deal in horse,
especially if it is desirable to make a
matched team. 1t is worth while to
study this in breeding. To mate a
breeding mare to horse whose only
point is his own excellence only in
sures disappointment. If the male is
pure bred it will probably mark the colt,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19

Plums are excellent if preserved in mo-
lasses, but ifsugar is used take an equal
proportion of fruit and sugar, make a
clear syrup and boil the fruit gently for
forty minutes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE KITCHEN.
Pineapple Jelly.

Peel, CRATE, and weigh the apple, put
pound for pound OF pineapple and
sugar. Boil it in a preserving kettle
thirty or forty minutes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE FARM
Err AND HOUSEWIFE.

Some Valuable Information for the Plow.
ma1, Stoclzman, Poulterer, Nursery
man, and Everybody Connected with the
FARM
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Sap Sprouts on Apple Trees.
Horticultural Hints.

IT is not an easy matter to keep down
strawberry runners. The bed must be
examined frequently. AS fast as the
runners are pinched off others will ap-
pear.
In order to raise roses in perfection
it is needful to feed them we'll and place
them in the full sunlight, and not
where they will be shaded by trees and
shrubs.
IF mice are troublesome they can Of
ten be easily gotten rid of by soaking
wheat in good solution of arsenic and
burying it at the roots of trees where
the mice will be likely to find it.
IT is believed by some careful observ-
ers that the curculio when it comes out
of it's winter quarters feeds on the ten
der foliage of fruit trees, and that by
spraying the trees early many OF the old
insects will be destroyed before laying
eggs. If done when the trees are in
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
Weeds in Agriculture.

Every tiller of the soil is interested in
this subject, and the Experiment Station
of Tennessee has very appropriately, as
we believe, devoted it's third bulletin to
this subject. Farmers are interested in
the subject, not only because the growth
of weeds takes from the supply of food
Intended for cultivated crops, but it in
creases the cost of growing the crops to
the extent of the extra labor required
for the destruction Of the weeds. A
large proportion all the weeds that in
fest farms are propagated by seeds
alone, and it is sometimes q matter of
wonder why it is that the seeds of some
weeds appear to be in the soil at all
times and only wait until the soil is
brought under cultivation to receive the
impulse that pushes them to the point
Of termination.
Some varieties having once gained a
foothold tenaciously hold on to exist
ence, and can be exterminated only by q
vigorous use of hoe and cultivator.
One trouble lies in the fact that even
the thrifty farmer is almost wholly at
the mercy of thriftless neighbor, for
while he by diligence prevents weed
seeding, his negligent neighbor is
virtually encouraging that condition
which most largely disseminates the
weeds. Weed destruction under the
most favorable circumstances is a
struggle, for the reason that there are
ways and means of spreading that the
most careful farmer cannot control nor
prevent. Birds and herbivorous ami
mails pass them undigested through their
stomachs; they attach themselves in
some species to the wool Or hair of ami
mails or clothing of men. Wind and
railroads, streams and rivers are all
active agencies in the distribution of
the seeds, and the chief hope lies in
the prevention of seeding; therein lies
Observation-Disclosures TeLe0rGDh.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE ORCHARD.
The Delaware Crane.

There are few grapes more generally
popular than this. 1t is not rank
grower, but if kept from overbearing it
is vigorous and healthy. The small size
of the grape is less of a disadvantage
than IS small size in any other fruit. If
never allowed to bear more than two
clusters to shoot. the vine will pro-
duce nearly as much weight, and all will
ripen early and be of the finest quality.
Sap Sprouts on Apple Trees.
Apple trees trimmed during winter
develop many incipient buds on bran ches
and trunks, which by midsummer have
grown into shoots from few inches to
a foot or more in length. These can be
easily broken off now by single twitch,
and if the wound is covered no new
sprout will start from the place next
year. This midsummer pruning checks
the excessive vigor of the tree, and in
duces the formation of fruit buds for
next seasons apple crop.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
THE NATIONAL GAME.
NEWS AND GOSSIP ABOUT BASEBALL
PLAYERS.

A New Scheme by the Brotherhood
President Won der Abe, Of the st. Louis
Browns, Playing the Baby Act-Miscel-
lanoOuS Notes.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-31
Has n Villain Triumphed .

The notorious DIR. j. Milton Bowers has
come To the front again in San Francisco,
IN "A suit to recover insurance on the life OF
his wife, whom he was once sentenced
to death for poisoning. Bowers spent
four years in the county Jail, and at
last owed his escape to the suicide and con-
fession OF Benhayon, his brother in law,
who declared that he himself had done the
poisoning. There was strong suspicion
that Bowers caused the death of Denhayon
and forged the confession in order To save
his own neck, but although there was a
sensational trial of Dining. suspected
book agent, who had been intimate with
Benhayon, nothing could be clearly
proved. The result was that the supreme
court gave Bowers new trial, aud the
state refused To press the case, as convic~
ton was hopeless. Bowers had secured
sl7,O00 in insurance on his wife's life in
nVe beneficiary companies. Two of these
have since collapsed. so he will recover
only Sll,O 600. The companies will pay the
money without contest, as Bowers has
strong case. Such is the prosaic end of
what is one fthe most sensational criminal
cases in the annals of California.