The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-02
FARM AND FlRESIDE.

Feeding stock TO gain profit from
is n nice point and requires study and
close attention.
Should the cows teats become
cracked or sore from any cause, always
before milking soften them with boiled
linseed oil, and apply this again after
milking until well.-.Orange Judd
Farmer.
1t impairs the growing qualities of
seed potatoes to store them in salt bar
rels. Every potato which touches the
side of the barrel will become soft at
the point OF contact, and the eyes will
bedestroyed. American Agriculturist.
The surest way of preventing milk
from scorching is to scald it in II double
boiler or one placed in kettle of boil
ing water. Wetting kettle with cold
water and allowing it to remain few
minutes before putting the milk in will
lessen the danger of scorching the milk.
To propagate the apple by seeds
they should be sown in rich ground, in
drills of about one foot in width and
two feet between each drill, and so
scattered that when. they grow there
will be one plant to every two inches.
They must be covered with about one
inch of earth and one inch of leaf
mold, tan-barl1 or sawdust. The
usual time selected for planting is Oc-
tober or November, or even later.
Orange sponge furnishes delicate
dessert. Dissolve three and half
sheets of Cooper's isinglass in water
and add to it one pound of sugar on
which you have previously squeezed
the juice of six goodsized oranges and
one lemon and half. Add the whites
of three eggs well beaten. and beat all
together till the mixture is thick and
rothy. Turn into mold and set on
ice.
ANY young man not now on farm
who desires to become farmer should
hire out to the best farmer he can find
and stay two or three years. He will
then get trained for his work and be
paid for his training. He can still
further help himself by Il course of
judicious reading and study during the
winter evenings. Such course for
young man of common sense and ener-
gy will fit him to manage a farm wisely
and well.
There is good deal of potash in
corn cobs, as thrifty housewives long
ago learned when making soap. 1t is
here that u good deal of the mineral
elements of the corn plant are concen-
trated. Perhaps it is for the potash us
a corrective of acidity in the stomach
than animals vii. often eat the cob. 1t
is all the better for being charred or
burned. Burn to q crisp the corn cobs
from which fattening hogs have de-
voured the corn, and see how greedily
the same animals will then eat them.
Farmers might profitably SOW the
waste places on their farms to peas or
grains suitable for fowls and thereby
raise feed AT merely the cost of labor.
Many Il spot is left to run to weeds be-
cause it is not large enough to culti-
vate, according to the American no.
tions, for market-grains. BY utilizing
the ''patch' near the big barn, farmers
boys would be able to grow stuff
enough for n large flock. We haven't
yet learned the value of small things.
Poultry Journal.
Corn Osyters: With two cups OF
canned or freshly grated sweet corn
mix three beaten eggs, u cup Of sweet
milk, half teaspoonful of salt, enough
flour for thin batter, and heaped
teaspoonful of baking powder. Have
ready some thin little squares of cold
roast lamb or veal. Drop the batter in
tiny cakes on buttered griddle, on
each cake lay bit of the cold roast,
and cover it with u teaspoonful of the
batter; bake the same as griddle cakes,
and serve them nicely Drowned and
hot. This makes very palatable i'm
itation of fried oysters. American