Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27

Cow peas may be grown betweea
the hills of corn. as the same culdva-
ton for the one crop Is suitable for the
other.
Pour all your soapsuds on your
celery plants. It is Especial fertilizer
for celery. and will make the young
plants grow faster than any thing else
that can be applied 1t Is also excel
emit for asparagus
-Shad Baked in Milk: Fix the shad
ready to bake. open, lay fat in pam
Season pepper. salt and butter. Ready
to bake, cover with milk. Bake slow.
II large, thick fish. bake one hour
and half. It will be brown and de-
icious. Butter gravy.
oil meal makes milk and adds to
the quality. So does cotton-seed meal.
Either is distinctly a milk-producing
food 1t does not always pay to feed
it. however. If there are other foods
of similar character that are much
cheaper feed them instead.
The best preventive OF the fading
of cotton goods that / have foupd is
potato-water. Peel and CRATE Irish
potatoes in soft water enough to wash
the goods-say q dozen medium-sized
potatoes to two buckets of water
warm and strain and, if the goods ara
greasy, use soap; if not none Is need
ed. Starch and iron on the wrong
side.-Rural New Yorker.
Milking is one of the farmers fine
arts. There are hundreds OF men who
have not or do not exercise sense
enough to make good mixers. and woe
be to the dairy that such get into the
milking part of the business Such
men can chop the wood, dig bitches.
or pillow corn tolerably well, but have
none of the fine nerve and sensioihties
necessary to make a good mixer.
The experienced house-keeper is
careful not to boil preserves and jellies
too long after the sugar has been
added. because the acids in the fruits
may cause the sugar to 'invert." or
split up into two other forms of sugar.
neither of which possess much sweet
ening power. Neither will she boil
jellies made from gelatine too long, or
a chemical change will take place,
and the gelatine lose its power Of ''set-
ing" or gelatinizing-
"A poor corn crop means poverty
of soil and poor cultivation. or both
combined. Land can not be too rich
for corn, as it may for almost any other
grain. 1t can not be too thoroughly
titled. Knowing this the poor coru
crop is all through the season a stand
ing reproach to the careless. shiftless
farmer Sometimes the carelessness
begins even with the seed. If that is
door nothing after can be done to
remedy the defect.
Strawberry shortcake: Mix one
pint of -four, one-half teaspoonful salt
and two teaspoonfuls baking powder
together. Beat one egg and add
enough milk to make a stiff dough,
then add one-quarter cup butter. melt
ed; bake in pie-plates; split and fill
with Strawberries and cream The
filing is made of whipped cream, into
which little powdered sugar is beat
| en-, and Strawberries. More whipped
cream may be placed on top.
| If paint be put on as preservative
rather than for mere ornamentation
the roof should not be left unpainted.
| 1t may not be seen, but the action of
| rain falling on a roof is much more in
| furious to shingles implanted than it
can be on the side and clapboards of q
building. The falling drops cause the
| fibres of the wood to break, making a
| fuzzy surface, which holds water and
| induces decay. Paint entirely pre-
vents this so long as it lasts It is
cheaper to keep the roof covered with
some inexpensive paint than to have
the labor and expense of renewing
shingles every few years.