Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-06-08
HOME AND FARM.
The Gaze of Horses-Something Good
to Eat-To Keep Young Weeds
Down-Bee-K eepina Notes.

For potato culture, manure the land in
the 1ad and plow 1t under in the spring
1t is a mistaken idea that hens nest
ought to do duty year without renew
ing.
BY planting the red raspberry, bee
keepers would have one OF the best bee
pastures known, and crop of fruit also
I Common wheat -four made into paste
( with cold water, applied dry, will take
out grease spots without iniuring the
most delicate fabric.
a strong solution of carbolic acid and
water, poured into holes, kills all the
ants it touches, and the survivors imme-
diately take themselves Off
To stop the bleeding OF horse or other
stock from Il snag or wound, make an ap-
! plication OF dry horse manure, and it will
stop the bleeding every time.
One pound OF green copperas dissolved
! in one quart OF boiling water will destroy
foul smells. Powdered borax scattered
IN their haunts viii dlspcrse cockroaches.
+ For good returns for feeding, taking
one year with another, we would rather
trust a bunch of even, well selected
wetheIs than any other stock on the
farm.
Thin Biscuit: One quart of flour, one
tablespoon OF lard and butter mixed, and
one tablespoon OF salt; make into a stiff
paste, with cold water; beat dough until
it blisters, roll thin, prick with fork
and bake quickly.
A gray linen splasher, with a figure
worked in scarlet in outline embroidery,
is serviceable as well az ornamental in
the dining room back of the small table,
frequently used there to hold the ice
pitcher and goblets.
Every Young weed that comes up and
is cut down is one less weed to 90 to seed.
The way to keep down weeds is to allow
the seeds TO germinate and then destroy
the young plants. In this manner the
work is easier and better performed.
4 good way to arrage fruit in dish
for an ornamental piece, is to set glass
tumblerin the center of the dish, around
and over it put thick layer of moss;
then not nearly 50 much fruit will he re-
quired, and it can be arranged very hand
somely.
Baked Beans Soak one quart of beans
in water ovor night; in the morning put
them in an iron kettle with one-half
pound OF salt pork and water to cover
When tender, but not broken, take out
OF the liquor with a skinner and put in
baking pan with the pork on top and
bake Until brown.
White Mountain Cake: Two cups OF
sugar, one cup OF butter, one cupof sweet
milk, four eggs, four cups of flour, two
teaspoontuls OF baking powder. Cream,
butter and sugar together, add the beaten
yolks, then the milk. -four with the bak-
ing power sifted through it, and last the
beaten whites; favoring. Bake in one
loaf.
Resin in soap is a fraud. 1t makes
poor soap hard and greatly lessons the
cost. Some say that rosin improves soap
because of the turpent!ne in it. They
might as well say a dry hone makes good
food because Of the meat that was on it
once. There is no turpentine in rosin;
it was all taken out in the making, and
the rosin discolors and spoils white goods
and shrinks wo0leus. But turpentine in
sweetens them and improves the color.
The best boys and girls we have ever
known on the farm were those whose
parents gave them an interest in sOme-
thing to raise or cultivate as their own.
To boy especially, the feeling of owner
ship is Il happy, proud, hopeful one. He
feels that he has something to work for,
to look forward to- The pig will in due
time become fat, marketable hog, the
little lamb fine wool-bearing sheep, the
colt handsome horse. the chickens
grow to profitable hens, and the calf into
a fine milk COW. Parents, give your chill
dren IA chance in this direction, and your
farms will be better cultivated and your
homes made happier by it.
Something to Eat Between talks: Here
is another sweet dish thoroughly to sea-
son. Take three pounds OF sweet al
monds, two pounds and half OF crushed
sugar, and one pound OF strawberries.
Pound the almonds into kind OF paste,
and mix them with sugar. Add tie Juice
OF the strawberries, which must be prev
iousy crushed. Place the pan contain
ing these different ingredients on SLOW
fire, and stir them up continuously.
When the paste seems to have obtained
a certain consistency, take 1t out OF the
pan and spread it out on baking board
powdered with sugar, till it is of the thick
ness OF half-dOilar. AS soon as the
paste is cold, cut it out in round or square
pieces, and put them till hot and crisp,
into the kitchener, and then serve.
Cocoa as Food: As an article OF food
cocoa differs essentially from both tea and
coffee. While only an infusion Of those
substances is used, leaving large pro-
portion OF their total weight uncOnsumed,
the entire substance of the cocoa seeds is
prepared as an emulsion for drinking,
and the whole is thus utilized with the
system. While the contents OF cup OF
tea or coffee can only be regarded as
stimulant in its effect, and almost en-
tirelv destitute OF essential nutrltiye prop
critics. cup of prepared COCOA Is really
most nourishing article OF diet, as, in adj
dition to the value OF the theObromlne 1t
contains it introduces into the system no
inconsiderable proportion OF valuable
nitrogenOus and Oleaginous eleme nts.
Boiled Salads: All head vegetables,
lettuce. caulifiower, cabbage, that are to
be cooked whole, should be immersed in
cold water, head downwards first, to free
from grit or insects. The latest word for
salad-lettuce is not to put it in water at
all, but to break it apart, leaf by leaf,
wiping off each leaf with moist towel.
This Keeps the leaf crisp. All lettuces Of
salad should be torn apart, not cut. The
coarsely cultivated field lettuces should
be boiled. The ''drumhead" variety is
better cooked than raw. On toast, with
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