The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-28
HOME AND FARM.
Stock Feed-The Potato Beetle-How
to Destroy Crab Grass-Roots for
Fe diog-Roadside Trees

1SONN fSSo uS IOidLO be6tl6-f1OW
to Destroy Crab Grass-Roots for
Fe diog-Roadside Trees.
One of the essentials OF soiling is a fer
tile SOIL
Every farm ought to have its expert
mental patch.
a rod of barbed wire, in place OF a box,
! protects trees against horses and small
/ boys.
Thin out all surplus plants in the hot
beds II they are crowded, and those re-
manning will become more stocky. The
hotbed may be left open during the day
! at this season.
The best food for making hens lay is a
pound OF lean meat, chopped fine, given
three times week to flock Of twenty
hens. But very little grain is required at
this season.
Corn Pudding: Two cups of canned
corn, one pint of milk, two eggs, salt to
taste: Beat the eggs until very light;
add the other ingredients; put tie mix
ture in buttered pudding dish. and bake
about forty minutes
The fail colt can be turned on the pas
ture, and will cost but little. A mess of
oats at night, with hay, is all it requires.
Mares intended for spring work should
always foal in the fall in order that the
colt may be weaned in spring.
Sorrel thrives at this season and crab
grass later on. Keep it down at all costs,
in order to lessen the number of plants
next season. When crab grass appears it
is easily destroyed when young. Con-
slant cultivation is the only remedy for
both.
If you have any corn fodder the sheep
will pick it over and clean the stalks. III
the fodder is bright and clean all classes
OF stock will relish it If the fodder is
run through the cutter and the stalks
crushed by the cutter there will be but
little waste.
The clover field is the place for the pigs
that have been weaned. They will need
skinned milk, or buttermilk, with a
small quantity of ground oats at night
will cause the pigs to grow rapidly if they
have the run OF clover.
plant in preference to anything else. and
unless some plants are carefully watched
and the beetles picked off they will des-
troy the plants in less than dav. TO
save the plants they should be examined
two or three times day.
When many want to sell is COOL time
to bur, and when many want to buy is a
good time to sell; for many sellers make
good prices, followed in due season bv
small supply and good prices and many
buyers make good prices, followed in due
season by large supply and low prices.
There is no color on the horse which
is so insensible to the heat as the sorrel.
There is seldom any coat so silky or re-
spends so quickly as the sorrel But
more important still, there is seldom any
horse with such sound feet and limbs, or
possessing the endurance of the sorrel.
When cultivating the ground to destroy
the grass only few inches deep will
suffice. One inch of soil, kept fine, on
the top, will serve as mulch, and in pull
verizing it the grass and weeds will be
killed. Never let the ground become
hard and crusty if there is probability
OF a dry season.
Should cheese puff up during curing it
shows that the gas is generating too fast
and the room has been too warm. The
cheese thus puffed mp should be removed
to cooler place, and, as last resort,
should be pricled to allow the gas to
escape. A good cheese may be spoiled
by not receiving good attention while
curing.
Glazed Beef: Set the beef that has
been kept from the soup to glace in Il
moderate oven for about an hour. taking
care to baste the surface once in while
with the broth and some condensed beef
buoillon drain on a dish. take off the
fat, strain and reduce the liquid to the
consistency of demi-glace sauce with
little more broth and two ladlefuls of
tomato sauce. Put some mashed potatoes
on a round platter, set the beef in the
middle, pour some of the sauce over, and
serve.
Butter or string beans, if cooked and
picked according to these directions, are
delicious. Wash them and steam them
until they are tender, but not soft; put
them into jar and pour hot vinegar over
them; sweeten the vinegar and season
highly with cinnamon. Another way
equally excellent. blt which gives diff
ferent flavor to the pickles. is to boil
them in salted water until tender; then
pour over them the hot vinegar which
has been sweetened, and in addition to
the cinnamon has liberal allowance of
pepper cayenne or black may be used.
Every farmer should himself under
stand grating, and be able particularly
to do it. The art is simple and easily
learned. 1t may not always pay the
farmer to do all the large jobs OF grating
that he has to do, since his own time
may be worth more at something else.
But it is the little jobs, the setting of
half dozen gratis not worth sending for
a professional CRATER to do, that thus are
neglected from year to year, simply be-
cause no one is at hand to do the work.
Professional grafters make good wages
setting crafts at SO much apiece. Most
of them have an assistant who saws off
the limb to be grated, while the CRATER
tits the scion to the cleft which he makes
and covers the wound to exclude air.
This and connecting the scion with the
outer wood OF the branch is all the art
there is in grating.
Trees by Roadsides: There is two
sides to the roadside '.restion. They are
ornamental, but in carly spring they of
ten shade the road so as to keep it muddy
after places more exposed to sun and air
have dried up. Besides, the trees are
often in the way of needed road improve
ments, and it is hard to go around or re-
move them. Then if grain or root crops