Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-17
HOME AND FARM.
Horse Radish as Poultice-Successive
Crops-Plowing Sod-How to
Make Soap-Corn Fritters.

hOrSo-rdulSu MS pOuIIlce, Is recon-
mended for rheumatism.
Trim up the shade trees and have
them in good shape and attractive.
Finely sifted coal ashes are excellent
for providing dust baths for poultry.
Fresh boiled milk with cut sugar will
soothe a cough when other things fail.
Sprinkle cayenne pepper in the resort
Of rats and they will leave the premises.
Better feed the inferior fruits and veg
etables to the hogs than to send them to
market.
Many vigorous, fruitful tree owes its
existence to mulch, at this season, when
it was young.
How to Make Soap.-Three and hall
pounds of grease, four gallons of salt
water, if possible; one box of concentrat-
ed lye. After the lye is dissolved boil
three hours.
Horses should have at least two hours
rest at noon. On very warm days horses
suffer severely. They should be watered
often, and at night should be swabbed
and wiped dry.
Filthy quarters cause lice on all classes
OF stock, and at this season the vermin
multiply very rapidly. An animal that
is infested with vermin cannot be kept
in good condition, even with the best Of
feeding.
The hens will now begin to moult.
Keep the hens that moult early, as they
will lay in winter. Late pullets will
seldom lay before spring, but pulle.s
hatched not later than April should lay
in November.
Corn Fritters.-One cofeecup of
camel corn or grated corn, one of sweet
milk, two eggs well beaten, salt and flour
to make quite stiff batter. Drop with
a spoon into boiling lard. These fritters
( taste like fried oysters.
Cucumbers are sometimes served as an
entree when prepared thus: Take good
sized ones and peel them and slice them
rengthwise; dip each slice into cornmeal
seasoned with pepper and salt; fry them
in hot lard unti4-they are delicate
/ brown.
Beef Croquets. cold roast beef,
mince it fine, put in an onion chopped
/ fine, sweet marjoram, little powdered
cloves, moisten with the beef gravy !;
make it into balls, dip in the beaten yolk
Of an egg, roll in flour and troy them in
| lard.
| Sweet potato plants should now be
spreading, and unless they are cultivated
| the task will be more difficult after the
! vines cover the ground. They should be
| hilled up in order to avoid heavy rains.
| 1t is not too late to replant the missing
| places if handful OF fertilizer be scatter
! ed around the plants that may be set out.
| Green tomatoes fried are preferred by
some people TO the egg plant, and NAV
we'll take its place; cut the outer slices
/ off, and then cut the inner part in slices
about half an inch thick, roll them IN
flour and fry in butter; sprinkle pepper
and salt on them. This may be used as
an entree or garnish with meat OF any
I kind.
/ A pretty Chair.-A friend of ours with
more taste than money is constantly sur
prising her acquaintances with little ex
| hibitlons OF ingenuity. One of the latest
| of her achievements is this: Somewhere
about the house was an old-fashiOned,
rush bottomed rocker, a relic Of the days
OF our grandparents, comfortable chair
enough to sit in, but wearing a cores
I pondingly time-worn appearance. Out
of its hiding place my friend brought this
uncomely sfair and applied couble of
coats OF vermillion to it, which quite me-
/ tamorphosed its appearance. 4 square
of homespun linen, old but good and
strong and mellowed by time into a soft
cream color, made capital cover for
cushion to the same. A spray of flowers
mingled with wheat heads, worked in
! crewels, serves as ornamentation for this
cushion. and there isn't a prettier chair
! in town for the amount of time and trou-
BILE expended upon it.
Flowing Sod.-It is question rarely
decided among farmers at what time it is
/ best to plow sod for corn crop. This
question is best settled by considering
! what is expected OF this operation. The
great point is that the corn crop shall
procure large portion of its nutriment
| from it; another is that the corn may be
planted on fresh clean ground so that 1t
NAV get ahead of the weeds by rapid and
vigorous termination. How, then, can
these important points be best secured?
Clearly by permitting the herbage to
grow as long as possible, and by defer
ring the blowing until the last moment.
Then large quantity of the most ac-
ceptable food for the young corn is
plowed under; the soil is mellow, moist
and fresh; planting is done under the
best conditions. The seeds of weeds
will sprout quickly and light harrow
ing before the corn is up will destroy the
germs and clean the ground OF myriads
of them, tightening the after-iabor OF cul-
tiyating the crop. A top-dressiDg OF ma
nure on the sod before the plowing will
be a great assistance.
Successive Crops.-The proper way to
manage a garden plot is to keep some
crop growing in it from spring until the
frosts appear late in the fall. Several
objects will be gained by so doing,
among them the destruction of all weeds,
a finer condition OF the soil, and a supply
of fruits and vegetable for the table, as
many vegetables grow quickly and give a
supply in a short time after the seed is
planted. AS soon as the early peas are
off late potatoes should take their place,
and early cabbage may be followed by
turnips. If the first crop OF radishes are
removed they will make room for string
beans, and kale can be cleaned off Tor
later crop OF peas. Peas, string beans,
radishes, late beets and cabbage can be
planted at any time, and II proper varle-
ties be selected there is nothing to pre-
vent continual supply. Garden work
can be made as important now as IN the
spring, and in putting down successive
crops the weeds will have no chance to
| orrnr- In fact every additional crop les