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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
WHAT ABOUT THE HIDEs3
How to Secure And Pack Them Properly
For Market.

How to Secure And Pack Them Properly
For Market.
THE Republic.
During the fall and winter more or less
beef is butchered on the farm and the
hides are sold. 1t is quite an item to pack
properly for the market. If it is to be dry
cured, as soon as skinned it should be
thrown over a beam or pole in a loft or
shed where it will be kept dry. The skin
side should be left out, and it should hang
until perfectly dry. 1t the work is done
properly and the hide is not injured in
any way, the highest class OF hides bring
the highest price, but there is large loss
in weight in drying out. The more COM
mon way of selling hides is to sell just as
| they come from the ANIMALS. Care must
always be taken in SHINING not to cut the
hide, as a hole in the hide will cause loss
of from one-fOurth to one-third in value.
After it is taken from the carcass
the hide should be spread out evenly
over the ground with the skin side
up; take off the tail, throw in the
legs and the head, laying down smooth
then throw in again until the edges meet
in the center making a double fold. The
next time fold together. Then begin roll
ing at the tail end and roll tight to little
past the center, and then commence at the
mead ana roll 10 THIS point; lay In or roll
on top of the other and then tie tight. If
it is to be kept, even for few days before
selling, it should be sailed well, taking
pains to rub the salt well into the hide
with the feet. Then roll up and tie the
same as before. Ii plenty of salt is used
there is very little danger of the hide
spelling. If the hide is small it need not
be folded so much, for in the first fold
the feet and legs can be thrown over fur
ther, and one more fold will be all that is
necessary. While very few merchants
will buy a hide without examining it, yet
it is desirable to have in as good condi-
ton to handle as possible. A bull hide, or
one that has holes in it from the MARBLE
fly, or that is cut in SHINING, always sells
at less price than first-class hide. TAX
ing the risks into consideration, it will
generally be better to sell as soon as pos
sible after it is removed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18

Sweet Potato Croquets-Roll your potatoes
and mash them fine, add butter salt pepper
and little milk. Mold into cones dust with
flour and brown in hot fat.
Popcorn Balls-To one gallon of popcorn take
half pint OF moiasses or sugar, put into a ket-
tie and let boil up once; pour it over the corn;
grease your hands with sweet butter and make
into balls.
Sausage Potatoes-Take large, fine potatoes.
scrub, wipe dry, but do not peel. Cut off the
tops, and, with a scoop cut out round piece
like q quarter-dollar from the potato. Insert
into this small. lightly-fried sausage. Put on
the tops of the potatoes, set them in deep
pan with the cut end uppermost. Bake in
quick oven for half an hour. Serve in the pan,
wrapping and pinning a napkin around the
sides.
Cranberry Sauce-Wash and pick the her
ries, put them into enough water to cover them,
let them stew until the skins break and they
begin TO thicken, then sweeten them to taste
and let get cold. They are better if made into
jelly. You can make jelly by putting berries
into enough water to cover them. Boil until
skins crack, strain them, and to each pint OF
juice put one pound of brown sugar. Let it
cook until it jellies, then put iato molds.
Beefsteak Rolls-Cut steak from tie round
in half lengthwise, that is, split it and then cut
each half into strips as wide as your hand; rub
an onion over the inside of these strips. But
ter thin slices of bread and stick into each one
Glove, add some pepper, salt and celery seed or
some bits of chopped celery. Roll the strips OF
meat each around its slice of rolled up bread.
Dredge them well in -four and fry lightly. Then
put them in a saucepan with water to cover
them, and let them stew slowly for two hours.
Remove the threads when serving. The gravy
should be plenty and good.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
General Farm Hints.

Farmers should favor the selling of all
produce by weight, instead of by the bushel.
Put the manure on your future onion bed
now. Then add more manure early in the
spring.
Now that the ground is cold you may safely
prune the vines and bushes. Young trees may
be trimmed TO shape and outdoor work be
given the orchard.
Honey should not be kept in the light, as it
is liable to become too thick. 1t sometimes
candies, even in the comb, but it may be used
for making strip, to be fed to bees.
The strawberry patch that is covered with
dead grass and weeds may be burnt without
danger if the ground is frozen. 1t clears the
ground kills many seeds and does not injure
the strawberry plants.
If young pigs have the scours give them
fresh charcoal By heating the milk, and add
ing little salt, feeding it to the pigs warm, it
will often correct disorders of the bowels with
out resorting to medicine.
1t is claimed that we import over s2,50000O
worth OF eggs annually, sum which should 20
into the pockets of our farmers, and shows
that more eggs should be produced, as we can
not supply enough for home.
Mineral matter is never lost on the farm IN
less sold in the shape of crops or stocks. When
material is consumed by fire there is loss of
volatile matter, but the minerals remain to be
converted into some other crop.
If the sheep are sheltered in a shed at night
and the shed Enclosed with a good fence, the
saving from loss by dogs and by the protection
afforded will pay the cost of the shed and fence
if the flock is a moderately large one.
In making cider the best apples only should
be used. 1t is mistake TO suppose that the
inferior unstable fruit should be made into
cider. The best cider is produced from as
sorted apples which are free from the slightest
signs of decay.
If the poultry manure is added to the stable
manure every time the poultry-hOuse is
cleaned, and the whole kept under cover, it
will be better ;han keeping the two kinds sep
arate. The mixing of the poultry manure with
the stable manure prevents the drying aud hard
ening Of the former. When the poultry drop
pings become dry and hard they dissolve very
slowly, due to the formation of silicates, but
when kept in moist condition they are more
available as plant food.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
WAITING FOR A GOOD TIME.
"Fannie'' Hopes That the Solemn Part OF
Her Life Is Passed.

"Fannie' Hopes That the Solemn Part of
Her Life Is Passed.
II. L. c. FRIENDs-I have knocked and
been admitted to your pleasant household
circle, but it remains for me to introduce
myself, believe, and, although bashful, it
will not help matters to wait, for the
longer one waits the harder the task al
ways seems.
L have always thought the H. L. C. large,
but by the number of letters on the page
last week, it would seem a much smaller
household than | can believe it to be.
But must not give the impression that
am scod or lecturer, for do not claim
TO be either, and do not intend to be, but
how lonesome "Chatter-Box" must have
felt. l am sure, though she is not one to
feel lonesome, and | do enjoy her lively
letters, | hope that she will have a
companion piece or pieces more than she
did this last time.
Pleasure is as necessary to the human
soul as food is to the body; that is, If it is
what it should be. Fun What a solemn
place this world would be without it, and
| only hope the most solemn part of my
life is past, and that | shall eniov the fu-
how Longfellow felt when he wrote his
beautiful lines, Life is real, life is earn
est" but also that kind heart, CHEEKY
manners and letters are fountains of hap
piness. | hope, too, that the older men,
bers will give us the benefit of their expe-
rience, for one of the best ways to get the
new ones interested in the good work is to
set good example.
The plan of having a reading course
would be appreciated and helpful, but
whatever plan is adopted, don't lay out
too much, or 81 can't get my lesson"
Would it not be well to have the work as
planned discussed through the page?
The energetic members at the reunion
will, Of course, settle all doubts in regard
to the practical course to take. 1t could
surely be made very interesting and help
full
wish the club success, and that all the
members" Sappho," Keystone" "Girl"
and all the rest-will come again very
soon. Pardon me if my attempt has been
dry and pedagogical. / must go. Fare
well. CANINE"
Normal, Dec Is.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
Among the Poultry.
rThe Repuhlic.l


Send the fowls to market fat
Poultry dressed dry looks the best in market.
Do not press out of shape in packing for
market.
Whole corn is one of the best materials to
feed at night when the weather is cold.
A few days full feeding will make con-
siderable difference in the quality of tine fowls.
The more comfortable the hens are kept the
less feed will be required and the more eggs
will they lay.
With little management the poultry yard
can be made to furnish good part OF the meat
for the table.
A good-sized coop or small yard can be
used TO advantage to confne fowls while fat
tening for market.
If an incubator is to be purchased care
should be taken to get it in good season, so as
to have it ready for use when wanted.
One Of the most frequent causes of disease
among poultry is TO allow them to roost or
stand in draught, especially at this time OF
year.
Straw or leaves make good material for
nests, and good supply should be kept on
hand, so that change can be made every little
while.
When good pasture can be provided, geese
can be kept with profit. BY picking regularly
enough feathers can be gathered to make the
geese pay.
One advantage with ducks is that they grow
very rapidly if well fed, and can be marketed
sooner, while they weigh considerably more
than chickens.
Scatter an occasional layer of coal ashes,
direct from the stove, under the roosts in the
poultry house. 1t will help to destroy the
germs OF disease
1t is best at this time, if possible, to allow the
poultry free range. II. however. il is neces-
sary to confine. they should be we'll supplied
with good variety OF food.
Many who have never tried the plan will be
surprised to see how greedily the hens will eat
clover in the winter il il is run through a cut
ter and stepped in water twelve hours.
Taking everything into consideration, the
bronze turkey is one of the best II not the
best, that farmers can raise. They grow rap
idly. and make one of the very best table fowls
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
LIT TIE LNhVVLNA n
Hebron, Ind, Dec. 10.
ANOTHER PRoDIeAL RETURNS.
"Ohio NIyosotIs" Comes Back and Mourn:
the Loss of Friend.

"Ohio MyosotIs' Comes Back and Mourns
the Loss of a Friend.
Coon EVENING, DEAR II. L. C. MEMBERS
l am glad to meet with you again in our
nice, new home. 1t has been so very long
since | have chatted with you all that l
suppose I'm forgotten ere this, but have
not forgotten you, ''all the same"
Now, since we are rightly settled, let us,
as H. L. c. brothers and sisters, do all in
our power to advance the II. L. c. |, for
one, shall labor more earnestly in the
good cause. We are greatly in need OF
the cooperation of each and every dear
member. / was so glad to see "lncog" and
Florence Nightingale" back again. Our
sister, "Aunt Agnes" of Hazel Green, KY,
is in deep mourning, caused by the death
of her adopted daughter, Lula. | copied
a few sentences from recent letter of
"Aunt Agnes" to me. and send them to be
inserted in the H. L. c. columns. Have
been corresponding with her for some
time, and have learned to love her very
much. know you will all join with me
in sympathizing with our invalid sister in
her sad bereavement.
How i would like to spend Christmas at
the homeof Howard" and MAUD Maple"
To them and all who meet with them on
that day l tender my regards, also regrets.
Au revoir. "0HIo MYOsoTIs."
Evansport, O., Dec. 10.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
HOUSE AND FARM TOPICS.
PACKING POULTRY FOR THE MARKET.
About Selling Hides-Among the Poultry
Household Affairs-Some of the "Let
Go's"-SOme General Farm Hints
A Budget of Valuable Recipes.

After dressing clean, drawing and wash
ing out clean, the fowl should be hung up
until the animal heat is all out. Care must
be taken in this respect, as if they are
packed when warm they will spoil much
quicker than if care is taken to thoroughly
cool. On the other hand it will be best
not to allow them to freeze, as this is
nearly as bad as packing too soon. Clean,
light boxes should be used. Those in
which boots and shoes have been shipped
are good for this purpose, as they are clean
and light. They should be lined with
white cloth or MANILA paper. Newspaper
should never be used. The fowls should
be packed in closely. so that in handling
they will not bruise or chafe, but they
should not be pressed in so tightly as to
get them out of shape, as this detracts from
their appearance and lessons their salable
value. Choice fowls of medium size, in
good condition, packed so that when
placed upon the market they will present
neat, clean, plump appearance will sell
at good prices, even when the market Is
overstocked and it is difficult, if not i'm
possible, to sell those of a lower grade at
any price.
In preparing to pack, the wing should
be fastened over the back and the legs be
slipped through the strip left in dressing
Slip the skin of the neck over the bone
and tie. II scalded before packing, it
would add to the appearance to dip in hot
water after dressing and before hanging up.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
HAPPY "MAUD MAPLE
She Writes With "Howard" in a Cordial
Invitation to the Social.

She Writes With "Howard" in a Cordial
Invitation to the Social.
To THE EDIToR-Su: Can / come in?
Thank you! Here am, brothers and sis
tiers, and in hurry, too. 1 just dropped
pencils, brushes and all on my retouching
stand and rushed away, upsetting the otto
man; not even waiting to don my hat.
Oh, no. I'm not frightened, if 1 do look
like fright.
The fact is, / kept thinking and think
ing of you all until | got so happy
couldn't sit still any longer, so 1 run in
and want to shake hands with everybody
here Yes, "Busy Kate" let us have an
other good hand shake all around. Farm
er Boy" please lead in singing. How
happy are they who their conscience
obey. know that's just the
way you all feel. So many Of
our band are marching to that sentiment
coming from every direction. Hark to the
clatter of the hoofs of "Old Dobbln," on
on whose back is mounted ''Grandma
Love-" How glad we shall all be to see
her. Thanks, "Happy Old Maid" for
bringing her. And others we would love
to see: "Vashti," keystone Girl, "Vir-
ginia Boy" Consistency" "Wild Iven,"
Lilly Harlow" Herbet s., ""Edwin Earn
est" and Lee Turber." Please come soon.
And here is Lone jerry at last; been
watching for your coming, and real glad to
see you, Jerry" "Observant Widower,"
we can't consent to your future silence.
No, indeed How can you be silent among
all these girls? Welcome, Hamlet" and
'Iowa Blush" Come again.
Now, | must run back and TO work
Everybody wants their photos finished for
Christmas. Now, "Blue-Eyed Charley"
want to leave you in charge of the time
card tor the holiday social, and when the
train comes don't forget to shout. "All
aboard" in time for everybody to start.
Be sure to get all aboard, not forgetting
yourself and the editor. Till then, adieu
"MAUD MAPLE"
nanviIla I'll Doc TX
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
FARM AND F>IRESIDE.

tell upon the pupils for good or for evil.
Whether the teacher will it or not. his
character influences and directs, in some
degree the lives of his pupils. His tone
OF voice, his dress, his disposition, the
spirit that pervades his work. everything
about him will be noted, and, to some ex-
tent, initiated by his pupiis-this, in part,
because children always initiate what they
see in their superiors, and in part because
they cannot resist power that is brought
to bear continuously for months and years.
Next to the parent the teacher can do,
and does do, most in determining the
character OF the child, and as the charac-
ter of the teacher, more than his or her
knowledge of books, affects the life OF the
pupil, only persons of the most exemplary
character should ever enter the school
room as instructors ofyouth.
My best wishes to the editor and every
member of the II. l.. G.
LITTLE SCHooLMA AM"
HabrOn Ind nac IN
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18

sex, but if one of their own sex commits
fault, instead of holding her up and en-
couraging her to do better, they are the
first to kick her down. Now. it is not the
nature OF the lady l object to, it is her vain
attempts to conceal it from men. They
are no better than you and certainly do
not care to hide their faults from you. |
say let everybody act out nature. Don't,
Tor heavens sake, pretend to be
so all-perfect when Satan holds sway
within; for the men know that you
have your disagreeable habits; just as one
may see perfectly dressed woman, to all
appearance. aud yet she may have hole
in the heel of her stocking. Another
thing, when you have company, you
always meet them with a smile of well
come, pretending to be so glad to see
them, when all the time, perhaps, you are
in a secret rage, that you should be inter-
rupted in some favorite employment.
You cannot always disguise. There must
come day when all things shall be made
known. Now, expect to be censured.
but l cannot but smile when / think of all
the receptions and their motives which
must be made manifest upon that day.
Very likely you will wonder what am
kicking about; not that thought you did
not know all this, but / wished to intimate
that the men knew it too. Do not con-
tradict me now, for all true thinking men
know that the women of the present time
are two-sided, and there is no use of your
trying to hide it from them.
There was a question mentioned by
Howard" which / wish to second, and
that is the plan of having our club incor-
porated under some state law, and as THE
SENTINEL is our medium / would suggest
Indiana This could no dome without
holding out the fact that it is state organ
ization, for It is not, but a national one, as
we are represented in nearly every state
in the Union. / would suggest that at the
meeting in Danville the officers draw up
the articles of incorporation, with a board
OF seven directors, composed OF the presi-
dent, recording secretary, executive COM
mittee, and two members to be selected
by the president, and then have the arti-
cles filed with the secretary of state, which
will insure a permanent organization I'M
der the law
was very we'll pleased to see our sister,
FLORENCE Nightingale" visit the page and
to read her letter, as | am well acquainted
with her surroundings, and, IN fact, she is
the only member of the club that it has
ever been my good fortune to meet.
l thought when l read the warning to
"City Chap" that he would soon return to
the fold, but hardly thought he would
come in with his obituary.
Comet" are we going to let our relief
fund 60 by the board? Not by any means.
Keep it before the members, and have it
migrated in the articles of incorporation
when they are filed.
| will now bid you kind goodnight.
"GANo."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-18
Some of the "Let-Go's."
fGOod Housekeeping.

1t is rather strange, when you come to
think of it, how many little things are
"let 90" in the house, that really fret the
inmates and add friction to the household
machinery. which should run smoothly
Most of these ''let-go's' are in the kitchen.
| might philosophize about that fact, but
l will not, Just now. A dull vegetable
knife is one of these. The kitchen which
contains a sharp one is the exception, yet
it is very exasperating to peel potatoes or
apples, cut up beans, or slice turnips, with
a knife as dull as hoe"
In the first place, one begrudges the
money Tor fine steel knife "just to pare
potatoes WITH" never stopping to think
that the better the knife the cheaper it is
for this sort of work. A sharp knife will
pare thinner and waste less than dull
one, and will last longer A good, small
milestone should accompany it, with in
structions to use it, and not the stovepipe,
stove-edge or sole of the cooks shoe. There
is an old saying that one of the few ques-
tons the devil cannot answer is, What
is woman's whetstone~
Another annoyance is leaking tins of
various kinds, notably, quart measures,
dippers, dripping-pans and sauce-pans.
Bits of rag drawn through the tiny holes,
or flour-paste rubbed on the bottom to
form patch, are common devices for get
ting along with these let-go tins, instead of
carrying them to the nearest tin shops some
morning and getting them back whole and
strong In the afternoon for very small
OUTLAY of time and money. There is for
sale, and doubt not it is quite commonly
used, a certain kind OF solder that the
dealers claim can easily be used at home.
/ think / bought some once. but was not
very successful in using it, probably from
lack of skill. 1t in no way lessened nv
conviction that tins should not be allowed
to continue leaky, when time or service
has made them so.
A clothes wringer that will not wiring is
another annoyance. Perhaps one of the
rollers viii not turn. We oil the gearing
and fuss with it week after week, on wash
day, and forget it the other days, all the
time vaguely hoping it is only a 'connip-
ton fit" and the matter will right itself,"
If only we wait long enough. 1t does not
fright ITSELF" and so the annoyance con-
tinues, the clothes are half-wrung orwrung
by hand, when it would be so easy to drop
a postal to the man who repairs wringers,
and then have this cease to be "let-go."
Dull scissors-who does not know then?
Day after day some people saw away"
with such a pair, working their jaws mean
while, and getting a pain in their tenn
pers," all because this is one of the ''let-
COS" that have grown to be chronic.
Isn't it queer? Why is it so? | only know
it is, and thatsI rarely have friend who
visits me and uses my scissors fail to say,
"Why, how nice and sharp your scissors
are" Also, / never go anywhere, taking
my work, without being sure my scissors
are with me, because know what ! will
meet nine times ont of ten If / borrow
scissors.
Another "iet-go" has connection with
tides. Now, tides are very nice things,