Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-09
HOME AND FARM.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD FOR pErECI'
ING PURE HONEY.
Benefit to be Derived by FARMERS "a
Closely Observing the Market re
ports-Remedy for Chapped
HandS-Receip 8.

| WIFI u liot nun.
Grapes do best on well cultivated
ground-well drained.
Beware how you get into debt. 1t is
not so easy to get out.
An old -four barrel, with the remains
of flour on its sides to become musty, Is
about the worst possible vessel TO keep
apples in.
| To feed sheep for flesh and bone is al
40 to feed it for wool; but heavy gram
feeding makes velk and grease to an
amount disproportionate to gain in fleece.
1t is best, as rule, to feed whole
grain at night, corn, oats, wheat or sor-
ghum, something that the gizzards can
work upon portion of the night at least
rather than some soft light food.
Farmers who raise sheep should bear
in mind that the wool OF sheep, as Wen
as the mutton, depends on liberal feeding.
: No poorly fed or poorly cared Tor sheep
quantity Or quality.
As far as experiments have been con-
Quoted it has been demonstrated that
when wheat is 60 cents per bushel, 1t is
the cheapest grain that can be used as
food fer stock, being more nutritious
than corn and better adapted for growing
; stock.
A New York dairyman says he can get
more milk from cows fed on beets, two
bushel per day to the cow, than from en-
silage The milk yield ran up to twenty
quarts He asserts he can produce beets
at cost of four cents a bushel, 1000
, bushels to the acre.
The following has been suggested for
, the ear-ache: Oliver oil, one ounce !;
: chloroform, one drachm. Mix and shake
well together, then pour % or 80 drops
into the ear and close it up with piece
: of raw cotton to exclude the air and re-
$ tain the mixture. 1t will give instant
relief.
$ To make boiled onions: Peel two
e quarts of silver skin onions of uniform
size and boil them in plenty OF sailed wa
= put one teacup of fresh milk, one large
tablespoonful of butter, and a little salt
and pepper in the kettle; boil all together
o for five minutes, then pour into a hot
= dish and serve
The partridge coch is undoubtedly one
! OF our most prominent breeds. They are
g well fitted for city or rural life. They are
extremely quiet, hardy, healthy and
O good layers. Their flesh is good and pre-
i sentable in color-the color that suits
the taste OF the American people They
are handsome in plumage and possess a
: good share OF useful qualities.
Take two lemons and rasp them on SUI
gar, the juice of six lemons and one
1t orange, half a pint OF water, and one PIN
y OF clarified sugar made as follows: TAKE
three pounds OF sugar, two pints of wa
c ter, half the white OF an egg well beaten
y up, boil for ten minutes and skim, strair
| the mixture through a hair sieve, anC
freeze in the usual way This makes 9
d delicious lemon-water ice.
IF Begin right in getting out as many o.
the Asiatic chicks in February Marc
and April. Then, before the show sea
'e son, they have nearly reached maturity
% and if they have been kept in a thrifty
% growing condition from the start anc
are Gas they should be- bred from large
,s healthy stock, they will require very lit
a tie fattening to make them tip the scales
n at from seven TO twelve pounds.
To make good boiled ham, scrape tbs
II outside OF the ham to remove any par
r ticles which may adhere to it and put i
he into large kettle partly filled with cole
water; when it begins to boil move til;
kettle to the back of the range and cool
ar slowly until tender enough to have forl
re run into it easily. Take it from the wa
l. ter and when almost cold cut eff the RIM
and ornament the top with cloves.
n All warm-blooded animals maintain
a their heat by a slow combustion within
lie their bodies, for which their food is TIN
fuel. Man supplements this natural sup
n ply by kindling fire in his house. TIL,
" lower animals make no fire; they hay,
s no fuel but their feed. 1t is true econo
my, therefore, for the owner to husban,
their supply of heat by providing shelter
:, which will protect them from the col,
r winds and the chilling rains.
To make potato snow, peel and wasl
and boil in salted water until tender, on
At dozen large potatoes; pour off the waite
!r and let them stand upon the back of tn
L range Tor five minutes, then mash fin
10 and season with one half cup of cream o
sweet milk, one tablespoonful OF butter
J. and pepper and salt to suit the taste
IS Pass the potatoes through coarse sieve
at or a patent potato masher, and heal
re them lightly into a hot vegetable dish.
For chapped hands take of pure ba,
If rum or glycerine each one part, quinc,
IN seed Jelly two parts; mix. A few drop
- OF OIL OF rose or any other perfume ma,
y be added to the bay rum before mixing
W. When diluted with rain water it forms AZ
~ excellent dressing for the hair. This ielk
Is made by addingtwo drachms of quinc,
l. seed to two pints of water, boiled dowr
J. to one pint, filtered hot and allowed I,
D. cool. For certain skin diseases drachn
i OF boraclc acid may be dissolved in eacl
ounce OF glycerine before mixing.
An old sod does not rot auicklv es
IA pecially after dry season and on heav,
a. SOIL. We have often seen the fllrrow re
N turned the following spring, after a GRO,
% OF corn had been grown on it the wear be
lore, and the furrow was plainly define,
+; by the roots and leaves of the old sod
20 Mice take advantage OF this to make thei
~ winter burrows out of reach of crows
~; ~ cats and owls. Almost every shock q
III corn Will have such whole reaching nm
der the burrows. A mouse in this have,
ct can run iaster than anything can dig +,
y, get it out. 'ie "
$. An evidently shrewd observer saw
p that considerable of success on tha nar
p oil farmers depends upon keeping a clos,
eye to the market. The first OF any ne,
crop will almost always command y bigI
nj price, and soon after, when there Is
in rush Tor the market rricns ron;dI,, 4