Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-06-11
ROME AND FARM.
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Stables-Soiling Crop5-Oatmeai
Mush for Children-Notes.

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Trim back the wood and give the trunks
A good washing with strong soapsuds.
A heavy plank drawn over lawn-plot
will serve to render it smooth, thus
greatly aiding the lawn-mower alter the
grass is up. The lawn grass, beng very
short, may be cured and stored away Tor
the use of poultry i'll winter.
Have you eyergreens about the house
Trim them up this spring so that they
will look ship-shape. Two or three hun
bred dollars can often be added to the
yalue of farm by an hour or two's work
in pruning the ornamental trees.
Everybody can raise berries--the farm
or. the yillager and the resident. If you
have walk ten feet long border it with
the finest straw berries. Do not try to
grow them in a careless, slip-shod way
Fill the ground with richness and you
will be astonished and well paid
Tomatoes cut into thick slices and
baked in a dripping pan make most
ageeable garnish. Sprinkle pepper and
fine bread crumbs over each slice, and IN
, the space between the slices put little
Jumps of butter. Bake till tender, and
serve hot on the platter with meat.
Selling crops is another very important
feature in farming. Rye sown last TALL
gives the first cutting of green fodder this
spring, and should give a second cutting
later. Oats ana peas should be sown
early as a soiling crop. When the wealth
err is warm enough fodder corn sown al
: most to the exclusion OF everything else
as a soiling crop.
=. Z. 4 L. ity of
: milk, and where stables are small and
crowded the air is so loaded with impuri-
ties as to destroy the natural sweet
flavor OF the milk. These are facts for
all users of milk to know. They should
stimulate careful personal inquiry as to
whether the milk used is clean or is
filled with poisonous animal matters.
One of the prettiest ornaments for
shelf is square or oblong glass with
beveled edges. On this glass paint a
landscape. A snow scene is particularly
adapted for this. A glass ten inches
high by eight wide is good size. This
| may be placed upon an easel when it is
done, or may be glued to plush panel,
which can be hung on the wall.
Most every farmer is aware Of the fact
that sheep must be fat to make the best
mutton, but few conceive the idea that a
! properly and well fed sheep produces
more and better wool than one poorly fed
and cared for Wool is product from
feeding, Just the same as fat or fest, and
the flock should be fed and managed with
view to wool growth, and that OF fine
quality.
D Chow chow requires one peck OF green
tomatoes, four very small, solid cabbages,
= six onions and six green bell peppers, all
: chopped fine and mixed. Sprinkle a cup
ful over the mixture and let it stand over
night. In the morning drain off the juice
e and add two pounds of brown sugar, one
: cupful of mustard seed and one gallon of
vinegar to the chopped mixture. Boil
: until it looks clear and tender and put in
O jars. This is declared to be ''way up"
Tomatoes cut into slices and baked
= make a delicious entree, but to serve
e with brazed fowls and in highly seasoned
gravies the tomatoes should be cut into
@ slices, be dipped in flour, and then be
# Drowned in butter, with salt and pepper
~ scattered on each slice. This process
imparts an indescribable flavor to the
S tomatoes which nothing else could give,
o and new joy awaits the lover OF good
things who has not partaken of this
y relish. 1t Is most agreeable as a garnish
n for a lat and juicy roast OF beef, as well as
OF fowl and lamb.
The ways in which an omelet may be
. made to vary are almost without number
The omelet with fine herbs is favorite
with those people who like high season
h ing. Then the most fastdious delight in
Ian, OF
course, must be chopped, or be broken II
fine bits, before they are mixed with the
!" omelet; parsley alone, rubbed very fine
L imparts delicious favor to a plain
omelet; tomatoes added to the omelets
J. just before it hardens, those having been
n already cooked, give an excellent relish
to it, later in the season oysters chopped
fine, or the Little Neck clam, render an
h omeiet a dish to be longed for and to be
d eaten with indescribable gusto.
Oatmeal mRsh for children or inyalids
l. Take one cup graduated oatmeal, hal
# teaspOonful OF salt and one scant quart O.
boiling water. Put the meal aud salt il
the double boiler, pour on the boiling
n water and cook two or three hours. Re
e move the cover just before serving anc
). stir with fork to let the steam escape
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Y, strongly sailed the meal will cook more
ST quickly. Serve with sugar or salt ant
d cream. Baked sour apples sauce anc
apple Jelly are delicious eaten with the
oatmeal. They should be served witt
y the mush, and the cream and sugar
1t poured over the whole. They give the
5 acid flavor which so many crave in the
morning. Coarse oatmeal is not suitable
lor any form OF wgterbrash, acidly OF
=. bowel irritation. 1t often causes erup
= tons on the skin in warm weather.
Planting Trees The trees being snugly
heeled-ln, do not plant until the weather
. is settled, especially until the long wine
Is storms are over. These winds are dan.
IL gerous and shrivel up the bark and des
troy the verdure OF the buds, which the
i roots cannot yet supply with moisture
. II the trees come to hand early in the
10 spring, 1t is best to heel them in unit
the weather gets warm. il trees after q
long journey in warm weather are founC
d TO have the buds started and the bark
r, shrveled, trim them back and cut each
= branch back to a sound, dormant bud
Then dig trench in suitable soil, ant
lay in the trees one by one, taking care
a, that IN tllbng in every part of the shrivel
lie ed bark IS in contact with the moist soil
rs Cover all completely, root and branch
m taking care that the labels are properly
preserved, When the trees are taken III
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