The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-18
FARM AND FiREsiDE.
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Ono of the worst .'trusts" among
farmers is trust to luck"
Water under foot is great detri-
ment to sheep-growing, and hence in
wet seasons the fochs have to be
watched closely. Foul foot is selde.m
known in a billy country.
Where fertilizers must be bought
to keep up or improve the land, hog
growers will IN many instances find it
profitable to buy their fertilizers in the
shape of feed, such as the mill products
and oil meal.-Swineherd.
There will be no danger of a va
riety of potatoes running OUT if the
best tubers are saved for seed every
year. Every one who plants potatoes
can improve the variety by carefully
selecting the seed and giving good
cultivation.
Oats and onions are two crops that,
as a rule, ought to be ready to go in
the ground just as soon as the condi-
ton of the soil will admit. If this is
done. it will be quite an item to make
the necessary preparations in advance,
SO that at the proper time the work
can be pushed along as rapidly as pos
sib]e.
Tomato Soup: Heat one quart of
canned tomatoes with one pint of water
to the boiling point, then add one
small teaspoonful soda. As soon as
they cease to foam add one pint rich
milk, two tablespoonful butter and a
little salt and pepper. Serve as soon
as it boils up again. With fresh oyster
crackers it makes an excellent dish.
just as many dairymen and other
cow-owners can not tell, with reason
able degree of certainty, which of their
COWS arc sources of profit, and which
OF loss, so many farmers can not GER
tainly tell whether they gain or lose
by this or that crop. Would it not pay
to pay a little more attention to this
matter? Might it not be as wise to Gull
ones crops as to Gull ones COWS.
lilly ventilated quarters and the
absence of sun and light exert pow
erful influence on the health of fowls.
Without fresh air, sun and light, fowls
would become like plants in a cellar,
pale and sickly, unproductive and UNI
profitable If every avenue by which
the pure air of heaven can reach them
is closed. they would stifle to death by
tetld vapors, or else become the VIC
TINS of disease. Western Plowman.
-Corned Beef Soup: Let seven
pounds of cheapest cut of corned beef
be soaked and parboiled so as to re-
move the surplus salt, then simmer
slowly three hours. Let the liquor
stand until all the fat rises. Skim off
the fat. Add a quart of tomatoes, two
carrots, two small white turnips, two
onions and four large potatoes, all
pared and sliced thin. Let simmer one
hour. Strain and serve the soup hot,
reserving the cooked vegetables for a
salad.
Wherever the soil is in proper con-
ditlon to work, and crumbles before the
pillow, or when stirred by the spade or
fork. a large share of the hardy seeds
may be sown. The larger share of
seeds are sown in rows twelve to fifteen
inches apart, and it is we'll to have a
marker that will make burrows at these
distances. Nearly all of the root crops,
parsnips, early beets, carrots, onions,
both seeds and sets, leeks, etc.,
also radishes in cold frames and in the
open ground, are best sown in this way.
American Agriculturist.