Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-02
HOME AND FARM.
INCBNDIARY BARN-BURNING IN THE
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
An Excellent Remedy for outs anu
Wounds-To Promote the Flow OF
Milk in Cows-Valuable
Cooking Receipts.

Large breeds OF sheep require good
pasturage. They will pay only when
the conditions are favorable. Uneven
pastnrage, coarse grain and "pickling ="
will not do for them. They must be sup
Piled with all they may require.
When potatoes are taken from the oven
they should be put in napkin or towel,
and the skin broken SO as to allow the
steam to escape, and this will keep the
notatoto mealy. If cooled without
breaking the skins they will be watery.
1 For cuts, wounds and sores, take OF
lard four ounces beeswax four ounces,
resin two ounces, carbolic acid one-fOurth
of an ounce. Mix the first three and
then melt; then add the carbolc acid,
stirring until cool This is excellent for
man as well as beast.
To make glue waterproof, soak for
twenty-four hours in water until reduced
to stiff Jelly, pour in desert spoonful
of linseed oil, and mix well with the jel-
Nv before boiling. 1t will then be imper-
yious to damp, and woodwork, if pre-
viously mended with the above, will re-
main sound throughout the winter.
To make breakfast rolls rub into q
pound OF flour half a teacupfull OF but
ter, add half teacup OF sweet yeast, a
little salt, and sufficient warm milk to
make stiff dough, cover and put in a
warm place and it will rise in two hoursl
Then make into round cakes. They viii.
bake in quick oven in fifteen minutes.
For griddle cakes silt pint of corn
meal, add salt to taste, and piece of
lard the size of hens egg, mix into a
thin batter with sweet milk, add the
beaten yolks of three eggs, and just be-
fore cooking the cakes stir in the beaten
whites. Fry on hot griddle well
creased, turn the cakes quickly, and send
to the table hot.
Whether it be hest to spread manure
on land intended for corn in spring de-
ponds on the land If too rolling, much
of the soluble matter OF the manure will
be washed out and carried off by the
rains unless the land has been plowed
and left in an unharrowed condition so
that the rains may more easily carry the
matter downward.
A few roots or apples or potatoes fed
daily to cows giving milk promote the
flow of milk and help to keep the animal
in healthy condition. When consider
able meal is fed, some kind of green food,
at least occasionally, is very much need
ed. Farmers should raise more beets for
feeding to their farm stock. A little ex-
perience would soon give them facility
in securing a large yield on suitable land.
To make chocolate creams Mould
small bits OF the cream favored with va
nilla into cone shape, and set them away
upon an oiled paper to dry. Melt some
chocolate in Il bowl set in kettle of boil
ing water, or over a boiling teakettle.
Boil each of the dry creams in the melted
chocolate until well covered Set aside
to dry. Use a new hair-pin for rolling
the cream, and keep the chocolate melted
while using.
A secretion OF puss often takes place
under the corner of cows eye as the re-
suit OF inflammation that often causes tenn
porary blindness. This may be caused
variously: CHAT in the eye, blow, cold,
or constitutional tendency may all pro-
Once it. 1t may be removed possibly by
the application of burned alum blown in
to the eye through quill once day for
a few days. This will cause an absorp-
tive action which may remove the white
cloud.
There are some crosses that do not re-
suit to the best advantage. With dogs il
Is claimed that the union of hairy with
a smooth-coated dog win produce worth
less offspring, and with poultry the cross
ing OF birds with rose combs and single
combs has not been as productive oil
such good results as when a single comb
breeds have been bred together as cross.
es. Experiments in this direction are
worthy of attention.
The cost of milk depends upon the cost
of the food, hence the more milk received
from COW in proportion to the food
given, the cheaper the cost. But unless
warm quarters be given, large quantity
OF food must be diverted to creatinp
warmth for the body, and it would. there
fore, be economical to keep the cows
comfortable, in order to cheapen the cost
by lessening the amount of food reo,1ired
for bodily warmth. In other words.
shelter is food, as it protects the animal
against cold and exposure.
To make escalloped cabbage, slice two
quarts of raw cabbage and let it stand in
cold water one hour. Drain and boil in
sailed water until tender, then drain and
chop it little. Melt two Irresponsible of
butter, one OF flour, one of salt, a salt
spoonful of pepper and one cup of
milk. Add the cabbage and simmer ten
minutes. Pour into a baking dish that
has been buttered, covered with buttered
cracker crumbs, and bake until brown
Ii the cabbage was not baked with the
crumbs it would be creamed cabbage,
-Four pints of soft water, two ounces Of
pearl barley, one pound of salt beef ono
marrow bone, six shank bones broken
INTO small pieces, two large onions. one
SUCK Oh celery. two turnips, and two car
rots thinly sliced. Set the sauce nan
containing these ingredients over clear
fire; when it boils skim it and let it sim.
mer slowly for five hours. Twenty min
utes before serving add a teacupful Of
chopped parsley and some salt. and Won
| VIII have an excellent Scotch harley
broth. ''''iey
TO make hominy drop cakes take one
pint oil fresh boiled hominy (or cold HON
my may be used. If the latter, break
ihto grains as light as possible with q
iorK and beat in farina kettle without
au'ung waterl, one teaspoonfull of water
| TWO eggs, white and yolks beaten sena,
ra'eiy. Stir the yolks into the bominv
hrst, then the whites, and a teasnoonf,il
OF salt II the hominy has not been saItad
IN cooking, or if it has use half n tesno ,o'
lull. Drop, in Irresponsible ON welI ~
tered TIN sheets, and bake to a go
brown in quick oven. W sooo
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