The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-03-22
THE HOUSEHOLD.



Old potatoes may DO freshened up
10y plunging them into cold water he.
fore cooking.
Cutlctsand stcaksmny he fried MS
wcllas boiled, but they must bcputin
hot butter or lard. The grease is
hot enough when it throws off u
BLUSH smoke.
A wntcrproofapplinncc for shoes:
Beef tallow, four ounces; becswax,
one ounce: melt together, and add
when cold an equal quantity of
neat s-foot oil. Apply with n wooden
tag, rubbing it well with tho hand.
lffoo,ls are feed that are rich in
blood making and musclc-forming
character, like bran and oats.t the COW
puts the fats of the food into tho
milk, and uses the rest for the sup
port of her system, andstrongcr flow
oimiIk is the result.
The cherry, says the Rural Cana
dian. is about the only fruit tree
which can he recommended for shade
in pastures along roadsidcs, as the
hardy varieties of cherries are not
affected by the trampling of stock or
the passing OF vehicles, which would
prove most injurious to most other
fruit trees.
In transplanting trees, all thcroots
which may have become bruised or
broken in the process ofliiting should
be cut clean Il away behind the brok-
ell part. as they then more readily
strike out new roots from the cut
parts. In all such the cut should he
u clean sloping one, and made in an
upward and outward direction.
4 Pennsylvania correspondent
writes to the Country Gentleman
that his Winter grain ration for
milch cows is OF onc-hnlf wheat or
buckwhcat bran. and the other half
meal, made by grinding corn, rye
and oats together in equal parts,
and give each about four quarts of
the mixture both norningand night,
tcl drv. For suuulcmt food he feeds
pumpkins, storing twenty or thirty
loads in his barn basement.
Historically, the sheep clearly ranks
first among useful animals, and al
though they sometimes fall into dis
reputc and carping charges are made
against them they are bound to go
up higher in popular estimation with
every advance in human develop
mrnt, hail with pleasure the pre-
vailing tendency towards keeping u
few sheep ON every farm, whatever
the predominant speciality. So says
IL writer in he Tribune.
In China when IL guest is invited
to dinner. il is the custom for the
host to give lin certain advice as to
his conduct, such as: "IDo not eat
with noise; do not crunch the homes
with your teeth, or drink down the
sauces with ~ gulp." 1t would he
considered an insult here for II host
to teach his guest manners, but
some dinner tables might he i'm
proved il some such advice were TAX
eli.
A good way to utilize little girls
light print dresses that would be
out-grown by the following summer,
is to turn up the lower part of the
skirt. and replace it with q deep full
tIouncc of navy blue print, turkey
red calico, or pretty, dark, ginghmn.
Worn withn nicely lttinghighnecked
apron with Ion" sleeves and but
toned the whole length of the back,
no one is tho wiser for this small
live upon.
a New York farmer argucs that one
ton of clover haycontaills nine or ten
per cent. of albuminoi,ls. while a ton
of timothy hny has only five and
onc-iourth per cent. of these valuable
nutrimcnts. Glover hay is always
cheaper than timothy. and often
times thirty to fifty percent. cheaper.
Hence farmers shouldgrow timothy
Observation-Disclosures feeding out to
their OWL stock. Again. Mr.. Stewart
claims that il II ton of straw contain
ing two or two and one-l,alfper cent.
of albuminoi,ls is mixed with ton
of clover hay, the mixture contains
the same nutritious substances as
two tons of timothy hay-ccrtainly
another argument in favor ofleeding
heclover.