Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-20
HOME AND FARM.
INVESTIGATION INTO THE ORIGIN
OF HOG CHOLERA.
The Superiority of Carrots and Mangle
Wurtzels as a Food for Milk
Cows-Yield of an Acre of
Land in STRAWBERRIES.

There are in this country, according to
the government statistical bureau report,
44,612,S37 head of hogs, breeding ami
mails and young pigs.
To make hens lay, make mush Of
coarse corn-meal, boiling in a large red
| pepper in each two quarts of the water
! Cook for an hour and feed hot. Boiled
apple skins seasoned with red pepper is
also good.
During the summer a great deal OF rub
bish collects in the garden, and perhaps
in the orchard All this ought to be
raked up and burned, or otherwise dis
posed Of If LETT on the ground, it fur
nishes food for insects.
Sweet Sauce: Beat up the yelks of
four eggs with four tablespoOnfuls of pow
dered sugar; add tumblerful of sherry
and liquor glass Of brandy, put the
mixture in jug; place this in sauce
pan OF boiling water on the fire, and
froth up the same with chocolate mill.
Oyster Saute: Drain two dozen oys-
ters, dry them on a towel, sprinkle with
pepper and salt and roll in flour Put a
quarter OF pound of bacon (cut in thin
slices) in a frying-pan and let the fat dry
out; remove the meat and put in the
oysters; let brown and turn. Serve on
toast.
Mashed Potatoes: Boil a quantity of
potatoes and pass them through a sieve.
Put them into a saucepan with good
lump of butter, and salt to taste; add
little milk, and work them well with
spoon on a slow fire for a few minutes,
adding small quantities of milk as it is
required, until they get of the desired
consistency.
Potato Pudding Boil four large po-
tatoes and pass them through sieve;
stir into them powdered loaf sugar to
taste, and the yelks of two or three eggs
add a few drops of essence OF lemon,
then the whites OF the eggs whisked to a
froth mix quickly and well pour into
plain mould, buttered and PREDETERMINED,
and bake for twenty minutes in a quick
oven.
An acre OF land will produce five or SIX
times as many strawberries, in bushels,
as it will Of wheat, and the prices usually
obtained for Strawberries are more than
three times as much as for wheat. One
acre of straw berries will bring as much
profit as fifteen acres of wheat, while the
cost eff raising the strawberries is propOr-
tionately but little more than that of prov
ducing wheat.
An extensive apple-grOwer in Illinois
is said to plant only half as far apart as
the trees should stand permanently, and
then he brings three-fourths Of them into
bearing as soon as possible by girdling.
letting them produce all they will until
the permanent ones need the room. The
girdled trees are then cut out and the
others have all the needed space for
growth and productiveness.
Have you a good stock of carrots and
mangle wurtzels in your cellars for your
milk COWS? If you have you are lucky
man. If you have not, it is too late now
to provide them, but make your calcula-
tons to SOW the seeds of them literally
the present season. You will never COM
plain that you have too many OF such
roots for your stock. Cows, oxen, horses,
and sheep actually need green food in
winter as much as in summer.
There is no doubt whatever about the
benefits to be derived from a well-cOn-
Quoted creamery, observes a Dakota far
mer, not only to the farmers, but to ev-
cry one within the limits of operations.
1t gives the farmer a cash market for his
cream, and enables him to pay cash for
supplies. 1t gives him an inducement to
better his STOCK, and to employ better
and more profitable methods Of caring for
them, in addition to many other benefits.
Cold Slaw: Put three tablespoonfuls
of vinegar in a saucepan with little salt
and pepper; beat two eggs very light and
mix with a teaspOonful of sifted flour,
teaspoonful of butter, a teaspOonful OF
sugar and a half teaspOOnful OF ground
mustard. Set the vinegar on the stove,
and when it b0ils stir in the mixture,
adding half a cup of milk. Cook for two
minutes stirring constantly. Pour the
sauce over the shred cabbage and let it
become cold before serving.
Oysters a la Boulette: Put one quart
of oysters in their own liquor. Let come
to boil, turn in a hot dish, strain. Put
two ounces Of butter in a saucepan, let
heat, sprinkle in a tablespoonful OF
sifted flour, let cook one minute, stir and
add cupful of the oyster liquor. Take
from the fire and mix in the yelks OF two
eggs, little salt, a very little pepper, one
teaspoonful Of lemon juice and one grated
nutmeg. Beat well, return to the fire,
heat well, but not boil. Drop in the oys-
ters. Dish and boil.
Salad dressing for Oysters: Take the
yelks of three raw eggs, a small table
spoonful of mustard, a teaspOonful OF
salt, two tablespOonfuls OF white sugar,
an atom of cayenne peper, a cup OF OIL
or butter melted, a small half-cup OF vim
egar, the juice Of a lemon. Beat the eggs
verv light with the sugar, add the mus
tard salt and pepper. Mix in the butter
and vinegar in small quantities alternate
", and, just before pouring over the salad
add two cups of whipped cream. To
viii D cream, let it stay on the ice few
hours, then whip with an eggbeater.
Potato Balls: Take half dozen pota-
toes, boil them, pass them through a
sieve. and work into them in a bowl one
gill of cream and the yelks OF three eggs;
add pepper, salt and nutmeg to taste,
and some parsley finely chopped When
thev are well mixed and smooth, take
them UP by tablespoonfuls, roll each in
ball. flatten it and flour it slightly.
Law them in a saucepan with plenty OF
butter melted, and cook them slowly.
Turn them over when one side is done,
and serve hot as soon as both sides are
colored.
The agricultural department after care
full investigation into the origin OF hog
cholera, is said to have proven conclu-'
sivelv that it results from the use of car
rion food dropped by buzzards. while the
habits of the hog are such that one in
herd being attacked will soon spread the
disease. Typhus fever in man has been
traced to the use of injected meat, of ami
mails slaughtered to avoid the disease.
Thorough cooking OF pork in affected dis