The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

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with cold water, applied dry, VIII IKE;
out grease spots without injuring the
most delicate fabric.
A strong solution of carbolc acid andS
water, poured into holes, kills all the<
ants II touches, and the survivors imme%
diately take themselves off
To stop the bleeding of horse or other
stock from snag or wound, make an ap-
pilcatlon OF dry horse manure, and it will
stop the bleeding every time
One pound of green copperas dissolved
IN one quart of boiling water will DESTROY
1oul smells. Powdered borax scattered
I IN their haunts will disperse cockroacbes.
For good returns for feeding, taking
one year with another, We would rather
trust bunch of even, well selected
wethe1s than any other stock on the
farm.
Any man closely ohseryant knows that
a compactly built hog with light bone.
weighing from l75 10 $50 pounds, is the,
selilng hog iOr the market and that these
weights are the most profitable to grow.
Ordinary buttermilk is valuable food
not only for pigs, but for the family. 1t
contains per cent OF milk sugar, nearly
per cent of mineral salts, as well as
nitrogenous materials and a proportion of
butter fat
Every Young weed that comes rp and
is cut down is one less weed to 90 to seed.
The way to keep down weeds is to allow
the seeds to germinate and then DESTROY
the young plants. In this manner the
work is easier and better performed.
A good way to arrage fruit in dish
for an ornamental piece, is to set a glass
tum In the center OF the dish, around
and over 1t put a thick layer OF moss;
then not nearly SO much fruit will be re-
qulred, and it can be arranged very hand
somely.
Baked Beans: Soak one quart OF beans
IN water ovor night; III the morning put
them IN an iron kettle with one-half
/ When tender, but not broken, take ont
OF the liquor with skinner and put in
a baking pan with the pork on top and
bake Until brown
| White Mountain Clke: Two cups of
sugar, one cupoi butter, one cup of sweet
milk, four eggs, TO lr cups of -four. two
teaspoontuls OF baking powder. Cream.
butter and sugar together, add the beaten
yoks, then the milk. -four with the bak
ing power sifted through it, and last the
beaten whites; havoring Bake in one
loaf
Resin In soap is fraud. 1t makes
poor soap hard and greatly lessons the
cost. Some say that rosin improves soap
because OF the turpentine in it. They
might as well say dry bone makes good
food because OF the meat that was on it
once. There is DO turpentine in rosin:
it was all taken out in the making, and
the rosin discolors and spoils white goods
and shrinks woolens. But turpentine in
small quantities added to boiling clothes.
sweetens them and improves the color.
The best boys and girls we have ever
known on the farm were those whose
parents gave them an interest in some
thing to raise or cultivate as their own.
To boy especially, the feeling OF owner
ship Is happy, proud, hopeful one He
feels that he has something to work for,
to look forward to. The pig will in due
time become a fat, marketable hog, the
little lamb fine wool-bearing sheep, the
colt a handsome horse. the chickens
grow to profitable hens, and the calf into
fine milk COW. Parents, give your chill
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farms Will be better cultivated and your
homes made happier by it.
Something to Eat Between talks: Here
is another sweet dish thoroughly to sea-
son. Take three pounds of sweet al
monds. two pounds and half of crushed
sugar, and one pound OF strawberries.
Pound the almonds into kind of paste,
and mix them with sugar Add the Juice
OF the Strawberries, which must be prev
iorsly crushed. Place the pan contain
ing these different ingredients on slow
fire, and stir them up continuously.
When the paste seems to have obtained
certain consistency, take it out of the
pan and spread it out on baking board
powdered with sugar, till it is of the thick
ness OF a half-dollar. As soon as the
paste is cold, cut il out In round or square
pieces, and put them till hot and crisp,
into the kitchener, and then serve.
Coccoa as Fcod: As an article OF food
cocoa differs essentially from both tea and
coffee. While only an infusion of those
substances is used, leaving large pro-
portion OF their total weight unconsumed,
the entire substance of the cocoa seeds is
prep ired az an emulsion for drinking,
and the whole is thus utilized with the
!. system. While the contents of a cup of
tea or coffee can only be regarded as
stimulant in its effect, and almost en-
/ tirely destitute of essential nutritive prop
critics, cup OF prepared cocoa is really
most nourishing article of diet, as, In ad-
dition to the value of the theobromine it
contains it introduces into the system no
inconsiderable proportion of valuable
nitrogenous and oleaginous elements.
Boiled Salads: All head vegetables,
lettuce, caulifower, cabbage, that are to
be cooked whole, should be immersed in
cold water, head downwards first, to free
/ from grit or insects. The latest word for
salad-lettuce is not to put It In water at
all, but to break it apart, leaf by leaf,
wiping off each leaf with moist towel.
This keeps the leaf crisp. All lettuces of
salad should be torn apart, not cut. The
coarsely cultivated field lettuces should
be boiled The s'drumhead' variety is
better cooked than raw. On toast, with
poached egg lightly throned on the pale
green marrowy substance, which has