The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-27

4 Missouri farmers wife has found
ehat the best way TO save pumpkins
fov winter use Is to stew and can them
like fruit When thus prepared they
|can not be told from fresh pumpkin.
No crops, no stock; no stock. no
manure; no manure, no crops But
don't when you have raised forage
crop, sell it. but feed il TO livestock
aud then hare manure and have crops.
Where trees are sent long dis
tances and from any cause appear
lshrTVered or dsy,do sIAirsssttQzr.'
they can often be saved. Do not plant
them as soon as unpacked. but bury
the tree, root and branch In moist
earth for lew days until the WOOD
pumps up naturally.
Tt takes toll, and hard toll. to be
sure. but is it q sign OF smartness
when farmer has raised fine field
/ of fodder corn to let two-thirds OF its
feeding value go to wastep Is It good
farming, or practical farming, to lose
half of the results of your toll Most
men call it foolishness. and most men
are right when they SO call it.-Rural
New Yorker. IT,
The following is said to make a
pleasant summer drink: Take the
rind and core OF a small pineapple,
put into a stone jar and pouroyer it
pint OF cold water; cover the jar and
set it in cool place for twenty-four
hours. Then strain and sweeten to
taste, bottle, cork and place away in a
cool place for three days, when it will
be ready for use. Examiner
Mere size is poor criterion for
testing the value Of pumpkins. Some
OF the largest specimens are soft.
with thin meat. and full of seeds. The
best have shells as hard as Hubbard
squash, and solid flesh extending al
most to the center. Tic best are as
much superior for feeding to stock as
they are for cooking, and therefore
only the best varieties sha,ld be
planted.
There are women who do great
deal of extra work that amounts to
nothing, yet tires and worries them to
great degree. A woman may be a
good housekeeper without being a
fussy one. The fussy housekeepers
are like the story-tellers who waste so
much time in detail before the pith of
the story is reached, that it falls fat
on the listeners ears. Do not fuss;
do not spend time in talking over what
must be done; it is the doing that tells.
The particulars add nothing.-The
Housekeeper. \
Beef Pie, with Potato Crust. -
Cut the beef into small pieces, and il
there is no cold gravy put the beef
into skillet with cup Of water, and
season with catsup and some favorite
savory herb When gravy is formed
put the meat and gravy, of which
there should be only enough to
moisten the beef, into deep dish. and
ceHer-it with a, layer about two inchcs-
thick. OF freshly mashed potato. which
has been beaten very light with milk
and =batter-Bakeiu quick oven for
half an hour, until the potato is
Drowned on top.-Woman,s Magazine.
Open fir cones, such as children
love to pick up and bring home, can be
made into quite pretty floral recepta-
cles by being set up in a damp pot,
earth sprinkled around and over them
and then bird seed Keep them moist,
and after time the seed springs into
life and crop of delicate greenery
sprouts from the cone segments. It is
on the same principle as the Canadian
mode OF putting dry grain ears into
water and watching for the green
shoots to spring therefrom Children
and young girls derive great amuse-
ment from the process-Housewife. *