The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1890-01-09
Farm and Household

is reported as two-thirds less
than last year.
Over thirty horses have
died resently in Holmes
county from a new disease.
The Delaware Herald says
d farmer across the county
line in Morrow county pur-
chased in the fall about 1000
head of sheep in Michigan
and sold them at a good
profit.
The county or township
that keeps its roads in a
good passable condition at
all seasons of the year, is
certain to increase rapidly
in wealth and population.
To neglect the highway is
worse than to neglect fences
and weeds.
Spreading manure in the
winter. Manure made in
the winter should, when it
is possible, be spread as it is
made on the land where it is
to be used. It is a fact that
cannot be controverted and
has been abundantly proved. |
both by reason and practice,
that manure is never worth
more than it is the day it is
made. Nothing is added to
It but usually much is lost
from it. by lapse of time.
Except on steeply, -slopingl
ground, the manure is safe
from all danger of loss and
il put where it will do the
most good when it is spread
on the land direct from the
stable. There is no more
handling of it. and if it is
rained upon all that is dis
solved from it goes into the
soil, just where it is wanted.
Hence it is a convenience
and an economy to haul out
the manure and spread it as
soon as a wagonload is gath
cred.
Crushed stone for country I
roads.-One of the best sug- /
gestions for country road
making comes from Supt.
Wise of the Willard asylum,
New York. He urges that .
each town purchase a stone
crusher of a size suitable for
operating by the eight or ten
horse power engines used for
running threshing machines.
Such q crusher will reduce
FIVE cubic yards of stone per \
hour to pieces ranging from :
one to one and one half inches
in diameter. Stone of this A
size laid on a well drained -, -
and properly prepared bed r
are soon compacted into a T.
solid mass almost impervious -
to water, and with a little 5
care will be practically a
road for all time. Labor :,
thus employed will do more :,
for country roads than piling
sarth into the center, scraped
from bitches on the side, a =
material often much better *
for drawing into a field as a 81
fertilizer than as a road bed.
Lemon pie.-Roll three
lemons till soft. Take out 2
the seeds and juice and chop
the peel very fine. To the
juice and peel add two cups
of chopped raisins, two cups =
Df molasses, and two rolled g
crackers. Stir it well, add
ing one cup of water. This
will make four pies. s
Great care should be taken A
in washing milk cans, and q
al vessels into which milk =
IS set, as milk turns very
readily when put in an un- he he
clean dish. Wash first in fu
cold water, second in pr
strong solution of soda and or
water and then in clean tep- Ar
d water. Wipe dry, and if cl,
oossible set out doors to sun O.
md dry. "a
Maple sugar candy.-iisa ia IS
Boil one pound of pure ma wi
de sugar, and half a pound Fri
# granulated sugar with up
iwo teacups of water, add
lalf a teaspoonful Of cream -.
4 tarter, dissolved. Let on an
Ibil until it hardens, then nc
,our in a buttered dish. do
When nearly cool, pull until vn el
is light colored. Make in rel
title CAKES, stick a whole IN,