The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-25


ger. and then ali that is needed is patience
and watchfullness. More horses are
spoiled through a detect in the DISPOSE
tons of the drivers than their own. The
unbroken horse is ignorant and fearful.
Remove the fears by kind and careful
handling, and then begin by giving it
easy lessons.
Weeds
Prof. Shaw of the college of agriculture,
Guelph, Ont. has made a most thorough
study OF weeds and the best methods for
their determination. He thinks the task
of cleaning dirty farms and keeping them
clean is not so formidable as many farmers
suppose. 1t does not cost over SO year
now 10 keep the college farm of 500
acres free of weeds. notwithstanding
the fact that il was very foul three
years ago. OF all weeds he finds the
ANIMALS the hardest 10 eradicate, as the
seeds may lie dormant for many years
Biennials produce feed only in the second
year, and are easily controlled by ordinary
cultivation. Perennials, such as the
Canada thistle and quack grass. can be
subdued only by keeping them free from
making any growth for several months.
especially in the latter part of the sum
mer. The professors remedy for Can ada
thistle is constant cultivation for two sea-
sons followed by seeding to rank growing
grasses.
sentinel" Pointers
Is your cellar moldy?
Does your we'll drain your barnyard?
Only rich farmers can afford to leach
manure before applying il.
All methods are not suited 10 your farm.
Do not decry those not adopted to your
soil or location.
Make some new experiment every sea-
son. 1t gives zess to the work and adds
to our knowledge.
THE SENTINEL is trying 20 serve its farm
readers Will they not ask their neigh
bors to subscribed
Push the spring pigs. Bran and ground
grain in slop and clover pasture are the
| open secrets of some breeders success.
Why not have good fruit garden? 1t
| is not too late to set out strawberry plants.
| Give them rich, clean coil and good cult
walton until July or August. Then let the
runners make new plants in the row.
ii you intend to spray your orchard do
so in time. About four applications of
the diluted Bordeaux mixture for the
scab. At the second spraying. when sp-
pies are large as marbles, add one pound
London purple to 200 pounds of the mix
ture to kill the larve OF the codling moth.
Useful Recipes.
Tomatoes with Bread Crumbs-Scald
| the tomatoes 10 peel them put in stew
pan with good piece OF butter, some pep
! per and salt; add some bread crumbs al Il
stew half an hour.
| Boiled Asparagus on Toast-Cut off the
white hard ends of the sprouts and wash
| lightly. Then tie in bundles OF six each
and drop them into boiling water suffi-
| Gent to cover. Boil about twenty min
utes or until tender, then cut and remove
| the strings. Have some toast on a platter
and carefully place them on the toast
lengthwiss. Milk gravy may be used as
dressing.
Veal Steak-Six pounds knuckle OF
veal, four quarts cold water, one table
spoon salt, six peppercorns, celery root or
one-half teaspoon celery seed, one onion.
Wipe the veal, cut the meat fine and break
the bones. Put it into the kettle with the
cold water. Skim as 1t boils, and when
clear add the seasoning. Simmer until
the bones are clean and the liquor reduced
one-half. Strain, and when cool remove
the fat. Use it for white or delicate soups.
Puff Paste-To each pound of flour al
low q pound of butter, use half OF the but
ter with the -four and cold water enough
TO mix it; roll it out quite thin and put on
hall the butter that remains IN small bits
dredge this with flour, roll up the paste,
then roll it out again, thin, put on the rest
of the butter and roll up as before repeat
this until tho butter is all used. 1t must
be done quickly; be careful not 10 handle
II any more than you can help. Put IN q
cool place until you are ready to use it.
Chocolate Loaf Cake-Grate one-half 6
cake of Bakers chocolate and mix il with
one-half cup of milk aud the yolk of one
egg. Put it on the back part of the stove
to dissolve and heat through. Wher
thoroughly warmed, set it off to cool Will,
preparing the cake. Take two eggs, the
yolk OF one having been used. two cups o.
sugar, one cup OF butter. one teaspoonful
of soda, dissolve in a little water. AID,
the chocolate and -four enough TO make
thin batter that will pour smooth. Bak,
carefully.
Home Made Whiiewash-Slake half 6
bushel of unslaked lime with boilinl
water, keeping it covered during the pro
cess. Strain it and add peck Of salt dis
solved in warm water, hree pounds o
, ground rice; put in boiling water and boi
. TO thin paste; hsif pound OF powdered
Spanish whiting and pound OF clear glu
. dissolved in warm water. Mix these vel
together and let the mixture stand TO
J several days. Keep the wash thus pre-
/ pared in a kettle or portable furnace, an
[ when using put it on as hot as possibl
with painters or whitewash brush.
: Chocolate Pudding Line a puddin
dish with pieces of leftover cottage pud
: ding, then fill with the following mixture
, One quart of milk scalded. Mix thre
tablespoonfuls of corn starch dissolved i
I cold milk, five tablespoonfuls of suga
, and piece of butter the size of a walnut
Add this TO the milk and cook until
} thickens. Remove and when cool ser
arate into two parts. Flavor one pal
3 with vanilla; to the other add one we
1 beaten egg and two tablespoons OF CRATE
s chocolate. Turn the white custard owe
= the cake, add the chocolate part. cove
| with a meringue and brown in the oveI
|. Tapioca Meringue-Four Tablespoonful
OF tapioca, soaked over night in cold wate
In the morning drain and add one qua
: OF milk. Bring slowly to the boiling pom
i then stir in the yolks of three eggs, beate
with two-thirds of a cup OF granulate
sugar. 1t is better to set the pudding o
n from the fire while adding the eggs and III
sugar. Return TO the stove ana cook, sti
y ,;or, core,anflv until N thicKana No