The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-01-18

hives. which yield yearly 100000 pounds
0f honey. Greece has 10000 hives,
Denmark $1,000. the Netherlands. 24O,-
600, France 950, 900, Germany 1, 10000,
have 2,SO0.OOO, which produce 81 200. 900
pounds of honey annually. The largest
weight of honey taken in single season
from one hive was 1000 pounds, in Texas,
United States.--St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
ga Household Hints.
Grunge Koly- Poly-Make a light pastry
sheets and lay oranges, peeled, sliced and
seeded, thickly all over it. Sprinkle with
I white sugar; scatter over all teaspoon
tul or two of grated orange peel and roll
mp, folding the edges closely to keep the
syrup from running out; boil in a cloth
one and n half hours. Eat with lemon
sauce, prepared. as follows: Six eggs,
leaving out the Writes of two; half pound
OF butter, one pound of sugar, juice of
two lemons and rind of both grated.
Place over u slow fire till it thickens like
honey.
Reefstcak and Oysters-For steak of
from two to three pounds use a quart of
oysters from which all bits of shell have
been carefully removed. Broil the steak
without salting it, as quickly as possible,
Naclng 1t close to a very hot fire: as soon
Us It is brown season with salt and pep
yer, put it i'll a hot platter and put over
IL the oysters. Lay on the oysters about
two tablespOonfuls of butter cut in half
inch pieces, and put the dish into very
not oven until the oysters are done. which
wall be as soon as their edges begin to
Baked Mushrooms off the roots
and imperfect parts of a quart Of large
mushrooms, and wash them in plenty of
cold water containing teaspOOnful of
vinegar; cut as many slices of bread, free
from crust, as will cover the bottom of
fmetiium-sized baking pan. Lay the mush-
rooms on, the bread, sprinkle them with
pepper and salt. put a small piece of butter
on each one, and set the pan in hot oven
for fifteen minutes. Serve the mushrooms
| on toast, being careful that it does not
burn.
Hickory-nut Macaroons- onta and one
half cupfuls of hickory-nut meat pounded
tine add ground a,lspicc and nutmeg to
taste. Make frothing as for cakes. stir
and roll the mixture into balls about the
size of Il nutmeg. lay them on tins we'll
| butteretl: giving room to spread; bake in a
quick oven. Use washed butter for greas-
] ing the tins. as lard or salt butter gives an
unpleasant taste.
OF hive eggs as for icing, add one pound Of
powdered sugar while doing this until il
will stand alone, then beat in one cup of
grated cOcOanut. Shape into pyramids up
on a dish and serve.
Indian Cakes-put quart Of sour milk
or, buttermilk in large bowl add Il tea
spoonful Of salt. dissolve a teaspoon heap
ing full of plain baking soda in Il little
hot water and pour it in the milk. Add a
Tablespoonful of melted butter and one egg
we'll beaten then stir in two heaping table
sp0onfuls of wheat flour. After this stir
IN your Indian meal till you have a nice
thin batter. Let it stand half an hour
then try tablespoonful Of the batter or
your hot griddle. If not quite. thick
thin a batter. Once YOU do this, YOU spoil
the whole substance. These cakes arr,
good without an egg Just add a little
Sauce Bigarade-Boil the rind of half a
Seville orange for fifteen minutes i'll ont
gill of water. swepten with Il teaslnonfu
Of brown: sugar. having ready i'll another
Saucepan half a pint of good brown stock
chicken with three ounces of browr..Amx.
and into it strain the favored water, add
the strained juice of one Seville orange,
one desertspoOnful of lemon juice, three
quarter gill of claret, and dust with a
little cayenne, and stir over a moderate
fire until sufficiently hot.
! Notes.
Rye is much the hardest of the winter
grains. 1t can be sown very late. and twill
grow ucrop all right provided it has time
to terminate before it is frozen. 1t is
biennial, and if winter rye is sown in
spring it amounts to nothing. SO hardy
IS the plant that merely terminating in
! the fall it will pass through the winter
without damage. Some farmers used
| to say it was better sOwn pretty late.
as the plant had little or nc leaf to ex-
l hal ~. IL.
during the coolest weather.
When the hens lay soft-shell eggs you
may at once como to the conclusion that
/ they are too fat All the lime. ground
oyster shells, bone. or other FOOLS will
| be Of no avail. When the hens are fat
the reproductive organs are obstructed
and the shell can not be deposited around
the yOlk and albumen, nor will eggs from
fat hens, even if perfect, hatch well.
| Whenever softshell eggs are laid. the
poultryman must endeavor to avoid any
| thing that tends to increase fat, and
should endeavor to make them exercise
as much as possible.
For lice on cattle nothing is more ef-
! fective than kerosene emulsion and of the
strength usually employed i'll spraying
fruit trees and vines. 1t is made by dis
solving one-half pound of hard soap in a
gallon of boiling water and adding two
gallons Of Kerosene oil. Stir violently I'M
| til Il perfect emulsion is formed. Dilute
With nine to fifteen parts of warm water
and apply with a spray pump. 1t will
knock out all lice on the first application,
but will not kill the eggs. A second spray
ing should be given in two or three weeks
to kill any more which may have Matched
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The Coldwater (MichD Courier says
that Patrick Bishop has tried the expert
ment of feeding ground wheat to hogs
with the following results: On September
10 he drove seventeen head, old and
young on the scales. and they weighed
4 1870. He fed th'En forty bushels of
ground wheat, and paid & cents a 100 for
grinding. He weighed them again Octo-
Der 81, after feeding the forty bushels,
and they weighed $500 pounds. There
was a gain of 1850 pounds. which at Az
cents per pound, the price. now paid for
hogs, would amount to $4S.7S, or at the
! rate of $1.22 per bushel for the wheat