Willmar tribune., 1900-02-14
COOKING OF FOODS.


s=S COOKING OF FOODS. "
She said, the best definition that can
be given for farming is the science of
food production. But of what value
is it that the American farmer can
produce high grade wheat, if that
wheat reaches the table in the form of
heavy sour bread, or that the beef he
sends to the market is tender and
juicy if it is fried to the consistency
of sole leather, before being served.
Agriculture and cooking must go
hand in hand. The farmers wife
should at least be provided with Il
convenient kitchen and the necessary
Iots and pans. This will help much
towards better cooking.
Some general rules for cooking is
all that can be given here. but the
institute annual will give it in detail.
Potatoes and other vegetables
should be- put to cooking in boiling
water and cooked in an uncovered
kettle. Oatmeal should at least cook
six or eight hours. 80 as to make it
back part of the coal stove over
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to keep from scorching. Beans are
the working man and a. liberal use of
duce the amount of meat required.
dried on the farm and kept for winter
use. Prunes are excellent and should
be cooked without sugar. after being
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never be fried, as much of it's flavor
and jniciness ia lost. It is far better
to buy cheap, tough meat and prepare
it by long and slow cooking, as stews
and pot roasts. then the nonrishment
is retained. It is we'll for the house
keeper to remember the saying "the
human body is a sacred thing and it
is these three things that build it
dai]y.'
The preparation of pickles and
preserves. cakes and pies, take up too
much of the time and attention of the
average house keeper Good bread.
mealy potatoes, tender we'll favored
meats are of far greater Importance
and have more food value.
The HOME.
Mrs. Laws says the ideal home is
by and for at least three people. the
father. mother and child. The father
is not only a provider but should be
a companion as we'll. The mother
will be more than mere house keeper.
she will be a true home maker as we'll
and thus be enabled to deyelop in her
children "a sound mind in sound
body" But the house keeper is fire.
Quently anything but home maker.
In our anxiety to have neat and tidy
homes we must not forget that they
are places to live and enjoy life in.
housekeeping is the canvas on
which the home maker should paint
her great picture of life.
How TO MAKE THE FARM PAY
BETTER.
T. B. Terry, of Ohio. talks mostly
about maintaining and increasing the
fertility of the soil. He has worked
out for himself a system of manage
ment that gives this desired result.
He began thirty years ago on a farm
that was very much run down. 1t
then produced 6 to s bushels of wheat
per acre at the best and other crops
in proportion. He was in debt SO, 700
and had no money, just a little stock
and some tools. Within 13 years the
farm was made to produce an average
OF 80 bushels of wheat per acre, 200,
250 and one year 300 bushels of pota-
toes per acre, and four to FIVE tons of
clover hav in two cuttings. The farm
then received the first prize OF $50
from the State. This sounds like a
fairy tale, even now when we under
stand bringing up soil.
1t was by accident that Mr.. T. got
use of in bringing up his land. With
in a few years they have been proven
correct by science. He relates in de-
tail the way the different matters were
brought to his notice. Although the
farm is many miles from Minnesota,
these same principles that brought
success in Ohio will do so here, with
slight changes necessary to make
them suit the different conditions.
CLOVER.
Briefly, the first step in this line of
increasing soil fertility is growing
clover once in three to five years on
cultivated land in regular rotation.
1t takes humus, nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash to make land more
productive. The clover roots and
stubble and the manure from the hay
furnish vegetable matter to decay 10
the soil and make humus. The clover
can get nitrogen from the air to grow
itself. The air is four-ffths free nj
trogen. Corn, wheat, etc., cannot use
any of this; they are not built that
way. CloYer can use it however, to
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following feed on the decayipg clover
roots and the manure from the tops,
thus getting all the nitrogen they need
Glover IS itself a deep feeder. Its
roots go down deeply, and thus pot
ash in particular is brought up from
below and left in the soil by the decay
of the roots, etc. for following corn.
wheat aud similar crops. This clover
draws on air and subsoil largely for
it's sustenance and actually leaves the
surface soil richer for following
crops under proper management. He
has used the common red clover. 1t
was moved for hay one year and then
plowed for a crop. II left longer
some of the fertillzing effect would be
lost. Not only does the GLOVER increas
the fertility, but more hay is grown
ber acre than could be got from any
OF the grasses, by cutting the clover
twice in 4 season, and this hay is
worth much more per ton than timo-
thy to feed out. It is particularly
valuable for COWS giving milk, young
growing animals, sheep, etc. 1t is
excellent to feed with corn, far better
than timothy hay as it contains much
more blood and muscle forming snb-