The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

When the potatoes are done, pinch each
firmly between the thumb and finger. roll
ing 1t about as you pinch to make the inside
mealy. Then break 1t open. You will be
able to scrape every bit of the contents
clear from the skin, and We all know the
best part of the potato lies next to the skin.
" MASHED POTATOES: Should be
beaten light with hot milk and to each pint
of the potato add a saltspoonful of baking
powder. You may whip the mass to a
fluffy cream by following these directions,
and the taste will be greatly improved.
ITO POACH EGGS: We heat the pan
slightly and butter it on the bottom and
sides before pouring in the hot water. The
eggs will not adhere to the pan If this pre-
caution be taken. When they are just
set we clap a cover over the pan and
finish cooking them. They will take on
fine glaze while covered.
JANNETrA M"
Your Items " deserve bigger name.
Each Is good, and we thank you for the
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4 Chicken Flea Remedy.
Will you kindly tell me how to get rid
of chicken fieas? We have removed to
new home, and the chicken house and yard
are fairly alive with the pests. L. NJ. R."
although too voluminous for publication
entire, supplies US with an answer to your
query. The author underwent unspeaka BILE
tortures from the incursions of tiny para
sites Identify with your " fieas." I pass
on to what she finally discovered to be an
effectual remedy for the intolerable plague:
Take washday as the most convenient
time for handling the henhouse. When the
wash water in a tub has been used for the
legitimate purpose of cleansing the clothes,
instead of throwing it away put about a
teacupful of coal oil into the tub and a
large kitchen spoonful Of lard or dripping.
first melting it in hot water or on the
stove. Stir these up with the suds in the
tub and saturate the henhouse floor thor
oughEy with it. Do this with every tub,
distributing the contents as evenly and i'm
partially over the floor as you can, so that
all parts will be well covered. Then. with a
large dipper. throw this mixture all over the
sides of the house and under the roosts.
ITO treat the roosts wash them with a
rag dipped in a stronger mixture of the
same materials, scrubbing the roosting
poles thoroughly and leaving no crack or
crevice unvisited. If this operation be re.
peated every three weeks during the spring
and summer, throwing the plain wash
water into the henhouse every week one
may set hens all summer and hardly see
mite or by whatever other name the
wretches may be called. The first appiica-
ton should be made early in February, and
the last may be made with the first killing
frost in November.
'' I set my hens all spring and summer,
while my neighbors fumigate and white
wash. and with discouraging results.
The most notifying part of the in
fiction was that the creatures would leave
the henhouse for our dwellings and make
life miserable for US the year around.
hope the story of their defeat and our pres
ent peace of body and mind may do some
good when told in the Corner.
Until a kind friend made me acquainted
with this homeIy remedy we had no relief.
although we tried innumerable insect de-
stroyers. MRS H. G. b.
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Berwick Sponge Cake.
saw the other day a request in the
Corner for a recipe for the far famed Rer.