Year: 1877

Houseke eping Hints.


STEAMED INDIAN MEAL BREAD.-One
quart of Indian meal (yellow,) one pint
of flour, two-thirds teacupful molasses,
one tablespoonful soda, salt, and sour
milk to make thick batter not too stiff ;
put it in a pan as for bread and steam it
three hours, then bake one-half hour.


GRAHAM BREAD.-Take two cupfuls of
sour or buttermilk, and one of sweet
milk two cupfuls of Graham and one of
white -four, half q teaspoonful of salt,
and one of soda mix the soda and the
salt with the -four, and then add the
milk, making all into dough bake from
one to two hours.


PoTATo SALAD.-Boil about quart OF
small potatoes peel them !; cut up one
quarter pound of clear smoked pork into
very small slices fry them brown then
pour two tablespoonfuls sweet oil, half a
goblet full right sour vinegar and COB
let full water into the pan, and heat this
all together put into a bowl, cut up a
small onion and throw in a handful of
salt cut the potatoes in very thin slices;
have the salad ready half an hour before
| you wish to use it.


SARATOGA PoTAToEs, MooN's STYLE
Raw Peachblows or Early Rose, slice
them very thin put the slices in ice
water over night, drain off the water,
and lay them evenly between linen cloths,
press until they are dry have the kettle
of boiling clarified lard ready for use !;
drop in the potatoes, few at time,
and with a skinner takethe out before
they are Drowned. They will be crisp,
and are equally good whether cold or
warm, and will keep for long time.


APPLE PoRK.-Have the bone taken
from leg of pork, and the skin scored
in diamonds fill up the place which the
bone has left with Juicy apples, pared,
cored and cut small q little brown
sugar, and some grated rind of lemon !;
place in large baking pan, and around
it whole apples, pared and cored, with
brown sugar sprinkled over them, and
the grated rind ana Juice OF lemon.
Bake three hours, or according to the
size of the Joint; put about half tea
cupful of water in the pan.


Couch or Witchgrass.


As the subject of couch, or in some
localities called witch or quack grass,
has been of late considerably, discussed,
and various ways recommended for its
eradication which seems unnecessarily
expensive and in most cases Intellectual,
l will describe my method, which re-
auires little or no extra labor, no loss OF
cropping the land for year, and will in
one year completely kill every root OF it.
I will assume that a piece of grass
land is entirely filed with it, having
crowded out all other grasses, end the
surface of the land mass of roots
which will be found TO grow not more
than three or four inches deep, and
which when dead will afford great deal
of plant nutriment for future crops.


The land should be plowed eight
inches deep after haying, in the dryest
part of July or August-furrows laid as
fiat as possible, which will bury the
roots at least four inches deep-then har-
row with Randall's harrow, which is the
best; it being dry weather and, the roots
buried so deep it will be several weeks
before any appearance OF life will be
seen, but when any does appear IN Sep
tember or October, harrow again. In
the spring, manure on the surface and
harrow it in or use horse cultivator,
but the land must not be plowed, as the
object is to keep the roots buried as deep
as possible; then at the proper time
plant either squashes, cabbages, fodder
corn sowed thick in rows near together,
OF any crop that will completely cover
and shade the ground in short time,
with the ordinary cultivation will cure
the evil in one year.


The potato crop will not do it; the
roots will pierce the.potatces through and
through, and the more the grass roots
are cut up by hceing, the more they IN
crease, and so with any crop or cultiva-
ton that does not completely shade the
ground; and TO smother it in that way Is
sure success.


1 10 not consider it any serious objec-
ticn to cultivation. - Ndssachusetts
Plo'ghn,an.


Disbuddinx Fruit Trees.


The season for disbudding fruit trees
is at hand. The Importance Of the oper-
alton is generally acknowledged, and
upon it's proper performance depends
the production of clean, healthy wood
and the best of fruit. Take, for instance,
single branch of the peach tree when it
first starts in the spring; if in healthy,
fruit bearing condition it will throw ont
many shoots and great number OF bios
SONS, and if the whole of these were left
it is probable two or three of the leading
shoots would draw all the nourishment
to themselves and become rank and over
luxuriant, whilst the remainder would
be weak and worthless. In ike manner
the fruit would be small, ill-favored and
a great portion abortive. Hence, the
pruning called disbudding, by which we
mean the removal of every shoot that is
not required, and the stopping of new
shoots that apparently are not wanted to
give form and health to the tree, by rub
bing ont buds which, if left, would grow.
The same should be done with the fruit
blossoms; so many of them should be
rubbed away as to leave the remaining
ones to gather full food and form good
fruit. All varieties of fruit trees require
annually this system of pruning, and the
time to do it is when they are in full
bloom.


Prevention Of Gapes I'm Chickens.


Gapes is caused by the. presence OF
parasitic worm in the breathing tubes OF
the chickens. When they have gained a
lodgment it is difficult or impossible to
displace them. The only cure is pre-