Show = INDOORS = AND r OUT The FaIm Orchard Garden and Household I j NOTES AXD HINTS FOR ALL striking Horses Ck in Soup Stock House PlantsAgo of Hay Sick People and Food 1 v < > and the elements annually de Av many dollars worth of agricul I as < tr implements and machinery as tural i useEr A good proportion of u e doe the detraction is the result of carelessness careless-ness D potato balls use the follow To make Boil the potatoes and while warm mash them then mix butter xrm salt a little chopped parsley and tenner more raw eggs Ff desired and one or more raw eggs If e = ilt these together thoroughly then beat beaten and mold in halls dip in eggs then in flour and fry in butter should save what rule farmers nimiTkmseed AS i they > need and from the I nl1pkm There largest and heavies specimens is i great deal of difference in the quali I of Heed from the stores of pumpkins ty I from inferior specimens prvoften h i very I seed only produces specimens Some as a twoquart pail while about a large better eed on the same land quadruples I the size and value To make a homemade drop cake I One cofleecapful of granulated sugar I two teaspoonfuls of baking powder two of butter two ounces of lard ounces cofieecupful milk two one one egg of flour flavoring to taste cupsfuls and short Mix the sugar baking powder eningbutter and lard and flavoring ening well together lard d the eggs well beaten and the milk Thicken wit oven flour and drop on tins Have the oven brisk put in your cakes and bake Ten mintues should suffice House plants well cared tor are an ornament to every residence and give a cheerful look to the winter fireside To keep them well requires care and no class of plants repay care better The green color of foliage so much admired ad-mired by all is given to plants by Ammonia Am-monia This can be easily supplied by taking a little manure and soaking it in water and allow it to settle and when clear wet the soil very moderately with it Little and often is the best What shall we do with the coal ashes is i a problem with many Hade into an unsightly pile in the back yard they are disfiguring and a trial every time one looks that way I make them into garden walks Have the coal sifter taken out to a path and the cinders sifted sift-ed there each morning Xo one walks in a garden much in the winter and by spring you will have fine hard paths nell settled by frost and snow which are never muddy or grassgrown I As a substitute for raw meat for fowls I an exchange recommends that tallow be I melted until quite warm then stir cornmeal corn-meal into it until the whole is a thick mass When cold it may be broken into small pieces very readily and will be appreciated bv the hens We would suggest that onethird tallow and two thirds fresh blood from a slaughterhouse slaughter-house be heated in a small quantity of water and a mixture of one part fine i bran one part coarse bran and one part cornmeal be added until the mass will harden when cold The age of hay is important Some fancy hay cannot be too old This is erroneous for however good the hay j nay be age will lesson its nutritious qualities Fresh new hay is by no weans proper for horses in work but a little even of this as an alternative is by no means a bad thing Hay two years old is i quite old enough for any horse That cut in July is cured enough by September of the following year in I fact we would prefer it to that any older Two years after cutting hay sold s-old enough for any racehorse Every day after this it deteriorates in its nourishing nour-ishing qualities LV A Maine man of experience in sheep Beeping bays that the amount of food given in maintain one cow will give better returns if fed to ten sheep If I sheep can be profitably raised in Eng I land wnere landis worth 100 per acre < ertamly they must be more profitable in America where good sheep farms may be bought for 5 to 150 per acre It is thought that the sheep is a good one that when shipped to market will pay what It cost or if kept to increase will pay a profit A good Texas sheep weighs 100 pounds but one will be con Mdered good if weighing less it yet yields pounds of woolEr tIT e early pullets if the next winters nock are to lay early must be hatched between this time and the middle of March but the ealier the better We allude however to pullets of the large breeds such as Brahinas Cochins and Plymouth Rocks The reason of this is that pullets require age before they will begin to lay and the ovaries are not sufficiently develoned in the large breeds of pullets at the end of the year unless the pullets are hatched early This is the reason why we often witness the rapid growth of pullets without any re sult in eggs They must fully mature Besides we will state that eggs from earlyhatched pullets are the best for plamgunder the sitting hens or in incubators in-cubators Et Experiments have been made in an eastern Agricultural College to ascer tain what is the exact amount of daily rations desirable to feed to an ordinary nulch cow As applied to Utah condi tions and prices substituting ground eeoats and corn for cottonseed meal the following is the result Cents liar p 2tlbslopertois j 10 ° around feed oats and com G Ibs 75 Ban n lbs 7r 2000 per ton 30 Total 20 The changing of variety of food by j giving occasionally a feeding of squash I 1 and roots should not vary the expense ranch from the total cost of twenty cents per day per cow 1 It is not very many years since the average breeder of horses cattle or i sheep appeared to think that out crosses were in all cases the most de ferable but while the majority were owing zealously to this opinion a few breeders were laying the fouudations of Handsome fortunes by judiciously dis regarding popular prejudice in this natter The truth appears to be that f where desirable qualities either of con TJnation onstitution or constitution can best be Tef Jed by moderately close inbreed g the breeder should never hesitate tq I couple relatives and that when a valuable valu-able quantity has thus been obtained in the offspring line breeding or moderately mod-erately close inbreeding is the best way to fix it permanently in the family by ensuring extraordinary prepotency The breeder should keep in mind however how-ever that until he finds among the members of his herd the qualities he has been seeking he cannot hope to produce them by simply inbreeding lose crosses be it remembered will reproduce re-produce and permanently fix faults of conformity and constitution just as surely as they will fix and peepetuate desirable qualities Let the breeder first be sutp that he has in his herd all the qualities for which he is seeking in the highest form in which he knows them to exist and then the time has come for him to fix the type by careful inbreeding inbreed-ing Ex Sick people need but little to eat and that of the plainest and vet most r nourishing and easily digested kind that can be procurednot too often or too much oe too rich food If there no appetite nature indicates but little or no food should be given as that which is taken unless easily digested will not be assimilated and may hence do more harm than good and while some things may be digested and prove nourishing others may act as mere irritants often aggravating the disease or retarding recovery re-covery In general when patients are confined confin-ed to their room or bed the following are among the most easily digested nourishing and wholesome kinds of food Indianmeal or oatmeal or farania gruel which should be thoroughly thor-oughly cooked or milktoast and boiled rice for drink toastwater ricewater and drinks made of fruitjellies or any ripe or dried fruits and apples or other fruits baked or stewed except In diarrhea and dysentery As persons recover the diet may be more liberal and nourishing and yet they should avoid the danger of relapse from overeating over-eating Feeble persons need meatsoups beeftea fish and fowls variously prepared pre-pared and sometimes wine and others other-s Tiut always in moderation alrthere is more danger from eating or drinking too mucn than too little Lemonade may be allowed in fiver and rheumatism Coffee and green tea are medicinal cocoa and black tea may be permitted Coffee and green tea maybe may-be allowed to the sick where persons have bcome habituated to their use and suffer from their deprivation Of all soups the most common and susceptible to variations is one in which the stock is prepared of beef The trouble with the average American prepared pre-pared meat soup is that it is too greasy and thick German soups are often thick but seldom greasy Everything is liable to be run across in a Scandinavian Scandina-vian soup from a small sardine to a raisin or grain of allspice But the delicious French soups are always clear During cold weather the stock of beef l I soup can be kept on hand At any season sea-son it should always be prepared the day before using Have the bones well I cracked and extract the marrow which should be put in the soup To each pound of lean beef allow one quart of water Put the beef bones and waer I into a close kettle and set it where it will heat gradually Let it boil very slowly for six or seven hours Look at it once in a while to see if the water is sinking too rapidly Should this be the i case replenish it with boiling water taking care however not to add too much of it When it has boiled seven I hours set it away and let it stand clo ely e-ly 1 covered till the next day Almost an hour before it is wanted for dinner takeoff take-off the cake of fat which will be found on the surface of the stock remove the I meat which canbeused for mince meat I or in making a nice salad with cold i potatoes and onions Set the stock over I the fire and throw in a little salt to bring I up the scum When this has all been carefully removed put in such vegetables I as are desired If these are cut fine it is Julian soup If young cabbage quartered and boiled and young carrots and turnips are put in whole and dished up with the soup with the addition of toasted crusts it is the French family soup All vegetables can be used in soup according to the taste The vegetables vege-tables are better when cooked by themselves them-selves and added with their juices to the soup Tha seasoning too is a matter of taste Vermicelli or macaroni which has been boiled tender can be added if I desired Many horses are in the habit of striking strik-ing with one leg against another and much of ingenuity has been exercised I to provide a remedy for the troublesome trouble-some practice Both fore and hind legs I are subject to it the latter perhaps most frequently but in them it is confined con-fined to the fetlock joint whereas in the I fore legs the horse may hit either the fetlock the leg just above the pastern I or just under the knee where it is called I a speedy cut from its occuring chiefly I in fast action It is desirable before applying a I remedy to ascertain if possible the cause nd the part which strikes whethe jl I the shoe or the foot and if the latter what part of it Many horses strike i from weakness and cease to do so when 1 they gain strength and condition This is more particularly the case with young horses others cut from a faulty conformation 1 con-formation of the limbs which are some timestoo close to each other again the i toe is turned too much ont or in When I turned in the strike is usually just under un-der the knee The object to be kept in view in shoeing I shoe-ing such horses must be to remedy the faulty action and to remove if possible I the part which strikes which is generally gener-ally that portion of the foot between the two and the inside quarter itself but I very rarely the heels of the shoe If the I horse turns his toes in in all probability I he wears the inside of the shoe most if so it should be mademnch thicker than I the outside if the contrary the out i sice heel should be the thicker The I shoe should be leveled off on the inside i II quarter which should also be free from nails i In the hind legs we often find a three I quarter shoe will prevent striking I when other plans fail for here the strik I1 I i ing part is not so far forward as in the fore legs so that the removal of the iron I I i altogether from the inside quarter will often accomplish the aim It sometimes happens thatno plan will prevent inter ferins and then the only resource is the boot or the pad Michigan Farmer |