Show bijou house and farm WILL S SA L E F kavc aur M nr seed wheat tyl icat perfectly clean cleat an all hour bour spent HI in making aking in seul ul hii will save a day jay or oi a week in ill tin future in eradicating weeds LIBERTY CAKE one cup butter two cups su sug gar ir one cup mill milk one and one half balf pints of hour flour three eggs salt and spices three teaspoonfuls spoon spoonfuls fuli yeast powder CLEANING KNIVES s vinegar and fruit sta stains ins upon k knives kraves raves can be taken off by rubbing rubbing tho the blades with raw potato tato and then polishing ing on the kp knife nab board bord in t the it usual manner TEA BISCUIT one pint of sour milk or buttermilk one teaspoonful of soda di solved in a very y ery little hot water two melted butter hour flour enough to make a soft dough but stiff enough to handle mix mix roll and cut up rapidly with as little hand handling ling a as possible bako bake in a quick oven A LONGER TIME poor soils yield their best results in seasons of slow but continued growth the crop having a longer time to collect the scanty supply of food which the soil oil contains in hot seasons eca sons with an early harvest only soils well supplied food fiod will produce full crops VALUABLE ArILE wheat is more valuable cut at a stage which would be commonly considered a little early than when left to become overripe over ripe the cellulose or woody fiber rapidly increases antho in the day of over ripening giving moro more bran and less flour thus taus materially reducing the milling value of the wheat PUFF PASTE WITH MILK mix with a spoon three fourths of a pound of butter with a pound of flour then add milk enough to moisten the whole so as to roll casil easily do not mold it with the bands hank at all or as it little as 23 possible and the crust will be found fourd much nicer nicer made this way than by the old method requiring more mote labor COOKED FOOD fon HOGS the scientific american thirty five years car ago said boil say fifty gallons ons of water put into a tub and when the water gets still pour in in as gently as possible twenty pounds finely ground meal cover well with a blancet blanket and let it stand over night and you have seventy pounds of good mush which will feed six hogs one day about as much as they ought to eat you will L save a ve one third in grain and one fourth in time to fatten anim USE OF OATS IN IX STARTING SLIPS A successful boston florist gives the following as his method of starting slips of rare and tender plants ants underneath the usual I layer yer of sand in which the slips are planted and covering the bottom of the pot or box he lie places a layer of oats which when soaked with moisture exude a mucilaginous substance acting as a stimulant and feeder to the tender roots of the alip B by this method he sel seldom d om fails to root his slips REMEDY FOR MILDEW dr james blake says he lie has found a solution of bluestone a tablespoonful to a bucket of water makes a wash that will destroy mildew upon rosebushes rose bushes and other plants without injuring them in the slightest he ile has bas used the bluestone wash to destroy the smut fungus on wheat with abundant a bun dint success it was this fact that led him to uso use the same substance for his rosebushes rose bushes and tho the result has been that they have been almost entirely free from mildew and have blossomed pro profusely fusel while before trying this remedy hardly a bud arrived at perfection tuu CANADA THISTLE that continued and persistent cutting will conquer the canada thistle and that even worse weeds tho the horse nettle solanum carolin ense we have positive knowledge but no halfway half way work will Vr prevail evail it has been frequently advised for canada thistle to cut just below the surface r of the ground and apply salt to the cut root perhaps salt is of service in killing a portion of the root but it is only practicable on a small scale where the weed abounds and it has been decided that it shall hall be eradicated the reliance must be upon up on cutting which must be done often and continuously even if the work leads one into the next year and the next |