Show TIMELY HIN HINTS TS fro FROM trin THE I 1 U S DEPT OF 0 agriculture 4 very good ice cream can be made without stirring it if a fairly rich mixture Is used and the ingredients are carefully combined these desserts may be packed ln in ice and salt or frozen in a mechanical refrigerator heavy cream is the base but as it Is expensive and too rich to be palatable it should be diluted by the addition of evaporated milk and thin cream or by rich milli milk thickened with gelatin eggs or flour the U S department of agriculture has it a new leaflet giving recipes and directions ions A good goc d disinfectant used occasionally casio nally in the poultry house bouse not only destroys germs of contagious diseases but also many external parasites and some parasitic worm eggs one of the best disinfects dis infects for this purpose is cresol one halt half pint in 8 quarts of soft water A 6 per cent solution of carbolic acid also la is good when cows are sit off pasture and are being given dry teed feed it Is well to consider the problems connected with summer feeding it is advisable to start planning now the system to follow next summer it if plenty of good pasture is not available plans should be made to improve it and also to provide other succulent feeds to tak take e its place or to supplement it foot oil or castor oil or a mixture ot of them with wool grease makes a good dressing tor for driving harness for heavy harness a satisfactory mixture Is tallow and cod oil or toot foot oil and tallow tal ow or any or all ot of theina them with wool grease jabed to a paste about the aou alstoney ot of butter apply the grease lightly to driving harness and liberally to work harness harness the leather should be washed first arso using lukewarm water and a neutral soap and the warm grease then into the leather while it Is still damp one owl fowl may cause the disease to spread through the whole flock it control measures are not applied avain tuberculosis which is particularly prevalent in the north central states can be detected by a postmortem post mortem or by the tuberculin test given by a veterinarian all diseased birds should be killed and burned the remainder of 0 fowls over one year old should be marketed the chicken house should be cleaned and dis infected and also moved to clean ground it if practicable lots and runways should be plowed up and seeded to a grain crop |