I I BIER RRS Ah FARM NOTES. FARMERS’ ¥owLs, — They should bave a warm house; it can be built of matched boards; the roof of the same, and shingled only when it begins to leak; a ground door; a window in the south side, not too large,and well barred; the roosts in one end; the nest box in a corner; two or three on the ground, with several above these, disposed Ir- regularly; covers may be arranged, so so that the her may creep in and out and be as secluded as she likes. In an- other corner place a vessel for milk and one for water; along the side a dust- box; straw the floor; throw the grain on the straw and let them scratch for it; feed all your grain screenings to your fowls, bloppy food is not good for them, especially in cold weather, In the morning feed screenings, scraps from the table, warmed skim milk (the very best egg food); fill the water vessel with water slightly warmed and the dust box with coal ashes. In afternoon give a feed of corn, an- other dish of milk and another supply of water, if necessary; gather the eggs; then, if the fowls are all in, shut them up for the night; allow them to run out every day, except in stormy weath- er,or when the snow.is too deep; but do not allow one to makea nest outside; in this way they will supply themselves with what you do not furnish them, On pleasant days, when they are all out, dugt the house thoroughly by throwing the coal ashes high upon the roosts and do other cleaning, if necessary. Keep few old fowls; market the old with the young in the fall, keeping the finest pullets;indeed you should have no fowls over two years old, The farmer need spend no more time or labor with his fowls than this. He will have eggs in winter and vigorous, healthy fowls in spring. SHORTHORNS FOR MILK OR BEEF, — The handsomest and most showy form for a Shorthorn cow includes a broad as well as deep chest, full crops, fore ribs so round as to leave no depres- sion behind the shoulders; a stright line along the back to end of the rump;wide between the huckle bones, and weil-de- veloped quarters. This is the best shape for making beef. For milk, the chest should be deeper and nut so broad, fore ribs rather flat and long, crops less full than for beef,and the quarters quite broad, so that in looking at ber in front “ a body will appear decidedly wedge- shaped, the larger end to the rear. But even thus formed, when dried off, a Shorthorn cow will fatten quickly and cheaply, and make a good carcass of a fine quality of beef. Occasionally one of beef shape—that Is, about as full in front as rear, and rather fat, proves a great milker of a highly excellent qual. ity like some Holstein-Friesians, Many of theses latter seem to have changed thelr pature in America, yielding rich- er milk generally than in Holland, and yet of a very abundant quantity, No doubt this change 18 owing to the dif- ference of climate and quality of food. The summers in Holland are cool and wet and in Northern America compara- tively hot and dry, with drier and more frosty winters, and the grass of our meadows is less rank and succulent. These have much influence in giving quantity and quality to milk and also iu the formation of flesh, Still the dif- and the animals should be chosen from such as excel in what it is most desired by the breeder to produce, A most excellent preventive of gall is to bathe the shoulders each evening with strong salt water, commencing six weeks before active spring work begins, and continuing the bathing during the summer. An English veterinary sor geon, who has tested the above for ten years, says: ‘In the stable I keep an old fruit can,into which Ithrow a small handful of salt and then add the neces. sary water, This is stirred until the salt is dissolved, and the solution is ap- plied to the shoulder with a cloth around the end of 2a corn cob. roughness of the cob holds the cioth well in place, Using this avoids get- ting the salt water on the hands—an agreeable precaution, especially if the skin on your hand 1s broken. When the horses are at work I wash their shoulders clean with clear water as soon as the Barness is removed in the even ing, ana then apply the salt water. It cools and eases the shoulders, and the horses like it.” THINNING OUT PLANTS. —One of the great and most frequent mistakes made by gardeners is to delay the thinning out of plants too long, lnstead of leav- ing this work until the plants have made a second or third pair of leaves, the thinning out should be done as soon as the plants are nicely up,and before the true roots of the plants are formed, If done early, the plants that are removed will not disturb the remaining oves, as t'e first root is perfectly smooth, while, if left until it is a mass of fibrous roots, it will disturb all the adjoining plants, 80 that growth is checked,and,in many instances, to such a degree that the plant never recovers its full vigor, This is particularly true with root crops; and “fingered” carrots and parsnips can be attributed to this more than any oth- er cause, TO GET RID OF SORREL.~If the land is plowed deeply and the sorrel turned under 80 that the roots are exposed to the frost, and salt is scattered over the ground at the rate of one peck to every two rods square, the sorrel will be com- pletely killed. No doubt more sorrel will appear trom the seed in the ground but if manure is put on and the land put in corn and kept well hoed the young plants will be easily killed, Sor- rel in lawns and paths may be killed out by scattering salt over it, The grass will not be infared unless the salt is used too freely. but plenty of salt will destroy grass in the pathways, a Whatever Tues euation, the best ways bring tl : best farm products always fod demand, peli giving irinking water, liberally HOUSEHOLD, CURRANT Sroxer,—Cover half a box of gelatine with half a cup of cold water, and soak for balf an hour; then pour over half a pint of bolling water, add half a pint of sugar and stir until it dissolves, Strain half a pint of cur- rant juice, and put on ice unt! thick and cold; then beat the whites of four 6grs. pul in the mixture, beat until smooth, turn into a fancy mould, and set on ice to harden, RASPBERRY TAPIOCA.—Wash a teacup of tapioca through several wat- ers, then cover with cold water and let soak all night, In the morning set on a close fire; pour over a pint of boiling water; simmer slowly until the tapioca is perfectly clear. Stir a quart of ripe raspberries 17 to the boiling taploca and sweeten, Take from the fire; pour ina deep dish; set on ice; when very cold, serve with sugar and cream, GOOSEBERRY FooD,~—Stem and top a quart of ripe gooseberries and stir them in one pint of water until they are crushed. Pour through a colander to remove the skins; add a teaspoonful of butter and a cup of sugar, and the yolks of four eggs well beaten, and pour in a glass bowl. Beat the whites of the eggs until frothy, and add two heaping teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar, and beat until it stands alone, Heap on top of the gooseberries, COTTAGE PUuppING.—One cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, two eggs, one cupful of sweet milk, three cupfuls of flour, or enough to make tolerably stiff batter; one-half teaspoon- ful of soda, one teaspoonful of eream of tartar sifted with the flour, one tea- spoonful of salt, Rub the butter and eggs together, beat in the yelks, then the milk and soda, the salt and the beaten whites, alternately with the flour, Bake in a buttered mold; turn out upon a dish; cut in slices and eat with liguld sauce. FiLrLers or FLOUNDER. — Take some flounder fillets; steep them in vinegar and water while you boll the bones and skin; strain these out and add to the liquor one ounce of flour «nd two tablespoonfuls of butter, with the beaten yolk of an egg;cook the fillet for ten minutes in boiling water; heat up the sauce thoroughiv, adding some chopped oysters, which need only be heated through; pourover the hot fillets and serve, PRESERVED APPLES, —Pareand core twelve large apples; cut each into eighths; make a sirup of one pound of sugar and one-half a pint of water, and boll; put in as much apple as can be cooked without breaking; remove them carefully when tender; after all are done add to the liquid one cup of sugar and boil ten minutes slowly; flavor with lemon and pour over the apples, or grate nutmeg on them instead, ——— GRAPEMARMALADE. — Amber Color —Separate the skins and pulp of the grapes and ¢. ok the pups until the seeds separate, strain it, and to four quarts of pulp add two quarts of sour apples; measured after cooking, the grated rind of three good lemons and nine pounds of sugar; let it get hot be- { fore the sugar is put in, and cook for half an bour after it begins to boil Beer Stew WiTH PEAS. —Take three pounds of beef, let it boil four hours in salted water, remove the sku carefully as it rises; when the meat is about half done add one onion, one sma’l carrot, one-half a turnip and two | large potatoes cut in smal pieces; coo {in liquor taken from the | them when done to the meat and vege- | tables, with a little parsiey and white {| pepper, Cut th- meat into small pieces j and serve it in the stew, ———. -> — {| In any good household, lard should i be rendered in the kitchen | best healthy pork. For small families | inn cities who can afford it, it would be { advisable to keep leaf-lard, In sutnmer | for a few days in the ice-box, In winter | in any cool place; and never more than a supply tor a few days should be laid in, Fresh leaf lard and beef suet can be cut up and rendered in a frylng-pan whenever wanted for preparing a meal, There is nothing more offensive than rancid fat used for cooking. Is sa. SPITCHCOCK CHICKEN. —Split the chicken down the back, and flatten it with a meat chopper. Put some but ter in the frylng-pan, with some chopp- ed parsley, onion, salt and pepper; brown these, then add the chicken. A quarter of an hour before it 1ndone take it out and grill it over a gentle fire, It may either be bread-crumbed or not, | and may be served with Tartare sauce, | or with fried bacon neatly rolled, IS, Who does not know how prosaic day- light seems when we first open our eyes upon it? How the dear, delicious ime possibilities of that looked 80 easy and attainable the might before regain their true aspect in the remorseless morning, And we feel that there Is nothing for us to do but to get up, put on the familiar Slots, and take up the familiar bur- ens, CABBAGE IN BATTER. Take a cold- boiled cabbage that is pretty firm. Cut it into small sq lay them in a pie dish, sprinkling them with pepper and salt and a dash of vicegar. Make a very light baking batter and pour it over the cabbage. Bake in a very quick oven. Eat while hot. i Is EPoNeE PUDDING. —One egy, one cupful of sugar, a small piece of butter, one half cupful of water, or sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and flour enough to mate a batter, Bake 10 a long tin pan in a quick oven. WAFFLES. 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