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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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bakers' yeast, ami milk sufficient to form a stifT bat- 

 ter. If for breakfast, set over night ; for lunch, early 

 in the morning. 



MiNiK Pies WiTnorx Meat. — One cupful sugar, 

 one cui>rul molasses, one cupful water, one and one- 

 half pounds raisins (chopped), one-half cupful weak 

 vinegar, one-half cupful huttcr, a little salt, three 

 eggs, three pounded crackers, spices tosuit the taste. 

 This will make six small pies. 



LtiNf'ii CIake. — One large tablespoonful butter or 

 .lard melted in one cupful hot water, two cupfuls mo- 

 lasses, one (luart flour, stir two teaspoonsfulfi baking 

 powder into the molasses ; line tin with buttered 

 paper and bake. 



New Enih.and Sponoe Cake. — Eight eggs, their 

 weight in Mlgar, half their weight in Hour, a lemon 

 rind grated, and add juice ; beat the white separately 

 and add last : line the pan with buttered pajier, and 

 bake in a pretty quick oven three-quarters of an 

 hour. 



Runaway Cake. — One-half cup of sugar, one cup 

 of milk, two eggs, one spoonful of butter, one tea- 

 spoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar. Hour to 

 make a stitl' batter. This is a good tea-cake, plain 

 or with berries stirred in for the summer season or 

 with currants for winter. Being plain, it is only 

 good when freshly baked. 



IIiCKORV-NuT Cake. — One pound of sugar, one- 

 lialf pound of butter, four eggs, one cud of milk, 

 one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar, 

 the meats of two quarts of hickory nuts, flour to 

 make as stitf as pound cake. Cocoa-nut cake is made 

 in the same way, allowing one large or two small 

 nuts to this amount of butter. 



Dandy PinmNr..— One quart of milk, two large 

 spoonfuls of flour, the yolks of lour eggs well-beaten 

 and mixed with milk ; beat the whites of the eggs 

 separately, mix with four teaspoonfuls of sugar and 

 drop on the top and bake. 



Potato Pie. — Boil or wash common or sweet 

 potatoes and strain through a fine sieve, to each pint 

 add one and a half pints of milk, a little melted but- 

 ter, two eggs, salt, nutmeg to the taste ; bake in one 

 cruet, like custard pie. 



In England the women always purchase the gro- 

 ceries and provisions for the family ; if a man should 

 attempt such a thing some housewife would pin a 

 dish-cloth to his coat-tall. 



Molasses Cookies. — One cup molasses, one-h.alf 

 cup sugar, one-half cup melted butter, one-half cup 

 hot water, one and one-half teaspoonfuls soda, one 

 teaspoonful ginger. Mix soft and bake in a hot oven. 

 White Cake. — The whites oT three eggs, one- 

 half cup butter, one cup sugar, two cups flour, one- 

 half cup milk, three teaspoonsful baking powder. 

 Mix butter and sugar with the hand to make a fine- 

 grained cake. This is a delicious thing if a thin 

 frosting is made, using orange extract as a flavor. 



A lady correspondent writes to the Wente^'n Rural 

 of what an "English woman of rank" discovered 

 while journe\!ng among the mountains of Switezer- 

 land, in the way of a sleeping jiroteetion against 

 cold. This was a quilt made of hay. "It is nothing 

 but a large square cotton bag with a few handsful 

 of hay shaken in it. It is as warm as three blankets," 

 etc. Well, this is cheap enough and handy enough 

 to afford warmth to every hitherto shivering sleeper. 

 Hot Cross Buns. — To one quart flour add one 

 teaspoonful salt, two tablcspoonfuls powdered sugar, 

 one tablespoonful baking powder, and sift altogetlier ; 

 rub through the flour two tablcspoonfuls of butter; 

 moisten with milk into a very soft dough. Koll out 

 in a sheet a little less than half an inch thick ; cut 

 in small square buns ; in the center of each cut a 

 deep cross. Bake in a quick oven, and while hot 

 wash over the top with milk, using a paste brush. 



Water-Proof Blacking. — The following recipe 

 for making a water-proof blacking comes to us highly 

 recommended : Dissolve one ounce of borax in water, 

 and in this dissolve gum shellac, until it is the con- 

 sistency of thin paste; add lampblack to color. This 

 makes a cheap and excellent blacking for boots, 

 giving them the polish of new leather. The shellac 

 makes the boots or shoes almost entirely water-proof. 

 Camphor dissolved in alcohol, added to the blacking, 

 makes the leather more pliable, and keejis it from 

 cracking. This is sold at fifty cents for a small bottle. 

 By making it yourself, one dollar will buy materials 

 for a gallon. 



Apple Johnny Cake. — Scald one quart of fine or 

 medium cornmcal with one quart of boiling water, 

 and add one pint of sweet apples, pared, corctl and 

 chopped. Mix evenly, spread one inch thick on a 

 tin, and bake forty minutes in a quick oven, or until 

 the apples ire tender. Serve warm. 



Insects.— The tax we pay to insects is greater 

 than that we annually pay for schools, for roads, and 

 for management of government affairs. Insects in 

 all parts of the world are becoming more than ever a 

 terror to the husbandman. The Western farmers, 

 with their experiences of grasslioppers and potato 

 bugs, can sympathize very acutely with the wine- 

 growers of the Gironde. Great as are the achieve- 

 ments of science in Europe and America, its claims to 

 boasting are made almost ridiculous by the impudent 

 aggressions of these little insects. 



LIVE STOCK. 



POULTRY. 



Controlling Horn Growth. 



A correspondent of the Cuunlry (Iviitlcman^ upon 

 the subject of controlling horn growth, says : Some 

 thirty years ago when a boy on my father's farm, I 

 had a pair of calves given to me of which I was very 

 proud, as all boys usually are of their steers. When 

 they were two years old, a horn on one of them 

 became badly loppeil, causeil by an injury. As they 

 were perfect while younger, 1 was very anxious to 

 straighten it, as they were twins and very tine, and 

 my method was, and is, as follows : Scrape, or shave 

 the horn on the same side you wish to turn it, nearly 

 or quite to tlic quick. I remember in that instance I 

 started the blood. Repeat the operation some t\\()f)r 

 three times if necessary, to be govcrncil by the 

 severity of the case, and scrape the horn on the 

 opposite side just enough to give it a healthy growth. 

 The philosophy of it is that by weakcniiii: the side in 

 the direction you wish to move the born, and by 

 facilitatine growth on the opiKisitc side, the result, 

 from natural causes, will be sure — that the strong 

 will overcome the weak. The born in question was 

 raised a little higher than the original, but not 

 enough to be noticeable. I believe this mode of 

 operating to be correct, and the remedy infullihle, as 

 I have had occasion to see demonstrated many times 



since. 



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Good Stock. 

 Experience has taught me never to raise a calf, no 

 matter how good the dame, unless sired by a 

 thoroughbred. Here is the whole secret of successful 

 breeding in a nutshell. A calf sired by a hull of good 

 milking stock, but no particular blood, whose pedi- 

 gree cannot be traced to sires who have transmitted 

 their good qualities through several generations, may 

 and often does make a good cow ; but if sired by a 

 thoroughbred bull of good milking stock, the 

 chances of failure are reduced to a very low rate, and 

 can only be further reduced by using a thorougbhred 

 cow of the same stock. Thoroughbred stock seldom, 

 if ever, fail to perpetuate their own qualities, and 

 common stock often do it ; but in the latter case it is 

 only chance work, and yet we know there are those 

 who still continue to rjiise calves of common stock, 

 when at an increased expense of less than live dollars 

 per animal they might have had good milking ances- 

 tors on at least one side. The dairyman who expects 

 to build up a first-class dairy by raising the cows can 

 hardly make a better investment than in a male 

 from a noted milking stock ; the expense, when it is 

 divided among the product, makes a very small 

 amount to each one, but the aggregate result is large. 

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Give Us a Breed of Walking Horses. 



What use are fast horses to farmers ? Can they 

 put them to work in the plow, harrow, cultivator, 

 roller, reaping-machine, cart or wacon ? No. A 

 storm might arise and the whole crop of hay be ruined, 

 if they had to depend on 2:40 horses to liaul it in. 

 There is but one use that we can see that a farmer 

 might put them to — sendng for a doctor; but as 

 farmers have very little occasion for this professional 

 gentleman, and never get very sick, a slower and 

 surer horse will answer better. Why then parade 

 these horses at the head of the lists at agricultural 

 fairs, and give them the biggest premiums '. No 

 wonder our practical farmers complain of this, while 

 there is no premium at all for ii'idldii;/ horses, which 

 area thousand times more useful— we mean to the 

 farmer and for general agricultural and industrial 

 purposes. Thoroughbred horses have their uses, 

 and we do not desire to utter a word ag.ainst them, 

 but many good words in their favor. They, how- 

 ever, must fill their own places and work-horses 

 theirs ; and neither should be advocated to the ex- 

 clusion of the other. Both should be recognized 

 according to their value. 



A Horse's Petition to His Master. 



Going up hill, whip me not. 



Going down hill, hurry me not. 



On level road, spare me not. 



Loose in stable, forget me not. 



Of hay and corn, rob me not. 



Of clean water, stint me not. 



Of soft dry bed, deprive me not. 



Tired or hot, wash me not. 



If sick or cold, chill me not. 



With sponge and brush, neglect me not. 



Wilh bit and rein. Oh ! jerk me not. 



And when you are angry, sl>-ik-< me not. 



The Vermont Wool Growers' Association has pur- 

 chased from the flocks of Messrs. 8. G. Ilolyoke and 

 Sanford, and Edward Bringham of St. Albans, two 

 fine specimens of Vermont sheep, to ha presented to 

 the Wool Growers' Association, at New .South Wales, 

 through their representatives then attendant at the 

 Centennial. 



Colin Cameron, manager of the Elizabeth 

 Stock Farms, owned by G. Dawson Coleman, Bricker- 

 ville, Lancaster county, Pa., shipped, on Wednesd.ay, 

 February Gth, to J. B. Binerham, Millersburg, Ohio, 

 a young" heifer and her calf; also a young heifer, 

 about six months old, of the celebrated Jersey stock. 



In-Breeding of Poultry, 

 Breeders are prone to advance ultra viewi on the 

 subject of in-breeding of poultry, based on mere 

 prcjutliee or constrained opinion oi' the term. All of 

 our strains of purebred poultry, wilh but few ex- 

 ceptions, liave been produced by a systematic course 

 of in-breeding judiciously carried out. Bakewcll,of 

 Leicester shee[> fame, Intensified and improved his 

 sheep by an intelligent iti-breeding of su<'h animals 

 as possessed, in an eminent degree, the iiualities he 

 wished to Intensify and perpetuate. In liorse i)reed- 

 ing this Is carried on by old breeders, with most ex- 

 cellent results. 



Knowing the above, it behooves us to know just 

 when to bring the dividing lines together so as to 

 combine those qualities in the ollspring from the ani- 

 mals or birds coupled which we desire to secure a 

 permanency lor. 'iVe hold to the opinion that with 

 I'owIk more care is necessary to prevent the intensifi- 

 cation of bad qualilles in adoptinir any system of in- 

 breeding than with most of the animals which require 

 more than a yi'ar to give them age enough to properly 

 bear ofl'spring. We Ijelicve that an infusion of new 

 blood to be a good thing to do every second year — 

 pcrhti/m every year — though we would advise fanciers 

 to select male birds from the Kuine xlrain, so as to 

 tnake breeding for particular points far more certain 

 than it would be if a male bird was selected from 

 anv, or no particular strain, nicrely because he was 

 line individually. — American Poultry Jiccord. 



Fowl Feeding in Cold Weather. 



At this season of the year, when your fowls are 

 mostly eonfiuM within their houses^-or when, at the 

 liest, ihey are not able to obtain ninch nourishment 

 upon the open ijround, if at litierty — it must be borne 

 in mind that they need an extra quantity of ordinary 

 food, to keep them in good heart. And if the quality 

 he improved as well, during the sharp cold weather, 

 it will be better still. 



We counsel the distributing of good, sound grain 

 and corn, at all times, to domestic poultry, as the 

 best method of feeding. But if, at any season, they 

 need this sort of provision, it is in the keenly cold 

 weather of January and February, when it counts 

 most towards their welfare and thrift. 



Let your adult fowls and the growing stock both 

 be supplied then at this season wilh all they will eat 

 up clean, twice a day — that is, at noon and evening — 

 of whole wheat, cracked corn, and oats or barley. A 

 little buckwheat, and a little admixture of sunflower 

 seeds, are excellent also. The first meal (in the 

 morning) should be fed warm, of scalded cornmcal 

 mixed wiih boiled vegetables. This, with the grain 

 at noon and at niglit, and an occasional feed of 

 ground scraps and green stidf, as cabbages cut up, 

 or onions and turnips cliopped fine, will, as a rule, 

 keep your birds in first-rate condition, continuously. 

 — American Poultry Yard. 



How to Manage, 



The Butter, Cheese and Kg</ lieporter tells of a Mr. 

 Benton who keeps eleven ditrcrcnt kinds of fowls, 

 ami is very successful in their management. Mr, 

 Benton found weaic lye and wood ashes an cfTectual 

 remedy lor the canker. The doctors recommend 

 chlorate ol' potash. Ashes are also excellent for the 

 hens to wallow in, and he keeps a box in each coop 

 for that purpose. This ctlectually keeps off lice. 

 The flour of sulphur sprinkled in the nest of setting 

 hens is excellent. Mr. Benton's principal feed is 

 Indian corn, which is kept constantly in reach of his 

 hens by means of boxes in tlie partitions, one serving 

 for two coojis. Water in a dish set under a nail keg, 

 with a liole cut in the side, serves for watering. The 

 nests are in a long box along the ends of the coops; 

 the hens enter through holes, and are then in com- 

 parative darkness. Lids on the outside give access 

 to the nests. -Mr. Benton thinks Indian corn the best 

 grain for hens, because of its heating nature. In 

 addition, he feeds scraps from the table, butcher's 

 refuse, and green stuff. Corn and fat will at once 

 set hcus to laying. 



Sore Eyes in Poultry. 



If the soreness is not occasioned by the careless or 

 excessive use of sulphur upon the hen and chicks, to 

 destroy lice, (which is a common mistake made by 

 those who do not use powdered sulphur judiciously,) 

 then the disease proceeds from colds or roupy affec- 

 tions. 



We should recommend the free use of the German 

 Roup Pills for their ailment, which has been very 

 prevalent in some quarters. And in severe cases a 

 wash, composed of one part each of glycerine, olive 

 oil and alcohol, thoroughly mixed before applying, 

 will soften, heal and remove the inflamed soreness In 

 a few days. 



I'revention of the recurrence of this trouble in the 

 poultry yaril may be most beneficial ; and the Ger- 

 man lioiip Pills will be found an excellent thing to 

 give the chickens (according to directions accom- 

 panying each box), for the avoidance of this malady. 

 If chicks cannot see to cat they quickly fall away 

 and iie.—rouUry World. 



