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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[September, 1881. 



CuSTABD Souffle.— T'vo scant tablespoonfuls of 

 butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour, two tablespoon- 

 fuls of sugar, one cupful of milk, four eggs. Let 

 the milk come to a boil. Beat the flour and butter 

 together; add to them, gradually, the boiling milk, 

 and cook eight minutes, stirring often. Beat the 

 sugar and the yolks of the eggs together. Add to 

 the cooked mixture and set away to cool. When 

 cool, beat the whites of the eggs to a stifl' froth, and 

 add to the mixture. B.ake in a buttered pudding 

 dish for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve 

 Immediately with creamy sauce. 



Hominy Griddle Cakes.— To one pint of warm 

 boiled hominy add a pint of milk or water, and flower 

 enough to make a thin batter ; beat up two or three 

 eggs and stir them into the batter with a little salt. 

 Fry as any other griddig cakes. 



Breaded Eggs. — Boil hard and cut In round, 

 thick slices ; pepper and salt and dip each in a beaten 

 raw egg, then in tine bread crumbs or powdered 

 cracker crumbs and fry in butter, hissing hot. Drain 

 off every. drop of grease and serve hot. 



Gingerbread Loaf. — A pound of flonr, half 

 pound of treacle, three ounces of butter, two ounces 

 of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of cream and two eggs. 

 Melt the treacle and butter together. Line a tin 

 with paper, butter it ; pour in the mixture and bake 

 in a slow oven for one hour. 



Live Stock. 



Garget: Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure. 



Under the last head (Cure) Dr. Manly Miles writes 

 In the September nunilier of the American Agricul- 

 turist : If the first inilications of the appearance of 

 the disease are promptly attended to, the simplest 

 treatment will be suflicient in cases not showina; the 

 constitutional symptoms already mentioned. The 

 cow, from the first invasion of the disease, should be 

 milked several times each day, care being taken to 

 remove all the milk by continued stripping, and the 

 udder should be thoroughly bathed with warm water. 

 If, from the extreme tenderness of the gland, the 

 milk cannot be drawn by hand, a milking-tube 

 should be used. The fever if present, should be re- 

 lieved by a dose of Salts (1 lb. to V< lb.) and Tinc- 

 ture of Aconite, 20 to 30 drops, with Nitre (Saltpe- 

 tre), 6 drams, may be given with advantage two or 

 three times a day. Only dry feed , -with but little 

 water, should be given until the indamation subsides. 

 A broad bandage, supporting the swollen udder, 

 with holes for the teats to pass through, and fasten- 

 ed over the back, will relieve the strain from the in- 

 creased weight of the gland, and at the same time 

 furnish the means of applying a soothing poultice of 

 Hops, kept wet with warm water. Other materials 

 for the poultice may be used, but the hops are pre- 

 ferred for their lightness, and anodyne properties, 

 and they are not liable to irritate the inflamed sur- 

 face should they get dry. Extract of Belladona is 

 often applied to relieve the pain and tenderness, and 

 from its releaving effect on the orifice of the teal, it 

 favors the escape of the milk, which, if retained In 

 the udder, becomes a source of irritation. Friction 

 or the inflamed surface with the Belladona, before 

 the hop poultice is applied, will often be desirable. 

 Iodine ointment may be rubbed upon the hardened 

 lumps, to aid in their dispersion. If matter forms, 

 the knife should be used to give it a free discharge, 

 and if gangrene (mortiflcation) takes place, the 

 parts should be washed with a solution of Carbolic 

 Acid or Chloride of Zinc. Nourishing feed with 

 tonics should be given to keep up the strength of the 

 patient. The serious termination of the "disease is 

 not, however, likely to occur, if the treatment in the 

 early stages has been promptly and judiciously per- 

 formed. 



How to Feed Pigs and What to Feed Them. 



The National Live-Stock Journal says : The nice 

 point in growing pigs is to keep them growing. This 

 is easily accomplished for the first three or four 

 weeks by feeding the sow bountifully upon nour- 

 ishing slops ; but the time comes very early in 

 the life of the pig when it is impossible for the sow to 

 supply nutriment for a large litter as rapidly as they 

 are capable of assimilating the food, and if they have 

 not in the meantime been taught to eat for "them- 

 selves, there comes a period of retarded growth. I 

 usually prepare for this by providing a trough apart 

 from the sow, to which the pigs can have access, and 

 commence by giving them a little new sweet milk, 

 which they soon learn to drink greedily ; this is 

 gradually changed to skim milk, and then to sour 

 milk, butter-milk, or whey, with crumbs of bread, 

 scraps from the kitchen table, etc. As the pigs grow 

 older 1 feed corn meal cooked into a mush and mixed 

 with whey, skimmed milk, and other house slops, 

 and finally soaked corn ; by which time they are 

 old enough to take kindly to grass and clover, and 

 this with the soaked corn will keep them growing 

 rapidly. 



Do not depend too largely upon corn, but provide 

 grass in abundance. A most excellent food for the 

 purpose of increasing the flow of milk may be prepar- 

 ed by grinding corn and oats together, in about 



equal quantities by measurement, and making a slop 

 of the mixture. To this may be added a little oil- 

 meal with profit. Ground rye, barley or wheat may 

 be substituted for the corn or oats, and a mixtu.e of 

 all these grains will make an excellent diet ; but don't 

 forget the grass. If you are so situated that you can't 

 give your sows access to a good pasture, cut some 

 grass — clover is the best — and give it to them every 

 day. Ground peas make an excellent food. Don't 

 depend^upon any one thing but use a variety. 



The Feeding Value of Cornfodder. 



There had always been a great difference of opin- 

 ion as to the feeding value of cornfodder after the 

 corn has been taken from it. While one will declare 

 that it is almost worthless, that his cattle will eat 

 only the leaves, another will assert that it is worth as 

 much per ton as the best English hay, and that liis 

 cattle will eat up both the stalks and the leaves. 

 Among a very large number of experiments that 

 have been made by those who understand how to 

 feed cattle so as to make them eat it so far as we 

 know, every one has found that cornfodder very 

 much improves the milk, and where careful experi- 

 ments have been made it has been found that it is 

 worth as much where one or two feeds have been 

 given a day as the same weight of good English hay, 

 and that cows keep in quite as good condition, giving 

 richer milk, and making butter of a better color and 

 flavor. Last winter, to more thoroughly test the 

 value, and to ascertain to what extent cornfodder 

 could be fed out, the cows were fed entirely on corn- 

 fodder and a daily ration of two quarts of Indian 

 meal each ; not a single pound of hay of any kind 

 was given the entire winter; the fodder was cut, and 

 most of the time wet with hot water, but not always ; 

 the result was the most gratifying ; not only did the 

 cows improve in condition, but did not consume 

 any more, if as much as they would of good 

 English hay; sometimes the fodder was weighed, 

 giving sixteen pounds to a cow. 



As the quantity of any material required to keep a 

 cow in good condition depends very much on the man 

 who feeds them, it is but fair to say that the man 

 who tried this experiment will keep cows on a much 

 smaller quantity of hay than most of men. It is a 

 well known fact that one man will keep his cow on 

 twenty-five pounds of hay a day In no better, if so 

 gooil, condition as another will on sixteen pounds. In 

 making comparison it is always necessary to take this 

 fact into consideration. There are but few who ever 

 learn how to feed cattle to the best advantage. Those 

 who fail to make their cattle eat cornfodder up clean 

 have yet something to learn in cattle feeding. If it 

 be (I fact, and there appears to be the best of evidence 

 to prove that it is, that cornfodder is equal to English 

 hay, ton for ton, then the corn crop not only becomes 

 an important but also a very piofitable one, for if 

 flfLy bushelf of corn and two tons of fodder equal to 

 English hay can be grown on a single acre of ground, 

 it is worth much more than it will cost. Cornfodder 

 proves to be not onlya good,healthyfood for milch cows 

 but it produces better milk than the best of hay. The 

 difTcreuce is so great that producers say that their 

 regular customers can tell when they change from 

 cornfodder to hay, and they also tell us that butter 

 made while feeding cornfodder is better than when 

 feeding the best of hay, being richer and better color. 

 — Massachusetts Ploughman. 



Literary and Personal. 



The American Agriculturist for September 

 1st, is, as usual, illustrated with some sixty original 

 engravings and sketches, which are both pleasing 

 and instructivo. Besides the usual assortment of 

 useful, practical articles, the Work of the Season, 

 etc., including Plan for Chief Silos; Illustrations of 

 "Polonius" and "Iroquois" ; New Strawberries ; 

 Treatment of Celery : special contributions appear 

 from Dr. Salmon, on "Controlling Contagious Dis- 

 eases of Animals" ; Prof. Arnold, on "Butter Sub- 

 stitutes" ; Prof. Beal (Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege), on Improving Cereals" ; Beecher's Clearing," 

 by D. W. Judd ; "Railroads and Agriculture," by 

 Edward Atkinson ; "Saving Corn Fodder," by Col. 

 Weld ; "Horse Shoeing," by Dr. Slade, of Harvard 

 University ; Garget, Its Causes, Symptoms, and 

 Cure," by Dr. Miles, of "Houghton Farm" ; "Rules 

 for Right Living," by Mrs. Leland ; "The Great 

 Grain and Produce Speculation, Bulls and Bears, 

 Prospective Prices, etc.," by Orange Judd:— Terms, 

 Jl.SOayear; 15 cts. a copy, Orange Judd Co., Pub- 

 lishers, New York. 



Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the 

 State Horticultural Society of Michigan. 1880, " by 

 authority." 619 pp. Royal 8 vo. Ninety six pages are 

 devoted to a systematic catalogue of the i botanical 

 productions of the State, giving their scientific names, 



and also, as far as practicable, their common names. 

 If any thing were necessary to prove the necessity of 

 scientific names in natural history, we might refer 

 those who object to them so strenuously, to this cat- 

 alogue. Eleven species are enumerated under the 

 common nameof"Sunflowe'r;"eighteen under "Bog- 

 rush;" twenty-two under "Pond-weed;" twenty-four 

 under "Golden-rod," and one-hundred and twenty- 

 three under the brief name of " Sedge." The 

 author of the catalogue doubtless did the best 

 he could in the application of vulgar names, from 

 the meagre supply extant; but it must bo apparent 

 to the veriest carper against technical nomenclature, 

 that to give a common name to every species, in 

 many branches of natural science, would not be 

 profitable, even if it were possible. It would involve 

 great labor, great space, and great expense. We 

 don't know that we have ever before seen a report of 

 any State Horticultural Society, that oitght to be 

 more acceptable to the horticultural public, than the 

 volume now before us. It contains no long articles ; 

 most of them are short, terse, and practical, and 

 perhaps embraces all that is rm?;^ known on the sub- 

 jects it treats of. It is signally free from that "ver- 

 bose technology" which so terrifias the non-educated; 

 retaining only as much as is absolutely necessary in 

 the identification of species. 



It contains not only an alphabetical index to the 

 present volume, but also a careful tabulated index 

 of the eight volumes published from 1871 to 1879, 

 which will be a great convenience to those who pos- 

 sess the whole series, enabling them to refer to a 

 specific article, without the trouble of examining all 

 the volumes. 



The material and typographical execution is about 

 the average of agricultural and horticultural reports 

 generally (always excepting the first biennial report 

 of Kanses, which is, so, far, ne 2'^^^ ultra) the great 

 drawback; being the absence of proper illustrations. 

 This is au age of pictures, and everybody looks for 

 them. There is not a circus, a mauagerie, an opera, 

 a concert, a negro minstrelsy, or a puppet show,that 

 does not feel the necessity now, of illustrating itself 

 by pictures. 



Hungebford's Real Esxate Journal devoted 

 to the land interest of Central and Northern Wis- 

 consin. 16 pp. quarto published monthly by G. W. 

 Hungerford, Seven Points, Wis., at 51 a year in ad- 

 vance. Mainly an advertising medium, of value to 

 those looking to land investments. 



Pre.miumList of the New Mexico Exposition 

 AND Driving Park Association. — First annual 

 fair to he held at the city of Albuquerque, October 

 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, 1881. E. S. Stover, President; 

 four vice presidents, treasurer, corresponding and 

 recording secretaries, 19 directors, 15 superinten- 

 dents, and an executive committee of five. These 

 are the official sponsors of the enterprise, and they 

 will doubtless make it a success. The list is con- 

 tained in a demi-octavo pamphlet of 20 pages, and 

 is very liberal. Premiums are offered for the best 

 exhibits of minerals, cattle, horses, sheep, swine, 

 poultry, fruit, grain, vegetables, mechanic arts, 

 household products, domestic manufacturers, flow-. 

 ers and shrubs, fine arts, speed-ring, lady equestrian- 

 ism. There is no more emphatic evidence of material 

 progress, than a successful exposition of this kind, 

 and in this first effoit, no doubt, New Mexico will be 

 enabled to advertise herself in a manner crditable to 

 herself and the country. If any of our readers 

 should contemplate an autumn trip to the west 

 the present year, it probably would compensate 

 them to prolong it, and extend it to an October visit 

 to New Mexico. 



Qoabterlt Transactions of the Lancaster City 

 and County Medical Society. Vo\. 3, No. 2, July, 

 1881. Doctors M. L. Herr, Alexander Craig and R. 

 M.Bolcuius, committee of Publication. Price, one 

 dollar per annum. An octavo monthly magazine of 

 30 pages, devoted to the allopathic school of medi- 

 cine, and recording its progress. 



Report upon the condition of crops for June and 

 July, 1881, from Department of Agriculture. Since 

 the issue of this pamphlet a long "dry spell" has in- 

 teryened, which may modify the general result. 



