Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

—Potatoes moderately sunburned are in no wise injured for seed.— Cincinnati Times. —Michigan allows to each farmer who uses wide tires on his wagon a rebate on his taxes.— Detroit Post. Get all the family to make a study of the farm. They will be imp. oved as well as the farm.— Troy Times. —Grade your perches so that the heavy fowls, such as the Brahmas and Asiatics, will not be compelled to fly high to roost.— N. Y. Herald. —There is but little doubt that fully one-quarter of the corn led in fattening hogs is wasted by feeding it in muddy yards or lots, or opeupeus.— Exdiange. —Bannock pudding is made of one cup of corn meal, one of flour, well mixed; one cup Nf sour milk, one tablespoonful of lard, a small teaspooulul of soda; bake or steam. — Doston Post. —Cotton seed meal is valuable feed: but it stands in much the same relation to cattle food that eggs and meat do to human rations, it should never be fed exclusively, and is best led with bran, hay or straw. — C/iica-jo Journal. —Stormy winter days give an excellent opportunity for sorting fruits and vegetables in the cellar and remov.ng those beginning to decay. A kerosene stove, or even one or two large kerosene lamps, mav do much to prevent freezing in cellars not quite frost-proof.— Chicago 7 ribune, —The farmers of Vermont and New Hampshire are beginning to think that it does not pay. after all, lo cm grate to the West, when by more intelligent farming they can make their own lands yield as well in money value as the average farms of the West, or even better. —Boston Transcript. —No farmer should be without a good supply of nails and bolts, as something may happen by which double their cost may be saved. One should keep on hand plenty of horse nails, and know how to nail on a shoe as well as a blacksmith. It is not only the money that is saved, but time that, at certain seasons of the year, is worth more than money to the farmer.— Albany Journal. —Waffles: A quart of sifted flour, a pint of sweet milk; if it is possible to have this part cream it will be a great improvement, if uot, add a teaspoouful of melted butter. Beat two eggs very light, salt to your taste; a teaspoonful of baking powder should be mixed with the Hour. The batter when done should be a little stiffer than for griddle-cakes. —These should be baked at once.— N. Y. 'Ernies. —A good pair of leggings can be made of a pair of long, ribbed, colored woolen stockings, which have outrun their legitimate usefulness. They can be utilized by cu!ting off the feet in a sloping way, so that the top part of the foot will be left on and thus form the covering of the foot. Hem them around, and tack a piece of leather to each side, about the middle of the foot, to keep them in place.— Detroit Post.