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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1876
Page
7
A rural guide describes a long movable kitchen table with multiple compartments including a flour barrel and bread board, plus a note on warming a cricket for cold mornings. It also reports favorable experiences with harrowing wheat in spring, citing improved tiller development and earlier ripening when soil is suitably dry.
Dr. Loring in the Boston Globe describes a method to train tomato plants by topping the stem to the flower cluster five times, forcing sap into lower buds to create stout 18 inch plants. Sticks or strings support rows and all nonflowering laterals are removed to direct sap into the fruit, with most varieties praised except white and yellow.
A Syracuse Courier note describes farmers weighing grain at home to detect underweighing by a buyer. Several neighbors proved full amounts, forcing payment for the extra grain. The piece urges neighborhoods to install platform scales to avoid such frauds, especially in hard times. It also adds a tip to preserve eggs by quick boiling and packing in salt.
The Housekeeper offers practical, thrifty uses for old tin cans. Make a small bucket with holes and a wire bail, a scoop from a cut can with a screw handle, a compact saucepan, a cracker grater with a board mount, and a rougher grate by punching holes with an old file.
Instructions describe making light flour milk cakes baked quickly in gem pans served with strawberries raspberries blackberries or stewed apples and cream. It praises the recipe as superior to pastry and notes avoiding soda powder and shortening. Also mentions crafting tasteful ornaments from natural leaves with powdered glass for frosted effects.
A simple corn bread recipe uses corn meal flour egg milk sour cream or buttermilk butter soda and salt with optional molasses. The note adds rye planted on corn stubble in spring as sheep pasture to improve land and prepare soil for wheat rather than oats.
Boil a chicken without over chopping. Chop one celery bunch into pea sized pieces. Mash the yolk of a hard boiled egg. Add one teaspoon salt and one to two teaspoons made mustard. Stir in four teaspoons vinegar slowly. Pour over chicken and celery to finish.
Break bread into small pieces and moisten with milk or warm water. Season with salt pepper and nutmeg, add sage or parsley and a bit of butter. Form into cakes or balls and roast with beef or poultry or fry after meat. urge farmers to plant sunflower. leaves for forage seed for oil stalks for bean poles and kindling. Plant and cultivate as you would corn.
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