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- powder use a heaping cup of sifted . 6 THE RUSSELL LEADER Russell . Ontario, Thursday, March ® HOUSEHOLD. TWO FROSTED PIES. To make plain pastry with baking i i flour, a level teaspoon of 'baking pow- der, a salt spoonful of salt, one-third cup of butter or lard and cold water to make a stiff dough. Add the bak- fag powder and salt to the flour and] reb in the shortening until it seems | SOME GOOD RECIPES, Cranberry Cream.--Rub through a sieve while hot one pint of cranberries stewed in water until well cooked; add one cup of granulated sugar; soak half a box of gelatine in half a cup of water and add to the berries while}: they are hot. When the sugar and, ge- latine are dissolved place the dish hold- ing the mixture in ice and stir until it begins to thicken, then add one cup of milk, aand last of all the same amount of whipped cream. Mix thor- oughly, pour into a mould and set on ice to harden. Whipped cream should be served with this delicacy. Coffee Jelly.--Soak half a box of ge- a light mealy powder, then add the j,iine until it dissolves in as little ould water. This crust seems to retain! , 14 water as possible for the pur- v : | acs form better and shrink together; co and add it to one quart of strong Jess than when no baking powder 18 coffee prepared as for the table and crust is used. i into a mold rinsed with cold water HINTS FOR THE FARMER. WHEN AND HOW TO PLANT CORN. Of all men, the one who plants corn should heed the injunction to make haste slowly. Nothing is gained by planting' dorh before the ground is warm, writes John M. Stahl," 'At tims the season is quite backward and yet oftenmer spring seems to ibe lingering far toolong in old winter's 'lap, but' hevertheless the, "earliest moment for corn planting is when the ground is warm. It is not' enough that the sun.be warm; or even that used and is preferred where h.. one sweetened to taste, stir well, strain the air-be wha) the ground must be. Cream Pie.--Line the plate with pas- and hake ~fr r=filling take two : vaniila to fiavor, one rounding tea-| spoonful of butter. Beat the yolks with, the suga , add tie flour, next the milk heated to boiling and boil in a double boiler until it thickens, 'hen add the butter and take from the stgve. When cool, flavorand fill into the cooled: crust. Beat the whites to a stiff froth add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and] flavoring and spread on top. Bake in a Slow oven uutil the meringue is well sel. Lemon Pie.--Line the plate with pas- try, made with baking powder, and bake until a light brown. To make a filling for a very large pie use two eggs, scant three-quarters cup of su- gar, a heaping tublespoon of flour, a cup of milk, half a cup of boiling wa- ter, a rounding teaspoonful of butter, Jaies and grated rind of a large, juicy emon. Beat the yolks and sugar, add] flour, next milk and water, both scald- ed, and cook in a double boiler until it thickens. Take from the fire, add butter, lemon juice and stir until thoroughly incorpcrated. Till into the baked crust when cool, cover with a, meringue made with the whites of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, van- illa to flavor, and bake in a slow oven until a delicate brown. Drop the mer- ingue from the sides of a tea or table- spoon in fanciful design if desired or fun through a pastry tube to make a very handsome pie. DIGESTIBLE PASTRY. An ordinary pie, upper and under orust, with a layer of fruit between, is not especially tempting, but a deep, oval dish, heaped with thinly sliced ap- ples, or filled with juicy fruit, and topped with a thin," brown crust, is quite another story. If the pastry maker of the family will but make up her mind to reverse the old rules for producing light pastry and actually use boiling instead of ice water, pie need no longer be forbidden even to those with delicate digestions. The pastry made in this way is not " puf- just before using, and set"the mold on ice or a very cold place. A nice effect is obtained by pouring the mixture d out the space occupied, eggs, two tablespoonfuls &% two, into a mold with a tube in the centelal \ . oF . | as me » tal lespoonfuls flour, a pint of milk, 10% Be tube Tany Bo Hii 4 with-whip- ped cream heaped up a little above the coffee jelly. Whipped cream should als so be served with this jelly... Plum Pudding.--Mix thoroughly sev- eral hours before the pudding is to: be boiled the following ingredients: Twelve: ounces raisins, twelve ounces currants, eight ounces candied lemon, orange and citron peel, one and one- quarter pounds chopped beef suet, one pound flour, twelve pounds moist su- gar, four eggs, about three gills ot milk, grated rinds of two lemons, one- half ounce nutmeg, cinnamon, powder- ed cloves, a glass of brandy and a lit- tle salt. After they have been thor- oughly mixed pour into a mold spread with butter. which should be tied up "in a cloth. Boil for four and one-half hours and serve with German custard sauce made as follows: Whisk sharply over a very slow fire four egg yolks, two ounces powdered sugar, a glass of sherry, some orange OT lemon peel, rubbed on loaf sufar, and alittle salt. { When it asrjumes the appearance of a light, frothy custard it is ready to serve. Butter Chocolate Creams.--Cook over a quick fire ten pounds sugar and one pound glucose in two pints water, stir- ring continually, until the sugar 1s dissolved and a good boil is reached. Add one pound fresh butter and cook all together to three hundred and thir- ty-six degrees. Pour out on a clean marble slab and allow it to stand un- til nearly cool. Pour three pounds melted liquor chocolate over the hatch and work rapidly with a steel pad- dle until it turns to a cream. Cover it with a damp cloth for half an hour, hen knead and place in a steam bath. Stir until warm and thin, then rapidly work in the whites of three eggs, previously beaten up stiff. Fla- vor with the seeds of two vanilla beans. Pour out into drop impressions in starch and let them cool. If the batch does not run easy the addition of an ounce or two of water will 'warm, and for.ai'depth of at least four the «Co inches. below grow fasted stocky. If the grails' weaker Witaithy will not germinate, and those that do germinate will tend to produce weakly plants." times it regdires the exercise' of not a little will power to wait until the ground is warm. 'The season is late, and then meighbors are planting. But the wise man will wait until the groind is in good condilion and will get the best stand, the thriftiest piants, the fastest growing crop and the biggest yield. By Aug. 1 his corn dark green through all the season, will be ahead of the bilious stuff that was started 10 days or two weeks earlier. : ' Nor does it pay, generally, to plant corn before the seed bed is well pul- verized. In fined, compacted ground the conditions essentiai to germina- tion and growth more generally exist, and to greater degree; hence in such {ground a higher percentage of grains wiil germinate and the growth of the plants will be faster. Heat and mo:s- | ture wiil be more equable and evenly | diffused, and the division of the soil | masses accelerates the reduction of ip.ant food to available form. In rare cases, when the planting is unusuaily 'late, it may be advisable to put corn |into cloduy ground; but such cases are rare, and it certainly is not neces- { | 'sary to urge the readers of this jour- nal at greater length to pliant corn in | fined, compacted ground. The fact should noweadguored, however, that | corn does best when planted in fresh | ground--that recently plowed. Wheat | seems to prefer ground that has been plowed some time. ' At least, for i b | several reasons it is advisable to plow 'ground for wheat some weeks before | the wheat is to be sown. | When ground for corn is plowed, the ~|condiiion for ase : PC CER Lis this labor regmired, but the .80il at plants will be factive and sturdy, wil Some- | alone. It may be well to plant be- fore the last rolling, and then. both roll and harrow immediately after panting, keeping the other imple- ments but a little behind the planter. The depth of planting should be re- gulated somewhat by (he season. kf the ground is quite moist the planting ground is quite dry. When all the condiions are favorable, corn planted 1 to 11-2 in deep does the best. I should not put. it deeper than this' except when it is necessary to get moisture. In general, corn should be planted deeper as the season advances. THE HARM IN VERY EARLY PLOWING. Many farmers are very impatient to start' the plow in the spring. As soon as the snow disappears and they find a few dry spots in-the highway the plow 'is brought out and started. The soil being cold and wet, the up- turned furrow presents a smooth, glossy appearance, and it 1u.uie peavy free. ing does not occur it wiil bake hard and firm, requiring several barrowings to gat if jinbo 'a. proper Hed. Not only p.owing IS seit that the horses at teach step sink almost to the bottom of the. furrow. This is very injurious and most of these early plowers would no. think of allowing other stock up- on the fields )when in this condition. "The act of plowing obliterates the foot marks and they imagine no harm is done, but they are greatly mistak- en. No farmer ever ga.ned anything in the end by plowing his soil when not in a proper condition. Perhaps there is some advantage in marking out lands in a field that is naturally wet and heavy, as the furrows thus made act as surface drains, and if the land be nearly level the water 1s drawn from the surface scil to a dis- tance of several feet upcn each side, and if it can be drained off at the end of furrows a posi.ive gain will be accomplished. : HOW TO SALT PORK. Fill a large boiler or kettle with sweet fern, steep boiling hot, turn all mnto the pork barrel, cover with a cloth, let it steam 10 or 12 hours, then rinse the barrel out with cold water, Then put in a layer of coarse salt at bottom; of barrel, then a layer of pork; then a layer of salt. Fill in cracks with salt, then a layer of pork and so on ti.l the barrel is full. Let it lie in salt four or five days, to let the salt strike. in, before adding the water, as the water prevents the salt from, striking in; then fill up with water enough to cover the pork; then put on a board or small covering and stone on that to press down. Don't put fat and lean together, or blood from lean will make brine smell bad, Wash blood from lean before salting. This recipe is from an old farmer cf the state of Maine and is worth try- ing, as pork will keep hard and of nice flavor. : { i it rm COLD STORAGE ASSOCIATIONS. should be more: shallow than if the.' THOM INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered from Various Points from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 'Jas. Planet is Kenirew's fire chief. °° 'Mount Brydges is to have a cream- ery. 2 AS : Actoh is to have a, new business block. ns go 'Parry Sound district is to have a new, jail. ; A citizens' band is to be organized in Guelph: "= . Petrolea "Methodist church ia to have a.pipe orgin, 55 A movement is on foot to organize . a band in Galt. = : St." Paul's Anglican frew, will be rehuilt. Huntsville. {rants to be ated as a towi church, Ren- incorpor- Thos. Gordor' has been clerk of Gwen Sound for 43 years. Charles Frost 1 off in a Beilaville saw mill. - Sheriff Hassie is chairman of Stratford Hospital 'Board. Thar The mother of ex-Mayor Redfern, of Victoria, B. (., died recently. Galt citizens want the 9th Batta- lion created into a city corps. Kingston's city messenger bas had his saiary increased by $oU a year. Two hundred do.lars will be spent in repairing Teeswaier town hail. Tiisonburg High School Board pro- vides the pupi.s with aaily newspapers. James Caton has been made a Cus- toms preventive officer at Qwen Sound. { Wm. C. Pedley, Lindsay, fell a dis- tance of 20 feet and bad three ribs broken. A Nelson, B.C., man stole a ham and had to serve six moaths in jail as a penalty. ; A new nurses' home is to be erected in connection. wich the St. Thomas' Hospital. i Rev. E. G. Powell, of Morpeth, is a cousin of Baden-Powell, of Mafeking siege fame. ; Ald. D'Arcy Scott, Ottawa, widl re- tire from municipal life at the end of this year. : Ottawa merchants are opposed to the name of Pank St. being changed to Strathcona Awe. Mrs. Jas. Barker, Stratford, was thrown out of a cutter and nearly run over by a G. T R. engine, D. R. Dobie, jr. succeeds his father as secretary-treasuver of the Owen Sound Board of Education. W. H. Smelling, of Montreal, who was storekeeper on the Sardinian, acts in a simi.ar capacity on the Monlerey. Mrs. Samuel Redmond died at the residence of her son, Wm Redmong, Mi.lbrook. She was 93 years of age. Judge Pringle, of Cornwall, who re- the had a finger taken ie cently retired from the bench, was 84 years of age. He has been a judge 3 years. fy," for it is the hard flakes of cold butter that cause the tempting * puff" that is so indigestible. It is, however, beautifully light, and the hot : iff V ten A » : Tomely fhe Qiffieiy, W arm pg work intervening between the plowing bath and turn it out on a warm slab.! Be the < fp.anting asfagitly oe Stir until about blood heat, then dip pushed as rapidly as e rant the drops toto it and wet on tray lin: dition of the ground will warrab'- a Important Measure introduecd Into the Ontario Lexislature. W. J. Gilmour is leaving Brockville water seems to transform the short- ening and rob it of its usual ill-ef- fects. To make, proceed as follows: --Sift a scant pint of flour with quarter of a teaspoonful each of baking powder and salt. Stir two large tablespoon- fuls of lard into a teacup of boiling water, and while still boiling hot use this to stir the flour into a dough of the right consistency to roll out eas- ily. It is well to use the water a lit- tle at a time, as flour differs, and it may not all be needed. Roll out thin and bake in a rather quick oven. ed with glazed paper. Put in a cool place until the chocolate hardens. Mocnshine.--This dessert combines a mice appearance with a palatable flavor and is a convenient substitute for ice cream. Beat the white of six eggs in a broad plate to a very stiff froth and then add gradually six ta- blespoonfuls of powdered sugar, to make it thicken you may add more sugar up to a pint, beating for not less than half an hour, and then beat in one heaping teaspoonful of pre- served peaches, cut in tiny bits and ] The checkrower now permits of a strip | of ground being planted, hence where iit is advisable to make use of the checkrower it is.generally best to plant the field in parts, and not to | wait untii all is prepared before plant- ling any part of it. However, if the | field is so large that the part first | planted would have quite a little start {of the part last planted, this may not 'be advisable. Having corn consider- | ably larger in one part of the field | than the other will make cultivation | more difficult. One should get al | other work out of the way and provide { himself with expeditions implements, An essential requirement for the development of the export trade in agricultural produce of a perishable character is the establishment of cold storage stations in rural neighbor- hoods 'where {ruit, dairy products, fowls, meats, etc., can be kept until ready for shipment. The measure in- troduced into the Ontario Legislature by Hon. John Dryden to provide for the incorporation of co-operative cold storage associations, provides a simple and cheap method oc incorpora- to become superintendent of the Bell Telephone Co., with headquarters ai Montreal. Judge Carman, of Cornwall, who has been appointed judge of Lincoln, is a brother of Rev. Dr. Carman, general superintendent of the Mothodist church. ie Alcohol as an Ape Catcher, "The ape family resembles man in more than one respect," remarked My- ron T. Bird, of Jackson, Miss.,, at tue Southern lately, "They love hquor, i : ic i roughly chilled. Inigo that wien the ground is plowed it |; % - i ; ate | und this love, as in the cass with man- Left-over veal cutlet, chicken or |%et on ice until thoroug Riso that wien the ground is pi tion for those seeking to associate 1 8 a . g 3 i serving put in each saucer some rich! may be rapidly fitted for planting. For Sony ov i kind, often causes them to fall, I'he ame + if : 73 ! Sak = 2 3 3 5 N ane I . flo cream, sweetened and flavored with| this there are two additional reasons themselves io phis purpose Any five | |. iives of Central Africa make a vor; Cut the meal into neat bitsand vanilla, on the cream place a liberal| the spring is so short compared with jor moze desirous of forming such an | fermented beer of which the mon- brush these singly with warm but- portion of the moonshine. The above (he amount of work to do if the association can do so by merely sign-| keys are very fond, and, by using ter, cook for ten minutes in a quick quantity will serve seven or eight | ground is properly prepared that no ing a certi.cate according to a form it us a bait, capture a great numbar : od i : . Of y us 3 reserved! i i st b ing slow : ; of these animals. Tine natives go te oven after dpreading the whole wit people. You may use other preserved! {ime should be lost by using s lo ; ss Z a paste rT by ng. Wi fruits if you desire. ) methods or imp.ements; and not infre- provided and adopting rules and | ge parts of the forests frequented by teaspoonful each of Frirch end Eng- 3 quently the ground being slowly pre- regulations, The cerii icate and rules | tie monkeys, and set on the ground lish mustard. two tablespoonfuls of chutney, chopped fine, salt, cayenne ree cre pared for planting will be subjected {o a hard rain that will delay work are then required to be registered, a wee of fifty cents being all the outlay gourds full of the enticing liquors, As soon as a monkey sees and tastes it he Ys PP ine, sal : ISSES. dpon it for several days. required. The amount of shares| utters loud cries of joy that soon ntirack ant Sic por to'fiers hd lls | INSTANT LUHNESSES, UR mt at by ane ett aay Bold fs i comeude, Tinney bog aad oh ne Looped welety of shredded let: lo produce e exact likeness of an | tyay pl bailey plant tooliimin 321.000, which are trans.er- a snort time the beasts show ull degrees on tuce with a French dressing, place object instantly cn paper all you have {many a 4 mit too much seed on abla with the Rasent and approval of | of inonieatiog Then th 0 ape this, mound-shaped, in the center of | to, do is to lay the paper on a table, an aciqg¥rwo good stalks are pre-|che association eee tily Bryan lgelikers 2% too far gane io 8 dish on a paper-lace mat, and put {and hold a double convex lens, a com- ferable fi , four small ones. Two |shareholders is liynited to the amount | GSEFOSC them, bug parently take them the meat around it. Raw cabbage slic- ed thinly with a sharp knife mav be used for the center. mon sun glass, over it, at the same time placing amfrror over the lens gon els are better than four nub- ons. Ww clean ground it is better The corn than to plant it in 0: their shares, aud if when their stock is paid up they are fzee from all furth- er liability. it is 'iurthepmprovidsd for larger species 'of their own genus. When a negro takes one by the hand to lead it off tne nearest monkey will Shing When parts of fowls are left over, |in an oblique position, so as to face | hills Moro corn can be grown inlihat the government may ussist poy | bo the one who thus finds & support an remove the meat from the bones, cov- | partly toward the object that is o drills. But if the ground is weedy co-operative cold storage association endeavor to go off also. Anotuer will er them with cold salted water and b esp niead or griflcv cross cultivation will be |incoporated under the Act by paying | 8T™sp at him, and thus in turn till the simmer until all the "good" is ex-|"° Feprasenie 5 necessAl, ond the corn must be plant- | not more than one-ifth of the cost vegro leads a stuggoering line of ten ox tracted. Reject skin and gristle, | The rays of light, passing from ithe | ed in dj}; oi consiruction and equipment of any | fifteen tipsy monkeys, Wien Hnally them pound the meat in a mortar, or | object to the mirror, will be reflected | Ther§ ii] be a depression or fur-|puilding erected for cold storage pur- sot to the village the monkeys are se- its substitute, and afterward mix well downward through the lens, and pro- | ToWi Pion the row. If the more poses, provided thai no association re- curely caged and gradually sober down, with a tecupful of boiled rice, add a | duce the likensss of 'the object in, full | primitd,. neihods are used in plant- aloe nore than §0. The money, but for two or thres days a limited sup- tablespoonful of melted butter, pep-|cclors on the paper. : ing, fow or furrower must be used | however, will nat be paid over until ply of liquor is gives them, 80 a8 10 1e- per and salt to taste and half a tea- my This experament may be easily made to maf (he row, and this will leave {he Commissioner oi Public Works has concile tuem by degrees to their shite of cupful of the stock procured from the | 1 the everving by reflecting the flame | 2 IuTPaw along which a stream of | op ried that the building has been ax. capuvity." bones. Rub the mixture through a |of the candle in this manner, which Way will be sent by a hard rain on |; ned and found adequate in struc- hair sieve, then add the well-beaten | will appear very brilliant om paper. bi fos that often sweeps out the) yre and equipment for cold storage Se've ing Kallroad Ties. yolks of four eggs, and lastly the But in order to render the reflection Fiesn. If the two-horse planter An important rule now in vogue with P! 4 nu 0S. 3 stiffened whites of two. Bake about | of an object distinctly visible by day-|!S US¥q, the same conditions exist and Len as well as export trade| the great Pennsylvania Railroad and all fifteen minutes in small paper cases. | light, it may be requisite to exclude the Smeg results follow. I have seen! ij) gain much from the general intro. | its propristary lines is that nothing le The oven mast be moderate, as if for | nearly all the light from the paper, |2 he'd rain, coming shortly after a|guetion of cold storage facilities used but first-class ties in the track, and custard. except what falls through the lens. field Fiop5 planted, wash out above 60 = > which will prevent the irequent loss bY pearly the whole supply comes from Many nice economical little side | Ti all cases the lens must be plac- De nt of the corn. The best pre-|o: poristable (commodities, more West Virginia woodlands, The reguia- dishes require a mortar and hair | ed, at a distance above the paper, ac- di Ive is to harrow the ground im- especially truic before it can be mar- tion dimensions for the ties for this Com sieve. The cool months are the spe- cording to itz focus, at tha distance me Hately after planting. No atten- koted S It will tend to equalize pany ale seven inches face, seven inches cial time for relishes, and the wise | (o which it would contract the rays of Ton should be {paid to the rows, and prices as farmers will no longer be thick, and eight and one-half feet long hems mieten will arm herself with | the smallest point. ir harrowing may be across the ander the necessity of sacrificing their --i.e standard size for all first-class 'hese and like appliances for the pro- : Harrowing is better than roll-| = 'ducts for fear they should decay roads--and a good, sound tie is expected per making of these dainties. een eee nz, fihough on well prepared ground ay a Tear iy Shits thoy ny to last eight years. Again, all standnrd Another little hint toward the ac- roll» will pretty well close the fur- | 5 "070 to By oy gouge roasis use howed ties exclusively complishment of slightly and health- ITS SOFTER SIDE. row Rolling has the advantage hus oh Theiv hands. A cold storage while on most narrew gaugs roads and ful frying is to remember that a well- ey : aed id 2:3 tha it will probably crush any clods SLat10 2 TY vy 281 oi some small standard gauge lines beaten egg, to which is added a ta- us 8.2 Jars world, 'said, the thal. .y be lying just above the corn, would enable produsis oy which aod sawed ties are accepted. The number blespoonful of milk, and a pinch of | & ay mat sin out and hi whi ¢ the harrow may drag the clods yasyme I ha Y i dg of ties to 8 mile of track will avernje galt, 'will be worth the slight extra! XU Pun vo TE on ad Seve Ju where they will do the most re Bass oy Li a mane: 2500 when Iaid ns approved by experie trouble and expense. This, with dried | Where © €0, 6410 os WL » hare ba A clod just above a plant is|P200 1% S rot] Tent; tos ys ~| ence as to safety, efficiency and wear, and sifted bread crumbs made from | Want fofge away PO 298s asp ie al Bt sure to be disastrous. The liRg ithe cons FUCLION Of cold Btorage | qy gig past year one compuny delivered stale bits, together with properly boil- | Pavements anc Some Pe ou Bk or- {cl Mil] be moist below and hard and buildings within ensy reach of the} gy jis various contracts between 800,000 ing fat, will insure, even for cold por- hood, where; the Wor pr arpoerioe d Eiove and the plant will grow in- | FATIMers, It will have an important ef-| gpd 1,000,000 ties, All ties belore de ridge, the magical "golden brown." | ed by nice, soft mu > yor. eon tC JB but cannot get through, and fect upon agricultural prosperity | livery are in-pected and puys¢d upon by Unless the family is very large an |SIStency, from, oat-meal mush to] wif yr] around and die. Rolling and add materially to the wealth of | g railroad official.- egg will do twice. i angel-cake, aly harrowing are beiter than either the province. k- 1