The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

* SUPP and some things in this way will be benefited by an oc casional supply of manure water in a weak state. Take advantage of every leisure hour to put in cuttings and use every possible dispatch with this work until the full stock is got in. Look over hollyhocks occasionally and secure any cuttings that can be obtained from va rieties which it is desirable to increase. Cuttings of these rooted in autumn make fine strong flowering plants for the following season, and occupy less room in winter than the old plants ; but the cuttings must not be put into heat at once, as strong sappy cuttings, such as are obtained from plants growing in the open ground, are very apt. to damp off in heat. Give the plants a liberal supply of manure water in the event of the weather being dry, and dahlias on light poor soils will well repay similar- attention. AGRICULTURE. TILLERING OF CORN.—lnterrogations are frequently put to us, will barley and oats tiller or branch as much as wheat, by being planted early, and singly, and thinly? Our answer is, that the former will, and the latter, we believe, will not. Oats, however, are de cidedly the most prolific, containing many more grains in each ear than either wheat or barley, and require to be planted or sown equally as thin. Every perfect grain of oats, sown at equal distances, with only half a peck per acre ( not three bushels),.by proper cultiva tion, and one essential point of this is to keep it clean, will not fail to produce five ears. This, we believe, cannot be denied ; and each ear will be found to average 200 kernels, or 1,000 fold—equal; of course, to 1,000 half pecks, or 125 bushels, or 15 quarters 5 bushels per acre. Every grain of barley, too, planted at the rate of half a peck per acre in equal distributions, by superior culture; will not fail to produce twenty ordi nary full ears, containing in each thirty grains, or 600 fold, and, as a necessary consequence, equal to 600 half pecks, or 75 bushels, or 9 quarters 3 bushels per acre. The Peruvian variety of barley contains double an amount of grains in each ear than the common, and although smaller in size, it follows that this kind is much more productive and lucrative of the two, espe cially as it exceeds all others in point of weight and nutriment. It is also earlier, but it is to be regretted that destructive birds will attack it in no small degree, as they do all early ripened corn.—Hardy and Son, Maldon. FOOD FOR YOUNG STOCK.—The Agricultural Gazette says the following is an answer to a question addressed to us 140 a correspondent. Calves at a month old, by the Ist of April, have proved to do well on half a pint of good oatmeal, or the same quan tity of linseed, mixed in a little cold water, and boiling water poured over it, making the half pint of meal or linseed into two or three quarts of liquid. This should be mixed 12 hours before given to the calves, as it should stand this time, and the vessel being covered it will be found then of sufficient warmth. Best Scotch oatmeal is the most economical, and is perhaps better than linseed. It should be given at first with a small quantity of milk, or the calves having been fed previously only on this will not readily take to this food ; together with this, hay and some roots are a good preparation for their taking to grass. Six weeks of this feeding will sußice, giving them the mixture only once a day the last week, and lowering its quality, to wean them from it; and by this time they will take to grass as their only and sufficient food, if good whole some pasture. Water should only be given very sparingly when required from drought, and on no account should calves at grass have unrestrained access to spring water. As the nights get cold in Oc tober, they should have a small quantity of hay, and the tops of carrots or early turnips will now forward their growth until December, when a regular supply of Swedes with chaff of oat or barley straw, will keep them in good condition until the time for grazing, or they might be kept well through the summer on chaff and a plentiful supply of marigold wurzel until ear ly turnips take its place. This treatment should be repeated the second year ; unless steers are intended to be fattened at two years old ; therefore in October, at one year and a half, or at two years and a half old, they should get chaff of good hay, with two quarts of barley or other meal, either from oats, beans ; or tail wheat, or instead of meal 3 lbs. of oilcake, with as many Swedes as they will consume given the m t w i ce each day, with no water. Haters should be kept on lEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN similar treatment until the last winter before calving, when roots are not needed, and can be given to greater advantage to other stock, as a plentiful supply of straw, and a little hay, for the last two months be• fore calving, is more healthy and likely to avoid risk from inflammation. At this time good hay, good water, which is very essential, and good pasture is the staple food for cows in milk and during thethreemonths of winter, December, January, and February, during which time it is usual they are dry before calving. The straw-yard, as before said for heifers, with a good supply, a stream of water, shelter, and a little hay added a month before calving, will keep cows in good condition. FASHIONS. THE large broad-brimmed hats of straw or Leghorn, which have hitherto been worn only by children, are now beginning to be adopted pretty generally by ladies, at the seaside, and in the country. The Parisian mo distes have given them the name of Pamella hats ; and during the present summer they have not unfrequently made their appearance on the fashionable promenades in Paris. During the last week or two, many elegantly dressed ladies have worn these Pamella hats in the Bois de Boulogne. They are for the most part, of very fine Leghorn, quite flat, the brims being of moderate dimensions, and slightly inclining downwards over the forehead. They are trimmed under the brim at each side, with large bouquets of roses or wild flowers, beneath which are fixed long strings of white sarsenet ribbon. The outside trimming of these hats generally consists of narrow wreaths, or, to use a French term, cordons, which encircle the crown, and with the flowers are sometimes intermingled bows of ribbon. Frequently there is a bow of ribbon with long flowing ends at the back of the hat. One of these round hats presented the novelty of being made of delicate white rice straw. Round the crown there was an exqu i s it e cor d on, formed of mignomette, jasmin, an d rose -b u d s. U n d er t h e brim, on each side, were bouquets of the same flowers, and white sarsenet strings. The dress worn with this hat was of white spotted muslin, with two broad flounces, finished by hems about an inch and a-half broad. A mantilla of black guipure completed this elegant and much-admired costume. Many dresses now being prepared for the country are of white muslin, covere with small spots or sprigs. Others of printed jaconnet, have small patterns in blue pink or lilac. All these dresses are flounced ; those of printed muslin having the flounces bordered with some fanciful design. The flounces of white muslin dresses are invariably finished with broad hems, within which there are occasionally inserted runnings of coloured ribbon. Presses of white worked muslin are' also becoming very fashionable for evening costume, if we may judge from the number now being made. Many of our prin cipal dress-makers have commissions for dresses of this kind, and among those already completed may be men tioned one with four scolloped flounces. This dress is worn over a slip of blue silk, and under each of the muslin flounces there is a flounce of blue silk. Small bows of blue gauze ribbon are fixed on the flounces at the points where the angles of the scollops meet. The corsage is low, and is worn with a ficku fastened by a bow of blue ribbon. A dress of white muslin, to be worn over white silk, has four flounces ornamented with needlework, and each flounce is surmounted by a ruche of white sarsenet ribbon. A much admired white dress is composed of plain India muslin. It is trimmed with three flounces edged simply with a hem, through which is passed a running of pink ribbon, and over each of the muslin flounces there is a flounce of Honiton lace. Among the newest evening dresses, we may notice one made of amber-colour crape, trimmed in a style which gives it something of the Spanish character. This dress, which is to be worn over a slip of the same colour as the crape, has four flounces, each edged with a ruche of black lace, surmounted by five rows of nar row velvet. The corsage, which is low and in folds, is pointed both in front and at the back of the waist ; and the short sleeves consist of a puff striped with narrow black velvet. One of the silk dresses recently made is figured with grey and white stripes—the stripes very narrow and close together. On the skirt are three flounces, bordered with cut velvet, figured with a pattern in blue and white ; quite at the end of each ARD. flounce therels a row of narri blue, and white silk. The and the sleeves are formed co) frill, the latter surmounted pendant ends of unequal lengt paper•. HOUSEHOLD INDIA PICKLE.—One gall( one ounce of raw ginger, and seed ; when the vinegar is cr pound of mustard and one ou kind must be salted and put day or two ; then dry them till the moisture is quite of any time of the year. BATED APPLE PUDDING, boiled and pulped ; half-a-pol cream, and mixed with the ap of sugar, six eggs, and the ri a thin crust on the bottom Three quarters of an hour wi are not sour, the juice of a le POTATO PXYDDING.-L-Melt three or four spoonfuls of m, boiled potatoes rolled small the whites of four, the pee: and steeped in a large glas: then take half-a-pound of L whole together ; strain it thro it up in your dish, and bake " without an under-crust. TO PRESERVE Cl/CUMBE cucumber's, arid the most fre get —some small, and others Put them into strong salt mouthed jar, with a cabbage• set them in a warm place ti, wash them out, and set they water,' with a little salt and them ; cover the pan very c. do not boil. If they are nk the water, and that will help as before, end make them ho' a good green, take them of stand till they are cold ; thel quarters, take out the seeds into cold water, and let them st , alt of ti twice every day to take out th„°:00 01 1( 1 ,4 of single-refined sugar and hal l4 ile t /41 , over the fire, skim it clear, put ', 1 :,, , 0je i 11 . 0 0 and an ounce of ginger with t' r . 4 and when cold, wipe the cueunli":tfir t r i in. Boil the syrup once in two 1/ s "c. weeks, and strengthen if nee& O P tile ll the syrup to the cucumbers, li s el ) ter cold. Cover them close, and Atte te a ' place. • T h O e „,c ink the OF nATS.--' w Ale the destruction of rats has ber o 4ol' Tire to the council of the 01 ,,zlie i l ei' ; o ho , ciety :---Melt hog's lard in a f a hr fo r e t 4,, heated to about 150 degrees cu bor tis . I .os ° into it half an ounce of' ph° s P of s l3i fetit'' e t ' lard tit tdd -t of Pr ° C ol!'_ 0111 8 0 GEORGE' of lard ti : e th b en add a pint 01 r- e uniformly diffused, cork heated to bottle firmly after its -u flie s r lq 150 a i.• 't at ' i til e ' ofth becomes c e di es fr , utsaeb.d7gforiaiiitii liffloill, water, and agitate smartlY 0 0 1 !, liquid._om This liquid being cooled, isl,'roovi, compound of phosphorus and lard,llo.lyeelti., to b spontaneously separates, Old r ef s io t o ilA • eused again, for none of it eut _ i pal t )t p.obination, b u t it merely serves to cuorticy h sphorus and diffuse in ?cry P e P e O c ei . the lard. ' Thi s it 1n s on beillfstOre fil compoun d, gently, may be poured 'to a 11l .4,i# J., out in , op .0 flour, and a there leo' sugar incorporate not, O A gl fla flavoured with oil of rhodium; or . i iseel, vour may be varied with oil of 0,1.,e i dough, being made intonesllets, is ';' o ot, I ._ holes. 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