The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-06-09

| When this is done, remove the line TO the
next row, and trench the earth as before
placing the soil over the first row planted,
and so continue until the plot is finished,
when the soil taken out Of the first trench
will fill the last. During the summer, keep
the ground we'll forked over and clear Of
weeds; and 10 strengthen the plants, two or
three supplies of manure water will be Of
great service, rs the plant delights in mois-
ture. When liquid manure is applied, it
should be given in sufficient quantities to
reach the lowest roots.
In taking up horse-radish for use, a
trench should be opened at one end of
double row, as deep as the lower roots in or
der that they may be taken up of proper
length, and that a sufficient supply may be
dug to last two or three months in winter
and spring, as ii may be kept in excellant
preservation for long time in sand. In
cutting up the roots, from four to six inches
of the bottom part should be left in the
ground, for the purpose of insuring good
growth for the same ground and the same
roots, when once planted, will continue
forever, if the same cultivation as recon-
mended above be pursued from year to
year.
If these directions are carried out, we
have no hesitation in stating that, in one
season after planting, an article will be pro-
duced credible to any market, the truth Of
which will be made manifest to any one
who will take the trouble to visit the garden
of Mr.. tulious Smith, at Astoria on Long
Island.-Americam Agriculturist.
DRIED STRAwBERRIEs-Last simmer,
by the way of experiment, when strawber-
ries were plentiful, attached threads to
their stalks and hung up few of them
which was over ripe 10 dry. lplaced them
inside a window facing the south where
they remained from June last to the present
| time, March. They have just been tasted,
and the result is most satisfactory. That
sweet refreshing acid which is peuliar to
the strawberry in full perfection, the flavor
Of the fruit; without any watery taste, is
delicious; it dissolves in the mouth as slowly
as a lozenge. and it is infinitely superior to
the ralsin, which so soon brings on feeling
ofsatiety. The strawberry thus dried is a
stomachic. The experiment may be tried
when the fruit is so ripe as to be scarcely
worth gathering, without any further
London Paper.
RICE BnEAD-Take one pound of rice,
and boil it gently to a thick paste, which,
when mixed with the usual Quantity of
yeast, will be sufficient to make five pounds
Of wheat or barlay meal into dough-
When risen, bake it the usual way.
SWEET APPLE PuDD1NG.-Take one pint
Of fscaldng milk, half a pint of Indian meal,
a teaspoonful of salt, and six sweet apples
cut into small pieces, and bake no, less than
three hours the apples will afford an excel
lent rich jelley. This is truly one of the
mostluxuriant yet simple Yankee puddings
made.
WArERY PoTAroEs.--We every day
hear complaints about watey potatoes. Put
intothe pot piece of lime as laage a hens
| egg and how watery soever the potatoes
! may have been, when the water is poured
of, the potatoes will be perfectly dry and
mealy:
CHICKENs.-A disease called the capes.
SO destructive among chickens, may be pre-
vented, and if not too far advanced cured.
by a slight mixture ofassfetida in their food.
-Four ounces, six cents per ounce, dissolved
in water and mixed once day in food, is
enough for four hundred chickens.
HINTS ABOUT BEDRooMs.-Their small
size and their lowness render them very in
saIubrlous; and the case is rendered worse
by close windows and thici. curtains and
hangings, with which the beds are often so
carefully surrounded, as to prevent the pos
sibility oflhe air being renewed The con-
sequence is, that we are breathing the vi
tiated air during the greater part of the night;
that is during more than third part of our
lives: and thus the period of rcpose which
is necessary for the renovation of our men
tai and bodily vigour, becomes source of
disease. Sleep, under such circumstances,
is very often disturbed, and always much
less refreshing than when enjoyed in
weli'ventilated room; it often happens, in
deed, that such repose, instead of being fol-
lowed by renovated strength and activity, is
succeeded by degree of heaviness and
languor, which is not overcome till the per