Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-03-24
ITEMS FROM THE "CoUNTRY GENTLEMAN"

This splendid weekly Journal, published at
Albany, N. Y, at $500 per year, in advance,
and devoted to the Farm, the Garden and the
Fireside," always contains large amount OF the
most interesting matter. Below VIC publish
few extracts:
COVERING FOR MlLK-PANs.-I have new
plan for covering mlk-pans in summer, to keep
out dust, flies, &c. l take piece OF common
brown sheeting, and cut it about three inches
larger than the top of the pan, and make wide
hem, saw an inch, around it. then take large
wire and bend it in q circle same size as the
cloth. and run it into the hem, and tasten ii
there. When laid over the pan, the wire falls
over the edge of the pan, to the eifectual exclu-
sion of dust or any other substance. HAT.
ARTIFICIAL HoSEy.-I send you the follow
inc recipe to make honey, which can hardly be
distinguished from the honey of bees:
Take of soft water lbs,
White moist drown sugar. % lbs,
Pure bees honey lbs,
Cream of tartar 80 grs.,
Essence of roses "a drops.
Mix in q brass kettle; boil five minutes; take
it off, and add the white of two well-beaten
eggs. When almost cold, add two pounds more
bees honey. A decoction Of slippery elm bark
will improve the honey if added while cooling.
D. W. C. TowSE. Morgan.
YEAST FOR BREAD OR CAEEs.-1n a quart Of
boiling water, stir sufficient wheat -four to make
smooth thick batter; while hot, stir in it 4
ounces white sugar and tea-spoontul OF salt.
When cold, put in sufficient yeast (say near a
tea-cupful,) to cause the mass to ferinent. Lay
far, a ea-ct
full is enough to make two large loaves. 10 re-
new the yeast when used up reserve tea-cupiul.
This recipe my wife considers her own lnVen-
ton, as she has never seen it. 1t is simple anu
efficient for raising buckwheat cakes and bread
very light and very white if the flour is good.
W. +. l..
THE FARMERS CREED :-One of our exchanges
gives the following first rate advice under the
heading of "The Farmers Creed:'
ave believe in small farms and thorough cul-
tiration. The soil loves to eat as well rs its own
ers and therefore to be nurtured. We believe IN
large crops, which leave the land better than
they found it-makipg both the farm and farmer
rich at once. We believe in going to the bottom
of things, and therefore in deep ploughing, and
enough of it-all the better ii with subsoil
plough We believe that the best fertility OF amy
soil is the spirit of industry, enterprise and intel
ligencc-without this, lime and gypsum, bones
and green manure, mari or plaster, will be of lit,
tie use. We believe in q clean Kitchen neat
wife in it, a spinning piano, . clean cupboard,
dairy and conscience. We firmly dlSbelieve i'll
farmers that will not improve; in farms that
grow poor every year; in starved cattle; i'll far
mcr's boys turning into clerks and merchants:
in farmers daughters unwilling to work and in
all farmers who are ashamed oi their vocation"
Hoes VS.. Does" What dog lives upon will
keep hog" lfanybody doubts the truth of
the saying, let him kill his useless dog and put
pig in the pen and give it the dogs allowance.
H. will find in few months that he has fine
fat porker fit to lie eaten, a use the dog could
not be possibly applied to by any christian man.
There are too many dogs in the country, by far
too many-if they had all been killed year ago
there might have been two hundred pounds Of
good fat pork in the country to balance against
every dog so set aside, which would be no consid-
cradle item in the present scarcity of supplies.
Dogs are nuisance and should be taxed.
While every farmer keeps his dog, and every
slave his dog, and every free negro his two or
three dogs, sheep stand a poor chance to get
through the world and yield their annual fleece
with untorn throats. The increase of the dog
population accounts for the scarcity of Sheep
N. C. Planter