Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-07-13

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application most decidedly, numbers OF
them dropping off daily. The plants
were allowed to stand three days; they
were then syringed quite sharply with
water, which carried them all off. The
experiment was tried about the last OF
February since then not a single
aphis has made its appearance on the
pinks. Some rose geraniums that were
experimental on at the same time, have
had a few of the aphides on them for
about week, but they do not seem to
increase as fast as before. If / make
another application, / shall put double
the quantity of aloes to the same quanti-
ty Of water. The red spider does not
seem to mind it so much as the aphis.
The scale bug evidently dislikes it, and,
according to M. Raspail, it is quite disa-
greeable to the wooly-coated plant-louse,
(wooly aphis) or, as gardeners call it,
" mealy bug" Who knows but we may
make the plum disagreeable, even to the
curculio, by the use of aloes.-C. S. III.
in Homestead.
y MAKING CHEESE FROM FEW Cows.
5 Not witnessing any reply to your cor
= respondent on this subject, and believ-
r ing that few make the trial, / will ven
Z ture to give you my mode, which have
9 found Satisfactory and successful. Hav-
ing commenced few years since, entire
4 ly ignorant of many of the practical
- duties of farmers wife, while seeking
4 information ] CHANGED to find in an ag-
e ricultural paper an account of the diaries
# in Cheshire, England, in which he de-
e scribes a small, self-acfing press, from
d which l gathered sufficient information to
,e order one made. 1t is simply tin can
" twenty-eig BIT inches in circumference
,e eight inches deep, pierced full of small
10 holes, the corner to be fastened by {
ID hinge on both sides, and hook over OF
IN the outside. / use no other apparatus
except two wooden followers to fit inside
no when the curd does not fill the hoop. /
Won have not sufficient milk to fill thu
or press at once, prepare what you have
rs and put in the followers, placing a small
lat weight, Ca stone weighing six or eigh
of pounds is sufficient, or a dish of col
use water will do as well,) upon them, ant
no if you wish to make the full size, pre-
me pare another curd, and add, after scarify
, is ing the first. In either case, it shoul
Or be turned over two or three times, an
art gently pressed down into the opposi
ZEE, cover. In this way, with very lit
'ub trouble, l have successfully supplied m
so family with good cheese for the pa
- seven years.-A Farmers Wife,
ole Hartland, Niagara county, ". T.,
Moore's Rural Neac Yorker.
ru- How TO FEED FowLs.-When n
lSe' chickens are quite young, l give the
mas Indian meal FIVE times day, and witt
toP old enough to lay, about a tablespoO
ave full of cayenne pepper with their me
once a week, for twelve hens. Th
10 with plenty of lime and gravel, enab
them to give twenty dollars a year
Will their products.
rees
:.L KEEPING MILK SwEET.-A corr
4. pondent of the Homestead found that
nm sending milk to market, though it
the dairy perfectly sweet, it was of
-, curdled on delivery to customers.
=, remedy this, the cans were covered W
cotton cloth soaked in salt water.
this method the curdling Of the milk '
removed.
Ai''' To MAKE PURE WINE OF APPLIES
rove TIL 80 i'll - g..
ruth :,
apples, as it runs from the press, put s
ty pounds of common brown sugar i
o for fsao, ,,llono &c a. a. e !.
dissolve, then put the mixture int
" clean barrel, and fill the barrel up
~ within two gallons of being full v
- clean cider-put the cask in some c
a &c place. leaving the bung out three Ut f
- weeks.
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