The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-08-22
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If tomatoes are slightly scalded and
skinned, and put into bot les, and these
set in;o boiling water for few Minutes,
and corked and sealed, the fruit will keep
as long as desired, and if eaten when
first opened, will have the same taste as
when first picked from the vines"
Our experience is this We pick our
tomatoes, wash and peel then boil slight
ly and stir for five or ten minutes, so as
to be sure to expcl all the air then heat
the bottles, aud fill, corking up instantly
If not corked up at once, and when full,
the contents will settle, and leave va
cant space. The cork should be short
one, and pushed down below the level of
the top of the bottle neck-ths filled up
with mel ed sealing wax. This is our
mode. We have never lost DO tie, nor
had the least change taken place in the
fruit. We have kept it--and generally
do-a year, or year and a half, always
with perfect success. We have now
quart bottle filled, which we shall not
break till next summer, when it will be
two years old. We have no thought at
all of its spelling. Oyster cans are
equally good, only there will be a tin
taste-not agreeable.
In this process, heat drives out the air
and the glass keeps it out. This pre-
serves the fruit. But there is some fruit
that will not preserve, on account of the
fixed air in it. Plums are of this nature.
Pears, on the other hand, are readily
preserved.
There is ano her way to preserve fruit,
the air pump. Pump out the air, and
your fruit Is safe, regardless of the
vacuum in the vessel. Fruit may be pre-
served with or without sugar but it
should be boiled with sugar. Boil frst,
then apply the sugar or, heat your strip,
and pour over your fruit. This leaves
the taste of the fruit distinct. One thing
more use only the purest and best re-
fined sugar-sugar without tas;e, for
whatever odor or Avor there is, goes into
the fruit, and will De tasted. VALLEY
Farmer.
How TO select Flour. First, look to
the color if it is white, with ycl.owish
or straw colored tint, buy it. If it is
very white, with a blush cas-, or with
While specks in it, refuse it. Second,
examine its adhesiveness wet and kncad
little of it between your fingers if i.
works soft and sticky, it is poor. Third,
throw little lump of dry -four against
dry, smooth, perpendicular surface; if it
falls like powder, it is bad. Four b,
squeeze some of the -four in your hand; if
it re aims the shape given BY the pressure,
that, too, is a good sign. Flour that will
stand all these tests, it is safe to buy
These modes are given BY old -four deal
ers, and they per ain to a matter that
concerns everybody, namely, the staff Of
life.
To Test Eggs.-The most expeditions
way and which is generally practised is to
hold them between the eye and lighted
lamp or candle. If the egg is good, the
light will shine through with reddish
glow, but if it be injured by incubation
or from long keeping, it will be opaque
or dark. This Can be more readily dis
cerned by placing the egg in paper or
other tube and looking through it, or by
partially enclosing il in the hand. Wi h
little practice, person will thus
examine large number Of eggs in a
very short time
The Apple Worm.-This insect appears
in the Spring as miller, and deposits
its eggs in the calyx or eye of the young
fruit. From the egg,a worm or larva is
hatched, which cats its way to the cen err
of the fruit, causing it to fall to the
ground prematurely. If left there
undisturbed, the arva will undergo its
change to chrysalss and winged insect,
and be ready next Spring to multiply its
progency. A few swine should have the
range of the orchard to gather the blast
cd fruit, and thus keep the insect in
check.
Bearing Year Of .apple Trees.-lt is
supposed that some app BE trees bear only
during alternate years, because of some
popularity which renders them unable
to store up sufficient fruit making mate
rial in single year. Whether this
attempted explanation be correct or not,
it has been proved that by liberal
manuring and keeping the ground loose
by cultivation, the habit may be broken
up and crop gathered annually.
Spare the Snakes.-Not the Copper
heads, ratt!esnakes, nor other venomous
reptiles, but the noffensive striped snake |
black snake, ETC., which live mainly upon
insects and worms, and which are true
friends, Though disguised in a form
against which there is almost universal
prejudice. They certainly are more
beautiful and graceful than the toad,
which is now a universal fayorite among
gardeners.
Trees for Transplant,ng frees
raised in the nursery are usually prefer
able to those growing in the woods for
transplanting. The latter have usually
tail spindling growth, which is in most
cases undesirable. If wild saplings are
taken, choose those which have grown
in open fields OF on the edge of the for
est.
Beef BRINE for Warfs.-James War
den, Baltimore county, Nd, writes to