The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-12-08
Agricultural.
Keeping Apples,


Tha apple is the most valuable of all
the fruits Of the earth, in consequence oil
it's lusciousress, its preservability, the va
rie,y Of uses to which it can be applied,
and its productivencsH. MIR. T. Lake, OF
Topsfeld, Massachusetts, in 1861, obtain
cd, from one acre Of ground, two hundred
barrels of Baldwin Russell apples, besides
ton and hall Of squashes and a hundred
tabbages, one weighing twenty-scyen lbs.
1t has been stated that single tree has
Welded in one season forty bushels Of
apples. A hundred and fifty good-sized
apples make bushel Two baked APP
pies arc an abundant dessert for dinner;
two each for breakfast and supper, with
single cup of tea or coffee, and as much
bread and butter as is wanted, is as much
as children and sedentary persons ought
to have. Apples come in August and
keep good until May, nine months, TWO
hundred and seventy days, fifteen hundred
apples, or ten bushels, or four barrels !;
easily had in the country for one dollar
each. Thus four dollars worth OF apples
will furnish one person three parts Of the
year with s'relish" for breakfast and sup
per, and .'dessert' for dinner, Of which
he will no more ''gct tired' than OF bread,
aud it will be cheaper and incoinpafably
more healthful than pies, preserves, sweet
meats, doughnuts, cookies, dumplings,
pnddings, and the other long list of slom-
ach,destroying and dyspepsia, engendering
articles.
PRESERVING APpLEs.--Pick out the
perfec. ones, pack them away, surround
ing each apple with dry good plaster of
Paris. Thus: begin with an inch Of
plaster; then layer of apples an inch
from the side and half an inch apart; silt
in the plaster until covered nearly all inch,
aud SO on until the receptacle is full
This fertilizing plaster costs from three to
ten dollars ton, and is az good in the
spring for such purpose as il it had not
been used. Pippins will keep until June
in any cool, dry room in the house.
Apples, spread on board floor, and
covered with five or Fix layers Of newspa-
papers, or a sheet, or clean straw, will
keep until spring, and even on common
dry cellar floor. Apples will keep many
months il, free from any bruise or speck,
they are wrapped each in soft paper and
laid on a shelf cool and dry. In cities
aud towns, apples, as commonly bought
in barrels, will keep pretty well Until spring
in dry cellar; but they should he care,
fully picked over, and the unspecked ones
laid down softly every two weeks. Even
laid on shelves, two laye deep, and COW
cred with newspapers or straw, picking
out the specked ones for use every few
days, very few will be lost. Very good
apples can be bought in New Y ork dur
ing the latter part Of October, for one dol
lar and hall barrel; and if cared for
and used as above, and in addition gi2en
out to school children for luncheon, in
stead of nuts, swect-cakcs, candy, cross
buns, doug hnuts, aud the like, sickness
would be prevented, and money saved 10
an amount which would surprise any one
who never "tried it,"
Those who live i'll the country will save
themselves great deal ofrouble, and ad-
In'r.t!.y succeed i'll keeping apples in per-
feet order until June, if they would take
the preeaution to pick each apple from the
tree and lay it in u basket; then lay them
OH the floor Of cool, dry room for few
days to dry, and pack them away in some
one Of the plans above suggested It
ough, to be known that baked sweet
apple is the most digestible food tina. can
be swallowed; they are digested in about
an hour and half, bread requiring two
hours longer. etinvalids remember this.
Halls Journal Of Health.