The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-06
DAILY EMPIRE.
AGRICULTURAL.

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TO PICKLE CABBAGEs.-Thc ohio Farmer
says: This " the season Of the year when
the busy housekecper, Notwithstanding the
"clarin' up spells,'' so loved by Mrs. Stoves
Chloe, must find time to pickle cabbage, in
order to save the nice heads as they are
unburied or brought from the cellar. /
think my way is very good, so l give II for
the benefit of others.
Cut the cabbage in the evening salt It as
for cooking, and let 1t stand over night. In
the morning take the best Of vinegar, al
lowing one quart for each gallon desired OF
picked cabbage; allow half an ounce of
whole cloves and half an ounce of CHINA
mon, broken in small bits, to each quart OF
vinegar; also two teacups of sugar. Let
the vinegar, spices and sugar boil for two
or three minutes, then carefully press the
cabbage with the hands In order to leave
no brine In It, put it in the vinegar and
thoroughly heat tiff it boils a minute It
will do no harm-stirring it that the spices
may be well mixed with the cabbage. Put
into jars, with a small weight on top.
LOUISA.
THE HUBBARD SQUAsH.-In growing the
squash. great care must be taken to keep
IL quite II distance from any other member
of the squash family, or otherwise the seeds
of the crop win be found to be productive
of a mongrel breed of squashes, as unlike
the original MS a pumpkin is unlike n good
Boston Marrow 1t must be borne in
mind that the true Hubbard Is most perfect
In its character In Underwriters; when cut
up and put in the oven aud baked, it comes
out a dark golden yellow, and rs sweet rs n
first quality South Carolina potato with n
peculiar flavor of its own added. which
makes it decidedly the finest squash in the
world. In growing the squash, the bugs
must be looked out for. They attack the
vine the minute IL is out of the ground,
when the plant is tender and very small.
TO insure the safety of the vine, aud get 1t
beyond the tender period, after which the
bug will let 1t alone, you must sprinkle
lime freely upon the hillin which the seeds
have been planted, and also freely upon
the vine after 1t makes its appearance. A
little care for the first ten DAYS will take it
beyond the critical period, and the stalk
being then harder and coarser, the bug
Will seek other quarters. 1t will be neces-
sary to sprinkle the lime till after the bios
SONS have set the fruit well started, the
danger is over.
POTAToEs-SEED VS.. BUTT-ENDs.-Read-
err, have you ever tested the matter to as
certain which will yield the larger crop,
seed or butt-ends, cut so as the weights will
be about equal? If so, YOU doubtless as
certained that the butt-cnds had consider
ably the advantage, both in quantity and
quality, and were also some two weeks ear
Tier. Why is this so? | answer simply
because the seed ends have more eyes and
send forth a superabundance of shoots.
Some years ago, | read in u patent Office re-
port where a parcel of potatoes that had
been cut three or four days, and as n con-
sequence considerably shriveled, exceeded
largely in amount a parcel that were plant
ed fresh. My curiosity being excited upon
this subject, | was led to try a number of
experiments In order to ascertain the cause
of this singular phenomenon.
without giving a detailed history of my
operations, | ascertained that the cause
was simply owing to the fact that the
shriveled portion sent forth fewer tubers.
Upon his same principle we can readily
account why butt-ends exceed seed-ends.
After this ! improved my product largely.
both in quantity and quality, by throwing
out the tubers, leaving but a single stalk at
n place. | have thus had seven single
plants to fill a half bushel. eight would
heap it, and the joint product OF two plants
weighed eleven pounds. The extra tubers
can readily he transplanted and make a
fine yield. They are more hardy for trans
planting than the sweet potato. and yield
equally as well.-Americdn Fdrmer.
CURouLIo ON FRUIT TREE.-The agricul-
tural editor of the Day Book says that Dor
ing into fruit trees and filling the hole to
keep off curculio is a humbug. The eXper-
iment has been tried time and again,
and the several leading horticultur-
al writers of the country deny the whole
thing. We haze never tried it, but we have
seen - vDral letters from parties who have,
anG the sulphur was not touched by the
action OF the sap. 1t remained intact.