The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-07
MORNING srAR AND CATHOLIC MEssENGER.
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY. JUNE 7. 1858.
AGRICULTURAL.


night, in the dark, and shut down closely.
After day or two she will keep to them.
AsPARAGUs.-Should Ike thrown into boil
ing hot water, sailed, and boiled until three
quarters cooked Longer boiling makes
them tasteless. A spoonful of butter and
-four, melted in pan, with half IL pint of
water added, and stewed, makes good
sauce.
HOMEMADE WINE.-A contributor to a
country exchange says: GAS we have any
quantity of dewberries and blackberries
this season, with l furnish you the follow
ing recipe for making an excellent article
of wine out of either the dewberry, black
berry, strawberry, or muscadine, at little
cost and very little trouble: Take as much
water as berries, mash and bruise the ber-
ries as you put them into the water, and
leave them in an open vessel for twenty
four hours; then strain, and to every gallon
Of liquid, add three pounds of good sugar.
to skim as it ferments. AS soon rs it ceases
to ferment, put away in a demijoh u,l-
cOrked, and let it SO remain for fifteen or
twenty days, when it may be bottled for use"
TURKEls.-Turkeys require very great
care and attention; yet, when the hen-wife
makes them her pets and studies their well
fare In every way, she, at any rate, (what-
ever the farmer himself may say,) may find
them profitable. This used to be one of the
bestfarm crops when the birds were thought
to be>well sold ut Christmas and Thanks
giving, for twelve and fourteen cents a
pound. 1t >eannot be anything else when
the price is Increased. Turkey is at the
top of the scale of high prices, and must he
about the most prOtitaBfe meat we can raise
The turkey hen lays one egg every thirty
hours, and should he put on ~ dozen eggs |
and fed with corn and water. Wien the |
chicks come of, they need no fo0tt>> for
twenty -four hours, and will then pick what.
is placed before them. Their food should +
be hard boiled eggs, chopped very fine, or
curd with bread crumbs, and boiled nettlcs
and green onions finely minced Coop the
hen for a fortnight, and then let her r;lmble
night; but beware of the least wetting of
rain. A critical time with them is at n
little over two months old, when the male
and female markings begin to appear, and
the birds are called turkey "poults.'
PRoFITs OF Notwithstanding which
the farmer produces is of quicker sale than
eggs and poultry. The prices which he re-
celves therefor are III the main remunera-
tive; the labor incurred is light and
agreeable, and can be performed by the
junior members of his family. The poultry
yard produces food which is highly palata-
BILE and nutritious at all seasons and in
this respect is hardly equaled by any other
department of the farm, Is it not worth
while, then, to bestow more care and skill
in managing the poultry Left to them
selves, half their products is often wasted.
and half the year they are non-layers In
winter, they need simply warmth, light, !
and sunshine. clean, roonly quarters, and y
plenty of food. Every day they will pay
for this. In the summer, they want range, ,
fresh earth, shade. water, SecIusloR and !,
protection from vcrnim. An abundance of &
eggs and broods OF plump chickens, either =
Tor market or the farmers own table, will =
result from this care 1t is not feasible to
AIRY on the poultry business on an enor-
nous scale. Many have tried it and failed ID
'ut every farmer should make Il couple of p
hundred dollars worth of their products q
early. That, at least, can be done with F
'rofit and pleasure 1t is Il business adapted
Or the boys and girls, and they will speedily y
AXE lively interest in it, if only proper ~ ~
is given. IL
The KITCHEN GARDEN.-Continue to ~;
liant corn, beans, and squashes at interval ccll
I two weeks, to insure a succession of these 10
egetables: Sow also seed of the winter tte
arieties of cabbage, to secure q good sup a,
ly OF plants to be set out in July, for the o.;
inter crop. 1t is better to SOW on a some p,
hat shaded border, as the young plants nv
re liable to be killed by the hot sun. If
ry, water the bed just before night. Lock
} it that everything in the garden is pross- In
rly thinned out. There is no advantages. ~
our dry, hot climate, in leaving too many NJ,
ants OF any kind upon the ground Stir VIZ
le SOIL very frequently-weeds and grass ~
.me up rapidly now; kill them at once.
light hoeing or raking will be sufficient, if ne
ractised early and often enough. Be care mi
/ not to work about the beans when the SIN
Nv is upon their leaves; it will cause them tie
trust" After hoeing, run over lightly WI
18th a rake, working backward, so as to
ave the surface perfectly mellow; not rea
zen pressed by the foot of the workman alv
mseh; irish potatoes may now be hilled res
p, and If the ground is damp, NAV be yo
ulched, as the danger of frost is over. . If !
e weather is dry, water the strawberry an
Ids freely-otherwisc the crop will fail. if shl
in hills, hoe lightly among the %" ~
ants, to keep down weeds and grass @If !
ey have run over the whole surface Of tho qut
ound, hand weed and keep them as clean sho
you can. Plant enough pole or runninr cas-