Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-01

A Massachusetts IAsmer raised 4usl bush /
els Of Harrison potatoes from Two barrels. |
81 bushels, OF seed. This the NEST produc-
tive potato We have in Ievs.
Tho Rural Nav Yorker, published at Ro-
chester, New York, expects to begin ito
new vslams, doubled in size and With loo.-
600 Subscribers 1t will print an cd ition Of
the frat number Of l50, 900 copies. It's
FIRST class agricultural and family paper,
and we'll merits this great success.
Now il the time TO begin 10 feed your |
stock we'll. farmers. Economy in feed to
growing or iattsnisg animals 10 the very |
worst sxtrayagsncs that any nan.can be
guilty OF committing. Feed all they can |
eat, but watch carefully and allow meme to
20 to waste.
Lsached ashes and we'll slaksd lime are
Of great value around pear and apple trees
and grape vines aud strawberries. Almost
% much 20 - the unlsached article. Never
allow even coal ashes . g to waste. Spread
them broadcast over grass plats and pas>
lures and around fruit trees.
The Canadians have many good arrange
msnts for heating their dwellings They
place the window sash close to thu inner
wall, and have arrangements made to put
on or take OF other sashes on the outside,
lea, ing an air space Of several inehsss be
tween the two, which adds very much to
the warmth Of . room. The outer eashss
are generally removed in summer. They
also build their rooms in such 4 way that
steve placed in the corner o. one will reach
through and warm two, three or four 9th
ers, or Occasionally three rooms and hall.
The p'pe then runs into the drums up
stairs, which are made to do good duty up
| there. This would not answer, Of course,
FOR = cooking steve, fer which drums are
| exactly adap'ed. The Canadian stoves are
| remarkable for size, weight and plsinnsss.
Hints like these, given 10 ingenious men,
cannot fail to add largely to the confert 81
their dwellings in winter. More than hall
the heat now bought aAd created passes of
through the chimney into the wintry air.
This might lust 20 we'll be sassd BY such
,xpsdisnts % above indicated. II would
| add much 10 the comfort of our dwsllings If
all the rosms could b. made warm instead
or emily enc q I've, subjssting the inmates
to cslds and other diseases from which they
might - we'll ~ not be exempt.
The st. Lsuls Democrat ssys:
"It has been ascertained that the hog
crop 10 unusually large this yssr, and 1t is
presumed that with the downward tenden
cy in csrn vast quantitiss Of that plentiful
essp will be Immediately converted into
pork. Of course this presumption 10 b., cd
upon the common sense hypothesis that
farmers understand their own interests and
are swift 10 work them out. No farmer
vii sell his corn at forty cents per bushsl
when he can put II inte pork and get five
and seven csnts per pound for it. For this
reason il 10 thought that the crop Of hogs
for packing will ultimately turn out to be
surprisingly large, and that from the LIST Of
December . decline in price will sst in and
prevail TOR the balance OF the season until
three and four cents has been reached. We
have known hogs packed at two and hall
cents, gross weight, Which lost money "a
the packer, the low rate always con ,urring
toward the close Of the packing season.
HoussnoLD REciPgs.-French Cream
2 teaeups Of sweet cream, pint Of new
milk, / tsacup Of white sugar, 9 drops Of
extract eflemon, yolks Of 8 eggs; beat tn,
eggs and sugar together add the cream and
milk. and place on the fire and STIR con
stantly till Of the consistency Of cream.
Nice Sugar Cook ies-2 cups Of sugar,
cup Of butter. l cup Of bsiling water mold
hard aud roll thin like ginger snaps.
Spanish BunS-l cup sweet milk, hall
cup good yeast, 3 cups -four, 3 eggs, l table
spoonful cinnamon. / cup butter.
Cheap Sponge Caks-l cup sugar. cur
sweet milk, ! egg, y cups flour. table
spsonsful butter, half tsaspoonful salt,
tsaspeenful cream Of tartar, half teaspoon
; full soda.
Feather Cake cups -four, sups sugar
half cup butter, same amount Of milk,
eggs, l tsaapoonful cream Of tartar, hal
teasposnful soda. Favor with lemon.
Tip-tep Caks-3 cups flour, cup
sugar, cup sweet milk, . eggs, ] tail,
spoonful butter, l tsaspoonful soda,
. tsaspsonful sseence Of almond, half tea
spsonful cream Of tartar.
TINS CuLruRs or WHsAr.-One OF the
most experienced millers Of Western New
York remarked, agar Or two ago, tha
ever since the farmers began 10 manur,
their land the wheat crsp had deteroratet
in quantity and quality. 1t seemed q very
strange assertion. but when he explained
that tho farmers had substituted summer.
following and blowing in clover by spring
crops, and an oecasiona. dressing OF pcol
manure, il IS easy to understand how il
might be strictly true. 1t is not the manure
that hurts the wheat, but the growth Of
spring crops and weeds that rsbs the sol
of more plant food than the poor straw mi i'd,
manure can supply.
We must either give up tbs practice o.
sowing spring crop before wheat, or VIZ
must make more and richer manure, OF
must pow in mere clover. The rotation
corn, barley, wheat, ID a veIy preftabl,
one, provided We can furnish manur,
eneugh 10 produce eighty bushels o.
shcllsd corn, fifty bushels OF barley, and
forty bushels Of wheat per acre in three
years. This can DO done, but We should
either require . member Of acres Of rich low
land, or irrigated meadow, the produce 81
which would make manure fer the upland,
or We should have to purchase si-caks to
iced out with our straw and clover hay, or
vs must purchase artificial manure. Unless
this 10 dsss W must summer fallow more,
and plant less csrn, and seed down oil eur
gram crops with c,ovsr-the whole OF
which must either be plswsd under or fed
out On the farm, and the manure returned
to the land.
We might summer fallew or rather fall
faIlsw, Tor barley. with more advantage
than for wheat. Autumn in this clamats
- mech longer and pleasantsr for work
than the spring Our ss.callsd summer
fallows are often not broken up till the
middle 81 Jane, and are sswn TO wheat
the hrst Of September. We have only
ten weeks in which to wsrk them, and
these include the busy seasons Of haying
and harvest. Give following wheat, and
~ have ten weeks more in which to
work she land before the winter sets in ::
and i can b allowed t. Lilo up rough for
the frost 10 act upon fer another twenty
weeks. and then plowsd again and sown
70 barley. Instead Of ten weeks fall
lev, W get an exposure 70 the dscsm-
posing, fertilizing aetisn Of the atmes>
Phsrs for fsrtv weeks or more. Sow this
land 70 barley, and seed it down with
clover. and 10 may expect . COED crop !;
and the clever would almost certainly be
| splendid. Pasture this 10 the fall mot too
closs)' NOW it the next summer, pasture
il the next and then break up and SOW to
wheat q one fuirow and seed down
again. Wheat likes firm foothold, and
. rather tough Or clsddy surface; and .
recently inverted clever sod, harrowsd
lsngthwiss aud drilled in. comes 20 near
the requisite conditions ~ any other prsc
ticable treatment. The objection is that
our land is seldom clean enough; but the