The weekly standard., 1869-09-22
HOUSE AND FARM.

HOUSE AND FARM.
Docs SUCKING EGGs.-A correspondent
of the Country Gentleman says: Give the
dog a rotten egg boiled The manner in
which it should be done is this: Take the
egg from the boiling water, put it in the
dogs mouth and shut his jaws together
crushing the egg. 1t must be done before
the egg gets cool, so that it will burn him.
BE sure to let the dog see the egg when you
put it in his mouth.
Place bone in the earth near the root of
grape, and the vine will send out lead
ing root directly to the bone. In its passage
It throws out no fibres-but when it reaches
the bone, the root will entirely cover it with
he most delicate fbres, like lace, each one
L eeking pore of the bone On this bone
he vine will continue to feed as long as nu-
Eriment remains to be extracted.
4 Partisan paper recommends the follow
ing method for the preservation of eggs:
Dissolve four ounces of beeswax in eight
4nces of warm olive oil, in this put the tip
[ga the finger and anoint the egg all around.
n The oil will Immediately be absorbed by the
she'll, and the pores filed up by wax. If
kept in cool place, the eggs after two years,
will be as good as if fresh laid.
TAPIoCA BLANC MANGE.-Hali pound of
tapioca, soak for one hour in pint of new
milk, and then boil until quite tender
Sweeten to taste. with loaf sugar, and if pre-
ferred, flavor with either lemon, almond or
vquilla pI1t ho trfO n
when cold, turn it out and serve with Gus
tard or cream, and, if approved some pre-
serves.
4 writer in the RurGl Ne,o Yorker gives a
receipt to make the hair start on spots gall
ed or otherwise injured on horses, as follows:
Take an old boot or shoe, place it on the
fire, burn to coal, pulverize and mix with
hogs lard to thin paste A few applica-
tiOns of this paste to the bare places will do
he work.
Take sharp wire, watch your trees regu-
arly, and dig out the borers the moment
YOU see signs of their work Haul the earth
stubble, grass and weeds away from the
| crown of the root SO that it will he exposed
and you can see the enemy whenever he
makes mark.
VEAL OMELET.-Two pounds veal, eggs,
crackers, grated; spoonful sage, rubbed
Inc; spoonful pepper; spoonful salt; teacup
milk; 12 teacup butter Mix well, and bake
!! hours.
Nulching is said to be sure remedy for
c!acking in fruit. In some places that ex-
cellent pear, the White Doyenne, cracks so
M-u1c hot oI,, II,
oider to prevent this, pear grower of New
Jersey used thick mulch of old chips and
ion waste. This application was perfectly
successful as preventive of cracking, and
llsO impaired superior flavor to the fruit
nd smoothness to the bark.
FEED TIE FRUIT TREEs-It must be ap-
aren't to every rejecting person that the
2terial round about fruit tree, which rem
ers important aid in the production of fine
ruit of any kind, must necessarily be more
less exhausted after vine, bush or tree
las produced abundant crops for several
uccessive seasons. For example: A large
pear tree or apple tree will frequently yield
len to sixteen bushels OF fruit annually.
Many trees have produced more than twice
ttese quantities at one crop After few
zasons, the material that the roots must be
upphed with, in order to develop fruit viii
be more or less exhausted For this reason
rult begins to fail; and the failure is often
ittlbuted to an east wind, or some atmos-
lherc influence, when, in fact, the sole cause
5 starvation, arising from an impoverished
oil. The remedy is to feed the roots of ali
ands Of fruit trees with lime, wood-ashes,
5psum, chip-dirt, bones fishes, and any-
ing that will renovate an impoverished
9il. 1t is evident that fruit-trees cannot
Foduce fine fruit out Of nothing. or out of
such material as may be desirable for some
cher purpose.-HetrthG and Home.
How TO ERADICATE SAssAFRAs BUSHES.
TO the Editors of the Baltimore .tmeri.
11a: Many farms are infested with sassafras
pushes, and many plans have been adopted
or their destruction with little success. the
-ouDle being that when they are grubbed
p every small root left in the ground will,
the ensuing spring produce IL seperate
4oot, and thus the numbers increase. Thir-
years ago practical farmer, who had
ven lour-score years, told me that II the
y4shes are grubbed the day before and the
ay alter the full of the moon in July and
le day before and the day after the full of
1S moon In August, the small roots left in
e ground will never germinate again.
@S'er thirty years experience, l am prepaT-
u 10 say to all who are troubled with them.
pend all other work, embrace the oppor-
-a'y offered during the four days | have
1uiea, and in the coming spring you may
one In thousand but follow the same
RI cla1l
ghy no more. Ispeak from experience.
:Lall leave Others to philosophize and the
aze upon it.
GEORGE LEVY.
Near Reesc's Corner, Kent county, Md.
CoLT-BEEAKING.-Itis is by no means an
ommon practice with persons in the
.- ~ho wish to break horse to har-
u a ruL him into strong cart, and
IA ZIG eau. do any HARM perhaps he
- -t he chance is. that, by this
u -5mmencing his harness education,
A. no loon. This may be breaking;
80 $g.s The hezsesis not aceps-
- stovpropF anything with
les; the act is therefore unusual
4 "a tural act would be TO recoil
fro1 Il r. he could. OF course, therefore,
The heaVler the weight he feels against him
is. the more disposed he is to recoil from it.
IA good and well-trained cart-ho Sc will pull
twenty times running at an immaEa5lc OBJ
ect, for this reason: he has been accustom-
ID to find that by increased exertion he has
enerally succeeded in moving an object to
Which he has been attached he therefore
Hlways expects to be able to do this, conse-
1uently Will try to do so hut the novice in
harness, il lie feels great weight behind,
Y ill most probably do everything but what
lie ought 10 do, which is, to resolutely set
His Shoulders to the collar This fact is, in
Lis as in al cases with horses, they should
lever, if possible, be put to that which it is
hkely they will refuse to do. It is quite
Iatural a horse should at first refuse to face
1 collar with 500 lbs. pressing against him
Lnone would refuse to do so with 5 lbs.
the 500 lbs, therefore, should reyerbe tried
kll we know he will draw the 5 lbs, and
hen increase the draft by degrees. Neg
Ecting to Do this is one of the great causes
hat producs iibbing. which is the almost
crtain result of injudicious treatment
rairis Far4s