The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
USEFUL RECIPES ETC.

An English farmer chose his seed wheat
with such care, and cultivated it with such
skill, that his heads increased in length
from four to eight inches; the berries
from 45 to 125 in head, and the number
of stalks from a seed from 10 to 50.
THE Country Gentleman says it has not
vet met the farmer who could make
enough manure to obviate the necessity
of using clover as fertilizer. 1t thinks
manure spread on clover sod in the fall is
the best preparation of ground for corn
the following spring.
IT is said that cabbage plants may be
protected from the cut-worm by wrapping
the stems in oak 1eaves-one leaf to each
plant, covering from the roots to the leaf
stems. This should be done at the time of
transplanting, the oak-leaves being first
moistened with water.
Roll JELLY CAKE.-One cup white
sugar and three eggs beaten together, one
tea spoon cream Of tartar mixed with
cup of flour, half tea spoon of soda in
two table spoons of sweet milk; mix all
these together, stir well and bake IN two
square tins. When done, spread both
cakes with jelly and roll.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Rural World
says that an ordinary hot-bed Is capital
place for drying fruit. A floor is laid in
side, on which the fruit is placed. Then
put in the sash, raising both ends to en-
sure proper ventilation, and to prevent
the fruit from baking instead OF drying
Here the fruit is safe from damage by
rain, insects, etc.
A FRENCH writer states that butchers
meat may be preserved in hot weather by
placing it in large earthen jars, putting
clean, heavy stones upon 1t, and covering
it with skim-milk. The milk will become
sour, of course, but may afterwards serve
as food for pigs, and the meat will be
found to have kept its natural primitive
freshness, even after eight or ten days.
THE editor of the Gardeners Monthly
says that coal oil is most effectual remedy
against insects. A tablespoonful of coal
oil put into a common garden water pot OF
water, sprinkled over the seed bed, when
the little pumping beetle is noticed, will
instantly destroy the whole brood. One
great fact in favor of coal oil is, that it
acts as manure to vegetation, while deal
| ing out death to insects.
THIsTLEs are biennial Like the turnip
and carrot 1t takes two years for them to
mature; if they are cut down before the
seed is ripe this year, and the seed that
was dropped off last year and has sprung
up, this should be cut down next year, be-
fore the seed is ripe enough to mature.
The seed that was dropped last year can
not be destroyed by cutting off this year,
because it will not kill the root; but after
it goes to seed the root will naturally die of
itself-Erchange.
A GOOD story is told of an amateur agri-
culturist, in Berkshire County, Mass,
who was advised by one of his neighbors
| TO plant sunflowers with his beans in order
to Obviate the task of polling. He follow
ed the advice in due course of time besns
and sunfowers came up and waxed strong,
the beans coiling around the sunfiOwer
stalks beautifully; and he congratulated
himself upon the fact that he had discov-
cred an effectual method of raising beans
without being driven to the disagreeable
necessity of toting bean-poles from the
forest. But alas for human expectations,
| his beans were raised out of the soil, roots
and all, in a few weeks, by the rapid
growth of his new-faslIioned bean-poles,
and there they hung whitening between
heaven and earth.
OFTEN in fine orchard we find enc or
| more trees leaning over SO lar as W ues-
troy the beauty of the whole orchard. 1t
| is also much more difficult to cultivate
around leaning tree. This may easily
be remedied, while the trees are young, by
partially digging up and replanting the
tree. The roots will usually be found
smallest on the side from which the tree
leans; and therefore these roots should be
loosened from the earth, the tree set in a
perpendicular position, and carefully fas
tened by stakes or guys, and the earth re.
placed around the roots. 1t would be well
to add some rich compost to promote theiI
growth If, as is very probable, the top
Of the tree has become one-sided, it should
be pruned go rs to restore the balance. In
this way we have righted up pear trees six
inches through the stem; but the best way
is to look after the young trees, and not
permit them to depart from the way of up
rightness.-Journdl Of Horticulture.