Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-25

their value, or if not Ignorant, TOO careless
to take the necessary pains to secure and
use them. During the winter, ashes can
be collected in large quantities, and farm
ers should do this for the purpose OF SOW
ing them on wheat soil. In my experience
with ashes / have found them OF great val
ue on different grains, but most valuable
when used on wheat. Ashes are an &C
tive fertilizer on wheat, and even five bush.
els per acre will push it forward two days
ahead of that upon which none is applied.
| In some seasons, when hot and sultry wealth
er prevails about the time wheat Is rlpen-
ing, few days gained is worth half crop
of grain.
The ashes strengthen the wheat stem,
giving it substance and solidity; and de-
velops the berry quicker and better. Ashes
are also preventative against rust, and L
have never seen wheat upon which ashes
were sOwn rust, while that upon which none
had been sown were rusted close TO the
drill row. Save your ashes to try the eX
pertinent next season. You will find it to
pay you we'll to collect all the ashes you
can get.
Farmers can afford to pay zoe. per BUSH
ell for good unleached, hard wood ashes for
farm use, and not only to put on wheat but
on corn, oats and clover as well. L believe
they are the cheapest manure that the far
mer can buy, as potash enters largely into
all the grains and grasses that are raised.
Twenty bushels can be sOwn to the acre
with the best Of results. Leached are also
good, though Il larger quantity should be
used. All around us large quantities both
of leached and unleached ashes go to waste
every year. These should be returned to
the soil. Now is a good time to collect
them, and | would advise all farmers to do
so and apply them to their fields.-Ffank-
lin Rep.
How TO PLANT POTATOES. I'VE FREE
quently have the enquiry by mail how to
plant the Early Rose potatoe. If the object
is to raise all the potatoes possible from the
seed, divide the potatoes into single eyes,
Igiving as much OF the potatoe with e.sh
eye as possible, and then put one eye in the
hill, in rich soil and give them good cul-
tivatiOn. A pound of Rose will average
about forty eyes, and by following theabove
directions, from one to two bushels can be
raised from pound of seed One eye in
a hill will not grow as many potatoes as
four eyes in a hill, but four eyes made into
four hills will grow two or three times As
many rs four eyes iii one hill. We are thus
! particular III designating the best way OF
2 propagatlng choice potatoes, as We learned
the present week Of a person who put {
, pound of Early Rose into four hills, which
is simply a waste of seed.- CaledoniuA.
SALT PORK PUDDING --One cup of porl
chopped very fine, one cup Of molasses, one
} cup of sour milk, one cup of raisins, fou
1 and and One-half cups of flour, one tea
= spoonful of soda. Boil three hours.
RUNAWAY CAKE.---One egg, one table
spoonful Of sugar, two tablespoonful oil
. butter, one cup Ofsweet milk, two teaspoons
tul OF cream tartar, one teaspoontul OF So
da; flour TO make little thicker than grid
= die cakes this is nice warmed with butte
. for breakfast and tea.
f WEDDING CAKE.---To four pounds o
e -four add two pounds of butter, three pound
\ of sugar, wOpounds of raisins, four pound
r Of currants, one pound of citron, two doze
r eggs, one half pint of brandy, one ounc
d OF mace, three nutmegs, and little mola>
IS ses. Bake three or four hours. Quantit
e sufficient for six large loayes.
- STEAMED SUET PUDDING --One cup o
j suet chopped fine, one cup OF molasses, on
- cup OF raisins chopped slightly, one cup {
new milk, three and one-half cups of fiOu
y one teaspoontul of soda, little salt. Steal
- two and one-half hours.
r RAISED FRUIT CAKE.---To one pint o
# milk add two cups OF sugar and one ofyea
l. to this add -four enough to make bate
lie as thick as can be stirred with a spoon an
n let 1t rise well then add two cups Of ST
at gar, two of butter, one nutmeg, one pOun
a II IA trl of.
&c CAKE WITHOUT BUTTER.---One cup {
u rich cream, (sOur,) one teaspoOntul OF sod
beat well; three eggs, beating them sep
n rately; two cups Of sugar, three cups {
~ flour. Flavor to taste.
OF president GRANT CAKE.---Three qua
H. tiers ola pound OF butter, one pound OF 5
X gar, beat well together; add one egg at
to time until you have used ten; beat WE
se and add one paper of corn starch; add
by teaspo0nful of yeast powder. Flavor
ny taste. Bake in small tins or cups.
70" BROWN BREAD Buttermilk the day
is churned, teacups, soda, teaspOOnfl
he stir together and pour in sufficient broy
Ire -four to make dough as stiff as can
VS. stirred and laid fiat in pan with spo
i'll lone large tablespoonful OF sugar in flo
,Or before the milk. Bake in deep pan, W
all buttered, in cool oven, two hours; b.
re- when cold. Corn bread made in this W
nd is very nice.
NC CATARRH SNUFF.---Fine table salt i.
80 much better catarrh snuff than the ira
Alu usually sold under that name. 1t shot
~ be used often and though at first somewl
~ unpleasant it can do no harm and will {
,le en- efectually cure those disagreeable co
~ in the head, so prevalent about these da
SCAB ON SHEEP ASHER II Chapman,
~ tht PendletOn Hill, New London Co, Con
Wy Wy gave as a remedy, one pound of toba
1 I soaked i'll warm water, few hours, til
: press the juice out Of it, then add til
my pounds of lard; then simmer the water
nS' of it over a slow fire aud rub the affec
ul parts of the sheep with the ointment Il
ny secured. He had known one applicat
to cure and start the wool in two weeks
iter SALEOF A FAMOUS SHoRTHoRN.-Geo
to ?. Plunkett, Of Hinsdale, Mass, has 2
Nns chased Of Samuel Thorn of Duchess couI
n. Y, the ''Gth Duke of Thorndale,"
tho $4,000. This bull stood at the head ,
inc herd of forty which has just been sole
the the average price of $1,000 per animal
the Is COnSlueTeu Ine DesU DnOrC morn ever
will in the United States.
rom HORsE-RADIsH.---No well ordered gar
on in the Northern States should be witho
! I'd. patch of this piquant esculent. 1t "
'ouS best in rather low moist place, an
:, 80 cultivated without much trouble PREF
I = the ground full two spades deep, and man
= DIS heavily. Then select good roots, cut tt
1 4T, in slices lengthwise, each slice retainiI
w piece of crown, no matter how small,
~ u plant two inches below the suface. A
avs ten feet square will furnish enough f
leEe large family, with some to spare to
oe relations. The bed should be repleniE
u once in three or four years. Our Soutl
ISL friends are obliged to import their sup
oulu A Long Island gardener produces imm
'ses; quantities on field of twelve acres, w
anu he ships in barrels to Newt Orleans.
mus; HE CULTIVATIoN OF ONIONs.-On
and the very earliest garden crops to plant
ould is the onion. In this section II Is not
lent, tivated extensively as a field crop.
es OF New England States and part of the S
the of New York and New Jersey supply
liked principal markets of the country. and
water it is very profitable crop, though su
the to the attack of the onion worm. an il
wa which we believe attacks no other pla
any vegetable. With US, that is in our garc
nant. the insect is unknown, so far as our ex
llOlIS Wa oxcallo,+