The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-03-06
Farm @arpen- Rousebolo.
New York Farmers club.
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New York F0rmerD' C1uD.
Prom Moors's Rlrs New Yorker.
WHY WEEDS GROw.-J. w. Vandenberg
aka the club to tell him Why, after blowing ew
ground and planting to corn, new varieties of
weeds come up and grow which were never seen
The gentleman that the seeds of the Canals this.
~ and some other weeds have downy wings and
loat through the air, and are conveyed from one
peint to another. And he had found the crops
VfCedar birds packed full Of apple and wild rose
esd and thus are seeds scattered which gsrmi-
nate and develop under favorable conditional
White clover often appears in fields, after An ap-
plication OF ashes, whore it had never appeared
before. One Of the learned Doctors of the Club
explained that the changed mechanical condition
OF the soil consequent upon blowing it was fav-
orsble to the termination If seeds which had
long lain dormant in it. The modest young man
who had never married rich widow, informed
v. that oeaginous seeds remain in the ground a
long time without neutrality-suspicious.
thirty or forty years. Prof. Peters said tho
theological Professor, if careful student. ought
y be able to give important information on this
subject. Seeds were carried, in the early geolog-
zeal periods, in the drift. And from excavations
several feet beneath the surface he had known
now, and strange plants to spring after the excs-
waited earth had been exposed to the action Of the
atmosphere. u
DEssICATED SWEET PoTAToEs--Samples of
dessicated sweet potatoes having been ut a pre-
vious meeting, referred to the Clubs Chemical
Professor, that dignitary made a learned report
thereon He had received six quarts of the des-
sicated tubers. These had been prepared in
various ways and cooked. 1t had been found
that by the process of dessication the peculiar
flavor of the potato was entirely lost, and thus
prepared it cannot be regarded as a substitute
for 4 he, ~, Al
form Of -four or meal can it be made valuable. As
-four it was made into excellent buildings, PAN
cakes, and mixed with u little wheat -four to
cause the particles to adhere. biscuits ere made
from it, samples of which were distributed among
the crowd. However nutritious and healthful
these biscuits might be, they were not remark.
able for hayor-wero rather insipld: though it
is proper to say that some professed to discover
remarkable quality and flavor in them. The
Chemical Profession thought that properly pre-
pared. this timber might be made AN important
substitute for wheat flour and that Of the other
grains
OF the process OF dessication he said the skin
should be removed, the tuber sliced into thin
slices OF uniform thickness-not more than one
fourth inch--and the moisture evaporated in the
quickest possible time. Coffee had been inside
from it, approaching more nearly to the real
berry in flavor than any substitute he had ever
tried. he suggested that coffee would hence
forward-as soon as this learned report got cir
cula'ion-be likely to be adulterated with this
tuber, and he urged that it be put upon the
market under its own pame and sold as = sub
stitute for coffee
distinguished and sensible Blackberry Pro-
fsssor hsreupon waxed indignant, aud properly
denounced the suggestion of any substitute for
the invigoratng and health-promoting Mocha,
Java, ct. a., berry. He was opposed to anything
that should affect the of coffee or tea. Mr.
Quinn regarded this business Of dessioatinp veg.
etabies an important one-one much more exten
sive than is generally supposed and to grow into
one OF great utility TO the food consumers Of the
country.
KEEPING SWEET PoTAToEs--David button
OF Richmond, Iowa, sends the Club his and his
neighbors' mode of keeping sweet potatoes. BY
which they are successful They procure enough
pure sand to answer their purpose and burn it
in kiln until it is thoroughly dry. They fill
boxes or barrels with potatoes, and pour sand
into them, filling the interstices and covering
the tubers; then keep them in a warm room
does not say how warm.
SWEET PorATo PLANTS are propagated by Mr.
Dutton in this wise He makes an ordinary
hot-bed in the spring, and after the rank heat
has escaped plants his tubers, and over the bed
builds frame with double inclination or roof
and instead of using glass frames to exclude the
cold air and Confne the heat, he spreads over the
frame common brown sheeting, which II lifted
when It Is necessary to water the plants.
: NORWAY OATs-A correspondent ct Sparta,
WIS.,. has seen an advertisement Of these oats aAd
wants the Club to tell him whether they arc
what they are represented to be, asserting that
some claim that they are humbug. Atthis point
the agent OF these oats in this city asked that Mr.
Smith OF Vermont have the floor to give his tes-
Gmony concerning these oats. He (the agent
had been called . swindler by the Club. or BY . |
member o: members of it, and he desired an OPP
pcrtunity 70 vindicate himself. A member Of
the Clab said that Scion Robinson had said that
selling these oats at ten dollars per bushel. when
they could be bought for three dollars, was
swindle, he did not care who did it; but no one
had called the agent swindler; nor had the
Club endorsed what Mr. Robinson had said, nor
was it responsible therefor. Finally Mr.. Smith |
got the floor aud reiterated what the ad vertise-
ments say Of this oat. He had grown it aad seen
1T growing, and it is big thing. ,