Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-04

anu WitH Tie tuD Is luli put oh +" NAo0ii o'iN
cover with fine salt churn but once week
usually. Great care should be taken to
have not only the milk room but all the
utensils and about the milk and butter per-
fectly sweet and clean. | think butter is
sometimes worked too much, spelling the
grain should be worked only enough to
get out the buttermilk and mix the salt
evenly through it.
KEEPING HAMS IN WARM WEATHER.
The Country Gentleman gives the follow
ing directions:
make bags of unbleached cotton cloth,
put the hams in, and then put in layer
of fine soft hay all around them, so as to
make stratum of hay between the cloth
and the hams Ifmerely bagged the flies
will thrust their ovipositors through the
cloth and sting the meat; but the inter-
posed hay keeps them off. 1t is common
practice to whitewash the bags, but this is
not so neat, and the bags cannot be so well
used again. Another model is to bury
them in oats or some other grain, but they
are more apt to become injured from want
of ventilation. Charcoal dust keeps the
hams WELL but is black and disagreeable,
and hard to get off. Whichever mode is
adopted, it is of vital Importance that the
work is done early in spring, before the
flies are stirring"
Liquid glue, superior to mucilage, may
be made by dissolving glue in an equal
quantity of strong hot vinegar, adding
fourth of alcohol and little alum. This
will keep any length Of time when placed
in closed bottles, and will glue together
horn, wood, and mother ofpearl.
LIME FOR POTATOES. A correspond
ent i'll East Homer, New York, writes:
"In an early number of your paper you
give as special potatOe fertilizer, one cask
of lime, one bushel of salt and ashes, or
garden mould enough to make five barrels
of the compound. Will youplease inform
me, and all who may be as ignorant as l,
how much lime makes a cask? | never
yet saw it sold only by the bushel | sup
pose you refer to shell-lime. Will stone
lime take the place of it? There is no
shell-lime sold here. We have what is
called maritime. Is that better than stone
lime?
The following, on the same subject, Is
from the Hearth & Home. 1t reads thus
''The lime cask seldom contains oven
two bushels, sometimes not quite two, es-
pecially Of stone lime, when the fragments
are large. We do not refer exclusively tC
shell lime. There is but little difference
to the farmer between shell and stone lime
The shell is rather preferable, because there
is some phosphate of lime in oyster shells
and none in common lime rock. Mar
lime differs slightly from oyster shell lime
For composing, as special application OF
potatoes, it is, perhaps, not at all interio
to rock lime but for a top dressing on SOU
wet lands, the latter is more effective"
| VERMONT AS A GRAIN STATE.-The tig
ures copied by us from the L. ). Agricul
tural Report of 1867 the other day, show
ed that Vermont was the second state 0
the Union in yield of corn to the acre. Tn
r Portland Press shows that the same hold
true Of wheat.
, ''The tables show that the average yiel,
of wheat in Maine last year was ten bush
els per acre, while in some other states
, was little more than half as much. In Obi
it was IL bushels per acre. In Vernon
: it was 10 bushels, the largest yield of an
state in the Union, except, perhaps, Cali
fornia, from which there Is no report. Tn
: average yield Of corn in 1868 in Main
was little over 20 bushels per acre. Mas
= sachusetts about 81 bushels, Vermont 81
, New Hampshire 80, and the smallest yiel
4 was in South Carolina, little over tie
4 bushels, and Florida about ten bushels.
y Illinois, Indiana and Ohio the yield va
e about 81 bushels, and in Iowa it was 3
e bushels. The average yield of rye in Main
was 10 bushels per acre, which is rattle
more, we believe, than the average of I'll
S other states"
/ ROTATION OF MANUREs.-Peter Hel
e derson, one of the most successful, as we
e as experienced New York market gardel
II ers, in his valuable little work entitle
l. Gardening for Profit" gives the followiI
II as his experience in relation to the abo,
IS subject:
IL 'ID applying manures to the soil, v
y have long ago discovered the great impo
q tence of an alteration of different kind
Is When | first began business as a mark
a gardener, had opportunities of gettiI
n large quantities of night soil from the sea
o engers of Jersey City; this was mixed wi
N stable manure, charcoal sawdust or al
D other absorbent most convenient and a
/ piled, 50 mixed, at the rate of about 80 to-
per acre. The crops raised with this m
III nure were enormous for two or three yea
y but it gradually began to lose effect, and
< five years from the time we began to u
C. it, it required nearly double the weight
C. this compost to produce even an avera
al crop. | then abandoned the use of mig
a soil and applied refuse hops instead, at t
IL rate of about 60 tons per acre with mark
&c improvement; but this was for the fl
rs and second years only, the third year sho
vs. ing falling off. About this time our pr
o1 udices against the use of concentrated N
ne nures for market gardening began to gi
iy way, and at first we applied guanO toget
re er with manure at the rate of 300 pOuI
IS per acre which we found to pay; and t
Al next season, guano was used at the rate
Va 200 pounds per acre, with very satisf
III tory results. Since then our practice |
er been a systematic alienation of manur
re which l am convinced is Of quite as mu
lie, importance to the production of unifo
ny crops of first quality, as is the aftermath
les of varieties of the different kinds of vej
re- tables"
err Dutchmen never pasture cows. Soil
tut is universally practiced By this me;
IN they save fences as their cattle are ne
= out; they greatly increase their manu-
ial the cows give more milk and they are
IN abled to keep twice as many heads on
he same land. The Dutch as likewise
, @ English, more largely feed root crops
- their cattle, as being better than hay, a
ch yielding many times more than grass.
~ PUDDING.-Two eggs, one cup sugar.