Evening star., 1869-08-24
HOUSEHOLD AND COUNTRY.

The Philadelphia is the most prod uctiye of
all raspberrIes, and under favorable influences
may yield from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred bushels per acre.
To quart Of ste wed apples well mashed
and sweetened, put the whites of three eggs
well beaten Beat well together for ZEN
minutes, add a little nutmeg, and eat with rich
milk or cream
The 18th annual Fair Of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society will be held at Buriing.
ton, September II, Is, Is ana II. The Wool
Growers Association unItes with the STATE
Society in the fair.
MIR. Cbas. w. Clayton, of Masardis, Aroos-
took county, Maine, cuts this year I2O tons OF
hay, bss 100 acres in oats, 25 acres in wheat Is
acres in buckwheat, has Is colts and other
stock, and crops growing in proportion.
AS litter or absorbents In the stable, leaves
nave some value, but much less than straw,
mnch as they lack the reedy character OF
straw, and because they are far more dlfficulry
and slowly deoomposed.
ANY person who willingly and knowingly
sells foul seed, should be punished by law,
with fine and imprisonment; then the pubIic
would have some protection from dishonest
and unserupulous yencers. Beware how you
buy seed containing the wild turnip.
Experiments often repeated have shown
that q plant may Be raised in a flower pot from
3 seed, and receive no nourishment bat pure
water, and yet shall far exceed in weight ali
the soil in which IL grew.
"A farmer drawing from his meadow a cord
OF peat weighing 4,Oo0 pounds, has upon his
wagon $500 pounds of water, and but 500
pounds OF the dry material he seeks. This died
and compressed could be placed in q couple of
our lars est-sized farm baskets
According to the theory of vegetable rhys.
lology, verified by practice, a tree is most
checked in growth when the leaf bearing
branches are Topped while in most rapid state
OF growth and the growth Of sprouts favored
when the tree or its bran ehes are cut while it
Is In dormant condition, and especially to.
wards spring.
Nothing can be better than to take good
barn-yald manure, oomposted with muck OF
clay, and, when thoroughly mixed and decom.
posed, apply 10 the soil close 10 the ground
hnely and evenly distributed. This gives our
reaeh-a thick, excellent coat Of grass. Re-
peated, this coat can be continu ued; an a by.aud
by, when II is wished to turn II down. thsre h
nothing better. Corn will grow here il anv
where. We have known 1t 70 reach in large
lots, over eighty bushels TO the acre. when
otherwise IL would yield but half thar amount
What per cent increase OF crop might the
farmers OF the country have secured had the
great quantity OF rain which had recently faI.
len passed directly through the soil 10 the
depth OF three or more feet int ample water
ways leaving In the land the fertilIxin ns prom
critics IL u Known 70 containi Immediate ben.
EMS from this natural irrigation would nave
resulted 20 crops, instead of the disaster OF
which such uniform com laiut Is made We
90 not propose 10 read farmers q homily with
ms text, nor upbraid them, and saw 70 thoss
who neglect to underd rain, s.good epou On for
YOU" we simply call their attention 20 the dis.
asuous facts which awaken their soIicitnds
and ask whether they teach any lesson with
the learning. - "