National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-12-30
Farm. Garden and Household.

Farm. Garden and Household.
PATCH CAKE.-One and a half cup of |
sugar, one cup of butter, one-half cup of |
milk. three eggs, one teaspoonful of !
cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful of |
soda, three cups of -four, spice to your
taste.
HARRISON CAKE.-One cup of sugar,
one of molasses, two eggs, two-thirds |
cup of milk, two thirds cup of butter,
one large teaspoon of soda, three cups of
-four, three quarters of a pound of rails
ms, spice to suit the taste.
How IT Co. BE DoNE.-The French
official paper at Mezieres urges the as
sassination OF the Germans, remarking
that if each of the $4,000 enrolled
Francs Tireurs shot a Prussian day
there would in ten days be none left.
WHAT will drive red ants from our
house % asks correspondent Drop
some quicklme on the mouth of their
nest and wash it with boiling water or
dissolve some camphor in spirits of wine,
then mix with water, and pour into their
haunts or tobacco water, which has
been found effectual. They are averse
to strong scent. Camphor will prevent
their infesting cupboard, or a sponge
saturated with creosote
How TO MAKE BREAD.-A method of
making bread from whole wheat, without
previously grinding it into flour, has
been devised by a Frenchman The
grain is first soaked in water for half
an hour then put into revolving cyl
inder with a rough inside surface, and
shaken up, so as to remove the coarser
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or twenty-four hours more in water of
, the temperature Of seventy-tive degree
Fahrenheit, with which little yeast and
glucose has been mingled BY these
means the grain acquires a pasty
doughty consistence and can be mixed
up by machinery and made into bread
in the usual way. The invention is an
important one, both from its saving the
expense of grinding, and from the greater
economy of keeping and transporting
the whole grain instead of -four.
SENsIBLY SAID.-C. w. Howard, in
advocating an experimental farm in the
Plantation, Atlanta, Ga, says that
6 There is not a cheese nor butter
farm in Georgia y and asks why cannot
as good cheese be made in this State az
in New York ?-at the same time sug.
costing that men who never saw n cheese
press will not go into the business with
out having 1t demonstrated that it will
pay by experiments in that State and
elsewhere. With regard to irrigation
he says Water is the cheapest manure
which can be used, where it is available
If there be five acres of irrigated, not
Hooded, land in Georgia, it has not come
to the knowledge of the writer. Yet
there is no agricultural improvement car
be so cheaply made in comparison with
the permanent value, as irrigation. We
have no question but that when the
South adopts diversified agriculture
that the State of Georgia, making ust
of its means of irrigation, will be among
the most productive States in the Union
RYE VS.. Corn FOR FATTENING Hoes -
Which is the cheapest or most profitable
grain to fatten hogs-corn at Zoe pei
bushel rye at SOC, or buckwheat at SOC
Some farmers here say they would pa,
70 cents a bushel more for rye than TO
corn to fatten hogs, while another say
buckwheat is the cheapest. For III,
part prefer solid old corn, ground anC
cooked, and not new, soft corn, fed oil
the ear, rs many do. You are right
There is nothing better than good SCUM,
corn-meal for fattening hogs, Rye mea
Is strong food, and may be used Will
advantage to give change of diet, an,
so will barley and peas. If by changing
the food occasionally We can induce tn,
hogs to eat and digest more of it. we RAJ
afford to pay little more per pound TO
rye, barley and peas, than it is actual,
worth. But so far rs nutrimont is con
cerned, when it can be obtained for tn
same price per ton, there is nothin,
cheaper than good corn-meal.
To CLEAN A Rusry PLow.-Take
quart of water and pour slowly into it
half pint of sulphuiic acid The mix
ture will become quite warm from che mi
cal action, and this is the reason why tn
acid should be poured slowly INTO tn
water rather than the water into tn
acid. Wash the mould-board Tor an
other iron that IS rusty with this wea
acid, and let il remain on the iron unit
it evaporates. Then wash it again Tn
object is to give time for the acid to dis
solve the rust Then wash with waite
and you will see where the worst rust
spots are Apply some more acid an,
rub those spots with brick. The aci,
and the securing will remove most of tn
rust. Then wash the mould-board thor
oughly with water to remove all the Act
and rub it dry. Brush it over with pc
troleum or other oil, and let it be unit
spring. When You go to blowing take
bottle of the acid water to the field wit
You and apply it every bout to any spo
of rust that may remain. The acid an
the securing of the earth will soon max
it perfectly bright and smooth. If a
iron work be washed over with petroleum
ms soon as we put our tools, Implements
and machines aside for the winter.
will keep them from rusting and save
great deal of trouble and annoyance. I
say nothing of depreciation and loss.