The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-03-10
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.


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DO you wish to learn how to give anys
thing? Then fancy yourself in the place
of the receiver
INSTEAD of copying an example, make
one. 1t viii do yourself, and perhaps
others, more good.
THE Stock journal advises q big horse
for regular farm work, and one that does
not, without great pushing, trot more than
SIX miles an hour with light buggy.
a WESTERN writer says If as much at
tention was paid to improving corn as is
given to grapes, hundred million bushels
might be added to the annual crop.
SWEET APPLES are said to be excellent
for mich cows, when fed in connection
with cut feed, or hay. Four quarts fed
twice daily after other feed will be more
satisfactory than eight quarts fed at one
time.
The rise of sap in trees and plants has
been explained on the principle of capil-
larry attraction, but NJ. Becquerel considers
that electricity is an acting cause A cap
Hilary tube that will not allow water to
pass through it does so at once on being
electrified, and he considers that electro
capillarity is the efficient cause of sap
travelling in vegetable life.
In spreading manure, care should be
taken to scatter it evenly over the land.
breaking to pieces all large and hard
Jumps. This should always be done i'm
mediately, or not more than halfa day, be-
fore blowing, especially if the weather is
dry and very windy The manure should
be ploNed under, before it dries very much,
or loss will accrue
Tn
to head of the apple-tree borers is, to
bring thick soft soap to the boiling point
to render liquid, and while the soap is hot,
with paint or whitewash brush apply it
to the trunks Of the trees from the ground
up as high as attacks of borers are to be
apprehended. One application made
about the first of June, each year, will
sufficiently protect the trees
FASTENING IRON IN SToNE.-A writer
strongly recommends the use of zinc in
stead OF lead for fastening iron ratings
into stone. It is well known that iron
cemented with lead is consumed by rust
very rapidly and DESTROYED. The zinc
however, makes galvanic circuit with
the iron, and being positive to the iron,
sustainS all the chemical action, and be
comes oxidized, while no rust forms upon
the iron
KEEPING EGGS.-A citizen of Belmont
n. u, has, for forty years, been in the
habit of keeping eggs by taking them
fresh from the nest and greasing them
with good lard or butter, and setting them
in cool, dry place, handling them over
once in while, to keep the yoks from
settling down to the shell. With him
they keep six or eight months. We have
had best in fact, perfect success, by plung-
ing the fresh eggs, a few at a time, held
In wire ladle, into a kettle of boiling
water, and keeping them there long
enough to count ten-say five seconds
The water must not stop boiling.-.dmeri-
can Agriculturist.
TnE following method of keeping milk
fresh tor long time, is said to be extern
| sively praCtised in the vicinity of Paris.
1t consists merely in adding to each Quart
of fresh milk, before the cream has risen
upon it, about six grains of bicarbonate
of soda or potash, and then placing the
milk in bottles, which are to be tightly
| corked for four hours in water bath
heated TO temperature Of about $50 de-
grees, taking care not to go beyond this
limit. When the bottles are removed
from the bath, they are to be made per.
tectly tight by coating the cork with wax,
and the milk can then be kept long time
unchanged.
PRUNING CURRANTs.-Iti is not adv;s,.
BILE to subject all varieties of currants TO
the same system of pruning. The COM
lion red and white currants produce their
fruit mainly on small spurs, growing on
wood two or more years old, while on the
black currants Ribes nigrd) the fruit is
borne mainly on the wood of the proceed
ing year. In the first-named varieties,
shortening the young wood, if very long.
aids in the production of fruit-spurs, while
in the latter it would lessen the number
of fruit, although it might increase the
size. The black currants require but little
pruning, except in the way of thinning
out superfluOUs branches, and the occa.
sional shortening of very luxuriant shoots.
The other sorts should not only be prun-
ed for the purpose of keeping up a supply
of young, healthy shoots of two and three
years old, but careful thinning out of
old and decayed stems. After a branch
has borne two or three crops, it should be
removed, and a younger one allowed to
take its place.-HearM and Home.
LOOK AFTER THE LITTLE PIGs-Tbou-
sands of little pigs are frozen TO death
every spring Where the pens are not
suitable, it would be better not 10 have
them come until the weather is warmer
but still, much can be done to make an or
binary pen comfortable for the occasion
Batten the sides, or pile quantity of straw
or litter on the outside Anything that
will keep out the cold air will answer.
Place some rails or boards across the
sleeping apartment three or four feet
from the bottom of the men and
cover them with straw packed in tight.
II the pen or sleeping apartment is
large, we have found it great advan-
tage during a cold night to hang after
the sow has made her bed, a connle of
horse blankets from the top of the pen
around the SOW, somewhat after the fashion
OF curtains on an old fashioned tept.bed
stead. In this way we have saved n litter
of pigs in the coolest weather. A few
bags of steamed chaT placed around the
bed inside the curtains, would be n great
help or, in the absence of these. nailml |
OF boiling hot water will raise The temper
allure OF the pen several degrees. In n |
few days, and often in a few hours. if the
pigs are strong, the danger is over
american AgricWturia.