Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-12-01
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Premiums for Forest Trees.
| The Boston Journal says:
The Massachusetts Society for Promoting
| Agriculture has awarded to Major Ben.
Perley Poore, of Indian Hill Iarm, near
Eevburyport, the premium OF sl,OOO
| which it offered in 1858 for the best planta-
ton of forest trees, planted before 1860 and
growing in 1870. This premium was offer
ed in compliance with statute CD. AZ, sec.
| s, ssfor the raising and preservation OF
oak aud other forest trees best adapted to
perpetuate within the state an adequate
supply of ship timber" Major Poore has
not only successfully demonstrated that
forest trees can De pro6tably grown where
the land is not of great value, but he has
shown that our bleak and barren bills can
be reclothed with forests, restoring the
soil, reviving the springs In the valleys,
and ameliorating the climate. The planta-
ton on Indian Hill, which is about twen-
ty-five acres ia extent, is well worth
visit by all interested in arboriculture,
and the report by Major Poore of his
labors during the past ten years will be
valuable contribution TO our rural litera-
ture. The first premium for forest trees
| offered on this continent was by the Mas
sachusetts Society tor Promoting Agricul-
ture, In l797-a gold medal worth $500.
II was awarded TO Col. Robert Dodge. OF
Hamilton, who was Major Poore's grand
father, on the mothers side, and this
prompted the Major to compete for the
premium last offered by the same society.
| 1t is to be hoped that the example thus set
| bt the present society OF Massachusetts
will be followed by the county crganiza-
tions, and that before rsany years Msssa-
chusetts will again be, rs ii was when the
Puritans came here, "a well-wcoded
country"
Obstinacy Overcome I'm Horse.
A gentleman related in my presence q
little incident, which give as l heard it:
A wagon was passing heavily laden with
states; the hors, stopped, refusing to be
urged or cajoled into starting. OF course,
| expected, as usual, TO see the driver use
his whip, or perhaps his heavy boot, with
en- accompaniment of shouts and oaths, to
remind the animal of his neglect of duty.
| He went to the wagon and commenced
| fumbling in its depths. Now, thought l,
that poor animal will receive a most tre-
mendous beating; and 1 waited the
issue with bated breath. But instead
of the heavy stroke which / anticipated,
he drew out an old wooden bucket, the
outside covered with meal, the remains
of former lunches, ran along the road for
some distance before the horse, and set 1t
down. The animal, true to his instincts,
forgetting his former obstinacy and whims,
hurried towards the we'll remembered re-
ceptacle of former epjoyments, and the
battle is won by little quiet management,
saving pain and trouble for both man and
beast.
Now, thuught I, as l went'on my way
rejoicing, here is Q lesson for educators
Don't drive and push and swear and scold,
but accomplish your object, whether It be
with child or dumb animal, by means of
incentive to the performance OF duty,
which shall recall pleasures past. or be an
earnest of joys to come.-Cor. "OT Dumb
Animals"
PRESERVATION OF POTATOES. The follow
ing is given as method of preparing an
extract of the alimentary portions OF the
potato:
Tho potatoes, after being washed, are
aisestcd In water not hot enough to rem
der the starch of a gelatinous consistency,
but sufficiently SO to soften the abrous
portions of the TUDOR, and allow of the
solid slimentary portion being retracted
with the water by mechanical pressure
| This result, il is said, is produced in from
six to ten hours by digesting IN water
heated to 104 deg. Fahrenheit, the extract
heat, as we'll as the duration OF the di-
gestion, depending upon the state OF ma
turity, and the natural softness or hard
ness OF the cellular tissues of the potato.
In general, eight hours in water heated to
about 100 deg is said to be sufficient for
the purpose. When the digestion is COM
pleted, the potatoes are allowed to cool,
or what is better are plunged into cold
water; they are then reduced to such con-
dition that all but the cellular matter may
be squeezed out without difficulty 10y means
of any kind of press, the pressure being
slight at first and gradually augmented.
| This second process occupies three, SIX or
even twelve hours, according to the degree
-of fexibility given to the tissues by the
previous digestion and refrigeration.
The liquid thus obtained Is boiled ana
condensed by evaporation until 1t assumes
the consistency of Lebigs extract OF meat,
To which il bears considerable resem-
blance; like that preparation, 1t IS almost
incapable of decomposition in contact with
air under an average temperature and an
ordinary amount of moisture, and conse-
auently can be preserved with little dffi-
Guilty.
BRAurY OF FARMING. There is nothing
mean about farm work. There is nothing
unpenerous or ungrateful In the stock.
There are no such sore and sour things to
deal with as we meet every day among
mean men. Defaulters, liars, and thieves,
have no place on the farm. These misera-
BILE characters are in towns. The farmer
ought to be a good man. He has less
temptation to be bad man than any char
acter we know of. But his work Is enno-
bling. His contact is with nature. his
dealing is with the old earth, which Is the
mother of us all, and which will take us
all into her kindly arms again, when lies
fitful fever Is over.
Olit is delightful to turn the back upon
anxious. auarrelsome. struggling men,
and look upon the green fields, and COM
mupe with the honest cattle. and live with
nature and her children. The farmers no
BILE work is worthy Of noble consecra'
ton.
WHITENING FLANNEL.-Itis said that fan
mel, which has become yellow by age, may
be restored to its original whiteness by the
, use of solution of one and hall pounds
! of white Marseilles soap In ffty pounds O.
soft river water, to which is added two
thirds of an ounce of spirit of sal ammonic
and the whole thoroughly mixed Tbs
; flannel liz TO be immersed in this solution
, and well stirred around, .and afterward
washed of in pure water. The same re
, suit may also, it is said. be obtained stu
more quickly by immersing the flannel TO
. an hour in q dilute solution OF acid sui
y phate of soda, and then stirring in diiut
hydrochloric acid, in the proportion OF on
part of acid to fifty OF water. The vesseii
l. then to be covered over and allowed to re
J, main for quarter of an hour, when To
: articles are to be removed and thorough
i washed.
Dynu1rr.-There is no medicine equal