The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-08-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD

MISS j: Keith, of Battle Greek, Mich.
recently threw 200 or 300 potato bugs into
the stove, and, while tasting bread with he
| ooor open, was so poisoned that fer a time
her life was in danger.
| EHUBARB PRESERVES. Pare sir or,,.
ges; slice them in a stew pan, while ORANGES
peel cut fine; add one quart of rhubaIb.
cut hne take pound and half Of loaf
sugar; boil all together as you do other
| preserves.
The Germantown TELEGRAPH reccomond.
,ne growing OF chcstnuts on soils where but
,iltie eiSe VIII grow, as means of profit
ootu Ia lruit and wood. 1t says the chest.
eight to ten years begin to bear q orop of
nuts.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Country Gen.
tleman says: If any OF your readers are
trouoieo with lice on cattle, tell them to
Try prime; 1t Is the easiest and surest reme>
dy that ever used. My hogs / found
covered with ticks this summer, something
L never heard OF before. Salt water twice
applied cleared them
AN Ohio hog grower says that tho fol-
lowing treatment will make the biggest hog
out of a pig In II months: Take two parts
OF barley, two OF corn, and one of oats,
Urlnd them together; then cook, and feed
co!d. lie says 1T Is the cheapest food, and
tEat any pig OF good improved breed can
9e nlade IN tins manner to gain pound
ETY. offers premiums Of S25 each on eight
subjects to wit Wheat growing in Wis
consin, Horses in Wisconsin, Horses in
Wisconsin, Cultivation of Timber in Wis
cCnsin, Most Economical Use Of Straw on
the Farm, Practical Farming in the Pra>
irie Districts-in the Oak Openings-in
the Sandy Districts-in the Timbered Dis
tricts.
GAPEs IN CHICKENS "A cores ondent
OF the American Ag,iculturist gives the fol-
lowing mode for preventing gapes in chick
ems, He says he has treated bis .young
chickens in this way for several years with
complete soccess. " hen the chickens are
in condition to take from the nest, he puts
them with the hen in a coop with board
bottom, SO as to keep the young ones from
the cold ana damp ground. They are fed
with Indian meal, on which boiling water
is poured from the tea>ketlle, we'll stirred
anu allowed to cool. The whole secret is
to keep chickens dry and warm when quite
young and give them cooked food.
CHARLES CARLIsE, Of Woodstock, VT,
writes to the New York Farmers Club that
he experimental last year with ashes on
corn, to which he applied a shovelful of
rotten manure in the hill. Fifty hills were
lett without the ashes; handful being
put with the ma anure on the other part OF
the field. He weighed the product on the
SO hills unashed, and corresponding num-
Der of hills with the ashes. The grain on
the part ashed was estimated to be equal
to bushel of corn for each bushel of ashes
used. He asks, is it not possible that the
corn is benefited by the mixing, if we cover
with the mellow soil to receive the liberat-
ed ammonia?
PLUM JELLY.--Take as many piums as
you have, and pour sufficient boiling water
over them 80 cover them Pour off the
water Immediately, draining them. Put
your plums in a preserving kettle with
boiling water enough 70 cover them again,
and then boil until the plums begin to open,
aud some juice is extracted. Then pour
off the liquid aud strain it, and add to each
pint of juice one pound of white sugar !;
return it to the kettle and boil from twenty
minutes to half an hour, as it may require,
and you will have the most delicious jelly
you ever tasted. The plums may be used
tor pies or sauce, and, if anything, are bet
ter after going through the above opera
tion. The common plum will do as we'll as
any kind.
TO PICKLE CUCUMBERs Get very small
cucumbers, wipe them clean, and lay them
into stone jars. Allow one quart of course
salt to pail Of water boil the salt and
water until the salt is dissolved; turn it
boiling hot on the cucumbers; cover them
up light, and let them stand twenty -four
hours. Turn them into a basket to drain,
Boil as much Of the best Vinegar as will
cover the cucumbers W ash out the Jars,
and put the cucumbers into them. Turn
on the vinegar boiling hot cover them
with cabbage aud cover the jars
tight. In forty eight hours they will be fit
for use. Pickles of any kind arc good
made in the same way.
How TO MAKE PEACH JELLY.-Cut q
dozen peaches in halves, peel them and
take out the stones. Into a clear boiling
syrup, made OF pound of white sugar,
put the peaches and kerrals Boil very
gently for ten minutes, lay halfthe peaches
! on plate, boil the rest ten minutes longer.
Then mix with the liquor of the peaches
the strained juice of three lemons, and an
ounce of IsIngiass dissolved and strained,
Fill the mould half full Of jelly when that
Is set, put in Part OF the peaches and
little more jelly and when that is set, add
the rest of the peaches, and fiji the mould
with jelly. This makes an elegant table
ornament.
"ON THE BEACH AT LONG BRANCH. -
The girls at Long Branch arc like the girls
of the world in general. They are slightly
mixed. Some are lovely, but some are, on