Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-04-29
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

| FARM AND FIKESIDE.
INTERVIEWED MANuRE.-Many excellen
| farmers have an idea that manure to be mos
efficient in raising crops should be well rot
ted now this is a mistake. Manure loses ;
very heavy percentage. Fresh manure, drip
ping with animal urine, hauled directly from
the stable on the land and ploughed under
is worth nearly double that which has de
composed to saponaceous consistency
When it is convenient for farmers to hau
manure on corn ground from the stable as
fast as it is made, it saves handling it twice,
and forwards the work in busy Spring time.
No fear need be entertained that the at
mosphere will carry off the strength of the
manure if left on the surface. The only
danger to be apprehended by this method
will be.in case of the ground being frozen
and covered with sonw and ice when the
manure is applied if upon sloping land.
the virtue of the manure might wash away
but on level land there is no exception to this
plan Of operation during the entire Fall and
Winter season.
FEEDING P1as.-How they raise good
pigs in the Eastern townships, province of
Quebec, has been shown by the experience
of Mr.. Alvan Farewell Of Compton On
Wednesday last he killed two Chester whites
nine months and fourteen days old, which
weighed, one 1853 pounds, and the other
427 pounds gain over one and a half
pounds per day from their birth. Mr.. Fare
well thinks they gained about four pounds
each per day for the last two months. They
were fed on boiled potatoes and .buckwheat
meal for time, but for two or three of the
last months on buckwhcat meal only stirred
up with cold water, and consumed daily the
meal of little less than two-thiSds of
bushel Of buckwheat They were sold in
Sherbrooke for IL sents pound, amount
ing to $97 95, in gold. This is converting
buckwheat into money to good advantage.
LIQUID BLUE.-Prussian blue (pure, in
fine POWDER one ounce, is placed in
small mattrass "a chemical egg-shaped
vesseD or common phial, and concentrated
hydrochloric acid, two ounces, poured on it.
Efervescence ensues, and the mixture soon
assumes the consistence of thin paste. AZ
ter about twenty-four hours, it may be
diluted with eight OR nine ounces of water,
and preserved in glass bottle. The inten-
sity Of this color may be lessened by over
doses of water. If the whole be poured into
one quart Of water, it will still exhibit a
color sufficient for washing prints.
HALE PUFF PAsTE.-Put one pound of
-four upon your pastry slab, with two ounces
of butter, rub well together with the hands,
make hole in the centre, in which put
pinch of salt and yolk of an egg with the
juice of lemon; mix with water. then roll
it out thin and lay half pound of butter.
prepared as for puff paste, rolled into thin
sheets over, fold it in three, roll and fold
again twice over, lay it in a cold place a
quarter of an hour, give another roll, and
it is ready for use when required; this paste
is mostly used for fruit tarts, which it is
well adapted.
10 Color SoARLET.-For one pound of
goods take two ounces of cochincal, one ounce
of cream tartar, one ounce quercitron bark,
one half ounce carcuma, two ounces mad
der compound; put all the ingredients ex-
cept the madden compound, into enough
water to cover the goods, bring it to boil
ing heat, and add the compound and put in
the goods let it stand until you have the
color required. If you want bright pretty
crimson, color your goods strong madden
first, and then in the cochincal dye.
CHECK REIN "A good horseman will al
ways drive with light rein-just SO tight
that the animal will feel gentle pressure
on the bit, and if the check rein is not too
tight, this is the best safeguard against
stumbling The carriage horse is often
cruelty punished by the unmerciful tightness
of the check rein; ; his mouth becomes call
Gus by the constant hard pressure of the bit,
and loses its sens.tiveness to the gentle pres
sure of the driving rein.
To PRESERVE PLUMs.-Pierce the skins
of the plums with large needle. Take
pound Of sugar to pound of plums boil
the sugar to syrup, and put the plums in
while it is hot; boil them until the plums
look clear take them out to cool, and so
on, until all are done. Put them up for
three or four days, and if the syrup then ap-
pears watery on the top, boil them over
again for about twenty minutes.
GREENING PICKLES 1t is said that pre-
served fruit and vegetables may be made to
retain their green color by digesting them
for some time in boiling salt water. After
removing the latter, vinegar should be
poured over them while boiling hot, re-
moved the third day, boiled and poured on
again. The repetition of this process few
times produces dark green color. not dan
gerous, like the ordinary verdigris.
To REMOVE IRON RUST Iron rust is re-
moved by salt mixed with lemon juice
Mildew, by dipping in sour buttermilk and
lay in the sun. Ink stains may be some
times taken out by smearing with hot tallow,
left ON when the stained article goes to the
wash. Freezing will take out old fruit
stains, and scalding with boiling water re-
move those that have never been through
the wash.
FAors.-All permanent Improvements Of
land looks to lime for their basis.
Periodical applications of ashes tend to
keep up the integrity of the soils.
All grain crops should be harvested be-
fore perfectly ripe.
To manure or lime wet land is to throw
manure, lime and labor away.
Is1NGLAss GLUE.-Dissolve isinglass in
water and strain through coarse linen, and
then add little spirits of wine. Evaporate
it to such consistency that when cold it
will be dry and hard This will hold