The Placer herald., 1870-05-21
HOUSE AND FARM.


stick or stone. At rare intervals, a thin
oak opening has been spared. and every
such section has been long occupied. But
the farmer manages 10 procure wood from
afsr. puts up rail fence, aud at once the
seeds sprout and the oaks rise. 1t was on
" browsing and Gre which kept them down.
Plant fruit trees by the roadside, and their
. fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw
pine fence about them, and for fifty years
they mature for their owner their delicate
fruit. There is a great deal Of epchantmept
in chestnut rail OF picketed pine boards.
Nature suggests every economical expe-
dient somewhat on grand scale. Set out
pine tree and it dies the first year, or lives
poor spindle. But nature dops pine
cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen cen
turies, grows three or four hundred feet
high, and thirty 10 diameter-grows 10
groves of giants, like coopade Of Tbebss.
Ask the trees how it was done. 1t did not
grow in ridge, but in basin, where it
found deep soil, cold enough and dry enough
for the pine, defended itself from the sun
by growing in groves, and from the winds
BY The walls Of the mountain. The roots
that shoot deepest, and the stems Of hap
piest exposure drew the nourisbnent from
the rest, until the less thrifty perished aud
mapured the soil for the stronger, and man
moth Sequolss rose to their enormous pro-
portions. The traveller who saw them re-
membered bis orchard at bome where every
year, in the destroying wind, bis forlorn
trees piped Ike suffering virtue. 10 Sep
tember, when the pears hang heaviest, and
are taking from the sun their gay colors,
comes usually gusty day which shakes the
whole garden, and throws down the beav'.
iest fruits 10 bruised heaps. The planter
took the hint Of the Sequolas, built high
wall, or-better-surrounded the orchard
with a nursery of birches and evergresns.
Thus he had the mountain basin in nina
ture; and his pears grow to the size Of mel
obs; and the vines beneath them ran off an
eights of a mie,. But this shelter. creates
q new cline. The wall that keeps off the
strong wind keeps off the cold wind. The
high wall refecting the heat back on the
soil, gives that acre quadruple share Of
sunshine,
aa8 Inclosng in the garden square
A dead and standing pool fair,
and makes a little Cuba within it, while all
without is Labrador Emerson.
YEAsr.-Good yeast is indispensable n
order 10 secure good bread. We give but
one at present, Of many that are equally re-
liable. Pare and boil eight medium sized
potatoes. Remove from the water when
done, and put into it one small handful
Of loose, or two teaspooDfulls Of pressed
hops. While these are boiling, mash aud
roll the potatoes very smooth and free from
Jumps; mix With them three tablespoons
even full of -four, halt cup Of sugar
brown is the best for yeast-one tablespoon
even fvH ( ginger, and three Of salt. Strain
out the ho ,ps after boiling fifteen minutes,
and pour Il boiling water over the pota-
toes. forr, etc. Stir it we'll together, and
again set it on the range or stove, till it boils
up once, .eti, ring it all the time, or it will
burn. This done, pour it into large sarth>
en- bowl or st Que pot to cool. When mix
or blood war N, add one peuuy's worth Of
bakers yeast or yeast cake. Keep in a
warm place IT, Il we'll raised; then put II into
a stone sug; cork and tie down securely
One tesoupfu will raise two good sized
loaves.
II you wis to bake your bread or biscuit
without dry hard crust, you can do so
10 the oven, rub its surface with butter or
lard. This will close the pores. preventing
the escape If the gas which is produced by
the yeast, nd the escape Of the steam which
is produce by the moisture Of the heated
loaf Bre' I'd thus baked will be almost crust.
less. lu'leed, so long as the moisture is
confined it will be difficult burning the loaf
to any gr eat depth. The large vacutiss
in the bread will be less numerous, though,
as the whole, il will be more porous and
therefore lighter.
BONE FELLoN.-Of all the painful things
can there be any so excrucatinkly painful
as bone fellon2 We know OF none that
flesh is heir to. and as this malsdy is quite
frequent and the subject Of much earnest
consideration, we give the latest recipe for
its cure, which 10 given by that high au-
tboritv, the London Lancet: "As soon as
the puIsation which indicates the disease is
felt, put directly over the spot a ily blister,
about the size Of your thumb nail, and let
it remain for six hours, at the expiration oi
which time, directly under the surface oi
the blister may be seen the fellon, wDlch
can be instantly taken out with the point OF
a needle or lancet"
PREsERvINe MnK.-A simple method oi
keeping milk fresh for long time is now
extensively prsctced in the vicinity of Paris
This consists merely 10 adding to each quar-
of'fresh milk, before the cream has risen
upon it, about six grains of bcarbonate
soda or potash, and then placing the milk
10 bottles. which are TO be tightly corked
for four hours, 10 a water bath heated to a
temperature Of about 100 degrees, taking
care not to 60 beyond this limit. When
the bottles are removed from the bath, they
are to be made perfectly tight by coating
the cork with wax, and the milk can then
be kept long time unchanged.
A PATENT has recently been granted for 9
method Of refreshing horses while in bar
ness which consists in making the bit bol-