The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-01
Farm and Garden.

Storing Cabbqges for Wmter.-The edi-
tor Of the Germantown Telegraph has
kept cabbages dozen winters in per-
feet state, in the following manner
Plant or set them up in rows as they
grow-that is, with the roots down-fll
in with soil pretty freely, then make a
covering by planting two posts where
there is fence to rest on, or four where
there is not, allowing for a pitch to
carry off the water; lay bean poles OPP
posite the way Of the pitch and cover
with corn fodder or straw or boards. In
using through the winter, avoid as
much as possible the sun side and close
up again"
Water.-A proper supply of water is
an absolute necessity. Animals cannot
thrive if compelled to drink from hole
chopped through the ice on a pond or
creek. They are chilled through by
the freezing water, nor will they suffi-
GENTLY Stake their thirst, unusually in
creased by the dry feed they consume.
A cistern now made will be filled by a
few rains and will furnish a supply of
water of a proper temperature through
out the winter. 1t will without any
doubt, in many instances, save its cost
the first season. Besides the barn-yard
will NOT be mud-hole after every rain,
and the manure pile will not have half
its value washed out on to the road
The Temperature Of Cellars.-It is i'm
portant that the temperature Of cellars
in which roots are stored be kept sutfi-
GENTLY low. A little above the freezing
point is right for them. If much
warmer, early potatoes, onions, and
turnips will sprout and become dam
aged. No place on the farm needs to
have a thermometer kept there more
than the root cellar; and constant at
tention should be given to maintain an
equal and proper temper temperature.
Fattening and Feeding Animals.-The
hunter knows that long before the cold
weather sets in, bears, deers, beavers,
muskrats and birds are all fat, and have
not only their winter coat on their
backs, but are we'll lined inside as a
protection against the cold. If we
would learn lesson from this, we would
hurry up our fat stock while they will
naturally gain most rapidly, and get our
shelter them well, now, before the ex-
treme cold makes irreparable draughts
on their system. This rule of the
farmer should be, like that of good
business man, to have means on hand
to meet all drafts before they are due.
Ne.o Idea about T0matoeS.-A CORE
spondent of the Canada Farmer says the
following plan is the right one for rails
ing early tomatoes: "There is no
doubt in my mind, from practical eXpe-
rience, that cuttings taken from plants
in the autumn just before freezing up
time, stuck in damp SOIL and when we'll
rooted removed to six inch pots, kept
in an atmosphere of 40 to 80 degrees,
and water just sufficiently to keep them
alive during winter, and keeping the
shoots as they appear properly pinched,
and part of the larger leaves, so as to
retard growth as much as possible, is
the true way of obtaining the earliest
fruit. 1t will be found that if the
plants are well attended to, by the
spring they will be thick and strong at
the base, and as woody almost as wall
flower. Crowding tomatoes, as almost
all gardeners do, in hot beds, is de-
cidedly the wrong method, as no doubt
many of them have found out. The
hot bed plants are weak and spindling.
Many put down seeds in this way so
early that the plants run up to the glass
before the weather becomes sufficiently
warm to put them out in the open
ground, and the leaves either scorch OIL
become frost-bitten. | have seen many
frame Of tomatoes for which would
not give five cents for the hundred
plants in them"
A NeD Method Of Packing Butter.-A
Michigan dairyman has lately published
his method Of packing butter. He has
oaken tubs, with heads at each end
They are IA inches in diameter at the
| top, 9 inches at the bottom, and IL
inches high. In packing, cambria
bag is made to fit the tub. The butter
is packed in the tub as it stands on the
small end-the sack being long enough
to extend above the edges of the tub
and is pressed down firmly until within
an inch and a half of the top, when 6
circular cloth is laid over 1t, the edges
Of the sack turned down over that, anC
a layer of fine salt placed on it. The
head is row put in its place, the tut
turned up, and the butter in the sack
of course, falling down to the bottom
leaves space all around it which il
filled with brine poured throughsa holt
in the small end. When full the hole
is corked up tight. The butter float
in the brine and is effectually preserved
from the air, and will keep for an almos
indefinite period.
Household Recipes.
To Keep AppleS for Winter USe.-Pu
them in casks or bins, in layers wei
covered with dry sand, each layer being
covered. This preserves them from all
from moisture, and from frost; it pre-
vents their perishing by their own per
spiration, their moisture being absorbet
by the sand at the same time it pre-
oo,yaS tho flavor Of tho applos an,