Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-04-19
Farm, Garden and Household.

IEUrUcE, sown in hot beds, may be
tFansplanted TO the open ground SOW
seeils in warm dry soil.
CEEss must be sown for succession
IN drills ten inches apart, and at inter
va Of a week or ten days
4rABBAoEs.- Set out plants from cold
fnine as soon rs the ground is dry.
Sow seeds in open ground, and as soon
n an inch or two high, sprinkle with
ashes to keep off the cabbage-hea.
ONIONS, in order to succeed well. need
70 be sown as early as the ground can be
worked. Sow in fine rich soil, in drills
bot apart Put out Potato and Top
Onions in rows fifteen inches apart, and
the bulbs four inches apart in the rows
HORsE-RADIsH.-The earlier this is
planted, the better growth will it make
Set out the small roots which have been
preserved during the winter in sand
This crop needs a large application of
manure to secure the best results. The
root should be about two inches long
and set out in rows from eighteen inches
70 two feet apart.
LAND intended for Roots should be
plowcd and narrowed, cultivated, rolled,
and plowed again, and worked until ii is
as mellow as a garden. Parsnips should
be sown as soon as the land is in good
order, and carrots week or two later.
Mngels and other beets need not be
sovs until May, and rutabagus two or
three weeks later. Make the land rich
with well-rotted manure, and guano of
superphosphate.
LEMON SPoNGE.-Dissolve one ounce
Of isinglass in pint of boiling water
when cold, strain it ; add the juice OF
three lemons, strained, two ounces OF
white sugar, the rind of lemon cut very
thin beat all together, and strain 1t.
When nearly cold, add the whites of two
eggs well beaten whisk it until it be.
comes of the consistency of sponge.
Wet mould, put in the sponge. II
should be partly settled before the whisk.
ing IS begun, or it will take too long to
do.
PIGs.-Last falls pigs must be well fed
and got into thriving condition before
being turned out to clover. Do not be.
grudge them all the corn-meal they viii
eat. IL will pay better at this season
than next fall. Breeding sows should bt
put into o pen by themselves week OF
SO before they come in. Have a raj
round the pen to keep the SOW from
crushing the little ones. 1t should bt
from eight to twelve inches from the
ground, according to the size of the SOW
and SIX or eight inches from the sides o.
the pen. Give liberal allowance Of
chabed straw for bedding. Give the SOW
for week before and after plugging
warm branslops and milk and latel
give richer food, such as cooked corn
with the bran. As soon as they will
eat, let the little pigs have few oats o.
soaked corn, or cooked corn-meal, in {
separate pen from the SOW. On warn
days let the SOW run out for an hour o.
two, and feed the little pigs just befor,
she IS let in again, and while they ar,
hungry,
THE COMMON METHOD OF GRATING
Grating, which is the taking of on
shoot from tree and inserting it int,
anofher, in such way that they ma,
unite and become one tree, is general,
performed in March and April, when tn
buds are just beginning to swell. TIL
shoots for grating, or cions, as they ar
termed, are, of course, taken from tree
whose qualities are better, in some way
than those of the trees upon which the
are to be grated. These cions shoul
be ken from the side, or horizonts
shoots, of healthy, vigorous trees. The
should be cut after the fall of the leaves
put INTO bundles, labeled, laid in boxes
containing moss or saw dust, and the
stored away in the cellar over winter
From the different modes of grating
we elect that termed "cleft grating,
as beng easiest explained, and as bes
suitedt beginners.
Cleft grating is performed on stall
from one and half to two inches in d
ameter. The top of the stalk to /
grated is carefully sawed or cut off at
part free from knots, and the top pare
smooth with thin knife split down I'll
stalk through the centre to the depth
two inches, and then insert a wedge
keep 1t open for the reception of I'll
cion the cion is to be prepared in I'll
form Of wedge with two eyes, if pc
sible to the upper part of the porto
thus frmed, the cion is now to be car
fully Inserted, so that the inner bark
the con and that of the stalk may bot
exactly meet. Large stalks require tv
clons one on each side the whole is nc
to be carefully covered with graftir
wax, Except the eyes or buds of the clio
but on small stalks it should be bour
with string of bass mating or woole
yarn, ~ small stalks are two weak to no
both Hrm in their position. The ma
points IN grating are that the cuts
perfectly smooth, that the inner bark
: the cim and the stalk fit perfectly on Oh
SIDE. nat they be pressed tightly t
gether, and that the whole is waite
tight. Arthm''s Maqdsine.