Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-06-22
Farm, Garden and Household.


consistency of linseed oil, and appl,
with whitewash or other brush to tn
wall, taking care to go over every part
and especially top and bottom. Appl,
the paper in the ordinary way"
GRAFTING.-Peach trees are usual,
budded when one year old. For in
stance, peach stones planted this sprin,
will usually produce stocks large enough
to bud in August or September. Graft
ing peach trees does not answer as wei
as budding besides, it cannot be done
as rapidly.
To REMOVE A CALLoUs FROM A HORSE
LEG. Take one ounce of iodine ant
mix with fifty cent bottle of mustang
liniment apply with cloth, or rub il
in well with the hand This remedy ha.
removed callus from horse for me
1t willnot remove it Immediately but il
continued long enough will have the de-
sired effect.
BREEDING GOLD FIsH.--A correspon
dent OF the Scottish Farmer says "A
friend of mine some years ago construct
tank about sixteen feet long, and
between four and five feet broad, by
three feet deep, which he stocked with
fish but they did not breed. suggested
to him that gold fish were very fond OF
eating their own young, and that if he
wanted to breed fish he must have the
means OF separating the old from the
young. / also advised him to stretch
across the tank partition of wire-work,
with a mesh small enough to prevent the
large fish from pushing through, at the
same time giving the young fry IN
opportunity of getting into q secure
place This answered the purpose per-
tectly, and they bred in numbers.
DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. Nellie Butler of
Cortland, gives the RurM Ngu Yorker
the following:
Fried Cakes. --Three eggs, one and a
half cups sugar, one cup sour cream, one
and half cups buttermilk, one teaspoon
soda; do not mix very stiff.
Cream Cake. One cup cream, one and
a half cups sugar, two cups flour, two
eggs, one teaspoon soda; flavor with
lemon.
Drop CakeS.-One quart sweet milk,
two eggs, one teaspoon soda salt to sea,
son flour enough to make the latter so
it will drop from the spoon fry in lard.
Collage Pudding. One cup sugar, one
OF sweet milk, one egg, two teaspoonfuls
melted butter, one teaspoonful cream
tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda, two
cups flour bake half an hour eat with
pudding sauce.
Cookies. One cup butter, two of sugar
three eggs, one-half cup cream, one tea
spoonful soda, five and one-half cups
-four.
Ginger Cookies. Three eggs, three
cups molasses, one cup butter, two spoon
fuls ginger, three teaspoonfuls soda.
Rice Pudding To o-thirds cup of
rice, add one-half sugar, one-half cup OF
raisins and two quarts milk stir all
together and bake very slowly about
three hours.
SEAsoNABLE HINTS ABOUT SWINE. 1t
is said that the hogs which have been
marketed during the recent packing
season were of better quality than those
OF any former season. Farmers are be-
ginning to pay more attention to the
feeding and management Of swine, but
there is still room for improvements in
the selection of the most improved
breeding animals, the construction of
pens and the preparation of food. Suf-
ticient attention is not paid to the wants
OF the animals in summer; they are in
many places left to depend entirely on
clover or grass, get no grain and have
no defense from the heat or sun, or from
rain. When hog is roaming ut large,
he is his own physician, and selects such
plants, etc, as are remedies for his dis
eases. Swine are particularly fond of
plants which contain large proportion
OF sulphur. Common mustard, or few
plants of wild mustard, will supply this.
Radishes and the top rind of the ruta-
baga contain sulphur, and may be used
with good effect. The peculiar smell of
horse. radish arises from the sulphurous
volatile oil in it. When hogs are shut
up IN yard or pen, they should be sup
piled with preventiveS OF the diseases to
which they are subject. A mixture of
earth and chalk should always be within
reach. Coal ashes or powered charcoal
are essential. Salt should be given
daily in small quantities. A few grains
OF nitre are beneficial in warm weather.
Sulphur in some shape should always be
available. Perfect cleanliness should be
observed, and regularity in feeding etc.
Now that cheese factories are becoming
so general, it is important for farmers to
know that whey and barley meal make
excellent fattening food for swine. -
Western Rmol.
Moss IN PASTURES. F. B. Palmer.
Centreville, n. Y, writes to the Farmers
Club that the farmers in that vicinity
are mostly engaged in dairying-" Many
with myself have large pastures where
the land is naturally good, but the grass
is running out, and dark, green, messy
substance is taking its place. Can such
land be economically reclaimed, and grass
be made to grow by any other top dressing
than barnyard manure? If we pillow M
such land and re-seed it, it will be all
right again, but many pastures are So
situated that it would make much in
convenience to do so. If men who have
had experience in such matters, belong
ing to your Club, can give us some good,
practical advice we will be much oblig-
ed" In response the application of
lime was recommended by several parties
but Col. Curtis said lime, nor barnyard
manure, nor anything else short of plow-
ing would destroy the moss which was
getting possession of the pasture lands :;
and then it would return and occupy
them after few years. Such had been
Deacon Reade's experience also. The
Commander had put two tons of
bone dust on three acres, overrun with
moss, and grass grew thereafter without
fail. Mr.. Smith had low.lying meadow
covered with moss and unproductiye Of