The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-10-10
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 1871
The Farm and Ga.deu


CANNING EGGs.-All know how TO can
peaches and other fruits; snd the canning of
eggs, to keep them fresh, Is but little different
Place the eggs in the jar, with the large end
down; place the jar in boiling water, where
let it remain until the inner atmosphere OF
the jar is at about blood heat, when seal, and
remove into cold water.
DESTROYING WORMS IN PoTs.- The
worms in the pots are destroyed by stopping
up the holes in the pots with corks, and wa
tering it with lime water until it stands on
the surface The lime water may remain for
an hour; then, on removing the cork it will
pass on. The lime.water may be made by
pouring thirty GALLONS of water over ten
pounds OF fresh lime. Stir well up. and al
low the whole to stand two or three DAYS
then employ the clear liquor. rilton's Jour-
nal of Horticulture.
CULTIVATION OF THE MIND.-To the farm
er we would say, fertize your mind as well
as your land, shat the plough may be driven
over and through il. The gliding of wheels
Is easier and rapider, but only makes il hard.
er and more barren. Above all, in the pre-
seht age OF light reading-that is, of reading
eiastnS, thoughtiessly, indiscriminately, un.
anDll aiuiIiuhyLw most books are forgotten as
soon as they are finished ,and very many soon.
er, 1t IS well If something heavier is cast into
the midst OF the literary public. This NAV
scare and repel the weak 1t will rouse and at
tract the stronger, and increase their strength
by making them exert it. Remember, that in
the sweat OF the brow is the mind, as well as
the body, to eat its bread
LIME In Crops There is said 10 be car
ried off from the soil nine pounds OF lime in
twenty-five bushels of wheat, nine pounds in
fftk bushels of oats, and fifteen pounds in
thirty eight bushels of barley. There are thir.
ty-five pounds of lime in twotons of rye grass.
one hundred and twenty-six pounds in two
tons of clover, and one handred and forty
pounds in twenty five tons of turnips, and
two hunderd and seventy pounds in nine tons
ofpOtatOes. SoDe soils contain abundance ot
lime for thousand years, while other soils
require an occasional application of lime as a
fertilizer.
FENCEs.-The immense cost of sustaining
fences; the inconvenience of having them
always in the way of tboroueh tillape
and of egress and ingress to the premises: the
impossible snow drifts accumulated by them !:
the shelter they afford to weeds and briers
the protection they afford to many of the
worst animal pests of the farm, and their I'm
slightly appearance generally throughout the
country, as the receptacle If stone heaps.
piles OF bush and dead leaves, to say nothing
OF the countless acres rendered worse than
useless by their occupancy, would seem suffi-
cient reasons for disposng of fences where
not indispensable for purposes of spasturing."
How TO Produce COOP MILKERs.-It is
certainly TO be regretted that more care IS not
taken to improve the milking qualities of our
stock. Extra mixers should be kept to breed
from, their milk not taken so long or In such
quantities as to abort their calves; neither
should their progeny be killed at such on ear
ly age that 1t is thrown on the duneh II, in or
der that all the milk OF the dame NAV 90 to
the market or the cheese factory. 1t is quite
as necessary to raise the calves OF good mix.
ers, in order to have another race OF good
mixers, as 1t is to raise the colts OF fine irot
ters, in order to have fast horses. Extra
dairy stock would bring fancy price in the
market it their milking qualities could be
vouched for.-[S. E. Todd.