The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-15
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

POTATOES AND BEANs.-Of all edible |
roots the potato stands at the head. 1t
is especially useful to eat with lean meat
to which it stands in the relation OF
fat or carbon. Meat and potatoes to-
gether constitute about the same all |
ment as bread, on which alone, it is well |
known, men can live longer than with |
any other food.
Potatoes, when used with oat meal, |
peas and beans, supply all the muscle
making elements required for the labor
ing man-the three latter answering in
stead of meat. |
All old California miners will recol-
lect the exceeding great relish with
which beans were eaten in 1S49 and 80,
before beef was plenty in the mines
They formed with most, the chief staple
of food. The miners of those days could
scarcely have stood up under the hard
work and exposure to which they were
necessitated, if it had not been for their
bean diet. 1t was thence they derived
the nitrogen or muscle-making food Or
| dinarily obtained from meat diet.
The potato is almost entirely devoid
OF muscle or brain food-all that 1t does
contain is found in the "eyes or germs,
and they, especially in old tubers, are
generally cut out by the fastidious COOK.
-Sciontyic Press.
Boris IN HoRsEs.-The american
Stock Journal says: Fill an ordinary
junk bottle half full of molasses, then fill
with sweet milk shake well and drench
follow the above in half an hour with
bottle of strong sage tea, made of our
ordinary garden sage; next day give
the horse feed of rough rice, and the
dead bolts will come off with the rice.
Ny theory is that the milk and mo-
lasses being sweeter than blood, the
bolts turn loose to eat it. The sage tea
will kill them, and it is the only thing
ever heard of that will do it without in
jury to the horse. The rice will cut out
the dead bolts better than salts; IN fact,
if you will give horses u feed of rough
rice every two weeks, do not think
there is the least danger from bolts; ut
least such is my experience.
AS proof of what l have written, get
two sage leaves dip them in hot water,
lay one down and put lively bott on it,
then cover him with the other, and he
will die instantly. Sage tea l have
found also beneficial in collie, and it is at
least perfectly harmless, even if it does
no good.
LEAcHED ASHES AS A MANURE.-An
agricultural journal of Germany calls
renewed attention to the great value, as
q manure, of soap boilers leached ashes,
which, as is well known, are prepared
by mixing wood ashes with fresh burnt
lime and boiling or teaching the two to-
gether for the purpose of obtaining
caustic lye. Although the soluble salts
are removed from these ashes, the insol-
uble parts remain, namely, the carbon
ates, sulphates and phosphates, princi
pally lime salts, accompanied generally
by little caustic lime. Experience has
shown that there is no substance equal
to leached ashes of this kind for manure,
not excepting even the richest guanos; !;
the vegetation of the cereals becoming
broader than common by its use, and
the stalks more tubular, while the leaves
grow of q dark blush green. The value
of this application is seen more particu-
larly on meadows, where, curiously
enough, nearly all the ordinary grass
disappears in consequence, and instead
of it thick vegetation of red clover is
met with, which will be renewed year
by year for long time, without addi-
tional supply.
TROUBLE IN CuURNING.-Al lady COR
respondent of the Prairie Farmer, MOTTO
ing an inquiry from some one for a
remedy for cream frothing instead of
churning, writes that she has found out
that this is caused by carbonic acid
gas, which is heavier than atmospheric
= air, collecting in cellars or where milk
is kept. 1t, somehow, by uniting with
the cream III a small portion, causes it
to froth and to be hard to churn, and
the butter be very poor when done, and
: when there is much of it in the cream,
it will not churn butter at all. She
adds: "The remedy have found that
will entirely prevent it. is quicklime,
freely used, where the milk is kept,
either in lime water, or the lime strewed
> in the cellar. After the gas is once re-
moved it can be prevented by vessel
of lime being kept in the cellar and re-
moved when necessary and you will
: have no trouble in churning winter OF
5 summer"
1 FRENCH METHOD OF RAISING ToMA-
5 ToEs.-As soon as a cluster of flowers is
1 visible, the stem is topped down to the
cluster, so that the flowers terminate the
= stem. The effect is that the sap is i'm
i mediately impelled into the buds next
e below the cluster, which soon push
= strongly and produce another cluster oi
Q flowers each. When these are visible
a the branch to which they belong is also
t topped down to their level, and this is
: done successively. By this means the
Q plants become stout dwarf bushes, not
n above eighteen inches high. In order
# to prevent their falling over, sticks Oh
e strings are stretched horizontally along
II the rows, SO as to keep the plants erect
IS In addition to this, all the laterals tha
s have no flowers, and after the fifth top
: ping, all laterals whatsoever are nippet
: off. In this way the ripe sap is directed
o into the fruit, which acquires beauty
e size, and excellence unattained by othel
?. means.