National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-01-19
Farm, Garden aud Household.


n. stir in quickly light snow till thick
hen eat quickly.
FRuIr CtKE.--l cup butter, cup sonr
milk, / cup raisins, ! cup moasses,
cups sugar, 3 eggs, teaspoonful OF
oda, 6 cups -four spice to taste
generally put in nutmeg, Tablespoons
nj cloves, same of cinnamon, same of
llspce. Sometime add little citron.
When frosted ii is an degant-looking
ake. 1t grows better all the time for a
week ortwo.
Farm ACCOUNTS Now is a favorable
opportunity for farmers 10 commence
.teeping accounts. II farmer keeps
no accounts, he cannot be progressive
armer, for he eannot know whcthc he
progresses or not Let the farm be
iivided into fields be charged with the
value of wheat it contains just now, and
basis is glined for future charges and
redits. Deal with each field as if you
old and sought to or from it.
ON OR UNDER. time ago in the
Connecticut Valley, says J. b. Lyman in
he Farmers Club, had an opportunity
# noting an experiment. Two farmers,
whose lands were side by side, ran n race
n raising tobacco. The soil was the
anne, the previous treatment had been
bout the same, the blowing and pulyer-
2ing were thorough on both tracts.
One farmer plowed in his stable manure
with n shallow turrow, and narrowed
after turning 50 as to blend the compost
with the two or three inches of mellow
filth at the surface The other put on
very heavy dressing or ranh fertilizer
from slaughter-pen, and by narrowing
mixed it partially with the surface, but
many clumps and bones and heads were
left on the top, and the odor of the de
caylng animal matter could be smelled
half mile. The plants were set ont at
the time, the cultivation in both cases
was clean, and the season was good for
tobacco. The field where the manure
was turned and mixed with the surface
soil gave third more tobacco than the
other, and the leaf was finer and cured
better, making n more marketable article,
which commanded two or three cents
more per pound.
A REGULAR ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING. -
Take OF ground mace and cinnamon each
one tablespoonful of suet, one pound
chopped up fine of raisins, seeded and
cut in half one pound of currants,
one pound, picked, washed, and dried /;
Of moist sugar one pound of citron,
quarter of pound, sliced very thin !;
of sifted flour, two tumblersfull of bread
in fine crumbs, four tumblersfull of
eggs, EIGHT or twelve, Ito suit your taste, J
well beaten up of milk, four tumblcrs-
full, rich and hot of salt, one and a
third teasponful. Add one and half
nutmegs, grated, one lemon seeded and
grated, and some orange peel dried and
grated. Now soak two tablespoonsfull
Of mace and cinnamon in tumbler of
brandy; beat the eggs well up with the
sugar, and pour on the bread the hot
milk and mash it. Then pour the
brandy off the spices; and mix into a
batter with the suet, -four and soaked
bread, Next -four well the raisins, cur
rants and citron. Next add those to the
batter. Next add the eggs beaten up
with sugar, the nutmeg, lemon and
orange peel Next put in the bread,
mashed up with hot milk add the salt
and stir up the pudding well. Next
scald the bag (; lay it in Il bowl; flour it
thickly inside; pour in the batter; tie
the bag; and leave a loop to suspend it
by. Hang the bag in the pot, and keep
it boiling for six or more hours continu-
ous y until done, turning it many times.
GERMAN ADVICE FOR THE DAIRY In
Germany the milk, butter, and cheese
interests sustain II special organ called
the NH GaseHe. From il we clip the
following:
To obtain he greatest amount of but
ter in churn ng cream, it is necessary
First: To ne in position to control
the temperature at all times of the year.
SecoHd: To be able always to perform
the skinminG at the right time.
7HHd: Such a daily supply Of milk as
will yield enough cream to allow it to be
churned before tsyield of butter is dam
aged by standing too long.
These conditions cannot be complied
with in all dairies, and the less so the
smaller the establishment The greater
number of diaries depend on three or
four COWS and the yield of butter is of
ten considerably lessened by the cream
standing too long. owing to the quantity
not being sufficient to churn.
In churning whole milk, / alv avs pro
coed as follows : The evening milk of one
day and the morning milk of the next
are churned together. The former is
placed in tub directly after milking,
and the latter added to it next morning
In summer the milk is allowed to stand,
at most. > feet high in the tub: in winter
about ;! feet. In very hot weather the
morning milk is cooled down to To- to
90 r. before it is added to the evening
milk. Under these circumstances the
milk is nearly always ripe for churning
when the evening milk has stood 36
aud the morning "a hours. The temper
allure of the milk when being churned
should be from \ to / Il warmer than
when cream is churned. The churning
itself should be hurried as little as posi-
bic since the butter globules being more
widely separated in milk than in cream,
rather more time is needed for them to
collect. In churning whole milk. there
is an increase in labor, owing to the ne
cessity for more frequent cummings, but
this is far outweighed by the other advan-
ages resulting from it.
THE RAISING OF SHEEP. the SYRIA
cuse Wool Growers Convention, it was
stated that the capacity of our country
for sheep husbandry is boundless, and
even greater than our needs. When
France is not overburdened with 81, 600,
900 sheep. ana England, which has far
less available acres than Ohio alone, |
sustains with profit about 1900, 900 it
is clear that only the most perverse and
mistaken legislation can arrest that rap |.
i'd progress stimulated by the protective
policy adopted early in the last decade,
and which wisely forced the nation to re.
ly upon the unlimited resources of her