National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-06-21
Farm, Garden and Household.

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Farm, Garden and Household.
ONIONS. Tho way to secure n crop oil
onions is to slit pulverized hen manure
over the beds, after the seed is sown
No trouble to raise good crop on almost
any lnnd.
DUMPING. Stew the fruit with little
sugar, and lay upon thin sheet of pas
try. Fold up, tie in bag, boil, and
serve with sweet sauce, or simply butter
and sugar, as you choose.
RYE AND INDIAN BREAD.--Three quarts
of corn meal scalded with two and halt
quarts of boiling water, one tablespoon
of salt, one teacup of molasses; let it cool
few minutes and add one quart of rye
flour, and one quart of buttermilk with a
heaping teaspoon of saleratus stirred into
it. Bake four or five hours.
SHERBEr. Wash very clean a dozen
quart OF water Stain this juice, and
add half pound of sugar, with little
pure essence of lemon. Set aside in n
pitcher for some hours. When ready to
use it, add plenty of cracked-up bits of
ice. and you will find it to be pleasant
and cooling beverage.
CAPITAL JELLY CAKE.-One pound of
-four, half pound of sugar, half pound
of butter, four eggs, half n cup of sour
milk, one teaspoonful of soda or use
swe milk and add two teaspoonsful OF
cream of tartar Flavor with lemon or
vanilla. Beat up very light, and bake
in shallow pans. Ounce jelly is one of
the incest sorts for this purpose, and
should be applied to the cake while still
hot. Pile up high, and ice nicely.
TROUBLE WITH POTATOES Nathan
Ely, Bucks County, Pa, had raised some
potatoes MANFRED with barn-yard man
ure they were all eaten by worms or
some insects. E. Williams said it was
caused by wire.worms, and might be
remedied by dressing of salt. F. d.
Curtis said course barn-yard manure is
not fitted for roots, it is liable to be fill
ed with larvae of insects, and always pro-
ducts rough scabby skin. Manure for
roots should be well rotted.
STRAWBERRY JELLY Soak as much
gelatine as is contained in one of Cox's
shilling boxes in cold water, say one pint.
When thoroughly softened, add five
ounces of white sugar, two quarts of
strawberry syrup, made as above directed,
and put over the fire for few minutes,
or until the gelatine is perfectly dissolved.
Pour from the kettle into molds or small
jars, and you have most beautiful and
pleasantly favored jelly. This recipe is
meant for cold weather; if used in sum
mer, reduce the quantity of syrup by one
half.
TRAINING ToMAToEs.-An Ohio cores
pondent gives report of his tomato
crop for 1870. He raised his plants in a
hot-bed, set them in the field about the
middle of May, i'll rows seven feet apart
land a row of cabbage between), and two
and half feet apart in the rows then
drove in stakes five feet high and about
eight feet apart along each row then
nailed three Stats at equal distances, and
rs the tomatoes grew, tied to Stats with
Irvine, spreading the branches out to
cover the whole frame. When they
reached the top clipped the ends of the
stalks off, also the suckers. He kept the
soil loose. Number of stalks produced,
900, yielding 45 bushels, and sold them
in his country town at prices ranging
from GO cents to So per bushel, making
an average Of 81 per bushel, or little
over 20 cents per stalk.
FODDER MIR. Stewart said to the
Farmers Club !; 1t Is an important thing
for us, especially now, when there is
prospect of another short hay crop, to
call the attention of farmers to the ad-
vantage OF preserving and utilizing
straw. In America straw is used for
bedding, generally, but it is too valuable;
other absorbents of less value, as swamp
muck, earth, and leaves, may be used,
and the straw saved for fodder. What we
want is to use up all our straw in feeding
animals. We then get it back in a shape
more useful as manure, and, by enabling
farmers to keep more stock. increase the
quantity and value of the manure, and
consequently, the value of their farms.
1t is now good time to experiment on
this method, as clover will soon be ready
to cut, and nothing better than clover
can be used to experiment on.
AffL1lNo MAN Urea correspondent
of the Rural Home, writes If the farm
er has manure made, or kept through the
summer, it will become fermented /; it
cannot be avoided in the warm season.
Such manure is best applied on the sur
face, and worked in with the harrow
and if applied to winter wheat, there Is
perhaps no better mode, as it has the
mechanical effect of keeping the surface
loose to resist the frosts of winter, as
well as the stimulating effect of produc-
ing an early growth of the crop. But
in the use of green manures in spring
for summer crops, experience has con-
WINGED me that to plough under, and al
low fermentation to take place in the
soil, where all the volatile ga IS can be
absorbed and taken up by the growing
crop, is most economical and best. We
are often deceived in the effects of man
ure by the amount used. In applying
common barnyard manure in an infer
mented state, we get but about one third
the amount Of manure in the same bulk
that we have when used in a decaying
safe.