The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
HOUSE. FARM AND GARDEN.

HOUSE. FARM AND GARDEN.
The Economics of the Kitchen and tho
Barn.
WOMAN ON FARM DAIRYINa. Dairy
ing should be promoted to a greater ex-
tent, and while I would in no wise de-
preciate these extensive factory enter
prises, believe they cannot surpersede
the necessity, nor should their existence
furnish an excuse to avoid the trouble
of farm dairying, If, from any pretext.
our farmers should abandon the custom
OF producing sufficient amount of but
Ter and cheese for the consumption of
their families, a short period of time
must prove the fallacy of the schemes.
Farmers daughters generally take too
little interest In household matters,
COOKING CRANBERRIEs.-In the first
place select ripe fruit and remove all
defective berries. The selected fruit
must then be thoroughly washed
through several waters one washing is
not enough. To every pound of fruit
add one pound of sugar. Put them
into a preserving kettle over a slow fire.
Do not hurry the process of stewing.
To prevent the berries from sticking to |
the kettle, stir them frequently with a
silver spoon. When done, turn them
into dish, and set aside to cool after
which they may be used for pies, tarts
or sauce. When for sauce, mash them
fine through a cullender, and put them |
into small molds suitable for the table, |
having first rinsed the molds in cold !
water TO prevent the berries from stick |
ing.
HENS HATCHED IN July are said to |
make far better layers than those born |
at any other season of the year. Early |
Matched chicks commence laying in |
September and continue until cold JAN |
uary weather, when they discontinue |
until spring, On the other hand, when |
Matched In July or August, they begin !
in February and continue until October. |
July chickens will average so to rs more
eggs yearly than those Matched in March,
A contributor to the Country Gentleman
writes The light Brahmas have always
been my most profitable and favorite |
fowls but with great reluctance I am |
obliged, after three years trial, to place |
the Partridge COchins at the head of the |
list. As layers they excel any Asiatic |
breed have ever known, and as market |
fowls they have no equal. They are |
very hardy, mature early, and make |
short-legged, yellow-feshed, heavy
breasted fowls.
Now That THE FLIES HAVE BECOME |
Trimmed OFF by the return of cool |
weather, the tidy housewife rolls up her |
sleeves and wash-rag in hand joyfully |
cleanses the paint of her dwelling from |
the filthy specks that have haunted her |
all summer long. And this is the wav |
IN T1nayaa NtionoI Io,,coI-oo.zo.. l. |
L wet the door or window-fra all over |
with cloth that will not drip. Then I !
go back to the place where I began and |
wash the whole over very quickly and |
easily, then use n clean dry cloth. I |
should not think of mentioning this.
but the other day I saw a hired girl of /
considerable experience rubbing hard |
and long upon door, and signing be-
cause hy-specks were so hard to wash
off-simply because she did not think
to put the work ''a-soak. > Not long be-
fore / saw a man undertake to clean.
and greatly iniure, a painted piece of
furniture covered with the marks of last
years fy-time, by rubbing a coat of
soap all over it and then washing off
soap and paint and dirt together. Cold
water alone would have cleaned it bet
ter. Soap always injuries paint more
or less.
VISIT To DAIRY FARM IN HoLLAND.
Most of the vehicles and the more com
mon implements of the farm are of the
rudest and most primitive sort, such as
no one of us would think fit for use
yet everything indicates that the work
is we'll and promptly done. The cheese
making is carried on in a dark-lookinp
old room, and the apparatus is probably
the same as has been in vogue on the
farm for 200 years. At the same time |
everything was scrupulously clean, and
the product bears the highest reputa-
dion in the local market, which is a |
large one and is frequented by the
wholesale dealers. l do not know
enough of our own manner of cheese
making to say wherein the Dutch !
system differs from it but do know !
enough of the quality of the article
when brought to the table to consider
the Dutch cheese we'll entitled to its
higher price. So far as I could Judge. I
there is nothing in the cattle. in the 9
forage, nor IN the process of manufac-
ture which should prevent us from g
making the same article, and supplying
our own markets with a kind of cheese /
which Is now imported very largely. G
IRRIGATIoS WITH LIQUID MANURE a
There is no doubt that the experience C
of the last two or three years will lead d
to very early use of some method or d
other of irrigating crops grown upon
land of more than ordinary value. o
Market gardens, lawns, private gardens, f
dairy farms on which sOiling crops are L
grown, all will, before long, be brought j
under some system of irrigation. not so g
much with water as with fertilizers in a
liquid form. When it becomes a dues- p
ton of crop or no crop upon land that o
must pay interest on a cost of several G
hundred dollars per acre, to say nothing n
of repaying the costly labor laid out o
upon the crops, and that the saving of t.
the crop depends upon a supply of t
moisture which is withheld by nature. r
it is certain that an immediate solution &
will be found in providing means for q
supplying the needed moisture. Be a
sides, manure already dissolved is i'm l,
mediate in its action upon plants, and e
is at once absorbed 10y the roots. By ii
irrigation with weak solutions of G.
crops of rye grass are contin- Y
1ally grown upon some English dairy p
farms which amount in the aggregate to b
thirty tons per acre during one season. W
and an aggregate growth of 100 inches h
has been thus procured by making sew al
eral cuttings. -AgricUlt1Tist. il
WINTERING BEEs.-After ARRANGING q,
Ill the frames in proper manner, the
brood as near the center of the brood
chamber as possible, I cover them mn
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