Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-11
Farm, Garden and Household.

Here is some plain language address
ed to Nebraska husbandmen by the |
editor of local journal: Farmers, it is
your own fault if you do not get what
you want from the Legislature, because
you send men who will waste weeks in
the expenditure of political buncombe,
and who lack the wit or energy to put
even any good law in force on our statute
books. Why grumble then? Let us
all do what we can with those we have
placed in high places.
The Western Farmer dares to main
tain that it would be quite possible to
take many of the so-called "run down
farms, and increase the crops steadily
fer several years without the aid of any
manures, simply by more thorough cul-
tivation or better tillage. This of
course would not be advisable, for the
use of fertilizers in addition would be a
great help, but it would illustrate what
our authority fully believes, that there
is comparatively little land from which
the "plant food has been exhausted.
The eighth annual Convention of the
American Dairymen's Association will
be held at Utica, Jan. 14-16. The Pres
ident, Horatio Seymour, is expected to
present paper on the use of the micro
scope in testing milk, cream, cheese,
&C., and other addresses on appropriate
topics are announced by L. B. Arnold,
David W. Lewis, o. S. Bliss, B. B. Moon,
VIM. Blanding, s. A. Harrington, T. D.
Curtis, Harris Lewis, Alex. Macadam,
J.V. H. Scovill. Levi and Charles Scher-
merhorn, and H. Cooley Greene. In
addition to these, prominent and success.
full cheese and butter makers will be
called on for experience, "questior
drawer" will be inaugurated and mem
bers will have privilege of bringing for,
ward such pertinent subjects as they
may desire to have considered A pop
ular churn will be given as premium fol
the best 20 or 25 pounds of butter.
Further particulars furnished by the
Secretary, Gardner B. Weeks, Syracuse,
N.
Take some rump steak and pound il
well, to make it soft, and lard it thor
oughly. Put it in a stewpan, in equal
parts of white wine and water, and add
some slices from leg of veal. Season
1t with spice, salt, garlic, thyme and
parsley. Boil them over q steady fire,
four or five hours. When sufficiently
done, remove the meat, and strain the
broth through sieve then put it into
another pan, and boil it down until il
becomes jelly. If it is wished that the
jelly should be clear, the whites of two
eggs may be beaten up in tablespoon
full of stock broth, and added to it, and
well mixed. 1t must then be boiled fo1
seven or eight minutes. Some lemon is
thento be added, and the contents of the
stewpan strained through fine cotton
strainer, taking care not to squeeze the
cloth, or the dregs may be forced through
the pores of the material. The filtered
jelly is then put in cold place to set
When it has become perfectly solid, il
is to be cut with spoon into large
pieces, which are arranged on the dish,
around the piece of meat. Sometimes
the jellyis colored before being strained
by the addition of little cochineal.
Very many persons seem to think that
because beauty and utility are not the
same, they must be anSagonistic. But
uO DeauGllUl COlOrS III a 1OWl plumdSt
make its flesh less juicy and appetizine
after having been upon the gridiron
To be sure fancy hues do not necessari
ly, and of themselves, produce good il
regard to useful qualities, but neithe,
do they necessarily do harm. Onl,
those who love fowl, that is, those who
take an interest in them and study thei
peculiarities, are the ones who will b.
likely to effect any improvements as tx
their economical value, and it is thes,
very keepers who may also, as matte
of course, be expected to have their eye
fought by external, and who will pre-
fer some particular hues and colors.
am convinced that breeding for fame,
and to a standard, provided due promin
ence is given to symmetry and size, ant
all Sin and-in breeding" strictly avoid
ed, is not detrimental to utility, ant
that birds thus bred will always com
pare more than favorably with common
stock, surprising neither to be bred witt
any special reference to extraordinar
prolifcness, as is not generally the cas-
with either fancy fowls or the common
sorts