National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-01-10
Agricultural Miscellany.

Denver.
1t is estimated that the present cotton
crop OF the South will not amount to
more than half the ordinary yield.
Hay chopped ready for feeding IS
now pressed into bales in Maine and
shipped TO the Boston market.
Diehl wheat seems TO be giving salts
faction in Michigan. Thirty TO forty.
hve bushels per acre are reported in
some sections.
Borneo has tree the nut OF which
yields vegetable tallow. The trade in
the article promises TO become one Of
great importance.
IL is estimated that of the present
great cop of fruit throughout the
United 'ates, more apples have been
lost by ting and waste than an aver
age crop would amounted to.
An epidemic resembling the horse
disease has attacked the deer in the
woods OF Michigan. Many of them have
been found dead, with their throats
badly swollen and every indications o
having the horse malady.
A lot of Texas cattle were recently
driven into Appanoose county, Iowa,
Tor pasturage. and now the native cattle
IN the vicinity of Moulton, in that
county, are dying off at n rapid rate
with the Texas cattle fever.
hen has unfortunately been killed
in Boston which might in time have
attained the power of laying golden
eggs. A solid nugget of the precious
metal was found in her insides, weigh
ing four pennyweights and in shape
very like an egg.
Walnut stumps have become an article
OF merchandise and many of them are
very valuable. The curly grain of the
roots is used for veneering, and some
stumps are worth $3.50 after being prop
erly worked into shape
A late writer lays down this as an
axiom in drainage 1T is not judicious
to spend money in draining land that
needs draining, so long as we can use
the money to good advantage in the
better cultivation of other good land
that does not need draining.
Breeding fine stock successfully is a
speciality which requires study and ex-
perience. 1t is science that but few
farmers are able to comprehend. To be
4 competent judge of fine stock nature
must bestow the talent, and that gift
must be cultivated and educated.
Paschal Morris says he once saved
the life Of 5000 short-horned bull,
sick with hoven, by placing n wisp of
twisted hay in his mouth and tying it
up tightly behind the horns The work
ing Of the jaws to get rid of this encum-
brance liberates the gas in the stomach,
and relief is immediate.
Making beet sugar has not been sue
cessful in Indiana this year The season
was 80 wet that the product was ex-
tremely light.
To prepare vegetable oysters, parboil
it. scrape off the outside, and cut it in
slices. Make batter with powdered
cracker, beaten eggs and salt; dip each
slice in, and fry both sides brown
Water Cakes. DRY three pounds of
hne flour, and rub it into pound of
sifted sugar, one pound of butter, and
one ounce of caraway seed. Make it
into paste with three-quarters of n
pint OF boiling new milk, roll very thin,
and cut into the size you choose punch
full Of holes, and bake on tin plates in
. cool oven.
To Make Preserved Ginger of Lettuce
Stalks. Put the quantity of lettuce
stalk that you wish to preserve in salt
and water for four or five days, chang
ing it every day f; make syrup of one
pound OF sugar, one pint of water,
quarter OF pound Of ginger, with the
peel OF lemon, the white of an egg
boil till clear, which must be done three
times a week for three weeks wipe the
stalks quite dry, and pour the syrup
over, boiling. This preserve, if well
place, will keep for four or five years.
Cold Slaw -Mince very finelya small
cabbage put it into china bowl, and
prepare for nice dressing. Take half
. pint Of the best white vinegar, mix
with quarter of pound of butter cut
IN bits and rubbed in -four, little salt
and cayenne. Stir all this together and
boil in a small saucepan As soon as
IT bolls, stir in the yolks of four we'll
beaten eggs, and take it Immediately off
the fire. Pour it boiling hot over the
cabbage, and mix it with spoon. Let
it become cold before sending to table
The .. S. Agricultural Bureau. The
report of the Agricultural Bureau, Just
published, shows that the corn crop of
this year is an unusual large one. 1t is
manifest that the corn crop is as large
as that of 1870, and when the returns are
all In, crop of one thousand one hun
dred million bushels will be indicated,
in quality somewhat below the average.
The season has been unpropitious for
cotton, but not less favorable than that
OF last season. The total product as in
dicated by the first week in November
Is made very nearly 3, $50, 900 commercial
bales of 465 pounds. In potatoes the
returns point to decrease of five per
cent. from the product of last year,
amounting to six millions of bushels.
There has been a small increase in the
hay crop, which will probably reach a.
DOC, 900 tons.
Home Made Yeast. Daisy Eve
bright, in the Country Gentleman re-
commends the following: Boil two hand
fuls of hops, tied in a small bag, in six
quarts OF water, slice thin six large pota-
toes, and boil them with the hops; when
they are soft skim them out and mash
perfectly fine; add TO them one and
half pints of wheat -four stirred to
smooth batter with cold water; turn over
the whole the boiling hop liquor, first
taking out the bag and squeezing it dry;
then hang it aside to use another time,
for it will make two patches of yeast.
Stir into this mixture two tablespoonful
Of sugar, one of ginger and one of salt.
When milk-warm, add a teacupful of
yeast, set in warm place to rise, and it
will be ready to put into jug by the
pext morning. Keep in cool cellar or
ice-house. AID it will last good for