The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1873-12-06

must prove Iue liilldCN VI lllC HOLASLL1CS
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 a 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
ut 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 80 to 70 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 l am
obliged, after three years trial, TO place
the Partridge Cochins at the head of the
list. As layers they excel any Asiatic
breed 1 have ever known, and as market
fowls they have no equal. They are
very hardy, mature early, and make
shortleggcd, yellOw-heshed, heavy
breasted fowls.
Now That THE FLIES HAVE BECOME
Trimmed orr by the return of cool
weather, the tidy housewife rolls up her
sleeves and wash-rag in hand jovfully
cleauses the paint of her dwelling from
the filthy specks that have haunted her
all summer long. And this is the way
am UueXce 1tional housebecper does il
1 wet the door or wiudow-frame all over
with "a cloth that viii not drip. Then !
go back TO the place where 1 began and
wash the whole over very quickly and
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should not think of mentioning this,
but the other day ] saw a hired girl of
considerable experience rubbing hard
and long upon a door, and signing be-
cause Nv-spoCks were so hard to wash
on-slmply because she did not think
90 put the work "a-sOak.' Not long be
fore ] saw "a man undertake to clean,
and greatly iuiure. painted piece of
years hy-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.
VIsIr TO A DAIRY FARM IL 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 well and promptly done. The cheese
making is carried on in a dark-lOoking
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-
tion in the local market, which is a
large one and is freQuented by the
wholesale dealers. / do not know
enough of our own manner of cheese
making TO say wherein the Dutch
system differs from it but l 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,
there is nothing in the cattle, in the
forage, nor IN the process of manufac-
ture which should prevent US from
making the same article, and supplying
our own markets with a kind of cheese
which is now imported very largely.
IRRIGATION WITH LIQUID MANURE
There is no doubt that the experience
of the last two or three years viii lead
to very early use of some method or
other of irrigatiug crops grown upon
land of more than ordinary value
Market gardens, lawns, private gardens,
dairy farms on which soiiiug crops are
grown, all Will, before long, be brought
under some system of irrigation, not so
much with water as with fertilizers in a
liquid form. When it becomes a Ques-
ton OF crop or no crop upon land that
must pay interest on a cost of several
hundred dollars per acre, to say nothing
of rcpayiug the costly labor laid ont
upon the crops, and that the saving of
the crop depends upon a supply of
moisture which is withheld by nature,
it is certain that an immediate solution
Will be found in providing means for
supplying the needed moisture. Be
sides. manure already dissolved is I'M
mediate in its action upon plants, and
is at once absorbed by the roots. BY
irrigation with weak solutions of
manure, crops of rye grass are contin-
ually grown upon some English dairy
farms which amount IN the aggregate to
thirty tons per acre during one season,
and an aggregate growth of 100 inches
has been thus procured by making sew
oral cuttings. gricUitUrjst.
WNrERING BEEs.-After arranging
all the frames in a proper manner, the
brood as near the center of the brood
chamber as possible, I cover them up
with a WOODEN blanket which is lined
with muslin. Small strips are laid
under the blanket TO allow the bees a
passage over the top of the frames. The
second cover Is a straw mat lined with a
double thickness of coffee bag. The
straw mat is of the size of the old
fashioned honey board, completely COW
ering the brood chamber. On the top
of the straw mat in front and behind, ]
lay two one-inch straps aud on these
straps the cover of the hive. ! use the