The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
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and keep itFwelI covered Some sliced
onions mixed in would improve it.
KNOTS ON PLUM TREEs.-A CORES
pondent of the FIar4sers' Club, New
York, says that for removing knots
from plum trees, he takes a paint-b brush,
dips it in spirits of turpentine, and |
thoroughly saturates the knot, being |
careful not to touch the tree except in
the diseased parts The turpentine /
kills the excreseence, and the tree puts
out,healthy branches below. he burns
an branches of diseased trees which he
has removed in pruning.
AsBETos.-There are very extensive
deposits of this important mineral
within the limits of the United States,
that found on the eastern slope of the
Green mountains and of the Adiron-
dacks being of the best quality for fine
ness and tensile strength. The fiber of
! New York and Vermont asbestos varies
in length from two to forty inches, and
i resembles unbleaehed flax, when found
near the surface, bat when taken at
greater depth, It is pure white, and
very strong and flexible. It is found
also, in considerable quantities in the
Tyrol, in Hungary, Corsica, and
Wales.
MULCHNG STRAWBERRIES cores
/ pondent to an exchange says: The
snow fell before I had a chance to cover
my strawberry beds. VIII it do any
good to put on mulch now? It an
! swers The snow is an exeellent mulch,
and answers all purposes, if it would
remain on the ground until April. Put
on the mulch by all means on the top
of the snow, and~a as the latter disap-
pears the hay or Straw viii settle down
on the plants and protect them from
the bad effects of alternate freezing and
thawing, which on wet or clay ground
will " hease the stock
STEAMED INDIAN PUDDNa.-Take
one cup of meal, one cup of -four, one
cup of suet, one cup of molasses, one
cup chopped raisins, one cup of Zante
currants, one cup sweet milk, One-half
teaspoonful soda, pinch of salt J.; mix
well put into two-quart basin, steam
two hours. To be eaten with dressing
made OF. one cup of sugar, one-half cup
of butter put in basin, and pour on a
pint of boiling wa5er; set on the stove );
take tablespoonful of -four, mix in a
little water so that it viii not be lumpy
and stir into the gravy, stirring it until
it beiIs ; season with nutmeg or lemon
extract.
How TO Cook Coon BEEFsTEAK.-
Have your steak cut thick, put it on
your lneat-board, and with a sharp
pointed knife prick it every imaginable
way to make it tender, put it on the
gridiron over the fire, turning it very
often. Put lump of butter, and some
salt and pepper into a tin dish. Put
your steak dish where it will get warm
ed. When the steak is cooked put it
4 into the tin dish and double it over /;
press out all the blood you can, and
lay the steak on your plate. Set the
tin dish with the blood, pepper and
salt on the stove, and as soon as it boils
: up and thickens, pour it over your
! steak You can add can of mush-
t rooms to the gravy. This recipe was
never known to fail.
E SUMNER PRUNING Eoono
, my in time and favorable results are
strong points in favor of summer prun-
, ing of the currant For the past three
or four years we have watched clostly
, experiments, instituted on a large scale,
to test this method, and each succeed
ing experience is more convincing than
= the previous one at summer is the best
time for doing the principal pruning Of
D the currant. A healthy currant plant
T comes into leaf and starts a growth Of
p wood early in April. It is a fast grower
5 so that by the 1st of August the young
Y wood is fully matured, and may, if want
q ed, be cut off from the parent plant, set
: in the ground, and it will in a few weeks
q make roots that before cold weather vii
n be well established Upon bearing, al
r. well as young bushes, the new growth
t is three times as much as should be-
V allowed to remain. With the ole
: method, this surplus wood is left t.
v mature, and at the animal pruning, late
: in winter, this unnecessary quantity il
cut out and thrown away, for it seldom
happens that those who grow currantt
for home use or market can make use o
. the currant cuttings. The most tedious
= part of the labor of raising currants il
: this annual pruning, which is the only
tiresome, but also expensive WheI
I summer pruning is practiced, at leas
three-quarters of this labor and loss o
time is saved. During the first o.
second week in June a boy goes over tn,
. bushes, pulling off such shoots as ar,
. not needed on the bearing bush, ant
). with the thumb and finger pinching of
the ends of the shoots that are left tt
mature And one who has not tried
d this method can form no conception how
I rapidly a smart lad will finish bed o
! currants. The thinning and shorten
. ing increases the size and vigor of tn,
n bush in very striking manner. Tr7
two rows, pruning one and letting thu
L other run wild. In two years the differ
r, ence in favor of the former will be so mark
x ed that a stranger would scarcely beIiev
n that the rows were planted at the sam
e time, and cultivated and MANFRED alike
, The size of the punches and berries vii
also give indisputabIe evidence tina
, there is much to be gained by following
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