The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-01-16
Agricultural Miscellany.

tdUlus OF uVe miles OF sacramento, Cal.
Over 100000 pounds of Colorado
Wheat have already been shipped from
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
five 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.
1t is estimated that of the present |
great cop of fruit throughout the
United !ates, more apples have been
lost byi 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
having the horse malady.
A lot of Texas cattle were recently
driven into Appanoose county, Iowa,
for pasturage, and now the native cattle
In the vicinity of Moulton, in that
county, are dying off at rapid rate
with the Texas cattle fever.
A 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
specially which requires study and eI-
perience. 1t is science that but few
farmers are able to comprehend To be
a 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 n 5000 short-horned bull,
sick with hoven, by placing 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 encrm-
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 so wet that the product was ex-
trenely light.
To prepare vegetable oysters, parboil
it, scrape off the outside, and cut it in
slices. Make a batter with powdered
cracker, beaten eggs and salt; dip each
slice in, and fry both sides brown.
Water Cakes. Dry three pounds OF
line flour, and rub it into q pound OF
sifted sugar, one pound of butter, and
one ounce of caraway seed. Make il
into a paste with three-quarters of s
pint of boiling new milk, roll very thin
and cut into the size you choose punch
full of holes, and bake on tin plates il
cool oven.
To Make Preserved Ginger of Lettuce
Stalks Put the quantity of lettuce
stalk that you wish to preserve in sal
and water for four or five days, chang
ing it every day ; make syrup of on
pound of sugar, one pint of water
quarter OF pound of ginger, with tn
peel of lemon, the white of an egg
boil till clear, which must be done thre
times q week for three weeks ; wipe tn
stalks quite dry, and pour the syru1
over, boiling. This preserve, if wei
tied down in jars and kept in a dr..
place, will keep for four or five years.
Cold Slaw. -Mince very finely smal
cabbage ; put it into china bowl, an
prepare for nice dressing. Take hal
pint Of the best white vinegar, mi
with quarter of pound of butter Gu
in bits and rubbed in -four, a little sal
and cayenne. Stir all this together an
boil in small saucepan. AS soon a
it boils, stir in the yolks of four vel
beaten eggs, and take it Immediately o
the fire. Pour it boiling hot over th
cabbage, and mix it with a spoon. LIZ
it become cold before sending to table
The u S. Agricultural Bureau. ---Th
report of the Agricultural Bureau, iu
published, shows that the corn crop
this year is an unusual large one. 1t
manifest that the corn crop is as lare
as that of 1870, and when the returns al
all in, crop of one thousand one hui
dred million bushels will be indicate
in quality somewhat below the averag
The season has been unpropitious f
cotton, but not less favorable than tn
Of last season. The total product as i
dicated by the first week in Novemb
ismade very nearly 8, 450, 900 commerce
bales of 465 pounds. In potatoes t
returns point to decrease of five p
cent. from the product of last yes
amounting to six millions of bushe
There has been a small increase in t
hay crop, which will probably reach q
100000 tons.
Home Made Yeast. Daisy Ely
bright, in the Country Gentleman !
commends the following: Boil two han
fuls of hops, tied in small bag, in {
quarts of water, slice thin six large POI
toes, and boil them with the hops; VIII
they are soft skim them out and ma
perfectly fine; add to them one and
half pints of wheat -four stirred to
smooth batter with cold water; turn oy
1.-THE whole the boiling hop liquor, fl
taking out the bag and squeezing it dl
then hang it aside to use another tin
for it will make two patches of yea
Stir into this mixture two tablespoonf1
of sugar, one of ginger and one of 50
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