Richland beacon., 1873-11-29
HOUSE. FARM AND GARDEN
The Economics Of the Kitchen and the
Barn.

The Economics Of the Kitchen and the
Barn.
WOMAN ON FARM DAIRYING.-
ing should be promoted to greater ex-
tent, and while would in no wise de- |
precia.e these extensive factory enter
prises, believe they cannot surpersede
the necessity, nor should their existence
furnish an excuse to avoid the trouble
of farm dairying. If, from any prstext,
our farmers should abandon the Gust I'm
OF producing sufficient amount of out
ter and. cheese for the consumption of
their families, a short period of time
must prove the fallacy of the schemes.
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 preserving kettle over slow fire.
DO not hurry the process of stewing.
To prevent the berries from sticking to
the kettle, stir them frequently with
silver spoon. When done, turn them
into dish, and set aside to cool after
which they may be used for pies, tarts
or sauce. When for sauce, mash them
fine through 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 MATCHED IN July are said to
make far better layers than those born
mt any other season of the year. Early
Matched chicks commence laying in
September and continue until cold JAN
nary 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 Is 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 l have ever known, and as market
fowls they have no equal. They are
very hardy, mature early, and make
short-legged, yellow-feshed, heavy
breasted fowls.
Now That THE FLIES HAVE BECOME
THINNED OFF by the return of cool
weather. tne tidy housewife rolls up her
sleeves ana wash-rag in hand ioyfully
cieanses the Paint OF her dwelling from
all summer long. And this is I to- , ne
an unexce otional housekeeper doe. way
/ wet the door or window-frame all ors:
with cloth that will not drip. Then 1
go back to the place where began and
wash the whole over very quickly and
easily. then use a clean dry cloth. L
should not think of mentioning this,
but the other day saw hired girl of
considerable experience rubbing hard
and long upon a door, and signing be-
cause fy-specks were so hard to wash
off-simply because she did not think
to put the work "a-soak. Not long be-
fore saw a man undertake to clean,
and greatly iniure. painted piece Of
furniture covered with the marks of last
years fy-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.
VISIT TO A DAIRY FARM IN 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
vet everything indicates that the work
is we'll and promptly done. The cheese
making is carried on in 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 q
large one and is frequented by the
wholesale dealers. 1 do not know
enough of our own manner of cheese
making to say wherein the Dutch
system differs from it but I 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 1 could Judge,
there is nothing in the cattle. in the
forage, nor in the process of manufac.
0uO wAACA ouOuiu pIcVcuI us ITOm
making the same article, and supplying
our own markets with 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 will lead
to a very early use of some method or
other of irrigating crops grown upon
land of more than ordinary value.
Market gardens, lawns, private gardens,
dairy farms on which sOiling 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-
tion of crop or no crop upon land that
must pay interest on cost of several
hundred dollars per acre, to say nothing
of repaying the costly labor laid out
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 it's action upon plants, and
is at once absorbed by the roots. By
irrigation with weak solutions OF
manure, crops of rye grass are contin.
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