The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

ture OF salt, pepper anu alum, anu
hang in cool place till it is thoroughly
impregnated with the salt, then put it
to press under heavy weight.
UNION CAKE.-Two cups of sugar,
one cup of butter, one cup of milk,
three cups of flour, one-half cup of corn
starch, four eggs, one teaspoonful Of
cream of tarar, one-half teaspoonful Of
soda, two teaspoonfuls of extract of
lemon, and one teasponful of brandy.
To REMOVE THE IRON TASTE FROM
New KETTLES. handful of hay
in them, and repeat the process if nee
essary. Hay water is great sweet
ener of tin, iron and wooden-ware. In
Irish dairies everything used for milk is
scalded with hay water.
COMMON FRUIT CAKE.-Two eggs, one
cup of sugar drown is best, one-half
cup of molasses, one half cup of butter,
one-half cup of sweet milk, two cups of
flour, one cup of raisins, two teaspoon
fuls of cream of tartar, and teaspoonful
of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon,
one teaspoonful each of cloves and all
spice and nutmeg. If / have it add a
tablespoonful of sour cream.
THE SKIN.-Take live coal, pulverize
1T, apply to to the wound, and cover the
whole with a rag. The charcoal absorbs
all the secretions, and is antiseptic
Quinine in powder may be used instead,
as 1t possesses most of the virtues of
pulverized charcoal, and is beside as
tringent and tonic, and gives white
scab instead of black one.
CLOVER AND GYPSUM George Geddes
writes to the New York Tribune that he
has on his farm, in Central New York,
a field which from 1899 to 1873 has had
no manure except clover grown on it
and plowed under, and that wheat,
corn, oats, barley, meadow and pasture
have been regularly taken from the land
III five years rotation-the closing crop
! being winter wheat with which timothy
and clover is sowed. The clover has
been regularly treated with gypsum for
! fifty years. He has particularly noticed
1T OF late years and says the land is more
fertile than % years ago.
A POTATO SowING-MACHINE. - The
Journal d 1gricuiture Pratique states
that among the new machines which
especially attracted the attention of
agriculturists at the recent meeting of
the Palais de PIndustrie was potato
sowing machine, invented by NJ. Cou-
teau, and constructed by M. Peltier,
Jr. BY means of an ingenious con-
trivance, worked by gear, the tubers,
previously placed in box are carried
successfully into pipe which opens
and shuts automatically, depositing the
| seed with perfect regularity in the fur
rows made by share with which the
machine is provided.
SOIL AND CROPS. to my
experience and observation, some farm
ers fail III not planting the right crops
in the soil best adapted to their culture
The successful farmer plants corn and
sows oats on his moist ground, but po-
tatoes do best on light soil, and on soil so
dry that water will not stand at any
time. Wheat does best on high hard
wood land barley viii grow well upon
a light or sandy soil, and yield best
on clayey or gravelly soil newly broken
up ground is best. Rutabagds, beets, |
parsnips and carrots need a light deep
soil. Apples, pomegranates and cherry
trees thrive planted in hard, rocky soil. !
Land that is too rocky to pillow is good |
for orchards.
CLOSING CRACKS IN STOVES 1t may
be convenient to know a ready method |
Of closing up cracks, which are not I'M
common in cast-iron stoves, and we are |
assured that the following receipt is a
reliable one. Good wood ashes are TO |
be sifted through fine sieve, to which |
is to be added the same quantity of
clay finely pulverized together with a
little salt. The mixture IS to be moist
ened with water enough to make a
paste, and the crack of, the stove filled
with it. The cement does not peel off |
or break away, aud assumes an extreme
degree of hardness after being heated.
The stove must be cool when the appl-
cation is made. The same substance
may be used in setting in the plates of
a stove, or In fitting stove-pipes, serv-
ing to render all the joints perfectly
tight
SOD AS MANURE.-Geo. Geddes, in
the Country Gentleman, writes As
manure, the value OF an old sod will be
somewhat understood when we consider
the result obtained by Prof. Kedzle of
the Michigan Agricultural College at
Lansing. He took a square foot of
the soil in running water, and then
weighed tho roots and surface grass, to
determine the amount of green manural
matter usually contained in heavy
greensward, and found it to be five
pounds to the square foot-or at the
rate OF more than 100 tons to the acre.
This was from very heavy mat of June
grass, ana the Professor says in letter
to me, III regard to this matter This
is doubtless in excess of ordinary June
grass but he says he thinks that
few farmers estimate correctly the
amount of vegetable matter they add to
their soil by blowing under heavy
greensward."
CHOOSING EGGS FOR HATCHING.-Eggs
for Matching should be chosen of the
fair average size usually laid from the
hen they are from any unusually large
or small being rejected. Some hens
lay immensely large eggs and others
small ones. a fat hen will always lay
small eggs, which can only produce