The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-18
HOME AND FARM

When 1t becomes the ambition of the'farlner
er to get the most possible from the least
possible area of land, then farming will
pay.
DO folks who bring little, half grown
chickens to market chuckle that il is a cheat
or do they not? In most cases it is a tieliber-
ate swindle.
The experience of last year in this State
demonstrated that it Is bad economy to sow
wheat broadcast. The gain in one crop will
sometimes pay for a drill when that invalu-
able implement Is used.
1t is very disheartening to visit farm
house which makes grand show at a dis
lance, and find all the grounds around it
filled with ragweed, jimsOns, dog. fennel and
coekle-ourrs. A clean sward and close lawn
are as becoming III their way as a clean face
Some one writes: I am told by one who
has tried it that strong tea of quassia
sweetened with molasses will kill flies. and
has the advantage of not being a deadly
poison. 1t is said too. that horses washed
with tea made OF qusssia will not be tor
meDted by flies. 1t can be bought at any
drug store, and is worth trying il il will
abate the fly nuisance any.
| BLACK RASPBERRY DEssERT.-I.ook over
and put into your glass sauce dish the best
sweet black raspberries, crushing them as
little as possible. Then smash and strain
halt as many ripe red currents. Add sugar
to the juice of these until quite sweet, and
| when 1t Is well dissolved pour it over the
"black caps" and let them stand an hour or
two. Serve for after dinner dessert. or for
sauce at any time.
WHoRTLEBERRY BREAD PUDDING.-Take
stale batter biscuit and steam or soak in a
little water until quite soft. Then crumble
finely and place layer half an inch thick in
a happy, and over that place LAYER of iuicy
whortleberries. Sprinkle over the latter
sugar enough to sweeten them, aud then
layer of bread crumbs, alternating until
the dish is full. Bake half an hour or more,
according to the size of the dish and the
heat of the oven.
The Rural New-Yorker says: Of with
your hat. my boy, when you enter the
! house. Gentlemen never keep their hats on
in the presence of ladies, and if you always
take yours off when mamma and the girls
are by, you will not forget yourself or be
mortified when guest or stranger happens
to be in the psrlor. Habit is stronger than
anything else, and you will always find that
the easiest way to make sure of doing right
on all occasions is to get in the ha bit of doing
right. Good manners can not be put on at q
; momeLt's warning.
RED CURRENT JELLY.-Put your currants
in bell metal kettle and scald them well /:
when cool press them through sieve. get
, ting out all the juice, but be careful not to
allow any skin or seeds TO pass through the
sieve; measure the juice and put il back
again in the kettle and let it boil hard for
, five or six minutes. skimming it well then
add, while on the hre boiling, one pound of
sifted loaf sugar to every pint of juice; stir
,, till dissolved, and then it is done and ready
TO put into the tCmblers. 1t has the flavor
of the fruit, and is beautiful light color
IL will keep for yearsit necessary.
STEAM PowER.-Moore's Rural insists: We
mus and will come to it. The coming agri-
culturalist will as surely employ steam
power in the prosecution of farm operations
as the manufacturer now does. The old
water power is almost extinct. Horse power
on the best cultivated farms will in the next
halt century give place to steam to large
extent. 1t is as sure to happen as that now
ing machine, reapers, horse rakes, pitch
forks and tedders now supplant the old pro-
cesses. Mark the prediction!
How TO EXCLUDE THE AIR.-The Boston
Journal of Chemistry says that a tin tube
made like slphon, driven into the vent of
? q barrel of wine or cider and the other end
inserted into vial of water will prevent
the air from entering the barrel while the
gas escapes through the water. Make the
: barrel otherwise tight. When the cider or
wine is done working, the water in the
? filling up, as there is no loss. That plan is
none the worse for being old.
GRIND THE KNIvEs.-F. d. Curtis says In
the Tribune: I desire to call atten-
ton 10 an important fact which was demon
1 strated at a recent trial of moving machines
at Poughkeepsie, under the auspices of the
eft inf roftr II
barometer test it was found that the draft
of each machine was nearly one-third
, greater when the knives were dull, and in
this test the knives were only moderately
dull, having been used to NOW but one acre.
1t is thus clearly shown that it is all-im-
portant to keep the knives sharp, and
4 thereby materially lessen the labor of the
horses used in moving reaping, and also
l. reduce the strain and wear proportionally
: of the machines.
q PEACH NATURALIZATION is the time for
a this lesson: We took the small and imper-
feet clings, as they would not admit of being
\ removed from the stone in pieces of uniform
a size and shape, pared them, and, after cut
! ting from the stone, placed in porcelain
kettle with one pint of water to two quarts
of fruit; boiled until soft; took off and put
. through a sieve with a wooden potatato
smasher. Then returned to the kettle, add
4 ing one pint of sugar to every quart of pre-
: pared fruit; brought to boil and sealed
while hot. 1t can be sealed without the ad-
dition OF the sugar, and when eaten let il be
sweetened with white sugar to the taste, and
a it greatly resembles fresh peaches.
o PRUNING ROSE BUsHEs.-The Fruit Re-
corder says: The best time to prune what
are termed garden roses" is immediate y
? after Towering, which is generally about the
: middle of this month. Cut out all ex-
hausted wood, and, where too thick and
crowded, shorten those shoots which have
lowered to good, fresh, strong eye or bud,
; accompanied with a healthy Leaf, but leav-
: ing untouched such shoots as are still i'm a
growingcondition, except where they are bs-
: coming irregular. Such should be cut to