Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-02-19

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power steam engine, used for cutting
feed, grinding grain, and furnishing
steam for steaming all the food con.
sumed on the premises. The "hash y
is made of the following mixture
525 pounds corn fodder worth. ..........s3 81
96 pounds corn meal, or GO quarts. ....... A
los pounds cotton seed meal. ........... "a
ia pounds shorts. Observation-Disclosures. :. l az
Total. .....................s1 81
This gives about 163 bushels of feed
at batch, costing about seven cents
per bushel. Two bushels of this food
is given each animal per day, and five
pounds of dry hay. The whole daily
cost of feed per cow is only 81. 46 cents.
This, certainly, is low figure for the
cost of feeding as large animals as
were those Short-horns. 1t always has
seemed to us that the natural occupa-
tion of the COW is chewing the cud.
Whether from the fact that the food is
all cut and cooked, or because OF the
excitement at seeing so many strange
faces, the COWS were none of them qui-
etly chewing the cud as we would like
to see them. Their occupation ap-
peared to be gone. We shall need to
see more experiments in feeding
steamed food to COWS, before we shall
be converted to the system.
Seraping Fruit Trees.
We consider early winter to be the
best time for scraping and washing the
trunks of trees. 1t is well known to all
observing fruit growers that the loose
bark of trees is the winter quarters OF
myriads of insects, where they securely
remain until the ensuing spring, when
the warm, genial weather invites them
to quit their cozy homes and begin
their destructive operations for the sea-
son. We have found a narrow saw,
rather fne-toothed, to be an excellent
tool in rasping off the superhuous bark.
It accomplishes it more uniformly than
q hoe, trowel, or other scraper a
trowel, or short-handled hoe, however,
is very good when the other may not
be possessed. After the bark is re-
moved, the trunks should be washed
thoroughly with preparation of whale
oil soap and water, say in proportion OF
a pound of soap to four gallons OF
water. 1t can be applied to large trees
with hickory broom or stiff white
wash brush, and to small trees,
especially dwarfs, with the hard scrub
brush. Sickly trees, which can at this
season be easily detected by being COW
cred with species of fungi, or perhaps
more properly a peculiar insectiyorous
deposit should be scrubbed so as to
completely remove this. The mixture
will of itself benefit the tree, while the
removal from the stem of all extraneous
and injurious substances will give to it
new health and vigor the ensuing sea-
son-in some instances to surprising
extent. When whale oil soap is not OBJ
tainable, or carbolic or soft soap, ley
should be used, but it should not be
very strong, or it might be injurious to
the roots of the tree if applied plenti-
fully and the tree small.-GernaantoaOn
Telegraph.
Domestic Recipes.
PLUM PUDDING.-Two eggs; six
crackers; three pints of sweet milk ;
a piece of butter the size of an egg
one cup of raisins little salt and nut
meg.
BAKED INDIAN PUDDING.-Foure eggs ;
one quart of sweet milk; five large tea
spoonfuls of Indian. meal /; nutmeg and
sugar to the taste. Boil the milk and
scald the Indian-meai in it, then let it
cool before adding the eggs. Bake
three-quarters of an hour. Eat with
butter or sweet sauce.
PANcAKEs.-One egg; two spoonfuls
of sugar one cup of sweet milk one
teaspoonful of soda two teaspoonfuls
of cream-of-tar three cups of -four.
QUICK PUDDNG.-One egg one cup
or sugar one tablespoonful of melt ed
butter one cup of sweet milk half q
teaspoonful of soda; three cups of flour.
Bake half an hour or more. Eat with
sweet sauce.
SAao PUDDINa.-Two large spoons of
sago boiled in one quart of milk the
peel of lemon little nutmeg when
cool add four eggs; little salt. Bake
about one hour and q half. Eat with
sugar and cream.
A Cheap Ice-House.
Ny ice-house is crib ten feet by ten
and half inside, and eight feet high,
and set directly on the surface of the
ground the posts are made of slabs
and the sides are of the same, nailed
on horizontally two or three inches
apart. Cost of lumber 81 nails fifty
cents labor done by farm hand. Five
three-horse loads of ice filled it. In
filling, one foot of sawdust was put in,
and then layer of ice one foot from the
sides, the edges packed and the middle
broke up little, and as each layer was
put in, sawdust was filled in between
the ice and boards, and so on till the
crib was filed. The top was finished
rounding, and covered with foot OF
sawdust, and pine boughs on that, tc
keep the wind from blowing it away,
and has had no roof of any kind. The
first of this month there was still six
teen inches of ice left. In the middle
of one end, about one foot from the
boards, is dumb waiter case, fifteen
inches square and ten feet high, inside
of which is dumb waiter two and 9
half feet long, fitted up with shelves
for meat, butter, etc., and it has an,
swered a good purpose.-Cor. Counhy 9
Gentleman.
Reducing Bones.
Mr.. Potter Warren, of New Hamp,
shire, at recent Agricultural Conven'
ton, gave the following easy and cheap