The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-26
Farm, Garden and Household.
Farm Notes.


on rich ground.
To buy all the land one can is like
merchant paying all his money for a
building .. ..t. ,....- ...-
A taste for farming comes late, and il |
is often connected with high mental
culture.
While Ipoor farm may be of great
advantage to man of energy, it is hard
on the boys.
An acre of wheat straw in England is
worth more than an acre of wheat and
straw in Minnesota.
The political economists declare that
If cash payments were always made,
prices could be reduced thirty per
cent.
National, State, and county taxes are
high, but higher ones still come from
having farm implements exposed to the
weather. .
The Arab farmer cuts out a piece of
skin from the horses or mules rump,
80 that, with o pointed stick, greater
speed can be obtained.
If every milk pail in the country
leaked SO much as to lose half its con-
tents, the loss would be no greater than
the loss arising from bad butter.
Food given to cattle in the open air
is partly wasted to supply heat ; part
is wasted in too warm stables by a
sweating process. Give us neither
poverty nor riches.
An English farm writer says "There
is no more dismal sight, on cold, wet
morning, than lot of cattle standing
with their backs up in an open fold,
devouring half-frozen turnips, chilling
their bodies, and disturbing their tenn
pers by the process" So you are over
there also, with your sloshy ways of
farming.
1t is estimated that only five per
cent of the butter sent to market is
really choice. This means only five
per cent of farmers and of farmers
wives are neat and careful enough to
make good butter. The loss sustained
for want of these qualities may be rated
at millions of dollars annually.
1t is now asserted that side window
In stable makes horses eye weak on
that side ; a window in front hurts his
eyes by the glare ; a window behind
makes him squint-eyed a window on
diagonal line makes him shy when he
travels stable without windows
p2akes him blind. Truly, farming is a
fearful and wonderful pursuit.
There is one especial advantage in
keeping farm accounts. By knowing
what corn, oats, wheat, barley, rye and
roots cost, or what they bring in mar
ket, or how far they will go in feeding,
it can be ascertained which will pay
best. Not to keep accounts is good
deal as if merchant should sell his
goods without knowing what they cost.
The Ohio Horticultural Society has
petitioned the General Assembly to
encourage the culture and protection
of forests in the State by the offer of
liberal bounties and by exempting from
taxation land thus planted. 1t also
prays that severe penalties may be laid
against wanton or careless destruction
of shade trees along the public high
ways.
A Farm of Beans.
A farmer near Brockport, Monroe Co.,
N. Y, commenced, some twelve years
ago, by the purchase of fifty acres of
land. 1t was before the rise in land,
and he bought for fifty dollars an acre,
much of it being considered of inferior
quality. He was in debt for consid-
erable part of the purchase money. He
j,
the first year with beans. The war
made an active demand for beans, at
high prices he got a good crop and
sold for 81 to 81 80 per hnshel. Doing
so well the first year he repeated the
experiment; bought more land, until
he now owns 300 acres. Beans are and
have been his main though not, as at
first, his only crop. Two years ago he
planted about 140 acres. The planting
is all done by machine made especial.
ly for the purpose, and the cultivatine
is done by horse labor. He hires the
beans pulled by the acre, $3.50 being
the usual price. Women and children
do much of this work, and, as it is done
by the acre, there is no disputing as tc
how much each laborer earns. There
are ups and downs in prices-low prices
being the rule since the war-but Mr.
- has found his bean crop always
profitable one. In seasons when beans
are injured by the weather, he furnishes
great amount of work for poor peopl,
in winter in hand picking his enormous
crop. His example and success hav,
proved contagious, and the result il
that beans have been grown NOR
largely within six or ten miles of Brock
port than in any other section of sim
liar size in the world. Many farmer
have grown rich by growing them, ant
during the war it was not uncommon
for men to make the value of ther Ian,
from single crop, we'll sold.
CaIrs-foot Jelly.
Proportions: A set of calf's feet, O
four, two quarts of water, three eggs
one ounce of gelatine, gill of port
wine, and quarter of gill of Jamaic
rum, one onion, sprig of thyme, on
Glove, eight whole peppers, and salt
Process: See that the feet are wei
cleaned and scraped put them in
saucepan with the water, the onion il
slices, the thyme, Glove, and Who'll
peppers boil gently until they ar
thoroughly cooked. If the water shoul,
boil away, add some more. Take tn
feet off when done, turn the liquor int,
a strainer, and put it on the fire in
tin saucepan, with the eggs, goo'
pinch of salt, the gelatine, port.wine
and rum beat the whole we'll together
and proceed as for the jelly above.