The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
FARM AND PRESIDE.

SPONGE CAKE.-$ eggs beaten separate
ly, cup of sifted flour, l teaspoonful of
cream of tartar, teaspoonful of soda.
Bake in a deep pan.
AN Englishman writes to one of the sci
entific journals stating that he has discov-
cred new cure for rheumatic govt. He
had suffered fortunes from that disease
for several years, but by insulating his bed
by means of glass stands and sockets
under each foot, he began to improve inn
mediately.
PRESERVING FRUIT WITH HoNEY.-Fruit
may be preserved with honey by putting
the fruit first in the can, then pouring hon
ey over it, and sealing air tight; when the
honey is poured from the fruit it will have
the flavor and appearance of jelly, making
delicious dessert,
A GOOD homemade disinfectant is made
by dissolving bushel of salt into barrel
of water, and with this salt water slack a
barrel of lime, which should be wet
enough to form kind of paste. For the
purpose of disirfectant, this homemade
chloride of lime is nearly as good as that
purchased at the shops and drug stores.
Use it freely about sinks, cellars, cutters,
and outhouses, and in this way prevent
sickness, suffering and expense.
BEETs.-A Western correspondent of
the Fruit Recorder raises largely of the
beet crop, as it does not seem to exhaust the
soil, and if kept clean, leaves it in excel
lent condition for the next crop. He sells
them in market, the first Trimmings when
an inch in diameter as greens, in punches
OF six for five cents next, as roots, when
three inches in diameter, three to five in a
bunch, at the same price; while the late
crop, 200 to 800 bushels per acre, brings 60
cents to one dollar per bushel. The Bas-
sano he finds the best early beet; the Early
Blood turnip, the best general or interme-
diate crop; and the Long Blood, an excel
lent late variety.
How TO RAISE GOOD CABBAGE.-A. C.
High, of Pennsylvania, writing to the
American Industrial Farmers Club, says:
:" planted 800 plants, say en- the 1st of Jul
ly, on very ordinary soil which had been
planted in corn the previous year, gave it
a light dressing Of barn-yard manure, at the
rate of about ten two-horse loads per acre.
After the plants had started, put about
three bushels of the contents of privy in
tight barrel and filled with water, and
gave my cabbage$ two doses of the LIQUID
at intervals of about two weeks. The re-
suit was had about 500 large, solid head
OF cabbages of first quality.
DOUBLE CRoPrING.-There can be no
better preparatory preparation of ground
for crop of rutabagas than crop of early
potatoes. Manure the ground for the first
crop with wild rOtted barn-yard manure.
and be sure and keep the weeds down.
When the potatoes are dug early in July,
pillow, harrow, and drill the ground for
turnips. Use from 300to 500 lbs. of finely
ground bone or good superphosphate of
lime to the acre, in the drills, before sowing
the seed, or the special fertilizer can be mix
ed with twice its bulk of soil and scattered
on the surface before drilling. With proper
care in culture and thinning he cannot fail
to raise a good crop of rutabagas by adopt
ing this method.--P z. Quinn.
To KEEP HAMS IN SUMMER,-There are
a number of modes given to keep hams
during the warm season free from the at
tacks of insects, Some bag them and
whitewash the bags, which is troublesome
and somewhat expensive; some cover
them with dry wood-ashes and pack them
in barrels; some pack them in barrels and
cover thoroughly with pine shavings; but
we think the best plan of all, and certainly
the least expensive with all who have a
smoke-house, and every farmer should
have good one, is to keep the hams hung
up in the smoke4house, which should be
kept perfectly dark at all times. We have
some hams so kept two years old, and they
were among the best we ever tasted. Uni
form darkness is complete protection
against the attack of insects.-G Germantown
TeLeqrGph.