Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

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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.-Boil handful of hay
An them, and repeat the process if nec-
essary. Hay water is great sweet
ener of tin, iron and wooden-ware. In
Irish dairies everything used for milk is
sscalded with hay water.
To Boil A HAM-H dry, soak it over
night. In the morning put it in warm
water, and boil slowly five or six hours.
Remove from the fire and let the liquor
get cold before the ham Is taken from it.
Then remove the skin and CRATE toasted
bread over the ham. Keep the skin as
whole as possible and cover the ham
with it when it is taken from the table.
COMMON FRUIT CAKE.-Two eggs, one
cup of sugar drown is best), one-haf
cup of molasses, one-half cup of butter,
-one-half cup of sweet milk, two cups of
-four, 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 1 have it 1 add
tablespoonful of sour cream.
REMEDY FOR Ours AND ABRAs1oNs OF
THE SKIN.-Take a live coal, pulverize
1t, apply to to the wound, and cover the
whole with rag. The charcoal absorbs
all the secretiOns, and is antiseptic.
eQuinine in powder may be used instead,
as it possesses most of the virtues of
pulverized charcoal, and is beside as
4triDgent and tonic, and gives white
.scab instead of a black one.
CLOVER ASDGYPsUM.-Geor Geddes
writes to the New York Tribune that he
has on his farm, in Central New York,
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
in five years rotation-the closing crop
sbeing winter wheat with which timothy
and clover is sowed. The clover has
been regularly treated with gypsum for
fifty years. He has particularly noticed
it of late years and says the land IS more
fertile than % years ago.
A PorATo SowING-MA E.-The
Journal dAgriculture Pr, que states
that among the new machines which
especially attracted the attention of
=agriculturists at the recent meeting of
the Palais de PIndustrie was a potato
sowing machine, invented by M. Cou-
teau, and constructed by M. Peltier,
-Jr. By means of an ingenious con-
trivance, worked by a gear, the tubers,
previously placed In box are carried
successfully into a 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.-According to my
experience and observation, some farm
-ers fail in not planting the right crops
In the soil best adapted to their culture.
The successful farmer plants corn and
ssows 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 will grow well upon
q light or sandy soil, and yield best
on clayey or gravelly soil newly broken
up ground is best. Rutabagas, beets,
parsnips and carrots need 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. may
be convenient to know a ready method
of closing up cracks, which are not un-
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 oil
clay finely pulverized together with 9
little salt The mixture Is to be moist
-ened with water enough to make 9
paste, and the crack of the stove filled
with it. The cement does not peel of
or break away, and assumes an extreme
degree of hardness after being heated
The stove must be cool when the appli
cation is made. The same substance
may be used in setting in the plates o.
a stove, or in fitting stove-pipes, serv
ing to render all the joints perfect.
right.
SOP AS MANURE.-Geo. Geddes, IL
the Country Gentleman, writes: As
manure, the value of an old sod will b.
somewhat understood when we conside
the result obtained by Prof. Kedzle o
the Michigan Agricultnr College a
Lansing. He took a, IRE foot o
June grass turf and led away al
the soil in running water, and thel
weighed the roots and surface grass, t
determine the amount of green manure
matter usually contained In heav.
-greensward, and found it to be fiv
pounds to the square foot-or at tn
rate of more than 100 tons to the acre
This was from very heavy mat of Jun
grass, and the Professor says In lette
to me, in regard to this matter "Thi
Is doubtless in excess of ordinary Jun
grass but he says he "thinks tina