Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-29
Farm, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Housekeeping Hints.

ed mutton or beef, season to taste, add
an onion chopped fine, cover with
mashed potatoes, and bake in sharp
oven half an hour, or until the potatoes
are well Drowned.
VEAL Pm.-Line a deep tin pan with
good crust; parboil the meat and sea
son high; nearly fill the pan with water
in which the meat was parboiled.
Sprinkle flour over, add piece Of butter,
and cover with a tolerably thick crust.
Chicken, clam or oyster pie may be
made in the same way. Oysters must
not be cooked before putting in the pie.
BREAKFAST DIsHEs.-In cooking oat-
meal, hominy, wheaton grits, cracked
wheat, or any of these nice breakfast
dishes, cook it in a covered tin dish in a
kettle of boiling water; in this manner,
there Is no danger of scorching. Corn
starch pudding, sea moss, farina, and
all other articles mixed with milk, can
be cooked in the same way.
To MEND CHINAwARE.-Take a very
thick solution of gum-arabic and stir it
into plaster of paris until the mixture is
ola proper consistency. Apply it with
a brush to the fractured edges Of the
chinaware and stick them together. In
few days twill be impossible to break
the article in the same place. The white
ness of the cement renders it doubly
valuable.
CHICKEN PH.-Cut up your chicken,
parboil it, season it in the pot, take up
the meat, put in a flour thickening and
scald the gravy; make the crust with
sour milk made sweet with saleratus;
put in piece of butter or lard the size
of an egg; cream is preferable to sour
milk, if you have it. Take large tin
pan, lime it with the crust, put in your
meat and pour in your gravy from the
fat; make it nearly full, covering over
with crust, and leaving a vent; bake it in
q moderate oven two hours and half
Relative Value of Manures.
A New England paper reports the fol-
lowing as having been said at recent
meeting of the Franklin Harvest Club
John w. Hubbard, of Northampton,
who has had a good deal of experience in
market gardening, said he was no friend
to commercial fertilizers, but preferred
barnyard manure for every crop. 1t
should be fine, and if he could afford it
he would not use any until it had been
stored or composted two years, mixing
some ingredient with it to keep it from
heating. If he was obliged to buy, he
would prefer to pay ten dollars per cord
for stable manure than to invest in COM
mercial fertilizers. Spinach, lettuce
and celery must have rapid growth to
get the good quality. His method OF
cultivating celery is to make trench
twelve inches deep, and fill up six inches
with fine manure before setting the
plants, and to fill up with earth as fast as
they grow. He always sold it in the fall,
and has had no success in keeping over
the winter.
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another extensive market gardener, but
says the business did not pay last yeal
as formerly. AS to fertilizers, he OBJ.
jected to mixing fish and ashes together.
BY an experiment with potatoes, he OBJ
tanned double the crop, if they were used
separately. 1t costs good deal to fine
out which is the best fertilizer for par
ticular crop. He had not much faith il
anything but fish and pure Peruvian
guano; the latter was important as 6
"priming " or to stimulate the crop fol-
an early start .....
Maine Cucumbers.
A correspondent of the Main,
Farmer says some things which will APP
ply to other localities, as follows: Man,
farmers in this State do not know tina
they can realize more money from
raising cucumbers than from any othe
crop. There is always good deman,
for them if they are picked small an,
well cured. They should be sailed b,
making strong picl1le-not dry sailed
as that will shrink them up and cause
loss to the grower, as well as to tn
parties who put them up for market
We are now compelled to go to Chicag
for pickles, on account of the scarcity O
them here. Even in Boston and Ne,
York the supply does not meet the de
mand, and millions of dollars 90 out @
this State for the very article that W
should ship to other large cities. Thi
State is well adapted to the growing c
cucumbers, and it is well-known fac
that State of Maine cucumbers are pre-
ferable to those raised West in hottie
climates.
To Destroy the Potato Beetle.
A correspondent says: I have pla
which have found very effectual in dc
stroying the potato beetle take thre
tablespoonfuls of paris green and mi
with it, thoroughly, two quarts of whea
flour. L then put it in q common sa
sack, and with rod I beat it over tn
vines while the dew is on. When th
heat of the sun is thrown upon it,
bakes so that it cannot be washed off h
rain. When the vines have reacbe
their full growth repeat the process. On
pound of paris green is enough for fiv
acres. This is the best way, as it sea
tiers the poison evenly.