Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-29
AGRICULTURAL AND poxEsTIC.

The currant owes its refreshing acid
ity to malic acid, which makes itpeculiar-
~ grateful when prepared as drink for
both SICK and well A pleasant impromp-
I'll drink Is made by MASKING few cur
rants and pouring them into water; then
strain the whole through anything that
Will retain the stems, skins and seeds;
sweeten, and reduce with water to taste,
grating in little nutmeg if liked.
To keep plums from falling off before
they get ripe, bore hole right through
the center Of the tree l never tried it,
but one of my neighbors said that he did,
and his plums never fell off last year. He
said that the sap goes too much to the
plums, which is the cause of their falling
off. Try it. 1t won't hurt the tree. /
saw pear tree that had hole right
through the body of it, ana II was as full
of pears as it could hang Cincinnati
Times.
"A cow that is a hard mixer can be
rcmedied thus: Take a clean, smooth,
knitting needle wire, No. 16, heat it red
hot (use candle at your side, and heat
about half an inch from the end) and burn
out the Oritice. Perform the operation
quickly (say one secondD, and the COW will
not move, nor will she notice it atterward.
No blood runs, no soreness occurs. /
have known it to be tried and never knew
it to fail. Don't wiring or twist the needle;
shove it straight in and straight out are
the directions. If you wish to use larger
or smaller needle do so, but not so large
as to make the COW lose her milky. II.
Homestead.
TO make cocoa nut and apple pud-
ding select large, rich, tart apples, such as
are easily cooked, greetings or Newtown
pippins, If possible, pare and CRATE them
on coarse CRATER; then add one part
dessicated cocoa-nut to four parts grated
apple, or one part Of fresh grated cocoa
nut to three parts apple, and add the req
uisite amount OF sugar. The latter is read
lily determined by the taste, but no rule
can well be given, since some apples re-
quire more sugar than others. If not suf-
ticiently tart to be brisk add a little lemon
juice, say one lemon to each quart of APP
pie, with enough additional sugar to
sweetcn. Bake half or three-quarters ofan
hour, or until the apple is well-cooked.
Serve warm or cold, better cold, without
dressing.
Directions are given in the Journal
Of horticulture, London, for forming neat
little miniature trees in pots, especial ref
erence being made to two Of the most de-
serving plants for this treatment. The
very pretty vy-leaved geranium, "L'Ele-
gante," may be trained to neat little
umbrella shaped trellis, which, during
the season, it will completely cover with
its variegated foliage. To intensity the
color of the latter, the stem may be slight
ly cut in places and then exposed to the
sun. Another novel specimen may be
formed by grating shoot of the Iresine
LtRdeni upon the variegated form of the
old /. Versehatetti, allowing few shoots
from the latter to grow up and encircle
the former q The grating process is
readily performed on this class of plants,
and is very effective. If young plant
of the goldenleaved thyme is carefully
grown, and the side shoots near the base
cut off, one may soon form an attractive
little tree which will be not unlike the
celebrated dwarf plants so common among
japanese gardeners, and, indeed, far more
natural and handsome. Such expert
ments add zest to gardening operations
entirely unknown to those who content
themselves with the old orthodox methods
of their teachers,