The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-06

FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.
l:LDERBl.ERY WINE,

\ correspondent of the Massachusetts
l'l"ughman gives the following recipe,
as having been used for wears with per-
feet success: To fill five gallon key,
take five quarts of ripe berries picked
from the stems, five gallons of water,
boil them together onc-quartcr Of an
hour. strain the liquor. add fourteen
pounds of brown sugar, boil again half
an h"ur put into Il tub three pounds of
r;iSlns, pour the boiling liquor on them;
when about milk-warm add half n
pint of yeast, let it stand three days,
strain into the cask. IF there is more
liquor than fills the caks, use il to fill up
with as it settles while icrmcnting; if
there is none left water will answer. Keep
II full about two wcekss When about
done irrmcnting, cork the cask tight; let
1t stand about three months; then draw
Oft into bottles.
COLORING APPLES.
The Sacramento Record says: "Mr
Charles Game, who OWNS an extensive
orchard near San Jose, has Il method of
giving to red, striped and yellow apples
4 high colorng. The fruit is picked and
laid upon the ground n'ong flat piles.
under the half shade OF the trees. 1t is
desirable to give them rs much sunlight
as they will bear without sunburning.
IN two or three weeks the apples on the
top will be richly colorcd These are re-
moved, boxed and sent TO the market,
and the next layer exposed to the sun.
His apples thus colorcd, especially the
/ Baldwin, ST.. ti;'S ridcr- and SpitZen-
burghs, challenge the admiration of all
who see them. BY this process apples
that, when picked from the trees, were
almost without color, will become bril-.
liant as the rcddcst apple on the tree,
and equally as fine as the best"
CUT FOOD FOR STOCK
The Western Rural says: Farmers in
tie west not having had experience in
feeding cut seed to stock, do not fully APP
prcciate the advantage to be derived
from it. 1t will be found that the same
amount of hay or straw cut and mixed
with Il li..!e bran or smash will do nearly
double the amount Of good rs that fed
loose To horses OF cattle, which are stall
led. When this plan becomes to be more
practiccd, the advantage of the i'm
proved condition OF the stock will he so
great, that the cutting-hoN will become
an indispensable requisite ito every
farmer admiring good stock 1t requires
some trouble. but the stock needs ,his
extra care AZ Il time when the ordinary
work OF the farmer Is not pressing. The
expense is not great in the use Of Il hand
machine. and if 4 larger machine isuscd
the work may be done more rapidly, and
the power used to drive it NAV he used
for other purposes Of equal advantage in
the farm economy.
TOP-DHEsSING MEADOWS.
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eight plots of nearly hall an acre each of
sandy, warm soil, of the Michigan State
Agricultural college farm, exhibited the
following facts at the end Of three years :
The top.drcssing was applied in 1864, and
1861 and 1860, and once in 1866. The
produce of each cutting and of each LOT
was weighed separately and perfect
record kept. The results for the four
seasons were as follows: Onathc plot to
which no manure or fertilizer was applied,
| the total weight Of hay yielded per acre
was $40 pounds. Where two bushels
of plaster per acre was applied, the yield
per acre was 1926 pounds, Il gain of
4,I1l pounds. Where five bushels of
wood ashes were applied, the Weld Der
acre was l2,907 pounds, q gain of t, iGj
pounds Where three bushels of salt
were sown per acre the yield was l3, 500
pounds, gain per acre of 1927 pounds.
Where twenty loads of muck per acre
was laid on, the yield per acre was 49, SIG
pounds, Il gain OF 5,07.l pounds. Where
twenty loads of horse manure was laid
on, the yield was l4.GS6 pounds, a gain
Of G,22l pounds. These are the vcsnlts
which indicate that there are fertilizers
which will produce as good results as
plaster. For instance, the plaster yielded
q gain Of liftyonc per cent, while the
horse manure gave an increase of seventy
one per cent. or nearly a ton morc"grasS
pc" acre in the three years.
PLACE FOR THE WAGON-EOX.
The American Agriculturist has tluc
following: When not III use the wagon,
box is Il cumbrous thing to stow away.
1t is too costly to be allowed to lie ont
amongst the plows and harrows, and too
bulky to find Il place in the Toulouse or
the sheds, Generally it lies up against
the fence, or at the back of the barn,
where it is rs much injured in one wear
by exposure as'it would he by several
years Of use. a very convenient plan is
To hoist it up to the ceiling of, n warnn-