The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-06
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.
I:LDERBERRY WINE.


Ploughman gives the following recipe,
as having been used for years with per-
feet success: TO fill five gallon keg,
take five quarts Of ripe. berries picked
from the stems, five gallons of water,
boil them together onc-quarter Of an
hour, strain the liquor. add fourteen
pounds of brown sugar, boil again half
an hour; put into Il tub three pounds of
raiSins, pour the boiling liquor on them;
when about mlk-warm add half Il
pint of yeast, lct.Tit stand three, days,
strain into the cask. If there is more
liquor than fills the caks, use it to fill up
with as it settles while fcrmenting; if
there is none left water will answer. Keep
1T full about two wceksss When about
done termenting, cork the cask tight; let
1t stand about three months; then draw
off into bottles
COLORING APPLES.
The Sacramento Record says: "NIr.
Charles Cainc, who owns an extensive
orchard near San.Josc, has method of
giving to rcd, striped and yellow apples
q high coloring. The fruit is picked and
laid upon the ground in'long flat piles
under the half shade of the trees. It is
desirable to give them as much sunlight
ms they will bear without sunburning.
In two or three weeks the apples on the
top will be richly scolorcd. These are re-
moved, boxed and sent to the market,
and the next layer exposed to the sun.
His apples thus colored, especially the
Baldwin,, SI:. rider and Spitzen-
burghs, challenge the admiration of ali
who see them: BY this process apples
that, when picked from the trees, were
almost wit1,pnt nn1rr will I
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
the west not having had experience in
feeding cut seed to stock, do otfully APP
prcciate the advantage to be derived
from it. 1t will be found that the same
amount of hay or straw cut and yfnixed!
with Il little bran or smash will do nearly
double the amount of good as that fed
loose to horses or cattle, which are stall
fed. When this plan becomes to be more
practiccd, the advantage of the i'm
proved condition of the stock will be so
great, that the cutting-box will become
an indispensable requisite ito every
farmer admirng good stock. It requires
some trouble, but the stock needs ,lfis
extra care at & time when the ordinary
work OF the farmer is not pressing. The
expense is not great in the use of hand
machine. and if 4 larger machine is used,
the work may be done more rapidly, and
the power used to drive it may be used
for other purposes of equal advantage in
the larm economy.
TOP-DREssING MEADOWS.
The results of a single top-dressing ON
eight plots of nearly half 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 topdrcssing was applied in 1864, and
the grass was cut twice each season in
1864 and 1865, 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 rs follows: 0nsthe plot to
which no manure or fertilizer was applied.
the total weight of hay yielded perSacrc
was $40 pounds. Where two bushels
of plaster per acre was applied, the yield
per acre was 1926 pounds, a gain of
4,474 pounds. Where five bushels of
wood ashes were applied, the yield per
acre, was l2.9O7 pounds, a gain of 4, 165
pounds. Where three bushels of salt
were sown per acre the yield was 13, ,969
pounds, gain per acre Of 5,227 pounds
Where twenty loads of muck per acre
was laid on, the yield per acre was 1886
pounds, Il gainof 5,074 pounds. Where
twenty loads Of horse manure was iaid
on, the yield was 1866 pounds, agar
of 6,224 pounds. These ,are the vcsult.
which Indicate that there are fertilizers
which will produce as good results as
plaster. For instance, the plaster yielded
gain of lifty-onc per cent, while the
horse manure gave an increase Of seventy
one per cent or nearly a ton more-gras
per acre in the three years.
PLACE FOR TIE wAGoN-EoX..
The American Agriculturist has tn,
following: When not in use the wagon
box is q. cumbrous thing to stow. away
1t is too costly to be allowed to lieou,
amongst the plows and harrows, and too
bulky to find place in the Toulouse o.
the sheds. Generally it lies up agains
the fence, or Mt the back of the barn
where it is as much injured in one yea,
by exposure asst would be by scvcra
years of use. a very convenient plan i.
! to hoist it up to the ceiling OfSa yyapon