The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-11-18
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hints About Meat,

degree it is well, therefore, to pepper
hung joints.
Powdered charcoal is still more re-
marhable in its effect. 1t will not only
keep the meat over which it is sprinkled
good, but will remove the taint from
already decayed flesh.
A piece of charcoal boiled in the water
with "high meat or fowls, will render
it or them quite sweet. A piece of char.
coal, or powdered charcoal, should be
kept in every larder. Ham, after being
smoked, may be kept for any length Of
time packed in powdered charcoal.
Meat should be wiped with O dry
clean cloth as soon as it comes from the
butchers fy-blows, if found in it, cut
out, and in loins the long pipe that runs
by the bone should be taken out, as it
soon taints the kernels, also, should be
removed from beef. Never receive
bruised joints.
Meat will keep good for long time
in cold weather, and, if frozen through,
may be kept for months. Frozen meat
must be thawed before it is cooked by
plunging it into cold water, or placing
it before the fire before setting it down
to roast. It will never be dressed,
through if this precaution is not taken
not even when twice cooked.
The leg of mutton is the most profit
able joint, containing more solid meat.
The neck is an extravagant joint, half
the weight consisting of bone and fat.
The shoulder has also much waste in
bone. The breast does well for kitchen
Il III er, nicely stuffed; it is much cheap
er than other joints. Sirloins and ribs
of beef are very extravagant joints, from
the weight of bone. The roasting side
of the round part of the buttock, and the
part called the "top-side," are the most
profitable for family eating. The mouse
buttock is used for stewing ; shin is
used for soup or stewing. The usual
quantity of butchers meat consumed in
family is on an average, three-quarters
of pound day for each person hut
when the family consists of ladies and
children, half pound per day is about
the quantity consumed one with another,
Independent of hams, bacon, poultry,
fish and game. me.-HouSekeeper.
To Destroy wild Oats.
A correspondent of the Farmers Aduo-
cate (Canada) writes as follows as to the
best methods of destroying wild oats
He says l do not agree with the plan
of naked fallow to destroy them, as 1
consider, if done merely to destroy the
oats, it involves the loss of crop with
out any necessity for it, for in my expe-
rience they will not grow in naked
fallow to any extent, only in very wet
season. A good deal can be done in the
way of destroying them by putting in
roots, but the plan 1 most approve Of
is this: AS soon as the crop is off and
the field clear take a gang -plow or cult
vator and stir the land as lightly as pos
sible, for if buried too deep they willnot
grow until again brought to the surface,
even good heavy sharp pair of harrows
will answer the purpose very well. The
grain i'll the surface being thus covered,
will commence to grow as soon as the
weather becomes little damp, so as to
moisten the land. Let it stand as long
as convenient without plowing, in order
that every grain may sprout, then turn
under and let lie until spring; this is
crop No. gone. In the spring cult
vate and harrow again, as early as posi-
BILE, in order to start the seed brought
too near the surface by the fall blowing,
and which has lain buried from the pre-
vious year. Having done this, let the
oats grow till the twentieth or twenty
fourth of May; then plow under
and SOW at once with barley or buck
wheat. This is two crops DESTROYED,
should any be left. By the rapid growth
of the grain sown, if the land is not in
proper order for barley or buckwheat,
peas or corn sown together, and cut
green for feed, are very good substi-
t11ta Tn, thic - L. .r
followed up it cannot fail to be success
full. Care should be taken with the
manure to turn after, and have it we'll
heated before taken off the field, other
wise many oats, to say nothing of other
grains and seeds of noxious plants, will
in this way be spread over the land.
Farm Notes and Hints.
Put your money where it will do the
most good-into your best land close at
home-in such way that it will yield an
income. If you invest $50 in O weather.
cock on your barn it may crafty your
self and the passers-by, but will not add
much to your income. A horse that
earns nothing costs $3.50 year at least,
and this is the interest on So, 500 capital.
Expensive dwellings and furniture are
not good investments of capital.
An acre of asparagus or strawberries,
established and maintained at an annual
cost, including rent for the land, of 5000
an acre and yielding an income of $4OO,
gives 6,200 per cent. per annum, and
beats out of sight the promises even Of
railroads and coal companies; yet if you
are not yourself doing this, some of
your neighbors are. and more too.
If, by spending 81 1000 in drainage and
other productive improvements, the
farmer permanently increases the income
OF his field only sixty dollars year, it is
good investment, and he need not look
anxiousl y every morning in the daily
paper to ascertain whether it is lost OF
not. In annual crops, like market truck,
if the use of 500 worth of extra ma
nure will raise $106 worth of extra pro-
duce, it is fair business transaction, as
good as the savings bank, but market
gardener expects and often realizes six
times six per cent on such an invest
ment
Potash In Wheat.
Why isit, says the Practical Farmer,
when growing wheat or rye is being
struck with rust, that little plot here and
there where stumps, logs or brush have
been burned to ashes, will be bright and
free from the attack of rust? Because
the growing plants employ potash and
silica not only to give stiffness and