The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

How TO CAN CHERRIES, STRAWBEI
e RIEs, AND RAsPBERRIEs.-Sele fres
t fruit, and that viii h is not dead ripe, bu
I Just in condition to be the most palats
7 ble Take the best glass jars with tightl
sealing covers. Fill the cans full of fruit
and put them into a deep kettle or pan q
cold water, first putting grating ofwir
into the bottom of it to prevent the can
from touching it. A handful of hay O
straw will do as well. Place over sloy
fire at first, for if the heat is too great a
the commencement the glass will expent
too quickly. Let them come to the boil
ing point, and meanwhile you can pre-
pare syrup ofwhite sugar, taking half
pound of the best lump sugar to ever
quart can of fruit. As the fruit in tn,
cans shrinks, add more to them. Boi
the sugar with just enough water to dis
solve it, and skim it thoroughly, ther
fill up each jar with the boiling syrup
and after cooking them from fifteen tC
twenty minutes, seal up tightly, taking
a towel dipped in cold water to handle
the boiling hot cans. Keep the cans in
the coolest place in the house, but not in
damp cellar, and look at them in about
week after they are put away to see il
the covers are tightly sealed and nc
bubbles ofair are discernible in the fruit
If they are air-tight they will keep for
years. 1t is not good practice to cook
the fruit with the sugar before putting
into cans, as it takes away the natural
favor in great degree.
PoTATo PoNE.-Potato Pone is verit-
able Southern dish. 1t is rich and
palatable, but not wholesome for weak
stomachs If you are not aware that
you have one (Which is proof enough that
you have good one,) eat Potato Pone.
Our Home Journal gives several recipes
for making it, as follows:
1. Take twelve to fifteen nice sweet
potatoes (yams always preferred), boil
them until well done; them peel, mash
with pestle or rolling-pin, and rub
through seive to get out all strings or
tough fibers; now add sugar to make it
very rich, ground cloves, nutmeg and
sweet milk enough to make it the con-
sistency of custard you can then pour
the mixture in buttered pan, and
bake.
2. Take one gallon of grated potato,
(yams are best, } ado. four eggs, one pound
OF butter, one pint of sweet milk, one
teaspoonful of soda, one pint of -four, and
sweeten to suit the taste; some potatoes
being sweeter than others, requires less
sugar. To season, take equal quantities
cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and spice
Bake till thoroughly done.
3. To two quarts of nicely grated pota-
toes, add one teacupful of sugar, two
spoonful of fresh butter or lard, salt to
suit the taste, two tablespoonfuls of
ground alspice, two eggs, one pint of
sweet milk. Bake in a slow oven until
done.
EXPERIMENTS IN DEEP AND SHALLOW
SETTING OF MILK.--Much discussion has
been had from time to time in regard to
the results to be obtained in setting milk
deep or shallow, and although the ques-
tion is not fully settled between the ad-
vocates Of the two systems, it would ap-
pear that the bulk of testimony favors
the latter system as to quantity while
as to quality, the deep setting gives the
best results.
In Mr.. Farband's experiments it took
on the first trial. with milk set deep, in
pals, twenty-seven pounds of milk for
one of butter; and shallow in pans,
twenty-five pounds of milk for one pound
of butter. In the second trial twenty
five pounds thirteen ounces of milk set
in pals gave one pound of butter, while
in pans only twenty-four pounds ten
ounces were required. In the third ex-
pertinent it took twenty-seven pounds
thirteen ounces of milk set in pals and
twenty-five pounds two ounces of milk
in pans respectively to make pound of
butter. The milk was set in the pals to
the depth of from seven to twelve inches
and. that in the pans from two to two and
one-half inches and cream skinned in
from thirty-six to forty-eight hours.
Franklin Hooker, of Vermont, tried the
by first mixing the milk
thoroughly together and then setting
one-half in pals and the other half in
pans. The milk stood forty-eight hours
before skimming and the result was that
it took twenty-seven pounds fourteen
ounces of milk set in pals for one pound
of butter from twenty-five pounds one
ounce of milk.
The GRAssHoPPER PfAGUE--How IT
MIGHT HAVE BEEN AvERTED.--The
marvel is that the grasshopper plague
does not sweep over the whole region,
when we read of the wanton destruction
of birds. An item in Chicago paper
lately stated that ten thousand quails |
and prairie chicken were fed to swine IN
a single day in that city. 1t goes on to
say that in the country west of Chicago |
quails, rufed grouse, and prairie chickens
are destsoyed by the millions, irrespec-
tive of law or season. Tons of birds shared |
and shot out of season are boiled down |
and fed to swine. On one day there |
stood on the corner of two streets wagon
one hundred and eighty dozen
of prairie chickens, while on the near
sidewalks were piled thirty-seven boxes,
containing five hundred and sixty dozen
of quails, decomposing, and condemned |
by the health officeras only fit for swine. |
They are trapped, shot, and shared and
sent to the market, where they find a
ready sale down to the middle of March, !
and yet this indiscriminate slaughter
continues. The young birds and setting
hens are alike captured and sent to
Chicago and other cities on commission,
and destined to be fed to swine. The
birds must soon disappear before such
reckless slaughter. Yes, the birds have
disappeared, almost entirely, from many
Western localities, and grasshoppers and
other noxious insects have multiplied
and swarmed forth to spread famine and
desolation. The providentially arraigned
balance between birds and insects has
been destroyed by ruthless bird killers,
and the cry of desolation and famine
rings out over the land Such is the
retributiOn for the violation of the
epuipoise of nature, and destroying the
divine harmony of natures work.
The foregoing from the Hartford CO1a'-
ant is worth consideration. All violations
Unnatural laws are visited by the natural
penalties. Here is something like
wanton violation. Thousands and thou
sands of birds are shot for the mere pleas
ure of exercising skill and in directing
the leaden missiles. Trapping, the other
means of destruction, takes other thou
sands, and the result is that grasshoppers
and other crop-destroying insects increase
without the natural check which these
birds clearly are When this lesson is
fully learned we shall hear less of the de-
struction of crops, because the counter
poise will be left to perform its proper
function. 1t does not take long for a
thnuSand birds IN destrnv a million nr