The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Hints About Work.

Hints About Work.
Winter grain may yet be sown; on
good warm soils wheat may succeed
sown as late as tic end of the month,
and rye may be sown as late as ealiy IN
November. Double the usual quantity
of seed should be sown, to insure a
GOOD growth. We have had au excellent
and heavf growth OF rye to cut IN April
for soiling, from q field sown i'll Novem-
Der with five bushels to the acre.
Top dressing the knobs or poorer
parts of the newly sown wheat helde
will be found useful. A thin coating OF
straw even has been found Of great ser
vice, and has helped the crop wonder
fully in some cases. For this purpose
any coarse manure or straw may be used.
Marsh hay or buckwheat straw will be
serviceable, as, except when manure is
used, the shelter and protection is what
benefits the crop. Where the wheat
has come up thin and poor on worn
lands, $50 pounds of the best guano, OF
one hundred pounds Of nitrate OF soda,
per acre, will be beneficial. 1t should
be used early to do the most good.
Water burrows from low spots should
be made at once, to carry OIL the water
which Will gather by-and-bye. When
these Spots are flooded and the soil Is
wet it will be too late to do this work, as
the trampling of the ground Will DC
more mi chief than the water. Ihls
should be done at once.
Corn HUsKNG.-The present season
corn may be husked earlier than usual,
and there need be none left IN the nelo
by the end of the NJ nth. As there ale
many things to be done during Tine
weather, it will generally be best to let
out this Job by the bushel. In this case
keep an eve on the huskers, that the
work may be done clearly and no small
ears left on the stalks. Large ears
measure up more quickly than small
ones, and are as easily husked, hence
small ears are sometimes not husked.
Have two baskets in the field, one tor
small ears, soft corn, and nubbins, and
the other for large sound ears. which
should be cribbed by themselves. Ihe
rest should be boiled for the pigs, OF
ground with some oats and bran toI
feed for COWS, but never crlbbed With
good corn.
Seed corn should be selected now fol
next season. Large, sound ears, f!leo
to the tips, are preferable to smaller
ones, although two may have grown
upon one stalk. We would rather have
one good ear upon each stalk, than two
small pres upon half the crop, and one
small one upon the rest. One large
good ear upon a stalk will yield overtwe
hundred bushels of ears per acre, and
that ought to satisfy any man. The So
lected ears should not be husked, but
the husks turned back and braided to
gether, so es to make a bunch of twenty
or thirty ears. These should be hung
up in q dry safe place.
Com FODDER There will be a scar
city OF fodder in many places in thu
East, and economy should be used IL
saving and feeding the stalks. They
should be put under cover if possible
as they are rarely stacked so as to keeI
them dry. Moldy stalks are often the
cause of sickness amongst cattle, which
is charged to "horn ALL" or some Other
imaginary or obscure disease. Throw
out all smutty stalks and burn them
They are not wholesome food, and the
scattered smut will be very apt to infesi
the crops another year.
PoTAToEs.-We gather potatoes into
temporary pitsand W the heap witt
q quantity OF the stalks before we leave
the field at night. We think this safes
and best. They are not touched by s
light frost that might occur, nor scaldec
by the moo sum-. AS soon as they are
dry, gather into heaps of forty or fifty
bushels, and cover, when they will be
safe until heavy frosts come, when they
should be pitted, or stored in q dry eel
lar. It is best to dig only in dry wealth
or. Potatoes are high now, on account
of the ravages of the potato beetle anc
the dry weather., in some sections. Blu
on the whole the crop is large, .anG
prices may not keep up whenthe supply
becomes diffused and equalized. This
may be worth considering by those wht
car dig their crop arly.-Agricultur
iSt.
How to Keep Cidsr.
A correspondent of the American
farmers club desired to learn how tt
preserve cider, during the winter, with
out boiling it down. A member from
New Jersey replied that cider made o.
late fall apples, and filtered through two
inches OF clean sand, with ground mus
tard, in proportions of three desertspoon'
fuls Of mustard to half q barrel Of
cider, will keep nicely without turtle,
preparation.
MI. Brain, d. j., said "Make the
cider from apples that contain q goodly
supply of saccharine matter; draw it of
three times to insure its being free
from pulp, etc.; either bottle or key it;
and it will remain sweet all winter"
A recipe for making cider vinegar FOL.
lowed !; this was furnished by a lady
member, who said that cider, designed
for vinegar, unlike that intended fo1
wine, should be made as early in the
season as possible; put it in a barrN and
let it stand where the sun will reach il
part Of the day. Insevt the neck
end of the bottle in the bupghole, SO
that air can get in without flies taking
the same liberty. Place in each barre
of cider a pint of molasses, o half pint
of good yeast, the same quantity Of
white beans and one sheet of foolscar
or brown paper; in two months time
good vinegar will be the result.
Household Hints.
CHEESE FRrrrERs.-Beat four egg
very light, season with salt, mustard ant
pepper. Slice thin half a dozen large
sour apples, and half as many thin slice
of good cheese as you have slices O.
apples. Put the cheese to soak in tn
mixture of eggs and seasoning ; let i
stand a few moments ; then put eacl
slice Of cheese between two slices o
apple ; dip the whole into the beatel
egg; then fry in hot butter, like oysters
and serve hot.
PLAIN CAKE.-One egg, sugar, Ont
cupful, butter, one-half cupful, swee
milk, u cupful, three tablespoonful!
baking powder in fonr cupfuls -four
Mix sugar and butter ; beat the eggs
thoroughly !; add it to the sugar anG
butter, beat it well, with lemon to favol
it; add lastly the -four, 4. e., add the milh
to the egg, sugar, butter, and lemon, and
lastly the -four, and bakein a quick oven
DESTROYING RED Nrs.-These little
creatures have been the aihiction of many
a tidy housekeeper. Gum camphor is
their special aversion. Break it on
everyshelf in your cupboard and pantry