Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hats Aboai Work.


and rye may be sown as late as early in
November. Double the usual quantity
OF seed should be sown, to insure a
good growth. We have had an excellent
and heavy growth of rye to cut in April |
for soiling, from field sown in Novem-
Der with five bushels to the acre.
Top dressing the knolls or poorer
parts of the newly sown wheat fielde |
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 |
seryiceable, 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, or
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 off 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 do
more mischief than the water. This
should be done at once.
Corn HUsKING. present season
corn may be husked earlier than usual,
and there need be none left in the field
by the end of the month. AS there ale
many things to be done during fine
weather, it will generally be best to let
out this job by the bushel. In this case
keep an eye 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 for
small ears, soft corn, and nubbins, and
the other for large sound ears. which
should be cribbed by themselves. The
rest should be boiled for the pigs, or
ground with some oats and bran for
feed for COWS, but never cribbed with
good corn.
Seed corn should be selected now for
next season. Large, sound ears, filed
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 ones upon half the crop, and one
small one upon the rest. One large
good ear upon stalk will yield overtwo
hundred bushels of ears per acre, and
that ought to satisfy any man.. The Sc
lected ears should not be husked, but
the husks turned back and braided to-
gether, SO as to make bunch of twenty
or thirty ears. These should be hung
up in dry safe place.
Corn FODDER. will be scar
city of fodder in many places in the
East, and economy should be used in
saving and feeding the stalks. They
should be put under cover if possible,
as they are rarely stacked SO as to keep
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 infest
the crops another year.
POTATOES. gather potatoes into q
temporary pit, and cover the heap with
a quantity of the stalks before we leave
the field at night. We think this safest
and best. They are not touched by a
light frost that might occur, nor scalded
by the noon sun. 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 dry Gel
lar. 1t is best to dig only in dry wealth
er. Potatoes are high now, on account
of the ravages of the potato beetle and
the dry weather, in some sections. But
on the whole the crop is large, and
prices may not keep up whenthe supply
becomes diffused and equalized. This
may be worth considering by those who
can dig their crop early.-Agricultur-
$st.
How to Keep Cider.
A correspondent of the American
farmers club desired to learn how to
preserve cider, during the winter, with
out boiling it down. A member from
New Jersey replied that cider made of
late fall apples, and filtered through two
inches of clean sand, with ground mus
fuls of mustard to BALI a barrel of
cider, will keep nicely without further
preparation.
Mr.. Bruin, N. J., said: "Make the
cider from apples that contain goodly
supply of saccharine matter; draw it off
three times to insure its being free
from pulp, etc.; either bottle or keg it;
and it will remain sweet all winter"
A recipe for making cider vinegar fol-
lowed this was furnished by lady
member, who said that cider, designed
for vinegar, unlike that intended for
wine, should be made as early in the
season as possible; put it in barrel and
let it stand where the sun will reach ii
q part of the day. Insevt the neck
end of the bottle in the bunghole, so
that air can get in without flies taking
the same liberty. Place in each barrel
of cider pint of molasses, half pint
of good yeast, the same quantity OF
white beans and ono sheet of foolscap
or brown paper; in two months time
good vinegar will be the result.
Household Hints.
CHEESE FRrTTERs. Beat four eggs
very light, season with salt, mustard ant
pepper. Slice thin half q dozen large
sour apples, and half as many thin slicel
of good cheese as you have slices o.
apples. Put the cheese to soak in th,
mixture of eggs and seasoning let i
stand few moments then put eacl
slice of cheese between two slices O
apple dip the whole into the heater