The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-04-20
RURAL TOPICS.
PRESERVING EaGs.

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in large quantities by egg dealers, ID &c
put them into mixture Of lime apd salt.
To bushei Of lime add . half a peck OF
salt, and ono pound OF cream OF tRTtar,
and water sufficient 10 make pickle.
The lime should be fresh and siaked
when the mixture is made. Probably
these exact proportion Of ingredients
are not essential. The eggs are put ia
to casks. with the small ends down, and
the lime mixture is turned in till they
are full. Such egge cell generally at
about IS per cent less than fresh eggs,
after being kept six to nine months. In
packing small quantities OF eggs in kegs
or jars by farmers or other persons, take
a lump of lime without measuring it,
add some salt, and little cream of tar
tar, pack tie eggs &c above, set them in
cool place in you- cellar, Ell mp with
the lime water, &C., then cover the YES
sci, and your eggs will keep from spring
to fall in pretty good condition. Anoth-
er, and perhaps better way, is, for
family use, TO pack the eggs in the
stone jars, with the small ends down,
and when they are fresh, then fll up the
jar With melted lard, just enough 20 run
down freely among them. Put cloths
over them VIXEN the lard is cold, then
cover tight aud the eggs viii keep fresh
as long IS desired. The eggs ehould be
washed clean before packing them. SO
that the lard can be used fer domestic
purposes after they are removed, which
is to be done by melting the lard while
in tie jars, turn it ont and remove what
sdheres 30 tbs a. - in hot water An
other way 10 10 u. the eggs into melted
lard, so as 20 hzvs a slight covering OF it
when taken ont. then pack in jars, cover
aud SO leavs them till used They
should be dipped intc the I,-d in wire
dipper, such IS is used to boil eggs in /;
or one could be easily made OF wire
cloth BY almost any person, that would
do for that purpose. Anything that pre-
vents the evaporation Of eggs through
PLANT POTATOES HARuY.
The experience OF farmers everywhere
Is, that the best crops CT potatoes are
produced by planting early, or IS soon
as theland can be got in good condition.
It is bad policy 10 plow land when vet !;
and when the season is cold and rainy.
it is better to wait for good weather to
put in any crop but plant your pota-
toes as soon IS yor can safely. An Eek
cellent way to manaSe, 80 a. TO have but
little cork in cultivatiDg the crop, is to
plant either in drills Or hills, and cover
the seed with piov, forming a ridge
over each row and when the potatoes
have been in the ground from Is TO 90
days they will have grown up several
inches in the ground. Then take h.r-
row, tnrn It over with the tee;h up, put
upon il 4 large stone or two in front,
1eugthen your trace chains as much as
you can. and &c over the ground across
the ridges, till the land is perfectly
smooth. Ii eomo of the potato sprouts
are uncovered no hscrn viii be done.
The weeds will ell be destroyed, and
your potatoes sill como up and grow
rapidly, and generally vii require no
ether cultivation, but with horse hoe
or cultivstor, using mould board cuiti-
vstor, or = pillow, to turn ND the earth 2
few inches high around the rine- to fin
ish up the cultivation Of tire saasop.
ONION CULTURE.
Ii is important to plant the seed eeriy.
The red Weathersfeld is tho most relia-
ble vsriety. The land rhoul6 be made
rich with stable nnnCro every season );
and onions may be grown on the same
ground for lifetime. In garden cul-
ture, the rows should be about one foot
apart. and allow the onions TO grov from
four to six inches apart in the rows when
thinned out. II your coil is halle TO
form a crust On the surface, cover the
seed about quarter Of sn inch deep
with earth, than tread It down firmly,
and cover lightly eth sand, CT sifted
coal ashes, 80 as to prevent tho hel,inG
OF the soil over the seed, and prevent it
coming up. There is no other seed that
seems to require The ground to be go
firmly packed around it, to make It =ec-
etata as onion seed; and the back OF a
spade shonld always be used on the sand
or ashes for this purpose in small plots,
and hand roller for field culture.
TREES FOR LAWN OR DOOR YARD.
What great mistake farmers and
owners of village residences make, by
neglectins to beantify their homo, with
ornamental trees end shrubsl When we
travel through the country end through
villages, and see houses located in de-
hghtfu situations, with not tree ground
them, either for fruit or shade, we are
compelled to ask mentally, ''are the own
ers insane?" Why, for every handsome
shade tree around Fenteel, or even a
good, comfortable house, costing per-
haps dollar originally, one hundred
dollars are often obtained III the enhanc-
cd value Of the place when If is sold.
Soft aud hard Naples, Mountain Ash.
European Larch, Weeping Willows, Ev-
ersreens, &C., are eli o5tainable st o
small cost, and tend to make ones home
much more attractive.
ASPARAGUS.
To make an asparagus bed all that is
to be done is to dig up the soil about Is
inches deep, with p very heavy coat of
well rotsed manure mixed with it; then
set the plants about IS inches apart, the
crowns about two inches under tba soil