The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Recipes,

cold water, five eggs, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, the Juice and grated
rind of one orange. Beat the yolks of
the eggs with the sugar, add the water,
then the flour with the baking powder,
then the whites of four eggs beaten stiff
Qeave out one for icing), little salt,
and last the orange.
STRAWBERRY SHoRToAKE.-Oneu quart
of flour, sifted /; one teaspoonful of salt,
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, a
piece of butter the size of large egg
rub it in the flour we'll dissolve one
teaspoonful of soda in tablespoonful
of water, and put the soda in two cupfuls
of milk bake in a quick oven. Take
three pints of berries, press half, and
then put the other berries in save
some of the juice, and mix some sugar
with it; split the cake, butter it, and
lay mixture between. Peaches cut up,
sugared, and mixed with little cream
or milk or oranges, cut up with sugar,
and laid between the cake, are also very
nice.
BLACK CAKE.-Two pounds of cur
rants, two pounds of rafsins (after wash
ing both currants and raisins, when they
aro dry dredge with hour), one large
spoonful of ground cinnamon, one large
spoonful of ground mace, four nutmegs,
one gill of molasses, one gill of rose
water, if you choose sift one pound of
flour into one pan and one pound of
sugar into another ; add to the sugar
three-quarters of a pound of butter and
stir to cream beat six eggs light and
stir into the butter and sugar alternately
with the flour; then add, by degrees,
fruit, spice and liquors, and stir hard
bake in moderate oven about four hours;
let it remain in the oven to cool.
Ice CREAM IN THE COUNTRY WITHOUT
THE ORDINARY FAoILTTIEs.-Take three
pints of milk, four eggs, we'll beaten
three-fourths pound of sugar, and one
tablespoonful corn starch mix in {
three quart tin pail boil in kettle Of
water till quite thick add one pint
sweet cream, and flavor to taste. Freeze
IN common water pail or any vessel O.
suitable size, with equal parts of ict
chopped fine aud coarse salt. Rotate
the pail and stir frequently.
Frequent Cultivation.
Prof. Beal, of the Michigan Agricul
sural College, makes the following re
marks on the importance of the practic,
of destroying weeds before they com'
mp. He says: We have found yer,
great advantage from thorough and fire
quent cultivation. We generally go owe
the entire garden once in four to sever
days, no matter whether there are an,
weeds in sight or not, or whether an,
showers have INTERVIEWED. Our groun(
dries off very soon after q heavy rain
We have not found this mode of cultur,
to cost as mich as it would if only per
formed once in two or three weeks, o
after the weeds have become well es
tablished.
It is little difficult, at first, to max
the students work the ground all owe
thoroughly if they can see no weeds
However, they do prefer working
clean garden to one filled with weed
two to six inches high. A single season
of this practice generally convinces then
all that it is the cheapest way and tina
it brings the most profit.
We cultivate mostly with horse on
way, making the rows long and straight
The students work in the garden i
mostly done with steel-toothed rall
and hand cultivators. We take grea
pains to remove any pigweeds, pun
slanes, etc., which may have escape
previous notice. These contain seed i
immense numbers before many peopl
are aware of it. One of the student
last season estimated that large, we
grown plant OF purslane contained ], $50
900 seeds. The ground is carefull
freed from weeds till winter. None ar
allowed to seed the ground. They ap
pear now to be running out.
Bee Keeping.
A correspondent writes to the Times
81 intend to go into bee culture, an
ask your advice as to artificial swarm
ing, protecting bees from being robbed
whether to winter them in bee hous
or not; how far to keep the hives apart
and what kind of bees are the mos
profitable, and how many hives to VIII
ter 2"
Reply.-In this particular case, whic
is evidently one in which the inquire
has no experience, our advice would /
to let the bees alone, and give the tim
and attention which they would requil
to something else. Our own experienC
has been that unless a person has I'll
inclination, means and natural aptitud
for caring for bees he had better hay
nothing to do with artificial swarminl
changing queens, colonizing, or an,
thing else of this sort. Also, that it
impossible to prevent robbery, the bus
bee being much given to improving til
shining hours in this dishonest name
and further, that it is not averse to ad,
ing murder to theft and burglary an
killing the bees that defend their hiv,
when they happen to be the weak,
party. We have wintered bees success
fully upon the stand out of doors /
simply having protecting shed, ope
toward the south. The hives should |
kept a foot apart, and the space b
tween them filed with bundles of stra
during the winter. The most proftab
are the native bees. One may winter
many hives as he has room for or know
how to manage.
Paris Green on Plants.
The annual report of the State boar
of health of Michigan for the year 1877
contains number of important pape
Ill relation to the general question
public hygiene. One of these is on ii
use of poisons, by Professor Kedzie, al
especially that of paris green, so exte
sively used for killing the Colorado p
tato bug. Although an alarm was O
casioned by the use of this insecticid
Professor Kedzie states, as the result
long examination, that in more thu
1000 townships in Michigan no case
poisoning of vegetables has occurre
to the tops of which paris green hi
been applied, and that the same is ii