Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-05
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Keep cheese in cool dry place, and
after it is cut wrap it in linen cloth,
and keep it in tight tin box.
For lemon jumbles take one pound
of sugar, three quarters Of pound OF
butter. four eggs, the juice and grated
rind Of lemon, and as little flour as will
possibly enable you to make them into
small cakes with your hands.
To make c0coanut candy CRATE the
meat of a cocoanut, and having two
pounds of finely-siited white sugar, the
beaten whites Of two eggs, and the milk
OF the nut, simply mix altogether, and
make into little cakes. In short while
the candy will be dry enough to use, and
found to be as good rs if boiled.
TO make German crisps, take two
cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter,
three eggs, and the rind and juice OF one
lemon. Mix thoroughly, either with a
spoon or with the hand adding sufficient
flour to make them thick enough to roll
out. Roll very thin, and cut in small
cakes with a cutter. After they are placed
in the pan, rub the tops with egg, and
sprinkle with white sugar. Two eggs are
enough for the tops of the cakes. They
| will only require few minutes to bake
Hdrper's Bdzdr.
To cultivate the tube-rose, that most
beautiful of all plants, put the bulbs in
six-inch pots, three in each, and use
mixture of equal parts turty loan, peat
and leafmold, and place in the pit. Give
| very little water at first, and rs they COM
mence to grow freely increase it and keep
near the glass. When they begin to push
| up their flower spikes they will of neces-
| sity require to be placed where they will
have sufficient space for the proper devel-
opment of the tall spikes. These will
come into bloom from August to October,
when they will require temp arature
ranging from go to 10 deg, the latter being
| preferable. If wanted to bloom earlier,
the pots should be placed in warm pit
and on hotbed, thetempcrature of which
| is about rs deg, to start them into growth
more quickly.
The Washington Iowa) Press tells us
| of an experience of artichokes for hogs:
"P. r. Mcmillan, the hog breeder, made
| an experiment last season. He bought
| fifteen bushels of artichoke tubcrs, at
| three dollars per bushel and planted
them in drills, like potatoes, in patch
of two acres, about the 25th of May. In
mid October he turned in twelve sows
and forty shoats. and they operated all
winter. He fed no corn to the sows, and
only two ears per day per head to the
shoats, and they are in prime condition.
He thinks he saved at least ninety bushels
of corn, and still has the ground seeded
for this year. Frost does not hurt the
tubers in the ground. 1t is as good as
demonstrated that hogs kept on corn diet
varied by artichoke feed will never have
cholera"
| Among the reports 10 the MassaChu-
sets Agricultural Society on broom corn
culture is one in which the net profits ON
one acre of broom corn are put at $50. 72,
estimating the brush at seven cents per
pound and the seed worth forty five cents
per bushel, or in other words crop of
| l, 159 pounds of brush and lightweight
bushels of seed to the acre. Many
farmers make no use of the seed, and we
remember cases in which great piles of it
counted for nothing There are other
eases that come to mind in which the
seed, as 1t was stripped from the brush,
was looked after carefully, ard found an
excellent food, during the winter, for
geese and chickens and for cattle. Broom
| corn should be planted on good strong
| land, three quarts OF seed to an acre,
Cultivated as ii for corn, and when the
corn has grown to full size bend down the
| top about one foot below the brush. On
that on which the seed is to ripen, do not
break until the seed is ripe; on the other,
! before, and in such manner rs to expose
| the brush to the sun as little as possible,
| SO as to preserve its color, One point
often neglected by those who have little
| experience is care after cutting avoidance
of rain and dampness Very fine brush is
! often injured Or spoiled by injudicious
packing in bundles before it is cured
| RuraI Nep Yorker.