The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Orchard and Nursery.

can be done in the orchard in the North
ern States is limited. Nurserymen, how
ever, accomplish q great deal at this
season. Preparations having been made,
root grating may be pushed rapidly.
We have before given directions for do
ing this, but half an hours Watching of
set of expert grafters will be better
than volume Of description there are
many ways in which the labor may be di-
vided, and little manipulations byLwhich
time is saved, which can only be learned
in practice. Have but one variety of
fruit in hand at time, and use the
greatest care in labelling. The grated
roots should be set in boxes with sand
Just moist enough to prevent drying, and
not damp enough to induce mold. Keep
in cool place.
Nurserymen who send out well shaped
trees head back the growth made the
first year from the bud or graft, and IN
duce limbs to start near the base this
work is done during the winter, and at
the end of the next season fine stocky
trees are produced.
Pruning may be done during mild
spells, any time before the buds begin
to swell. Ii large limbs are removed,
cover the wounds with shellac varnish or
the cut carefully with sharp knife or
chisel.
If any branches of trees break under
the heavy weight of ice or snow. the
wound must be cut smooth, and painted
or varnished. If branch is only partly
broken OFF, but still hangs, cut it away
at once, for, should there be O high
wind, more damage will be done.
Scraping the dead bark from the trunk
and larger limbs is best done during q
damp thawing spell, first giving the
trunks wash off with whale oil or soft
soap, applied with brush this will
give the bark smooth, healthy appear
ance.
Out cions during mild weather, and
store in sawdust or sand in the cellar,
after labelling.
Home Hints and Helps.
MohAssEs CAKE.-The following re-
cipes are all good: 1. Two cups of mo-
iasses, ONE cup of boiling water poured
on two tables poonfuls of soda, lump of
alum the size of a walnut, and one cup
OF butter. : Let the water get cold before
using. -
2. Three cups molasses porto Rico),
one cup butter, one cup sour milk, five
cups sifted flour, four eggs beaten sep-
arately, two tablespoonful ginger. one
teaspoonful Of soda in milk. Can use
same amount of milk that is sweet and
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
When taken from oven rub over with
molasses.
3. One cup brown sugar, one CUP mo-
lasses, one cup shortening, one-half
lard, one-half butter; three and no-half
cupfuls flour, heaping tablespoonful sal
eratu+ dissolved in cup of milk, four
eggs; beat well. This is excellent.
4. Five and one-half cupfuls fiour.
two cupfuls molasses, two-thirds cupful
butter, one cupful sweet milk in which
dissolve one teaspoonful soda, two tea
spoonfuls ginger. This is much ad-
nired cake.
PAsTRY.-Light one-half pound but
ter; one-quarter pound lard; one-half
pint water. Weigh one pound -four (re-
serve about third to use in rolling ont
the pastry. In the -four, rub the lard
with your hands; then take q knife and
stir In the water. Dust vour pie board
well with -four; then turn the paste into
1T In lump; roll out thin. Then spread
third OF the butter and dust in one
third of the flour. Roll up tight. Roll
out again, using same quantities of but
ter and -four as before. Roll out the
third time as before, and it is made.
Never turn the paste over, and always
roll out from you. Use ice water or yery
cold water, and keep the paste cold until
ready for use.
Crop Rotation.
A regular rotation of crops is the prin-
ciple feature of farming in the eastern
parts OF pennsylvania, says q correspond
ent, and IN no particular has there been
30 general unanimity, beginning with
corn, folloYlng with oats, then wheat.
and timothy and clover the next spring.
then grass i've or six years, then corn
again. By this rotation the crops were
generally as remunerative as they couId
be or as was expected they would be. ac.
eordlng to quality and condition of soil.
Trouble, however, has arisen in conse-
quence of the considerable failure of the
oats crop, and expedients have been
tired. In my own case sowed clover
with the cats, and allowed the fields to
lie IL that condition one year. If the
season favored the clover would make
q good growth, which we would then
Piow down, seeding to wheat and grass.
But found strong tendency to grow
trash, garlic included, that msde Il
rather hazardous, and the last fall I fol.
lowed the oats of summer with wheat
having made and used considerable
phosphate In the spring on oats and
corn. The effect ON the oats was yerv
apparent in the growth of straw, but the
drought, as has been the case for several
years, much affected the promised weld.
1 have found that the great want of the
farmer Is manure. First the corn cron