The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-07
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Persons who are not successful in
propagating vines by cuttings should try
their hand at making layers. ANY shoot
of one years growth which can be bent
down and covered with earth can be used
for this purpose. Strong and vigorous
plants can be produced the first season by
laying, which is not always true of cut
tings.-Semi-1 Tropical.
The manner of cultivating asparagus
by annually adding layer of fresh dirt is
a success. If these layers are made alter
nately of clay loan and sand loan, sug-
gest that it would be an improvement.
There is mulching power in clay on
sand and sand on clay that is not half un
derstood nor but very little practiced to
what it should be on our light sandy soils
where clay knobs abound so plentifully
Gardeners Monthly.
MIR. Bell, in the Gardeners Monthlv,
gives these directions for destroying the
rose slug: Dissolve one tablespoonful of
white hellebore in two gallons of boiling
water. When cool enough to use, apply
to the rose bushes with whisk broom,
bending the plants over so as to reach the
under as we'll as the upper side of the
leaves, dashing the water on in a fine
spray. One application is generally suf-
ficient for the season.
The following Is an excellent recipe
for lemon pic: Crate the rind of one
small lemon, or half large one; beat the
yelks of two eggs; four tablespoons of
sugar; beat altogether; add to this half a
pint cold water, with one and one-half
tablespoons of flour in it; rub smooth so
there will be no Jumps beat the whites of
two eggs to stiff froth; stir this in your
pie-custard before you put it in the pan.
Bake with one crust, and bake slow.
-"How to make walks about the house
hard without much cost is question
which we have often asked ourselves
without ever receiving satisfactory re-
ply. Coal ashes, sand, such as is used
for making mortar, and clay in the pro-
portion of rather more sand than coal
ashes-the difference made up with the
clay-all well mixed together and laid at
least four inches deep, will become very
compact and hard. Macadamized paths
are to be recommended in point of cheap
ness. Collect all the stones you can
Place the large in the bottom and fill in
with the smaller ones, covering, as above,
with sand, ashes and little clay
Msore's Rural.
"A reader of ScrSbner living in New
Jersey writes to know if strawberries
planted in the early part of September
will bear a crop of fruit next year. To
this inquiry would say-yes, under the
following conditions: 1st. The soil must
be, rich, deep and mellow. I'd. The plants
must be Of this years growth, with
healthy roots and plenty of them, and
must be transplanted in moist or damp
weather, and if the weather continues
dry, must be watered freely few times,
always in the evening when the sun has
gone down. Sd. The strawberry bed
must be mulched before cold weather
sets in, with yard manure, to be left on
until spring. With such treatment, bed
of strawberries may be set out in Septem-
Der that will yield, not quite as much
fruit as if put out in the spring, but
enough for family use; and the berries
will be, on the average, of larger size than
those of the spring planting.-P. T..
Quinn, IN Scri6ner for September.
An English butter maker of large
experience, who is now on visit to this
country for the purpose of looking over
our cheese and butter diaries, gives US
the following information concerning a
method in practice among the best butter
makers of England for hardening or rem
dering butter firm and solid during hot
weather. Carbonate of soda and alum
are used for the purpose, made into a
powder. For twenty pounds Of butter
one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda and
one teas oonful of powdered alum are
mingled together at the time of churning
and put into the cream. The effect of
this powder is to make the butter come
firm and solid, and to give it clean,
sweet flavor. 1t does not enter into the
butter, but its action is upon the cream,
and it passes off with the buttermilk. The
ingredients of the powder should not be
mingled together until required to be
used, or at the time the cream is in the
churn ready for STANDARDIZATION
IN. ~ Times.