Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-07-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
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LETTUCE SALAD.-Two heads of let
tuee, two hard boiled eggs, two table
spoonfuls Of best salad or olive oil, one
teaspoonful salt, one teaspoOnful white
sugar, one teaspooniul mustard, one tea.
spoonful pepper, four tablespoonfuls of
vinegar or more as required: rub the
yolks to a powder and add the mixture;
thin with vinegar; cut up the lettuce;
put in dish; pour the dressing over.
1t is delicious.
GINGER OR POP BEER.-The following
is harmless but palatable: One and one
half ounces OF best ground Jamaica GIN
ger; one and one-half ounces of cream
tartar; one pound of brown sugar; two
sliced lemons; four quarts boiling water;
one-hah pint OF yeast. Let it ferment
tor twenty-fOur hours; strain and bot
tie it. In two weeks it will be ready to
use.
SIMPLE ToMo.-If one will take a
teaspOonful of the extract of dandelion
three times a day in a wineglassful of
water it will improve the appetite very
much.
Corn MEAL MUFFINs.-Full cupful of
flour, also one of Indian meal (white is
the best), one egg, one and One-half cup
fuls sour or buttermilk, one half table
spoonful lard, one. half teaspoonful soda
or saleratus dissolved in the milk, one
tablespoonful sugar, little salt.
LIGHT PIE CRUsT.-Pie crust will be
found light if mixed with cold or ice
water, and handled as little as possible.
Mix with knife as soft can be rolled,
three cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful
salt, one cupful of lard, rubbed in well
with the hands; then mix with the knife
sufficient water to make a soft dough.
Take piece of dough sufficient to cover
one pie and roll out a little, then spread
with lar1 little -four and salt sprinkled
over it, then fold over and repeat this
rolling and spreading three times. If
this does not make the crust sufficiently
rich and flaky, the next time roll out and
spread with lard and sprinkle with salt
and -four five times Light pie crust
depends much upon it's being mixed soft
and cold and being but little handled.
Once spreading is sufficient for under
crust. Some ladies use marble slab to
roll crust on instead of board.
How TO CRYSTALLINE FRUIT. Pick out
the finest of any kind of fruit, leave on
their stalks, beat the whites of three
eggs to stiff froth, lay the fruit in the
beaten egg with the stalks upward, drain
them and beat the part that drips off
again, select them out one by one and
dip them into a cup of finely powdered
sugar; cover pan with sheet of fine
paper, place the fruit inside of it, and
set it i'll an oven that is cooling; when
the icing on the fruit becomes firm
pile them on a dish and set them in q
cool place.
Poultry Manure.
A correspondent gives the Boston
CUJtjUdt0r the results of some careful
experiments to determine the actual
comparative value of hen manure, from
which the following is taken:
give the result of little experiment
/ made in 1868. [ had been composing
my hen manure with ashes, and apply
ing 1t to my crops with very good re
suits. But from what [ had read l wa
almost certain that the course was
wrong and determined to set mysel
right. The hen manure was piled upo1
the barn floor and moistened with waite
50 that it would heat little and become
my L OlISll oNldCl bllS Sdlll6 Dulh u iii
loan that had had the wash of the barn
yard and small quantity of plaster.
took one bushel of this mixture and ap
piled it to one hundred and forty hills O
corn before planting, scattering it over
circle OF at least one foot in diameter
No other manure was used on the plants
L then took three pecks of the abov
compost and mixed with it one peck o
good ashes and applied it to the sam
number of hills in the same manner
The corn was planted May 20, cut AM
stocked on September s and husked DC
tober IL. The portion with the hen ma
nure gave LA pounds of sound corn an
two pounds of soft corn. The portion
with hen manure and ashes gave 10
pounds OF sound corn and seven pound
soft corn. [ also planted one hundre
and forty hills with nothing in the hill
and got eightyfour pounds sound cor
and thirty-one pounds soft corn. Th
hen manure increased the crop seventy
two per cent, hen manure and ashe
thirty per cent. One half bushel of he
manure made thirty-fve pounds of SCUM
corn on the cob, and this approximate
very nearly the result get from year t
year by using hen manure. Thirty-fv
pounds of corn on the cob are worth {
least thirty-fve cents, which PRACTICAL
makes the hen manure worth sevent
cents bushel.
L have just weighed bushel of he
manure from under the henroost an
find it weighs thirty pounds. Accordin
to Bruckners analyses, bushel of he
manure contains:
Phosphoric acid, .O45 h., worth 1Gc. per
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Potash, .OO55 h., worth 7c. per fb.... 90
Nitrogen, .645 h. worth 30c per h.. E. Il
Actual value one bushe hen manure. so. Q
In 1869 I made another experiment
but mixed no ashes with the hen manur
Three bushels of the compost, mixed
before, made ninety one pounds
sound corn, or thirty pounds for OF
bushel of the compost.