Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-16
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


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!. wintering Of vines, and sorts for quickl,
covering trellises and arbors, says: "Thi
spring oven the more tender varietie
. have come out all right, and they hav,
p been left on the trellis just as they grew
, Some of the harder sorts aro alive OF
the laterals and to the tip ends of til,
last years growth. The Delaware
y Creveling and Eumeian appear to hav,
: stood the winter best. All the Rogers
. grapes may be included in this list TIL,
Rogers hybrids are also the most ram
! pant growers I know of. One berr,
planted in 1868 bore good crop las
year, and yet made so great length o
wood that measured one or two shoots
The longest single shoot of last years
growth was thirty-five feet and six inches,
of which I cut off about twenty-five feet,
leaving the remainder to fruit this year.
Some Salem shoots grew twenty or more
feet. For quickly covering an ar-
Dor or exposed wall, these varieties ex-
ceed all others I am acquainted with.
The Salem is also very easily propagated,
and large proportion of two-eye cut
tings, planted in the open ground, will
make good roots by fall.
A daily ration of green food is actually
necessary for laying hens. Vegetables,
either cooked or raw, is much relished
also, and serve in some measure to sup.
ply the place of green diet. Onions
chopped fine and mixed with their food
are exceedingly wholesome, and if not q
cure, are certainly preventive of disease
in many instances. Growing chicks are
even more anxious for green food than
laying hens. They crave it, and when
necessary to be housed from it on ac-
count of inclement weather, it should be
provided for them. There is no green
ood so wholesome for them as onion tops
cut up fine.
Mr.. William s. Marston, an East An
dover farmer, has this spring been con-
Quoting series of experiments for the
purposes of ascertaining the exact cost
of keeping a large family of swine, which
he has wintered. Twenty-Five pounds of
shorts, which cost twenty-five cents, and
IN equal weight of corn meal costing the
same sum, were purchased and have
been fed to two hogs, the shorts to
breeding SOW which weighed about three
hundred pounds, and the meal to boar
weighing little less. Both have been
fed mixed with water, and the hogs had
no other food for twelve days, that being
the time which the twenty-five pounds
lasted. The daily keep of the SOW was,
therefore, two pounds of shorts, and of
the boar two pounds of meal, the cost of
each being two cents !; and upon this
food Mr.. Marston claims the hogs have
more than held their own. Another
farmer living in the same neighborhood
has kept the past winter about thirty
hogs, upon hay tea and meal at daily
cost of three cents for each hog. When
a300-pounder hog can be kept for two
OF three cents a day, pork ought to be
cheap. Vermont Farmer.
Recipes.
CANNED RHUBARB.-Cut fresh rhubarb
into inch pieces, placing layer in
large earthen dish, and sprinkle literally
with sugar. When you have filled the
dish, OF used up your rhubarb, turn n
largo dinner plate over it, place in the
oven, and bake until done. Have your
canning jars heated till at once, and
screw on the covers, Tightening them
every half hour until they are absolutely
air-tight
CANNED STRAWBERRIES. a piece
of board in wash boiler, and put water
sufficient in it to come to the top of the
jars fill the jars with fresh strawberries,
well sugared-any of the small sweet
sorts place in the boiler while the
water is only tepid do not let the jars
touch one another; place the covers on
loosely let the water boil about them
fifteen minutes, when move to the back
of the range until the steam has passed
off, when lift out the jars with towel
wrapped around your hand wipe the
neck of the jar dry, and screw down the
tops, turning them every half hour until
they are air-tight.
HOMEMADE VINEGAR.-One gallon
molasses, seven gallons of rain water,
half pint good yeast. This will be good
vinegar in three or four weeks.
Cold MEATs.-Cut any sort of cold
meat in thin slices and place in baking
dish seasoning with salt, pepper and
summer savory or thyme |; add little
of the meat gravy and tomatoes to more
than cover; thickening with bread or
cracker crumbs bake in the oven.
HoMINY FR1TTERs. the hominy
well let it boil down pretty thick be-
fore using; add to one quart boiled
hominy about half a cupful sweet milk,
one egg, little salt, and -four enough
to fry and turn without running only
enough lard required in frying to pre-
vent burning too much milk and -four
toughens them.
STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE-One quart
Of flour, sift in two teaspoonfuls sea
foam, little salt, one-fourth pound of
butter, rubbed in, with milk enough to
noisten properly; handle as little as $
possible; divide it in two parts and place ,
It in two jelly pans make it fit the pan ,
Dy showing down with the fingers; bake :
it quickly then divide the top and bot :
tom crust, without cutting; spread ON
plenty of butter have strawberries !
washed and drained in a sieve then =
rush them and make very sweet; spread '
plenty of berries between the top and n
POTION crusts have some of the crushed a
md sweetened berries in deep dish; and
when the cake is cut and served, cover Z
ZACH piece with plenty of the crushed 4.