The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE;

PARE q fresh lemon very carefully,
without breaking the thin white inside
skin, put it inside wild duck and keep
1t there for forty eight hours, and all Of
the fishy taste so disagreeable in wild
fowls will be removed. The lemon should
be removed and q fresh one put in its
place as often as every twelve hours. A
lemon thus prepared will absorb unpleas-
ant ftavOrs from almost all meat or game.
|-CArisfsdn linton.
The beet-root crop in France has fall
en- off disastrOusly in the last season. The
roots have been for several years yielding
constantly diminishing amount of SUI
gar, and last summer only One-fourth the
quantity obtained in the season of 1875
was realized. The average density of the
bect-juice was this year ten per cent
lower than last year, while the quantity
of sugar obtained from each hectoliter of
juice was but $50 kilogrammes, as COM
pared with 3.S8 in 1875. 1t is said that,
whereas there were 438 factories at work
in 1875, there are at present only 1874 in
operation.
KEEPING EGGs.-If living IN the coun-
try or situated so that you can keep hens,
select the time when eggs are most plenti-
full or at the lowest price. Be very sure
that they are perfectly fresh. Stake
pound of stone lime in two gallons of
pure water. When cold add pint of
salt, and stir the Whole together thorough.
ly. If too strong of lime it will destroy
the egg shell and ruin the whole. When
the mixture is settled quite clear take a
large stone pot, key or half barrel, &C.
cording to the quantity you can collect to
put down. Put the eggs into the vessel,
small end down. Pack carefully close to-
gether, taking care not to crack the shell.
One broken or cracked egg will ruin the
whole: This done, pour over them the
clear lime-water without disturbing the
sediment. Pour in carefully SO as not to
they are more than covered, and lest, by
air getting in while the liquid is poured
on, they may not he thoroughly SUBJ
merged, it is we'll to wait a few minutes
till no bubbles rise to the surface, and
then pour on more lime-water if ncces-
sary. Then close the jar closely, and do
not disturb them till needed.
THE ashman Is very common visitor
to the farm. houses, and, unfortunately, he
is pretty we'll patronized. For five or six
cents bushel land he makes large bush.
cls), he gets the best ashes that are made,
thus carting away from the land rich food
that, if valued at what it will buy, in
added crops upon the farm, is sold at
quarter of its value. If it is true that
mineral fertilizers are valuable aids tOthe
farm, how much better it is to add them
in just the proportionate quantities re-
quired by the feeding plants. The ash of
plants is the mineral or inorganic part,
and, although it varies in different spe-
cies within certain limits, still about the
same elements are contained in them all.
By returning to the soil the ashes of the
trees cut from our woodland, we can give
to our future plants the inorganic ele-
ments in just the shape for them to use to
the best advantage. Hence we say, save
the ashes as so much capital, and invest
it in the land, and buy your soap at the
highest market price, rather than take it
at the cost Of making and pay in ashes at
six cents per bushel. Apply the ashes to
the meadows, to the wheat crop, to the
orchard, anywhere upon the farm, and
the return will amply justify the method
of ecOnOmv.-DetrOSt Free Press