The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-18
FARM AND HOME

SPRING cLEANIss.

SPRING cLEANI.S.
Cut scions before the bud swells Do not
graft until the buds begin to swell. Neces-
gary pruning should be done before vegcta-
ton starts. Washing the trunks OF trees is
best done in q damp spell; scrape IL need be.
Soft SOAP thinned with water to work well
with brush, we prefer to lye or solution of
soda or potash. Apply thoroughly to the
trunk and larger branches, and leave the
rains TO do the rest
Law out and make all new walks and roads
needed and only such as are needed. as soon
as the season will allow Gravel, broken
stones on a foundation of 'cobble" and
other stones, are the best material for good,
dry durable walks and drives. Their first
cost is more, but they will last and will re-
suire only slight repairs The soil should
be removed to depth OF from two to three
feet at least, to get permanent foundation
Mat frost will not affect
PROFIT IN CANARY SIZED.
With the immense increase In consump-
ton of canary seed, it seems strange that no
steps are taken to grow it in our own coun-
try. 1t is as easily produced as wheat or
eats and Yields politically. Forty or fifty
bushels per acre can be readily produced,
and while it may not be a hardy plant, it
will stand considerable frost, and our sea-
sons will give ample time to plant and ma
ture crop. A few acres devoted to grow
ing canary seed will return large profits, as
it is now all imported and pays duty. Some
enterprising farmer can set an example, and
not only demonstrate the fact but put
money in his pocket.
LOSS OF cUD IN CATTLE.
Suspended Rumination.-T. A. B., Sum-
nit Nebraska, says: The loss OF cud in cati
tie was explained few weeks ago, and /
confess / am at loss to understand it.
Now. for the sake of all that are ignorant on
this subject, please explain the cause and
what it is.
Reply.-The majority Of cattle owners are
inclined to look upon this functional de-
rangement as disease, which in reality is
only symptom of disease, and in this way
they confOund cause and effect. Chew
ing the cud, function peculiar to
great number OF our domes-
tic animals, is sometimes suspended
from various causes among the most com
mon of which is arrangement of the digest
i've organs. Sometimes. however from SYM
pathy with disease of some remote organ,
where loss of cud is to be attributed to the
former cause. all that is necessary is to give
the animal a mild cathartic, followed up
with stimulants and tonics, small and re-
Peated doses of Jamaica ginger and gentian
has an excellent effect, but when it can be
traced to the latter cause the disease with
which it sympaihiz must be eradicated be-
fore rumination will be restored.-Exchange.
coLoRIsG BUTrER WITH CARROTS.
The process is very simple. Scrape of the
outside and wash the carrot clean; then
crate it into a pan. with sweet milk enough
to make it like a thin batter. Set it on the
stove and stir it; when quite warm pour into
a strainer bag and squeeze the liquid into
the cream when it is ready for churning.
In quantity, about one large carrot to eight
or ten quarts of cream. (The quantity must
be an experiment, howeyer.) The carrots
must be the real orange carrots; the common
n a.
sring power. The orange carrots give just the
natural golden tinge and impart to winter
butter the flavor, we'll as color, which pure
grass gives. Other conditions must, how
ever, be observed in connection in order to
secure this desirable result. Neither the
milk nor the cream should be allowed TO
reeze much, if any. The pans Of milk, after
standing a few hours should be carefully
placed over a kettle of boiling water, where
the milk will heat till the cream looks wavy
and then returned to the shelves, where
they should stand IL hours before skimming
This gives solidity TO the butter, and also
greatly quickens the process of churning
When the cream IL of the right temperature
from five to ten minutes bring the butter in
my churn.
REFRIGEKAToKs AND HOW TO MAKE ONE
Take a large, tight box of the required
sire, and nut some blocks on each corner for
legs Then take a smaller box, which will
at least six inches on the sides and bottom.
Place q layer of powdered charcoal, fine saw
dust or some other good non-conductor up
on the bottom and set the smaller box in.
Then pack the charcoal or sawdust all about
in the space between the two TO the top.
Make a closely fitting cover for each box.
The ice should be placed in the box in some
tin vessel, so arranged that the water will
run off through small lead pipe passing
through the bottom OF both boxes. If such
refrigerator is tightly and well made, and
placed in cool place, 100 pounds Of ice will
last a week in 1t.
FOR CHICKENS.
But IL any one will put an ear Of ripe corn
into the fire till the grains are well charred,
and then shell of the corn and throw it TO
his flock, he will see an eagerness developed
and a healthy condition brought about
which viii make a decided improvement
All pale combs will become bright red,
that busy song which precedes laying will
be heard, and the average yield OF eggs will
greatly increased
Household Receipts.
JoHssY-cAxR Three cups sour milk,
three cups Indian meal. three tablespoon
fuls molasses, one egg with little -four,
salt and saleratus.
soft flannel and polished of with chamois
skin. is the simplest and best possible man
ner of keeping silver bright aud clean.
SoFr GrxeKRBRRAD.-One pint molasses,
enc cup butter, half cup milk, two eggs. one
teaspoonful cream tartar, two teaspoonfuls
soda, one tablespoonful ginger, tour cups
-four.
Lxnos PIE.--Inside of one lemon, except
the seeds, chopped with half q cupful of raj
dns Add two tablespoonfuls OF -four. cup
Of sugar and cup OF water. Bake with two
erusts.