Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-28
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


parsley; mix together with an egg and
form into small round balls; dip in egg
and cracker or bread crumbs and fry
NICE brown, placing around the curry
when dished. ann re
OAT-MEAI CRACKERS. One teacupful
oatmeal and enough tepid water to wet
and make into dough-; mix well and
quick; the harder the dough the better;
If 1t will bear to be rolled out with the
roliing-pin, begin to roll Il, stopping to
press the ragged edges with your fin
gers; keep at it in the same way till it is
one-elghth of quarter of an inch thick !:
oe quick about it or it will get too dry
under your hands; make only dough
enough at one time for one cracker; do
not brown it any in baking; it will be
good for month if you put it in your
oatmeal barrel and cover it with meal.
BUrTERAfILK BREAD.-Heat one pint
OF buttermilk until it is almost scalding
hot; stir in slowly, while themilk is hot,
slfted Hour enough TO make quite thick
batter; then add half gill of yeast, and
let it stand five or six hours to rise; if
made over night, do not use the yeast,
substitute one tablespoonful of white
sugar. In the morning, stir into the
sponge, teaspoonful of soda dissolved
IN hot water; add little salt, two table
spoonfuls butter, work in just -four
enough to handle comfortably; knead
wei. make into loaves, and let it rise
until light.
FISH SAIAD.-Pick up cold fish and
place in frying-pan season with salt
and pepper, the juice of lemon and
melted butter, q little vinegar, and one
raw egg beaten let warm over slow
fire, stirring SO that they do not burn !;
place in dish serve cold.
ORANGE CAKE.--Two cupfuls sugar,
two cupfuls flour, one-half cup water,
the yolks of four eggs and whites of
three, the Juice and grated rind of one
orange, one teaspoonful cream tartar,
half teaspoonful soda Bake in four
thin cakes as for Jelly cake. Make an
icing of the remaining white of an egg.
the juice and rind of another orange and
pulverlzed sugar spread between the
layers as in jelly cake. k
Questions and Answers.
Does the soil affect the quality of Rus
set apples?
Yes. Those raised on sandy soil are
more juicy and of fine flavor, while those
on hill lands are the best keepers.
How long after planting before apple
trees will bear?
Usually about the fourth OF fifth year
they will begin to bear small crops. Oc-
casionally tree will bear the third year,
but this is not common. Orchards we'll
cared for often scarcely bear at all before
the seventh or eighth year. Much de-
ponds on the soil and variety.
How many grapes can be raised to the
acre?
Three tons to the acre are as many as
should be raised. Overcropping ruins
many vineyards. Improved quality
makes up for any lack in quantity. A
Connecticut cultivator recommends three
pounds to vine. He also recommends
attention to a more extended culture of
the grape; they are especially whole
some, will keep several months, and the
vines come into bearing in less than half
the time required for the apple and pear,
aud they are more easily protected from
the attacks of insects. Out of sixty va
rieties raised by this gentleman he finds
the Concord the most profitable for mar
ket, and likes the Delaware for family
use. ...t...
e. b., World subscriber, wanted to
know how to mark fowls so as to distin-
guish pullets from old hens after they
have become grown.
Fanciers make, with a small punch
Tor the purpose, holes in the skin be-
tween the toes of chickens.
What is the best manure for the
ounce?
One farmer, who has noted it's success
for sixty years, says that salt is the best
fertilizer for the ounce. He used it in
both nursery and orchard, and finds it
excellent for cherries and pears. It is
applied beneath the trees, in quantity
from four to eight bushels per acre, &C
cording as it appears to be. needed.
Ounces are liable to overload, and the
small ones should be plucked off in sea-
son. The ounce should grow in bush
form, and rarely requires q knife.
How can butter be preserved through
the summer months so as to be good for
market in the fall /?
A farmers wife replied that if well
made and the butter-milk is all out of it,
butter covered with brine and kept air.
tight will be found all right in the fall.
The brine must be in sufficient quantity
to cover and surround the butter, and if
packed in wooden vessels, these should
besthoroughly saturated with brine be-
fore the butter is put in, or it will not
be air-tight. a ,1l
Milking by Machinery.
Hand labor is gradually being super
seeded by machinery in nearly every
branch of industry. 1t is curious to
mark the unlikely uses to which ma
chinery may be applied. An ingenious
inventor in the United States has recent
ly patented a useful device in the shape
of cow-milking machine, which, it is
said, will do all that can be done in
milking by hand, faster and easier, and
will be of special service where COWS
have sore teats or are hard mixers. The
apparatus consists essentially of a glass
globe, large enough to hold an average
yield of milk, which is connected by
means of a flexible tube with an air
pump. Rising from the top of the globe
are small pipes with metal tips. The
mode of operation consists in suspending
the globe underneath the animal to be
MIXED, and inserting the tips of the
small pipes into the teats. A partial
vacuum is then effected inside the globe
by means of the air pump, and the milk
thus drawn forth. The advantages
claimed by the invention are that it pre-
vents any loss of milk through spilling,
it renders milk or straining pals I'M
necessary and prevents entrance of dirt.
Finally, it can be easily manipulated by
anybody: l1
Murphy, the Temperance Lecturer.