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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,

FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.
FRUIT CAKE (PnAN).-One cupful
good butter, the same of sugar, beaten
to cream add one cupful molasses,
three cupfuls sifted -four, four we'll
beaten eggs (beat whites and yolks
separately, and half a teaspoonful
soda (use no cream of tartar), one tea
spoonful each of cinnamon, ground
cloves, allspice and nutmeg; at the last
add half a pound of we'll washed and
dried currants, the same of seeded raisins,
and one-quarter of pound of thinly-
sliced citron dredge the fruit well with
-four before adding bake in moderate
oven an hour and quarter.
BOILED CAuL1F1owER.-Pick off the
outside leaves ; cut the stalk close to the
flowers; lay it III cold water for half an
hour ; If very large, quarter it; put it
in boiling water salt a little cook un-
til tender drain well ; place it on hot
dish pour over it plenty of drawn but
ter remove it from the water as soon as
it is done serve quickly; it darkens
while standing.
CHEAP ROAST TURKHY.-Draw five
pound turkey carefully enough not to
break the entrails, so that you will not
have to spoil its favor by Tashing it /;
singe it, and wipe it with q clean, damp
cloth, stuff it with abouta pound Of stale
bread, seasoned with salt, pepper and
herbs, sew it up, tie it in shape, lay it
in baking pan with one quart Of peeled
potatoes, and put it in hot oven +; as
soon as it begins to brown nicely, take
it out, season it with pepper and Salt,
baste it with the dripp1ngs from it; and
put it back in the oven ; baste it every
fifteen minutes until it il done, which
will be in about an hour and quarter.
Then put it on a dish, with the potatoes
around it, and set it in the mouth of the
oven to keep it hot while you make the
gravy do this by pouring pint of boil
ing water into the dripping pan, letting
it come to boil, and stirring into it
tablespoonful of -four mixed smoothly
in half teacupful of cold water season
it to taste with salt and pepper, and dish
in bowl.-Miss 'Corso7a.
QUEEN OF PUDDINas.- Soak pint of
bread crumbs in boiling milk, add the
yelks Of four eggs, well beaten, and
sugar to taste. Bake in pie-dish
when cold, spread jam over the top, and
over that the whites of four eggs, beaten
to stiff froth, with four tablespoonful of
white sugar put into the oven, and
bake very light brown. Flavor with
essence of vanilla or lemon.
Potash for Grapes and Potatoes.
A French journal-the Revue Horti-
cole-records the results of experiments
conducted by NJ. Vile at Vincennes,
which will interest all grape growers,
and which show conclusively that the
use on vines of wood ashes-which con-
tain much potash-is justified by both
theory and practice. A number of vines
we're planted under like conditions, each
in separate plot, divided from its fell
lows by a pathway rather more than
three feet in width Zone metre). The
whole area covered was q hundred square
metres, each square metre being planted
with one variety Of vine only, each plant
thus being at distance of one metre
from it's fellows. Each square plot re-
ceived every year the same treatment
except as to manure -----.--.--,,.-., .,>,-, 80
One plot was treated with the COM
plete manure, while from each Of the
others was successfully eliminated one
Of the constituent elements of the
manure in question. Thus, while the
one plot received the complete manure,
nitrogen was taken from the second,
phosp phates from the third, potash from
the fourth, lime from the fifth, and one
of the plots was left without manure of
any kind. This treatment was continued
from 1860 to 1876 with results as follows:
The vines which received the complete
manure were remarkably thrifty, full of
vigorous foliage and burdened with lus-
cious punches; those which received the
complete manure with the exception of
potash, made very moderate growth,
had few and poor leaves, and no fruit
whatever, while those not manured at
all were stunted, almost wholly leahess
little more than mere stalks.
The result is sufficiently striking, but
the experiments also showed that where
the potash was applied and the other
elements successfully eliminated, the
growth of the vine and the yield OF the
crop presented no sensible difference
q circumstance showing that potash is
indispensable to the vine. Other SUBJ
stances may be omitted, and yet the vine
may flourish, but if the potash be
omitted the vine simply exists without
producing crop, so that after thirteen
years the vines not only produce no
grapes, but scarcely any leaves, and
those leaves 80 weak as not to be able to
resist the action OF the wind or exposure
to the sun, and, in consequence, become
an easy prey to mildew. Similar expert
ments have been made with reference to
potatoes, and with similar result.
Save Manure from oil Source.
At meeting of the American Institute
Farmers Club, DIR. A s. Heath gave
advice, especially important at this
season of the year, to farmers in relation
to outstanding manure Of every descrip-
tion and from every possible source.
They were recommended to gather the
weeds cut down and left to rot by the
roadside or along the fences, mouldy
grass in the swales, fine chips and saw
dust, accumulated about the woodpile,
bones bleaching about the farm, leaves
lying by the cart load in the woods, rich
muck along the stables and barns, con-
taminating the atmosphere and rendering
the place unhealthy for stock. A keen
eve will discover much rubbish that will
quickly make a valuable compost pile.
All these substances, except the bones,
should be deposited upon the dung-pile.
The farmer is proverbially economical
in most matters, yet in reference to
saving manures he is generally the most
prohigate of all mankind. More farm
ers. the doctor said, have been i'm
poverished by neglecting to keep up
the manure supply for their deteriorating
soils than from most any other causes.
A successful farmer sows not only the
materials already enumerated but re-
fuse of all kinds, such as old shoes and
leather, chaff, woolen rags, bristles,
offal,> ashes, both from coal and wood,
horns, hoofs anil carcasses of dead ami
mails in word, everything that will
assist to increase the number Of bushels
of grain and potatoes, or add fodder and
hay to the barn.
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