The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-07

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country *. ,hat half the time you are
ont Of some OF the ingredients required
remember in one of Dickens novels
a very amusing scene turning on TINS
point. A Young wife has the "BrItiSi
Housewife in hand, wanting to com
nile some dish to please her lord and
master. The first recipe she looks TOR
begins: "Take so much rose-water'
or Take TWO lemons" %, you o u
kew cries the despairing bride,
wher ann | to get EN- sometimes
even the mustard is out, sometimes the
rice not many country families keep
eunnlv of condiments. And again,
few keep such gardens as would be re-
ouired in the making up OF a PLAIN
soup. Some recipes begin Take four
punches OF asparagus" Sona requlr
barley. some call for celery. These
things are not commonly found on
North Carolina farms. Mrs. Elliotts
directions for an excellent soup made
of a ham bone left Of several dinners,
and certainly economical enough, calls
for five or six different vegetables.
think we ought to begin our reform
IN ON. 1r,-deas. There is no excuse III
u climate for a poor supply OF Veget-
ables. and the sooner We set about
sacnrir~ 4 succession Of them for use
the whole wear round, the better for
us. / asked one Of our largest farmers
in this neighborhood, a year or two
aro. if his wife had had peas on her
table vet.-intending to crow oVer her
if she had not, and he replied We
never raise peas they take mp too much
around Il. the garden" i few spring
vegetables are all that most OF our
country people, eve Of the better class,
care for and after June the garden Is
abandoned to cabbages and greens. |
wish every friend who reads this page
would provide herself with Whites
Gardening for the South" Grange,
ought to see that it is placed within
easy Cpecuniary) reach Of their lady
members. Duy that book, and a few
garden tools, and spend third of your
time this spring III your garden, work
ing with your, and your childrens wv
hands. After the ground has been
once broken up for you with spade or
plough and the II applied, there
is no work beyond awoman's strength
in tie care Of a garden. Procure a
supply of good seed-be sure that you
do not deal with aman capable Of sell
ing YOU thirty-thrcc radish seed for 10
cents. which have been In his store
these two years past. Write to head
quarters yourself, there are plenty Of
honest seedsmen,-and get what you
want, and beginning with lettuce and
radishes. keep straight on through the
wear. and have your table well supplied
with reen peas and beets, and celery
and tomatoes and okra. and delicate
beans of all sorts. besides the inevitable
cabbage and turnips and potatoes-the
two latter of which ought to be field
crops, however, and no concern of
| yours. | never have done any work
| more to my mind than gardening. |
much prefer raising the vegetables to
cooking them, or writing about them.
or even eating them, and if any n
wishes to hear of my failures, and mis-
takes, and general bankruptcies in that
line, they have only to inquire at this
buraau Meanwhile Study Mrs Mason
or Mrs. Elliott. The Grange had an
arrangement with Mr.. Hale, of New
York, Mrs. Ms publisher, TO furnish
her book at some reduction to the
Grange. Perhaps the same might be
done NTH Messrs. Hurd, of New York,
for Mrs. Elliott. Mrs. f. is perhaps
best adapted for the Eastern section of
Il State. Her recipes for cooking
fish are varied and rich, and said by
those who have had better opportuni-
ties than l for testing them to be adj
mirable. Mrs. Mason's book is more
of a general family book, and therefore
may be preferred by young house
keepers, as giving directions for the
care of their babies. as we'll as of their
dining rooms.