Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
Those of our readers who have kept
their orchards in grass for years should
try thorough cultivation one year and see
what the effect will be. It will show
more on next years crop than this, and
we think nor e will regret the expert
ment.-Kentucky Farm Journal.
Fruit in cellars is sJ Iikely t3 s4 t6e SLOW Slow
operation of ripening, heat and carbonic
acid are thrown off. Whenever the
temperature approaches forty degrees,
the outer air, if cooler, should be let in
to reduce it. In the house. cellar, the
accumulation of carbonic acid would be
injurious to the health of the family,
and it - highly important that this be
removed by ventilation. In fruit cellars
apart from the house, this is not neces-
sary, as the presence of this gas, so in
furious to animal life, tends to preserve
the frUit, as it excludes the atmospheric
air.
Improved seed, like improved stock,
must be grown with special care or it
will rapidly go back to its original state.
In experimenting with new kinds, every
care should be given to keep up the
vigor of the plant and maintain the char
acter of the product.
Make your farm so valuable by con-
slant improvement, skilful culture, good
fruit, ornamental shrubbery and pleas
ant surroundings that no money will
tempt you to leave it. We think it
should be the settled purpose of every
young man to put down his stakes for
life, to make a permanent home which
he will never wish to part with till he is
called to the better land.
The successful farmer is he who pro-
vides conveniences for the care of his
property and the performance of his
work F.; he counts time as an important
item in the yearly calculation, and care
of all his various effects as a factor in
the annual return. When he puts the
horse in the stable there is place for
the harness where it will be safe from
weather or any other damage his
wagons and tools are provided with Gov
erings to preserve them about his
premises will be found little shop or
room where he keeps saws, hammers,
vises, augers and the various tools that
are needed to mend and put in order
the different machines he uses. These
simple articles prevent days and weeks
of delay, besides adding to the length of
time implements will last. It pays to
have conveniences, and also to get what
you do buy of good quality. -Lancaster
Farmer.
Recipes.
SoAP.-Dissolve three pounds sal-soda
in two gallons of warm water, slack in a
firkin three pounds of good quick lime,
add to it the soda solution, stir the
whole thoroughly with stick, and add
two gallons of boiling water stir again
and let it settle, pour off the clean liquor
In a clean iron boiler placed on the fire,
and stir into it six pounds of clarified
grease and one pound of powdered
borax; let it boil slowly until it gets
ropy (about ten minutes boiling), and
pour it into tub or tight box This
makes good, hard soap for family use.
After drying month or so in a dry
room and cut into bars it is fit for use.
GINGER CRIsPs.-Two cupfuls of mo-
lasses, one of lard, one tablespoon of
ginger, one dessert-spoon of soda dis.
solved in a very little hot water and
enough flour to make smooth dough
roll them.
STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE.-Make q
good dough the same as for soda biscuit;
roll it thin, the size of your jelly cake
pans; bake it, and when done open the
cakes, and butter both the inside and
outside layers; have your Strawberries
nicely picked and sugared before you
prepare the dough, in order to have
plenty of juice; spread your berries in
both the upper and lower layer, putting
one layer on top of the other; set il
again If the oven for few minutes, moi
long enough to cook the berries.
HorseshoeinE.
On all average (says an authority,
horses require shoeing once a month.
The length of time shoe will wear
depends much on the kind of service
horse is doing, and on the kind of roaC
he is daily travelling. A team horse
in heavy draught does not wear out Of
many shoes as one used in hack. Quick
motion grinds shoes down more rapidly
than slow use. Some pavement il
harder on shoes than ordinary road
while the friction of gravelly road
wears them away rapidly. Wooden
pavement is but a little saving to the
wear and tear of shoes; for the grit anC
dust which become impacted in the in.
terstices of the wooden block, GRIND
away shoes like the friction of an ener,
wheel. The hind shoes wear out first
and there is more strain and friction OF
them than on the forward shoes. It il
impossible and improper for o horse Il
wear shoes more than six weeks; for tin
growth of the foot shortens the shoes
as well as changes the shape otherwise
The neglect will cause the shoe TO en-
croach upon the soft textures of tn
foot, and produce lameness.
While young vender of greens wa
endeavoring to dispose of his stock i
trade, his poor old crowbait baked an
rafnRad to hndoa an inch The drive