The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-05-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Notes.

Use only tin pals for milking.
SunAower seed is good for poultry.
Keep the poultry house clean and
tidy.
For lawns SOW grass seed without
grain.
Clover is one of the best and cheapest
fertilizers.
Unbuckle a harness before cleaning
and oiling it.
Good wheat produces seventy-four per
cent. of fine flour. 4l
There is no certain remedy yet known
for the pear blight.
Mulching is nearly as good as cultiva-
ton for strawberry plants.
II you would clear your house of rats,
kerosene one and let him go.
A dose of paint is a preventive of
loose-iointed farm implements.
Apple trees, when planted in good
soil, should be set forty feet apart.
Never, under any circumstances, leave
your milk-strainer at the barn over
night.
Plant peas deeper than has been the
custom, as they are less likely to mildew
and will be more productive.
Make your fences high and strong so
they will keep cattle and pigs out. II
you have brush make your lots strong
and secure, and keep the hogs from the
corn.
When rainy, bad weather comes, SO
you can't work out of doors, cut, split
and pile your wood, make your racks,
fix your fences or gates, and patch the
roof of your barn or house.
Plant grape vines, r. there are few
plants that do so we'll in a variety of
soils and climates, while there is no
more delicious fruit, or that may be cul-
tivated with less trouble; and yet none
is more commonly neglected by the
farming community.
Recipes.
MUTTON BRoTH.-A small scrag of
mutton boiled two or three hours in two
quarts of water, with little rice, an
onion, and little salt.
Cold SLAw.-Chop a quart of cab
bage very fine and stir in little spoon
full of salt, one half teaspoonful of black
pepper; Then ada naII u pIuU VI sJrong
vinegar; some like an onion chopped
into the cabbage. It makes q nice relish
with cold baked meats, and it is pleas
ant variety.
STEwED PoTAToEs. eight good
sized potatoes, cut them in thick slices,
put them in stewpan with cold water
enough to cover them. Simmer gently
till perfectly tender; drain in q colander
till dry. Put into the stewpan one pint
of milk, two ounces of butter, and a
tablespoonful of flour rolled together,
little salt, and stir over the fire till boil
ing. Replace the potatoes; boil up once,
and serve hot.
JUMBLEs.-One cup of butter and two
of sugar, beaten together; one cup of
milk, half teaspoonful of salaratus
stirred into the milk, and four eggs.
Beat it we'll together, add spice of any
kind, and six cups of flour; roll it rather
thin; cut it with tumbler and with a
wineglass to form ring; brush them
over with the white of an egg, and sift
on q very little of fine white sugar be-
fore baking. Bake them fifteen or twen-
ty minutes.
Fruit Cellar.
The Boston Journal of Chemistry fur
nishes the following description of
fruit cellar, which may afford some val
liable hints to those who are inquiring
for information on this subject: Ten
years ago we constructed fruit cellar
under our stable, and it has proved SO
satisfactory that we venture to give
brief description of it. The division
walls are constructed of brick, and the
apartments are two in number, an outer
and inner room. The outer room is but
partly underground, and is ten by
twelve feet in area, and eight feet high.
The inner room is wholly underground,
and frost-proof; it has four brick walls
and cemented floor. In this room the
fruit is stored early in December, when
the weather becomes cold. The outer
room holds the fruit during the autumn
months after it is gathered, and is cool,
well-ighted and dry. The windows are
left open and free circulation of air al
lowed SO long as no danger from frost
exists When the fruit is taken to the
inner room, the door is closed, and no
light admitted. Ventilation is secured
in moderate weather by opening the
inner door and throwing down window
in the outer room. In this cellar we
kept apples of last seasons growth until
the present winter, in perfect condition.
Some of these apples exhibited at au-
tumnal agricultural fairs, were pro-
nounced as fresh as those Of last sea-
sons growth.
1t happened in this wise: They were
coming off the steamer across the plank