The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm md Garden Notes.

Farm nnd CHrden Notess
Look for grubs among your peach |
trees right away at the surface Of the
ground, or just below it, you know.
Wooden floors are objected to for
poultry houses, for the reason that they
tend to cause the birds to become duck
footed, and what Is of more conse-
quence, absorb and retain dampness
from the droppipgs, and 80 prove
source of cramp and other ailments.
Fowls need charcoal when in confine-
ment but that from wood is not palata-
BILE to them. The best way to furnish
it is by charring an ear Of corn. The
fowls will devour it greedily, and the
improved color of their combs will soon
show its wholesome effect
The farmer who wishes to avoid an
excess of labor, with Improbable result,
will not spread a small quantity of
manure over a large surface of poor land,
but will only pillow as much as he can
highly manure, when his income will be
as large, and his labor nearly one-half
saved.
"The cause of failure in the peach
crop often comes, in my opinion, from
too great fertility of the soil on which
the trees grow. As the peach tree grows
rapidly it is often hurt by the frost be-
cause its wood is not sufficiently hard
ened. get the best results from slow
growing trees on not over-rich soil."-
Mr.. Martin, OSkalooSa, Ia.
Cabbage has superior value for feed
ing purposes. English cattle feeders
assert that their beasts progress faster on
cabbage, mixed with plenty of fine cut
wheat straw and cotton cake, than any
other vegetable. Cabbage contains one
part flesh forming substance to three of
heat producing, while in potatoes the
hesh-forming is only one to twenty.
Cabbage is also rich in mineral matter.
"After long experience am safe in
making the statement that the soil upon
which they are raised has much to do
with the character of russell apples.
Those raised on sandy soil are much
more juicy and of finer flavor, while
those on hill lands are the best keepers.
I have known russell tree to bear the
third year, but this is unusual. Gener
ally about the fourth or fifth year they
begin to bear small crops, though some
times not until the seventh or eighth.
Much depends on the size and also on
the variety. "a. d., Hooking, O.
Recipes.
PEPPER CHow-CHow.-Cut in half,
and remove the seeds from twenty-five
peppers soak in salted water for three
or four hours chop fine and add twice
as much chopped cabbage as peppers !;
one tablespoonful each of ground cloves,
allspice, mustard seed, whole-and salt |;
mix thoroughly ; cover with cold vine
gar and tie down.
HAsH.-The following is a good and
economical way for preparing hash /:
Take cold roast lamb or mutton throw
away the fat portions chop very fine,
and add water enough to make it quite
thin ; boil in frying pan add butter,
salt and pepper to suit taste; have
ready hot toast which has been we'll
buttered and dipped into cream or rich
milk, and spread the hash over the
toast, and serve Immediately.
LEMON MARMA1ADE. TO make lemon
marmalade, squeeze the lemons, boil the
peels in water till soft, then take out the
pith, and pound the remainder in a NOR
tar till quite fine, mixing with it a little
of the juice. Pass it all, with the rest
of the Juice, through a sieve into pre-
serving pan. To every pound of pulp
add three-quarters of pound of loaf
sugar. Boil it for half an hour or more,
SO that it sets, when cold, into a jelly.
ORANGE CAKE.-Two cups of sugar,
yelks OF five eggs, whites of two eggs,
half cups Of cold water, two and a
half cups of -four, two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, the juice and grated
rind of one orange and pinch of salt |;
bake in Jelly cake tins. Beat the whites
of two eggs to stiff froth, add seven
large tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar
aud the grated rind and juice of one
orange. Spread this between the
layers. If you like the taste of orange,
you will like this cake.
Insects on House Plants.
The principal insects troubling house
plants are the green fly, the mealy bug,
the scale and the red spider. The most
effectual remedy for green fly is fumiga-
tion with tobacco. Some wooded plants,
such as heliotropes, salvias, etc, will
not bear fumigation without injury to
the leaves, and for these weak solu-
tion of tobacco is quite as effectual.
Steep some tobacco in water and sprinkle
the plant with the solution, and after
wards syringe with clean water. Mealy
bug is to be searched for and destroyed.
Frequent spongings do much to keep
down this pest. Scale is to be treated
in the same way: Warm soap suds are
peculiarly distasteful to this creature
A little turpentine, diluted with watel
Zone part to sixteen), will destroy the
mealy bug. Alcohol, applied with 6
camel's-hair brush, will kill any insec
it touches.
Plants treated with these remedies
must be syringed with clear water i'm
mediately thereafter. White hellebor'
Ito be obtained at the drug store) is in
fallible. 1t can be put in water and ap
piled through watering pot, or put il
two or three thicknesses of gauze, ant
shake the hellebore under and over tn
plants while they are wet. Red spider
which is seldom found on house plants
is nourished by dry, warm atmos
phere. It is a very small insect, frs
appearing on the under side of tn
leaves, and, though difficult to see, it
effects are quickly noticeable by tn
Drowned appearance of the leaves. !
yields readily to moisture-water
certain death. Keep the foliage syI
inged and atmosphere moist, and yo
will have no red spider. To kill whit
worms in fower-pots take commo
lime, dissolve it and pour the liquid o.
the soil. 1t does not iniure the plant
at all.