The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-08
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HO USE.

For the purpose of making the off
year of the fruit trees a bearing year
suppose we give the tree heavy dress
ing of manure in the fall of the bearing
year.
ACCORDING to horticultural writers of
the present day, there are a great many
Kings and Queens among trees, shrubs
and plants generally. The fact is they
constitute royal family.
FARMER SMITH does not oppose the
use of commercial fertilizers, entertain
ing the belief that a good farm, like a
good piece of meat, only requires bast-
ing with its own drippings.
PROF. Cook, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College advises wheat growers
where the Hessian Fly prevails, either
to pasture or NOW the infested fields
after the eggs are deposited and before
they hatch.
FIG candy: Take one pound of sugar,
three-quarters of a pint of water, and
set over slow fire; when done add
few drops of-vinegar and lump of but
ter, and put into pans in which slices of
figs are laid.
BOILED brown bread: Two cups of
meal, one cup of -four, one teaspoon of
salt, one teaspoon of soda, two thirds
cup of molasses; put into creased
pudding boiler or tin pail; plunge in
boiling water and boil three hours.
THERE is no greater fallacy, says the
Rev. j. Farmer, of Nottingham, Eng,
than that the winter bread is, the bet
ter and more nourishing it is. For the
more wheat is refined the more gluten is
taken away, and finally scarcely anything
but starch is left. Ithas been discovered
that there is ferment in the bran which
aids digestion.
SALAD dressing without oil: Four
eggs, one cupful of butter, one cupful
cream, half cupful of sugar, one table
spoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of
mustard one tablespoonful of cayenne
pepper; put on the fire and stir until it
boils; then remove and beat in one and
half pints of vinegar This will keep
months, tightly corked, in refrigerator.
PRESIDENT BERcKAMs, of the Georgia
Horticultural Society, says that the
Alexander Peach ripened with him at
Augusta, upon young trees as early as
the 18th of May. Amsden ripens at
the same time and the Beatrice ten days
after. He has sent the Alexander bv
mail to several persons North, and they
arrived in fine condition. The
Beatrice, though it carries well, is rather
too small for shipping. Early Louise
and Early Rivers are excellent for home
use.
CORN cake: l. One teaspoonful of
cream of tartar, one tablespoonful of
melted lard or butter, one egg, one-half
teaspoonful soda dissolved in cup of
milk; thicken to batter with equal
parts of meal and flour. This quantity
is enough for three persons; if more is
wanted, double each article. Ii. One
cupful of Indian meal, one cupful of
flour, one teaspoonful of cream tartar,
half teaspoonful of saleratus, piece of
butter the size of an egg, two eggs, one
cupful of milk, and less than a cupful
of sugar.
Mr.. KING, a Scotch agriculturist, saws
that the great mistake which he has
ever seen committed in connection with
the employment of lime, is that of mix
ing it with manure before application
In these days of enlightenment it ia
almost incredible that such an egregious
error as this should be committed. and
yet the preparation of this species of
absolutely inexcusable wastry is not SO
very rare. When farmyard manure. at
least after it has been kept for some
time, is SO treated with lime it is almost
entirely destroyed and the value of manv
other manures, by similar treatment.
would be very much lessened. Lime
should never be allowed to come in con-
tact with the manure, at all; and if it
could be arranged conveniently, these
two substances should be applied to the
land at different times.
The Cincinnati Commercial discourses
on the fine art of eating" The true
epicurean's dinner will always be made
up of only few dishes, but those un-
surpassed in material, cookery and fur
nishings. Variety he has plenty; but
he obtains it by having fewer dishes at
once, and SO stretches out the good things
of the appetite further through time,
rather than by taxing French cook
books and his own brains to discover for
him some new mixture. He always
thus has something good to look ahead
to for the next time, so to speak. Much
of the worry and work fashionable
Americans make over their cookery
might be avoided, and much both Of