The Newtown bee., 1879-05-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Facts for Farmers.

J at the first appearance of the blight is suggested as 3 remedy for this disease, which has made so sad work with the foliage of this delicious berry during past seasons.
 Well-grown, well-preserved seeds ot the field and garden should be capable of germinating to the extent of at least the experience of many growers that the seeds of many varieties of garden vegeta- bles are generally incapable of germinat- l ing to the extent of from twenty-five to thirty per cent, and very frequently even more.
 The use of chloride of potassium is l recommended in Germany as means of increasing the growth of wool on sheep. Some German chemists have l made experiments with the article prov l ing that the growth of wool is promoted 1 by it's use. It is administered in the pro- portion of one part of chloride to nine parts of salt. It not only increases the production of wool, but improves the ! quality and promotes the general health l ol bllC " st1 V utls DuU pIopGl quantities to administer are not stated
 The use of salt in the care of farm animals seems to aid an economical di- | gestion and assists assimilation of the requisite normal amount of food, while it is also believed that it makes the flesh harder and gives the animal functions a more regular and healthy action. In | England the average daily allowance of l salt is-for calves, one ounce per day i; l year-old animals, three ounces; fatten- ing oxen, SIX ounces, and milch cows, four ounces. Sheep, it is said, will never stray from inclosures where salt is kept for their constant use, provided, of course, running water is also found in the pasture. CultiUator.
 In packing butter, the great object to be attained is the most perfect exclusion of air from this perishable article. In filling the frkin, the butter should oe pressed firmly against the bottom and sides. If the tub be only partially filled, the surface of the butter should be fur rowed, so as to allow the next addition to unite the more perfectly with the but ter first placed in. When the butter has reached within an inch of the top of, the vessel, the remaining space should be filled with dry salt-not with pickle, as is too often the case. Butter does not improve, as cheese does, by age; there fore the sooner it is sold the better.
 1 Considerable quantities of parsley are used for flavoring soups and garnishing roast meats and the like in autumn and winter. The culture of this herb is very simple. It is sown early in spring, in a rich garden bed, in rows fifteen inches apart, and cultivated the same as carrots and other roots. If it is desired to use it in winter, the roots are trans planted to a bed in September. just as described for dandelions, and the sashes placed on the bed in November. By banking well and carefully covering, the bed will not freeze unless the weather be very severe. The roots may also be transplanted to a greenhouse in the fall, and will then bear repeated clipping, the artificial heat maintaining continuous growth.
 In seeding lands to grass for moving fields or permanent pasture, a greater variety of grasses should be sown than is common in our general practice. Our farmers seldom use more than four va rieties, often less. In England the best farmers use mixture of forty-six pounds per acre, made up of seventeen varieties of grasses; while for lawns twenty or more varieties are used, and in each case every sort is put in for purpose. The result is an earlier verdure, a thicker sod and more lasting turf than is ever seen on our newly-seeded fields. A mixture for our seeded ground should at least embrace the following varieties: Or chard grass, red top, herds grass, meadow foxtail, timothy, red and white clover, blue grass, sweet-scented vernal grass and meadow fescue.- American CatltiUdtOr.
 AN EXCELLENT CAKE.-One cup o1 butter, two of sugar, the whites of six eggs beaten to troth, two cups four half cup cream, one teaspoon of extract vanilla. Bake one hour slowly.
 BOILED RIcE-To every teacup of rice put one quart of water; salt to taste Let the water boil hard; then throw in rice previously well washed when it begins to boil do not allow it to be stirred and boil twenty minutes, not touching it; pour off any water remain ing; place the saucepan on back of range, partially covered for few minutes when turned out into the dish for the table each grain will be found separate The rice should stand on the back of the range until 1t appears dry on top, then shake out into the dish, not removed with the spoon.
 PLAIN BUNs.-One pound of flour, six ounces of good butter, quarter pound oi sugar, one egg, nearly one-fourth pint ot milk, two small teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a few drops of essence of lemon. Warm the butter, without boiling it; beat it with a wooden spoon; stir the four in gradually with the sugar, and mix these ingredients well together. Make the milk lukewarm, beat up with the yolk of the egg and the essence of lemon, and stir these to the four, etc. Add the baking powder, beat the dough well for about ten minutes, divide into twenty -four pieces, put them into but tered tins or cups, and bake in a brisk oven from twenty to thirty minutes. 1 SALADS. Tegetable-Six parts of po- tato cut fine, one part of turnip, one part of parsnip, one part of carrot, two parts of beet. Mix all thoroughly. and use any of the salad dressings for it. Chickeaa-Boil tender four good sized chickens; when cold cut off the white