The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-06-05
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

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understanding this, many exhaust theil
beds by cutting too late. The old rule
to stop when green peas come is a good
one. When cutting ceases, let the tops
grow; their shade will keep down the
small weeds, and the few large ones that
may appear are TO be pulled by hand.
THEGRAPEvINEs.- One year old vines.
set this spring, should not be al
lowed to grow more than one shoot.
Remove all Others, reserving of course
the strongest. If older vines were set,
these should not be allowed to bear,
rs it is necessary for them to become
thoroughly established and prepare for
fruiting. Keep all shoots tied up to
stakes or trellises. On old vines, the
fruit will be greatly improved by thin
ming after the clusters are set, leaving
only two punches to shoot.
| Strawberries the beds are not
already mulched, apply it before the ber-
ries get heavy enough to fall over
and become soiled. Keep newly set beds
clear of weeds, and pull up large weeds
that come up through the mulch on old
beds. The picking and packing for mar
| ket requires great care and good judg-
ment, for it is the appearance of the fruit
in the market which sells it. Avoid
will be crushed and spoil the whole bas-
ket Use well ventilated crates; of u
size to be easily handled, and plainly
| marked.
The hoe, rake or other wedding imple-
ment must be frequently run along the
rows of growing vegetables. The weeds
| must be killed. We hope. that the time
VIII come when every farmer will know
the comfort that a well-planted and we'll
kept kitchen garden may bring him. Too
many are yet content with salt pork and
old beans, when they might have an
abundance of spinach, green peas, rad
| lshes, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, etc. AS
the early crops come off, they should be
replaced by others, so that the garden
may show no fallow or unoccupied
ground. Provide for succession crops of
eas, radishes, sweet corn, etc.
CURRANTs AND DGoosEBERRIES.- S.-Mulch
these early IN tie season; litter from the
barnyard, or chips from the woodpile
may be used. This will prolong the sea-
son. If the eggs ofthe currant worm,"
which are deposited on the underside of
the lower leaves, were found and de-
stroyed there would be an end to the
trouble at once, but this is not easy to
do, and the fight begins, or should begin,
rs soon as the ragged appearance of the
| leaves show that the worms are at work.
White hellebore is the remedy, and
while it may be busted upon the bushes,
it is better to mix it with water, q table
spoonful to pailful of water, and ap-
piled with syringe or pump. In mix
ing the hellehore. place the powder in
bowl or other dish and pour on hot
water gradually, stirring until all is
thoroughly moistened, adding pint or
more of hot water; pour this into the
pail and fill up with cold water The
application should be repeated every few
days so long us worms appear. In our
experience, we find that three applica-
tions usually finishes them.
Recipes.
LEMON CHEESECAKES.-Grlt the rind
of two lemons and squeeze their juice
into bowl, add a quarter of pound of
powdered sugar, quarter of pound of
fresh butter boiled. Beat up three eggs,
mix altogether, and they will be ready
to make into tartlets or open tarts.
ORANGE JELLY.-Grate the peel of five
China oranges and two lemons into a
Boil one pound of sugar in a quart of
water, and when quite boiling, pour it
over two ounces of isinglass. Stir until
it is dissolved. Add the juice to it, strain
through coarse muslin, and let if stand
until half cold, then pOu- gently into
molds which have been wet with cold
water. Before turning out put the
molds into warm water for few min
utes; loose the edges with spoon.
BAKED ToMATOEs.-Scald and peel a
sufficient quantity of smooth round
tomatoes; put into deep earthenware
dish and sprinkle plentifully with salt
and pepper; have teacupful or more,
according to the quantity of tomatoes,
of fine cracker cru nbs, and spread over
the top. Bake in Il quick oven from
thirty to fortytive minutes. Drop few
Jumps of butter onto the tomatoes, and
serve.
COFFEE. - To make this beverage
properly some practice is required. DO
the entire work yourself, and slight no
part of the operation. Take the best
Java coffee throw out all the inferior
kernels; roast in n popcorn pepper over
Il bed of Goals, slowly at first, carefully
and evenly, for about fifteen minutes,
more or less; when done, the kernels
should be nice brown, and shine as if
varnished grind, not too fine; put into
cold or moderately water, in the
proportion of n tablespoonful to cup
stir in one egg; cover, and bring to
boil only; let it stand few minutes,
then pour through strainer.
SLICED CUCUMBER PICKLES. Medium
sized green cucumbers, pared and sliced
as for the table. To four quarts of slices
add one large spoonful of salt, mixing it
them. Let them stand over
night, and in the morning rinse and
drain through collander. Boil vinegar
with whole white mustard seed, half a
teacupful of seed to two quarts of vine
gar and set it away to cool. Pack the
sliced cucumbers in quart cans, and
cover them with the prepared vinegar.
Place a bit of alum on top OF the pickles
in each can and seal. Keep in a dark,
cool place. Pickles made after this rule
retain much of the natural flavor of Gu
cumbers.
To Get PIums.
Almost everybody knows that we yet
few plums in our country, because a
small beetle called the curculio deposits
an egg in the immature fruit, which then
rots, and falls before it is ripe. 1t has
been the great problem with fruit-grow-
ers how to get plums in Spite of this in
sect, and to this day it forms the staple
topic with all pomological assemblages. |
Some time ago, DIR. Huffman, of Iowa
City, gave Il plan for smoking them out.
Many of these notions are started by
people who never try what they recon- |
mend. In this case we happen to know |
DR.. Huffman, and can say that he is a
painstaking gentleman, and |
very careful to know what he is to write |
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