The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-08-14
FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD.
Summer Drinks,

warm. brarkiSh water. have used the
following plan, which came under my
notice 4 Year or two since: | bought
half dozen tin milk cans. holding four
gallons each, and covered them with
coarse. thick canvas. of kind that
;,hS0rhS water easily. drawing the cloths
tightly around the can and sewing them
:" they could not get off. At night the
cloths are dipped in 4 tub of water until
they are thoroughly Saturatcd; they are
then filled with water and set where the
breeze will blow upon them, and in the
morning the water is quite cold and re-
mains 80 during the day if the cloths are
wet occasionally and the cans placed in
the shade where they are exposed to i
current of air. The men on going out to
work take rs many cans of water rs they
will need. and So have the luxury of
cool water to drink during the heat OF
the day. Any kind of coarse cloth will
do to cover the canS-the thicker the
hcttcr--lS they won't need wetting so
often. but the cans must be kept closed
and the cloths wet to insure success.
SPRUCE BEER.-One gallon of water,
one quart of good molasScs. onc-fourth
ounce whole cloves, onc-fourth ounce
white gingcr-roOt, Onc-halt ounce whole
allSpicc, onc-half ounce saSSlfraS. Boil
all we'll, l boil miHe three hours.
After taking it off the fire pour it into a
clean tub and add one and Il half gallons
of water. Let this stand till milk-warm,
thcn add two tablespoonful of bakers
or brewers yeast; then stand away in
the cellar or some cool place during the
night, covering it. The next day it will
he tit for bottling. One or two raisins,
with 4 few holes punched in them with
Il fork, placed in each bottle add greatly
10 its flavor. Put it in strong bottles,
cork tightly, and tie down with twinc.
Set in cool cellar, and in three or four
days it will be ripe.
GINGER ALE.-Ginger ale will form IN
excellent stimulating drink, and it can
he made rs easily in the city rs the coun-
try. Procure four ounces of white GIN
ger root and pound or bruise it thorough
ly. Mix with it three ounces of cream
of tartar: then slice up very finely eight
large lemons, after squeezing out all the
Juice. Pour over the whole five gallons
of boiling water, and stir into it five
pounds Of sugar. Let it stand until milk
warm; then put in 4 large slice of dry
bread. and pour over ita cupful of liquid
yeast. Let it fermcnt for twelve hours,
covering the whole with cloth if you
intend to bottle it: but if it is made in q
kcg, let it fcrment through the bunghole
for sixteen hours and then close it
tightly. and in two days it will be ready
for use. 1t will foam like cream ale,
while its flavor will suit the most
fastidious palate. 1t must be kept in an
icc-house or the coolest of cellars or it
will become sour; but that can be
remedied by adding a tablespoonful OF
sugar TO each glass Of beer. If bottled,
fill the bottles only two-thirdS full, and
fasten the corks with wire or twine.
Don Patricia, IN Farm and FireSide.
Orchard and Garden Notes.
A Michigan lady says that one tea
spoonful of kerosene to Il gallon OF water,
sprinkled on plants with hand-broom,
destroys green flies, currant worms and
other pests, and has been used without
injury on fuchsiaS, geraniums, callas and
other plants.
NJ B. Bateham advises to wash grape
vines with weak solution of carbolic
soap, as helping to counteract the work
of steel blue beetle on the buds, and also
as having Il tendency to kill off the seeds
or sprouts Of mildew which exist on the
bark and buds ofthe vines during the
winter season.
Put the hen coops under your fruit
trees, and the old hen with her chicks
there, and every morning knock on the
trees with y quick, hard rap, and the lit
.leySEGrh Will drop and chick will take
him.
Scatter Under the fruit trees, say 4
quart of salt to n full-grown fruit tree.
twice every week or two, until fruit is
nearly grown, and it will greatly prevent
the working and ravageS of worms.
Look out for catcrpillars. Take them
early in the morning before the inmates
have walked up and destroy the nests.
Feed the grapes, fruit trees, etc. if on
poorest soil, with manure, and they will
feed you.
Mr.. B. Olcott mentions a successful
trial of changing the bearing year of 4
large apple tree by picking off the bios
sons-a days work ofa man, or 81 25.
Prof. Harrington, in q summary of the
experiments begun in 1870 by the Maine
Agricultural College to ascertain which
has the greater value rs food for swine,
cooked II uncooicd meal, says: We
have, BY IN experiment which has been
continued through from three to four
months of each of the nine years since
its beginning. obtained evidence that all
the money and labor expended in cook
ing meal for swine is more than thrown
away.
Remedy for Damp Walls.
So much sickness. too often fatal, re-
suits from damp walls, that every pre-
caution should he taken to remedy tie
evil. Readers of R'7nl Life interested
may be benefited by needing the follow
ing remedy from one who evidently
knows whereof he atlirms: Moisture
may be kept from brick wall by dis
solving three-QuartcrS of a pound of
mottled soap in one gallon of boiling
water. and Spreading the hot solution
steadily, with Il large flat brush, over the
surface of the brickwOrk. taking care
that it does not lather. This is to be
allowed to dry for twenty-four hours,
when n solution formed of Il quarter of 4
pound of alum dissolved in two gallons
of water is to be applied in a similar
manner over the coating of soap. The
soap and alum mutually decompose each
other. and form an insoluble varnish
which the rain is unable to penetrate.
TIL" operation should be performed in
dry. settled weather. - Moore's Rural
Lite.
Lettuce Kunnins to Seed.
4 German authority says that when
lettuce shows signs of running to seed,
if Il knife be passed through onc-half of
the stem of the shooting head, the plant
may be preserved good for an additional
week.