The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-06-19

beds. The picking and packing for mar
ket requires great care and good JudS-
ment, for it Is the appearance Of the fruit
in the market which sells it. Avoid
putting in overripe berries rs one such
will be crushed and spoil the whole bas-
ket. Use well ventilated crates; of Il
size to be easily handled, and plainly
marked.
The hoe, rake or other wedding imp le-
ment must be frequently run along the
rows of growing vegetables. The weeds
must be killed. We hope that the time
will come when every farmer will know
the comfort that well-planted and we'll
kept kitchen garden m ay bring him. Too
many are yet content with salt pork and
old beans, when they might have an
abundance of spinach, green peas, rad
isles, 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
cas-, radiSheS, sweet corn, etc.
CURRANTs AND G GoosEBERRIES.-Mulch
these early IN tie season; litter from the
barnyard, or chips from the woodpile
IlltS DC uScu. lllS Will tiiN oStt-
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,
as 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 hellebore, place the powder in n
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 as worms appear. In our
experience, we find that three applica-
tions usually finishes them.
Recipes. :,
LEMON IIEESECAKES.-Gratet the rlnd
of two lemons and squeeze their juice
into bowl add quarter of q pound Of
powdered sugar, quarter of q 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 q
| bowl. squeeze the juice of them into it.
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 it 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 a 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 a teacupful or more,
according to the quantity Of tomatoes,
of fine cracker crumbs, and spread over
the top. Bake in a quick oven from
thirty to forty-fve minutes. Drop a few
humps 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 popcorn pepper over
a 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 rs If
varnished; grind, not too fine; put into
cold or moderately-wa water, in the
proportion of a tablespoonful to cup;
stir in one egg: cover. and bring to a
boil only; let it stand few minutes,
then pour through a strainer.
SLICED CUCUMBER PICKLEs.-Medium
sized green cucumbers, pared and sliced
rs for the table. TO four quarts of slices
add one large spoonful Of salt, mixing it
through them. Let them stand over
night, and in the morning rinse and
drain through collander. Boil vinegar
with whole white mustard seed, ha If q
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 bit of alum on top OF the pickles
in each can and seal. Keep in dark,
cool place. Pickles made after this rule
retain much Of the natural flavor Of Gu
cumbers.
To Get Plrms.
Almost everybody knows that we get
few plums in our country, because q
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, DR.. Huffman, of Iowa
City, gave 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
thoroughly painstaking gentleman, and
very careful to know what he is to write
about before he takes his pen in hand.
We have great faith in what he may say,
and so give here his plan:
During the summer Of 1874 l procured
from the gas-house several gallons OF
coal or gas tar. put about quart into
q long-handled stew-pan, and with a
few shavings and match soon had a
dense, black smoke. This l carried un-
der my plum tree, SO that the dense
smoke pervaded all parts of the tree. My
first efforts were very gratifying in see
ing insects of all sorts hurry out of the
tree. Ants came running down the tree,
various kinds of worms and spiders let
themselves down by their webs. and all
winged insects flew out, leaving the tree
deserted of all insect life. spent about
half an hour in smoking forty:two trees,
and this repeated three or four times
each week, unless rain had washed off
the smudge, when I again repeated the