The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-08
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
strawberry Itecipes.

pint. w len thoroughly sUpteHeu, ttiu
five ounces of white sugar, two
put over the fire until the gelatine is
perfectly dissolved. Pour from the ket-
tel into molds or small jars, and you
have a most beautiful and pleasantly
favored jelly. This recipe is meant for
cool weather; if used In summer, re-
duce the quantity of syrup by one-half.
STRAWBERRY SYRUp.-Make syrup
in the proportion of three pounds
of sugar to half pint of water
Boil and skim until clear. Have ready
the strained juice of field Strawberries.
Allow two and half pints of strawber-
ry juice to the half pint of water. After
you add this, let it boil hard for not more
than five minutes. Take it from the fire
before it looses its fine color and pour
hot into self-sealing glass jars. This
syrup preserves even the odor of the fresh
strawberry when opened months after
ward, and flavors ice-cream Delightfully."-.
With the addition of a little bit of poke
berry jelly, the delusion is perfect; you
fancy that you are enjoying fresh straw
berry cream. No sweetening is needed
for the cream but what is supplied by
the syrup.
STRAWBERRY TAPIoCA..-This makes
a most delightful dessert. Soak over
night u large teacupful of tapi-
oca in cold water; in the morning put
half of it in a yellow-ware baking-dish,
or in the porcelain one of a silver pud-
ding-dish. Sprinkle sugar over the tapi
oca; then on this put quart of berries,
sugar, and the rest of the tapioca. Fill
the dish with water, which should
cover the tapioca about quarter of an
-, p,1- IN, fnlx hot
until it looks clear. Eat cold, with cream
or crstard. IF not sweet enough, add
more sugar at table, and in baking, if it
seems to dry, more water is needed. A
similar dish may be made, using peaches,
pared and sliced, instead of Strawberries.
Pineapples, pared and grated, are also
excellent with tapioca.
STRAWBERRY SHoRTCAKE.--Th makes
a very nice addition to the tea
table, or can be used as dessert
Take one quart of sifted flour, stir very
thoroughly into it half a teaspOonful of
carbonate of soda; then one teaspoonful
of cream of tartar must be well mixed
into it, tablespoonful of butter, one
Nteaspoonful of salt, about u coffee-cupful
of water. 1t is best mixed with knife,
cutting it through and through, and if
possible do not put your hands into it
except in rolling it out. The mass should
be as moist as you can well manage.
Roll it smoothly out, making two round
cakes of about half an inch in thickness.
Bake in quick oven. When done, split
the cake open; put the slices in a large
dish butter them; cover each slice with
berries and sugar; finally making the
berries the top layer. Pour cream over
all.
upos
The practice is fast gaining ground all
over the country of seeding down for
permanent pastures a variety of grasses
instead of heavily sowing one or two
favOrite sorts only. Grasses are selected
which possess the property of springing
up rapidly after having been bitten down
and resisting the tramping of cattle.
The selection is also made with a view
to a succession of ripening crops rather
than of varieties which blossom to-
gcther, as in fields to be mown, that the
stock may be supplied throughout the
year with such grasses as will be young,
tender and succulent. This arrangement
is quite practicable, inasmuch as there
is no month of spring or summer in
which some of the grasses do not attain
perfection-the month of March eX.
cepted. Again, care is observed that
| the varieties are suitable to the LAND
for which they are designed.
As in meadows, so in pastures, clover
should be constituent. 1t will, it i.
true, disappear in two or three years
leaving other grasses in possession of th
ground, but not until it has accomplished
incalculable benefit. Blue grass, especi
ally on light, dry soils, is highly recon
mended for pasture; meadow fOXtail
early and rapid in growth, is otherwis
desirable. Orchard grass is one of tn
most valuable of all grasses, coming
earlier in spring and remaining later il
autumn than any other. Red-to]
grass is an excellent permanent grass
as is crested dogs tail. The grasses re
commended for lawns add further de
sirable varieties for pastures.
A mixture for permanent pasture ad
vised by Flint as certain to repay i
the additional yield for the greater orig
inal outlay for the seeds, consists G
yellow oat grass, one pound; meadoN
foXtail, hard fescue, tall fescue, meadoN
fescue, red top, June grass, wood meadoN
grass and rough-stalked meadow grass
two pounds each timothy, three pounds
orchard grass, four pounds; whit
clover, five pounds; Italian rye gras
six, and perennial rye grass, eigl
} pounds. Commissioner Killebrew, i
his book on "The Grasses of Tennessee,
! furnishes the following list of long -trie
. pasture grasses as an aid to ineXper
enced farmers: Kentucky blue gras
wire grass, spear grass, rough-stalke
meadow, orchard grass, meadow fescu
meadow foXtail, sweet-scented vern;
: grass and white clover.
The importance of having the groun
well titled and thoroughly prepared !
= liberal manuling before seeding dow
is too evident to need remark. Rul
; pertaining to the time and manner
: sowing meadows are equally applicab
to pasture, with the exceptions alreaC
made apparent.-Neao York World.
Rose Culture.
= One of the first secrets of success wit
I the rose in guarding against its sever
r persistent insect enemies, such as Il
\ rose-bug, green-fiy, rose-slug, etc., is
). keep the plant healthy and in vigoro
|, growth. To insure this, rich soil is
v dispensable. Let it be composed of G
s decomposed sods or thoroughly rott
manure. This earth should never
e permitted to bake; but should be kC
n friable by frequent stirring. The aph
s OF green-fly, first attacks the youI
V tender shoots, feeding upon their juic'
/ The pests may be killed by placing
q barrel over the infested plant and bun
z ing tobacco in a fiower-pot or otl
e vessel underneath. The rose-slug, IL
!; green-bodied, jelly-like pest that fee
Is upon the surface of the leaves, leavi
is only the veins and ribs, may be kept
d severe check, if not destroyed, by dust
II the plant with fine coal ashes. 1