The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-28
Farm ana Garden votes,

Farm ana Garden Notes.
An exchange says if hens get into the
habit of eating their own eggs the surest
remedy is to cut off their heads.
Cellars thoroughly treated with
whitewash made yellow with copperas
will not be considered desirable habita-
tions for rats and mice.
A half gill of soft soap and water, one
part of soap to twelve of water, poured
at the roots of cabbage plants, is recon-
mendec as sure death to white grubs.
Potatoes are frequently spoiled by
being exposed to the sun too long after
digging. They should only be opened to
light and air long enough to dry them,
and then stored away il as dark a place
as possible.
The soil for a fodder crop should
either be naturally rich or made so by
manuring, or it will not pay to prepare
it for any of these quick growing grains
which have but little time in which to
make their growth, and must get to q
good size in order to be profitable.
An old gardener says, in the Detroit
Tribune, with regard to cultivatiug
onions, that if care is taken to draw
away the earth gradually from the bulb
until they are quite uncovered and only
the'fibrous roots are in the earth, you
will never have scullions, but very large,
sound onions.
Potash dissolved in water, or lye from
wood ashes, is good wash for the
trunks and large limbs of fruit trees.
Whitewash should not be used, as it
closes the pores of the bark, which
should be kept open in order to insure a
healthy tree. Potash or lye answers
every purpose which whitewash would,
with none of its objections.
The ox-eye daisy is a very fashionable
flower in the city, but vile pest to the
farmer. 1t is propagated by the seed,
and may be destroyed by moving be-
fore the seed is formed. Two or three
seasons may be required to subdue it.,
but it is a standing reproach to any
farmer to have his fields overrun with
this weed.
The advantages of spreading manure
from the wagon as it is drawn out are a
saving of labor, and more even distri-
button of the double salts (ammonia,
potash, phosphates, etc. in the soil by
rain. If the manure is heaped on the
field, and gets a heavy rain before
spreading, the ground under the heaps
receives an undue share OF the best part
of the manure, which not unfrequently
renders these spots barren for a season
or two.
The farmer who always takes particu-
lar pains to put up his produce in neat
attractive packages, and never mixes
the second with the first quality, will
have to spend but little time to find
good men ready to buy all his products,
and pay him fair price; but he who
mixes three qualities together, and
tries to sell them as first quality, will
always be troubled to find buyers, and
usually have to sell at low prices.
Formerly it was considered best to
let grass stand until the seed was full
grown, before cutting, but of late years
it has become almost the universal Gus
tom TO cut when most of the grass is in
full bloom. The advantages claimed
for early cutting are: First, better hay,
which is more readily eaten by cattle
second, less injury to the grass roots
third, a better chance for a second
crop.
QUICK CAKE.-Beat one eupful of
powdered sugar and one tablespoonful
of butter to a cream, and one we'll
| beaten egg, two-thirds of n cupful OF
sweet milk, with half a teaspoon OF
soda, one and half cupfuls of flour, with
one teaspoonful of cream tartar. Flavor
with lemon. Bake in brick-shaped
| loaf.
INDIAN SUET PUDDNG.-One-hali
pound suet, chopped fine, one cup mo-
lasses, one pint milk, one egg, meal to
make very thin batter, one teaspoon
ground cloves, one teaspoon ground Gin
namon, one teaspoon salt, a little nut
meg, a few currants or chopped raisins.
Boil or steam three hours. Sauce.
VEAL HAsH.-Take teacup OF boil
ing water in a saucepan, stir in an
even teaspoon flour wet in tablespoon
cold water, and let it boil five minutes
add one-half teaspoon black pepper, as
much salt, and two tablespoons butter
and let it keep hot, but not boil. Chop
the veal fine, and mix with 1t half a'
much stale bread crumbs. Put it it in
a pan and pour the gravy on it, then lei
it simmer ten minutes. Serve this or
buttered toast.
ROLL JELLY CAKE.-Sift two tea
spoOnfuls of cream of tartar with two
cups of -four (measured after sitting.
Dissolve one teaspoon of soda in three
tablespoons of hot water. Beat siX
eggs, whites and yOlks separately. ADD
two cups of sugar to 1.-THE yolks, put in
half the flour, then the soda, the bal
ance of the flour and the whites OF the
eggs. Bake in thin, even sheet in {
large dripping-pan when done turn OF
TO a moiding beard, spread with jelly
aud roll up without delay. Wrap 4
napkin about the roll tc keep it II
shape,