The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-01
Crops that Should he Attended to
i'm the Winter Winter
Care Of Stock.
How to Improve Worn-out Lands
The Care or Poultry "A Few
Hints About the Orchard
Miscellaneous Farm
Notes.
nRrNE ToR REEF AND PORK.

nounds Or salt tivs Or sugar or five ptnts OF
molasses Orleans ls best, but any good will
fio) two ounces Of soda, one ounce saltpstre,
four gallons Of water or enough TO cover the
meat. Mix part " the salt and sugar to-
Uether rub each piece and place 1t III the bar
rel. having covered the bottom with salt
When the meat IL MI In put tho remainder OF
the salt and sugar In the water Dissolve The
soda and saltpetre In hot water; add It to the
brine and pour over tho meat; place q board
on top OF ths meat with u weight sufficient to
keep it under the brine. Let the piec ~ In
tended for dried beef remain In tho brine for
three weeks, take out, place IN q tub. cover
with water, let stand over night, string and
dry. When dried put IN paper sacks. tie up
tightly, and hang ina cool, dry. dark place.
or nut In m empty -four barrel and cover
closely. When hams mud shoulders are
smoked, sprinkle with ground black pepper
brine, skim we'll. let cool, and pour over
the bony pieces left. These are good
boiled and eaten either hot or cold, and
they will keep good for several months.
made the same way. with the addition OF two
pounds more OF salt, Is good for hams and
shoulders. Brine for picked pork should
have all the salt 1t will dissolve and y peck or
half-bushe In bottom OF barrel III pork is
ealted In this manner It will never spoil, but
the strength Of tho brine makes it necessary
to salt the hams and side-meat separately.
Pork when killed should be thoroughly
cooled before sailing but should not remain
longer than one or two days. ltshould mover
be frozen before Sailing, as this Is rs injurl-
GUS as sailing before II is cooled. Large
quantities OF pork are lost by falling to Oh
serve these rules. II ptckled pork begins to
sour, take It out or the brine, rinse we'll In
this place charcoal in Jumps the size Of a hens
egg or smaller: add u layer OF meat, and SO
on, until all is In the barrel, cover with q
weak brine, let stand twenty-four hours; take
meat out, rinse off the charcoal. put It into a
new strong brine. remembering always to
have plenty of salt In the barrel (more than
the water will DESTROY 1t the Same barrel
Is used, cleanse 1t by placing small guam
tity OF Quickttma In It.. slack with hot water,
and add as much salt rs the water will dis.
solve, and cover tightly to keep the steam In.
TATTENINa FOWLS.
Fowls to be palatable and tender should be
fattened quickly. From eight to ten days is
sufficient. Place the birds IN roomy coop In
some outbulding where they will be free from
eraughts, and ia Il modified light. The morn
fng food should be given ~ early as possible
meal mixed with one-thfrd its quantity of
heavy wheat mtddlings; mix with boiling
water, and In the water should be chambers
scraps sufficient to make the water quite
greasy. To every two quarts Of feed. every
charcoal before tho water Is poured on tho
feed. Let 1t stand covered up; after being
mixed for ten minutes then feed. At noon use
the meal, leaving out the middlngs, and in
it, place put IN ell the table scraps you can
ret and some tinely-chopped cabbage. Use
the charcoal only In the morning feed. At
night feed corn that has been boiled until 1t
has swollen twice Its natural size. Every
other day add to noon feed u little buckwheat
lin grain. Give water after each feed. Warm
0xYy m n hu III
give during the day, but always give water
for drink at night. Do not feed anything for
Ut least twelve hours before killing, and let
the last feed be soft TODD; and II you would
contain good proportion Of chopped celery.
Fowls fed In this way ratten very rapidly,
and their flesh - tender, juicy and tempting.
TO RESTORE WORN OUT LANDS.
One Of the most important questions of the
day is, how shall we restore our worn out
propose to make an answer to the ques-
zion which 10 applicable To clay lands that lie
level, or are hillside ditched sufficiently to
keep them from washing. Il is this: La Sep
tamber SOW three pecks OF rye to the acre. 10 |
April turn 1t under and plant peas In drills
three feet apart plow and hoe them once. In
June or July turn them under and plant Ia
peas again and cultivate In same way. In
September turn the peas under again. sowing |
Rt the same time rye, as at first. In the fol
plant corn or cotton, as you please, and you
will find that with proper cultivation crop
will be made that Will amply compensate for
The trouble and expense incurred In the pre-
1iOus preparation Ut the land. 10 follow out
this plan will require some patience and
abor, but In the end tt will prove cheaper
Than guano, and more lasting ia Its effects 1t
lie rather late now to begin the experiment, but
not too late. Rye sown III January will make
! considerable growth by the first " April,
tsir {phs tN1.
matter for turning under to make a good
eed Tor the succeeding pea crops. The pea,
ike clover and other leguminous plants, de-
rtves great deal OF Its nonrtshment from
he atmosphere. and ~ not like corn, cotton
Ind other crops dependent entirely upon the
fertility of the soil for its food 1t would, of
course, be better to continue this process for
Two years; the effect would be greater, and
he benefit more lasting, but my experience
n that the process suggested for one year
will prove quite beneficial to him who tries it..
THE COW PEA.
This plant for the south Is destined to take
he place that red clover does Ia higher lati-
,udes In the work OF amaiiorntinG worn lands
4 will gather ammonia IA we'll, fattrn stock
Qually rs we'll, and grow with less attention
N thin ground. The way W. have cultivated
YEAS Is very simple. Lay OF the land In
hree-foot drills, dropping ten or twelve peas
Ogether each short step. covering with two
light burrows, and breaking out the middles.
It first convenient time, III two or threa
weeks. When about u month old run one
weep furrow In the middle. and repeat this
gain In four or five weeks. BY this time the
grOunu will be shaded rs to keep down
Ither vegetation and render unnecessary any
more work ana our word for 1t, they present
Is pretty q sight Ms ever greeted the eye, TIL
ng the whole face VI the earth, and render
ng it impossible to distinguish where the
,riginal rows were. From ordinary upland
7ou can gather ten or fifteen bushels Of peas
rom the acre; then cut the vines from sew
raj acres for hay for stock, and turn under
he balance with two horse ploWs In the early
all. The advantage Of this renervator Is its
heapness, as compared with commercial fer
tizers and the saving or transporting and
distributing stable and other manures; and
hen 1t is 80 evenly ditfused over the whole
urface of the field.
SALT FOR STOCK.
The value OF salt for stock cannot be over
Rted. 1t is an undoubted fact that where ;
nimals have Unrestricted access to salt at all
lines many OF the diseases to which they are ;;
able are warded of and prevented by keep !
u the system Regular. Farm animals, when .
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