The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-03-11
FARM AND GARDEN.


| tural journal, excellent cheese may be
made from buttermilk by the following
process. The buttermilk, after being
boiled and allowed TO stand until cool,
is placed in acbeese-form or heavy linen
bag until the whey is drained off, when
it is sailed, not too heavily, and spiced
according to taste, and thoroughly
mixed. About a spoonful of rum or
cognac is then added for each pound,
and the mass is thoroughly kneaded,
and formed into cheeses of any desired
size or form, which are dried in the air,
and then wrapped in clean linen cloths
that have previously been moistened
with hot whey, and packed in well
covered cask, and slowed in warm
place. Four days suffice to render them
fit for use, but they improve by age. The
small hand-cheeses, which especially be-
come very dry in winter, may be rem
dered palatable by simply wrapping
them, when dry, in horse-radish leaves,
and packing them closely in cask.
They will be found of very agreeable
flavor in from three to four weeks.
GARDEN PEsTs.-Last summer made
the acquaintance of two new garden
pests-both worms. One attacked the
mignonette, and the other laid siege to
the verbenas, to which plant they con-
fined their attentions exclusively. The
mignonette worms were large and
smooth, of vivid green color. For them
the only remedy was Manipulating.
They were not numerous, did not re-
main long, and were easily managed.
You had but to go over the beds several
times during the day and remove them.
They were sluggish, and readily cap
tured. But the verbena worms were
was legion, and they lasted the summer
long. They were quite small-not more
than an inch in length when full-grown,
of pale-green hue, with black heads,
and of an exceedingly retiring DISPOSE
ton, hiding inside the stems and buds,
and rolling themselves up in the leaves,
so that it was impossible to get at them
without destroying their lodging-places.
They had another popularity, very use
full in their underhand proceedings they
spun coverets for themselves, and, when
disturbed, would let themselves down to
the ground on thread, ike a spider.
When discovered they had taken full
possession of the bed every bunch OF
buds, leaf and stem seemed to be infest-
ed. But the strangest thing about them
was that they did not interfere with the
growth of the plants, which
were green and vigorous. Indeed,
we had been congratulating ourselves
on the unusually fine condition of our
self-sown seedlings. 1t was early in
July, just time for the verbenas to
bloom, and / had counted on them to
make nosegays for my friends. For
myself, care little for cut flowers, and
could have endured the loss of the YER
benas without much regret, for my
Drummond phlox was in full bloom and
very brilliant. But phlox does not take
kindly to other flowers and is unman-
ageable in bouquet; while verbenas
seem to love every thing they are asso-
ciated with. sat down upon the grass
and put ON my "thinking-cap, a
BILE in the garden. l saw that l must
give up the first crop of blossoms, but
perhaps the plants might be saved for
late blooming. And saved they were,
as by fire. / cut off two large basket
fuls of branches and burned them. How
that bed did look after it was " shaven
and shorn!" But they recovered much
sooner than I had expected, and began
to bloom in August and continued until
frost. kept sharp lookout for the
worms afterwards, and found a few all
through the season. | do not know
their origin, nor whether they could
have been nipped in the egg if taken in
time. I have seen similar looking ami
mails on currant-bushes. Can it be the
cut-wormp And, if so, how did it get
into the fower-gardenP The shell-less
snails, or slugs, made considerable
work for me last summer, too. think
they must feed at night or very early in
the morning; for we did not suspect
their presence until they had done a
good deal of damage to our pansies.
We found that sifted coal-ashes spread
over pansy-beds interfered so much
with Master Snail's comfort that he
SCOT up and busted" literally. He
afterwards paid court to Sweet Pea, but
dose of ashes cured him of his passion
for this lovely fair one, too. Ashes are
also useful in Kidding seed-beds and
cold-frames of the cabbage-fiea, that
bane of tender seedlings. L remember,
one morning in spring, | found colony
of cabbage-feas settled on my stocks,
and feeding as if they had come from a
land of famine. A busting of ashes dis
persed them; but not before they had
completely riddled the stocks. The
cabbage-fea is very destructive to sweet
abyssum, devouring it as soon as it ap-
pears above ground; the only way to
save it is to SOW under glass and keep
covered until out of the seed-ieaf, and
then apply ashes. No list of garden
pests would be complete without the
cut-worm. He is fat grub, of a dull
gray or greenish color, and you will find
him in the morning about the roots of
succulent plants of all varieties. If
you notice freshly-severed leaf lying
on the ground, dig in the vicinity and
YOU will find the cut-worm. Some sea-
sons cut-worms abound and do much
damage; at other times you will hardly
see dozen during the whole summer.
Still, one must be on the watch for him,
for even the cut-worm in a garden is
one too many The wire-wOrm is an
other pest that requires looking after.
1t is q slender, dry worm of yellow
ish-brown color, white inside, like its
food, which is the pith of plants. l did
not know what to make of him at first.
/ had one test for every suspicious char
acter met with; tried by this ordeal he
seemed to say: ssBehold my innocence!
do you find any green-stuff inside my
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