Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-08-12
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
which Pear Trees to Plant.

Most pear cultivators, writes CORE
spOndent, hesitate whether to plant
dwarf or standard trees. We have tried
both and are satisfied that for the or
chard the standard is the better tree.
If any one wants to cultivate few pears
in his garden, the dwarf Isl ust the tree
he wants as it comes into bearing early,
occupies but little ground, and shades
comparatively small space. The
dwarf, however, is short-lived, and the
ounce roots, on which it is generally
grated, are especially liable to the at
tacks of the borer. Whenever and
wherever this miniature tree is planted,
it should be put SO deep in the ground
as to entirely cover the ounce stock,
and let the pear stock shoot out roots of
its own. This will promote longevity
IN the tree and lessen the danger from
borers. Good as the dwarf is in the
small garden, we should never plant it
in the large orchard. Here we plant for
posterity as well as ourselves, and are
content to wait few years before
we harvest the fruit. Nor do we have
to wait so long as is generally supposed.
Our fathers planted stray eeedlings or
root-suckers from some favorite tree,
and, of course, they were long time
coming into good bearing condition;
but modern nursery stocks are grated
on budded scions or buds from trees al
ready in fruit, and more is to be appre
hended from too great than too little
production in their youth.-EJchznge
Recipes.
+ DYSPEPSIA BREAD.-One pint bowl of
graham flour; dissolve one-half tea
spoonful of soda in two-thirds of a cup
of yeast and add to the mixture one tea
cupful Of molasses; pour in sufficient
warm water to make it somewhat thin
ner than -four bread
LEMON PUDDING. The peels Of two
large lemons grated on sugar, or boiled
and beaten in a mortar, half a pound of
sugar. the juice of p large lemon, half q
pound of butter, ten eggs, leaving out
half of the whites. Beat all together,
and putting a puff paste in the bottom OF
your plate, bake it.
GINGERBREAD NUTs.-One quart of
molasses, three pints of flour, one pint
of corn meal, one pound Of butter, half
q pound of coarse brown sugar, an
ounce of auspice, a teaspoonful Of
cloves, q teaspoonful of cinnamon, and
two ounces of ginger. Putthe molasses
in mug, then add to it the butter and
sugar; have on the FIRE q saucepan of
boiling water, in which set tue mug and
its contents. Let it stand until the bat
ter and sugar are dissolved. In the
meantime mix the spices, all pounded,
with the flour and meal. Afterward
knead the whole together, and cut into
cakes not larger in circumference than a
silver half-dollar. Bake them about a
quarter of an hour, but be careful not to
let them burn
VIENNA ROLLs.-Have ready in q
bowl a teaspoonful Of butter, made
soft by warming a little and stirring
with a spoon. Add to one part OF un-
sifted flour two heaping spoonfuls of
baking powder, mix and sift thorough
ly together, and place in the bowl
with the butter. With sweet milk add
ed, form dough of usual stiffness, stir
ring into the milk first half teaspoon
full of salt. Knead the dough and then
roll it half an inch thick, and then cut
with a large round cutter; fold each one
over to form a half round, wetting q
little between the folds to make them
stick; place them on buttered pans, so
as not to touch each other; wash over
on top with milk to give them gloss,
and bake Immediately in hot oven
about twenty minutes. 1t will do them
no harm to stand half an hour before
baking, il it is desired.
HOUSEHOLDS Hints.
To cleanse ivory ornaments, rub them
well with esh BUTTER. E., without
salt-and put them in the sunshine.
To remove lime from teakettles boil
potatoes in the skins in the kettle till the
deposit of lime shells off, then to keep it
off boil a kettle full once week.
A ceme1ted cistern should be left for
a week or ten days for the cement to
set and harden before the water is let
in. If the bottom leaks after that the
cement must have been of Poor quality.
If water in which quassia chips have
been boiled in is put upon the exposed
parts of the body and left to dry there,
mosquitoes and flies will not trouble the
surface 50 protected. Quassia water is
harmless to children and grown people
but death to insects.
To keep II stove free from rust in any
atmosphere you have only to rub off all
the rust you can and varnish it with
common varnish- In the autumn when
you wish to put it up again the varnish
will all burn off in very short time
and all odor from it will go with it.
The parasites which effect canaries
may be got rid of by merely placing
clean white cloth over the cage st night.
In the morning it will be covered with
very minute red spots, almost invisible
without a microscope. These are the
vermin so annoying and so fatal to the