Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-06-02
noME, FARM AND GARpEN.

"a well managed fruit garden is q
necessary adjunct to q farm.
"A Accord of dry horse stable manure
weighs about four thousand eight nun
dred TO five thousand pounds.
Grass seed will usually take well IL
covered with a bush only, But OF dry
ground n harrow and roller make a bet
ter job OF 1t.
TO obtain aglossy skin. -Pourupon
a pint of bran sufficient boiling water TO
cover IL. Let il stand until cold and
then batho the face with il, only patting
tho skin with a soft towel TO dry II.
Raspberry Jam.-To every quart
of ripe raspberries, allow u pound Of
the best loaf-sugar. Put sugar and bcr-
ries into a pan, and let them stand two
or three hours. Then boil them in %
porcelain kettle, taking or the scum
carefully. When no more scum rises,
mash them and boil them TO smooth
marmalade. When cold, put thom in
glass tumblers.
-An kinds Of dried fruit should be
stowed long and slowly. Tiny bits of
lemon and orange peel, together with
the juice OF two or three oranges and
lemons, are a very desirable addition.
Only the thin, yellow part of the rind
must be used and care taken to take
out the seeds. Tho sugar should be
added when the fruit IL about hall
done.
No attempt should be made to grow
any crop in the orchard without heavy
manuring, but il no crop is grown q
heavy mulching will keep the trees in a
thrifty condition until they come into
bearing, providing the land was in good
condition when the trees were set.
When the trees begin TO produce fruit,
every few years the land should receive
a good dressing of manure, which
should be spread on tho surface before
mulching,
Veal Stew. Gut four pounds Of
veal into strips three inches long aud
one inch thick; peel twelve large pota-
toes and cut them into slices one inch
thick: spread q layer Of veal ON the
pot. sprinkle in a little salt and pepper,
then a layer of potatoes, then IL layer OF
veal seasoned rs before. Use up the
veal thus: over the last layer of veal
put q layer OF slices of salt pork, aud
over the whole a layer OF potatoes.
Pour in water till it rises an inch over
the whole; cover it close, heat it fifteen
minutes and simmer it an hour.
The good luck in Matching eggs of
II hen that steals her nest in a iield,
suggested the idea of placing earth in
a box before setting hens in them,
Hens certainly have good luck on
ground nests. The nest should be made
so large that the hen can Just ill it, not
very deep, and as nearly fiat inside ut
the bottom as possible, so that the eggs
may not lean against each other, or
they are very liable TO be broken, os-
pecially by the hens turning them.
There is less trouble from vermin when
nests are so made, and the hen being
more contented is more likely to be sue
cessful in Matching the eggs.
Scrap Pudding. Put scraps of
bread (cruSt and GRUMPY into Il bowl,
with sufficient milk to cover them well.
Cover with a plate, and put into the
oven TO soak for about halt an hour.
Take it out. and mash the bread with n
fork till it is u pulp; then add a hand
I'll OF ralsins and as many c%urrants. six
ounces brown sugar, half u pint OF
milk, some candied lemon.peel, and one
egg. Stir it up well, grease n pudding
dish, and pour the pudding in. Crate
over u little nutmeg, put it into q
moderate oven, aud let it bake for an
hour and a half.
Wire worms are very destructive to
corn and potatoes especially, and to
grass, They are hard, shining, many
legged worms, which lie curled up
spirally when at rest. They breed IN
anu and in decaying vegetable mat.
ter, and gather under stones, clods and
Jumps OF manure. II is said that salt
viii kill them; summer following will
them when they are numerous,
and an easy way to kill them is to
poison them in traps consisting of
pieces of board or shingles laid upon
the ground, with a few small pieces of
potato sprinkled with Paris green or
other poison under them. When very
numerous, summer following thorough
ly done, so as TO permit no weeds OF
any kind to grow, is the most effective
and cheapest remedy.
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