Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-16
FARM AND GARDEN.



Germantown Telegraph.
As the season has arrived when curing |
meat is in order, we repuOlish as of old,
our famous receipt for curing beef, pork. |
mutton, hams, &C., as follows
To ono gallon of water, take u pounds |
of salt, J pound of sugar. ounce OF salt
petre, ounce of potash
In this ratio the pickle can be increased to
any quality desired. Let these he boiled
together until all the dirt from the sugar
rises 10 the top and is skinned off. Then
throw 1t into . tub to cool, and when cold
pour it over your beef or pork. Tho meat
must be we'll covered with pickle, and
should not be put down for at least two
days after killing, during which time it
should be slightly sprinkled with powder
ed saltpetre, which removes all the surface
blood. &C., leaving the meat fresh and
clean. Some omit boiling the pickle, and
find it to answer we'll, though the opera
tion of boiling purifies the pickle by throw
ing off the dirt always to be found in salt
and sugar. If this receipt is strictly fol.
lowed, it will require only single trial to
prove its superiority over the common way
or most ways of putting down meat, and
will not soon he abandoned for any other.
The meat is unsurpassed for sweetness,
delicacy and freshness of color.
Look to the Implements.
We desire, at this season of the year,
to saw that it is a lamentabie fact that
many farmers loso as much from a want
of proper care of implements and ma
chinery as from the actual wear-and-tear
Of them. Repeated wetting and drying
iniure, sooner or later, any kind of wood
work the moisture getting into the cracks
soon begins the work of decay. This may
he prevented by the timely and occasional
application of some cheap paint. Much
has been said and written upon the value
of tool-houses, and it is hardly necessary
for us to add our mite to the general
array but providing Toulouse is not
all that should be done, if the shovels,
spades and forks are brought into it with
the dirt sticking to them, and in that con-
dition are allowed to remain through the
winter, or until they are again needed.
All practical farmers know how much bet
ter a bright plow turns the furrow. how
much easier it is on tho team and driver,
and vet they will bring their p!ows and
harrows in every fall with the dirt thick
upon them, and let them be SO until again
wanted, entailing great deal of injury.
There are various mixtures which might
be applied to tho iron to prevent rusting,
tho cheapest of which is common (unsalt-
ed grease. A better article may he found
10y melting together six pounds of flesh
(uot salted) lard and two of rosin. An old
iron pot is good thing to keep and COM
pound tho mixture in. As soon rs tool
is done being used for the season. clean it
off and give it a coat of this mixture, and
and even if it remains undisturbed for
years, it will come out as bright as when
put away. Implements properly cared for
will not only last nearly twice rs long as
when this is not the case, but, as We said
before, they are far better in every way.
Preserving tiarden Fiowors.
The time has come when we shall have
to part with many garden pets which have
given us so much pleasure during the
growing season. Such partings always
bring regret and in spite of nowhere to
keep them" people will try if something
cannot he done at anyrate. 1t is believed
that it is not SO much tho degree of cold
which kills usually hardy plants, as it is
the drying influences of a very cold at
mosphere, and hence many find a very
little covering sufficient to save plants, il
the covering be such as to keep them from
drying cut.
we Know. luSLIuCC, Illdt
or q grape vine, which would probably be
destroyed if left above ground III its
natural way, can be safely preserved by
being buried just beneath the surface
arJ it is found that roses bent over to the
ground and covered with earth, 50 shaped
as to throw off the water, will enable
rather tender kinds to get through the
winter unscathed. A friend once told US
that ycrbenas were much harder than
people supposed. He put dry leaves over
the bed and then covered the leaves with
a board, and they did not injure hy the
hardest frost.
We should suppose, however, that green
succuleat matter would rot by coniine.
mont, as well as hard wood get injured by
frost and we would suggest to all who
may he disposed to preserve anything in
this way the importance of cutting away
half. ripe wood or succulent green foliage
before entombing the plants for winter.
Pampas grasses, the ostrich ieather-likc
spikes OF which arc 50 commonly seen in
gardens, cause much discussion as to the
best means to protect. Some take them
up and put them into tub Of Garth aud
keep them in q cool cellar but those who
succeed in keeping them over winter in
the open ground have finer plants and
larger and more numerous spikes. Some
Of our neiehbcrs turn barrel over the
stocks to keep out the water, filling in dry
leaves all about the plant; and though
some times the plants will be lost treated
in this way, generally it is success. The
"rockes" plant does we'll or either Of the
plans named for the pampas grass.
DaElias, tubercses, sladiolus and such
like summer Towering roots, thcre Is no
trouble with. All they require is to ba
taken up as soon rs tho first frost has in
jured their flowers and spoiled their hi,s
soming for the season, and after drying 4
little put them in some moderate cool and
dry place secure from the frost.
The Sugnr-Beet.
The department of agriculture at Wash
ington appears to have ascertained tina!
the prizes of money offered by the depart
lnent to stimulate the production OF The
sugar-beet and Chinese sorghum In this
country were made without authority
from Congress and were therefore illegal
Payments have, therefore. been suspended
for tic present, and in all probability the
matter will be acted upon 1t the ensuing
session of Congress and favorably. We
do not ourselves entertain any high cx
pectations of valuable results being likely
to be reached by stimulants of that sort
Still, VIC always regard with favor any and
all efforts made by the department oi
agriculture to encourage the production
of saccharine crops in tho United
States AS regards the sugar-beet, it is
rather a reproach upon the eater
prise of Northern agriculture that the
Mormon colony in the territory Of Utah,
under the rigorous despotism OF Brigham
Young, succeeded in producing its own