The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-28
FARM AND FIREs1DR.

Texas farmers are coming TO realize
the fact that there is more profit in wheat
growing than in cotton culture, and are
acting upon their newly-acquired light.
1t is not always the farmer who sows
the most acres who raises the best crops
or the most bushels. They who rest half
of their land alternate years have the
best success.-Erchdnge.
Onions cut up with food for chickens
are said to be an effectual remedy for
chicken cholera. A little ground ginger
mixed with their meal once every day or
two is also beneficial when symptoms of
cholera appear.
Many farmers injure their farm nipple
ments more by exposure to- the weather
than by use on the farm. An implement
which with good care would last twenty
years, will, when exposed to the weather,
become useless in five years or eve less.
"A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph keeps rats out of his granary
by daubing all the angles on the out
side of the building with hot pine-tar,
to the width of three or four inches,
and also any seam OF crack where a rat
ormouse can stand to gnaw. This is
certainly a cheap expedient-if efficient,
The Rural New- Yorker, says the re-
tail fruit stands of large cities often give
valuable hints to inquiring horticul-
turists. A few days ago the proprietor
of one of these stands said to the writer
that he was selling two barrels of Ben
Davis to n of any other kind of apple,
because ''they are the only kind not
w~orm-eaten."
An experienced housekeeper fur
nishes the following recipe for tapioca
cream: One cup of tapioca soaked un-
til soft in two cups of cold or lukewarm
| water. If the water is lukewarm, and
kept warm, it will soak in less tine.
Boil one quart of milk; beat together the
yelks of three eggs, one cup of sugar
and a t~easpoonful of salt. Stir the
tapioca into the milk, and when boiling
add the beaten eggs and sugar. Re-
move from the fire, add fiavoring, stir
in lightly the whites beaten. and pour
into serving dish. Serve cold.
One of the first things for an or
chardist to learn, says the Weekly Irib-
une, speaking of the art of pruning, is
to distinguish fruit buds and spurs from
those which produce mere wood, The
object then is to secure a fair annual
growth OF each, taking care that an eX-
cess of wood does not smother the fruit,
buds, but that all are spread OF placed
Sc as to have fullest possible light and
free air on their leaf surfaces. The fruit
itself is generally best when screened by
the shade of a leaf. If q tree does not
make its proper average of new wood
growth in any year, it will decline unless
the fruiting is reduced.
Hop plants can be used for various
purposes. Thus the wires, or twigs, are
of service for basket and wicker-work
and the leaves furnish food for farm
stock and sheep, from the tendrils a vege
table wax is obtained, and from theil
juice a coloring matter. The young
shoots, too, are eaten, tasting, wher
boiled like asparagus, and when bleached
they can be made into strong paper anc
cardboard; from their fibre, in Sweden
yarn and linen are spun, and the ashes
are used by the makers of Bohemian
glass; while from the flowers, which give
an agreeably bitter taste to beer, a tine
ture is derived, and a medicinal extract
and a pillow filled with hops will otter
cause sleep, and is a great specific with
o~ld-country danes.