The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-11
Agricultural.

80 1870 10y VIM "
ceive from it a delicate shade of ecru.
with is SO popular for laces just now.
Curtains and other articles of the kind
may be treated in the same way.
A writer it the New York CONNER
cal Gazette says / do not dread hog
or chicken cholera at all, for as o as
either begins to show signs Of disease /
mix some carbolic acid in the feed, and
they soon are all right again.
If the paper which is put over jelly
and jam is wet in the white of an egg,
it will when dry be tight and firm, and
keep the fruit from molding with much
more certainty than if it is dipped in
alcohol or brandy. The paper which is
laid next the fruit is meant, not that
which is tied or pasted over the glass.
The best way to get rid Of the docks
is to spade them out, and lay the roots
up to dry. If that is considered too
laborious a job, take a sharp hoe and
cut them off just below the surface of
the ground, and in a few weeks go over
them again, cutting off all that have
sent out new leaves. Going over them
a few times in this way will finish them
all.
Steamed corn-bread is particularly
wholesome when made with buttermilk.
If this can not lie procured, use lob
beled milk. To two cups Of Indian
meal allow one cup of white flour, two
ta~blespoonfuls of white sugar, two and
Il half cups of milk, one t~easpoonful of
soda, one of salt, n tablespoonful
and IA half of melted butter steam for
two hours in a well-buttered tin, and
dry eff in the ven
1t is a good plan to have a few egg
plants in the kitchen garden. The fruit
is much nicer freshly-cut than after
standing several hours in the market.
The plants do best in moderately rich
and very mellow soil. Select a warm,
sunny spot, set the plants about thirty
inches apart, keep the ground clean,
and look out for the Colorado beetle,
which is as partial to the eggplant as
TO the potato.
Every farmer should take some pains
to interest his children in the fowls Oh
the farm, and there is nothing that so
quickens that interest as to give them
the right to all the money they can
make off the fowls. In return for feed,
etc., the obligation can be put Oh
them that they place the money in "a
savings-bank, or buy clothes with it, or
put 1t to some good use, in such a way
as may be mutually agreed upon. Chill
dren can not be too early taught tie
knack of making money, and, what il
Of still greater purpose, the art OF
keeping it..
Care of Pastures.
Too many farmers think pastures
can take care of themselves, and no
matter how greatly they are robbed and
denuded, the cattle feeding on the past
ures can take oare of themselves also.
We have heretofore urged the import
ance of allowing blue grass to grow
several inches high before stock is
turned on it, and to have no more stock
than will allow the grass to continue
that high, with a thick coating for the
ground, keeping it moist and tue grass
green. But all kinds of pasture need
care and feeding. The grass crop on d
well regulated and properly ordered
farm is worth more than the corn ana
wheat cop. And yet all the care and ex-
pense are devoted to the cereals, leaving
the grass to take care of itself. This is
unwise husbandry and poor economy.
There is no crop which responds more
cordially and pays more literally for
good treatment by the farmer than his
pasture ana meadow land.
If a man keeps his moving land in
good condition, he will have an abun-
dance of hay in winter and spring, SO
that he will not be compelled to turn
his poor cattle on his pastures before
there is a bite for them. They tramp
the soil into mortar and gnaw the very
roots of the grass from the soil. In this
condition the ground is bare, soon hakes
in the sun, and there is a scanty crop OF
grass the entire year. If hay is plenty in
the spring it is better for stock than halt
a feed on grass, and ten times better for
the pasture.
The thoaghtless farmer scarcely lets a
spear of grass stick its head above the
snOw-bank before he will turn his stock
in to eat it, and poach up the soil. And
too often both pasture and meadow get
this annual treatment, The right way
is to keep both in a good, rich and pro-
ductive condition, and then keep no
more stock than will eat in a suitable
time and way the products of both. If
there be too little hay and too much
stock the grass is sure to suffer the
next spring. 1t is almost impos-
SIDE TO avoid 1t. There must DE 1udg-
ment and wise management to make a
farm profitable. There is nothing to
he let alone-nothing to take care of
itself. All of the time and expense
must not De devoted to the grain crop.
What is planted should be done well
and on soil well prepared for it. But
in order to have a plenty of meadow
and pasture, raise eighty bushels of corn
to the acre instead of forty. Or raise as
much on twenty acres as you do now on
forty. 1t can be done, and should be. The
acreage of all the cultivated crops a be
greatly decreased without lessening the
product. In this way the grass lands can
hA greatly Increased in aarpaoa and mupb