The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-12-15

fkhsEkVlNa SALt MRkT.--Muoh OF
the corned beef and salt pork put up by
farmers BECOMES tainted or completely
spoiled during the summer and fall. The
injury is not caused by using too small
an amount Of salt. As a rule, much
more salt is employed than is necessary
to preserve the meat. Sometimes 1t
contains Impurities that cause the meat
to contract a bad flavor. Pure salt
should be employed for presely wing meat
and dry products. 1t costs but little
more than slant which is impure, and it
is more satisfactory IN all respects.
Meat packed in barrel and covered
with brine becomes tainted or spoiled
in consequence of small portions OF it or
some of the fat or blood it contains
coming to the top of the brine. The
air comes in contact with it there, and
decomposition takes place. The pro-
ducts of the decomposition of animal
substances always have an unpleasant
taste and smell, and these In the case
of meat in a barrel are communicated
to the brine and from thence to the
meat Meat packed in brine should be
cut in pieces with very sharp knife.
This viii leave the edges smooth. After
it has beenfor few days in the brine
the latter should be poured fl and
boiled. The boiling will cause all the
impurities to rise TO the surface while
the blood will be coagulated. These
substances should then be skinned of,
and when the BRINE is cold it can be re-
turned TO the barrel. If the brine does
not continue pure, the operation OF
boiling should he repeated. Special
pains should be taken 10 keep the meat
under the brine at all times. A perfor-
ated top or false governor frame work,
should rest on the meat and be weighted
down by clean stone. If these pre-
cautions are employed the Inability of
spelling will be very slight
generally admitted that rotation of crops
is rendered necessary not as formerly
supposed because the foil becomes ex-
hausted of some necessary element, or
because unwholesome for that particular
plant, owing to poisonous excreta left
by the roo s, but because insects and
and diseases accompany the plant which
are special to it, the eggs or spores OF
spores of which are left in the soil to
attack the same crop in the next fol-
lowing year with hnndredfold increase
of numbers and power. Professor Bes-
sy. of the Iowa Agricultural College,
shows how this is the case with smut,
which gsows up through all the interior
of wheat plant and finally develops its
spores within the bran casing OF the
gram, filling it not with -four, but with
innumereble black, sinking seeds OF
the parasite which, when set free, float
out and stick fast to sound grains of
wheat and also to particles of the soil,
where they lie ready to enter into the
circulation of the next years growth OF
wheat plants, unless killed by sleeping
the polluted seed in blue yitriol solution
and drying off with lime. As to the
polluted soil it is purified from the con.
mination only by using it for some other
crop on which the smut plant cannot
take hold.
You've TREKs.-Young trees planted
in the spring should be watched and
their form regulated by pinching the
the shoots that push too vigorously, and
by breaking off the shoots which star,
where branches are not needed. A little
care given to trees while young will
make later pruning unnecessary. A
graft should be regarded az tree plan.
ted in another tree, instead of IN the
soil, and its growth, needs to be regula.
ted by proper pinchlng. Often the
growth from bud will be very vigor.
Gus. II the top of this be pinched, II
will become stocky and throw out side
branches.
THEBE is vast difference in tue fla.
vor OF eggs. Hens fed on clean, SCUM d
grain and kept on a clean grass run give
much finer favored eggs than those
that have access to stable and manure
heaps and eat all kinds OF filthy food.
Hens feeding on the oily species of isl
and onions flavor their eggs accordingly
the same as COWS eating onions or cab
bage or drinking offensive water Impart
a bad taste to milk and butter,
The value Of charcoal as a fertilizer is
that-fa nbsorbs ammonia from the atmos.
phere, and gives it out as the roots o.
plants require. 1t also improves the
land mechanically, and from its darl
color holds the heat of the sun, making
the lard warm and early. The remains
of old charcoal pits fully attest its fer
tilizing qualities for many years there
after.
A DELIGHTFUL SCENT. Dry some
rose leaves and sweet verbena and also
ripe lavender when all are quite dry
Iput Them into a jar with one ounce o.
orrls powder, one ounce OF gum benja,
min, one ounce of borax pounded quite
nne in mortar quarter Of an ounce
OF pounded cloves is great addition
a handful of salt will prevent it getting
mouldy.
THE length of time that & young hei
fer keeps in milk after her first calf il
likely to measure her staying qualities
for all after-life. For this reason younl
heifers should have their first calf IL
tho fal. By good care and ensllaget
food in winter an abundant flow car
be established, which can more easil,
be kept up the next summer. If heiferi
calSe in the spring they are very iabl,
to go dry early in the next fall.
SUNFLowERs.-Sunn seed Is one
of the best reproducing foods known
for poultry, keeping them in thriving
condition and largely increasing thu
production of eggs. Every poultry
raiser who tries it will find that thil
SEED is excellent for CLOSING the plum
age of fowls, and is almost indispensa
BILE to those who want to fit thei
} birds for exhibition to the best adyan
tage.
Mr.. JOHN K. WOODS, OF Albemarl,
county, Va, says: 81 have been rails
ing Shropshire sheep from the best i'm
! portations since shortly after the war
and have no hesitation in giving it a