The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-08-18
FARMERS COLUMN.
Farm and Household.

dinner.
-Buckwheat, when filling, wants the
moist, cool weather OF autumn, hence the
propriety Of seeding with reference to that
want.
Some one asserts that chinch bugs may
be killed with mixture Of kerosene and
water in the ratio fone TO nineteen. This
is sprinkled on the corn.
Start geraniums, verbenas, roses, etc,
from cuttings this month for next winter
blooming, also SOW seed of many annusls
now for next winters blooming.
-Horseradish root boiled in salt and |
water, with a little vinegar, is g'od to
send 10 the table with roast meat Of any
kind cut il in thiL slices and use it as a
garnish.
"A GOOD way to capture sqnash bugs iS
to lay pieces of boards under the yines.
The bugs crawl under these at night for
protection and may be picked up and ex-
terminated.
= If before you put rolls in the tin to bake
them you rub the edges with little melted
butter you will not be troubled by their
sticking together when baked and the edges
will oe smooth.
DO not leave Gny unoccupied land to
grow crop of weeds. When N early crop
has been removed SOW at once any crop
bat will keep them down. Buckwbent and
peas are good and may be turned under be
fple frost.
-Superphosphate, or bone manure, in
any form is a specific for turniIs or ru'a-
5agas. English farmers discovered this and
now aprly bone manure to their root crops
instead Of to wheat, as is usually the prac-
| tice here.
"A butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead, says the best butter color is a
pailful of corn meal mush, fed warm
once day, the corn TO be of the yellow
variety; adding that it will increase the
milk and butter as well as give it a good
color,
An exchange says that cabbsges are So
cheap In the Greenville district of New Jer.
sey, that many Of the gardeners are plow-
ing their ca5bogcs under as a manure for
he fall crop Of celery. so cts. per hundred
the price mentioned.
-Cookies.-Take one heaping CUP OF
| s"gar, twelve tablespoonful Of melted but,
| ter, six Tablespoonful fuls oi hot water OF one
tablespoonful of soda. Mix quickly with
Il mr enough to roll; roll thin and bake in
quick oven on wel-greased tins; keep in
stone jar.
Herbs, sweet and medicinal, sho,ld be
gathered when in blossom and dried in the
| shad, without heat. Tie them in punches
by the stalks, and hang them in an airy,
park loft or attic until they are dry, then
put them in paper bags and return them to
the same place in dry closet.
An English florist gives great credit to
SCOT, which he uses constantly, by placing
bag of it in water, and applying the
| iqnid. Besides its excellent fertilizing ef.
feet, it greatly assists, he thinks, in warding
OF the attacks of insects, and the Lond, n
Gardeners Chronicle says that his plants
are vigorous, clean and wonderfully
healthy"
Palmetto Batter Cakes.-To ono quart
Of milk add the yeks of four eggs, leatep
very lightly mix boiled rice or hominy
t, suit your taste, and add -four enough to
make the proper consistency. Lastly
beat the whites of the eggs very light, and
stir in just befre baking. Butter
milk can be used instead of sweet milk
but the acidity must be corrected with a
little soda
Small focks Of sheep, like small fiocks
Of hens, are usually the most proitable;and
on the greater part Of our farms a small
dock of sheep should find place, even If it
be but two or three. Where cows are kept,
the same number OF sheep may usually be
kept with hardly any expense in the
summer season, as they will eat herbage
that is refused by cows, and with decided
benefit to the pasture, and no doubt a
good profit may be made on the invest
ment.
The weed seeds scattered from hay and
straw are the great baue Of stable manure
It is best Of course to have no weed seeds to
scatter, for even a thorough fermentation D
the manure pile will not destroy the Vita.
ity of all specimens; but If barn floors anC
nangers are thoroughly cleaned every Few
days and the rubbish thrown into larrel
TO be carried into the road and bI rned
many weed seeds will be saved FROM getting
into the manure.
-Gumbo.-one large fowl, one peck "
tomatoes, sassafras le>yes, pepper and herb
and two onions. Cut the fowl in pieses anC
fry brown, and make with it highly tea
soned gravy; cut it into the tomatoes, and
pour on three pints OF boiling water; cool
till chicken is in rags; stir in a hespinl
tablespoonful of sassalras leaves dried anC
reduced to a powder; strain into your disl
hot. When well made this will almost roI
like candy. Pepper onions and sweet herb
are used profuselY in this soup,also plenty q
salt
Prof. C. A. GoessmAn, who has giYeI
cultivation of the peach much investigation
is of the opinion that animal manures, o.
, usually applied to the soil where fruit trees
are set, are the source of disease and deatl
: to the p,ach tree. They may stimulate TO
a while, but finally cause disease. lie recon-
| mends the following formula for an acre a
the best fertilizer for peach orchard Su
perphospatc, 45O pounds muriute or potasl
(high grade) $50 pounds; sulphute Of mag
n.sia (crudel one hundred mounds