The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-07
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN,
Agricultural Items.

HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Agricultural Items.
Illinois has 4l2 butter and cheese fac.
tories, most of them in the northern
&C untieS.
An ac,e of celery supplied the Boston
market fifty years ago; now there are 80
acres raised annually within ten miles of
the city. and this season importationS
were made from New York, Michigan
and Prince Edward Island.
Mr.. William Gardham tells the Canaan
News that he finds his domestic animals
afford an excellent market fof surplus
apples-including "forty young turkeys
and plenty ofchickens." the latter taking
80 many as bushel day. He prepares
the fruit for their use by merely mash
ing with the foot"
The recent outbreak Of diphtheria in
Canterbury, Eng, compelled belated at
tention to the polluted wells of the in
fected districts. The water of nearly
sixty OF them was found to be contain
mated with sewage and swarming with
living organisms." With the wise hind.
sight which locks the stable door after
the steed is stolen, these pest. holes
have now been ordered closed.
Mr.. w J. Scott, Bridgewater, N. Y
about fifteen years. ago transplanted
huckleberry bushes 'of both the high
and the low kinds" from cold wet
swamp to "dry graveily soil-good corn
land" They grow tall, better than in
their native spot; ''the berries are q
great deal larger and produced by the
bushel good part of the season." His
suggestions to others who may like to
try this unique fruit culture we except
from the husbandman: Set out young
plants, about foot high, in the spring.
Mulch them for year or two, and
plough IN some coarsDhorse manure &C.
casionally. They are slow to start, but
after they are started they grow rapidly,
both in bush and berry. The bushes
may be cultivated with a horse. They
should be set at least seven feet apart
each way, as they spread considerably
when full grown. 1t is we'll to set three
or four bushels to each hill.
President H. E. Mckay, Of the Mis-.
sissippi Horticultural Society, after try
ing in his grounds, during ten years,
about forty of the newest varieties of
greatest promise, celebrate the Wilson
in his recent Annual Address as "fur-
nishing nearly or quite three-fourths OF
all the strawberries consumed in the
United States: 'The great facility
with which it adapts itself to attitudes,
soils and seasons in wonderful. What
Al &C q r,1I
does better. Where can we find anoth-
er that has stood so Icing, AMI won so
many battles, and to- day, after test of
nearly thirty years with the whole list of
new and old, stands grandly and far in
the lead of all? No parallel like it can
be found in single variety in any other
department. of fruit growing"
Mr.. Geeoge T. Powell, Client. N. Y, at
recent meeting of the Columbia County
Farmers Club, of which he is president,
remarked on the increased cost of tim
ber-an expensive building material at
best-and the necessity of economizing
its use; and he suggested that there are
several obvious advantages in utilizing
for country houses and other structures
the cheap and abundant material which
in most cases is within easy reach
"sand, gravel ard stones" He has
shown his faith by putting up concrete
barn with walls twenty -four feet high, in
closing space sixty-fi by seventy.feet.
The old notion that any soil is good
enough to raise beans, Is d mistaken
one. In planning tor next seasons crop
it will pay you to select one of your best
pieces of ground for beans, and see that
it is put in prime condition. While they
will exist in a poor soil they will only
do their best in rich one. Given q
good rich soil and good cultivation.
beans will usually prove one of the most
profitable crops on the farm.
Corn will shrink from the time it is
husked from the field or shock, in we'll
protected cribs, from 20 to 80 per cent.
by spring. That is 100 bushels will
shrink to 70 to 80. according to how dry
it was when gathered. Sound corn will
shrink 20 percent, SO that 40 cents per
bushel as it comes from the field is as
good as 30 cents in the spring.
Recipes for "HOme."
CooKIEs-One cup butter, one cup su.
gar, two eggs, well beaten, one teaspoon.
f IL soda, and one tablespoonful ginger
-four to make a soft dough roll thin and
bake quickly.
Roll JELLY CAKE-Three eggs, vel
beaten; one cup butter: one cup sugar
one cup flour; one teaspoonfnl soda, and
nutmeg to suit your taste ;,bake ten min.
utes in long pan; spread with jelly and
roll; wrap in a cloth around it till cool.
LAZY WoMAN's P1E.-Two eggs, two
tablespoons sugar, two heaping table.
spoons -four, two-thirds of pint oil
sweet milk; flavor same as custard pie,
and bake without crust in buttered pie
tin.
CURRANT4 .PUDDING.-Two eggs, one
fourth cup sugar, two tablespoons butter,
two-thirds pint sour milk, and one hall
teaspoonful soda; -four enough to make
thick batter; then flour one teacupful
of English currants, stir them in, and
steam one and one.half hours; to be
eaten with cream and sugar, or pudding
sauce.
To CAN FRUrr.-Put teacupful of sugar
for each can, in two quarts of water, boil
and skim, then drop in fruit enough for
BY this process your fruit will be whole
and light colored.
LEMON JELLY-Juice of one lemon,
one cup sugar, one egg, one tablespoon
full butter; boil till thick.
If you wash lemon stains in soda
water before washing in other water,
it will restore its natural color. Wet
iron-rust or mildew in tartaric acid
water and lay it IN the sun, and it will
take it out; wash the clothes as soon
rs the spots are gone or the acid will rot
the clothes.
Variety in Farming.
It is the idea of many that any one
can learn to farm. But as there are 80
many branches of farming any one of
which require years OF steady and close
application to master by the best minds,
it is deemed advisable for all farmers to
avoid undertaking too many things.
There are some vegetables, grains and
fruits which have been raised so long
ov,d cn xr,o11 nrAnrakrNH that kLo;S