Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-30

lnIo premiums OF $lOO each, and three
OF S5O each, to be awarded as follows:
SlUO for the best bushel of corn from
each one of three grand divisions of
the state and $50 for the second. The
conditions are that the successful COM
petitors shall deliver at Springfield
twenty-five bushels of corn like that for
which they received premiums, to he
distributed by the Society for seed.
LEMON cream for dessert is made by
removing the skin from four lemons:
put this peel into four tablespoonfuls
of water, and let it lie there while Won
squeeze the juice over eight ounces of
powdered sugar; beat the yelks Of eight
eggs, and to them add the water with
the peel in it; strain this through a
coarse muslin; put this in a saucepan
or in basin, and set it in hot water
| over brisk fire; stir it until it is thick,
pour it out into custard cups; beat the
whites of the eggs stiff, add three table
spoonfuls of powdered sugar, cover the
top of the custard with the meringue,
set all the cups in deep dripping pan,
and set this on the CRATE in the oven
until the meringue is brown ed deli
cately.
A PROPER temperature is an indis-
pensible condition of termination.
This varies in different kinds of seeds.
Barley and rye will terminate in a
moist soil as low as 40 degrees, or s de-
grees above the freezing point. Oats
and wheat require mean temperature
OF nearly 30 degrees to sprout them.
while corn, in moist earth will not rot if
the temperature is below 80 degrees.
Seeds endure the other extreme ALSO A
sack of corn plunged in boiling water
and kept in it afew minutes will not be
harmed, but a constant temperature
above 100 degrees will destroy all
chances of termination. Blue grass,
even after the sprout has started, is
often killed by the direct rays of
| summer sun.
WOOD ashes represent all the mineral
elements of vegetable growth, and con-
tain everything the farmer must give
his crops except combined nitrogen.
Wood ashes will vary in composition
and value with the kind of wood and
the part of the tree. I will take the
| ash of the body wood of the beach tree
ashes. A ton of such ashes contain 800
pounds of potash, worth $16, aud 1O5
pounds of phosphoric acid (insoluble)
worth 1925. Omitting all the other
ash constituents, which have some value
of themselves, the potash and phos-
phoric acid of ton of such ashes are
worth $21. 25, or nearly six times the
value of a ton of fresh horse dung
New York Tribune.
PROF. DABNEY, the state chemist of
North Carolina, says, regarding what
crops take out of the soil, that, 100
bushels of wheat contain As pounds of
phosphoric acid, 30 pounds of potash
and 125 pounds of nitrogen; 100 bush
els of corn contain 50 ponds of phos-
phoric acid, 20 pounds of potash and
Sc pounds of nitrogen; ], 700 pounds of
tobacco contain z pounds of phosphoric
acid, and 81 pounds of potash. The
480,000,000 bushels of wheat produced
in this country in 1880 contain 1,1OO,-
900 tons of phosphoric acid, 10000
tons of potash, 2,8000,000 tons of nitro
gen, these quantities being ten times
as great as those contained in all the
manures used on all the crops in the
IN tied States that year."
In regard to the bleaching of celery,
correspondent of the HorticBlturist
states that some time since, in strolling
through Stratford, the market garden
of Bridgeport and Birmingham, Conn.,,
he was much interested in meeting W.
FL. Benjamin and learning his method
of bleaching celery. Instead of earth
ing it up as is usually done, Mr.. Benia-
min simply ties it up in old news or
other papers when it is ready for bleach
ing, and at the end of from ten to
twenty days finds it is as nicely bleached
as thought had been aboriously banked
up He says one-third more celery can
be got from an acre, because when it is
not banked it does not need to be
planted so far apart; that great amount
of labor is saved, and that by this proc
ess the celery never rusts.
KLE, says the Baltimore American
is variety of cabbage. AS class they
do not form heads nor eatable flowers.
They are very hardy, freezing doing
them no harm. They are propagated
from seeds which resemble IN size, form
and color the seed of cabbage. The
seed is sown at the same time as the
seeds of cabbage or eaulifower and in
the same way. EaTly plants may be
started in hot-bed. In transplanting
treat the plants like young cabbages.
While, as we have said, freezing does
them no harm, they are generally har-
vested in the fall before the closing-up
of the ground. If reset in the follow
ing spring, they will furnish an abund
ance of tender sprouts, which, when
cooked, some think are better in flavor
shan cabbage. In preparing the
ground, selecting the ground and
nanuring the ground, proceed precisely
as with cabbage. It is subject to The
same insect enemies as cabbage, and
they are to be treated in the same way
as when they attack the latter.
Home Decoration.
Brass bedsteads grow in favor.