Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-09-05
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

Pics appreciate variety in their food
Long continued feeding On corn alone
should not be practiced Occasional
sprlnkling Of salt, asLes, and even slaked
lime in their swill, will contribute mate
rally to their good health. A little char
coal may also be given as a purifying agent;
it will assist digestion, exercise benefc.
ial effect, and counterfeit any tendency to
cholera or typhoid complaints. Pigs
which have the liberty need none of these
things. Sly pigs should be fed at regular
intervals, and be given only as much food
as they will eat up with relish. All the
! buttermilk and whey that are available
should be given, thickened with a mix
ture OF bran and corn or pea meal. They
should also have some green sods or vege.
tables daily. If pigs were all fed on clean
and wholesome food J. believe we should
never hear Of a case Of trichiniosis.
STRING BEANs.-This delicious vege-
table is rarely properly cooked. When
well prepared it is quite as healthful as
peas. Take the pods as fresh and young
as possible, and shred them as faely as a
small knife will go through them, cutting
| them lengthWlse, and. as it were, shaving
| them very thin. Put into sailed boiling
water and boil two hours. Then drain in
eolander, and serve with plenty of sweet
| butter, and they will be as delicate as
peas. If one likes vinegar little of it
will improve the dish.
BAKED PEARS. Take twelve large bak-
ing pears. pare, cut in halves, leaving on
the stem, core them with the point Of
knife and place close together in block
tin saucepan, the inside of which is quite
bright, with cover to fit tight; add the
rlnd OF lemon cut thin, with half it's
juice, small stick of cinnamon, ara
twenty grains of allspice; cover with
spring water; allow one pint of loaf SUI
gar to pint and a half of water; cover
close and bake for six hours in very slow
oven.
OUNCE AND APPLE PRESERVES
Have one-third weight of sweet apples
pared, cored and quartered equal weight
OF sugar and fruit. When the ounce is
boiled take it out boil the apple in the
ounce water, put them into the syrup
and let them boil until they look red ana
clear; an hour and a half is not too long.
do not boil the ounces in the syrup, but
put layers of the apple, when done, into
jars with the ounce, previously cooled
tender in water, and pour the syrup over
them.
TOMATO CATsUP.-A bushel of ripe TO-
matoes cut up and cooked thoroughly;
strain through sieve when cold; add
three quarts of vinegar, one pint and
half OF salt, three ounces each of whole
cloves and allspice. three ounces wai4e
and black pepper, one and half ounces
cayenne pepper, twelve onions boiled
whole inl it for several hours watching
and stirring for fear of burning. 1t need
not boil hard, but simmer steadily. When
cold, bottle, after removing the onions
when they have well favored the mixture:
keep in cool, dry place.
by old fashioned house wives, but there
are many better plants for this purpose.
1t often becomes great pest in rich,
deep soil where the roots penetrate to a
great depth. At this season the stem has
become tough enough to allow pulling up
the plant. root and all after heavy rain.
The roots should be hung up in some dry
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then burned. If any part of the root
touches the ground it will grow as soon
as the rain comes.
The practice of blowing under green
crops for manure is coming into fashion
again, with the difference that now tie
crops are not as formerly plowed in to
grow wheat. That ceased to pay with the
Western competition causing low prices
for this grain. But some grain crops
ploWed under for potatoes or other
hoed crops enrich the soil more than it
can be by an equal expenditure of labor or
money. The green manure is more evenly
distributed over the field than an equal
bulk could be in any other way.
A LODON journal states that new
method of tree falling by dynamite has
been successfully introduced. A cartridge
OF the explosive substance is placed in a
channel bored directly under the tree to
be operated upon. and when exploded the
tree is simply forced up bodily and falls in
tact on its side Ii this system works as
it is represented to do, and the tree is not
fractured by the force of the explosion, a
large proportion of valuable wood at the
base of the trunk can be utilized which is
now lost.
AT A meeting of the New York State
Agricultural Society, the following con-
cluslons were adopted on the applications
of manures: /. Manure which consists
chiefly of the droppings Of animals should
be applied as soon as practicable to the soil,
2. Manure consisting largely of straw,
cornstalks or other fbrous matter should
be first rotted to become fine. 8. Manure
should be applied at or near the surface of
the soil or should be slightly buried.
4. For hoed crops, and especially corn
crops, it may be buried deeper than for
straw crops.
VALUE OF LIME.-From its power to
decompose it has heen found useful on
poor granite soils. From it's caustic char
acter it corrects Injurious matter, such as
su)phate of iron in soil. Lime brsaAs, I'D
and pulver.zes stiff clays, improving their
texture. 1t decomposes inert vegetable