Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-20
HINTS FOR THE FARMER.
Something for the Iil-Paid City Clerks to Paste
In their Hats--Enriching Grass-The Ques-
ton OF Unsalted Butter.

Something for the IlI-Paid City Clerks to Paste
In their Hats-Enricling Grass-The Ques-
tion OF Unsslted Butter.
In these dull times, when scores of young
men are out of employment, and others are
crowding in from other places, seeking for
so called "genteel" situations, it is well to
give wide publicity to such facts as arc set
forth in the following extract from the New
York Journal Of Commerce One of the
great problems of our day, too little discussed
bythose who have the ear fthe public through
the press or at the forum, is to furnish the
young men of this generation with remuner-
alive employment The professions are all
over-crowded. The shop-keepersa are by far too
numerous Agencies of all classes are so
multiplied that the occupants tread on each
others toes and are bore and nuisance to
the general public. Clerks out of employ
ment and willing to serve for pittance are to
be reckoned by their tens of thousands.
Bookkeepers with hungry eyes are reading
the advertising lists in tho vain hope of an
opening for their application. Collectors,
messengers, door-keepers, watchmen, con-
ductors, and the great variety of others, al
ready expert, seeking employment lin
kindred calings, are waiting anxiously for
some one to engage them. Every possible
form of service that can he reckoned in the
list OF genteel occupations Is anNiously sought
after by multitudes who have no other proyi.
sion for their daily needs. The men who
have been trying to live by their wits must
go 10 work at the bench or in the field Of
thee the soil offers the most accessible and
at first the most remuneratiye employment
The mass of the unemployed must seek
sustenance from the bosom of mother
earth. Land il cheap, and there is a wide
area, that awaits the tiller. The back may
ache and the skin blister in the sun, but the
bread can be made without fears of failure, If
the laborer will he faithful to his calling. 1t
needs less wisdom and torethought than
patient industry, and the man with COM
mon mind may eat his harvest in peace.
Two sides to Raising.
From yick's Magazine
There ~ too much indiscriminate advice
given by the press in regard to fruit-raising
Again, tree dealers and nursery agents, seek
ing market tor their wares, circulate wild
statements about the profits of the industry
and at time like the present, when the
prices of grain are low, it is not difficult for
them to induce numerous persons in almost
every community, who have not special fit-
ness or experience for the work, to undertake.
at least in a small way, the planting of or
chards or small fruits. 1t requires highly
gifted seer to perceive that most of these
efiorta will be abortiye. The fact Is, the
wrecks of i'll conceived truit plantations are
strewn over the whole country. We have
no desire to say word that may discourage
any one from engaging in fruit culture who
Will attempt ii in a rational and business-like
manner! but we would warn the ineNperi- |
enced TO look on both sides of the subject, |
and it has two sides, one of which is not the
ose.colored one that Is usually painted by
newspaper writers.
Enriehing Grass Lands.
}. II. stoddnrd.
Stable manure is always reliable, and
when delivered on the field at two dollars
per load is far more economical. The great
trouble is that it cannot be procured in sufli-
cent quantity. The only remedy to fall back
upon is to keep the manure-making stock
Nor should we in our haste be careless about
tho quality of our stock such stock only
should be maintained on the farm as the
owner will not be ashamed to show, but may
have them, as 1t were, perpetually on exbi-
bition. But under any, and all circum-
stances, the idea must be permanent, to re-
store to the land what we take from it-nay
more. Different kinds OF land require diff
ferent modes of treatment and 1t should be
the farmers study to become acquainted
with its needs.
Unsaited Butter.
From the Germantown Telegraph.
The Canadian Breeder in an article upon
this subject says: "The truth is that the
most delicious butter is that which is left un-
salted." While 1t may be possible that but
ter is salted more than Is necessary, it will
require some time to educate the American
people into the idea of using upon the table
unsalted butter. This is matter of educa.
ton the same as many others, and all Ameri-
cans have been educated to the use of salted
butter. 1t il said that in Europe the use
of unsalted butter is common, and that 1t is
with the greatest difficulty that upon coming
to this country travellers become accustomed
to the salted butter the same Is also
true of American travellers in Europe, in
getting accustomed to the unsalted article 1t
might be advisable for Americans to culti-
yate taste for unsalted butter if anything
was to be gained by the operation, but the
probabilities would be the opposite. Much
butter is sent to market or is held for that
purpose, and while in winter it might be
no difficult matter to keep butter fresh for
some time, i'm the warm weather in summer
the matter assumes different condition. 1t
is possible that sailing destroys some of the
flavor of the butter, but inasmuch as the sea
soning of all kinds of food is a cultivated
taste and has place in domestic economy,
the omission of salt from butter will hardly
be made. The quantity may be greatly i'll
duced, but enough will be employed to en-
sure the safe keeping OF the article after the
trouble of manufacture.