Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-07-10
FARM END PRESIDE.

How TEA SHOULD BE MADE.-Use
china or porcelain pot. If you do use
never use it when the tin is worn out and
the iron exposed. If you do, you are play
ing chemist and forming tannate on tea
ate of iron.
Use black tea. Green tea when good is
kept at home. What goes abroad is bad,
very bad and horrible. Besides containing
the 203 authorizations the Chinese philan- |
thropist puts up for the outside barbarian. |
it is always pervaded by copper dust from |
the dirty curing pans of the growers.
Infuse your tea. Don't boil it. Place |
one teaspoonful Of tea in the pot and pour
over it one and half cups of boiling wa
ter-that is, water really boiling. If your
tea is poor. use more. 1t is cheaper,
though, to buy good tea at the outset.
Put your pot on the back part of the stove,
carefully covered, so that it shall not lose
its heat and the tea its bouquet. Let 1t
remain there five minutes. Then drink it.
Drink your tea plain. Don't add milk
nor sugar. Tea-brokers and lea-taster~
never do; epicures never do; the Chinese
never do. Milk contain ibrin, albumen
or some other such stuff and the tea de-
lieate amount of tannin. Mixing the two
makes the liquid turbid. This turbidity.
if remember the cyclopedia Alright, is
tannate of fbrin, or leather. People who
put milk in tea are therefore drinking
boots and shoes in mild Disguise Wono
Choo Foo, in The. Cook.
VERY LARGE POTATOEs.-The very
large crops of potatoes are not made of
very large potatoes. Six hundred bushels
and over to the acre once grown by the
writer were all OF quite moderate and
even size. with no small ones and none
which might be called large. 1t is the
many small potatoes which reduce the
yield. Four potatoes one inch in diameter
are less weight and no more bulk than one
of two inches through, and sixteen OF
them are only equal to one four inches ID
diameter. How to grow crop with no
small potatoes i'll it is a problem which we
are all trying to solve, but which no one
has found out yet, Notwithstanding all the
big stories and claims made OF enormous
yields. Six hundred bushels per acre is
common crop in parts of the southern
mountain region, where the soil is rich in
potash and magnesia minerals, and where
the growing season is long, cool and moist.
FEhQlR fn no icif for
great yields.
TooLs.-What kind of hoe do you use?
If 1t lie the hoe of the average farmer, it is
fit to use in the stable, but don't take it
into the field. If you want to move soil,
use plough or scraper, but to hoe CROPS
properly get hoe with a light keen blade,
81 by inches, and long handle. Be up
right In hoeing as in other things. Witt
such a hoe you can accomplish days
work to be proud of. You will d. tht
right thing if you get a steel tooth gardeL
rake, and do much of your early hoaiug
with that. Are you going to buy plough!
By all means buy a swivel plough. Land
with 'pod-augers. Our Country Home.
SURPRISE EGGs.-One dozen eggs. hard
boiled; one teaspoonful of vinegar: three
small pickles, chopped; one tea-spoonful
sof made mustard; ham. lobster or chicken.
chopped; season with salt, pepper ano
melted butter; little chopped celery:
cool the eggs in cool water and remove
the shells; cut lengthwise, not Quit.
through; take six of the yolks, chopped
meat. celery, vinegar and seasoning, ano
mix we'll together; fill the boiled " hites
with the mixture, carefully closing agar.
Garnish with celery leaves or parsley.
A WASTED SALAD HERB.-One of the
best salad herbs goes to waste as a weeo
and pest Of the garden. Children know
enough to eat sour grass with It's tende,
acid leaf. French cooks number it among
the most excellent field salads, and doctors
say it is soothing for the blood, prevent
ing rheumatic and equity disorders. Ii
ought to be brought to market by the
bushel, for every field has patches of it
and it is better than spinach or sorrel for
purees and bonnie femme soups, or it NAV
be stewed with sugar in porcelain as de-
hcate order of pleplant.
FARMERS FRUIT CAKE.-Soak three
cups of dried apples over night in warm
water; chop slightly in the morning, and
then simmer two hours or more in two
cups OF molasses until the apples resemble
citron. Make cake of Two eggs, one cup
sugar. one cup sweet milk, three-fourths
cup butter, II teaspoons soda, flour to
make rather thick batter, spice in plen.
ty; put in the apples and bake IN quick
oven. This is very nice.
IVY POIsoNING.-FOr dogwood or wv
poisoning the following is said to be an
infalIible remedy: Boil wood ashes enough
to make a strong lye; wash the poisoned
parts in this; let it remain few minutes.
and wash off in soft. lukewarm water:
when dry, anoint with ]grease. Repeat
this process as the poison develops itself.
and one or two applications Will cure tie
most obstinate eases. 1t acts like magic.
DESTROYING POTATO BEErLEs.-l
There is no use attempting to poison the
old beetles which appear on the potato
vines as soon as they come up. They are
oot khoro to ook I.