Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-21
FARM AND PRESIDE.

the field. They often find that they have
been too liberal at first and must scant
the rest of the field or obtain an extra al
lowance. If they will take the pains to
pace off square rod to begin with, and
then weigh out 16oth part of what they
want upon an acre and SOW that amount
upon the square rod, they can see how
thickly they have covered the ground. and
little care and observation will enable
them to maintain the same amount
through the field. It may be easier to
hire an experienced man to do the work.
but the good farmer should know how to
do his own work that he may be indepen-
dent of hired labor, and when he does ena-
ploy others may know whether or not
they are doing his work properly.
WINDFALLs.-The fallen apples in the
orchard, and such as are picked off in re-
ducing the crop to such an amount as can
be properly ripened without injury to the
trees, should be gathered up and carried
out of the orchard. If they are of suffici-
emit size they may be cooked and fed to the
swine, and, when mixed with proper
amounts of milk and grain, form IN agree
able change of food. and probably con
tains some nutritive qualities, which In
crease as the fruit increases IN size. and
approaches ripening. Even when not
valuable for feeding it is better to take
them out of the orchard, that the worms
xryI,; fhau no Hp-
stroyed. Either throw them in the brook
or put them in the hen yard, where the
fowl will destroy both insects and eggs.
CABBAGE WORMS. The most frequent
pests which infest cabbage are the small
lice and green worms. These are both
destroyed by insect powder. Fine air
Stacked lime will kill the lice, but not
the worms. The kerosene emulsion will
destroy both and will not injure the cab
bage unless it is nearly mature. This is
made by mixing one pint of kerosene oil
or crude petroleum with one gallon of
strong soap suds and churning it into a
we'll mingled emulsion. Hand picking of
the worms once a day, is good plan
where the plot is small, but for a large
plot the insect powder is preferable to any
other method.
INFLUENCE OF FoeD UPON MILK AND
BUTTER. food eXerts a great infu-
ence upon the quality of the butter. Cot
tonseed meal makes hard butter with
good color but disagreeable flavor; linseed
meal makes soft, greasy, light colored
butter. The best quality of butter is
made from yellow corn meal, with one
third its bulk or coarse middlings with
the bran in it. Glover hay should be fec
for butter, and peameal is now thought tc
be the richest food for making butter. N
doubt if it we're mixed in equal proper
tions with fac yellow corn meal anc
coarse middlings, the mixture would make
the finest and most butter. If one doubts
the effect of food upon milk, and necessa
rily upon butter, he may feed some wild
onions, cabbages, turnips, or ragweeo
hay, when he will soon be convinced OF |
the fact.
MILD ONIoNs.-Is is a common opinion |
that the flavor Of onions is greatly molif |
ed by covering the bulbs lightly with soil, |
but there is some reason to doubt the jus |
tice of this belief. The tender and milo |
flavor of Italian and Spanish onions is no |
procured in this way, but by copious irri |
cation, and it is the abundance of water |
and the fertility Of the soil which both |
together produce rapid growth to which |
the mild flavor is due. Onions grown or
poor and dry soil are very strong. and thu
mild, well favored ones are grown upon
the reclaimed muck swamps that are
moist and rich. However, it is easy to
prove the matter by keeping few rows
covered with soil and observing whatever
difference there may be.
Dressing AFTER POTAToEs.-The
fields from which early potatoes and other
early crops have been taken, if not occu-
pied or to be occupied by other crops
which have been planted among them TO,
that purpose. should be sown to grass.
"AehoNo SAoih3 W odO VI UuiS
If as heavily MANFRED as they
should have been for the early crops,
good crop of grass may be obtained with
out the application of another dressing
now, but if manure is at hand in plenty
1t should be spread on and ploughed in
from four to six inches deep before SOW
ing the seed, for the benefit of the grass
in future years. We'll rotted manure
should not be put so deep as that which
is coarse ard green, and the latter is
more valuable upon land which is cold and
heavy, as serving to tighten up, drain and
warm the land by its mechanical action
and the chemical elements liberated dur
ing its decomposition. On light, sandy
or any we'll drained soil use composted or
rotten manure near but not upon the sur
face. Give light dressings rather than
heavy, and expect to apply them more
frequently.
lLEMoN PIE.-Juice and grated rind of
one lemon. one-half cup of sugar, one-half
,up of water, or more if that does not fill
The pie plate; four eggs, save out The
whites Of two; one Tablespoonful of flour.
Mix lemon, sugar and eggs together and
i'd little water; stir the -four up liz
title water and add that; when done, beat
he whites of the two eggs to a stiff broth,
i'd two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar,
pread over the pie and place in the even |