Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-04-16

gar, together with one quart OF water.
After all is melted, set the vessel from
the fire and wrap it in several thick
ncsses of blanket or old carpet, so 1t
will cool slowly. BY this plan the
wax is in agitation while liquid, and
all impurities worked to the top or
bottom. Ii strained before putting
through this process there will be
nothing but fine dross at the bottom,
With nothing on top"
The lime process Of keeping eggs is
to take enc pint OF salt and one quart
of fresh lime, and sake with hot wat
cr. When slaked, add sufficient water
to make four gallons. When well set
tied pour off the liquid gently into
stone jar. Then with n dish place the
eggs in, tipping the dish after it fills
with the liquid, so they will roll out
without cracking the shell, for if the
shell is cracked the egg will spoil.
Put the eggs in whenever you have
them fresh Keep them covered in a
cool place, and they will keep fresh
for one year.
j. Sagar, of Naples, n. Y, writes
in allusion to the wcll-known fact that
the Robecca grape does not succeed
well on ITS own roots, that grated into
an Isabella or Catawba, it becomes a
prolific bearer, and that n cultiyator at
| that place has several hundred vines
grated with it, and they prove the
most profitable of anything in his Vine
yard He set year ago $500 Con-
cord roots to graft with Rcbecca.
A German paper states that vaseline
is a good preSeryative for eggs. The
eggs should be thoroughly washed,
and rubbed in with vaselrc previously
melted with three-tCnths per cent of
salicylic acid. The operation should
bo performed twice, the latter one
month after the former. On boiling,
the skin Of vasclinc easily separates
from the eggs. Eggs thus treated are
SAID to keep perfectly fresh for year.
California is the great bee state. In
four counties there are five hundred
bec.farms, and the annual product Of
these farms is between four and five
million pounds of honey. From New
York state to Colorado, also, there
are thousands of bee farms where the
owners give their whole time to the
care OF the honey gathercrs. The pro-
duction of honey is enormous, but the
demand has not been supplied.
Large variation in color IS to be
noted among the prize-winncrs at the
recent great show of shire horses ut
London. OF ten winning stall
lions, four were black, three chestnut,
and one each bay. gray, and chestnut
roam. 1t is incidentally mentioned
that all the prl2c-taking 3-ycar-old
tillies were bays.
According to LAptcWtcU the sale
of honey in France was not satisfac-
tory last season. Much of it remains
unsold. Marscillcs reports 10000
Kilograms Of bcGswaX on hand, and
the receipts exceeds the sales. a Kill
Ogram is about two pounds.
A stock company for the manufac.
ture of liquid cheese is preparing to
seek incorporation in New York,
backed by German capital. The pro-
duct will look like maple syrup, and
have all the pungency AMI other good
qualities of American cheese.
A local paper insists that there have
been great eXageration Of losses in
Western Dakota among the herds from
the severe winter They are much less
than expected, it says, aud the cattle
are now in splendid condition,
Statistical calculations show the
wheat crop prospects OF Virginia TO
oo about 80 per cent. less than the
product of last year. This shortage is
1ue TO the damage done to the crop
by the extreme cold weather.
From present indications there will
90 IN average crop of peaches in Della
ware Very high prices are anticipa-
ted, as peach buds are killed over n
large part of the country