St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-19
FARM AND FlRESlDE.

Pop Overs: Four eggs, four cups
of flour, four cups of milk, small piece
of butter, pinch of salt. Bake in gem
pans, and serve with sauce.-The House
hold.
Fifteen tons of grasshoppers, COM
prising. it is estimated. 60, 600. 900 sepa-
rate insects, were captured at the Ma
toma Vineyard. near Folsom, Cal, by
drowning in the irrigating bitches.
In many sections stone set ON end
make the best posts for supporting wire
fence. Where hedge plants are set to
complete the fence, the posts need not
be over forty inches long, ten of which
is in the ground, and the top carrying
the main barbed wire as a security
against breachy cattle.
Next to clover, perhaps millet is the
best forage crop. 1t requires rich land
and warm season. 1t is hardly any
use to SOW millet till the middle of June,
and the time of growth is till the middle
of September. 1t should be cut in the
most succulent condition to be the most
valuable.-Bostom Budget.
The slophole at the back door is
productive of doctors bills. Some
people take the trouble to pour slops
every day on different ground where
they become lost to the doctors profit
through speedy drying up, but where
the family will gather gain from their
wide and sure, if not always speedy,
manurial effect.-Erchange.
Baked Pineapple: Cut some slices
of bread very thin, place them in a but
tered baking dish and cover each slice
of bread with slice of pineapple. Put
bit of butter the size of large bean
on the center of each; place in slow
oven and bake When done, dish, turn
the syrup over and serve warm. If
liked, the slices of pineapple may be
soaked in kirchwasser for twenty-four
hours before baking.-M Y. Mail.
Stirring BEANS" as they are more
frequently called. are relished by almost
every person either cooked or q picked
beans. A succession of sowings should
be made until August. Sow about two
inches deep in drills two feet apart, and
not too ihickly in the row. The golden
wax is one of the best varieties. and has
the further merit of being one of the
best shell beans for winter use.-Ceue-
land Leader.
"A correspondent writes that all
kinds of fruit can be perfectly pre-
served in crooks or other open vessels
just as well as in cans. simply by pack
ing cotton batting over it SO as to close
all the apertures. The fruit is cooked
the same as for canning, the crooks,
jars or other vessels filled, and the
common unglazed batting put over and
securely tied on. Professor Tyndall
demonstrated several years ago that
all putrefaction was caused by bacteria
in the air. and that these could not pen
citrate cotton batting.-Chicago Herald.
Stirring wet soil has such bad
effect that an entire seasons cultivation
will fail to make it friable and mellow.
Especially is this the case with heavy
land, where hard Jumps point clearly to
the mistake made in early spring.
Nothing is ever gained by planting seed
in wet soil, for the surface will certainly
bake hard and cause failure of germina.
ton. Should abundant moisture re-
main after heavy rains. it is not a fit
place for the garden. for the varieties
of plant life that will flourish under
such conditions are few indeed. On the
other hand. the moment soil is suffi
GENTLY dry to work loosely. the better
for early crops.-N y. Tribune.