The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01

A recipe for coffee custard: Make q
rich custard, at least half cream; to a
quart of cream and milk allow four
eggs; sweeten to your taste; cook in a
farina kettle; when done stir in two
thirds of cupful of cold coffee and one
teaspoonful of corn starch; the coffee
should be strained through a cloth.
When you plant an orchard plant the
early apples near the house, where the
hogs can consume the fallen fruit, and
where the apples are easily gathered.
The winter apples plant away from the
house, that the worms that breed in the
early apples will not attack and render
worthless the winter apples, as they do
when together.
To make baked berry rolls: Make a
biscuit dough, roll it thin and cut it in
squares of five or six inches. Spread
over with berries or other fruit double
the crust over and fasten the edges to-
gether. Put the rolls into dripping
pan close together until full, then put
into the pan a little water, sugar and
butter. Bake and serve with any desired
pudding sauce.
A Missouri correspondent of the
Prairie Farmer, writes: With the inten-
ton of having few eggs this winter I
built tight new house with glass front;
my hens are fat and lively, and l get
some eggs every day, but neighbours
hens that roosts on the trees, lay twice
as many eggs as mine. Why? Because
they get an abundance of the right
variety of food around the kitchen
door. Inference: The right kind of
food In variety is more essential in egg
making than good shelter.
At recent meeting of New Jersey
horticulturists there was not single
advocate for the employment of stable
manure on lands planted with peach
trees. Very many had learned the
lesson of the evils resulting from the
use OF such manure, in the premature
death of trees, mildew and fungus.
One raiser said: IF you are going to use
time of planting, and save thereby the
self-respect, for you will be very for
tunate if you get even one crop. "-Ez.
The season has now arrived for tree
planting as preliminary of garden and
outdoor agricultural labors. Most IN
experienced persons, select trees of large
growth in their desire to obtain quick
results of their planting. Experienced
persons select small trees in preference,
because having smaller rootlets they are
more likely to recover and thrive more
quickly after transplanting. In plant
ing spread out the roots and tread or
pack the soil close and firm around the
roots. If the short roots are not likely
to hold the tree firm in position, secure
it by tying it to one or more stakes;
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make a hole around the tree admitting
air which viii tend to dry the roots and
kill the tree. Cut back all or nearly all
of the last growth ofwood of the trans
planted tree. Use the knife unsparing-
ly. Most persons prune or cut back too
little for the good of the trees.
Everyone who was present in this
city during last June and July will
remember the disagreeable experience
with the loathsome worms that then
infested the trees and bushes. Notwith-
standing the vigorous efforts made by
many property owners to eradicate
them, enough eggs were laid by the re-
sultant moths to punish us with another
and more terrible visitation during the
approaching summer months. Unless
these eggs are gathered and destroyed
within IAe ueAI llTee VI IOur weeks. we
shall have millions of them Matched
out. Examine the small, young twigs
of your fruit and shade trees, and you
will find small ring of eggs encircling
the twigs or branches. If YOU want to
prevent the annoyance of the worms
eating all the foliage and killing
some trees, cut off these small branches
and burn them in the house stove. Or
if you will take the trouble, break the
egg-ring off from the branches, holding
pan underneath in your other hand
to catch the falling eggs. so you can
burn them. This vigilance is the only
remedy; prevention is always better
than cure.