The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-22

SVASV0SA
After all is melted. set the vessel from
tho fire and wrap 1t In several thick.
nesses of blanket or old carpet, SO IL
will cool slowly. BY this plan the
wax Is in agitation while liquid, and
all impurities worked to the top OF
bottom. 1t 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 one pint of salt and one quart
OF fresh lime, and slake with hot wat
er. When slaked. add sufficient water
to make four gallons. When we'll set
tied pour off tho liquid gently into a
stone jar. Then with 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
she'll is cracked the egg will spoil.
Put the eggs in whenever you have
them fresh. Keep them covered in q
cool place, and they will keep fresh
for one year.
j. Sagar, of Naples, N. Y, writes
in allusion to the well-known fact that
the Rebecca grape does not succeed
we'll on Its own roots, that grated into
an Isabella or Catawba, it becomes a
prolific bearer, and that cultivator at
that place has several hundred vines
grated with 1t, and they prove the
most profitable of anything in his vine.
yard. He set year ago $500 Con-
cord roots to graft with Rebecca.
A German paper states that vaseline
is good prcservative for eggs. The
eggs should be thoroughly washed,
and rubbed in with vaseline previously
melted with three-tenths per cent Of
salicylic acid. The operation should
be performed twice, the latter ono
month after the former. On boiling,
the skin of vaseline easily separates
from the eggs. Eggs thus treated are
said to keep perfectly fresh for year.
California is the great Doe state. In
four counties there are five hundred
bee.farms, and the annual product Of
these farms is between four and five
million pounds of honey. From New
York state to Colorado, also, thcrc
are thousands of bee farms where the
owners give their whole time to the
care Of the honey gatherers. The pro-
duetion Of honey Is enormous, but the
demand has not tcen supplied.
Large variation IN totor ,s to he
noted among the prize-winners 1T the
recent great show of shire horses at
London. of ten prize.winning stall
lions, four were black, three chestnut,
and one each bay. gray, and chestnut
roam. It is incidentally mentioned
that all the prize takin q 3-year.old
fillies were bays.
According to L'Apicuttewr the sale
of honey in France was not satisfac-
tG;iiy lact season. Much of it remains
unsold. Alarseilles reports $4,000
Kilograms of beeswax on hand, and
tho receipts exceeds the sales. A kill.
ogram is about two pounds.
A stock company for the manufac.
ture of liquid cheeso is preparing to
seek incorporation in New York,
backed by German capital. The pro.
duct will look like maple syrup, and
have all the pungeney and other good
qualities of American cheese.
A local paper insists that there kavc
been great exageration of losses in
Western Dakota among tho herds from,
tbs Sewers winter. They arc much less
than expected, it says, ard this cattle
are now in splendid condition.
Statistical calculations show tho
What crop prospects of Virginia to
be about 80 per cent. less than the
product of last year. This shortage is
due to the damage done to the crop
by the extreme cold weather.
From present indications there will
#aTs Very high prices arc anticipa-
ted, as peach bids are killed over Il
large part Of the country.