The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-13
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Purchase good implements if you
would nave cheap ones.
The better way OF feeding corn to
chickens is in crushed or cracked
form. Prairie Farmer.
1t has been demonstrated that the
best manner for keeping lemons fresh
is to pack them in dry sand.
To entrau the butterfly that creates
the cabbage worm place among the
cabbage a few wide-mouthed bottles
containing some vinegar and molasses.
Chicago Journal.
-Spiced Currants: Five pounds of
ripe currants, one pint of vinegar, one
tablespoonful each of cloves and all
spice, little nutmeg, boil one hour, or
until quite thick. Boston Budget.
Clean out all the rose bushes by
taking away the old wood and then
shortening the stronger roots one
third. The growth and appearance
will be greatly improved thereby
Boston Post.
There is no other garden plsnt
which has SO many insect enemies as
the squash. Still, in a large piantss
ton, after the striped beetle has beck
whipped, other insect enemies will
rarely do enough damage to make the
injury serious. Toledo Blade.
-Currants and gooseberries should
be pruned every season to be product
i've and have large fruit. When prun-
ing bear in mind that the former will
produce fruit on the one-year-old
wood, while with the latter the wood
is two years old before bearing. RR'srat
Neao Yorker.
The green deposit in the water
troughs ought to be removed at least
as often as once week when cattle and
horses are drinking the water daily.
Don't give attention to the silly plea
that this green stuff is healthful, and
that it ''purifies' the water. It puri-
ties only as it is taken out, for it is it
self disgusting impurity. Western
RurGl.
"A cold, damp soil, with hard in1y
peryious subsoil, is not suitable for a
garden, and before it can be properly
utilized should be well drained. For
garden purposes, if the tile drain has
been laid, the trenching system is best
for such soils. Any method that per-
mits it to rid itself of surplus moisture,
and allows the air and heat to enter,
will be beneficial. Cleveland Leader.
All mineral manures should be left
on or very near the surface. They are
never bulky, and to pillow them in is to
bury them where roots of crops will
find them so late as to receive little
benefit therefrom. The decomposition
of barnyard manure under the burrows
gives both warmth and fertility to the
roots. But potash or phosphate buried
so deeply is either soon washed away,
or becomes insoluble and of no value.
albany Journal.
Red Raspberry Shortcake: One
quart of prepared flour, two table
spoonfuls of butter, three tablespoon.
fuls of powdered sugar, one and a hall
cupfuls of milk, two eggs, whipped
cream one cupful; cream the butter and
sugar, beat in the whipped eggs, the
milk and lastly the flour, bake in a
square or oblong pan; when cold cut in
three pieces, cover one with red or yell
low raspberries, sprinkle with sugar,
lay another third on this, more berries
and more sugar, then the final layer;
sift sugar on it and spread thick with
the whipped cream; stick the finest
berries thicklyin the snowy Gaping
and send around liquid cream to eat
with it. Marian HGrloasd.