Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-02
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Purchase good implements if you
would have cheap ones.
The better way of feeding corn to
chickens is in a 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 entrap the butterfly that creates
the cabbage worm place among the
cabbage few wide-mouthed bottles
containing some vinegar and molasses
Chicago Journal
-Spiced CurranLs: Five pounds of
ripe currants, one pint of vinegar, one
tablespoonful each of cloves and all
spice, alittle 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 plant
which has so many insect enemies as
the squash. Still, in large planta-
ton, after the striped beetle has been
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-
inc 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.-Rural
NeW 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. 1t puri-
fies only as it is taken out, for it is it.
self disgusting impurity. Western
Rural.
"A cold, damp soil, with hard i'm.
pervious subsoil, is not suitable for 8
garden, and before it can be properly
utilized should be well drained. Fol-
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 -four, two table
spoonfuls of butter, three tablespoon
fuls of powdered sugar, one and hal
cupfuls of milk, two eggs, whipped
cream one cupful; cream the butter ant
sugar, beat in the whipped eggs, thu
milk and lastly the flour, bake in {
square or oblong pan; when cold cut il
three pieces, cover one with red or vel
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 will
the whipped cream; stick the fines
berries thickly in the snowy cappins
and send around liquid cream to ca
with IL - N1ri1t HnrL1nH