The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-08-04
RECIPES WANTED AND A RE.
CIPE GIVEN.

EDITOR PROGRESSIVE FARMER
wish you would give me through
your paper a perfect recipe for max
ing
tsAUER KRAUT.
I want to make the genuine Dutch
article. Have tried several recipes
but have not made success Of any
Of them | don't care about a re-
cipe based upon theory, but would
be glad to have one from some one
who actually makes kraut.
sAssAFRAs. +s
Will some one Of your readers who
has had experience and been sue
cessful, tell me how to destroy-how
to exterminate-sassafras bushes
from old fields overgrown by them ?
CATERPILLARs. f
One Of your correspondents has
said, to destroy these from fruit trees,
wrap rags around the end of pole,
saturate the rags with kerosene oil,
fire, them and singe them off, This
wilknot do. 1t will injure the trees.
Here is a perfect and practical meth
cd toy rid fruit, or any other trees
from this plague: Take your shot
gun, load it with powder alone, put
ting no wad on the powder. Hold
the muzEle ofthe gun within a few feet
Of the caterpillar nest" say three
to ten feet, and shoot them off.
This will utterly destroy the cater
pillars and do no damage to the
smallest twigs Of the tree
ADRIAN GAINEY.
Sherwood, N. c., July 1886.
Ansace1- -Kraut.-Our correspond
ent can have kfaut, s'the genuine
Dutch article" by following these
directions, procured from one Of
long and successful experience: The
proper time to make it is after the
first frosts and before freezing wea-
ther. Strip off all damaged or out
side leaves from the cabbage head.
See that the heads are clean and
sound. With sharp knife, or sim
gle-bladed feed cutter, cut the heads
Uery fine, (cutting across the leaves:)
Having first provided an oaken bar
rel, well scrubbed and scalded, and
which must be water-tight, sprin-
kle light handful of salt in the bar
rel and pour in a bushel of the loose
chopped cabbage, mixing with it
large tablespoonful of salt. Now,
with "a light smooth-end maui pound
down until it IS very compact. Re-
peat this process until the barrel is
full ,ior as full as you want it. Spread
a clean cloth on it, place on fhe cloth
a layer of nice clean cabbage leaves,
and on these place cover made of
oak boards, (the detached barrel
head, trimmed, is good, and on this
cover place some heavy stones, SO
as to weight it down we'll. The oak
cover should be so made as to 60
down with the shrinkage Of the
kraut. 1t will be ready for use from
three to six weeks, according to the
temperature of the weather. Keep
it in cool place. Should mould or
scum appear on the covering take
the covering all out, wash the cloth
and cover and replace the cabbage
\eaves with fresh ones. 1t may be
hade in warm weather, if these gen.
dral rules be observed, but the COW
dring will need attention oftener, say
every six or eight days.
To Destroy Sassafras.-We trust
some of our readers who have been
successful in destroying sassafras
will tell our correspondent through
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER how to do
it. We have been told that grub
bing it up thoroughly in the month
of August would destroy it, but 9th
ers claim that nothing short of pro-
longed pasturage of sheep or goats
on it will destroy it. We have had
no experience with it. Let us have
it through our paper, and thus bene-
fit hundreds of our readers.
Our correspondent is correct as to
the caterpillar pest. His is the best
way we have ever found. 1t takes
but little time to do tit is easily
and cheaply done, and does not dam
age the tree.
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