The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-07-14
Home, Farm and Garden.

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lye.
The queen bee usually lays from
February to October, but early in the
spring she lays spaiingly. When flowers
bloom and the bees are gathering honey
and pollen she lays more rapidly.
-Currant Pudding.-One pound of ripe
currants, pinch of salt. ten tablespoonsful
of sugar, a cup of flour, four eggs, a table
spoonful of soda and a tablespoonful of
butter Boil and eat with foaming sauce.
To take rust out of steel, rub the steel
with sweet oil; in a day or two rub with
inely-powderel unslaked lime until the
rust disappears; then oil again, roll in
woolen and put in a dry place, especially If
it be table cutlery.
"A very cheap way to fence poultry
from the garden is to stretch three No. IL
wires quite tightly, and then weave in
common swamp willow, sharpening the
ends and sticking them in the ground
couple of inches. This fence does not
cost over six cents a rod, and is very effect
i've.
Every time crop is removed the soil
loses the amount of fertility required to
grow the crop, No soil can therefore pro-
duce crops unless il is provided with food,
which should he in the shape of manure
or fertilizers. Keeping up the fertility Of
the soil is simply feeding the future
crop.
Make mixture of hydraulic cement
and skim milk for painting farm buildings
and fences by putting the cement in a
| bucket and sweet skim milk stirred in un-
| til the mixture is of the consistency of
cream. The proportions are about one
quart of cement to gallon of milk. Color
| may he added if desired. This paint is
cheap AMI durable.
When linen has turned yellow cut up a
pound of fine white soap into gallon oi
milk and hang it over fire in wash
kettle or boiler. When the soap has com.
| pletely melted put in the linen and boil il
half an hour, have ready lather of soar
and water, wash the linen in it, after which
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little blue in the last
| -Raisin Tarts.-After seeding one and
one-half cups of raisins, cIop fine, ado
one half cup of sugar, the juice and rind o.
one lemon, pinch of salt and one-hal
teaspoenful of cinnamon. Make puff paste
roll thin, cut out with bscuit-cutter, ado
one teaspoonful of the mixture, roll ou
the top crusts little thicker, make thre,
thimble | oles near the center, and pres.
the edges with futed roller.
The currant and gooseberry worms
hatch out about as soon as the leaves begir
to pu. out. They can be found at first OF
the other side of the leaves, and yer.
little helebore powdered and sifted OF
them will save subsequent trouble. If tn,
fruit grower waits until they begin thei
ravages he can not destroy them withou
subjectng his currant bushes to damage
that little forethought will prevent.
| Where manure is not available, yer,
good fertilizer, for asparagus may be mad
by mixing twenty pounds of nitrate o
soda with one hundred pounds of super
phosphate of lime. This quantity will |,
sufficient for plot Of fifty feet square, ant
Il should be spread over the whole groun(
when it is mellow-immediately after tn
ground is worked. Frequent hoeing arount
the stools or working between the rows i
needed for full crop.
One of the cheapest and best mode
of destroying insects in pot plants is to in
vert the pot and dip the plants for few
seconds in water warmed To 130 degrees.
| Lands plowed in the fall should b.
plowed agalu in the spring. 1t is highl.
important to have the soil well pulverized
1t cannot be overdone. There is no farm
work that will pay so well as the second O.
cross plowing of land in the spring. Th,
day has arrived when, to make farmlnl
profitable, the best methods must be em
ployed. Poorly cultivated lands will pa,
but poorly and will keep the farmer witt
does 1t poorly, poor 10 the end of time.
"A writer says, it is far better to prun
often than to defer and then be obliged Il
cut off large limbs, and especially so whei
the sap is flowing freely. With appl
trees pruning, or rather thinning out
frequently aids materially to prevent mil
Idew.
| AS the summer comes on so do th,
insects, and with their first appearance,
should the war against them be commenced
and kept up until they are all destroyed
Not only should we eXterminate them fo
our own benefit, but we owe it to ou
neighbors. for what is the use of one clear
ing his patch of potato bugs. or taking
precaution against the sqursh bug il hi
neghbor pays no attention whatever tC
these matters? Let all keep their lots a:
clean OF insects as they do of weeds, and g
magnificent crop of all kinds will be the
result.
"A correspondent says she has canned
pie-plaDt with good results by baking il
instead of boiling it. She cuts the stalks
In pieces about an inch long, put in earthen
pudding dishes OF on pie plates, scattered
sngar over it abundantly, and baked; then
she put her cans into pan of hot water on
the top Of the stove, and when the pie
plant was tender put II and the syrup
| formed by the Juice and the sugar in also,
| and when the can was full sealed IL up.
| She says that the juice thus formed is
much richer, and that it takes less sugar TO
sweeten it than is required in the boiling
process.
S.S
Greatly Excited.
Not few Of the citizens of Lehighton have