The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-06

Canning Sweet Corn-To Trap Hawks
Preserved Peaches-The Best
Fertilizer-Water Cress.


1T never troubles the wolf how MANY
the sheep be.
| A bad cook should serve as atonement
for any amount of wickedness.
| Many cake and batch of bread are
ruined by slamming the oven door.
A good mulch is layer of fine soil,
such as frequent, shallow cultivation pro-
| vides.
If you want the pedigree of the scrub
animal, set it down as ignorance, pre-
judice and parsimony inbred for genera
tions.
One bushel of muck about young
vine or tree, in. clayey soil, will give but
ter results than would be obtained If a
Il an hoed or watered continually.
Wagons and carts that are used daily
should have the axles well creased at
least three times week. 1t lessons the
work of the horses.
More and finer truit can he secured
by heavy mulching than by cultivation.
Deep cultivation near the roots of small
fruits is worse than neglect
Grass growing around peach trees will
do the trees more injury than ny other
source OF damage. The peach orchard
requires thorough cultivation.
White Bean Soup.-Steep the white
beans over night in cold water, drain,
and put into cold water and boil until
you can rub them as a paste through a
sieve, add little milk and hot water,
some shreds of onion, return to soup pot.
Season to taste and favor with parsley
or dried thyme.
Canning Sweet Corn.-One quart of
water to three quarts OF corn. Let the
corn come to boil. Add one teaspoon
full of tartaric acid to each quart of corn.
Boil fifteen minutes, When wanted for
use, add one teaspoonful of soda to each
quart of corn; let it stand one hour be-
fore cooking.
Cucumber Catsup.-Grate large cucum-
bers before they begin to turn yellow
drain out the juice and put the pulp
through a siev. to remove the large
seeds; fill bottle half full of the pulp,
discarding the juice, and add the same
quantity OF ten per cent vinegar; cork
tightly. When used add pepper and salt;
salt kills the vinegar if put in when made.
During seasons when rains are frequent
the effect of tile drainage is made v.ry
manifest by comparison with undrain,d
fields. 1t requires but short time for
a tile drained field to rid itself OF the sur
plus water and become warm. Tile
drainage has in all cases proved of incal-
culable benefit to lands that are liable to
continued dampness from an excess of
moisture.
A Quick Manure.-If your strawberry
beds or your flower beds seem to be
languishing, and especially if the LEAKAGE
il small and pale. little saltpetre, say
pound to square rod, if applied just be-
fore rain. will astonish you by it's effect
in stimulating the growth and enriching
the color. It should he scattered as
evenly as possible on the soil, not on the
plants. II rain is not expected at once,
liberal watering will develop it's action.
The Best Fertilizer.-A Southern pa
per AYERS that wood ashes contain all the
mineral elements of wood in an available
form. Ground raw hone supplements
this with nitrogenous matter and need
ed excess of phosphoric acid. For trees
ten inches or more in diameter, barrel
of ashes and fifty pounds OF bone spread
evenly around the tree over circle of
thirty feet in diameter and dug in well
astonish most people by the effect it will
produce.
Preserved Peaches.-Twelve pounds
ripe peaches, six pounds sugar, one pint
vinegar. Make a syrup of the sugar,
vinegar and little water. When this
10 ho;l a.
and cook until they are 80 soft that
stone. Do not think this is recipe for
picked peaches; the vinegar will not be
noticed except in the increased richness
of the preserves.
How to Trap Hawks According to
New England authority the best way to
trap hawks that he ever heard of is to
set up post ten feet high near the
poultry yard with perch on 1t. On this
perch set a common steel trap baited
with chickens head or dead chicken.
The hawks like to perch on some such
point of observation before taking their
final swoop down among the chicks, and
are very apt to get caught in such an ar
rangement.
Clover can be sown in the fall. The
seed is put in about the middle of Aug
US or September. To prepare the land
plow it now and let the seeds of weeds
sprout. Just before seeding plow the
land again, and dress it with a mixture
of thirty bushels of lime and wood ashes
harrow well, SOW the seed and brush the
land over, so as to lightly cover the seed.
1t will make better ''catch" than when
clover is seeded on grain in the spring.
Fruit-Dangers and Remedies.-An
excessive amount of fruit, or, if eaten
either in the unripe or over-ripe state,
produces various disturbances in the
system, chiefly so because of its tendency
to ferment and decompose within the
digestive tact, and to produce stomach
and bowel disorders. If these distuban-
ces are not too great, or too prolonged,
they need occasion no special anxiety.
A dose of castor oil, to which a few drops
of laudanum have been added is usually
sufficient to clean out the irritating "de-
bris," and in day or two the natural
equilibrium is restored. Il there is much
gripping and pain with the movements,
and these become too numerous to be
comfortable, the dose of oil should be fol-
lowed by curtailing activity--by quiet
and repose-by diet of meat broths,
containing rice, barley, or sago: by rice
and milk, milk .oast, etc.
Water Cress-1he water cress is a
weed, pure and simple. 1t can never be
anything else. Efforts TO cultivate it and
produce better and more delicate species
have been made, and signally failed. Un-
der artificial treatment it loses the faint,
piquant, mustard favor that is its espec-
ial charm, and assums much OF the hot,
pungent, taste of the horseradish. 1t
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