The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09

Scraps of Linen-Lemon Syrup-Millet
and Hungarian Grass-Pea-Vine
Hay-Summer Plowing.

Tut out more peas. Have a success
sion OF them until summer.
Wherever there is a low damp place
there should be a ditch or an under layer
OF drain tile.
Currantade.-Masht together one pound
OF ripe red currents with one-half their
weight OF raspberries, and half pound
OF sugar and one gallon of cold water.
Str strain and bottle whatever is not
needed at once. 1t VIII keep on ice for
several days.
Strawberry Ice.-Wash and hull the
fruit and press it through colander. To
every quart OF the expressed Juice and
pulp add one teacupful OF cold water.
Sweeten to taste, very sweet taste. then
Stir IN the unbeaten whites of three eggs
and freeze like ice cream. The result is
very delicious desert and one easily
made.
Lemon Syrup.-To every pint of the
juice OF sound, unblemished lemons add
one pound and half of sugar, boil. skim
and seal in cans like fruit. Orange iuice
with one-fourth or one-sixth of the ouan-
tlty OF lemon juice added, may be SINH
llarly prepared. These preparations are
economical at some seasons of the year
ana as gooc Tor cooking purposes, or for
beverage, as the fresh fruit.
Chickens from black fowls. srch as
Ladgshans, Black Hamburgs, Courier
Pattes, and even Spanish and Black
Mlnorcas, come with more or less white
In their do~ny coloring, and sometimes
black or black and yellowish white on
the under part, and sometimes part of
the head is white, and even the flight
feathers show some white when they he
gin to grow, but they soon disappear.
Arsenical poisons Paris green and
London purple were used the past sea-
son Tor protection against curculion ON
plums and the coddiing worm on apples.
To et1ectually make the plum and apple
culture profitable the fruit-grower in each
neighborhood should act in concert The
object should be to prevent the maturity
OF single insect, if possible, in order TO
lessen the work another season. tt ia
beheved that by united work these pests
may IN time be subdued or exterminated.
but 1t cannot be accomplished by the
efforts OF single individual.
Laying hens are very fond of broken
bones. They help to digest other food
when they cannot get at sharp gravel
and With the strong digestive apparatus
which fowls have, every part is made
use OF. The lime goes to make the shells.
but ii the bones nave been only cooked
and not burned, they are full of material
from which the egg itself is made. The
only advantage from burning bones is to
make them break up more easily. The
towels certainly do not like them as well.
nor are they 20 good for them as when
broken no without burning.
There is great and notable increase
IN the demand for sweet cream. and this
Ia likely to continue. One cause doubt
less is the use of creameries and of ice
for making cream rise quickly, and with
the least possible injury by absorption
from the air. Cream is ne longer old be-
fore 1t is gathered; in fact, it is unaffected
by Injurious odors, as is new milk. The
old-fashioned cream raised ip open mans
is good for cooking purposes; but ike
cooking butter it cannot be made geuer-
ally popular as that from creameries is.
Preserving Fence Posts.-Waldo F.
Brown suggests that the END posts. which
must bear the strain of stretching the
wires, be set with concrete. 1t will take
but few cents worth of cement to
post, and will make it perfectly firm at
the bottom, and also more durable than
ii set in the clay. 1t is almost impossible
to set posts firm enough so tha4 they will
not yield to the strain when 'she land is
wet and soft, but by digging hole fifteen
inches square and pounding it full of
coarse cement grout around the post it
will give base enough to the post to keep
it Id place.
A correspondent makes inquiries re-
garding millet and Hungarian grass.
They are very similar in appearance. but
the Inillet grows higher and affords but
one cutting, while the Hungarian grass
can be cut every five weeks If the soil is
nch. They are summer crops. and are
not usually sown Until Nav. The hay
from millet and Hungarian grass il
highly relished by all classes of stock
and the yield is usually heavy. The
ground should be well manured, har-
rowed fine and ten quarts of seed Der acre
sown, or even more II thick growth is
desired.
Never throw away a scrap of linen.
Let this be craven upon the heart of
every woman. Every scrap of linen that
has served its purpose should be care
fully washed and ironed and laid away in
a proper recepticle for home or hospital
use. Old handkerchief, table-napkins.
tablecloths, sheets, towels and pillow
cases should be placed in their respect
i've places, 30 that when wanted they
may be easily found. Despise no piece
OF linen however small The linen part
OF frayed cuffs or collars may be detached
and put away for future use. The hens
OF tablecloths, sheets and pillow cases
should be taken off before they are
Old towels that are SO often
thrown away, as Of no value, are also of
use In cases OF illness. What satisfae-
ton to the housekeeper it is when an ap-
peal ls made for old linen by the hospital
TO know that she has but to go to her old
or box and put up pack
age OF snowy, soft linen that may be at
once despatched for the needs Of the suff-
ering-
Early Summer Plowing-It is not cus-
tomary to plow in the summer, Just at
the busiest time of harvesting, but when
the farmer is busy then is the weeds op-
portunIty. They take possession and
grow. They viii not grow as well when
the seed is uncovered, and the opportu-
nifty OF the farmer should be to induce
them to grow. Instead of leaving the
stubble land idle for the weeds to grow
on. with the uncovered seeds remaining
to be plowed under for spring crop, the
stubble land should he plowed as soon as
the wheat crop is of. 1t should not be
turned under deeper than one or two
inches if possible, and if the soil is light
the cultivator may serve to break it up.
The seeds of the weeds will then gernli-
nate (as also the seeds Of any Grain that