Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-03
HON AND FARM.
Scraps of Linen-Lemon Syrup-Millet
and Hungarian Grass-Pea-Vine
Hay-Summer Flowing.

Put out more peas. Have a success
sion of them until summer.
Wherever there is low damp place
there should be ditch or an under layer
of drain tile.
Currantade.-Mash together one pound
of ripe red currents with one-half their
OF sugar and one gallon of cold water.
needed at once. 1t will keep on ice for
several days.
| Strawberry Ice.-Wash and hull the
fruit and press it through a 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 hall of sugar, boil, skim
and seal in cans like fruit. Orange juice
with one-fourth or one-sixth OF the guam
tity Of lemon juice added, may be simi-
ilarly prepared. These preparations are
economical at some seasons of the year
and as good for cooking purposes, or for
beverage, as the fresh fruit.
Chickens from black fowls, such as
Ladgshans, Black Hamburgs, Courier
Pattes, and even Spanish and Black
Minorcas, come with more or less white
in their downy 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 be-
gin to grow, but they soon disappear.
Arsenical poisons paris green and
London purp1e) were used the past sea-
son for protection against curculion on
pIums and the coddling worm on apples.
To efectually make the plum and apple
culture profitable the iruit-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. 1t is
believed that by united work these pests
may in time be subdued or exterminated,
but it 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 if the bones have 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 go good for them as when
broken no without burning.
There is great and notable increase
in the demand for sweet cream, and this
is 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 no longer old be-
fore it is gathered; in fact, it is unaffected
| by injurious odors, as is new milk. The
old-fashioned cream raised in open pans
is good for cooking purposes; but like
cooking butter it cannot be made gener-
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 a
post, and will make it perfectly firm at
| the bottom, and also more durable than
| if set in the clay. 1t is almost impossible
to set posts firm enough SO that they will
not yield to the strain when the land Is
wet and soft, but by digginga 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 in place.
A correspondent makes inquiries re-
garding millet and Hungarian grass.
They are very similar in appearance, but
the rnillet grows higher and affords but
one cutting, while the Hungarian grass
can be cut every five weeks if the soil is
rich. They are summer crops, and are
not usually sown until May. The hay
from millet and Hungarian grass is
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 per acre
sown, or even more if a 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-napklns,
tablecloths, sheets, towels and pillow
cases should be placed in their respect
i've places, SO 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
ironed. Old towels that are so often
thrown away, as OF no value, are also OF
use in cases Of illness. What satlsiac-
ton to the housekeeper 1t Is when an ap-
peal is made for old linen by the hospital
to know that she has but to go to her old
linen-drawer or box and put up pack
age OF snowy, soft linen that may be at
once despatched for the needs OF the sutf-
ering.
Early Summer Plowing.-It is not Gus
tomary to plow in the summer, just at
the busiest time of harvesting, but when
the farmer is busy then is the weeds op-
portunitv. They take possession and
grow. They will not grow as well when
the seed is uncovered, and the opportu-
nity 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
stubbie land should be plowed as soon as
the wheat crop is off. 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.
rrIo snoda of tha ,raads will then permi-