Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-10
HOME AND FARM.
A Pointer for Wheat Growers -Fertilize
the Orchard-Rose Insects-Rtce
Fritters- Remedy for Scours.

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Eight cents per round is the cost o.
sending seeds by mail The package
must not exceed four pounds.
DO not try to cultivate onions deep; II
an inch of the surface IS kept mellow
and no weeds allowed to grow, it is al
the cultivation that will he needed.
Black Cake.-One pound each OF flour
butter, sugar and citron, cut fine; two
pounds each of raisins and currants
twelve eggs, one tablespoonful each OF
nutmeg, cinnamon and mace. Bake
nearly four hours in moderately heated
oven.
Berry baskets stored in crates in the
same manner as when filled with trult
are almost certain to he damaged 10y the
gnawing of mice if the mice have access
Ii the boxes are nestled together and
packed in they crates the are seldom
attacked.
Rice Fritters.-Four eggs beaten very
light, one pint OF milk, one cup OF boiled
rice, three teaspoons OF baking powder in
one quart of flour make into batter and
drop into bolliug lard. Sauce-One
pound OF sugar, one and One-halt cups OF
water, stick OF cinnamon, boil till clear.
Apple Ginger Make a syrup of four
pounds OF granulated sugar and pint OF
water in which cook very slowly four
pounds OF finely chopped tart apples,
peeled and cOred, and two ounces OF
green ginger. Add the grated rind OF
four lemons. Take it off tie stove when
it looks clear.
Coffee Cake-One cup of sugar, one
cup of melted bu ter, one cup New
Orleans molasses, one cup OF strong
coffee, one egg, one teaspOOntui OF baking
powder, one teaspoonful OF ground cloves,
one tablespoonful OF ground cinnamon,
one-half pound each Of raislns and cur
rants, and four cups of sifted flour.
Eggless Ice Cream-Scald two quarts
OF milk, vet four tablespOontuls OF corn
starch with cold milk, put into the scald-
ing milk with four cupluls OF sugar, and
boil until the taste OF the cornstarch is
gone; when quite cold add one quart OF
thick cream beaten stiff. Flavor with
vanilla, rose or chocolate and freeze.
Raw meat chopped fine and fed once a
day, will produce more eggs than any
other food that can be given the hen.
One pound Jf rough meat to fifteen hens
is sufficient. The meat should be lean,
and ii preferred, may he cooked, but 1t
gives better results when given raw. 1t
is not expensive when the increased
number Of eggs is considered,
How to Make lover Silage.-This
business is now, or soon will be, in order,
and here is point from practical man
worth deciding. A farmer with consider
able experience, who has sliced clover
for several wears, says II it should he lett
t. wilt on the ground for two hours after
cutting, and each davis filling OF the sllo
be allowed to heat before the fresh clover
is added, and the sides not the center,
kept thoroughly trampej, the clover will
come out moist and green, and the cattle
will relish it as thoroughly as summer
pasture.
Utilizing Dropped Manure,-An Ohio
farmer says that good way to utilize
dropped manure in lanes leading from
balnyard to fields is to plough and srrape
them where the surface is such that this
can be done Many lanes OF this kind
contain an undisturbed accumulation OF
wears. Build one permanent fence IN
the middle OF strip wide enough for two
lanes. say sixty feet, then build a port
able fence out on either side OF the lane.
When it becomes desirable to plough, re-
move the POI table fence over to the other
side for lane there.
Rose Insects.-The insects most harm
ful to roses are the green fly, red spider,
rose hopper or thrips, and the rose bug
and the black slug Now, though com
batting these insects involves some little
troubl $, yet success will attend all per
sistent effor s. The green fly, the thrips
end the black slug can all be kept under
by swinging the plants with solution
Of whale oil soap. One pound OF soap is
sufficient for eight gallons of water
Throw the water in fine spray on the
under as well as the upper sides OF tbs
leaves. A syringe with bent nozzle is
the best instrument with which to apply
the LIQUID to the lower sides of the leaves
The red spider can be held in check by
swinging the leaves with clear water il
dry times this should be doue every day
II the rose bug (Melolontha subsPinosa
makes its appearance, which Is not very
often, it can be destroyed by the lnsec
extermiDator.
Ferrilize the Orchard.-In advocating
the maintenance of the fertility OF the
orchard, DR.. Haskins, of Vermont says
he has never yet seen an orci ard too
rich for profit, nor one urOn which tht
last loads OF manure did not pay the mos
profit. He adds that the most profitable
orchard of the Williams Favorite apple
in the vicinity o, Boston is kept "as rlcl
AS a BARNARD" The fruit is double
what might be called the normal size o
the variety; every apple is handled like
an egg, and marketed at its point OF per
lection. This orchard is very profitable
though small. An orchard that wOulC
rival this is in the cit, Of Montreal, con
tanning thirty-six Fameuse tees, th'
fruit from which was sold, ungathered
one season, tor $500, The trees were
very large and perfectly healthy, and hat
all to themselves, almost an acre oil rlci
land.
4 Point for Wheat Growers. A graft
fying effect oi strewing straw thinly owe
the wheat plants on very !'oor spot o
land after the ground had !rozen ma
been reported by Mr.. Terry, OF ONO
7 The wheat was benefited but the re
malkable advantage lay in the gOot
catch and gooi gowth OF clover sown il
| the spring, which extended exact y Il
! the limit OF the straw m-th-one load Il
the acre. So says writer in the Week.,
/ Tribune, W no adds that he once owned
I two tielis in which there were spots o
the finest and cleanest OF loan, on whicl
clover seed always failed because OF th
surface running together into compac
glaze after the spring irosts, and he coulc
/ think OF no remedy. The straw seems t,
/ have prevented the rains IRON so packing
/ the surface i'll Mr.. Terry's valuable ex
perience, and clover, if it can be made t
( tr-ov, with certainty. will soon amend tn