Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-16
mons AND Farm.
A pointer for wheat Growers-Fertiiize
the orchard-Rose 1nsects-R'ce
Eritters-Remedy for Scours-


neriect is always an inspiration.
Eight cents per pound is the cost OF
sending seeds By mail. The package !
must not exceed four pounds.
Do not try to cultivate onions deep
an inch OF the surface is kept mellow,
and no weeds allowed to grow, 1t is all
the cultivation that will be needed.
Black Cake.-One pound each OF flour,
butter. sugar and citron, cut tine two
rounds each of raisins and currants
twelve eggs, one tablespoonful each OF
nutmeg. cinnamon and mace. Bake
nearly four hours in Il moderately heated
oven.
Berry baskets stored in crates in the
same manner as when filled with fruit
are almost certain TO be damaged by the
pnawing OF mice il the mice have access:
II the boxes are nestled together ana
hacked ia 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 -four; make into batter and
drop into boiling lard. Sauce-one
pound of sugar, one and one-halt cups oil
water. stick of cinnamon, boil till clear
Annie Ginger. Make syrup OF four
pounds of granulated sugar and pint OF
water in which cook very slowly four
rounds OF finely chopped tart applies,
peeled and cored, and two ounces oil
green ginger. Add the grated rind OF
| four lemons Take it Off the stove when
/ il looks clear.
Coffee Cake.-One cup OF sugar, one
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| Orleans molasses, one cup oil strong
coffee. one egg, one teaspoonful OF baking
powder, one teaspoonful oil ground cloves,
one tablespoonful OF ground cinnamon,
one-half pound each OF raisins and cur
rants. and four cups OF sifted Hour.
Eegjess Ice Cream.-Scald two quarts
of milk. wet four tablespooniuls OF corn
starch with cold milk, put into the scald-
ing milk with four cupfuls 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 of rough meat to fifteen hens
is sufficient. The meat should be lean,
and if preferred, may be cooked, but II
gives better results when given raw. 1t
il not expensive when the increased
2 number Of eggs is considered,
d How TO Make lover Silage.-This
business is now or soon will be- in order
b and here is point from practical man
, worth deciding. farmer with consider
able experience, who has sliced clover
for several years, says if it should be LEI
a TO wilt on the ground Tor two hours aite
It cutting, and each DAVIS filling OF the silt
be allowed TO heat before the fresh Glove
is added, and the sides not the center
!, Kept thoroughly tramped, the clover VII
y come out moist and green, and the cattl
u will relish it as thoroughly as summe
% pasture.
! Utilizing Dropped Manure.-An Obi
=" farmer saws that good way 10 utiliZ
dropped manure in lanes leading iron
/ bainyard to fields is to plough and strap
:, them where the surface is such that thi
= can be done. Many lanes OF this kin
contain an undisturbed accumulation G
wears Build one permanent fence i
y the middle OF a strip wide enough tor tw
l. lanes, say sixty feet, then build por
q able fence out on either side OF the Liant
When it becomes desirable to plough, r,
| move tiit POI ldDtt itHNt oNtl " tiiN tbiiS
Y, side Tor "A lane there.
~ Rose Insects.-The insects most harm
iul TO roses are the green fly, red spide
rose hopper or thrips, and the rose bu
lie and the black sing. Now, though con
batting these insects involves some lit
IS troubl s, yet success will attend all pc
sistent efforts. The green fly, the thril
j. End the black slug can all be kept und,
40 by swinging the plants with solutlo
81 OF whale oil soap. One pound OF soap
sufficient for eight gallons OF waite
Throw the water in a fine spray on Il
at under as well as the upper sides of Il
he leaves. A syringe with bent nozzle
lis the best instrument with which to app
the LIQUID to the lower sides of the leave
The red spider can be held in check
sh Swinging the leaves with clear water
he Try times this should be done every da
he If the rose bug (Melolontha subspinos
makes its appearance, which is not We
am often, it can be destroyed by the inse
a. extermiDator.
ITS fertilize the 0rchard.--ln adyocatil
the maintenance of the fertility OF Il
orchard, Dr. Haskins, OF Vermont sa
lr he has never yet seen an orchard t
ru rich for profit, nor one uvon which Il
ah last loads of manure did not pay the me
81 profit He adds that the most protitat
NO orchard of the Williams FaVorite apr
,as in the vicinity o, Boston is kept ''as RI
y, as barnyard." The iruit is dout
~ what might be called the normal size
the variety every apple IS handled Ii
we an egg, and marketed at its point OF p,
,s lection. This orchard is very protits,b
or. though small An orchard that Won
.ck rival this is in the city OF Montreal, &C
tanning thirty-six Faneuse tees, t
fruit from which was sold, ungathere
,or one season, for $500. The trees We
.he very large and perfectly healthy, and h
ew all to themselves, almost an acre oil ri
lily land.
A Point for Wheat Growers A gra
ain tying effect oil strewing straw thinly oN
ati the wheat plants on very poor spot
1ry land after the grouad had frozen /
ow been reported by Mr.. Terry, OF Oh
The wheat was benefited but the
man able advantage lay in the 20
= OF catch and good growth OF clover sown
The the spring, which extended "Nacty
ave the limit oil the straw m--sh-one load
100 the acre. So says Il writer in the Weel
Tribune, who adds that he once own
two fields in which there were spots
IN the finest and cleanest OF loan. on viii
the clover ssad ALWAYS failed hecausa nj ,
ris- surfaca runpinv tosether into a comm
TIC glaze after the spring irosts, and he co.
think oi no remedy, The straw seems
NJ have prevented the rains from so pack
Ia the surface in Mr.. rerry's ,aluabe
or perience, and clover, ii it can be made