Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-31
HO1I AND FARM.
Canning Sweet Corn-To Trap Hawks
Preserved Peaches-The Best
Fertilizer-Water Cress.

1t never troubles the vol 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 a layer OF fine soil,
such as frequent, shallow cultivation pro-
vides.
Ii 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 a young
vine or tree, in clayey soil, will give but
ter results than would be obtained ii a
man hoed or watered continually.
Wagons and carts that are used daily
should have the axles we'll creased at
least three times week. 1t lessons the
work Of the horses.
More and finer truit can he secured
by heavy nulching than by cultivation.
Deep cultivation near the roots OF small
fruits is worse than neglect.
Grass growing around peach h tr es viii
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 i'll cold water, drain,
and put into cold water and boil until
you can rub them rs a paste through a
sieve, add little milk and hot water,
some shreds OF onion, return to soup pot.
Season to taste and flavor with parsley
or dried thyme.
Canning Sweet COrn-One quart OF
water to three quarts OF corn. Let the
corn come to a boil. Add one teaspoon
ful 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-
lore 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 very
manifest by comparison with unirdin 'd
fields. 1t requires but a sholt time for
tile drained field to rid itself OF the sur
plus water and become warm. Tile
drainage has in all cases proved OF incal-
cuable 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
G small and pale. little saltpetre, say
pound to a square rod, if applied just be-
fore rain. will astOnlsh you by its effect
in stimulating the growth and enriching
the color. 1t should he scattered as
evenly as possible on the soil, not on the
plants If rain is not expected at once, a
liberal watering will develop its 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 bone supplements
this with uitrogenous 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 a 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
comes to boil, drop i'll a few at a time
and cook until they are so soft that Il
broom splinter will easily pierce to the
stone. DO not think this is a recipe for
picked peaches; the vinegar will not be
noticed except in the increased richness
of the preserves.
How to Trap Hawks According to a
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 a perch on 1t. On this
perch get cOmEuOn steel trap baIted
! with a chickens head or a 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.
Glover 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 weeus
: sprout. Just before seeding plow the
land again, and dress it with 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.
It will make better ''catch" than when
! clover is seeded on grain IN the SPRING
The roads are in bad condition for this
season. and the difficulty OF using them
should impress upon farmers the lmpnr-
tance of selecting only the most capable
citizens as road overseers. The road tax
ia one thst returns forefold to the farmer,
if rightly applied, which would be the
case if the farmers themselves would
take more interest in the matter. This
is the season for hauling gravel on the
roads and bitches should be dug along
the sides for carrying off the water. A
yell-graveled road should be serviceable
the entire year and show no effects OF use
except when the frost is leaving the
ground.
! Fruit-Dangers and Remedies.-An
excessive amount OF fruit, or, If eaten
either in the uuripe or over-ripe state,
produres various disturbances in the
system, chiefly so because OF its tendency
to ferment and decoInpose 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 few drops
nj Iaudanum have been added is usually
sufF{ciant IN clean ont the irritating de