The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
HOME AND FARM.
A Pointer for Wheat Growers -Ear,;,,z.
the Orchard-Rose Insects-Rice
Fritters-Remedy for Scours.

now, or they may be injured.
The final touch which makes a dis
perfect is always an inspiration.
Eight cents per pound is the cost G
sending seeds by mail. The packay
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. it is al
the cultivation that will be needed.
Black Cake,-One pound each of flour
butter, sugar and citron. cut fine. tw,
pounds each OF raisins and c,lrrants
Twelve eggs, one tablespoonful each O
nutmeg, cinnamon and mace. Bak
nearly four hours in moderately heated
oven.
Berry baskets stored in crates in tn,
same manner as when filed with frui
are almost certain to be damaged by tn,
gnaWlng of mice if the mice have access
Ii the boxes are nestled together ant
packed IN they crates the are seldom
attacked.
Rice Fritters.-Four eggs beaten yer,
light, one pint OF milk, one cup of boiled
rice, three teaspoons of baking powder il
one quart OF flour; make into batter ant
drop into boiling lard. Sauce-Ont
pound OF sugar, one and one-half cups O
water, stick of cinnamon, boil till clear
Apple Ginger Make syrup of fou1
pounds OF granulated sugar and pint O
water in which cook very SLOWLY fou]
pounds OF fnely chopped tart apples
peeled and cored, and two ounces O
green ginger. Add the grated rind q
four lemons. Take it off the stove wher
it looks clear.
Coffee Cake.-One cup of sugar, one
cup OF melted butter, one cup New
Orleans molasses, one cup of strons
coffee, one egg, one teaspoonfui of bakins
powder, one teaspoonful of ground cloves
one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon
pound each of raisins and cur
rants, and four cups OF sifted -four.
Eggless Ice Cream.-Scald two quarts
OF milk, wet four tablespoonuls 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 q
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
Is not expensive when the increased
of eggs is considered
How to Make clover Silage.-This
business is now, or soon will he, in order
and here is point from a practical man
worth deciding. A farmer with consider
able experience, who has sliced clover
for several years, says if it should be left
to wilt on the ground for two hours after
cutting, and each DAYS filling of the silo
he allowed to heat before the fresh clover
is added, and the sides not the center,
Kept thoroughly tramped, 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 a good way to utilize
dropped manure in lanes leading from
ba1nyard 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
years. Build one permanent fence in
the middle of strip wide enough for two
lanes, say sixty feet, then build 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 Insecis.-The insects most harm
full to roses are the green fly, red spider,
rose hopper or thrips, and the rose bug
and the black sing. Now, though COM
batting these insects involves some little
broubl s, yet success will attend all per-
sistent efor,s. The green fly, the thrips
End the black slug can all be kept under
by Swinging the plants with a 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 the
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; in
.iry times this should be done every day.
If the rose bug (Melolontha subspinosa)
makes it's appearance, which is not very
often, it can be destroyed by the insect
Fertilize the Orchard.-In advocating
the maintenance of the fertility of the
orchard, DIR. Haskins, of Vermont says
he has never yet seen an orchard too
rich for profit, nor one uuOn which the
last loads OF manure did not pay the most
profit. He adds that the most profitable
orchard of the Williams Favorite apple
in the vicinity o. Boston is kept "as rich
as a barnyard." The fruit is double
what might be called the normal size OF
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 would
rival this is in the city of Montreal, con-
tanning thirty-six Fameuse tees, the
fruit from which was sold, ungathered,
one season, for $500. The trees were
very large and perfectly healthy, and had
MI TO themselves, almost an acre OF rich
land.
A Point for Wheat Growers.-A graft
fying effect OF strewing straw thinly over
the wheat plants on very poor spot OF
land after the ground had frozen has
been reported by Mr.. Terry, OF Ohio.
The wheat was benefited, but the re-
ma1kable advantage lay in the good
catch and goo1 growth OF clover sown ID
the spring, which extended -sxacty 70
the limit Of the straw :h--one load to
the acre. So says writer in the Weekly
Tribune, Who adds that he once owned
two fpLis in which there were spots Of
the finest and cleanest of loam, on which
clover seed always failed because OF the
surface running together into compact
glaze after the spring frosts, and he could
think of no remedy. The straw seems te
have prevented the rains from SO packing