Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-06

Canning sweet Corn-To Trap HAWKS
Preserved Peaches-Fhe Best
Fersilizer-wster Cress.

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the sheep be.
A bad cook should serve as atonemen'
for any amount OF wickedness.
MANY a cake and batch Of bread are
ruined by slamming the oven door.
good mulch is layer OF fine SOIL
such as frequent, shallow cultivation pro
vides.
II Won want the pedigree OF the SCRUB
animal. set it down as ignorance, pre-
JUDGE and parsimony inbred for genera
tons.
One bushel OF muck about young
vine or tree. in elayey soil, will give but
ter results than would be obtained IL
man hoed or watered continually.
Wagons and carts that are used daily
should have the axles well creased at
least three times week. II lessons the
work OF the horses.
More and finer fruit can be secured
by heavy mulching than by cultivation;
| Deep cultivation near the roots OF small
fruits is worse than neglect.
Grass growing around pearh trees will
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 III 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 favor with parsley
or dried thyme.
/ Canning Sweet Corn.-One quart OF
water to three quarts of corn. Let the
corn come to boil. Add one teaspoon
/ full of tartaric acid to each quart of corn.
/ Boil fifteen minutes. When wanted for
use, add one teaspoonfnl 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 slew 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 ii put in when made.
I During seasons when rains are frequent
| the effect of tile drainage is made very
manifest by comparison with undrain d
/ fields. 1t requires but a Shoit time for
tile drained field to rid itself OF the sur
plus water and become warm. Tile
drainage has in all cases proved OF meal
culable benefit to lands that are liable to
continued dampness from an excess OF
moisture.
A Quick Manure.-lf your strawberry
beds or yeur flower beds seem to be
languishing, and especially if the LEAKAGE
10 small and pale. little saltpetre, say
pound to square rod, if applied just be-
fore rain. will astonish 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. Ii rain is not expected at once, a
liberal watering will develop it's action.
The Best Fertilizer.-A Southern Do
per AYERS that wood ashes contain all the
mineral elements OF wood in an available
form. Ground raw bone supplements
this with heterogeneous matter and a need
ed excess OF phosphoric acid. For trees
ten inches or mere 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 in few at a time
and cook until they are so soft that a
broom splinter will easily pierce to the
stone. Do not think this is recipe for
picked peaches; the vinegar will not l,e
noticed except in the increased richness
OF the preserves.
How 10 Trap Hawks According 10 a
New England authority the best way to
trap hawks that he ever heard OF is 10
set up post ten feet high near the
poultry yard with perch on 1t. On this
perch get a common steel trap baited
with chickens head or dead chicken.
Inc 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
rangenent.
Clover can be sown in the fall The
seed is put in about the middle of Auo-
us or September. To prepare the land
pillow it now and let the seeds of weeGs
sprout- Just before seeding plow the
land again, and dress it with mixture
OF thirty bushels OF lime and wood ashes
narrow well, SOW the seed and brush the
land over, SO as to lightly cover the seed.
1t Will make better catch" than when
Glover is seeded on grain in the spring.
The roads are in bad condition for this
season, and the difficulty of usino them
should impress upon farmers the imnor-
lance oil selecting only the most capable
CITIZENS as road overseers. The road tav
Is Is one mat returns forefold to the farmer.
II rightly applied, which would be the
case II the farmers themselves would
take more interest IN the matter. This
is tiie season Tor hauling gravel on the
foads ana bitches should be dug along
the sides Tor carrying off the water.
Well-graveIed road should be seryiceabIe
the entire year and show no effects al use
except when the frost is leaving the
ground. '-''
Fruit-Dangers and Remedies.-An
excessive amount OF fruit, or, il eaten
either IN the unripe or over-ripe state
produces various disturbances in the
system, chiefly so because OF its tendency
to ferment and decompose within the
digestive tact, and to produce stomach
and bowel disorders. Ii these distnhan.
ces are not too great, or too prolonged
they need occasion no special ANXIETY