Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-06


Memory sweet brings back to me
The see-saw under the mulberry tree.
-Ahd7,tic Journal
Home Made Potato Yeast.
Homemade yeast is great economy.
Once, while discussing with two women
of the poorer class how they might get
better living from the amount expend-
ed, / was astonished to find that the
yeast bill alone of one of them was SIS a
year. Her family were factory hands
and several in number, and she bought
her yeast at the corner grocery, where
it was procured from a brewery; it was
not always to be relied upon, and she
frequently had sour and heavy bread I
gave her the formula of making good
potato yeast, telling her that the ingre-
dents for the years yeast-making
would not cost her 81. She tells
me that she has had good bread
ever since, and no time spent
semi-weekly running for yeast, and that
she has taught dozen other people to
make it, Here is the formula: Pare
eight large potatoes, dropping immedi-
ately in a pan of cold water. Have a
tea-kettle of boiling water at hand, then
CRATE the potatoes into large earthen
cooking dish, adding little Of the boil
ing water, and stirring, after each two
or three are grated, which prevents the
grated potato from turning dark-col-
ored. When all are done pour on suf-
fcient boiling water, (stirring constant
of boiled starch; then put it in bright
new tin pan, add one cupful of salt, one
cupful of sugar; one teaspoonful of gin
ger. In the meantime a double hand
full of good hops should have been
placed in a bag in basin and boiling
water poured over them; when stepped,
drain off the liquid and add to the
yeast, place it on the back of the
range and cook slowly two or three
hours, stirring frequently. Then place
to cool, and when lukewarm add a pint
bowlful of good yeast, and set in a mod
erately warm place to raise. This yeast
will keep three months in winter, and
six weeks in summer, and never fails to
make good bread. 1t will be as light as
puff, ana when the foam has some
what subsidized, place it an earthen jug;
be sure that the jug is perfectly sweet,
water; keep the jug on the cellar bot
tom, and always fiji quart can three
fourths full Eighty screwing on the
top), to remain undisturbed, as starter
for the next batch of yeast. AS this is
not opened until time to make again, it
loses none of its strength. With this
yeast properly made there is no posi-
bility of having poor bread, unless from
entire ignorance of the process of put
ting it together Housekeeping.
Proper Care of Trees.
Says the Practical Farmer: Very few
young trees receive the proper care and
attention after they have been planted
until they have reached sturdy matu-
rity. Many magnificent trees have
grown up to fine proportions, and lived
to good old age, without care or fore
good trees that survive to the whole
number which spring up annually is
very small indeed. Nature is so lavish
with her seeds that some must survive !;
but her work can be greatly supple
mented by man. Every newly-planted
treesshould have stake for support, to
keep it from being whipped about by
the wind. The trees should be fastened
to the stakes by strips of cloth, or some
substance that will not cut into the tree.
After they are planted, thorough cult
walton should be given, the ground
around them being stirred every two or
three weeks until the 1st of Septem-
Der. Sometimes a mulch of straw or
manure around the trees will answer
the same purpose as stirring the soil.
The trees must be watched during the
growing season and injurious insects
and borers kept down. The whole
shape of the tree should be made dur
| ing it's first year or two of growth, and a
great deal of injurious pruning will then
be saved. A bud may be pinched off
with less loss to the tree than the prun-
ing off of large branch later in life.
Very little Of thumb pruning will be
needed the first year, but during the
second and third it may be employed
quite extensively The tree can thus
be easily shaped without any loss Of vi
tai force. Pruning will be necessary,
however, to supplement the thumb
| pinching work. This will be required
every year for some time, if it is desired
to give the tree a noble, symmetrical
apDearance Whenever good branch,
or an incipient fork, threatens the life
and beauty of the tree, or a branch is
! found growing in the wrong direction,
the thumb or pruning knife should be
used as soon as possible. The earlier
in the life of the tree that this work is
done the less will be the injury done
the tree growth.
WHY Flax Should be Stacked.
To protect mature field of fax by
placing in stack at the proper time is a
| test of the acumen and thrift OF the
owner. It is the alert farmer who rises
to a full comprehension OF what the
critical period Of flax farming demands;
his activity is stimulated by the knowl-
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