Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-06-23
THE HOME AND FARM.

Baf VIII cure nlccOuBnb.
1t has been found that rich milk
yields its cream more readily than thin
milk.
1t is specks of %clabbered milk that
cause the white specks to appear in
butter.
A small quantity of salt put in eggs
before beating will cause them TO beat
much finer and quicker.
A tablespoonful of powdered alum
sprinkled in a barrel of water will pre-
cipitate all impure matter to the bot
Milk begins to sour from the bottom
and sides of a vessel therefore set the
milk pans in very cold water for the
cream to rise.
If you can afford to buy commercial
fertilizers you can much better afford
to buy good feed and manufacture the
fertilizer for yourself.
In making sauce for pudding, etc.,
mix the flour and sugar together first
when dry, adding the salt, and you
will have q much smoother sauce.
Once more allow us to say that milk
must never be allowed to clabber before
the cream is skinned. If you let it do
so you lose a heavy percentage of the
cream.
1t requires a good farmer to make a
profit from growing staple crops ex-
clusively with commercial fertilizers {;
but then good farmers seldom try to do
it. They know better ways.
If you dip your broom in clear, hot
suds once a week, then shake it till it is
almost dry, then hang it up or stand it
with the handle down, it will last twice
as long as ii would without this opera
ton.
The farmers wife should have ONE
thing to call her own, and of which the
earnings should be her own. Butter
and eggs at least should help fill her
pocketbook instead of paying store
bills.
A tin dish will wear much longer and
retain its color better if before using
at all it is thoroughly creased with
good lard, outside and in, and allowed
to remain for sometime before washing
it off.
Very few farmers are SO situated that
they can afford to cultivate poor land.
Ii they have such.it will pay better to
devote their energies for O time to build
ing it up, rather than to making crops
for sale.
Always mix starch in cold water I'M
til free from Jumps pour on boiling
water, stirring well until the proper
consistency boil ten minutes, add a
little lard, butter or shavings of sper-
maceti or prepared gum arabic, then
cool.
Dissolve one pound of salsoda and
half a pound of lime in five quarts of
water and boil for a few minutes, stir
ring occasionally. Remove from the
lire and allow it to settle pour off the
clear liquid into a stone jar and cork
Tor use. Half a teacupful of this fluid
added to a half boiler of boiling water
on wash days will save a great deal of
labor.
"A Connecticut former writing to
Hoard's Dairyman, says: "When
mink OF the amount of hay my caps
have saved me, l do not ask myself
whether they have paid or not. Last
year bought some unbleached cotton
two yards wide and made a sheet wide
and long enough to protect a large
stack OF hay. 1t more than paid for
itself, and is good for twenty years to
come, 1t is a very handy thing to
throw over a load in al emergency. 1t
is good failing to have it rather too
large than too small. This sheet was
made with eyelet holes in the sides and
ends i n which to tie strings and cords.
10 these cords weights are attached to
hold the sheet in place.
CUTTING AND CURING CLOVER.
Be sure and cut the clover early, be-
fore the seed is formed. Clover is a
biennial, one of those plants that begin
to die when once it has produced seed.
Here is the point: By cutting before
the seed forms you can cut two crops in
II season and still keep the root alive.
AT least it will not die because its pur-
pose has been fulfilled. This zeal we
shall need all the hay we can get.
Skilfull management of our clover
meadows will give as large additional
yield of hay and have the roots right
for the next season. That wise farmer,
the late Hiram Smith, once showed us
a field of medium clover nine years old
from which he had taken that a
fully three tons per acre in three cut
tings, But there is another great adj
vantage in early cutting. The hay for
milk and butter purposes is worth
double that of the ordinary grade, says
as good authority as Hoard's Dairy
90 0.
The thick stems of a rank growth of
clover make it hard to cure by the or
binary means of exposure to the sun.
Long before these stems are dried
through, the tender, thin leaves will be