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I'ARJl AND HOUSE.
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OF INTEREST TO THE
her and Housewife.
Potash H A* Insertirlde.
Dining the recent annual convention
of the fruit-growers, under the auspices
of the State board of horticulture, in n
discussion on insecticides, a member of
San Jose gnvc his experience with potash.
liein^kit%icssra of an old orchard alxmt
the mlii the srnle became prevalent nt
Sun Jose, he had ample opportunity of
testing insecticides. He started out on
the basis of pota»li. He gave the prefer
ence at first to potash, because there is
nothihgf lost in using it, for if $50 be
spent to put it on the orchard he gets it
back in tlio course of a few years. He
believes that without potash one will not
get very good fruit.
Mr. Br.ittnn, the Hup Jose member,
started in on the potash experiment some
eight’ years ago, and for two yoar* has
not seen n sign of the scale in the old
orchard that had been so badly infested.
He began by using pure potash, or con
centrated-lye, which contains ninety-five
|ter cent, of potash. He dissolved this
in water at tire rat? of ono pound of lye
to four gallons of water, and thoroughly
drenched the trees with the solution by
means of a small force-pump. He gave
them all they needed and lit it go into
the ground. This treatment, continued,
hud finally rid his trees of the scale.
.Additional pxperihients have con
vinced Mr. Brittnn that all washes for
the extermination of insects should be
based on potash, not only for the imme
diate effect but for the beneficial cfTect
afterward.--Neu> Yuri- World.
Farm ami Garden Males.
’’When sldm milk or buttermilk can bo
secured nt from two to throe cents per
gallon, it is one of the cheapest foods
that can be given to chickens. It may
largely take the placo of flesh, and will
induce them to lay early and often.
Cuttings of roses, lieliotropcs, etc., will
grow better if taken off at the junction
of the old and new wood, and should be
cut oil just below a joint or bud, as the
roots start from that point, and if a bud
is not left, near or close to the base the
cutting is liable to decay in the soil.
The beet draws its nourishment from
an area of twelve square feet for each
plant. This has been proved by explor
ing to the ends of the roots carefully, it
being found thnt these extend downward
and outward in all directions for several
feet. It is evident tliut whore size of
root is desired the plants must be given
plenty of room.
Soils are formed by the disintregation
of rock and tho decomposition of veget
able matter, The rock furnishes tho
mineral part and the vegetation the or
ganic part. Hence the character of tho
soil will vary with the kind of rock from
which it was produced, the extent of tho
decomposition it has undergone und the
kind and amount of organic matter that
is mixed with the decomposed rock.
The craving for salt in animals is-nat
ural, and not a result of the care of man.
When this country was wild every salt
spring was frequented by deer, a fact
that was taken advantage of by the hunt
ers for their capture. Near the ocean
lc.-s suit is required than further inland,
owing to the fact thnt the utmosherc is in
a degree charged with salt, and this is
imparted to the growing crops through
the dew and rain.
The cutting of dry cornstalks leaves
some sharp points, which injure tho
stomach, und occasionally with fatal
Jesuits. Hut tlie tendency of cut corn
stalks, if left in large heaps, is to heat
quickly, which will so soften them that
meal will adhere, and ran thus bo fed
without loss, as cows will eat butts when
thus prepared. If corn is cut early the
coarser parts of the stalk are even more
nutritious thnn the fine part nour the
tassel.
It is more profitable in tho long run
everywhere to feed nil the coarse grain
grown on the farm thnn to sell it. More
ready monfey is, however, secured by the
latter plnn, and the necessities of most
farmers oblige them to pursue the more
wasteful policy of exhausting fertility
till the soil will no longer pay for culti
vation. When' once the exhaustive pro
cess is begun it becomes every year
more difficult to make a change for the
better.
Fruit growers agree that bagging is
the only sure means of protection from
grape rot. Grape vines may be protected
by laying down tho vines in the full and
throwing sufficient dirt over them to
keep them in place. Professor Tracy
says that tho grape rot is not the result
of a disease, us the term is generally un
derstood, but is due to a fungus which
comes of spores conveyed to the grapes
through the air. It requires water for
the spores to germinate in, hence, if kept
dry, the grapes will be free from rot.
When grown in dry situations, grapes
nrc less liable to rot thnn when grown
on wet lands.
Sheep can best lie fattened at from one
and n half to two years old. Previous to
this t hue the Wool should pay a reason
able profit upon the keeping. At this ago
sheep will take on more fat from the same
amount of feed, and the mutton be of
better quality than if held longer. The
mutton market is most active from about,
the 1st of February until tho 1st of May,
after this period the supply generally
being full and prices lower. Sheep fat
tened for the early market require more
feed, better shelter and care, but the
4ra cost. Those turned into the market
du ring the summer or fall have the ad
vantage of green feed supplied at less
cost than dry.
ettn, then put it into a pan ot cold water;
set it on the stove in a stewpan and let it
come to aboil; then have your griddle
hot, and broil tho meat with a little but
ter dropped into the pan and a plentiful
sprinkling of black pepper.
Brown Bkttt.—Cut into thin slices
several large apples, hare ready buttered
pudding dish; put into this layer of
grated bread crumbs, then a layer of
slieod apples; over these sprinkle sugar,
and so on alternately, bread, apples, su
gar, hntil pudding dish is full, letting
the top layer oe of bread crumbs; on this
place throe largj lumps of butter, put in
oven and bake brown. Servo hot with
butter and sugar sauce.
Farmers’ Fruit Cakk.—Soak three
cups of dried apples over night in warm
water; chop slightly in the morning, and
then simmer two hoars or moro in two
cups of molassoa until the apples resem
ble citron. Mako a cake of two eggs,
ono cup sugar, one cup swoct milk,
three-fourths cup butter, one and a half
teaspoons soda, flour to make a rather
thick hatter, spice in plenty; put in the
apples and bake in a quick oven. This
is very nice.
Mu.k Biscuit.—Warm one quart of
new milk, and cut up into it a quarter of
a pound of butter; stir well together and
let it cool; then add half a cup of yeast,
a teaspoonful of salt ami as much sifted
flour as will make a dough still enough
to roll. Let it stand in n warm place
until quite light, then roll out about an
inch thick, und cut into small round
cakes. Place them on bartered tins, and
let them rise again; stick each one with
a fork, and bake twenty minutes in a
quick oven.
CfitoKEX and Corn Soup.—Even in the
country’ where old fowls must be dis
posed of in some way, it is seldom econ
omical to boil them to pieces just to
make soup. But if you will save the
liquor in which these have been boiled
the day before for tho table a delightful
soup may be supplied good enough for
city hoarders und company. Take two
qunrti of tlie liquor left from boiling a
chicken, cleared of fat after it is cold;
one can of corn, chopped; n tablespoou-
ful of butter in ono of flower, one tabic-
spoonful of minced parsley and the same
of green onion tops; add pepper and salt
mid one enp of bailing milk. Boil the
corn and liquor slowly together for an
hour ufter they begin to bubble. Hub
thoroughly through a colander, season
and add herbs. Heat to boiling, stir in
the flower mixed with butter, simmer
five minutes, und pour it into tureen und
boiling milk.
The Manufacture of Diaries.
“The manufacture of diaries,” saida
stationer to a reporter, “though one of
the largest industries in tho country, is
carried on by only three firms, two in
Now York city and ono in Cambridge-
port, Mass.
‘‘Thereusan why there arc so few in
tho business is the enormous amount of
capital required to ea-ry on tho undertak
ing. Tho amount of capital required
runs up into the hundreds of thousands
of dollars. It is a singular fact that the
president of the largest of the three great
diary manufacturing companies was at
one time the foreman in the establishment
over which he pre-ides. These firms
have now tuken the first steu to manufac
ture diuries for 1887. It is wh it you might
call a long-winded business. You havo
got to go into it on an im
mense scale in order to make
anything out of it, and these
three firms have had such long experi-
3nce, and ciphered tho tiling down so
fine, that I don't suppose any one else
would care to start up in opposition.
They arc buying their paper nmv for the
diaries of 1887. Two of these houses
manufacture onu million diaries apiece a
year, the other manufactures two million.
Another New York firm make some diar
ies—probably fifteen thousand or twenty-
five thousand a year. There are three
sizes of diaries made, '^4mo, 18mo, and
12mo; and then there is narrow 8mo, long
8mo, ion" long 8mo, and broad 8mo.
There is cap, there is quarto, and long
quarto. Thu different sizes have one day
to a page, or two, three or four to a page.
Their retail cost varies from $4 to nine
teen cents. There is ten times ns much
demand for diaries now as there was
twenty years ago. The diary trade alone
of a well-known stationer on Nassau
street, amounts to $7,900 a year. Not
withstanding the enormous number of
diaries made, there is a less number in
the market to-day than I havo known in
the past twenty years. There is a great
demand for the finer diaries now, and the
better class of goods sell much more
readily than they did a few years ago.”—.
Brooklyn Union.
Intoxicants Used by Women.
In a Boston letter to the Albany Jour
nal occurs the following: A specialist
of high repute says he has many women
under his care who intoxicate themselves
—though not with liquor. Chloroform
is the worst intoxicant in tho list. A
woman who uses it is never cured, while
she may be of the opium habit ortho love
of stimulants. One of the most brilliant
journalists on the Boston press some years
ago would take chloroform to such a de
gree he would bo half idiotic for day*,
and a singular deafness was produced
temporarily, an infirmity which finally
became chronic, and then he let up on
the chloroform. Chloral has taken a
strong hold of society women, who use
up their nervous force and energy, and
who muse have something to repair the
waste quickly without waiting for natu
ral rest and time. A lady told me not
long bincc tiiuL »m; iuinv u uti/ic (,***01 ui '
every night; she could not live without
it, and she also added that lots of women
she knew did so also.
Becines.
To Broil Ham Nicely.—Slice tho
meat from the ham raw, as thin as you
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