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THE FARM AND GARDEN.
VALUE OF SWEET APTI-ES.
Wherever apples are plentiful sweet
apples aro neglected and scarcely salable.
They are not good for pies, but for bak¬
ing whole are superior to sour apples. If
their excellence thus cooked were better
kxown it would cause increased demand,
apd inure to the advantage of consumer
as well as the producer. In the absence
of the demand for sweet apples the trees
that produce them ate dug up or grafted
over to sour fruit —Boston Cultivator.
COLOB IN IIOKSES AND CATTLE.
According to tho Western Agricul¬
turist the white color of horses and cattle
bas been developed from tropical re¬
sources, and it is clearly shown by the
superiority of the white horses of the
desert and the tendency of horses and
cattle-taken from the colder climates of
the North to the hot climates of South
America and our Southern States that
the gray colors increase and withstand
the heat better. The gray horses are
more popular in the Southern States and
hot climates.
THE CULTURE OF ASPARAGUS.
Asparagus may be grown from seed
and will reproduce itself true to the
variety. But the better way is to pro¬
cure one-year-old plants from the seeds¬
men and set these out in beds. The soil
should be made rich and deeply worked.
The plants are set out in rows three or
four feet apart and a foot apart in the
rows. The crop is not cut until the sec¬
ond year after planting, when a few
stalks may be cut, but not many until the
third year, as earlier cutting checks the
growth of the roots. Conover’s Colossal
and Palmetto are the two best varieties.
The roots can be purchased for $1 per
100. Peter Henderson’s ‘ ‘Gardening and
Profit” gives full information of the cul¬
ture of this and all other garden crops.
The roots should be set at least five in¬
ches under the surface and it is best to
round up the beds a few inches, The
first year small vegetables may be grown
between the rows .—New York Times. i
FATTENING CHICKENS FOE THE TABLE.
The three prime rules to be observed
are: Sound and varied foods, warmth,
and cleanliness. There is nothing that
a fattening fowl grows so fastidious about
as his water. If water anyway foul be
offered him, he will not drink it, but
sulk with his food and pine, and you all
the while wondering the reason why.
Keep them separate, allowing to each
bird as much as you can spare, spread
the ground with sharp sandy, gravel, and
take care that they are not disturbed. In
addition to the regular diet of good corn,
make a cake of ground oats or beans,
brown sugar, milk and mutton suet. Let
the cake lie till it is stale, then crumble
it, and give each bird a gill measureful
morning and evening. No entire grain
should be given to the fowls during the
time they are fattening—indeed the se¬
cret of success lies in supplying them
with nutritious food without stmt, and
in such a form that their digestive mill
shall find no difficulty in grinding it.—
Journal of Agriculture.
USES OF LEAVES.
According to the health and vigor of
the foliage of any plant, writes Josiah
Hoopes, will be its usefulness; the direct
bearing on fruit and flowers is incalcul¬
able. If a plant be defoliated the suc¬
ceeding crop of fruit will be greatly in¬
jured, if not ruined, and the growth
damaged for some time to come. Hence
the leaves may well be termed the vital
organs of vegetable life. By their ap¬
pearance we may judge of the constitu¬
tion of trees and plants. If destructive
insects or diseases are present the foliage
at once shows a departure from health,
and is a signal to the owner that the
plant needs immediate attention. Other
symptoms appear later, but sickly, yel¬
low-tinted foliage is the forerunner of
disaster. Application of fertilizers to
the soil shows at once in the leaves, by
increase of size and a deeper green color.
Luxuriant foliage always denotes aug¬
mented growth and consequent useful¬
ness. The practice of partial defoliation
of trees and vines “to admit air and
light to the fruit,” is a grave error.
While light at all times is beneficial, full
sunlight is not a necessity, and an
abundance of leaves collecting vapor and
gases from the air perform an immense
amount of good, far more than the mere
rays of the sun shining directly on the
skin of the fruit. Much summer prun¬
ing is consequently to be discouraged,
excepting in rare instances where an un
healthy growth is to be removed. Varie¬
gated-leaved plants are not unhealthy,
as may be seen by their strong growth
of wood and apparent freedom from dis¬
ease; their peculiar color is the result of
some abnormal condition .—New York
Tribune.
FALL PASTURING OF MEADOWS.
It is a common practice in many parts
of the country to turn the cattle, horses
and sheep upon the hay fields after the
crop of hay has been gathered, and the
second crop, or “rowen,” has appeared
in luxuriant growth. There is a strong
temptation to such a course, because at
this season of the year the pastures have
begun to dry up, and the stock has begun
to look less thrifty, while the yield of
milk from the cows has very materially
diminished. But like all temptations to
do unwise things for the sake of tempo¬
rary advantages, this one should be re¬
sisted. It is to be presumed that the
great majority who practice fall feeding
of meadow lands do not comprehond tho
extent of the injury that comes from such
a course. They see only a little increase
of growth, a few more quarts of milk
per day, but fail to reason back from
effect to cause when succeeding seasons
show a rapidly decreasing yield of hay,
or other crops, upon these fields, some
considerable part of which is surely due
to this fall pasturing.
Most plants require for vigorous growth
a soil, not hard packed, but fairly light
and well drained, with roots left undis¬
turbed when once they begin to stretch
out through the soil in search of food.
Moreover, it is the habit of grass plants
to form a thick mat or carpet over the
ground, which serves as protection for
the roots against the washing of heavy
rains, the alternate thawing and freezing
of early spring, and the scorching heat
of late summer. When meadows are
cropped by cattle, many plants are torn
outright from the soil, the roots of others
broken or loosened and exposed to frost,
rain and heat. In addition to this, the
feet of the stock are constantly packing
the soil solidly around the plants, which
hinders free drainage; or making foot
holes that become basins for water and
ice. But the actual injury to tho grass
plant is not all—by feeding off the second
growth nature’s plans for protecting the
grass during the cold of winter are
thwarted, and very much of “winter
killing” is the result. Where snows lie
deep and continuous, this difficulty is
not so apparent, but even cold climates
are subject to “open” winters, which
are sufficiently trying to grass lands, even
when well protected .—American Agri¬
culturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
When two limbs cross cut the weaker.
Give the fowls green feed every day.
Every boy likes fruit. Teach him to
cultivate it.
A spare hour is never lost in cutting
unripe weeds.
Corn and clover are said to deepen the
color of the yolk.
If you have milk to spare, try its effect
as an egg producer.
Chickens kept on low, wet land are
pretty sure to have gapes.
Domestic animals need good shelter
in the changeable weather of spring and
fall.
In breeding stock do not expect to
get better animals than those you breed
from.
Ground bone and wood ashes or pot¬
ash and phosphoric acid are good for
fruit.
If you want to check the growth of a
tree, trim it when in full leaf or just be¬
fore.
Raise your “greens” instead of hunt¬
ing them in the lots. It saves work and
time.
Cull out the poorest of the young
roosters from the flock and eat or sell
them.
Don’t stuff your pigs or hog3 with
corn. It is better to pasture them on
clover.
If sheep are kept for mutton and wool,
take well selected ewes and breed to
thoroughbred rams.
When a fowl ceases to give a good re¬
turn for the feed given, it is time to
plan for his disposal.
It is very desirable to keep the breed¬
ing stock in a good, thrifty condition.
A failure to do this will show in the off¬
spring.
Too close breeding should be avoided
with sheep fully as much as with any
other class of stock. Change the same
every two weeks at least.
Troughs should always be provided
for feeding all kinds of soft feed lo
poultry. Make them tight and arrange
them so that they can be eleaned readily.
If kept in good condition, nearly or
quite all kiuds of poultry ' be fat¬
can
tened in two weeks of good feeding. But
they must have all that they can eat four
or five times every day.
At this season the best time to sell
poultry is when a price can be realized
that will return a fair profit. Holding
for high prices for the next three months
is, to say the least, very uncertain.
If the sheep are turned into the corn¬
field care should be taken to see that they
have access to plenty of water. It is
hardly good economy to turn sheep into
any place where there are cockle burrs.
As a general rule, when prices for
poultry begin to drop in the fall they
keep down until after the holidays, and
it rarely time! pays to sell young poultry at
that Provide good quarters and
keep until prices are better.
Too much live stock is quite as bad
for the farmer as too much land. Do
not crowd the stock, and do not keep
more than can be well fed, pastured well
and housed well. If you have more than
this sell off the surplus speedily.
In determining what turkeys to use
for breeding, remember that the gobblei
should be two years old before using,
and can be kept until he is five yearn
old, but as a general rule it is not a good
plan to keep turkey hens after they are
three years old.
The guinea is a very useful fowl, not¬
withstanding its peculiarities. In
their wanderings over the farm they
destroy numerous insect enemies and
weed seed and do little damage to crop3
by scratching and eating. They though lay a
large number of eggs, which,
small, are of good quality and nutri¬
tious.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CHAPPED HANDS.
To cure chapped hands and make them
soft and white rub at night with the
following wash: Simple tincture of
benzoine, one ounce; glycerine, three
ounces; and one grain of pure carbolic
acid. Another recipe is made of eight
ounces of glycerine, ten drops of car¬
bolic acid and one ounce of rose water.
Be sure and use the simple tiueture of
benzoine in all washes for the face and
hands .—Detroit Free Press.
INK STAINS FROM WOOD.
A few drops of muriatic acid or spirits
of salt applied with a rag (being careful
not to let the liquid touch the fingers)
may be tried for removing ink stains from
wood. On mahogany or polished wood
a few drops of nitre mixed in a table
spoonful or two of water and applied
with a feather is sometimes used. In
either case, as soon as the spot dis¬
appears rub with a cloth wet with clear
cold water, then rub dry and polish with
a little sweet oil or good furniture cream.
The dull, bluish white coating that some¬
times comes on polished furniture is
orobaliy due to something in the atmos¬
phere. It may be removed by washing
with a little fine toilet soap and water and
rubbing well with soft rags to restore the
polish. Wash only a small surface at a
time and polish thoroughly. Use but
little soap .—New York World.
VALUE OF RICE.
Rice is a most valuable assistant to
the housekeeper who understands its
possibilities, especially in the way of
simple and appetizing deserts. Yet in
many households rice cups or plain rice
pudding seem the alpha and omega of
rice compounds. A very nice desert is
cream of rice, which is made as follows.
Rub two tablespoonfuls of ground rice
smoothly into a little cold milk, sweeten
a pint of milk to taste, flavor with a bit
of vanilla, and stir over the fire till the
mixture thickens. Pour it into a basin,
and when cool mix in half a pint of
whipped cream; put the mixture in a
mold, with a cavity in the center. When
set, turn it out, and have ready some
stoned prunes stewed with a little sugar
of water, or, to be very nice, in a little
claret; pile these in the center, with a
trifle of whipped cream on the top. This
is a delicious dainty for the children, yet
most simple and wholesome .—New York
Times.
HOW TO FEEL TOMATOES.
To peel tomatoes for salads, and so on,
of course you will choose those fair, firm
and ripe. Lay them in a wire basket
and plunge for just three seconds in boil¬
ing water, then drop in cold water foi
five minutes before removing the skins.
Treated thus, you can peel a big bowlful
in very little time, and the veriest epi¬
cure will be unable to detect the flavor
of fire about them.
By the way, is it not a little curious
that this now so favorite vegetable wai
lor so long looked at askance, or regarded
merely as an ornamental growth. “Love
apples” our grandfathers called them,
and more than one sturdy old gentleman
yet alive sniffs disdainfully at them as
“something a hog won’t eat;” therefore
notoriously unfit for human food.
Possibly even such a skeptic might be
converted from the error of his way did
he but once taste a dish of full-ripe red
and yeliew ones cut in thick, genorous
slices and piled pyramid wise, with a
powdering of sugar, a suspicion of salt
and the juice of a fresh lemon squeezed
over them .—New York Recorder.
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RECIPES.
A Sweet Trifle—Cut stale sponge cake
into slices, spread preserves between
them, lay in a deep glass dish and heap
the dish full of whipped cream. A de¬
licious dessert.
Oyster Pie—Line a tin plate with plain
paste, put in two dozen oysters, sprinkle
with a little pepper, salt, and grate on
a little nutmeg. Strew in a little butter
and cover with rich paste. Bake twenty
minutes. Serve at once.
Gravy for Roast Beef—To make it in
the pan, pour off nearly all the fat. Put
the pan on the stove and add dry flour
until the fat is all absorbed. Then add
hot water or hot stock, and stir as it
thickens. Cook five to eight minutes,
3eason and strain.
Corn-Starch Cake—One-half cup but¬
ter, scant; one cup sugar, two eggs
(yolks), one teaspoon extract almond,
one half cup sweet milk, 1^- cups
flour, two tablespoons ccrn-starch, one
teaspoon baking powder, whites of two
eggs. Mix in the order given; mix corn¬
starch and baking powder with the flour.
Bake in a shallow pan.
Mutton Pie with Tomatoes—Pare and
slice tomatoes; put a layer into a deep
pudding dish; then put in a layer of
slices of cold mutton, and dredge in
flour, salt and pepper. Have the last
layer tomatoes, over which .sprinkle two
rolled crackers. Bake one hour. Serve
with boiled rice, boiled potatoes, green
corn and shelled beans.
Cold Slaw—Cut a cabbage in half,
»nd with a sharp knife shave it down
very finely. Make a dressing of one
egg, well beaten, half a gill of vinegar,
salt to taste, and a teaspoonful of butter.
Beat the egg light, add to it the vinegar,
salt and butter. As soon as the egg is
thick, take it off the fire, set it away to
cool, then pour it over the cabbage, and
mix it well together. Some prefer a
little sugar in the egg and vinegar.
She Was Punished Enough.
Dick Litehead—So you’ve got back
from Europe, Jack?
Jack Sago—Yes. I suppose a great
many changes have taken place since I
went away. Why there’s Ethel Flirtie
over there. I owe her a grudge; she
jilted mo before I went away.
D. L.—Owe her a grudge? Ha! ha!
that’s good. Why, she’s my wife.
J. S.—Oh! she’s your wife, is she?
Then I take it back. I can’t bear her any
grudge now. We’re more than squared,
—Cape Cod Item.
Didn’t Know.
A Chicago reporter, who hud been
sent out to interview a number of people
on the death of James R. Lowell, called
by mistake at the office of a real estate
man whose name corresponded with the
one on his list.
“Is this Mr. Dobbs?”
“Yes.”
“I have come to get you opinion of
James Russell Lowell—to ask your views
as to how he stauds in-”
“I don’t know bow he stands. Go
to Dun’s agency .”—Arkansaw Traveler.
Charles Garrett, of Hot Springs, Ark.,
will exhibit at the fair his extensive col¬
lection of rcineralogical specimens, in¬
cluding the famous Hot Springs dia¬
monds.
Gratifying to Ail.
The high position attained and the uni¬
versal acceptance and approval of the pleas¬
ant liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs, as the
most excellent laxative known, illustrate the
value of the qualities on which its success is
based and are abundantly gratifying to the
California Fig Syrup Company.
Thirty barrels of incense were burned dur¬
ing a three days’ ceremonial in Siam recently.
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