Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1904 — Keeping Cider. [ARTICLE]

Keeping Cider.

If the elder Is made late, so that cold ■weather Is right at hand, It will keep sweet through the winter without any preservative if stored in a cool cellar, says American Cultivator. But if the cider is to be kept through a spell of comparatively warm weather it will be necessary to add three to five ounces of salicylic acid per barrel of cider. Before adding the acid let the barrel, which should be a full one, ferment two or three days, during which process it will throw off the impurities from the bung. IbSscbn of Food ob Flesh. The Live Stock Journal says, with much emphasis and with truth, that "the meat of all animals is affected by the food they eat The ducks taste fishy that live on fish; beechnuts bacon from pigs fed on beechnuts has the finest flavor, and hogs allowed to feed on stinking, filthy slops and on dead animals must produce meat that is unfit for human food. In this land of abundant food we should feed sound, dean, healthy food and fresh, clean slop or clean water.” Aetlea of Übb bs Soil. Lime in itself is not a fertiliser. It unlocks other elements combined in the soil, enabling the plants to absorb more of them; when that is done, the \ tl

soil is poorer by the amount of plant food unlocked by the lime, and the need of fertilizer is greater than ever. The lime puts no fertility into the soil, but it assists the fertility in the soli to get out of it A Makeshift lee Hoase. A New York dairy farmer secured a supply of ice which lasted nearly all summer by packing it in one end of a shed which was floored with poles, filling with Ice, partitioned with slabs battened with boards and the spaces around the Ice filled with sawdust Study- the Orchard. Study your orchard conditions to note if leaves stay on the trees sufficiently late in the fall. Early dropping of leaf implies an early flow of sap next spring with consequent danger of frost This must be avoided.—Farm and Ranch. Care as the He*. Clean out hog troughs regularly and see that charcoal, ashes and sulphur are kept in every trough. The Good Bern. The hen that is always scratching ex- ! cept when on the roost or on the nests Is usually a good layer. Get your sale bills printed at The Democrat office.