Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 3, Number 40, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 5 January 1882 — Page 7

USEFIIi AWD SUGGESTIVE. —A small amount of leached wood ashes given to swine will have a greaj effect, both upon the health and the fattening. —An Ohio farmer, who in 1850 planted locust tree seed on thin land too rough to plow, sold in 1870 SI,OOO worth of posts, and nine later the second growth—five or six inches in diameter —was more valuable than the first. . —An exchange 'contains the follow ing caution in regard to this fertilizer: Persons who may use nitrate of soda as a fertilizer ought to be careful about the cows; if they get it they will eat it, and if they do death will ensue. In small rntities it is a medicine; in larger es a poison. —Spice cakes to serve with coltee are made of one pound of sugar, four eggs, one teaspoonful each of clones, cinnamon, nutmeg and a pinch of jjepper. Stir in flour enough to make dough which can be rolled out; cut out with a plain cooky/ cutter; let them stand for from ten to-tyelve hours, then bake. —An elegant lip-salve may be made in the following simple manner: Put half a pound of fresh lard into a pan with an ounce and a half of white wax; set on a slow fire till it is melted; then take a small tin dish, fill it with water and add a few chips of alkanet root: let the water boil till it becomes a beautiful red color; strain some of it and "mix it with the other ingredients' according as may be desired; scent it with some agreeable and favorite extract, and then pour it into small white jars or boxes. —An economical and delicious way of cooking a rabbit is to take a nice fresh rabbit, cut it into joints and fry it brown with some slices of pickled pork _ >nd, some onions shred finely. When V nice and brown take it out of the fryingpSn and put it in a stew-pan with water sufficient to cover it. Pepper and salt to taste, thicken with some flour arid butter; add forcemeat balls, but be sure not to pour the fat out of the fryingpan. Let the gravy be of the riciiness of thick cream. —Frosted Oranges.—Six targe, sweet oranges peeled and every particle of white skin removed. Take a cup of powdered sugar, divide aud stir into one part a few drops of liquid cochineal. Spread on a dish in the sun to dry, and if lumpy, roll to powder. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, dip half of the lobes into the whites ind then roll in the pink sugar, the oi her half into the egg and white suj ar. Place upon a piece of white pape r to —dcy.j: i —The white wheaten loaves, considered so desirable, are by no mean/ the most nut ritious, as some of the/most nourishing principles of the wliout are lost in the whitening process. Jby this process the flour is deprived fix a great degree of its gluten and phos|fliate, both important elements of ioomT Unbolted flour has been offered tonne public, but its dark color has interfered with its sale. Bread made of such flour needs no yeast, as enough carbonic acid is evolved in its preparation to secure sufficient lightness of the dough. Some persons have supposed that a lack of the phosphates in the flour generally used by Americans was one of the causes of the defectiveness of the teeth so common in this country. —The early ripening of grapes, about which a friend inquires, depends more on winter protection of the vines than on pruning. Even- the hardy Concord will often have its buds and canes so dried out, if left through winter upon the trellis, that they will be two weeks late iiKppening their growth in May, and consequently as much behind-hand in forming and ripening the berries. Nor do fertilizers favor early ripening, but rather protract growth and cause late maturity, unless the bunches are ' well thinned out This, next to judicious pruning, has most do with the perfection and full excellence of the fruit Full sunshine, and large, entire, clean healthy leaves to receive and appropriaate it, are imperative conditions. The use of paper bags, pinned on early in June, is recommended as a means qf giving longer time for full maturity and flavor.— N. Y. Tribune. i Cabbages and Sauerkraut. The demand for Cabbages constantly increases in this country, while the supply is diminishing. A few years ago many farmers raised cabbages as a field crop for supplying their cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry with fresh food during the winter season. They were very heap, as the seasons were very favorable to their growth, and there were few insects that troubled them. They were often sold in the vicinity of this city for one dollar per hundred m the fields and gardens where they were raised/ But recently tlfe seasons have been unfavorable to the growth of cabbages, and the imported cabbage-worm has made sad havdl' with those that were raised. Cabbages have sold as high as ten dollars per hundred in this market during the present season. During the past week sauerkraut imported from Germany has been sold on the market; Both cabbages and sauerkraut from the samercountry have been sold in eastern cities. The large increase of German population, the number of our native population that have learned to eat sauerkraut, and the amount of cabbages required to supply oyster saloons have increased the demand for the vegetable that was at one time so abundantly produced. The demand for them is large and promises to remain so. Cabbages can be shipped as easily as potatoes, and can be kept over the winter with less trouble. Sauerkraut is as much an article of commerce as canned fruit, and can be manufactured by farmers and •hipped to cities to most excellent advantage. —Chicago Timet.

Manuring Trees in Sod. No one will deny the desirableness of having an orchard in grass, whether for bay, pasture, or clipped as a lawn. The objection that grass is hurtful to trees is true only in case of a lack of fertility, especially as two crops are to be grown, and where one is so exhaustive as trees. But there is also the advantage here that two important crops may be grown together without interfering, the roots of the one underlying the other, and the one treatment serving for both. -I'here is a double advantage which Ht seems to me is notsufficiently understood, especially the extent to which the benefit may be carried, and this with a minimum amount of labor —simply the application of manure, yearly or biennially, as the case may be, different soils requiring different treatment. A light soil requires annual applications, and light rather than heavy, to prevent loss by leaching. Clay , will bear heavier applications, and once in two years, which will be sufficient for a continuous growth,. pretty well kept up. Here both grass and trees are benefited- by the one operation. Where the ground.is deep and rich, little manure is needed. On shallow soils, where the roots lie near the surface, mingling with the grass roots, manure is the most required, and in quantities which must be understood so as-to avoid an excess of* wood growth, and secure a full crop of fruit. Prac--tiee-for a lew-years will determine this . The same treatment will keep the grass at full growth. As to the time of applying the manure, I have fouud late autumn the best, as it gives a chance for the strength to get down to the roots of the trees by spring, thus benefiting trees and grass at the same time. The manure will also soon be lost to sight in "spring if applied in the fall, the snow and the rains packing it close to the ground. It will there serve as a mulch, aided by the shade of the grass and the trees, and so effectually as to insure success even on a light, sandy soil, unless drought is unusually severe. The past season afforded a good chance for testing this, and wherever sufficient manure was used, in lawns as well as in orchards, the drought had comparatively little effect on trees, and as.little upon the grass as compared with that of the fields, except in some eases immediately around the trees, and that is readily accounted for by the small quantity of soil held between the large roots, hurting only the grass for a short space, not the trees. Orchard grass, as I noticed in a few dooryards, shaded by trees, kept up a continued verdure during all the heat and drought, being sustained by .manure. Iri my lawn I have met with the most gratifying results from manure upon grass. I treated two young elms of a few years’ growth, tly: one in grass to liquid manure late in the fall, the other to horse dung and compost, in connection with cultivation and mulching during the season. The growth was alike in both cases, aud For the very good reason that it had reached its maximum in each, and it was continued till into October in defiance of the frost w'hich was severe. The young shoots of each attained a length of from five to The grass continued green and vigorous, with oc :asional slight discoloration, throughout the season, thickening with the moist fall weather. Other trees were similarly affected according to the amount of manure given. It is true that cultivation and mulching arc an aid, in that less manure is required, and may do Where l an orchard or lawn is started. When 1 established and kept in grass, manure will do the work perfectly and, with a profit (in an orchard) from grass and fruit that can be realized perhaps from i up equal amount of land by any other I mode of cropping. I The sod-bound character of the soil is ' sometimes objected to as preventing free access of air. This may be the case, to some extent, with a compact clay if kept in this condition, tho. soil, and not the sod, being at fault. In a soil with free drainage little or no harm can result from this cause. Among the best orchards I know are some that nave been always in sod, being in rich soil and deep—decidedly the best of all soils for an orchard. If shallow, they need manure, especially if the grass is kept for hay. If pastured with sheep or hogs, less manure is required, and in deep, rich soil none at all, if the trees are kept properly pnioed and open to-.air, w r hich lessens the' need of manure. With some productive sorts, higher results might be obtained with the addition of manure, though of this I cannot speak positively, as the highest success I have ever known, which I thought could not be surpassed, was on a deep, rich and highly-drained soil, an old alluvial deposit. We thus have it in our power to keep our Orchards and lawns green, fresh and thrifty, and the orchards productive, whatever the seasons may be. The grass, so far as my experience and observation go, will serve as a test. If that is thick and thrifty, it is an assurance that the trees also are well provided for, where the roots are near the surface, as in the case of my lawn, /■where they come in immediate contact with the manure, in common with the grass, and also in the deeper soil, where they find nourishment as they extend, in a measure independently of what they got from the surface. The same applies to leaChy soil, as may be seen in any sandy district, the grass requiring to be fed more often, the trees as well as the grass being almost entirely dependent upon this mode of support.— Cor. Country OenUeman. I —Grooming horses well is a good inI vestment. - " 'r .

A Clergyman Mistaken for a Burglar. The pastor of an up-town church in this city recently spent an evening in his study at his residence, and became so'engrossed with his readings—“poring over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”—that he did not heed the lapse of time until a neighboring clock tolled the hour of twelve, when he arose and was about to retire, but suffering somewhat in his head from the several nburs of close confinement he thought he would first spend a few moments outside to enjoy the cool air. Beaching the sidewalk, he commenced pacing up and down in front of his dwelling like Don Quixote watching his armor. While he was thus engaged a policeman caught sight of him from the opposite side and watched his movements, evidently regarding the reverend gentleman as a burglar with designs on the house in front of which he was passing to and fro. Having sufficiently refreshed himself, the clergyman ascended the stoop and was about to unlock the front door with his night-key when the officer hastened across the street, ran up the stoop and laid a heavy hand on the minister’s shoulder. The latter, very much alarmed, demanded an explanation, which the policeman did not vouchsafe/but roughly grabbed the key from the hand of the suppos'd burglar and placed it in hispoeket. “ What doyOu mean. sir. by acting in this manner? I would have you know this is my reniilmieo,” almost ahnntml the minister, - “Come, now: none of that,” sneered the officer. “ That is altogether too thin. We are accustomed to that sort of \hing from you fellows.” “But, sir, I am telling you the truth; I live here,” urged the injured dominie. “You can’t play that; come along.” and the officer rouglily grasped the clergyman’s arm. “ Then ring the bell,” said the gentleman, “ if you do not believe me.” The officer jerked the bell-handle with great force, keeping his hold on his man lest he should escape. The minister’s wife cautiously opened the door a few inches and was very much terrified at the sight of the policeman, and in the darkness failed to recognize her husband. “ This man, tnadame, claims to live here,” said the officer. The lady, in her fright and confusion; thought nothing about her husband, and screamed out: “No, he doesn’t; take him away! Take him away!” and quickly slammed the door. The astonished husband appealingly called his wife by name, saying: “My dear, don’t you know me?” The door was quickly reopened and the husband entered, much to the astonishment, not to say disgust, of the policeman. —Brooklyn Union-Argim. —A girl who denies the genuineness of her beauty has been discovered by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. She was employed in an establishment where preparations for beautifying were sold. The writer describes her as “a glorious girl of seventeen to twenty, with a simply perfect figure, a beautiful face, a skin like alabaster, teeth of spotless white, soulful eyes, and a wealth of rippling golden hair.” She coolly informed the caller that “her hair was lightened, that her teeth were whitened, that her eyes were brightened, that her complexion was heightened,” besides various other improvements wrought by the wonderful articles there on sale. “I wondered,” says the visitor, “what wages this beautiful creature demanded for denying the naturalness of her charms.” —P. T. Barnura announces that he will employ all curious specimens of the human race, including giants, dwarfs, fat people, and freaks of nature, for his %reat show. Parties interested should write immediately, enclosing photographs, to Barnuin. Bailey & Hutchinson, 40 Bond St., New York.

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