Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1869 — IREFUL RECIPES ETC. [ARTICLE]

IREFUL RECIPES ETC.

An Ehglifth farmer clione liis need wheat with such rare, and cultivated It with atlch skill, that his heads increased in from four lo eight inches; the berries, from 45 lo 125 in a head, and the number of stalks from a seed from 10 to 52. The Country Gentleman says it has not yet met the Tanner who could make enough manure to obviate the necessity of using clover as a fertilizer. It thinks manure spread ' on clover sod in the fall is the best preparation of ground for corn the following spring. It is said that cabbage plants may be protected from the cut-worm by wrapping the stems in oak leaves—one leaf to each plant, covering from the roots to thy leafstems. This should be done at the time of transplanting, the. oak-Teavesbeing first moistened with wuter. Roll Jelly Car*. —One cup white sugar and three eggs beaten together, one tea spoon cream of tartar mixed with a cup of flour, a half tea spoon of soda in two table spoons of sweet milk.; mix all these together, stir well and bake in two square tins. When done, spread both cakes with jelly and roll. A correspondent of the Rural World says that an ordinary liot-bed is a capital place for drying fruit. A floor is lain inside, on which the fruit is placed. Then put in the sash, raising both ends to ensure proper ventilation, and to prevent tho fruit from baking instead of drying. Here the fruit is safe from damage by rain, insects, etc.

A French writer states that butchers’ meat may be preserved in hot weather by placing it in large earthen jars, putting clean, heavy stones upon it, and covering it with skim-milk. The milk will become sour, of course, but may afterwards serve as food for pigs, and the meat will be found to have kept its natural primitive freshness, even after eight or ten days. The editor of the Gardener's Monthly says that coal oil is a most effectual remedy against insects. A tablcspoouful of coal oil put into a common garden water pot of water, sprinkled over the seed bed, when the little pumping beetle is noticed, will instantly destroy the whole brood. One great fact in favor of coal oil is, that it acts as a manure to vegetation, while dealing out death to insects. Thistles are biennial. Like the turnip and carrot it takes two years for them to mature; if they are cut down before the seed is ripe this year, and the seed that was dropped off last year and lias sprung up, this should be cut down next year, before the seed is ripe enough to mature. The seed that was dropped last year cannot be destroyed by cutting off this year, because it will not kill the root; but after it goes to seed the root will naturally die of i t sel f. —Exchu nge. To Destroy the Potato-Bug. A writer in Hearth and Home says; “ A sure and cheap remedy is to apply Paris-green to the vines when the dew is on them. It will not always kill the old bugs, but will invariably destroy the young ones while they are yet worms. The old bugs soon die off without our help. A tin box with fine holes in one side, so as to make a sieve, should be used in applying the Parisgreen. Care should be taken not to put on too much, as it may injure the vines. Three ounces is sufficient for one acre.” Often in a fine orchard we find one or more trees leaning over so far as to destroy the beauty of the whole orchard. It is also much more difficult to cultivate around a leaning tree. This may easily be remedied, while the trees are young, by partially digging up and replanting the tree. The roots will usually be found smallest on the side from which the tree leans; and therefore these roots should be loosened from the earth, the tree set in a perpendicular position, and carefully fastened by stakes or guys, and the earth replaced around the roots. It would be well to add some rich compost to promote their growth. If, as is very probable, tbe top of the tree lias become one-sided, it should be pruned so as to restore the balance. In this way we have righted up pear trees six inches through the stem; but tho best way is to look after the young trees, and not permit them to depart from the way of uprightness.—Journal of Horticulture.