Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1869 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD

USEFUL RECITES, ETC. t The WctUrn Rural says if fruit treefi! ase not planted in October or November, they should be left until spring. Crab Appi.k Jelly.— Put the apple? in the kettle; just cover them with water, and left them boil until they are very tender. Mash them with a spoon, and Btrsin out the juice. Take a pint of juice to a pound of sugar.— Mm. Putnam t lleeipe Book. , Help-sealing Fruit Cans.—After sellscaling fruit cans, jars or bottles have been filled and the lids adjusted, tiie latter should not bo disturbed until tiie fruit is wanted for use. Opening tiie lids, of course lets in the air, and the spoiling of the fruit is a natural and generally certain result *1 ,Old raspberry cane should be cut away as they have done hearing, and young ones pinched track to form three or four feet in height, according to circumstances. From four to six inches should be taken front the top of tiie canes. Tills will cause the young cancs to grow strong and busliy. A British nomologist (Dr. Bindley) writes thus : “ Tiie loading down branches of trees by an overcrop of fruit is most injurious; lor the pores of the woody stalk arc strained on one side of tiie bend and compressed on the other, hence the vessels through which the requisite nourishment Hows being partially closed, the growth of the fruit iB retarded in proportion itoj the straining and compression of the stalk.” A correspondent of tiie Country Gentleman gives her method of hulling corn, as follows: She puts the corn in an iron kettle, covers it with lye, and boils it moderately until the hulls start pretty freely by rubbing with the hands. She then skims the corn into a pail of cold water and continues rubbing it and pouring oil the water until about clean. The corn is then again boiled, the water being changed two or three times so as to remove all taste of the lye.

To Keep Potatoes for Seed.— AVhen first dug, let them dry off well by lying several (lays spread out thin on the barn floor ; if they are greened by the sun it is a double advantage, for no careless cook will take of them twice for boiling. Then place them in a cool, dry part of the cellar, on a floor of boards, and not more than two feet deep. Never keep them in barrels. _ Examine them during the winter, and if they show a tendency to grow, rub tiie eyes ofl and spread them out thinner.— Am. Agriaulturut. How to Have Early Grass in the Spring. —ln order to have early grass, either for grazing purposes or mowing, the land must be made rich by the application of manure, and by relieving it of all excess of moisture. In our latitude, during the month of September, if not already seeded, the soil should be thoroughly pulverized, manured, smootiied off, and seeded. If the grass and clover-seed were sowed last spring, all the better, as equal parts of grass and clover will make more desirable feed than either clover or grass alone. Allow the young plants to grow until cold weather, without permit ting even light animals to graze in the field. Then, before snow falls, apply a liberal dressing of barn-yard scrapings, or finely-rotted compost, spread evenly over the surface. Rich land, if seeded in the spring of the year with early red clover (Trifolium pretence) and orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata), will produce a crop sufficiently large to be mowed by the first of June, provided the growth of the a plants has not been seriously reby the hoofs and teeth of domestic animals. AVhere muck constitutes a large proportion of the soil, a dressing of argillaceous clay after the grass has ceased to grow will subserve the purpose of manure to a great extent. —Heanh and Home.