Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Crop-Bound Fowls—One person must hold the fowl quite still, while another cuts the crop open, and entirely empties it of its / contents, then sew ft carefully up again. When this is done, place the patient in a coop by herself for a few days, and feed her on soft food. Under this treatment, ninety out of every hundred will recover. —To prepare raspberry juice of fine color, flavor and aroma, a French journal says: Take the berries well ripened and cleansed, crush them in a glass vessel with a wooden pestle into a homogeneous mass, add to them five to ten parts per one hundred of cane or grape sugar, and allow the whole to stand, mixing up occasionally. By means' of the alcOhol resulting from the fermentation the pectin is precipitated, and a clear juice is obtained, preserving perfectly the aroma and taste of the raspberry. —To Cook Green Corn.—Many cooks boil their com too long- If the corn will prove tender at all, it will be so after an hour’s billing, and twenty minutes is usually sufficient. After it is done, it only loses in sweetness by longer boiling. Like all/mA vegetables,"it should be put into boiling water to cook. Almost fill people prefer to gnaw it directly from the cob, but it may lie sliced off as soon as done and seasoned with cream and salt, or with a small piece of butter, salt, and pepper. —How Easily Butter is Spoiled.— A farmer’s wife writes to an exchange:—“Of all the products of the farm, butter is the most liable to he tainted by noxious Odors floating in. the atmosphere. Our people had lain some veal in the cellar, from which a little blood flowed out and was neglected until it had commenced to smell. The result was that a jar of butter, which I was then packing, smelled and tasted like spoiled beer. Another lady writer observes that there was a pond of filthy, stagnant water a few hundred feet away from their house, from which, when the wind was from a certain direction, an offensive effluvium would be borne on the breeze directly to the milk-room, the result of which was that the cream and butter would taste like the disagreeable odor coming from the pond. As soon a 9 the pond was drained there was no more damaged butter. —Cherry Trees.—These should never be highly manured. Singular as it may seem, better results have been obtained by growing cherry trees in grass than by cultivating them as highly as pears. Experienced fruit growers "in Deleware, who once began a system of liberal manuring and treatment of cherry trees, found after an experience of a few years, that the bark would burst, gum would ooze out, and many portions of the tree show an unhealthy condition. The growers immediately "discontinued high feeding, and seeded the land down.to grass. The trees recovered their health, and have borne bountifully since the system of grass culture began. It is the only fruit tree of all varieties which we can safely recommend to be treated in this way. A Delaware friend says lffs row of cherry trees, growing in grass along the fence, are the picture of health and luxuriance; while in previous years, with Orchard culture, he could never make them successful.— Independent.