THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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ktik choice fowls ia a fine cloth, taking care to 

 luiinttin the oval form ; then tliey soak the linen 

 n milk, in order to give more whiteness and soft- 

 less to the skin. 



" These choice products should not be packed-up 

 ■ill they are thoroughly cold ; eacli fowl should be 

 vrapped in whitey-brown paper, and they are 

 generally packed in hampers." 



M. Jacques gives also some hints as to cookery, 

 Che ragouts which he describes are mucb too elabo- 

 ■ate for our American taste, but his instructions for 

 •casting are excellent. He says in a stove, a char- 

 toal fire is preferable to wood. Although on the 

 learth, wood of course is the best ; but with care 

 owls can be roasted equally well in either way : 



" Before a fowl is put .oti the spit, it should be 

 crupulously cleaned inside and out, and should be 

 inged with wAi^e paper, neither with brown, dirty, 

 lor greasy. A young and small fowl should be 

 •oasted quickly, and put down to a clear and lively 

 ire. A middle-sized fat fowl, or a small poularde, 

 ihould be put to a cheerful but moderate fire, and 

 •eraain at it till a practiced eye detects the exact 

 )oint at which it is done, either by the look, or by 

 ikillful punctures made with a pointed knife or fork, 

 ;o examine the color of the gravy. A very large 

 ind fat towl should be put down to a good tire, but 

 1 moderate one, that the heat may thoroughly 

 Denetrate every part, and it must remain some 

 jime that the inner part of the thighs may be done. 



"Fowls in general, but especially very fat fowls, 

 ire preferable when eaten cold, and if I were a 

 *onrmand, I would never deviate from the follow- 

 ing rules: According to the season of the year, 

 from twenty-four to forty-eight hours should elapse 

 between the death of a fowl and its being cooked, 

 and at least six hours between its being cooked 

 and eatea.'' 



CULTJ"«ATION OF CEANBEEREES ON UPLAND. 



In anf?wer to a letter of inquiry relative to the 

 npland cultivation of cranberries, Mr. J. 0. 

 Young, of Lakeland, Long Island, writes as fol- 

 lows to the E-bode Island Pendulum: 



" The first attempt at the upland cultivation of 

 the cranberry was made in the spring of 1854, by 

 setting out some twelve or fifteen feet square with 

 the cranberry. These vines produced in the fall 

 of that year about one pint of very perfect, dark 

 colored fruit. The vines then set out, without 

 the least further attention to their cultivation, have 

 continued to bear fruit each year, and are now in a 

 perfectly healthy condition. 



" In 1856 I planted out 14,400 square feet of 

 land, walks included, less than the third of an acre, 

 froui which I gathered, in the fall of 1859, twenty- 

 five bushels of cranberries. In 18G0 I gathered 

 from the above piece forty-two bushels, an increase 

 of some T8 per cent, on the crop of 1859. 



" I now have two-thirds of an acre in my gar- 

 den appropriated to the growth of the cranberry. 

 Mv success has induced rn;uiy persons in t''is vi- 

 cinity and elsewhere to commence the culiivation 

 of tiae fruit. 



" For successful cultivation the land should be 

 thoroughly broken up, all loul stuff removed, care- 

 fully raked, and brouglit as near level as can be; 

 then laid out in lines 30, 36 or 48 inches apart — 

 distance to be regulated by the system which may 

 be afterward adopted in the cultivation. Open the 

 eartii with a spade about six inches wide, and 

 insert single plants at twelve inches distance from 

 each other, drawing back the earth to the I'oots, 

 carefully packing with the hand. The gi'ound 

 should be kept free from weeds. The vines have a 

 great tendency to cover the space between the 

 drills; but as most lands, unless frequently broken 

 up, become foul, continued cultivation becomes 

 necessary; cultivation, also, evidently adds largely 

 to the high quality of the fruit. When cultivating, 

 lift the runners covering the ground and place 

 them beside the drills, where they will gradually 

 throw out rootlets and become part of the drill. 

 My vines were set in drills thirty inches apart. I 

 use no manure, and have never irrigated. 



" The vines do best by being set out after the 

 vernal season has fairly commenced. Wilh spring 

 or early summer warmth the vines grow vigor- 

 ously, throwing out long runners the first season ; 

 the runners produce uprights the second season; 

 the uprights fruit the succeeding season. Each 

 year, the first included, fruit is produced, gradually 

 increasing to the fourth year, including the ])lant- 

 ing season, when an abundant return may be an- 

 ticipated. 



''My observations extend over several years, 

 (from 1854 to the present time.) I have yet to 

 witness any injury to the cranberry vine from 

 drouth. My vines are fifty-seven feet above any 

 water, and hare to depend for moisture upon the 

 rains from heaven-ward and the dews of Long 

 Island, from one or the other of which they have 

 thus far been copiously supplied. They were taken 

 from swamps and marshes, and put upon soil ap- 

 parently unnatural to them, yet they thrive. I 

 beUeve the lands of Long Island, (a s]jur of land 

 projecting one hundred and thirty miles into the 

 ocean,) to be peculiarly adapted to the cultivation 

 of this fruit. I must not let this occasion pass 

 without recording my thorough conviction that 

 the soil in the middle of the island, for a great ex- 

 tent in length, is equally well adapted to tlie growth 

 of clover, the cereals, garden vegetables and fruit. 

 Skill, care and energy are all that is wanted." 



Hurdling Sheep on Green Crops.— A corres- 

 pondent of the Country Gentleman would like to 

 have some Englishman, long resident in this coun- 

 try, explain how it is the system of hurdling off 

 turnips, and other crops, has never been introduced 

 here. He has asked the question many times, but 

 the answer given, that the winter is so much colder 

 does not satisfy him because, though it would ac- 

 count for January and February, and even some 

 seasons for parts of December and March, yet iu 

 September, October, November, April and May, 

 there does not appear to him any reason why the 

 land should not be benefited by the folding as much 

 iu America as in England. 



