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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[Juue, 1883. 



have of fish can be U6ed. Make it out into little 

 cakes with the hands, and fry in a little butter or 

 fresh suet. 



Rosettes.— To three eggs, the yolks beaten yery 

 light, add one quart of milk, a piece of butter the 

 size of au egg cut. in little pieces into the milk and 

 eggs, three coffee cups of flour, a little salt, three 

 teaspoonsfuls of baking p..wder, and lastly the whites 

 of the eggs beaten very light and stirred quickly in- 

 to the mixture. Bake in a quick oven. 



Cron Starch Pudding.— Boil one quart of sweet 

 milk. Stir into it four heaping tablespoonfuls of 

 sugar, and four tablespoonfuls of corn starch, dis- 

 solved in a little cold water or railk, and add to the 

 well beaten yolks of four eggs. Have the whites 

 beaten to a stifl froth, with a teacup of pulverized 

 sugar, and one teaspoonful of essence of vanilla. 

 Spread it on the top of the pudding, set in a quick 

 oven, and brown; take out, sprinkle with grated co- 

 coanut, and set the dish away in a cool place. Serve 

 cold after three or four hours. The sweet liquor 

 that settles to the bottom in cooling server as a 

 sauce. 



Brown Stew.— Take three pounds of good round 

 of beef, cut in small squares, brown them in a stew- 

 pan in two tablespoonsful of flour, sifting it grad- 

 ually in stirring till the flour is brown ; cut a car- 

 rot small, peel half a dozen small onions, and put 

 with the beef; sason with a half dozen cloves, as 

 many of allspice, a half saltspoonful of black pepper 

 a pinch of cayenne, a tablespoonful of mixed herbs, 

 thyme, sage, marjoram; covei'wilh boiling water 

 and let it simmer steadily for three hours ; just be- 

 fore serving, a gill of tomato catsup can be added, 

 or, if preferred, a glass of sherry. 



Potato Pastry.— Chop cold beef fine. Season 

 with pepper and drawn butter, adding parsley and 

 pickled onions chopped fine. Pour this mixture into 

 a greased bake dish ; cover with sliced hard boiled 

 eggs. Work a large cup of mashed potatoes soft 

 with a cup of milk and two tablespoonsful of butter. 

 Add prepared flour until you can just roll it out, the 

 softer the better. Koll into a thick sheet. Spread 

 upon the surface of your mince, printing the edges, 

 and bake in a moderate oven to a fine brown. This 

 is an excellent dish for supper or Sunday uight tea. 

 Liver Hash. — This hash is delicate and appetiz- 

 ing, and nice as a change from the liver and bacon 

 known to all cooks. Boil the liver until thoroughly 

 tender— there must not be even a suspicion of hard 

 ness about it. Then mince it finely with a chopping 

 knife. Heat the mince very hot in a sauce of roux 

 of butter and browned flour. The seasoning is 

 pepper, salt, a little dash of lemon, or little piquant 

 sauce, such as mushroom catsup. 



A Good Plain Cake— Take six ounces of ground 

 rice, the same of flour, the yelks and whites of nine 

 eggs beaten separately, one pound of loaf sugar well 

 pounded. Whisk the sugar and eggs for nearly an 

 hour, then add the rice and flour. Butter well some 

 white poper and put round it and over the bottom of 

 the tin it is to be baked in, and bake it in a slow 

 oven. Run a knife into it; if it comes out clean it is 

 baked through. 



if Paris green and London purple had never been 

 used for the destruction of the Colorado beetle its 

 parasite enemies would long since have exterminated 

 it, or at least would have checked its increase so that 

 it would now be rare and comparatively harmless. 

 Its foes feeding on the poisoned larvae are themselves 

 also destroyed. 



To show that my crops, without the use of poisou, 

 compare favorably with any grown in the country, 

 1 need only state that I have grown an average of 

 five acres of potatoes per annum, and in all that 

 time I have never used an ounce of poison to get 

 rid of the beetle, preferring to destroy them by 

 hand-picking. In no season since its appearance 

 here, have the Colorado pest and its eggs been so 

 numerous as the last. I will give the time consumed 

 in gathering the larvaB (I pay no attention what- 

 ever to the beetle) from two and a half acres of po- 

 tatoes, and I am sure the vines are more free from 

 insects and their ravages than any patch of like size 

 in Lycoming county, ou which poison has been used: 

 On Saturday, June 33d, it took one hand three hours 

 to go over two and a half acres and collect the larvie 

 by carefully bending the hills infested with them 

 over a wide-topped tin bucket and giving a sudden 

 shake which, when one has had a little practice, re- 

 sults in" causing all to fall to the bottom of the 

 bucket. On Wednesday, June 27th, it took five 

 hours to do the same work, the young having been 

 hatched on a greater number of hills. On Saturday 

 July let, it took six hours. After that the parasites 

 above referred to kept them sufficiently in check to 

 prevent any damage to the crop. Could Paris green 

 have been applied in less time than was consumed in 

 aollectiug bugs ? 



A few years ago I raised at the rate af 476 bushels 

 per acre of Early Vermonts, haviug at that time 

 taken the ?100 premium offered by B. K. Bliss for 

 the largest amount of Vermonts raised on one fourth 

 of an acre, competition open to the world. At the 

 same time I raised 109 bushels of Browuell's Beauty 

 on a quarter of an acre, for which I received his §50 

 premium. I grow my potatoes in hills 3i^x3;4 feet ; 

 cultivated both ways ; hill them up pretty high ; 

 cultivate the ground after every rain that forms a 

 crust up to the 1st of July for the early ones, and 

 later in proportion, for those that are later. — Rural 

 Ne'f Yorker. 



Entomological. 



Parasites of the Colorado Beetle. 

 During the past season this neighborhood was 

 blessed with the presence of a large number of in- 

 sects which, if given anything like a fair chance 

 promise to exterminate the potato beetle. I first 

 noticed the insect three years ago, but during the 

 growing of the last potato crop it was so plentiful 

 that three or four might have been found on every 

 hill. It makes its appearance about the time the 

 larviE begin to hatch, and if these are not found in 

 sufficient numbers to satisfy the demands of appe- 

 tite, it devours the eggs, taking a whole batch at one 

 meal. It will attack the larvie at any stage of its 

 growth ; though it seems to prefer those from 

 one-third to one-half grown. It is my opinion that 



Ants. 

 A correspondent of the New York Times says : 

 " There is one way and only one, of ridding the 

 house, closets, cake pails, sugar barrels, etc., of red 

 ants or black, big or little. When you find them on 

 your premises get ready tea kettles of boiling water 

 —plenty of it. Go out of doors, look carefully all 

 over tbe paths and walks, if in the country ; if in 

 the city, look over the flagging in the areas, both 

 front and back. Scald every little hole you see with 

 a mould of little pellets around it ; it is the home of 

 the ant. On a sunny day those pellets are brought 

 out of the uests to dry. When the weather is damp, 

 or soon will be, you will see nothing but little holes 

 in the ground. The ants are all 'at home.' Scald 

 them. If your cellar is not cemented, hunt the pests 

 there; very likely you will find lots of them. 

 When the work here recommended has been done, 

 clean out your closets, sugai" pails, everything in the 

 closets ; rub fine salt on the shelves, lay clean yellow 

 paper on them, and put back the dishes. In the 

 cracks of the floor and around the surbace of said 

 closets should be placed ground red pepper. When 

 they again make a raid, as they may in a few 

 months, give them a second scalding." 



It is a good plan to tie about tomato and cabbage 

 plants pieces of cardboard to prevent the cut wot^m 

 from severing the stem near the soil. It is easily 

 done and is a better protection thaa mounds of earth 

 which, it has been said, cut worms cannot climb up. 

 This idea is a mistake. We last season placed 

 twenty-five cut worms in a hole about eight inches 

 deep, the sides of which were nearly perpendicular. 

 We watched them at intervals during two hours and 

 found that, though many attempts to escape were 

 ineffectual, some were successful. — Rural New 

 Yorker. 



LITERARY AND PERSONAL. 



The American Apiculturist.- A journal devot- 

 ed to scientific bee keeping. Vol. 1, No. 1, for May, 

 1S83. Published monthly by S. M. Locke, editor and 

 proprietor, Salem, Mass., at $1.00 a year in advance. 

 This is a fairly printed octavo of 24 pages— and 10 

 additional pages pages of advertisements — in tiuted 

 covers, and is replete with practical essays, notes 

 and other contributions, from able writers on apicul- 

 ture all over the country. A list of 80 dealers in bees 

 and bee-supplies is published in this number, em- 

 bracing nearly every large city and State in the 

 union. If we were a bee-keeper, we certainly should 

 feel this journal a very essential aid to our labors. 

 We quote a very interesting paper from its columns, 

 on "Bees and Horticulture," by A. J. Cook to 

 which we call the attention of our readers, and es- 

 pecially those who are much exercised about the 

 destructiveness of bees. 



Pamphlets received. — Report of the Committee 

 of the General Assembly appointed at the request of 

 the Board of Trustees, to investigate the affairs of 

 the Pennsylvania State College, under a joint reso- 

 lution approved April '.iS, 1881. 



Pennsylvania State College Agricultural 

 Bulletins, No. 4. —Report of condition of winter 

 grain, the progress of cotton planting, and estimates 

 of cereals of 1882, with freight rates of transporta- 

 tion companies. May, 1883. 



The Watch.man. — " Watch ye, stand fast in the 

 faith." — Lancaster, June, 1883. 



The Western Land Guide.— Detroit, Michigan, 

 May, 188,3. Edited and published by Wilcox & 

 Howell, at $11.00 a year in advance. A quarto of 16 

 pages, devoted to the interests of those who desire 

 to possess landed homes, and especially of those 

 who have them to sell. 



Science, for June, 1883, contains : Too much red 

 tape ; the alphabet and spelling reform ; a study of 

 the human temporal bone; glacial deposits on the 

 low and hilly river country ; the Naples zoological 

 station ; the spectrum of an argand burner; the New 

 York agricultural exoeriment station ; classificaiion 

 of islands, &c., besides a weekly summary of the 

 progress of science, in mathematics, physics, engi- 

 neering, chemistry, geology, geography, botany, 

 zoology, antheopology, Egyptology and physiologi 

 cal psychology, &c., &c. Published by Moses King, 

 weekly, at $.5.00 a year, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. 

 The cheapest scientific journal extant. 



Forest Magazine "for the country," June, 1883. 

 Edited by Francis George Heath, author of "Autumn 

 Leaves," "Our Woodland Trees," "The Fern 

 World," etc., etc. Published by William Rider & 

 Son, No. 14 Bartholamew Close, E. C, London, 

 England. Monthly. Price, one shillng. 78 pages 

 royal octavo. 



The journal before us is No. 2 of a new and im- 

 proved series of the Journal of Forestry, by the 

 same publishers. Prominently among the improve- 

 ments may be noticed the superior quality of the 

 material and the typography, general " make up," 

 and the increased number of pages, amouniiug to 

 nearly or quite 1,000 during the year; but most 

 especially, perhaps, in the number and quality of 

 its contributions, correspondence and editorials. The 

 subject of forestry must ultimately become an im- 

 portant one in this country ; but most likely we shall 

 go on in our present destructive course, until we 

 entail upon our posterity a train of evils, from which 

 it may require them many generations to recover, if 

 ever. It seems the very pink of reckless selfishness 

 to assume and assert " Let posterity work out its 

 own salvation ; let us eat, drink and be merry, for 

 to morrow we die." Ay, there's the rub ; we live as 

 though that were the end, and have practically 

 little faith in anything outside of self. The whole 

 magazine is very readable, very entertaining and 

 very instructing. 



The Farm and Garden. An imperial quarto of 

 16 pages in tinted covers, and first-class typography, 

 and literary contents. Liberally and finely illustra- 

 ted with appropriate designs. Published by Child 

 Bros. & Co., 125 South 4th street, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 at 50 cents a year. 



This is an excellent paper ; and, like the Farm 

 Journal published in the same city (and of the same 

 size) has its advertisements interspersed through its 

 reading matter from the first to the very last page. 

 This plan may secure a reading for the " • ds" 

 which they would otherwise, perhaps, not get, but 

 then it would also imply that its main object is an 

 advertising medium ; and, that everything else is 

 secomlarij to that primary object. We are criticising 

 that feature, although we don't at all like it; but 

 then, the interests of its publishers and patrons are 

 not to be subordinate to any one man's, or any score 

 of men's likes and dislikes. It doubtless has its pe- 

 cuniary advantages, and therefore " Great is Diana 

 of the Ephesians I" 



