THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[January, 1884. 



Cherry CoBBLER.-Turn a teacup bottom upwards 

 in the center of a pudding dish and fill the dish with 

 sourcherriesCstoned) and plenty of sugar. Cover with 

 a nice baking powder crust about % inch thicl<, and 

 bake until the crust is done. Carefully raise the cup 

 when it is cut. and underneath will be the rich juice 

 for sauce. 



Birds' Nest Pudding.— Pare nice peaches and 

 remove the stone from as small an opening as possi- 

 ble, then fill each with sugar ; place in a pudding 

 dish and pour over them a nice custard and bake. 



Snow Puddinu. — Soak \i a box of gelatine in 

 just enough water to cover it; add Ipintboilirg 

 water, 2 cupfuls sugar, juice of a leamon ; strain 

 after it is thoroughly cooled. When it commences 

 to thicken add the beaten whites of 3 eggs ; beat all 

 together (with an egg beater) until creamy, then 

 turn into a mould. Serve with a boiled custard 

 turned around it. 



Monday's Pudding. —Cut remains of a cold plum 

 pudding into finger pieces, soak them in a little 

 brandy, and lay them cross-barred in a mould until 

 filled. Make a custard flavoring with nutmeg or 

 lemon rind, fill up the mould with it, tie it down 

 with a cloth, and boil or steam it for an hour. Serve 

 with a little of the custard poured over it, to which 

 has been added 1 tablespoonful of brandy. 



Fried Chicken. — Cut 2 chickens in pieces, 

 sprinkle with salt and pepper, about an hour before 

 cooking dredge flour over them. Beat 2 eggs, slip 

 each piece in this, and fry in hot lard. Boil up a 

 cupful and a half of cream or rich milk, and add a 

 spoonful of butter rubbed into a spoonful of flour 

 with a little salt ; stir constantly until it boils again. 

 Lay the chicken in a fricassee dish, pour the sauce 

 around thera and serve. 



Potato Balls. — Mash boiled potatoes tine, stir 

 into them the yolk of an egg, and make them into 

 balls ; then dip them into a beaten egg, roll them in 

 cracker crumbs and brown in a quick oven ; or, fry 

 them in a small quantity of nice drippings ; flatten 

 them so that they can be easily turned and browned 

 both sides. 



Omelette. — One cupful of new milk, 1 cupful of 

 bread crumbs, .5 eags, salt and pepper. Beat well 

 together, and turn into a buttered spider'; cook a 

 minute or two on top of the stove, then place in the 

 oven to finish, fold \i upon the other, and serve hot. 

 Graham Gems.— Two cupfuls of water, % cupful 

 of sweet milk, 3 cupfuls of Graham flour, 1 teaspoon- 

 ful baking powder, salt. Bake in gem pans in a 

 quick oven. 



Berry Pudding .—1 pint molasses, 3 pints berries, 

 2 spoonfuls cream tartar, 1 spoonful soda, salt. Stir 

 into the molasses a handful of flour, add the cream 

 tartar, then the soda, and while foaming add the 

 berries and flour enough to make it as thick as you 

 can stir with the spoon. 



Queen's Pudding.— 3 eggs, % pound butter, 3 

 tablespoonfuls sugar, and 3 small cups of flour ; 

 bake in muffin rings ; to be eaten with hard sauce. 



Apple Butter Pudding. — Core and peel 8 

 apples, put in a dish ; fill the place from which the 

 cores have been taken with brown sugar, cover and 

 bake. Beat the yolks of 4 eggs, add 2 teacupfuls of 

 flour, with 3 even teaspoonfuls of baking powder 

 sifted with it, 1 pint of milk, a little salt, then the 

 whites well beaten, pour over the apples and bake. 

 Use with sauce. 



Tomato 80UP.—2 quarts of beef stock, 1 onion, T 

 potato, 4 tomaloes, 2 eggs, salt and pepper. Boil 

 onion and chopped potato in the stock 1 hour, then 

 strain, add tomatoes, and just before serving, the 

 egg, well beaten. 



Baked Fish.— Wash and wipe the fish uicelr, and 

 fill with a dressing made of bread soaked in cold 

 water ; when soft, drain off the water and beat into 

 it 1 egg, a little salt, 1 tablespoonful of chopped 

 pork, 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley, pepper 

 Sew up the fish, cut strips of salt pork and put 

 across the fish, then put it into a baking-pan and 

 dredge with salt, pepper and flour ; cover the bottom 



of the pan with hot water and put it into a rather 

 hot oven, basting often. Garnish with parsley and 

 slices of lemon. 



Spaghetti.— The [macaroni used should be the 

 best Italian, and must be placed to boil in plenty of 

 water, let it cook 10 or 1.5 minutes, boiling hard all 

 the while. A sauce for it is made by slowly boiling 

 all the morning a piece of beef steak (a ]4 pound 

 will suffice for small family,) to this add enough 

 canned or other tomatoes, an hour or so before serv- 

 ing, to give the sauce a rich red color. Aa much 

 water only should be used as will leave the sauce 

 rich and thick. Let every one sprinkle grated Par- 

 mesan cheese for himself. 



LITERARY AND PERSONAL. 



Reports of observations and experiments 

 in the practical work of the division, made under the 

 direction of the Entomologist, with plates, U. 3. 

 Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 3, Division 

 of Entomology, 73 pp. octavo. Three full-page 

 plates, with twenty finely executed illustrations. 



We are under obligations to Prof. C. V. Riley, U S. 

 Entomologist, for a copy of this excellent bulletin, 

 containing as it does some original matter of value 

 to the farmer and small fruit grower in the north, as 

 well as the cotton grower of the south. 



In this report it is authentically stated that the 

 army-worm will feed and thrive on different species 

 of plants, and also what it will not feed upon, but 

 would rather starve to death than touch it ; but, 

 even some of the plants upon which they experi- 

 mentally fed, evidently had an unhealthful effect 

 upon them. Garden poppy, cabbage, raddish, gar- 

 den pea, raspberry, carrot, parsnip, garden lettuce, 

 garden beet, onion. These plants, but with some 

 hesitation as to cabbaga, they ate more or less 

 readily, and survived from fifty to seventy-five per 

 cent. Cotton, grape, garden bean, strawberry, 

 hemlock. In the case of these last named, all died 

 in the larvse state, feeding, however, on cotton and 

 strawberry sparingly. The other named plants 

 they would not touch. 



It seems to have been demonstrated that the army 

 worm did feed destructively on a Mr. Rockwood's 

 young cranberry shoots, but that it did not touch the 

 older and tougher leaves. This was, however, not a 

 fair test case perhaps. Mr. R. permitted a good 

 deal of grass to grow among his cranberries ; his 

 farm being laid out in blocks surrounded by ditches 

 containing water. After the grass was devoured, and 

 because they could not escape new pasture grounds, 

 they fell upon the young and tender cranberry 

 leaves, as their only remaining source. Since the to- 

 bacco plant has now at least two dozen enemies 

 where it scarcely had half a dozen 20 years ago. 

 may it not be possible that these army worms will 

 ultimately be able to adapt themselves to almost any 

 kind of food ; especially since it is said, they some- 

 times devour each other ? 



This bulletin also contained an interesting paper 

 on North American Cossidce, by Doctor James S. 

 Baily, of Albany, N. Y., in which the species are all 

 handsomely illustrated, including the eggs, larvse, 

 pup;* and Imagine. Also, a report of the examina 

 tion of raw silks by Doctor Wm. McMurtrie, of 

 Illinois, Ind University, with illusirations of the 

 different fibres. This recalls the fact that a species 

 of cossus was somewhat abundant, some twelve years 

 ago, in the chestnut tress, on Chestnut Hill, Lancas- 

 ter county, Pa., and that Messrs. Bruckart and Esh- 

 leman, of Silver Spring, collected a number of them, 

 but somehow, perhaps though the death of the for- 

 mer, we failed to get specimens of them, until they 

 were spoiled by being immersed in weak spirits. 



Ornithologist and Oologist.— A 20 page 8 vo. 

 magazine, published by Frank B. Webster, Paw- 

 tucket, R. I., at $1.00 a year in advance. Printed on 

 fine lull callendereJ paper, in clear type, and hand- 

 somely illustrated. This is a valuable publication to 

 the student in Ornithology and Oology, especially as 

 its matter is all original, of a practical character, 

 and contributed by those who make these branches 



of natural history a specialty ; and no intelligent and 

 progressive student should be without it. 



Agricultural Review, and journal of the 

 American Agricultural Association. Vol. III., No. 

 5, for December, 1883. Subscription $3.00 a year, 

 published at 32 Park Row, New York. This journal 

 is a consolidation of " De Bow's Review," " South- 

 ern Industries," and the former " Ag. Review." 

 An international and inter-sectional magazine, de- 

 voted to American agriculture and industry. A 

 square octavo of 133 pages, illustrated. Tinted 

 covers, and with 24 pages of advertisements ; John 

 W. Johnston, W. M. Brownall, Joseph A. Real, and 

 Ralph S. Saunders, editors, and more than a quarter 

 of a liundred distinguished contributors from all 

 parts of the country. It has a large issue and circu- 

 lation, and hence is an invaluable advertising 

 medium, as it reaches not only " across the conti- 

 nent," but also foreign shores. 



Twenty FIRST and twenty-second quarterly re- 

 port of the Peiinnylvmda Board of Agriculture, 1883; 

 a royal octavo of 66 pages ; three full-page plates of 

 colored illustrations ; a tabulated plate illustrating 

 the prices of wheat, corn, rye and oats from Novem- 

 ber 1, 1882, to November 1, 1883, and three wood 

 cuts illustiating "the Danish Western Centrifugal 

 Cream Separator." We are under obligations to 

 somebody for the receipt of a copy of this work, and 

 we welcome it the more because it is the first pages 

 we have received from this organization for years. 



The report contains the minutes of the summer 

 meeting of the Board held at Erie, Pa., August 8th, 

 1883, and the autumn meeting held at West Chester, 

 October 24, 1883. Reports on the state of crops and 

 stock from the different counties in the Common- 

 wealth, some of which are copious ; reports of the 

 county fairs for 1883, by intelligent members of the 

 respective agricultnral societies, nearly all of which 

 have been financially successful, and some of them 

 largely so. Of course, no notice was taken of the 

 "Independent State Fair" held at Lancaster, which 

 was not a legitimate organization of the State. 



Then follows an illustrated essay on " Peach Yel- 

 lows," by Prof. Penhallow, of Montreal, Canada. 

 We have not had time yet to peruse this with suffi- 

 cient care to make it available to our readers, more- 

 over, the Farmer was nearly made up for January 

 when we received the report ; but, from the mere 

 glance we have been able to give it, we infer there is 

 that in it which would be valuable to the fruit- 

 grower to know. An illustrated and tabulated arti- 

 cle on " Cream Separators," is next in the order of 

 succession, (by the Secretary of the Board) followed 

 by a meteorological table from December 1, 1883, to 

 December 1, 18S3, by J. L. Heacock, of Bucks 

 county, P%: and lastly, tabulated analysis of Fer- 

 tilizers issued by the Pennsylvania Board of Agricul- 

 ture, from March to December, 18->3, beginning with 

 No. 300 and ending with .518. As these analysis are 

 of standard value to the farmer, and as we have in- 

 serted all that have been made under the auspices of 

 the Board, we shall continue the list in a luture 

 number. The profit in these publications is in read- 

 ing them, understanding them, and practicing what- 

 ever in them may be of value to those for whom 

 they have been written and published. 



Home, Farm and Factory.— Devoted to Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical Progress and Home Enter- 

 tainment." The best of to-day may be improved 

 upon to-morrow." Vol. 1, No, 5, December 15, 

 1883. A royal quarto of 16 pages, very creditably 

 gotten up, and ably representing its announced 

 specialties ; published monthly by the Home, Farm 

 and Factory Company, 1213 Cass Avenue, St. Louis, 

 Mo., at $1 a year, postage paid ; Calvin D. Hulbert, 

 manager. As a special inducement subscriptions 

 will be received from now on to the 1st of March at 

 50 cents, which is only half price. Twenty one cor- 

 respondents contribute to this number, on various 

 practical subjects, and its editorials and selections 

 exhibit rare ability. 



Seed Time and Harvest for December, 1883, an 

 illustrated monthly devoted to Rural Affairs ; pub- 



