1864. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



109 



A ITew Product of the Ort-tiard. 



APPLE JELLY MADE CHEAP FROM NEW CIDER. 



Atalit/i moetii'g of the Ohio Pnmological So- 

 ciety, at Toledo, considerable interest was excited 

 by tlie exhibition of a number of glass jars of 

 beaiitilul jelly, manufactured from cider on a Sor- 

 ghu;n eviiparator, Me-srs. Corey & Son, of Lima, 

 Indi aia. It was of lini- color and consistence, and 

 exee!le;!t flavor; and if it can be made as cheaply 

 R3 the followinji; statemi-nt of the Messrs. Corey 

 represents, it cannot fail to become an aiticle of 

 commercial importance. — Cor. Ohio Farmer. 



STATEMENT OF COKEY k SON. 



We send you by cxpjess several specimens of cl- 



inch 



you will pleas--' have the goodness 



der jeiiy, 



to test and dispose of ad libitum. — It is made pure- i 

 ly of tlie juice of the apple, without any mixture j 

 whiitever, no sugar, and no chen.ic::ls. The apples j 

 were ground and pressed in the ordinary way, and j 

 the cider, after being strained, and before its fer- I 

 mentation, was passed in a tl.in and nearl^y contm- ; 

 nous eurr:nt over the intensely heate 1 surface of j 

 our clarifying and evaporating sugar pan. The | 

 whole process of cleansing and and condensing i 

 to tlie requi-ite consistency of jellies, being about I 

 eight gallons into one, is performed in frinn iwenty I 

 to thirty minuits from the time th;'.t the cider enters j 

 the ciarifier until it leaves the oppi'site end of the 

 evaporation, duly cleansed, condensed and cooked. 

 From fifteen to twenty barrels of cider may be 

 thus transformed per day often hours' service, on 

 a pan of suitable dimensions for family or neigh- 

 borhood use. 



Our ai)p:tratus is made of copper, and proves 

 equal y adapted to the manufacture of these pleas- 

 ant tarts and our Xorthern sweets. It is observa- 

 ble that cider jellies do not (at least in our three 

 years' experiments) congeal into candy, nor mold 

 on the surface. Its flavor also improves by age. 

 The jellies herewith presented, of the past season's 

 manufacture, were made of a mixture of tart and 

 sweet ap!)les, and the fair samples of several thou- 

 sand gallons made in this region by ourselves, and 

 by others who have adopted our implements and 

 method of manufacture. An abundance of the 

 like miiy, in propitious seasons, be made to advan- 

 tage in all the fruit-growing portions of our coun- 

 try. It has been much admired whenever intro- 

 duced, and our physicians prefer it for their pa- 

 tients to other jellies made of the best materials. 



Spr.ucE Up. — If you get a moment to spare, 

 spruce up — put that gate on its hinges, put a little 

 paint on the picket fence you built last year, trim 

 up about your door yard, make it cosy and inviting; 

 don't say you can't find time for these things. The 

 fact is, you have no right to go slovenly — your 

 wife and children will be happier, your farm will 

 sell for more money in the market, and be worth 

 more to you at home if you devote an odd hour 

 now and then to spruce up. 



Flax Culture— Porgie Oil a Substitute 

 for Linseed Oil— Culture of the Black- 

 berry— Grafting the May Cherry on 

 the Morello, 



[Letter from Rural] 



CfiAMPAiGX, March 1, 1864. 



In the culture of flax for seed it has been cus- 

 tomary to sow only half a bushel of seed to tlie acre. 

 This practice was obtained frotn the oil mill men, 

 who have generally furnished s-'cd, and have been 

 desirous to obtdn the largest amount from the 

 seed sent out, without any regard to the }ield per 

 acre. In all cases a bushel to a bushel and a half 

 should be sown, making as a rule, that the richer 

 and fine;' the soil is [lulverized the less seed is re- 

 quired. 



There is no crop that pays better for manure than 

 flax, and if possible to avoid it, this crop should 

 not be sown without more or less being applied. If 

 the hind for fl ix hns been fall plowed, or if corn 

 stalk stubb!-^ is used, tlie manure can be spre.id on 

 the surface and either harrowed in, or what is bet- 

 ter, u.^e a six-shovel, two-horse cultivator. In all 

 cases the roller should follow the sowing. 



Flax should be sown eaily in April or the last of 

 MiU'ch, th( ufrh^ouietiines good crops are grown on 

 sward land t'urn.'d over tli^. fir-t Isalf of May. The 

 brown seed is the b^ st variety to sow. 



In clearing the seed of foul seed, such as yellow 

 seed, cockle and charlock, use a long mesh wire 

 screen, just wide enough to allow fiax seed to pass 

 through edgewise, while all seed-, such as cockle, 

 oats, wild bu.kwh;at, etc., will pass over. It is 

 next passed over a square mesh scre<?n, the meshes 

 of which are th.e right cize to pass through fine 

 seeds, but do not admit the fl ix seed, which pass 

 over. It is very important to have clean seed, if 

 sown early and thickly seeded, the weed seeds in 

 the land thut have been deeply buried do not come 

 up in tiirie to do much harm before the crop is suf- 

 ficiently advanced to smother them down ; but. in 

 the case of the seeds soivn with the crop it is dif- 

 ferent, as those seeds having been well preserved 

 come up at once and present a vigor f^'.r surpassing 

 those that have been retained in the soil 

 the winter. 



Tl«i high price of flax seed, and the new demand 

 for the lint,, make this a valuable crop, atid will re- 

 pay for an unusual attention to it. So long as ex- 

 change continues at present rates the price of lin- 

 seed oil must rule high, unless some new product 

 should take its place. Oil made from the fish called 

 Porgie is attracting considerable attention at the 

 East, for outside painting, and may prove a rival 

 to Linseed, as cflfectual as Benzole has to Turpen- 

 tine. 



BLACKBE.^P.Y CULTURE. 



This fruit has become so popular, and withal so 

 cheap, that iiicre;ised attention is being paid to it. 

 The Lawton is the variety mostly planted, yet the 

 main supply of fruit has come from the wild plant 

 about the fields and borders of the woodl.vnd. In 

 the south part of the State large amounts have 

 been gathered from the bushes growing along the 

 Illinois Central milroad, but these have all been 

 cut down, much to the regret of the inhabitants, 

 though none to passengers, or the pockets of the 

 Company. 



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