1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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How to Make "Restaurant” Ice Cream 
F. P., Jewett , 0. —I have tried at various times to 
make ice cream equal to that made in the factory, 
but have failed to And a recipe that will doit. 
Some tell me they believe there is a recipe known 
only to the men that make cream for sale, as 
their cream keeps better packed and stays free 
of icicles; besides it is smoother, stands up and 
looks better when dished up than the average 
cream. What is the recipe for such a cream ? 
Ans. —I know of no trade secret for 
making 1 the stiff cream without the use 
of adulterants. If pure cream is use I 
and properly frozen, the product ought 
to give perfect satisfaction, and stand 
up long enough to suit any one. There 
are one or two things that count. The 
more cream whips, the lighter, yet stiffer 
it becomes. It is, also, a big saving to 
increase the volume 50 to 100 per cent 
without increased expense, and at the 
same time, improve the product by whip¬ 
ping up the cream. There are several 
ways to help the whipping process. One 
is to use old cream. Fresh cream never 
whips as well, no matter how dense. 
Let the cream stand a day, or even two 
or three, in a cool place, and see how 
much easier and better it whips. See 
that the sugar is perfectly dissolved be¬ 
fore freezing. In freezing, use a mixture 
of fine salt and coarse salt (wheat to 
corn-grain size) Keep the bottom hole 
in the freezer plugged while freezing, 
so that brine will form. Run the freezer 
slowly at the staff, until the cream gets 
well chilled, then run fast. This whips 
the cream, and makes it fine-grained. If 
to sink a shaft six or eight inches in 
diameter, in the bottom of the cellar 
down to near the ground-water surface, 
or what would be better still, even to 
carry it below the ground water, if that 
is not farther than 20 to 30 feet below 
the surface, and can easily be reached. 
In this well, a galvanized iron pipe as 
large as would fill the well, and provided 
with a bottom, the whole soldered water¬ 
tight, should be placed. Then on the in¬ 
side of this, should be placed another 
galvanized iron pipe made of three or 
four-inch conductor pipe, and this should 
extend from above the roof of the house 
to within two or three feet of the bot¬ 
tom of the other tube, and should be 
provided with a revolving funnel which 
would face the wind, and permit air to 
be driven to the bottom of the well, and 
forced up into the cold-storage closet or 
refrigerator. The outside casing of the 
well would then be closed up, and led 
into the space to be kept cool, which 
should, of course, be provided with a 
small opening near the top to permit the 
air to be driven out. The same opening, 
however, should be provided with a valve 
or damper, so that it may be closed when 
desired. The intake pipe coming from 
above the roof should, also, be provided 
with a damper, so as to diminish the 
strength of the current when the wind 
is too strong. 
The second method would consist in 
excavating a larger chamber or well 
8 to 12 feet deep, in the bottom of a cel¬ 
lar into which an elevator of the desired 
size could be lowered and raised at will, 
as elevators or waiters in houses are 
managed. The latter method would, 
probably, permit the most constant 
and lowest temperature to be maintain¬ 
ed, but would be subject to the objec- 
food, giving the same amount of milk as 
the other. The only safe way is to watch 
the animals, and feed each one all he 
will pay for in growth. Of course, the 
corn meal is added to the grain ration 
toward the last of the feeding period, to 
put fat on the hog. Nothing can com¬ 
pare with it for that purpose. The rape 
and middlings grow the frame and 
muscle, and the bog needs the corn meal 
to finish it off with fat. No one who tries 
rape as a hog food will abandon it. 
J. s. WOODWARD. 
Drippings from Poisonous Mixtures 
A. U. H , Erie, Pa.— In spraying fruit trees 
with the different spraying mixtures, a certain 
portion will drop on the ground and grass under¬ 
neath. Is the poison strong enough to hurt a 
duck, goose or chicken, if it should eat some of 
the grass? 
Ans —Properly prepared spraying mix¬ 
tures, used according to directions given 
out from reliable sources, can be used 
without any fear of poisoning ducks, 
geese or chickens that may feed upon 
grass on which the mixtures that drip 
from the tree may fall. This argument 
that the grass under sprayed trees would 
be dangerous to domestic animals was 
urged as soon as Paris-green began to be 
used as a spray, but careful experiments 
by Prof. Cook and others, who fed such 
grass to their own stock in large quan¬ 
tities, soon demonstrated that there 
was not the least danger from using 
Paris-green and similar poisons in spray¬ 
ing mixtures. 
How to Kill Woodchucks. 
11. S. W., Lysander, N. Y. —How do you kill 
woodchucks with bisulphide of carbon ? How 
much and how used ? 
Ans —Bisulphide of ca T bon is a very 
deadly gas, and will kill any living 
thing that breathes it in. The wocd 
chuck has usually several openings to 
Profits of Farming 
GARDENING AND FRUIT CULTURE. 
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Materials Supplied for “ Home Mixing.'’ 
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You can always rely upon a good 
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in 
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Will give you Early Crops and Large Crops 
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A Dry Sprayer 
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lusts Tres, Bush or Vise. 
Two rows of potatoes aB 
fastas you walk, wide or 
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LEGGETT & BROTHER. 
301 Pearl St., New York. 
using power, look out for running too 
long and getting butter cream. 
I suspect that F. P. is using a h&nd 
freezer, and doesn’t get on the speed. 
Perhaps he stops to rest a while ; this is 
fatal to fine-grained cream. Some cream- 
makers ‘ paddle” their cream after freez¬ 
ing soft to whip it, but we have never 
found this n cessary. Use along wooden 
paddle hard; this might help out the 
hand-freezing. Don’t freeze cream too 
hard; let it harden in the packing 
can. Freeze so that, when the freezer 
can is held in water 10 seconds, it will 
slowly run out into the packing can. 
Corn starch and its numerous imita¬ 
tions sold under various names will 
make cream that will stand up all day 
without ice, but once get people to try¬ 
ing the pure cream article that has no 
corn starch or cooked taste, and the corn 
starch competition will take care of it- 
telf. We do not cook cream except for 
chocolate, and then scald only sufficient 
to dissolve the chocolate. Oar cream 
properly packed each day will keep 10 
days without changing flavor, and fre¬ 
quently longer. We pack the small 
bricks for delivery in wooden candy 
pails, costing five to eight cents each. 
Cream without repacking keeps 6 to 10 
hours in these. h. q Manchester. 
Building a Dry Well. 
R S. L., Washington, I). C.— My house well, for 
several years, has had in it a sliding box, with 
shelves, raised and lowered with a windlass for 
Summer use in the care of butter, cream, etc.; 
but it is objectionable, because of inability to 
keep drippings from falling into the water, and 
thereby compelling the cleaning of the well fre¬ 
quently during the Summer. One friend advises 
the digging of a dry well in the cellar down to 
near the water line, while another says four feet 
deep will suffice. I can dig either with far less 
cost than the ice requisite for one season, should 
I dispense with the present sliding box. 
ANSWERED BY PROF. F. H. KING. 
It would be quite practicable to make 
such a dry well, and one of two methods 
would be available. First, if the cold- 
storage room is desired on the level at 
which it is approached, it would be best 
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tion of less convenience in placing and 
removing articles from it. For some 
purposes, it might be desirable to have 
a small pipe with a revolving funnel 
leading from above the roof to carry air 
down into this latter form of cooling ar¬ 
rangement, in order to avoid molding by 
the air becoming too moist. 
The success of the former method would 
necessitate very careful insulation of the 
walls of the refrigerator or cold-storage 
room, but with this properly attended to, 
and with doors constructed as the doors 
of ordinary ice boxes or refrigerators are 
made, would permit a temperature of 
50 to 60 degrees to be maintained most of 
the time. 
Rape for Hog Food. 
J. II. G ., Picton, Ontario. —Mr. J. S. Woodward 
states that, on 10 acres of rape divided into four 
fields; pasturing hogs on one field one week, and 
so on, after taking the hogs out, put in lambs, 
giving all the bran they will eat until they weigh 
100 pounds, then give one-half in weight of corn 
meal as of bran until ready for market, he can 
raise 200 hogs and 50 lambs, and could make a 
profit even at three cents a pound dressed. Could 
I, by following his advice to the letter, raise ICO 
hogs and 25 lambs on 10 acres ? About how many 
pounds of bran will it take, and about how much 
corn meal ? 
Ans. —Of course, in the article referred 
to on page 228, of March 25, I presup¬ 
posed that the land was rich and well 
prepared, and if such is the case, there 
is no overstatement. At an institute 
last Winter, in Michigan, I was speaking 
on this line, and some one questioned 
the fact that an acre of rape would feed 
30 hogs. A farmer who was in the audi¬ 
ence said that he had kept 22 hogs, 3 
sows and pigs, on one-third of an acre, 
more than half the time during the past 
Summer, and they had an abundance of 
feed. All I ask of J. H. G. is to try it 
on a small scale. As to how much bran 
and corn meal will be needed, I would 
not advise using bran, especially for 
young pigs ; it is too coarse and doesn’t 
agree with them ; coarse middlings is 
far better. No man can say definitely 
how much provender any animal should 
be fed, without knowing the individual 
animal. We have two horses in the 
stable, and one will do its work and keep 
in good condition on one-half the food of 
the other. Two cows will stand side by 
side, and one will eat nearly twice the 
his burrow. It is necessary to use the 
gas in some air-tight inclosure. First 
make sure that the woodchuck is at 
home. Then close all the openings but 
one. Wrap a small stone in either cot¬ 
ton batting or rags, and saturate the 
cloth with the bisulphide, being careful 
not to breathe it. Then roll the whole 
thing down into the hole, poking it in 
with a stick if necessary, and then close 
the opening securely. The bisulphide 
will evaporate quickly, and the vapor 
will spread through the hole, and kili 
Mr. Woodchuck, if he breathes it. 
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Does the Business. 
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gives perfect health and strength. 
Never Disappoint 
SAVE THE POTATOES 
From the bugs with ono of my 
PARIS GREEN SPRINKLERS. 
(GRAY’S PATENT.) 
If tried onoe will never be without it. Gna 
sprinkle more than one acre in an hoar with 
it. It saves half'of the Paris Green against 
any other method. Price $3.50 
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It is cheaper than Paris Green, more bulky and kills 
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POISON 
is not used in iny Killer of Cab¬ 
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EDW. SYVARTS. Blockton, la. 
FumaCarbon Bisulphide 
WOODCHUCKS 
to sleep 
with 
Now Is the time for 
farmers to put 
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SLUG-SHOT. Used from Ocean to Ocean across this Continent. 
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