1911 . 
TH 1C KUK.AJL, NEW-YORKER 
B'J!) 
More About Fleas. 
I see in a late issue an inquiry on 
how to get rid of fleas. The best remedy 
I have found is the use of the common 
fly paper “Tangle-Foot.” Place it un¬ 
der the beds far enough not to step on 
it, under chairs or tables, or anything 
to keep it where they will be likely to 
jump on it. Every one that gets on it 
is sure to stick. If they get in beds this 
is the best way I have tried to get rid 
of them. Shake them off and they jump 
on the paper. j. w. m. 
Jelly Roll. 
Would you give me a recipe for rolled 
jelly cake? mrs. a. l. 
Three eggs, one cup sugar, half table¬ 
spoon milk, one-quarter teaspoon salt, 
one level teaspoon baking powder, one 
cup flour, one tablespoon melted butter. 
Line the bottom of the pan (which 
must be flat) with paper; spread cake 
evenly on paper; bake in a quick oven. 
When baked turn out flat on a paper 
sprinkled with sugar, spread with jelly 
and roll. Roll the paper around the 
cake to keep in shape until cool. 
Canning Swiss Chard. 
Will you give recipe for canning Swiss 
cbard? w. e. c. 
Can any of our readers give experi¬ 
ence on this point? We have never 
heard of anyone canning chard. We 
only cook the thick midrib, like celery; 
if this was to be canned we would pre¬ 
pare as for the table, boil, drain, and 
then till into cans, adding boiling salted 
water to till the cans full; set the cans 
in a large kettle with water to come 
half-way up, and either cook one hour, 
or cook for half an hour three suc¬ 
cessive days, seeing that the cans were 
full to overflowing before sealing. If 
the leaves were used we would treat 
like spinach; boil, drain, fill solid into 
cans, and then process like the above. 
What advice do our friends offer? 
are a nuisance to gardeners, fruit grow¬ 
ers, and most of all, to greenhouse men. 
Their industry in carting scale insects 
and aphides around, and colonizing these 
pests, makes their presence extremely 
undesirable. The ant possesses indus¬ 
try and judgment, but there is too much 
ego in his cosmos! 
Apple Sauce Cake ; Soft Molasses 
Cake. 
Will you give me the recipe for apple 
sauce cake and soft molasses cake? I had 
the recipe for apple sauce cake once, but 
lost it: I think you had it printed a year 
or so ago. mrs. j. p. r. 
Apple Sauce Cake.—One cup sugar, 
half cup shortening, one saltspoon salt, 
half teaspoon ground cloves, one tea¬ 
spoon cinnamon, half teaspoon grated 
nutmeg, V /2 cup raisins, more fruit if 
desired; one teaspoon soda dissolved in 
a little water, one cup unsweetened 
apple sauce. Put the dissolved soda into 
the sauce, let it foam over the ingre¬ 
dients; 1$4 cup flour; bake 45 minutes. 
Molasses Cake.—One cup molasses, 
two tablespoon fuls melted butter, one 
cup boiling water, one teaspoonful soda 
or saleratus, three cups of flour, one 
tablespoonful of ginger. Dissolve the 
soda or saleratus in a tablespoonful of 
boiling water, and add it to the mo¬ 
lasses, then add the melted butter, boil¬ 
ing water, ginger and flour. Beat until 
smooth and bake in a moderate oven 30 
minutes. 
Another very good molasses cake is 
made as follows: One-half cup of New 
Orleans molasses, half cup sour cream, 
butter the size of an egg, half cup of 
brown sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful 
soda or saleratus, two cups flour. Dis¬ 
solve soda in a tablespoonful of boiling 
water, and add to molasses. Beat egg 
and sugar together till light, then add 
molasses, cream and flour, beat till 
smooth, and if liked add a teaspoonful 
of cinnamon or a tablespoonful of gin¬ 
ger. Bake in shallow pan in a moderate 
oven for 30 minutes. 
Oil Stove Experience Wanted. 
Could I get any information as to kero¬ 
sene heaters—whether they are odorless, 
and how the cost of kerosene at 11 cents a 
gallon, compares with that of coal at $0.75 
per ton ? The room to be heated is not 
large, has low ceiling and is stone and 
warm. A. E. F. 
What can* our readers tell us about 
oil-stove heating? We think the oil 
stove a wonderful help in the kitchen, in 
any place where a gas range is unat¬ 
tainable, but we must own that we do 
not like oil heaters. The oxygen is con¬ 
sumed so rapidly that very great care 
in ventilation is needed to avoid head¬ 
ache and the sense of oppression re¬ 
sulting from a vitiated atmosphere. Of 
course this trouble could be avoided 
with proper care, and as we often find 
unheated rooms with no chimney con¬ 
nection, the oil heater is the only means 
of providing warmth in them. We are 
informed that in Paris the building laws 
compel some sort of ventilator in rooms 
where oil stoves are used, but this may 
be due quite as much to the use of 
charcoal as of oil for fuel. Can anyone 
give us a fair comparison between oil 
and coal for heating? 
Concerning Ants. 
In relation to ants, I have tried the 
borax and sugar, evidently to the de¬ 
light of the ants! They seemed to 
thrive in it, wallow in it, strive for it. 
Came in droves for it! But tartar 
emetic, as recommended in a recent 
number of The R. N.-Y. worked like 
magic. Ten cents’ worth, mixed with 
sugar and a little water, with a wee 
lump of butter in the middle, as an at¬ 
tractive island, surrounded by a sea of 
tartar emetic, made six saucers, attrac¬ 
tive saucers, for the first day. After 
that, not a single ant was to be seen 
struggling to reach the butter island. 
They disappeared entirely from all 
places inside the house. The outside is 
still full of them. I wonder if they do 
any good outside? L. E. 
R. N.-Y.—No doubt ants have their 
place in the economy of nature, but they 
Fall-Planted Bulbs. 
In the Fall of 1910 I indulged in a 
dollar collection of bulbs, buying at the 
city store of a dealer and so saving the 
25 cents postage which a mail order 
would have demanded. I shared part 
of these bulbs with friends, but kept 
some track of what was realized from 
them. Possibly the results and my con¬ 
clusions may be of interest to other 
farm people who must give only scraps 
of time to the care of plants and who 
can therefore expect only ordinary suc¬ 
cess. 
The four white Roman hyacinths of 
the collection were all set in a six-inch 
pot and came into bloom in February. 
We thought them very lovely, and a 
species of Summer-like cheer we should 
not again willingly do without. As each 
bulb sent up three or four stalks of 
blooms the whole effect was very pretty 
and lasted for some time. So I regis¬ 
tered a vote for more Roman hyacinths 
the next season. 
There were seven Dutch hyacinths and 
all did well, the purple ones giving one 
or two additional flowering stalks after 
the main one was past. One set in the 
ground had a fine large head of single 
purple flowers followed by three more 
as pretty but smaller. The other hy¬ 
acinths were blossomed in pots. 
The six snowdrops were set in a 
warm spot south of the house, but sent 
up their delicate little flowers only a 
trifle earlier than the hyacinths and a 
fortnight or more after city yards 
showed snowdrops in blossoms. As the 
catalogues say the bulbs should not be 
kept long out of the ground, nor dis¬ 
turbed oftener than once in three or 
four years, I conclude that mine may 
do better another season. But as I can¬ 
not place them near the walls of a fur¬ 
nace heated cellar and as all vegetation 
in our nearest city is always ahead of 
what the country can show, I must not 
expect the earliest snowdrops reported. 
Preesias also may do better for me a 
second season. Only about half came 
up and those that flowered were not as 
large as the florists grow them. 
My collection held 12 Narcissus. The 
three “Von Sion double yellow” were, 
of course, only common “daffies” such 
as every old garden shows in such 
plenty. They were ho larger nor finer 
than the hundreds I have about the 
back yard, for I make it a rule to reset 
a clump or two of these daffodils every 
Autumn and so have them scattered all 
about—except in the meadows—and 
can pick big handfuls of golden pretti¬ 
ness in April and May. I have also 
single daffodils, but not as many of 
them as of the double because they are 
a later acquisition, for they seem fully 
as hardy and reliable as the Von Sions. 
The Trumpet Majors of my new bulbs 
were but three more single daffodils. 
Of three Narcissus Alba Plena Odor- 
ata double, not a bulb made the slight¬ 
est attempt to grow. As they were 
treated like the other potted bulbs one 
can but suppose them poor stock. Know¬ 
ing how prone the white Narcissi were 
to fail in making blossoms out of their 
buds, I kept my Paper Whites always in 
the same window and gave them good 
care. Each budded and all buds grew 
tall and looked ready to open and then 
blasted. This behaviour was so like 
that of my white Narcissi in the garden 
as to cause me small surprise, but I had 
hoped for bulbs of some of the im¬ 
proved strains less subject to this try¬ 
ing habit. For there is a Poeticus which 
is a trifle earlier, and which does not 
disappoint one. 
There were Crocus bulbs among the 
rest, but my recent experiences with 
these dear first favorites of Spring has 
been so disappointing that I gave the 
bulbs away and took no further interest 
in them. Twenty years ago we bought 
Crocus bulbs along with tulips and 
hardy lilies, and had much pleasure 
from their beauty which resulted. Again 
several years later we prepared another 
bed as thoroughly and bought gener¬ 
ously of bulbs from a reliable firm. Al¬ 
most nothing came of all we so hope¬ 
fully planted and my conclusion was 
that the growing interest in bulb plant¬ 
ing had tempted importers to rush poor 
stock upon the market. Occasionally 
since then I have bought a few Crocus 
bulbs in the Fall, trying them in various 
situations. Usually they are very late 
in appearing, blossom but scantily, if at 
all, and are seen no more. Yet in city 
yarv ; I occasionally see these cheerful 
purple and gold and white favorites of 
Spring, and some day I hope to make 
another trial with the most reliable 
stock money can buy. 
1 have seen handsome shows of bloom 
upon tulips grown in pots, usually the 
pots were low and very large around 
and 10 or more bulbs had been set in 
each. But my own trials have not en¬ 
couraged me to experiment more with 
indoor culture. Of my two dozen tulip 
bulbs I kept only part, and some of 
those made but the one large leaf, show¬ 
ing that they were alive but would not 
flower that season. Tulips in the border 
among hardy plants seem very worth 
having. They come into flower before 
the larger plants utilize the space, they 
are showy in both form and color, and 
unless the season is unusually dry they 
remain as blossoms a long time, open¬ 
ing day after day. The single yellow 
seems to have most hardiness, for my 
collection always inclines to that sort, 
and I recall a few tall, large cupped 
tulips which persisted in an old garden 
even after the house was gone and the 
place deserted. I see that I need not 
buy single white or yellow, but need 
scarlet and parrot additions to make 
sure that the Springtimes “Bring back 
the tulip’s pride.” Dry weather over¬ 
took my tulip, blossoms and rather 
spoiled their -season’s success last 
Spring, but I shall put out a few more 
this Fall, hoping for better luck. 
PATTIE LYMAN. 
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