THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, NOVEMBER 3, 11887.
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.
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(We are pleased to announce to the readers of
Th Pbogbksbiy Farxik that we hare been so
fortunate as to secure the efficient services of Mr. R.
H Weathers as Editor of this Department. He is
one of the best informed men on this subject in the
South. He desires that all communications and
questions designed for his Department be addressed :
Poultry Column, Pkogrkssivx Farmir, Raleigh,
C." He will most cheerfully answer all ques
tions relating to poultry through this column.
Write him. Editor Progressive Farmer.)
Honors.
Every year men stand up in differ
ent parts of the world who have a de
sire to reform their mistaken fellow
creatures, and enthusiastically call on
all who hear to right " about face !"
and, breaking free from rules which
have been fixed by the experience of
centures, step out into the latest per
fect path. Something like this -is con
stantly appearing in the world of
poultry, where, each year, with its
rapid successions of production and
the various stages which end in ma
turity with only a period of twelve
months between the embryotic period
and that of full vigor, seeems to cor
respond in its practical experience
with a score of years of human life.
The enthusiasm which prompts the
effort to change affairs from a com
paratively sluggish progression to one
more rapid, is worthy of commenda
tion as long as it holds strictly to its
proper course and proposes to tear
down nothing for which it does not
supply a better article. Enthusiasm
of the best sort steady enthusiasm,
which does not waste its force on idle
speculation and wild ideas is one of
the greatest aids to any business.
"Without this agent, which settles
to the condition of a steady purpose,
the breeding of improved poultry
could never have attained its present
position as one of the great industries
of the country. The men who have
chiefly achieved this eminence for their
interests are those who can most truly
claim the title of performers, for in
the special direction of their efforts
they have accomplished far more than
they probably ever dreamed. Those
who have compared these results can
be found among the few breeders who
commenced at the time of the original
"hen fever'' and havQ worked stead
ily ever since with hearty zeal. But
not in these ranks alone can we see all
who have wrought this great change.
These men were the pioneers, indeed,
but the credit must be divided among
thousands who have given work and
brains to the enterprise. No one man
has effected the improvements of the
last ten years ; no one man can effect
the changes of the next decade ; but
we can all help them along by united
effort and action. Those who prophe
sied several years ago that the fashion
keeping fancy fowls would be short
lived, must now acknowledge their
mistake. True, the ups and downs of
fashion will effect fowl keeping as
everything else; the liking for poultry,
howevery:is not dependent on fashion
entirely, 'but is founded on an innate
fondness for animals and pets, which
will last as long as humanity lasts and
in many cases the would-be prophets
have caught the mania and regret
having made a false prophesy.
calf's brains fried.
Take the brains and beat up with
egg, salt and pepper; fry in hot lard.
GLASS CAKE.
Four eggs beaten light, one glass on
sugar, one glass of flour, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder; flavor with
lemonior variilla. 1 A U ,
SOUR CREAM COOKIES.
' One clip 'of 'sour cream, one cup of
sugar, small teaspoonful of soda, a
little salt, flour enough to make a soft
doughy flavor with lemon.
CRACKER PUDDING.
One egg, three tablespoonfuis of
sugar, one pint of milk, two or three
- milk:vcrackers trolled, mutmeg-anct a
pinch of salt. 'Bake about three-quarters
of an hour: Run the handle of a
spoon down, the centre of the pudding;
if it does notiook milky it is'done.
VEGETABLE OYSTER CAKES. .
Select good, large-sized oyster plant
roots, grate, them .and add, milk and
flour sufficent to make a ' stiff batter,
about a gill: of grated pvster.plant, two
eggs,r one pinl i of i.rnflk -and 'flour to,
make a batter, and salt. Drop it by
tablespoonfuis into hot lard. Fry till
brown. , . ; r .
RIPE TpMATQ CHUTNEE. 9
Take seven pounds of ripe tomatoes,
' with the-outside : skins taken off, put
them in a stone jar with three pounds
. of brown sugar, one pound of stoned
raisins and some cloves of good garlic.
Place the jar in a vessel of boiling
water and let the tomatoes boil until
the sugar penetrates them, then add
one pint of good vinegar, one ounce
of cloves, one ounce of ground cinna
mon. Boil thirty minutes. Then put
up. They will keep any length of
time.
PUFF PUDDING
One cup each of milk and cream,
two eggs . two teaspoons of baking
powder three cups of flour, a pinch of
salt; divide half the quantity in seven
parts, drop in buttered cups, add a
piece of jelly, and cover with the other
half; steam twenty minutes and serve
with sauce.
PARADISE PUDDING.
Take half a pound of minced apples,
half a pound of currants, two ounces
of candied peel, one small nutmeg, a
quarter of a pound of suet, four ounces
of bread crums, three eggs, half a glass
of milk and three ounces of sugar.
Boil two or three hours, Eat hot with
cream sauce.
OMELETTE.
Four eggs well beaten; to this add
one cupful of milk, into which has
been stirred one tablespoonful of
cracker meal (rolled crackers) and one
of cornstarch; stir all well together;
pour into a frying-pan, well buttared.
This will make two large omeletts,
or four small ones.
STEAMED ROLL.
One-half cup butter, one-half cup
lard, one cup ice-water, a little salt,
throe cups flour; roll out thin, and
spread any kind of fruit on it (canned
small fruits, such as cherries, plums,
et( are very nice). Roll it up as you
would a jelly roll, and steam in a nap
kin or pudding bag two hours.
MOUNTAIN PIE.
Stir into one-half cup of cream two
tablespoonfuis of finely mashed fruit
sweetened to taste. Add yolks of two
eggs well beaten, and one tablespoon
ful of melted butter; bake in pastry;
while baking beat the whites to a stiff
froth, sweeten with white sugar,
spread over the pie, and brown. Use
green or dried fruit.
GINGER COOKIES.
Beat together one egg, one cup of
brown sugar, one tablespoonful of
vinegar and one of ginger. Take one
cup of molasses, let it come to a boil,
stir into it one teaspoonful of soda;
stir the molasses slightly after taking
from the stove to cool it, then stir it
while foaming over rest of cake, mix
out lightly, cut cakes and . bake in a
quick oven. , t , , -,
RIBBON CAKE.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter,
four eggs, one cup milk, two and one
half cups flour, three teaspoons of
baking powder. Take two-thirds of
this and bake in layers, and to the
third remaining add one tablespoon
molasses, one cup chopped raisins, one
half cup currants, one piece citron
chopped fine ; teaspoon each of cinna
mon, cloves and nutmeg. Put the
layers together with jelly or thin frost
ing.
JENNY LIND PUDDING.
Peel ten or twelve tart apples and
slice them very thin, or chop fine ;
grate several thick slices of dry bread,
or rub them through a colander; place
in a pudding dish, well buttered, a
layer of apple, with plenty of sugar
and grated peel or powdered cassia;
then a layar of bread crumbs, with
bits of butter scattered all over it; fill
up the dish in this way, and bake for
three-quarters of an hour ; serve with
whipped cream.
GRAHAM AND CORN MUFFINS.
Two full cups of corn meL, one cup
graham flour, one sweet milk, two
cups boiling water, one egg. Pour
the boiling water into the meal and
stir well. Let the mixture stand till
lukewarm, then add the cup of milk,
or enough to form a batter about as
stiff as will drop from the spoon, and
beat well. Set this in a warm place
two hours, then break in the egg and
beat hard. Dip into hot gem pans,
well oiled, and bake twenty minutes
in a brisk oven.
COST OF TRAVELING IN SI
BERIA. I have averaged on the whole from
Viadvostock to London about thirty
shillings a day, including everything.
You can cross the length and breadth
6f Siberia, traveling first-class by
steamers and driving three horses in
your tarantass, for 100, and do the
distance in about two months and a
half.. The food is very cheap, not
very good. In the long drive from
Stretinsk to Tomsk, about 1,800 miles,
you run the risk of faring somewhat
poorly at the various post stations.
You are always sure of "having a
samovar with boiling water, with
which to make tea, and milk, with
sometimes a chicken. Beyond that
the resources of the post houses do
not often go. The cost of living on
the steamers, : where , you have very
good fare, is about four shillings a
day.
The cheapest thing is the driving.
At every ten to twenty miles along
the main route you come upon a post
house, maintained by the government,
where you change horses. You buy
your own carriage, a springless vehicle,
which does very well on smooth routes,
but which jolts you terribly when the
route is bad, and which you sell when
you get on the far end. I bought my
tarantass at one end for 13, and sold
it at the other end for 4, having
takeu 9 of jolting out of it in the
1,800 miles which it carried me
safely. You drive from two to five
horses, and travel at about the rate of
six miles an hour. You pay for the
horse three pence a mile for the three
one pence a mile per horse. In the
very far east you only pay half that
or one and one half pence a mile for
three horses, which is certainly not
dear. But most of the way you pay
three pence a mile for the three. The
driver, who is also provided by the
government, receives a gratuity of
four pence per stage of miles.; Hon.
James Campbell in Pall Mall Gazette
Interview.
MEASURING HAY BY BULK.
Every season come inquiries as to
the most accurate mode of measuring
hay in bulk, and every season come
also, from correspondents in different
sections of the country, rules for
measurement, varying in one or more
particulars. Now, the long and short
of the matter is just this : So many
things have to be taken into consid
eration in calculating the weight of
hay in bulk it makes it difficult to as
certain it precisely. For instance,
fine new-mown hay, like red -top or
herds grass, would probably not re
quire quite 500 cubic feet for the ton;
timothy alone requires about 550;
clover, 650; coarse meadow hay, 700
or more. After being stacked about
a month the bulk would be decreased
from 5 to 10 per cent. Again, hay
will vary somewhat in measurement
according to the time it is cut.
The Government standard for a ton
of hay is 7 1-2 feet ; this gives 422
cubic feet. To find the number of
cubic feet in a stack, multiply the area
of the base by one-third the perpen
dicular height. An estimate very
generally accepted is that 25 cubic
yards of common meadow hay in the
windrow compose a ton, and 10 cubic
yards of baled or pressed hay the same
weight. A truss of ne-vv hay, accord
ing to the same estimate, is 60 pounds;
of old hay, 56 pounds; a load of hay,
36 trusses ; a bale, 300 pounds. A
truss of straw is 40 pounds.
A common rule for finding the
number of cubic feet in a mow con
sists in multiplying the length, width
and depth together. Five hundred
cubic feet of ordinary clover and
timothy hay, packed under oi'dinary
circumstances, will make a ton. New
York World.
HOW TO MEASURE A TREE.
Very many persons, when looking
for a stick of timber, are at a loss to
estimate either the height of the tree
or the length of timber it will cut.
The following rule will enable any
one to approximate nearly to the length
from the ground to any possition de
sired on the tree :
Take a stake, say six feet in length,
and place it against the tree you wish
to measure. Then step back some
rods, twenty or more if you can, from
which to do the measuring. At this
point a light pole and a measuring
rule are required. The pole is raised
between the eye and the tree and the
rule is brought into position against
the pole. Then by sighting and ob
serving what length of the rule is re
quired to cover the stake at the tree,
and what the entire tree, dividing the
latter length by the farmer and multi
plying by the number of feet the stake
is long, you reach the -approximate
height of the tree. For example, if
the stake at the tree be six feet above
ground and one inch on your rule cor
responds exactly with this, and if then
the entire height of the tree corre
sponds with say nine inches on the
rule, this would show the tree to pos
sess a full height of fifty-four feet. In
practice it will thus be found an easy
matter to learn the approximate height
of any troe, building or other such ob
ject. Farm, Field and Stockman.
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RICHMOND 4t DANTILLE R. R.
PIEDMONT AIR-LINE ROUTE.
Condensed Schedule in Effect Sept.
4111,1887.
Trains Run by 75 Mebidiau Time,
trains going south.
Sept. 4thf 1887. No. 50, No. 53,
Daily. Daily.
Leave New York... 12 15 a m -4 30pm
Leave Philadelphia. 7 20 a m 6 57 p m
Leave Baltimore. .. 9 45am 942pm
Leave Washington. 11 24 a m 11 00 p m
Leave Charl'tsviUe. 335pm 300am
Leave Lynchburg. . 5 50 p m 5 20 a m
Leave Richmond. . . 3 10pm 2 30am
Leave Burkeville. . . 5 17pm 423am
Leave Keysville. . . . 5 57 p m 5 05am
Leave Drake's Br'ch 6 12pm 5 21 a m
Leave Danville. .... 850pm 8 05am
Leave Greensboro.. 10 44 pm 9 48 a m
Leave Goldsboro. .. 3 30pm 8 10pm
Leave Raleigh 5 50pm flOOam
Leave Durham. .... 6 52 pm 2 37 a m
Arrive Chapel Hill,. t8 15 p m
Arrive HiUsboro.... 725pm 332am
Arrive Salem t7 20 p m 6 30 am
Arrive High Point.. 11 16 p m 10 16 a m
Arrive Salisbury.... 12 37 a m 11 23 a m
Arrive Statesville. . . 12 31 p m
Arrive Asheville 538pm
Arriv Hot Springs 7 35pm
Leave Concord. ... fWam 12 01 p m
Leave Charlotte 2 25am 100pm
Leave Spartanburg. 528am 334pm
Leave Greenville. .. 643am 4 48 pm
Arrive at Atlanta. .. 120pm 10 40pm
Daily.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Jeptth, 1887. No. 51. No. 53,
Leave Atlanta 700pm 840am
Arrive Greenville. . . 1 01am 2 34 p m
Arrive Spartanburg. 2 13 am 346pm
Arrive Charlotte. ... 5 05 a m fi 25 p m
Arrive Concord . . . . 6 00 a m 7 25 p m
Arrive Salisbury....! S 44 a mj 8 02 p m
Arrive High Point. 7 57 a mi 9 11 p m
Arrive Greensboro. . 8 28am 9 40 pm
Arrive Salem f U 40 a mj f!2 34 a m
Arrive Hillsboro. ... 12 06 p m f2 44 a m
Arrive Durham 12 45 p m f4 05 a m
Arrive Chapel Hill. t8 15 p m
Arrive Raleigh 2 10 p m t6 35 a m
Arrive Goldsboro. . . 4 33 p mj til 45 a m
Arrive Danville.... 10 10 am 11 29 p m
Arrive Drake's Br'ch 12 44 p m 2 44 a m
Arrive Keysville. . .. 1 00 pm. 3 03am
Arrive Burkeville. .. 1 40pm 3 55am
Arrive Richmond. . . 3 45 p m 6 15 a m
Arrive Lynchburg. . 115 pm 200am
Arrive Charl'tt sville 3 40pm 4 10 am
Arrive Washington. 823pm 8 10 am
Arrive Baltimore. .. 1125pm 10 03 am
Arrive Philadelphia 300am 12 35pm
Arrive New York. . 620am 3 20pm
t Daily except Sunday.
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On trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buffet Sleeper
between Atlanta and New York.
On Trains 52 and 53, Pullman Buffet Sleeper
between Washington and Montgomery, Wash
ington and Augusta. Pullman Sleeper between
Richmond and Greensboro. Pullman Sleeper
between Greensboro and Raleigh. Pullman
Parlor Car between Salisbury and Knoxville.
Through tickets on sale at principal stations
to all points.
For rates and information apply to any agent of
the company, or to
SOL. HAAS, JAS. L. TAYLOR,
Traffic Manager, Gen. Pass. Agent,
J. S POTTS,
Div. Pass. Ag't, Richmond, Va.
W. A. TURK,
Div. Pass. Ag't, Raleigh, N. C.
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THE FARMERS AEE HAPPY
AND-
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- Their prosperity is the prosperity of the mer
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and all we ask is that our friends, when they come
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Instruction on Guitar $10 extra. Use of text
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sepl56t Raleigh, N. C.
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