INDIANA   FARMER.
Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Mecaaiiica and the Useful Arts.
B. P. Hallo way,)
W. T. Dennis,  > Editors.
B. T. Seed,     )
RICHMOND, DID.. JAN. 1.1354.
Holloway & Co., Publishers,
[Vol. 3 ....JSo. t.}
Table  of Contents.
Pa»e98,99, 100—Addre«sby Prof. J. tr. Biker.
"   100—Periods of Gestation In Domestic Animals*.
**   301—Requisites for aGood Farm—Cultivation of iho Peach.
**   102—BiitNiin^ and Fnrnishing.
"   103—Destruction of Bushes—Re;otating   Time Pieces—
Markets and Cost of Fruit.
"   104,105. IM—Editoriim—Manures, Break ins Colts, Flan
for the Future, The Missing Saw.
**   J06—Profit ot feeding Corn to Hojs—To extract Perfume
of Flowers
*'   107, 108—CoMxtrstCiTtoss—Never get a glimpse at the
Farmer—Common Schools.
"   108—Ink for Steel Pens— Remove Orease from Books.
"   109—Chandler's Level—Hintson Breeding Horses.
**   HO—Ravages of the Aphide?,
"   111—Management of House  Plants—Xew   Invention in
Lithography.
"   112—Polled   Sheep—Transplanting Fruit Trees—Forest
Trees.
0^-On Saturday wo attended tha sale ef Imported
Stock, »t the stables on Sycamore street. Owing to tho
inclemency of the morning the attendance of buyers was
small.
There were three lota offered by Mr. Graff, but were
withdrawn, the prices offered not being satisfactory. We
understand tho owners afterwards sold four lots by private
sale. C. M. Clay, Esq., was the purchaser of two lots,
viz: 4 and t of the cows and heifers, "White Stockings,"
ond tho heifer calf, "Mudge," at $2,8C0. S. Meredith,
Esq., of Cambridge City, Indiana, was the fortunate purchaser of lots 2 and 6, White Kose andGuddy for $1,800.
The pedigrees of those lots show them to be descended
from the best blood of the English herd book, and are
alike creditable to the taste and judgment of buyers and
importers.
The balance of the stock aro in very fine improving
condition.—-Cin. Gazette.
RECIPES,  SELECTED   FROM   VARIOUS   SOURCES.
Yellow Butler in Winter.—I saw in the last
number of the Dover Gazette, a recipe for making yellow.butter in winter, that is, to put the
yolk of eggs into the cream just before the butter comes. A better way is to grate carrots
and pour warm water upon them, and strain it
into the cream before the churning commences,
and the butter will be of a beautiful rich color,
and no unpleasant taste. I have seen it tried
twenty years ago. " J.
Dry Bread Griddles.—"Let nothing be lost,'
was the command of one who made no mistakes,
great or small.. The careful housekeeper can
carry out the idea in relation to a multUuJe of
things, not of great importance in themselves
singly, but of no small moment in the aggregate, and in their relation to other things.
There will accumulate in every household an
amount greater or smaller of dry crusts, bits of
bread and pieces of cane, which have somehow
or other got left, and are to be disposed of some
■way. A common fashion of doing it is to cast
them to the pigs or fowls, or to do even worse
than that, by leaving them to the rats and mice .. _
Others know how to use them in puddings, or I formation
to furnish them in a shape well relished by
children, as pounded bread, to be eaten in milk.
But few, perhaps, have ever thought of making
them into griddle cakes—yet they make a very
superior article of this kind, and one easier of
digestion than almost any other.
To a quart of milk add the pieces of broken
bread, sufficient to absorb it. If the bread be
sour, use sweet milk; if the bread be sweet, use
sour milk; let them soak three hours, then
strain the whole through a seive; add a half a
teaspoonful of salt, a table spoonful of butter,
two eggs, and saleratus enough to cure the acidity. Mix the whole and bake. Eat the cake
with butter, without sugar, honey or syrup.—
[National Cook Book.
Indian Meal Waffles.—Boil two cups of hominy very soft, add an equal quantity of sifted
Indian meal, a table-spoonful of salt, half a
tea cup of butter, and three eggs, with milk
enough to make a thin batter. Beat all together, and bake in waffle irons. When eggs cannot
be procured, yeast is a good substitute—put a
spoonful in the batter, and let it stand an hour
to rise.
Cement for Crockery-Ware.—The best cement we have ever found for mending broken
crockery ware is made of pure white lead ground
fine, moistened with copal varnish to the thickness of honey. Put a small quantity upon the
broken edges and press them together firmly
and secure them. Let the dish remain three or
four weeks to become thoroughly dry.—Farmer
and Artizan.
Transportation of Trees.-*—The transportation of trees from one place to another, has
now grown into importance, and the rush of
other freight on the railroads in the autumn and
spring renders it almost impossible to have them
forwarded without serious delay. There is a
universal complaint about this matter, and we
would once more suggest the propriety of founding a nurseryman's express, or making an arrangement with the existing companies to send
special messengers with trees along all the
leading thoroughfares, leaving the principal
points where this trade is extensively carried on
two or three times a week. We think that
railroad companies should issue orders to their
agents at all the stations to give the preference
to trees in all cases where there was more
freight than could be sent at once. If this
were done, there could be no dimcnlty;'but as
it is now, trees fare worse than any other goods
whatever.—Horticulturist.
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