Show AGUICDLTDRAL BEET AND CASE MOLASSES Editors Herald In reading in your WEEKLY en article on eugar I was reminded of an idea I had noted many years ago when beet molasses waj all the rage An old lady acquaintance bad the gcod luck to make a very exoel lent article of moa leaclear and very sweet when the several beet factories were burning the molasses into a muddy dirtylooking stuff I took the trouble to inquire into tie process followed by this old lady and here I give it The beeta wera cut into tbin slices across the fiber and these were put in a large kettlo with a Email Quantity of water and allowed to fcol H abort time eo that the starch vegetable fiber and vegetable albumnn were slightly cooked and rendered insoluble but not enough 10 break up the fiber of the beets Then they were pressed and the juice cemo out clear as spring water and free from any disagreeable tastes The theory seems to be that theze 1 ubataucea did not press out with the juice and settle to the bottom of tbe boiler and burn Now could not this plan be pursued ia the manufac ure of sugar from the cane Have the canes subjected to a process to cock tbe sturcb etc in tho cane by means of steam from the evaporator or otherwise before they are pressed bEtween the rollers W M C Gltnwood Sevier Co Utah THE FAn ER2o I Editors Herald In commencing these articles perhaps per-haps it would be as well to state that I do not claim to have any very extensive ex-tensive knowledge of farming but at he name time I am satisfied that if some if not all the ideas I shall ofler were put into practice by the tillers of the soil they would be none the worse oil It is conceded by the greatest minds of the age that agriculture agri-culture is the basis of all wealth prosperity and luxury and it It gratifying that each year brings with it improved methods of planting and gathering There is no calling under the sun more honorable than that of a farmer at tho same time there is no trade or profession that has so many bunglers and botches enrolled in its rank There is an idea abroad and has been for some years that there was little necessity for a farmer to know much more if any than the hogs be raised and I am sorry to say that idea is not entirely exploded yet our ancestors htld that idea and they grafted it into the minds of their children end that which is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh In those days everything was done in a hard way and farming was made disagreeable in every manner It is i no wander that so many boys flock to the cities when they eee in prospective prospec-tive a life before them such as tbeir fathers have led But perhaps farming farm-ing wa made as agreeable then as possible It may be so I am inclined in-clined to doubt it however Years ago farming was harder than at the present day and there was less to show for the labor expended Now everything favors the granger the sickle is laid aside or should be for the harvester and tha threshing machine has taken the place of the flail everything that farmers use has been improvedand it is a pity thaT some machine has not been invented that would improve the farmers personally least some of them I am aware that a great many of the farmers of Utah follow that calling call-ing more from necessity than choice and this is tie NY reason why they should strive lu obtain greater excellence excel-lence If they would learn they must instruct themselves this can only be done by patient labor both physical and mental The latest discoveries in the art of farmingfor it is an artshould be learned and practiced and there is no reason why a tiller of the ground should not be wellinformed upon the leading topics of the day The idea that education is thrown away upcn a person who expects to bo a farmer is the sheerest nonsense it should be understood that education can be ued lo great advantage everywhere whether it la among the wheat and potatoes of the green and quiet and peaceful country or among the heat and dust craze aud excitement of the great citiee I Learning does not unfit a person for work no matter in what sphere of life he may be engaged There is no real conflict between education and labor they should be joined hand in hand Worked together they make a fine team take either away and you spoil the ono left The newspapers newspa-pers of his own and surrounding towns thould be seen upon the farmers table and all that appears in them in reference to his business should be carefully noted and put away for future reference if it does not concern him just at present I cannot imagine a more valuable book for n farmer than one filled with agricultural notes and idea culled from the newspapers This can be made at a very little cost of time and trouble and can be improvised out of any old book the clippings being pasted in it as lest as they are extracted extrac-ted from the papers Suggestions may be thus saved which may prove valuable To the farmer then I say let the sunlight of knowledge enter your homes and make them cheerful and pleasant improve yourselves as ynur machines are employed hourly daily spend more time in reading and less in quoits and grocery discussions discus-sions You will be well repaidViti Viti Ii Salt Lake March 22 1880 MISCELLANEOUS To Tell the Age of EggsIn o Baden agricultural journal Professor Neseler of Oailaruhe recommends a simple method roughly determining the age of eggs An old egg is well known to be lighter in weight than afresh a-fresh laid one and R3 its size remains exactly tho same tbe difference must be due to diminished specific gravity By dissolving sixty grammes of common com-mon salt in 500 grammes of water we get a fluid of specific gravity 1073 in which all new laid eggs will eink to the bottom and all downright stale ones float on the surface The older the eggs are tae less l salt is requirEd to render the solution capable 01 sustaining sus-taining them and when very eld indeed they will float on simple water alone The dale at which they do thia varies considerably the professor f having i observed it on tbe seventieth sixtythirdeihtythird eightieth and hundred and twelfth days re one Of crane the test of age ipectively cannot be applied la the case of eggs that have been kept in salt or in limewater lime-water or tbd havo been coated with varnish oil or liquid laeE2 the sub in Bulttr Upon Disease I temperature u be jecl that a high T only means of disinfecting fats from dangerous germs the London Grocer says As the germs by which diseases are convayed aro destroyed by a temperature tem-perature some degrees below boiling Water the milk that we add to our tea and coffee is disinfected bat not BO with butter except in tbo cases where as in Devonshire it is made from scalded cream It is true that but one cow in 10000 or mora can thus infect us but that one may do serious mischief and as we know ncthing of the origin of the butter or the sanitary condition of those bo handled it we are never free from risk Those who keep their own Alderneys aud their own dairymaid are of course quits safe but this does not happen to all mankind Our I own experience proves that anybody I with a healthy and fairly sensitive palate may soon learn to recognize I the peculiarities of the oleomargarine as at preset t produced and once this power is acquired may readily detect when uaoaaa nn adulteration far more readily and surely than by any method of chemical aralysis yet known How Farmers Lose MonefBy not taking one or more good papers Keeping no account of farm operations oper-ations paying no attention to them the-m xim that a stitch in time eaves nine in regard to sowing grain or planting seed at the proper time Leaving reapers plows cultivators etc unsheltered fiom the rain and heat of the eun More money is loat in this way annually than most perEOns would be willing to believe Permitting broken implements tj bo scattered over the farm until they are irreparable By repairing broken implements at the proper time many dollars may be sayeda proof of the assertion that timo is money Attending auction Bole and purchasing pur-chasing all kinds of trumpery because be-cause in the words of the vendor the articles are very cheap Disbelieving the principle of rotation rota-tion of crops before making a single experiment Allowing fences to remain unro paired until strange cattle are found grazing in the meadow grain fields or browsing on the fruit trees Farmers Almanac |