Agricultural.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 991, 4 February 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

Agricultural.

ORANGE WINE AND THE MAKING I .' "THEREOF; ' ■'.''-

Several years ago the Boston Herald published, a receipt for making orange wine, It is".frbm notes by'Solon Robinson, and is as follows i The usual formula is to add three or four gallons of .water to one gallon of,the juice of sour oranges and; then three or. four pounds of white sugar to each' gallon,' and, When. fei-rtiented, bottle and'use''after,a few indnths; This'makes a pleasant, sweet cordial, unlike any grape .wine that I ever tasted,; J.D, Mitchell!'of Daytona,';on; the Halifax River, a Vermoiiter, and "full of cute' Yankee notions', concluded to vary the formula, He took sweet orange juice and. water, equal parts, and added three pounds of raw Florida sugar, a very pure article; to each gallon, in a tight, full barrel, With a berit tube from the close bung hole to a pail of water, When the gas bubbles ceased to'show in the water, the barrel Was closed and put away for some months, 'and then the'liquor'was bottled arid corked: tigh'fcj and kept in a : cool place till wanted. for use. The 'result is something \vbrthy to be called wine, I have'had a bottle of it (made in "1878) for some time in my house 1 , for the purpose 6f getting .experienced wine drinkers to taste iti"ahd, without .exception,or' hesitation, all pronounced it most excellent sherry, j jYetMr, Mitchell says that which he has since made: Is evenbeWr. . ' '.'.'' ' '.'' : ,'; - ! '''.';,,..,,

A CALIFORNIA THRESHING OUTFIT, Seen for the' first time, the operations of a Cilifornia harvest crew are very interesting. There are eighteen men in the'.Coltpn crew, Sutter county, All hands were at dinner when the visitors appeared on the scene. The "hotel car," which is'now a part of every firstclass threshing outfit, is a great convenience to the men. It is a complete kitchen and dining- : room on wheels. The Coltoncar is 24 feet long and 9 in width, giving plenty of space for a table and, benches, and abundance of room for cooking,' This car accompanies the threshing train wherever it goes, and enables the men to get their meals in comfort, in the field,' 'The bill of fare is usually excellent, The spread in the Colton car at noon included roast,,beef, baked; beans, mashed potatoes, stewed. tomatoes, apple pie, tea and other luxuries, . A supply of fresh meat is purchased every day. A Chinese cook is kept constantly employed in the car. It is covered with a canvas awning, which can be rolled up at the sides and ends so as to allow a free circulation of air. These boarding-house cars have been in use only a year or two,

The separator is a mysterious machine to the tloti-agricultural mind, It is a great shut-up box, in which a wonderful transformation is effected with a subdued whirring of hidden mechanism. Two men find active work in forking the unthreshed grain into the machine at one. end and from the other issues a cloud of chaff, Near the ground is a spout whence pours, a Bfcream of golden grain, filling two sacks in a minute, This machine easily, in a .working-day of 10 hours, threshes i,ooo sacks of grain, say 70 lons, and does it well. It can' do better if pushed to it. Fourteen hundred: sacks' for a day's work is not beyond its capa-' bilities.— Marymlk Appeal- {U.S.) ■ ■'

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