Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1875 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Jelly Cake—Four eggs, one and a half com of sugar, half cop batter; beat well together, add three cops of floors one cup of bnttettfiilk, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder and a little nutmeg; beat well together. Spread upon the jelly-cake tins and bake two at a time. When baked pot upon a plate and spread the jelly on, and so on till this last. Do not pot any jeHy on the top of the last, but a little white sugar pulverized. Red currant jelly at pawn is beat. —Corned Beef.—To have corned beef good (and its goodness depends very much on this) it should be boiled gently and thoroughly; it is not too long after it begins to boil to allow an hour to every pound. Corned beef is excellent served Cold: a nice way to prepare it for this is to lay it, when done, into a pan or earthen dish and cover it with a board the size of the meat and press it by placing upon the board a heavy weight. By pressing salt meat it is very much improved; while boiling corned beef the same care should be observed in skimming it ae for fresh meat. —Apple Pie.—Pare and quarter enough tart apples to lay loosely In the prepared paste; the quarters should not touch one another. Pill the paste two-thirds full of thin, sweet cream, then sprinkle over one spoonful of flour; butter as large as a walnut, cut in bits. Sugar (if a common pie-tin is used), two-thirds teacupful. Oratemutmeg over the whole, as no. other flavoring saves the peculiarly excellent taste. Bake slow - ; if a brown crust forms over the top before the apples cook, stir it under with a knife, if it is not pronounced splendid the fault will be with the apples or not following the directions. —Fattening Poultry. —For table use fowls that are killed directly from a free range, where they have been well fed for some time previously, and, having taken plenty of exercise, are in perfect health, are to be preferred to those who have been kept in ariose cpop, in connection with their own excrement and a polluted atmosphere. It is true that a greater amount of fat can be produced in proportion to the grain fed when confinement is resorted to, and, if the birds are well attended to and the term of confinement is short, there is not much danger of disease. Still poultry running at large in the air and sunshine is always to be preferred. . —Why Potatoes Run Out.—A Steuben County (N. Y.) farmer is reported as saying: Some one asks why it is that potatoes so soon run out. There are two grand reasons. There are but few potatoes in a hill that are fit for seed; some are overgrown, coarse, rank and will not transmit the original quality. Others are undergrown and not fully-developed seed. A potato of medium size, perfect in all its parts, with change of ground, will produce its like ad infinitum. One other reason—cutting potatoes between stem and seed-end continually will demoralize the institution. It requires the stem and seed end to make perfect seed. If cut, cut lengthwise. Single eyes will run out any potato. There Is no seed that will bear mutilation like the potato; the only wonder is that it does not run out completely. . •

To Secure a Kicking Cow- —I have tried every way that I have heard or read of, but have iound none so effectual as the following: I fasten the cow in the usual manner in the stall. From the front part of her manger to the back of the stable is nine feet; I therefore procure a stout, smooth pole, nine feet six inches long, about three inches in diameter, bore ahole about three feet from the floor in the manger, and fit one end of the pole in it; take hold of the other end and crowd the cow dose up to the side of her stall by pressing it firmly against her thigh sufficiently high to be out of the way of milking, and drop the end in a notch prepared in the right place at the back of the stable. "When the pole has been fixed in its proper place it can be replaced with very little trouble and no risk, a considerable advantage when women do . the milking.— Cor. Rural Neu> Yorker.

—An inebriate precipitated himself down-stairs and on striking the landing reproachfully apostrophized himself with: “If you’d been a-wantin’ to come down-stairs why in thunder didn’t you say so, you wooden-headed old fool, an’ I’d a come with you an’ showed you the ways” * The art of voicing reeds, the most difficult and important in the manufacture of cabinet or parlor organs, was invented by Mr, Emmons Hamlin, of the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., in 1847. It has been universally adopted by American and largely by European makers, but hone have attained that high standard of- excellence in it which is reached in the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs. This fact is universally recognized by musicians. _ —There are 4,000,000 cats in Great Britain, and it is estimated that each cat kills an average of twenty mice or rats every year. It is estimated, further, that every rat or mouse, if it lived, would injure property to the extent of £1 sterling. If ail this is true, pussy saves to that country every year $400,000,000, and she might pay on the national debt if she chose. ' Six Millions. —About two years ago Dr. J. Walker, an old and prominent physician of California, discovered, by actual experience upon his own system, a medicine which may honestly he termed “ a boon to suffering humanity.” Being a combination of nerbafistic extracts, pungent and sour to the taste, and yet possessed of gentle stimulative characteristics—although entirely free from alcohol—he named it Vinegar Bitters, and despite the prejudice existing among his profession against all patented medicines he determined to brave the jeers of his brother practitioners and give to suffering humanity the benefit of his accidental discovery. He did so, and the benefits from its use became known. The demand increased, and immense quantities were sold at a merely nominal price. Its merit is told in the fact that “in two years over six millions of bottles have been sold’’ and still the demand increases. Sorely snch a man should be ranked among the benefactors of the human race. 28