Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1876 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—ls cows eat the litter from the horses* stalls, as they are inclined to do if opportunity is afforded, the milk and butter will be tainted. —To make Buttermilk Cake: Take one cup sugar, one-half cup of btttter, one-half pint sour buttermilk, one pint flour, one-half teaspoon soda; bake threefourths of an hour. ; —The Pacific Rural Press says: “ Take alarge head of cabbage, strip off the outer leaf and slip off the bua found al tl>e root of the leaf. Take this bud and simply set it in rich dirt, like any other plafit. The result will be *-fine growth of -early cabbage plants, With heads larger and sounder than can be raised in the ordinary way.” —A writer who has tried it says to preserve pumpkin take seven pounds of pumpkin, five pounds of sugar, four lemons and two ounces of green ginger root. Cut the pumpkin in slices half an inch thick In any desired -form, square, round or diamond shape, and boll in the syrup till tender, then take up tpe pieces. Slice the lemon and ginger root very thin and scald them in a little clear water, after which add them to the syrup; boil the latter down until it is clear enough to keep without fermenting and then aim the pumpkin to it —When a teaspoonful of any medicine Is prescribed by a physician it shoujd be borne in mind that the quantity meant is equal in volume to forty-five drops of pure water at sixty degrees Fahrenheit. It is a good plan to measure off this amount in water in a small wine-glass, and mark on the latter the exact high! of the fluid. This will give an accurate and convenient standard for future use. Teaspoons vary so much in size that there is a very wide margin of difference in their containing capacity. It is well to remember, also, that four teaspoonfuls equal one tablespoonful, or half a fluid ounce. A wineglassfill means four tablespoonfuls, or two fluid niincra, il frlwWi r oTrcdtea by cookery books, indicates four fluid ounces, or one gill.