Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.

Sermj'wspMf eousty k ll«w >^S[ m hr Whttk Cam —Ons cap batter, two caps sugar, whites AumsacL Cam—One cup- batter, two cans sugar, threa naps flow, o—hslf cup BSUk, one teaspoontul cream of tartar, o»e----halt teaspoonful soda, flour with almond and put almonds on top. cap of a*Hk,oae cop of sagmr, one cop of yeast, flour to msLs a batter. Lot It rise over night, Own add onehalf cop melted batter, a cap of sagar, floor to knead it, aad let It rise again. Btm Cans.—Font eggs and a pint of milk, one teaspoon! ul nr saw of tartar, one. half teaspoon of saleratna. Stir in rye meal enongh to nmke s thick better the yolks and whites of eggs separately. A «*<»»*«« fancier says **»■* he stuck a piece of court plaster over an egg found broken in the nest after the hen had hem sitting a week, aad in due time ft gave a chicken as sprightly.as any of the brood. Gnvon Skats.— Boil together one pint of molasses aad a teacupful of hotter. Let it stand till cool; add two tablespoons ginger, and one teaspoonfal soda, floor to roll. Baks quick, in thin rounds, on a flat sheet. OomiCam—Oat cup butter, onehalt cup sugar, one cap molasses, one tea. spoonful saleratna dissolved in a cap es strong coffee, one nutmeg, one teaspoonfal cloves, one cinnamon, five caps cf Hoar, end one cap ot raisins chopped. Eighty-eight car-loads of sheep, containing 18,800 head, were shipped from Burlington Station, Wis., last year, mostly high-grade merinos, with a fair share of flne-wooled backs They all went west. There is a large demand* this year, and the number shipped will probably be larger.

Rick Muvrare.—Boil the rice soft and dry. Take one-half cap rice, stir in three spoonfals sagar, piece of batter size ot an egg, and a little salt. One pint sweet milk, one cap yeast, two quarts flour. Let it raise all night If soar in the morning, add a little soda dissolved in milk, and bake in muffin-rings. , The mustard plant, ao small in this country, in the valley of the Jordan is of-' ten ten feet high. Sometimes it is as tall ss a horse and its rider. Its stem is about one inch thick. Small birds, such ss goldfinches and ltnnets, settle among the branches in flocks for the seed, and sometimes much larger birds are seen in these trees. A very pretty ornamental hedge may be obtained by planting sunflower seed two or three inches apart and cultivating the Diants after they make their appearance. It can be made of service in restraining poultry late in the season. Its appearance can be improved by planting morning glories so that the vines will ran over the sunflower stalks. An Indiana farmer tried four different festilizere for melons—poultry; dropping, well-rotted cow manure, barn manure, and old bones (gathered upon the farm and reduced by placing them in alternate layers with ashes the previous year), mixing all llberally'in the different hills, which were eight feet apart each way, and says he raised the greatest crop of melons he ever saw from the hills fertilized with bone dust A farmer on the line between lowa and Missouri has been experimenting with the cow pea as a weed exterm nator, cocklebur and Spanish needles having taken possession of his orchard. He says that sown broadcast the peas will not do it but planted in drills, and cultivated like corn, they will kill out the weeds. The peas he planted were mixed, but mostly the whippoorwill variety. The size of the cows a dairyman may desire for his herd is somewhat a matter of fancy; but other thifigs being equal, when the cost of feeding, etc., is taken into consideration, the medium-sized cows are the most profitable. Cows are machines for making coarse food into that of a more concentrated aad valuable form, and like other machines, there is a size that does this work with the greatest ease, with the least waste, and therefore greatest profit. .

An old teamster of fifty years’ experience says he has never had a case oi the galls upon bis animals where the following preventive was "adopted—namely, to rub the collars inside, eveir few days, with a little neatsfoot oil, and the moment any dirt is found sticking like wax to wash it off with warm soapsuds and then oil. A yoke from oxen, or collar from a horse should not be removed, when brought into the stable from work, until the sweat is entirely dry, aad all chafed spots shoald be oiled. ticAUiOPKD Tomatobs.—Peel the tomatoes and cat in slices one-fourth of an inch thick; pack in a pudding-dish, in alternate layers with a lorcementof bread crumbs, butter, salt, pepper, and a little white sugar, spread thickly on each layer of tomatoes; and when the dish is nearly fall, pat topiatoes uppermost, a good hit of batter on each slice. Dqst with pepper and a little sugar Strew with dry bread crumbs, and bake covered half an hour an hour. Remove the lid then, and bake brown. Cocoabut Cake—One cap sugar, one cap floor, half teaspoon cream tartar, onefourth teaspoon sods, one tablespoon boiling water, three eggs. Beat the yolks of the eggs, stir in the sugar, then the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, then the flour, with the cream of tartar mixed through it, then the soda, dissolved in the boiling water. Bake in three or fonr cakes, in a pretty qnick oven. Make an icing o! the whites of two eggs and six heaping tablespoons of powdered sugar; spread the icing on one cake, then a layer of oocoanut, then icing, then another cake, etc. If yoa use pro pared cocoanut, you most mtostea with milk before nsing.