Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1874 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Orange Cake.—Six eggs, one cup of button two and a hall cups of sugar, one cup of milk, four cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream of tartar. Take two oranges—juice and rind—one lemon, one ana a quarter pounds of powdered sugar, whites of two eggs. Spread between layers. —Pawing Horses.—A correspondent oi the Farmer s' Union gives this remedy for pawing horses: “ Take a piece of tracechain two feet long, fasten it to the leg that he paws with, just, above the knee, with a hame strap, and let the chain hang at the side of the leg; he will soon be glad to keep it still.?’ — —Lotion of Acetic Acid for Baldness. — The following lotion is superior for a shampooing liquid, for removing dandruff, and as a useful and pleasant application for baldness. It is, of course, moderately stimulating, and in those cases in which the hair follicles are not destroyed, but have become merely inactive, it is likely to prove efficacious. Take of acetic acid one dram; cologne water, one ounce; water to make in all six ounces.— Country Gentleman. —The Dahlia.—The dahlia has come before the people lately in the shape of a bit of history connected with the family of the Hollands of “Holland House. In some memoirs lately published there is an account of its introduction from some other part of the world, its narrow escape from being eaten as a vegetable, etc.; and a ties this fortunate escipe it became the parent from which all dahlias sprung. It seems strange that so many curious ihings have been in just this danger; the potato, the tulip, and we don’t know what, all barely escaped a voyage down some human throat, and just in time to render their names with us forever blest. It would seem as if there musthave been a wondrous disposition on the part of our forefathers to devour everything that came to hand. In these days people generally take more care to know what they are eating, and all is not fish that comes to their net.— Forney's Press. —Taking off the surplus water is only advantage of underdrathS. They also one make a tenacious soil more friable and absorptive, and a soil is productive in proportion to its capacity to hold water by capillary absorption. Vegetable manure or clover sod plowed in will make a soil friable for the time being but tile underdrains are a permanent improvement Mr. the English famer, who keeps no stock, but depends on commercial manure to keep up the fertility of his soil, is of opinion that his great success in growing crops is as much due to his very thorough tile draining as to his chemical manures. Ridging and trenching a garden in the fall is a great promoter of early vegetation in the spring, and almost indispensable in many soils. The frosts of winter make the clayey ridges permeable, so that when leveled in the spring, with a light dressing of compost manure, seed may be planted, and only enough tillage or hoeing is required as will keep the seeds in abeyance.— N. T. Herald.