Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—A quart of milk weighs two pounds two and one-fourth ounces; a gallon weighs eight pounds nine ounces. —Common flour, made iu a paste wkh cold water or applied dry, is said to take out grease spots without injuring the most delicate fabric. —Sauce fpr Pudding.—One-half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, the white of one 1 egg, beat all together. Have ready a pint ! or more of boiling water, stir in the above ! and let boil half a minute. —Suel Foster tells the Country Gentleman that mixing Paris green with water is preferable to mixing it with flour, plaster or lime, for three reasons: “It is effectual; it is more easily done; it is safer.” About one pound per acre is sufficient when mixed with water. —The drainage and soil of gardens are of the first importance. In most cases, when a good drainage is required for a new flower-bed, the old soil should be removed for some few feet, a layer of stones placed first, and a suitable mixture of loam, peat, manure and sand substituted for the old. —Agricultural Exchange. —The most delicious and dainty way of enjoying lettuce is to make a sauce of olive oil, salt and a little vinegar, and dip the leaves in it as eaten, crisp and unbroken. People who eat lettuce dressed with vinegar and sugar have a very meager conception of its real deliciousness. The difference is equal to that of eatings baked Sotato with sweet cream, and eating one ressed with sugar. — Cor. Rural New Yorker. —Dried-Apple Pudding?—Two parts dried apples, two parts raisins and currants, and three parts coarsely-broken bread-crumbs. Stew the apples half an hour and chop them coarsely, then place them in layers in a porcelajm-lined stew-kettle, alternating them with the bread-crumbs and the mixed fruits. Add the juice in which the apples were stewed, and stew or steam the whole slowly four or five hours.— Science of Health. —Fricassee of Fowls Brown.—Broil as for pot-pie, then fry slowly in butter until browned; toast bread ana lay it on the platter under the chicken. Pour a little of the broth into the spider with the browned butter, thicken with flour, season to suit and pour it over the chicken; or, if you want it very nice, add the butter for the gravy to the butter in which the chicken was browned; dredge with flour, add salt and pepper, brown well, and lastly add the chicken broth.

—Few people seem to be aware that evergreens of most sorts will bear pruning as well as fruit trees, and need it often to improve their shape or check their rapid growth. When the top or leader of a spruce or fir is cut off in spring the first effort of the tree is to force out one or more new shoots to take its place, and thus the damage is soon repaired ; and’ if it is desired the tree should he kept low the tips of the leading new shoots should he taken off each spring. The effect will be to cause a more compact and dwarfish growth, which is often desirable. — Michigan Farmer. —ln cooking asparagus it is better to arrange the stalks in bundles with the heads all one way, so that when done and taken from the water they may present a tidy appearance upon the platter, which should first be covered with a napkin large enough to allow the edges to be turned over and cover the asparagus. If the cut end of the stalks be somewhat tough, all the better for convenience in eating, as they are held in the fingers by that end. When good olive oil can be had, that, mixed with salt, pepper and a little vinegar, forms a delicious sauce; otherwise a hot, white sauce may be served. rfc-. . ' - ’ . —An old farmer once said that he would not have a hired man on his farm who did not habitually whistle. He always hired whistlers. Said he never knew a whistling laborer to find fault with his food, his bed, or complain of any little extra work he was asked to perform. Such a man was generally kind to children and to animals in his care. Tie would whistle a chilled lamb into warmth and life, and would bring in his hat full of eggs from the barn w ithout breaking one of them. He found such a man more careful about closing gates, putting up bars and seeing that the nuts on his plow were all properly tightened before he took it into the field. He never knew jf whistling hired man to kick or beat a cow, nor drive her on a run into the stable. He had noticed that the sheep he fed in the yard and shed gathered around him as he whistled without fear. He never had employed a whistler who w’as not thoughtful and economical.— Rural New Yorker. —The following unique plan ia said to be the one long in use by a man who has had remarkable success in growing melons. It would probably answer equally well with squashes and similar plants: Dig holes twelve inches square, eight or ten inches deep; fill up with well-rotted horse manure to the surface. On this put two inches of soil. Then take a four-inch flower-pot, set in the center, draw the remainder of the Boil in about four inches deep, then, giving the pot a twist around, withdraw it. This leaves a hole four inches deep by four wide. In this drop five or six seeas, and cover to the depth of three-fourths of an inch. Over this place a pane of six-by-eight glass, pressing it lightly to fit closely. I then give no more attention till the plants are touching the glass. Then go through, taking a small stone, raise up one end of the glass with it; this admits of a sufficient circulation over the plants and hardens them. In about three days more remove the glass. By this time they will be in the roof leaf; thin out to three plants in a hill, draw a little fine soil around them up as high as the seed leaf, and the work is done. T here could scarcely be better evidence of the extraordinary excellence of the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs than fact that they are so largely exported to Europe, where they are so highly appreciated as to find large sales in competition with instruments made there by labor which does not cost half as much. These are the only American organs largely exported. Electricity is Live.— All nervous disorders, chronic diseases of the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and pains, nervous and general debility, etc*, quickly cured after drugs fail bv wearing Vplta’e Electro Belts and Bands. Valuable book free, Sr Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment may be administered to children with perfect success in cases of croup, whooping-cough, influenza, and almost any of the diseases to which they are liable. ~ , Oppression after eating, headache, nervous debility, are the effects of indigestion. One, two at most, of Parsous ’ Purgative Pith will give immediate relief. Prcssing’s White Wine Vinegar, purest and cheapest, warranted to preserve pickles.

As Broad as Civilization. —The agent of the Wilson Sewing MachlneCompany will, in a few days, sail from Ban Francisco for Chili, in south America, where he will open a branch house and exhibit the world-re-nowned Wilson shuttle sewing machine at the grand exposition to be held at Santiago under the auspice* of that Government. By this step the Wilson Sewing Machine Company will complete the circuit of the globe. They have already immense agencies in China, Japan, British Indies, England, France, ana throughout South America. Supreme in lta superiority over all other sewing machines, the Wilson goes on widening its field year after year, carrying the blessings of a cheap, capable and perfect sewing machine to the remotest haunts of civilization. Machines will be delivered at any railroad station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the company’s branch house at 197 State street, Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and enromo circular free on application. This company want a few more rood agents.