Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—A good sponge cake is made thus: Three eggs well beaten, ppe cup sugar B’ered, one teMPPon soda or Mieratus ved in a very little.b9diWlT rate ?> one cupful of good sifted flour, one teaspoon cream tartar; bake immediately In a quick oven. Beal, six c<« twa. iflinufcs, add three cups sugar ana beat onq minute, two cups flow and boat two minutes,,one cup cola water and beat five minutqs. Observe the time exactly, and bake In deep pans. This makes two gqod-siped loaves. A good steady heat is required to havq it nice, and not too hot an pven. —An excellent tapioca pudding is thus made: Put three taolespoqps of tapioca to soak over night in lukewarm water; in the morning, pour on tliis. one quart of milk, and set it on the’ stove till it coipes to a boil, add a pinch of salt and four or five tablespoons of white sugar, the yolks of three eggs, which, when you pour in, cools it; let it come to a boil again, or until it thickens, stirring all tlie time, then pour it in your pudding-dish; then beat the whites of the three eggs to a froth, add four tablespoons of powdered sugar, and spread over the top; put it in tlie oven and bake a light brown. —The knives of mowing and reaping machines operate with a crushing stroke. Hence it is of great importance that the cutting edges should be kept sharp. When the cutting edges have become dull the grass and straw must be severed by bruising, a process requiring three or four times as much force of the team as if the cutting edges of the same knives were sharp. When grass is fine and thick at the bottom the mower will run hard unless the knives are kept as sharp as the edges can be made with a fine gritted grindstone. Our own practice is to keep a fine file with the machine, so that the cutting edge of any knife may be sharpened in case it meets with some obstruction which has dulled it. It will pay generously, by way of saving;.: horse flesh and muscle, to keep the knives sharp. Beside tliis, when the knives ai - e kept sharp, the grass will be mowed-more neatly than it can be done with dull cutters. More than tliis, when the knives are dull, the wear and tear of the machine will be greatly increased. Do not fail to keep the knives sharp, even when it seems necessary to grind the cutting edges three or four times daily.— N. Y. Herald. —A horse with heaves or inflammation of the lungs requires a very different treatment from one with colic or worms. Let him be turned out to pasture fortyeight hours, and he will breathe clear and easy, showing no sign of the heaves. A dainty horse is not liable to heaves, but a hearty eater is, and not from tlie amount of food that he eats, but Owing to tlie hoggish way in which he eats,it. There are two pipes leading to the stomach and lungs. Where they meet there is a throt-tle-valve. A horse in eatjng coarse food stretches his throttle. Then by a hard drive, and warming the horse, he takei cold in this wwipd and if becomes a running sore. By turning liinpi to grass, the juice cleanses and washes the wound. The grass being cool in effect takes the inflammation from the disease, the swelling is gone and the * horse breathes free and easy as ever. Then by feeding with coarse and dry hay, it irritates and creates inflammation, and causes the animal to breath hard again. Take balsam of fir and balsam of copavia,- equal parts, add enough calcined mugnesia to make into balls the size of a yelk <of an egg. Give a ball qight and morning for ten or fifteen days, in- the grain; wet with smartweed tea, not very strong. For two weeks after giving the medicine, cut the hay and wet the feed that the horse eate. A little brown sugar in the feed for a few days.— Pomeroy's Democrat.