Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—ls weeds are flowed to stand until the areds ripen, do not plow them under. Burn them.— Btate Register. —Face Wmplea.—Eschew very salt, rich or frofrfn food, and take a dose of magnesia occasionally. Also wash the face occasionally with diluted cologne water.— i Moore's Rural. —Laplanders for Breakfast.—Three eggs, three cups sweet milk, one spoonful or melted butter, three cups of flour, a little aalt. Beat well together and bake in Iron molds. —Home Cook Book. —Cabbage and Bauwge.—Cut the cabbage very min, put it into the stewpan with a small piece of ham, an ounce of butter at the bottom, half a pint of broth, and a little vinegAr. Let it stew three hours. When it is tender add a little more broth, salt, pepper and a tablesnoonfnl of pounded sugar. Boil till the liquor is sufficiently wasted. Then put it into the dish and lay fried sausages on the top. —This matter of windows in stables is one of vastly mere importance than some farmers think. Animals, no more tt an vegetables, can thrive in the dark. Our long winters are sufficiently trying 1 to the constitutions of our farm-stock, under the best circumstances, and an animal upon which the sun scarcely shines at all for five or six months will oome out in the spring in a bad state of health, even though the feed and the ventilation and the temperature have been all right. The sun is the great life-giver.— VeriMnt Chronicle.

—Very nice, fine mats may bo made by stretching, common coffee sacking on a frame just the sizeof mat required (a good frame may be made of lath or split broom handle, nailed together at the corners); into this draw, with coarse crotchet needle, strips of any material, delaine, cloth, prints, etc.; cut bias or straight, about one inch to one and a half inches in width, and leave the goods standing in loops on the upper side; when finished take from frame, turn edges of sacking on wrong side, and line with another piece of sacking. —Plants set against walls and piazzas frequently suffer from want of water at this season, when other ground near them is quite wet. Draw away the soil around each plant so as to form a basin; fill it with a bucketful of water, allowing it time to soak gradually away, and when the surface has dried a little, draw in loosely the soil over it, and it will do without water for some weeks. This applies to all plants wanting water through the season. If water is merely poured on the surface, it is made more compact by the weight of water, and the hardei the soil becomes the easier it dries, and the result is the more water you give the more is wanted.— Gardeners' Monthly u —The Chicago Times gives some good advice, in the following paragraph, to those who are dissatisfied with their present locations and are seeking a change: It is wise to take into consideration what one would lose, as well as whathe would gain, in moving to a new and distant locality. If the proposed region does not produce grass, Indian corn and Irish potatoes, it is, as a rule, a good place to keep away from. Grass is the most profitable crop in this country, or in any country. It supports all kinds of stock, and is essential to the production of milk. Corn ranks next to grass in value. Potatoes are a very profitable crop, either for the market or for home consumption. If a man is to lose all these, and, in addition to them, apples, he must gain a great many th’ngs to render a change desirable. Generally the region which produces the largest variety of crops is tne best for the farmer. .An exclusively wheat-growing country maj be profitable for a series of years, but the land will he of less vaiue the longer it is cropped, for (here is nothing to restore fertility. Few portions of tne earth produce a larger number or more abundant crops than the Valley of the Mississippi, ana the farmer who Is discontented here will probably be uneasy anywhere.