Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Fried Bread for Breakfast.—Take one egg, one teaspoonful of salt, beat sufficiently, add one cup of water, dip your slices of bread in the' mixture, fry in meat drippings; have ydtfr spider hot when it is put in. --Potato Soup.—Peel and slice three or four good-sized potatoes, put them over in nearly two quarts of water, cook until they break to pieces. Season with salt, pepper and butter, with an even tablespoon of Dour well mixed with cojld water. Some prefer to season it with a few slices of salt pork, not very fat. —We believe it is conceded that neither the full-developed Colorado potato beetle, nor tho egg of the same, live in the ground over winter. But the last eggs which are hatched in the fall produce the larvae, which is the shape the seed is preserved in. When spring comes, the warmth develops this larva; into a full-developed bug, which goes forth to eat potato vines and make men sin.— lowa State Register,

—The Western Stock Journal gets in the following full chapter of advice in a short paragraph: “Tne royal road to higher agriculture lies not alone through the advantages of selection and breeding, but through tho domain of tho attention, care and food. Do you wish to encourage better stock P You can do so without investing a dollar by commencing to take better care of what you have and persevere. This we call the first step.” —Unless in a sandy soil, stirring or moving by spade, plow or harrow, when wet, tends to compress and compact its particles, when the object is or ought to be to pulverize and make mellow. “Good tillttge is manure,” and stirring of wet soil is only allowable in a brickyard. No implement, that we know of, is capable of again opening lumps of earth to atmospheric action and influence after they have once closed up by compression and become externally hardened. Any one can observe this by molding a lump of damp earth in his hand, when it becomes the consistence of putty. When exposed to the air it becomes nearly as hard as stone.— Scientific American. —The habit of punctuality in a young man has a most important bearing on his success in life. It is a sure index that integrity of character belongs to its possessor, and is of the utmost value. Punctuality in meeting all engagements should become the rule of the young man’s life. Even if it is a great inconvenience to fulfill an engagement that has been made, let the inconvenience be submitted to, and suffer any sacrifice rather than break a promise that has been made. A young man’s word should be as sacredly regarded as his note of hand. If it turns out that the habit has cost you a great deal, still it is worth to you even in dollars and cents all that it has cost. A young man who has this habit can be depended upon. “What he promises he will do.” This is what every one says of him; and as he advances in years, this habit of punctuality will be a “ key which will open for him every man’s purse.” He will know nothing of the perplexity which fills the hearts of thousands that have no punctuality.