Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The best farmer is the farmer who cultivates himself. —A good garden is the imperative demand of every farmer’s family, and Iho privilege of every farmer. —English experience is that the consumption of a ton of roots produces, on the average, fourteen pounds of mutton or of beef —A pail of milk standing ten minutes where it is exposed to tho scent of a strong smelling stable or any other offensive odor will imbibe a taint that will never leave it. —Tho manure, if all saved, from a ton of hay and economically returned to the land, will grow more* than a ton next year. If this were not so our agriculture would bo a humbug, and the world would starve. — N. Y. Herald. ' —Minute Pudding.—Put three pints of sweet skimmed milk over the fire in a porcelain kettle, or something that wul a good deal more than hold it. Salt it, and the minute it boils stir in rapidly as much flour as it will moisten. Tako it quickly from the fire and serve hot, with butter and sugar or sirup. —Apple Cake.—Take two cups dried apples; stew just enough to chop easily; chop as fine as raisins and boil in two cups of molasses till preserved through; drain off the molasses, then add two eggs, one cup of butter, one cup of sour milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda, five cups of Hour and spices of all kinds; ndd tho apples and ono large cup of raisins the last thing.

—lce-Cream Cake.—The whites of three eggs, two cups sugar, one of sweet milk, half cup butter, three cups flour, two teaspoonfuls cream-tartar, ono of soda. This makes two loaves. Bake in four layers, use two for each cake; season to taste. Icing —the whites of two eggs, twenty-four teaspoonfnls sugar, one-fourth teaspoonful creamtartar; frost both layers. This a cheap cake and very nice, good enough to take to socials or eat at home. —Tapioca Pudding.—Ono cup tapioca, one quart milk, five eggs, whites and yelks beaten separately, two tablespoons of melted butter and two of sugar. Soak the tapioca in enough cold water to cover it two hours, drain off water not absorbed, soak two hours in the milk slightly warmed. When the tapioca is quite soft beat the sugar and butter together; add the yelks, the milk and tapioca, lastly the whites. Stir well. Bake in a buttered dish. Eat warm with a sweet sauce.

—Tho lowa State Register publishes the following bits of agricultural wisdom: Wealth is accumulated more in saving than by earning. Manual labor is the original and di-vinely-appointed mode of living. Asparagus-seed has a hard hull, consequently it should be soaked for twen-ty-four hours in warm water. Never attempt to find a country where you can farm aud get rich without hard labor and active brains. If you want to make a rich farm, sow clover. If you want fat cattle, sow clover. If you want a fat purse, sow clover. Never pay a man for his time, but very liberally for his labor. One of the poorest saws ever uttered was that “time is money.” Rotted sods from the pasture, and rotted cow-manure, well and thoroughly' mixed, make good soil for potting flowers. There is no longer any excuse for able-bodied pauperism. Millions of acres of fruitful soil, lying idle, invite them afield. They who have nothing to do, or will do nothing, are the most wretched of mortals, and their virtue is always doubtful. Be with the cows. Every excitement jjjfc causes the blood to How faster ■MHflMns of the cow, every inflict ioiMPHfn and every cause of fear, fans, in that cow, the fire which is" fed with butter.