Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Economy meads cutting down needless expenses pnd buying onjy the actually necessary things, at the same time increasing and developing to tbo utmost all sources of profitable lnoome. —Connecticut farmers are hiring their hands for the summer season, at (16 to (20 per month, with board. Eighteen dollars is said to be the average price, but common laborers are very plenty at these figures. —To restore old kid gloves, make a thick muoilage by boiling a handful of flaxseed; add a little dissolved soap; then, when the mixture cools, with a piece of white flannel wipe the gloves, previously fitted to the lianu. Use only enough of tho cleaner to take off the dirt, without wotting through the glove. —To make corn meal pones, tako three cupfuls of milk, warmed a little; two and a half cupfuls of yellow Indian meal; one and a half cupfuls of wheat flour; a good pinch of salt; one cupful of good sweet yeast. Set to rise in the morning (if wanted for supper), and when the sponge is light stir in three eggs well beaten, one half cupful of molasses and a small lump of butter melted. Let it stand another hour or Iwq, and bake in gem pans, taking care to grease well and heat before dropping in the batter. Bake at least half an nour in a quick oven. As a “ set” of gem pans does not bake a sufficient quantity at one time for us, I use any old tea and coffee cups that are “chipped" or with broken handles, ami out of use; they turn out in just as pretty a shape, anu then only the one baking is necessary. —Bessie Burton in Country Gentleman.

—Agricultural writers are inclined to recommend small farms. As well advocate doing business of any kind on a small scale. Better have a small farm paid for and well managed than to owe for a large without the means to work it well. But if a farmer is able to own a large farm, and has the ability to manage it, no one need to waste any sympathy on him. Large farms are often poorly farmed, so are small ones. The difficulty is not so much with the size of the farm as with the capacity of the farmer. Good farming can be done just as well and more economically on a large farm than on a small one. Teams, implements and farm hands can be used to better adyantago on the large farms, for the farmer can afford to have a variety suited to his needs. It is foolish to seek to get a largo farm just for the sake of room, but if the large area is fully utilized then we see no objection to it.— Husbandman. —lnasmuch as every farmer’s wife must have the ordering and arrangement of three meals a day for 365 days in the year, and as a good supply of vegetables is absolutely necessary to secure a good variety with tho advisable changes, wc gladly give place to the following suggestion from a farmer’s wife, as to what may properly come within the limits of a good farmer’s garden: Butter beans for early use, early and late beets, early and Tate cabbage, carrots for soups, celery for fall ana winter use, corn planted at vais for a long season, cucumbers for early use and for pickles, lettuce the whole summer long, musk and watermelons for their season, asparagus and pie-plant in permanent beds, onions for the whole year, parsley for flavoring and garnishing, peppers for various purposes, parsnips and salsify for late fall and early spring use, pease sown at intervals so as to make a long season, squashes both summer and winter, spinach for greens and tomatoes for all sorts of uses. This is quite an array; but there is no reason why nearly all of the sorts may not be grown in every garden on the farm, and what a delightful choice the housewife could have in the planning of the endless number of meals. —Detroit Free Dress.