Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

— Oorn-plowirig and hay and harvest are going to get a closer corner on farmers than usual this year. Vigilance, gentlemen. Up and at it.-r State Register. * Th/ntiae HfIYM t ol 101 l 1 uOulllß lisvuil*** Wjvvstvll against watering when the sun shines on the plants is a-purely theoretical one, and appears only in the writings of those who have haa but little actual experience. His advice is to water whenever the plants need It. —There is no occupation which is so sure of a return for labor as agriculture. The risk of manufacturers and middle-men is three-fold that of farmers, but their enterprise is sogyeat that ►they seldom succumb to pressure till it "becomes crushing. . —Tea Ice-Cream, (A Massachusetts Receipt.)—Pour over four tablespoon*fols of old Hyson tea a pint of cream; scald in a custard kettle, or by placing rtho dish containing the cream in a kettle of boiling water; strain into a pint of cold cream, scald again, and when hot mix with it four eggs and three-quarters of a pound of sugar, well beaten together; let it cool ana freeze. —To Kill the Currant Worm. —1 see a number asking what will destroy tho gooseberry and currant worm. I will give them a sure remedy, although a little too late to save them this year. Make a strong brine, strong enough to keep meat, and sprinkle the bushes well. The brine kills the worms almost instantly. This has been the result with mine, ;and others have tried it and call it a sure cure.— Philadelphia Practical Farmer. —“ Pocket-Books.” —To one quart of warm milk add a cup of butter, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, and “two wellbeaten eggs; then stir in flour enough to make a moderately stiff sponge; add a small cupful of yeast, and Tot the dough rise; afterward, mix in flour enough to make a soft dough, and let it rise again; then dissolve a lump of soda the size of a bean in a spoon of milk, work it in the dough, and roll into sheets half an inch thick; spread with thin layer of butter, cut into squares and fold over pocket-book shape; let them stand in the pans, to rise, a little while before baking. —Every piece of horse-radish grows; if we take a piece of root about an inch in length, about the size of a large bean, and put it an inch below the surface of the prepared ground, a short piece will come to the surface and form a crown, and another, and another portion will descend and probably fork to form a root; but instead of this, if we make a hole a foot or so deep in the ground, with a dibble, and let the little pieces of root drop to the bottom, a clean, straight sprout will come up to the surface, and this will in time make as clean and thrifty a market piece as could be desired.— Exchange.