Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Home production for home consumption is the key-note of success in a State, a town, or in a family.—Exchange. —lt is folly to think that after a man has exhausted everything else, he can fall back on farming. He vainly imagines that any good, common, intelligent man can make a good and successful farmer without any particular previous study or experience.— lowa Stale Register. —Dissolve common salt in water, sprinkle the same over your manure heap, and the volatile parts of the ammonia will become fixed salts, from their having united with the muriatic acid of the common salt, and the soda thus liberated from the salt will quickly absorb carbonic acid, forming carbonate of soda; thus you will retain with your manure the ammonia that woula otherwise fly away, and you have a new and important agent introduced, viz., the carbonate of soda, which is a powerful solvent of all vegetable fiber. Chautauqua Farmer. —The Mexicans have a method of subduing fractious horses and such as are inclined to run away which might be introduced here with profit. A hood or winker is so arranged th at the driver or rider can in an instant draw it directly over the eyes of the animal, effectually blindfolding him. When this is done the horse instantly becomes quiet, and a repetition of the blindfolding two or three times gradually results in his'beoomlngijuletand docile. Such an arrangement would be a valuable appendage to the headgarof such horses as are disposed to runaway. •Exchange. Hckles~made after t&e”fullo wing recipe are said to be excellent: Put cucumbers, peppers, etc., in vinegar; a lump of alum, size of an egg, to three gallons; thus leave them two or three weeks, if necessary; then pour off vinegar, and let it come te a boil. Having placed your pickles in stone jars (not glazed) or firkins, with layers of green Savoy cabbage leaves between, leave a week; then repeat, pouring off the vinegab, and boil it, and again another week repeat the boiling. Tie up in thin muslin, bags green ginger, horseradish, English mustard-seed, whole pepper, cloves and allspice, and a little garlic; add cassiq buds. —A method in practice among the best butter-makers in England for rendering butter firm and solid, is as follows: Carbonate of soda and alnm are used for the purpose, made into powder. For twenty pounds of butterime teaspoonful of carbonate of soda and one teaspoonful of powdered alum are mixed together at the time of churning and put into the cream. The effect of this powder is to make the butter become firm and solid, and give it a clean, swe’et flavor. It does not enter into the butter, but its action is upon the cream, apd it passes off with the buttermilk. The ingredients of the powder should not be mingled together until required to be used, or at the time the cream is in the churn ready for churning.— Cincinnati Price Current.