Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Root crop* Of allkinds are usually crowded; one well-developed and quickly-grown root is - better than two or three starved ones. —The change of feed from green to dry should be gradual with a*l stock; otherwise, the appetite may fail, and the animals lose thereby. - —lt 18 positively stated that where sawdust is used for bedding for horses they are far more healthy than where straw is used.— Exchange. ' —Tea Stains.—Tea stains should bo wet in equal parts of alcohol and ammonia, and then washed In tepid soapsuds. ’lf the spots be firmly fixed, expose them to-the fumes of burning sulphur. —Feeding sheep for market is a profitable business for those who have judgment to buy well, to feed well and to sell well. Two profits can easily be made* aMg manure heap and good pay for feed and care will be returned to the skillfql feeder.

—There can be no doubt that a general diffusion of a taste for horticulture would be of immense benefit to the population of this country. It would tend greatly to allay that spirit of unrest which is so prevalent and so adverse to all the best interests of the people.— lowa Stale Register. . —Broma.—To make broma, powder in a mortar two ounoes of arrowroot, half a pound of loaf sugar and a pound of pure chocolate. Sift carefully through a hair sieve. To two tablespoonfuls of this powder put twain-, blespoonfuls of cream. Stir till well mixed, pour on half a pint of boiling milk, and boil all for ten minutes. —ln treating of onions, in Dr. Foote's Health Monthly ior October, Mrs. Read Tails to suggest one of the valuable uses of th at esculent viz.: The soothing effect they often have upon one who is sleepless. If the stomach will receive. them kindly and. they may be freely eaten, they have been found in many cases to overcome both restlessness and sleeplessness. —Catskill Milk Potatoes.—Take good, sound potatoes, cut them in slices (raw), and putthe milK, according to the quantity you wish to make, in a pudding dish; then, after you have But the potatoes in the milk, put it in le oven for about twenty minutes; then take out and put potatoes with the same milk into a saucepan to boil until done; seagonbefore you putthem to boil. T —Preserved Pineapple.—Make sirup of three-quarters of a pound of sugar and not quite one : half of water to each pound of fruit; put over the fire in a porcelain kettle, and just before it boils stir in the beaten white of an egg with a tablespoonful of cold water; as it boils remove the scum until no more rises. Having, the pineapple peeled and sliced or cut into discs, add to the sirup and boil|gently until the sirup has penetrated the fruit and the pieces look clear. Put into cans and seal.