Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1879 — HOKE, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOKE, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Make the soil your savings bank, and remember that rich farms make rich farmers, and poor farms make poor families. —DesMoines Register. —Clean all dairy utensils by rinsing them with dean cold water, and afterwardscrubbing them with boiling water; after which repeat the cold rinsing. —The following recipe for a lemon pie is given by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Engntirer : Juice and grated rind of one lemon, one teacupful sugar, one tablespoonful flour, yelks of three eggs, one cup sweet milk; when baked add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth, with sugar, for frosting; bake to a delicate brown. —For the cleansing of outbuildings, sheep-barns, cow-stables and henroosts, as well as pig-sties, there is no renovator or purifier like lime. A coat should be spread over the inside of these buildings at the close of the summer season in order to destroy all vermin or eggs that may remain secreted in the crevices and cracks, ready to prey on the animals when they come oome to their quarters in the chilly autumnal nights. —State Register. —A great many have asked for a remedy for cabbage worms, and many remedies have been given, so I will give you mine, which has proved effectual with cabbage worms and cucumber and melon bags ; in fact, it has proved a remedy for every insect that destroys garden vegetables except the squash bugs. They have bid defiance to everything. Take of aloes a lump the size of a hen’s egg, and dissolve it in three quarts of not water. Let stand until cold, then sprinkle on the heads of the cabbages.—Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

—There has been a foolish notion that hard fare makes young colts hardy. And whether the doctrine is believed or not, it is too often practiced. But it is all a grave mistake in either theory or practice. An animal of any kind, once stinted by hard fare and treatment never entirely recovers from it. They will never be equal to the size, form, symmetry or action that they would have if generously treated from birth until full maturity. It is useless to go to the trouble and expense of breeding fine carriage or draft horses, if it is all fed out of them with only straw or com stalks, and they are sheltered in fall rains or’winter storms by a wire fence. We fully appreciate fine blood in horses, cattle, hogsjand sheep, but we like a top cross of generous feeding and kind care. A diy pasture on dry hay or corn in a stable are not sufficient for a colt just separated from its mother. Poor care and feeding now will carry it into the winter thin and feeble, and the owner will be inquiring of his neighbors what will kill lice on colts. Colts pay to raise when it is done with a careful and generous hand. But this cannot be done by putting them in a dark stable, and feeding them on slough hay and com smelling strongly of rats and mice. —lowa State Register.