, 1861-01-18
Agricultural.

talks right to the point, as follows:
"If a farmer has but forty or eighty
acres to cultivate, aud has stOck-yard or
barn, 70 which he draws oil his grain to
thrash and there let's his stock live through
the winter, converting all his straw into
manure, be can make manure enough to
keep the forty or eighty acres in good
condition for growing good crops from gen
Grafton to generation. Also, a small farm
thus managed is much more profitable in
proportion to large farm managed in the
usual way, There are fewer acres to pay
taxes upon there is less money invested ;;
there is less fencing to make and keep in
repair, leaving the owner much less ex-
pense, and greater profit according to the
Capital invested and expended"
CABBAGE FOR FODDER There is no veg
etable that can be planted after the first Of
July that will give SO great yield Of fOd-
der as cabbages; and no one who is likely
to be short of pasturage, or winter feed,
should neglect this highly important ad-
junct to his other crops The notion that
cabbages should only be grown by the
dozen, for cooking in the kitchen, is an old
and we may add, foolish one. Grow
them by the thousand, and after pasture
fails, feed them where there they are grow
ing to every domestic animal on the farm
When the ground freezes, pull up your
cabbage crop and store it in the cellar, or
the barn, or under the straw, until you eau
feed it out.
HINTS ON CooKING.-The following are
the receipts followed by the ladies who re-
ceived premiums for the best bread, at the
fair Of the Cheuango County, New York,
Agricultural Society, for 1860:
BrOt0a Bread.-0ne quart Of rye meal
two quarts Indian meal two tablespoon
fuh Of molasses mix thoroughly with
sweet milk let It stand one hour, then
bake in slow oven.
White BTead-Grate one-half dozen po-
tatoes; jam, and add one quart Of water
one cup Of hop yeast at night, and in the
morning when light, add three teaspoonfuls
Of sugar, and flour to form dough. Let
rise; when light. put in tins; let rise again,
and bake one-half hour.
For buiscuit, take some Of the bread
dough In the morning, as much as would
make loaf Of bread, add one cup Of but
ter, mix well let rise, then make into bis
cult let rise, then bake. Tea rusks one
half pint of new milk, one cup Of hot yeast
set the sponge at night add flour to the
above to make batter in the morning
add one-half pint of milk, one cup Of sugar,
one Of butter, one egg, one nutmeg, -four
to make it sufficiently stiff let rise, then
roll it out and cut it out let rise, then
bake.
Moldsses Cdke.-Two cups molasses; two
cups of butter three eggs one-third cup
Of cold water; Que tablespoonful soda, and
bake.
Mountain GiRgerbread.-l pound -four,
pound sugar, pound butter, eggs,
pound raisins, stoned. Ginger, allspice,
and cinnamon to suit
APPLEs, There is scarcely an article Of
vegetable food more widely useful and
more universally loved than apples. Why
every farmer in the nation, has not an ap-
pie orchard where the tree will grow at
all, is one Of the mysteries. Let every
family lay in from two to ten or more bar
rels, and It will be to them the most eco
nomical Investment in the whole range of
culinaries. A raw mellow apple is digest
ed in an hour and half; while boiled cab
.bage requires Eve hours. The most healthy
dessert which can be placed on q table, isl
baked apple. If taken freely at break
fast, with coarse bread and butter, without
meat or flesh Of any kind, it has an admi-
rabls effect on the general system, often
removes constipation, correcting acidities,
and cooling of febrile conditions, more ef-
lectualy than the most approved medicines.
II families could be induced to substitute
the apple-sound, ripe and luscious-for
the pies, cakes candies aud other sweet
meats with which children are too often in
discreetly stuffed, there would be dimnu-
tion in the sum total Of doctors bills in a
single year, sufficient to lay in stock Of
this delicious fruit for whole seasous use.
Halls Journal of Health. ..
KEEPING HORSES FEET AND LEGS IN
ORDER.-N were asked to account for
my horses legs and feet being in better or
der than those of my neighbor, should
attribute it to the following circumstances:
First, they are all shod with few nails, so
placed in the shoe as to permit the foot to
expand every time they move second,
that they all live in boxes instead of stalls,
and eau move whenever they please; third,
that they have two hours daily walking
exercise when they are not at work and
fourth, that l have not a headstall or
trackchain in my stall. These four circum-
stances comprehend the whole mystery of
keeping horses legs fine, and their feet in
sound working condition up to good old
age.-Mass.