The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-08-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

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USE THE GOLDEN Eao.--The farmer
who works to the last limit of daylight,
and then hoes his garden moonlight
nights is a poor manager. He does not
get the most out of life. It is not worth
while to hoard up the golden eggs, which
the good goose lays, until they are stale.
Better use them, day by day, as you need
them. In other words, don't be SO greedy
OF gain that you deny yourself all COM
fort and pleasure as you go along, in the
hope of securing the means of taking a
long rest by and by. When the capacity
for enjoyment is gone, how worthless will
be the means of securing it! What is a
gallery of fine paintings to man who
has lost his eyesight a?
The young farmer should quit work
early enough to wash up, change his soiled
clothes, and put on fresh linen coat or,
better still, good dressing-gown, before
he sits down to supper. He will enjoy it
ten times as well, and so will his family.
1t will have an elevating influence on the
whole family. Let the supper be early
enough to insure good sound sleep, even
for the children. If there is time after
supper, often take the tired wife and little
ones for ride of half an hour or so, or
drop into neighbours and spend social
evening. When at home, make the even
ing hour pleasant by some cheerful sport
or entertaining reading. 1t is these little
matters that makes the difference between
an intelligent, refined and happy house
hold, and one where its members are little
more than mere slaves and drudges.
Don't hoard up for the winter what
you like or need to make you COM
Portable in the spring-time or summer.
Don't harden your children's natures by
a close-fisted policy, that shall make them
unloved, unhonOred, and wretched
through life.-Rurdi NeD- Yorker.
CORN CULTURE.---I was raised in the
corn rows and always liked the business.
My plan for raising corn is this Let
your ground be plowed deep and we'll
pulverised with the harrow. Then mark
out carefully, drop from three or four
grains in a hill, then cover from an inch
to an inch aud half. Wait till the corn is
up a fingers length. Then 60 through your
corn with one of the improved two-horse
corn cultivatOrs. Set your shovel to 60
as deep as possible. BY the aid of shields
you may cultivate to within an inch of
the corn without covering or injuring
it.
Aim to cultivate your corn four times,
but donot hill the corn up any until the
third time, and then only enough to COW
er up the weeds. BE sure that you cult
vate nine or ten inches deep
Some farmers think that deep cultiva-
ton Injuries the roots of the corn and
dries out the ground in dry season; but
in this they are mistaken. The deeper
the ground is plowed and cultivated, the
better chance the roots have to go down
where the moisture is, and by the time
you are ready to lay your corn by, the
roots start out thick; and you will find
when the season for canning arrives the
corn will have lust as many roots as il
wouldif you had planted it shallow. Fol
where you break off root, three or four
are sure to stool out and you will find at
least one well filled solid car to every
stalk.
Plow deep, cultivate deep. The more
communication you have with the ground
below, the better corn crop you will have
let the season be wet or dry, l have raised
as high as one hundred bushels to the
acre by the above plan.--A. Ii. Curry, in
the Prairie Farmer.
CURE FOR HOG CHOLERA "A cores
pendent at Mulberry Grove sends Us
what he recommends as the best cure
for hog cholera known. The recipe was
first published in the Prairie Farme,
some years since. The quantity given il
sufficient for one hundred hogs, and il
mixed with slop enough for few doses
say pint of the slop to the hog each
time. This is the recipe: Take of sui
phur two pounds; black anthony, one
half pound; arsenic, two ounces. Our
correspondent says he has tried the above
on lot of fifty hogs, and cured all that
were able to walk to the trough to eat the
slop. Prof j. B. Turner also published
the following preventive in the Prairie
Farmer in 1864, which our correspondent
says he has seen used with perfect salts
faction: One peck of wood ashes, four
pounds salt, one pound each of black an
timony, copperas and sulphur, one-fourtl
pound saltpeter. Pulverize and mix
moisten and put in trough under a shed
where the hogs can have free access to it
--Gvenviue (W.) Adtocate.
MOVING LAwNs.---A well kept lawn i,
thing of beauty--as any one can sec
who walks or rides our streets at this sea.
son but too many lawns or door yards
that might be beautiful are quite insight
ly for want of moving. The grass should
never be allowed to grow till the blossom
stalks appear. If lawn moving ma
chine is not used, a man with scythe
should be engaged to do the work at least
once month during the summer. We
would hint Just here that some man in
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ing from house to house with scythe
moving door yards by the job.
WATERY PoTAToEs.-Ifp potatoes have
proved watery, put a piece of lime into
the pot the size of a hens egg, and when
the water is poured off they will be dry
and mealy.
Household Helps.
WATER SPONGE CAKE.-Five eggs,
three cups sugar, one cup cold water,
four cups -four, one teaspOonful cream
tartar, one half teaspoonful of soda.
TEA CAKE.-Onc cup of sugar, one cup
Of -four, two eggs, two tablespoonsful of
sour cream, a little sale Flavor
with lemon or nutmeg. Eat warm.
PUss PUDDING-Two ounces each of
sugar and shred suet and bread crumbs,
some spice, little candied peel, and one
pint of milk. Mix all well together.
Bake an hour.
PUDDING sAUcE.-Four tablespoons
full of sugar, two tablespoonful of butter,
one tablespoonful of flour beaten to a
cream. Add the white of an egg beaten
to froth, and pour into the whole a gill
of boiling water, stirring it very fast.
Flavor with lemon, rose-water, nutmeg
or wine.
LEMON SPoNGE.---One ounce isinglass
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