The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-08-12
e HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

TO Prepare Fruit for Dessert.-Beat
well the white Of an egg. with little
water; dip the fruit in and roll it lmme-
diately in some fine crushed sugar; place
1t on dish and leave it five or six hours,
then serve. A more slightly and exquisite
dessert than plate of currants thus
dressed cannot be had. r. = q, d., - - -
TO Keep Ice Water Cold.-Place be-
tween two sheets of thick brown paper
layer of cotton batting half an inch in
thickness; fasten the ends of paper and
batting together, forming cylinder like a
section Of stove-pipe. Place this over ali
ordinary pitcher filled with sice-water,
making it deep enough to rest Oh the table.
Put over the top circular cover, made in
the samezway as the cylinder. This will
keep boiling water hot, as we'll as ice
water cold, as it excludes the air from
either.-N. Y. Fr5datne.
"A correspondent of Home and Garden
describes a homemade, ice-chest thus:
Procure two dry goods boxes Tor make
them) one about eight inches smaller than
the other. Procure some thoroughly dry
and clean sawdust, sift it and pack the
space between the boxes Herewith as solid
as possible, making cover land packing
it also) to shut tightly; put small pipe
from the bottom of the inner box to the
outside OF the outer one, to draw off the
water as the ice melts. On the inside box
nail cleats on which to place racks, made
OF lath. The ice is placed at the bottom,
and whatever you wish to keep cool, such
as butter, fresh meat, cream, ETC., placed
upon the racks. Such box is also excel
lent to keep articles of food in when there
is no ice in it.'''
While almost all farmers keep hens
there are but very few who give them any
special attention during the summer
months. There seems to be very general
impression that in warm weather hens can
take care of themselves. While it IS true
that they will generally manage to pick
up food enough to keep them alive, it is
also true that they need something more
than they can obtain by their own exer-
tons. II obliged to run around all Of the
time in order to get enough to satisfy their
appetites they will not and cannot do as
we'll as they will if properly fed. A great
deal OF trouble which is caused by hens
scratching in gardens would be avoided if
not compel them to scratch for living.
and plenty of thick milk. When these
oAS PAo'ANSSa SiASy Wall now tIn1C "
do something beside run all over the barn
in search of food.-N. e. Homestead.
The life of farmer is not necessarily
hard or slavish. Thought, skill and care
have their reward here as surely as any
where, and in as large measure. Men
who lack these find any business hard and
slavish enough. But the fault is in the
man, not in the occupation. 1t is rare to
find men honest enough to see and con-
TESS the cause Of their failures. Were
they to do so the unskillful and therefore
unsuccessful farmer would be compelled
to say: Farming is not bad business.
1t is, when rightly conducted, honorable
and profitable. Money has been made in
it by men who have the faculty Of making
money. Almost any man, with average
skill and industry, can make comforta-
BILE and honest support by farming 1t is
I who am a failure for undertaking a
business which demands thought, skill
and labor, when l have them not or
am not willing to give them as the price
of success" When we have men in any
business talking to themselves thus plain
ly of the cause of their failure the world
will have the first and most needed ele-
ment in doing away with incompetency
and its natural result in failure.-RUrut
Neu Yorker. = :, =