Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Nice Dish of Rice-Boil a teacupful
of rice till quite soft; sweeten with pow
dered sugar, and pile up on dish; spot it
with square Jumps of jelly; beat the
whites of five eggs with little sugar, and
flavor with vanilla; pour it over the rice.
Eggs a la Tripe.-Peel, slice and fry
in butter three or four Spanish onions;
when done. dust In some flour and let it
catch to light brown; put in little hot
milk, salt and pepper, and let the sauce
reduce; put to this a dozen small, hard
boiled eggs, quartered; mix them gently
with the sauce, not to break the slices.
Faith in farming is the first thing
needed for success. A man all the while
dreaming around, doubling whether he
gets half-paid for his labor, and doing
everything grudgingly and with as little
outlay of labor and money as he can pos
sibly get along with, will not find farm
ing a success. One must pillow and sow
with full faith that every hour he devotes
to the business, and every dollar he puts
into it will be returned to him double;
then will he learn that farming pays.
Let him give his whole strength to the
business. Touch not any side issues !;
farm it in earnest, farm it wholly, and
great success will surely follow.
My wife had some geraniums and
other plants she was anxious to keep over
winter. | made tight box of pine boards,
large enough to set the pots with the
plants into, and my wife pasted several
thicknesses of newspaper inside of the
box, so as to make it almost a perfect non
conductor of heat at night she would
hos n h1faly tn ho
rather hot to hold in your hand. These
she put into the box with the pots and
plants, and wrapped up the whole tight
and close with several blankets, and in
this way she saved her plants, which are
now blooming although some nights
water standing only few feet from the
plants, in pail, froze over an inch thick
with ice. Fruit Rec0rder.n *asf
"A very pretty and cheap rug may be
made from old pieces of WOODEN cloth,
delaines, worsteds, etc., by cutting them
into bias strips three-fourths of an inch
wide; then with a darning needle and
coarse cotton yard sor small cord sew
through the middle of the strip, taking
stitches about halt an inch long. Get
your needle well filled. before. pulling it
through; twist the cloth round on the
bling chenille. Take some strong cloth
as foundation for your rug, and sew your
chenilles to it, either commencing in the
center and sewing round, or in strips.
Finish the edge with pinking or some
border to suit the taste. Of course the
beauty of the mat will depend upon the
colors you have and their arrangement.
The pride of the old country garden
was always centered in the hop-vines and
horseradish bed; that is, [ mean, in all
well-regulated places, for there were as
many slovenly people in those days as
now. These two plants are usually stuck
away into some corner, as Objectionable
features, and as vegetables that will take
care of themselves at any rate; but / beg
leave to differ from this opinion, as they
are each highly benefited by liberal cult
ure and good coat of manure. They are
both propagated with very little trouble,
merely dividing the crowns, and, in the
case of the horseradish, every small piece
will throw up top, and soon form a
straight, nicely shaped root Hop-vines,
as too frequently seen, are the reverse OF
ornamental, clinging to pole after the
manner of the leaning Tower of Pisa.
The support should be we'll branched, to
allow plenty of air to circulate among the
tops.-Cor. ". Y. Tribune.
Many who have the care of stock dis
! like to leave warm quarters, and cling to
the fire place, letting half hour after half
hour pass by, while the hungry stock are
shivering and hungering for food and
water. In thus waiting for food and
water, an animal loses flesh rapidly.
Brutes are the best time keepers in the
world. They knew the very minute their
! food should be supplied, and are disap-
pointed if it does not come. The stock
breeder, therefore, should see that regu-
larity and pronlptness prevail in the care
and management of stock. Their various
wants should have attention at the very
minute daily. If hired men will not be
prompt in taking care of stock, if they
don't sympatlize with brutes in winter,
they ought to be discharged and more HUI
name men employed in their places. The
poor brutes do suffer severely in winter.
Even in warm barns and stables they can
hardly keep warm in cold weather, but If
left out of doors, exposed to storms and
cold, their sufferings are intense, and they
should be fed with the regularity of clock
work, and fed all they can eat, and they
will require at least one-third more food
to keep up animal heat than they would
if kept in the stable. All stock should
have shelter. 1t is cruel to leave it exr
posed to the rigors of winter without shell
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