The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-17
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

TO keep moths from any kind of
fur, scatter powdered camphor on the
fur or hair side, wrap up in paper, fur
inside, and hang away in bags or pack
in boxes. This is the way they keep
them in the stores.
Starch Cake.-The whites of five
eggs beaten to a froth, two cups of
white sugar, one cup of starch dis
solved in cup of sweet milk, one cup
of butter, two cups Of flour, one tea
spoonful of soda, two of cream-tartar;
flavor; add the eggs the last thing.
Ginger Snaps. One cup of molasses,
one cup sugar, one egg, three-quarters
cup Of lard, one tablespoon of vinegar,
one of ginger, one of soda, pinch of
salt. Mix little sitter than the dough
of cake; then take little of it out at
time and make just stiff enough to
roll; roll thin, bake in quick oven.
-Suet Pudding. One cup of suet
Cor leaf lard) chopped fine, one egg,
one cup of raisins and one of currants,
one cup of sugar, one and a half pints
of flour, sour milk enough to make a
thick batter, and soda according to the
milk; nutmeg and citron; bake in a
moderate oven and long deep pan;
serve warm with white sugar on top.
OF all business men, farmers this
year should be the most contented. No
matter how Frustrated trade may be-
come, there is ccaseless demand for
the products of the farm. The forge
may grow chill, the loom cease its
active motion, and the anvil rust for
want of use, but there is profitable
market at all times for farm and gar
den crops. = Germantown Telegraph.
The Gala lily, roots of which may
be procured of any florist, is one of our
finest plants for house growing when
properly treated. The best method
we have tried is to procure an earthen
jar, suitably decorated on the outside
if desired, by painting or FASTING on of
frieze or flower pictures, or by paper
open-work covering In this place
rich mould some five or six inches
deep, and in this set the Gala plant.
Now put on the top of this mould a
layer of clean coarse sand about two
inches deep, and on top of this some
small pebbles. Then fill the jar with
water and replace as evaporated, so as
to always have the water several inches
deep above the pebbles. Place in a
warm and sunny window, and the plant
will throw up large, luxuriant leaves,
to be followed by the magnificent
bloom. Whit is still better, the flower
stalks will be sent up in succession so
as to afford nearly continuous series
of flowers. A few minnows introduced
into the water will usually thrive with
out further care, and afford pleasing
study.-Seientifc Farmer.
New Englands agricultural jour
nails have for long time urged upon
the farmers in that quarter the neces-
sity of growing corn extensively as one
of the best means of increasing their
wealth. The advice seems to have
been needed to some extent, and the re-
suits have proved equal to anticipa-
tions, not only as source of profit, but
as exhibiting the excellence of New,
England soil for corn raising. The
editor of the Journal of Chemistry has
also urged upon farmers the necessity
of corn culture, and in the December
number of the Journal gives an ac-
count of personal experiment that is
of interest. He says that upon a hill
side originally covered with beeches
and rocks, he raised last year, the
drought Notwithstanding, more than
fifty bushels of corn to the acre, and
this by the use of homemade fertili-
zers. He insists that one bushel of
sound Northern corn in the ear is
worth as much to feed to stock as a
bushel of shelled corn such as comes
from the South or West. The field
under experiment never received any
animal excrement, and in 1876 yielded
eighty bushels of shelled corn to the
acre.