The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-14
HONE, FARn AND GARDEN.

Never keep your cattle short; few
farmers can afford it. If you starve
them they win starve YOU. -Pfaisie
Furntgf.
The simplest thing ON the farm
needs study. Not one man In ten who
claims tobe = fsfmer, knows how tofeed
horse, pig, COW Of sheep.
Nothing but ultimate and deserved
ruin states that farmer in the face who
does not pay personal attention to the
most minute details of his farm. State
Register.
When labor is scarce it will be dear
when it is abundant it will be cheap.
1t is the inevitable law. Legislatures
cannot help or hinder.-IosDa State
Register.
Sour Sauce.-Half a cupful of but
ter and stir in a tablespoonful of flour
and one pint boiling water, nearly one
cupful sugar, two spoonfuls good vine
gar; spice to taste.
Dark Steamed Pudding. TO be
steamed two and d half or three hours
-one cupful molasses, one chpful sweet
milk, two chpftlls butter, four cupfuls
flour, one teaspooiiftil soda, three
quarters chpful fruit; spice to suit the
taste; to be eaten with sour sauce.
RAISED Dough Cake.-fwo cups OF
dough, one of sugar, one of sweet
cream, one-half cup of butter, the same
Of washed and drained currants, two
eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, spice
to taste. Mix well together and set in
q warm place to rise. When light bake
in moderate oven.
Vinegar Pie.-One cup of vinegar
(if very sharp have one-third water),
one tablespoon OF flour, one cup sugar,
one egg, o piece of butter the size Of an
egg. Boil the vinegar; wet the flour
with little cola water and stir 1t in;
when the vinegar boils up pour it on
the sugar and butter; after it cools add
the egg, and bake with under and up
per crust.
In reply to your questions regard
ing the cactus, l would say that new
er change the earth about the roots of
the plant, but l occasionally remove
the surface earth to the depth of a
couple of inches or so and replace it
with well-rotted leaf mold. l have two
specimens of this plant that are about
five feet high, some of the leaves being
nearly twenty inches in length Cor.
Free Press.
-Cocoanut Cake.-Two cups of
sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of
sweet milk, three and one-haf of flour,
three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder,
six eggs, leaving four of the whites out
for filling. Bake in jelly cake pans.
The day before baking CRATE one good
sized cocoanut or two small ones. Beat
up four whites of eggs to stiff froth;
to each egg add ten teaspoonfuls of
powdered sugar; spread on each layer,
sweeten your cocoanut and sprinkle it
on top of icing.
Floating Island.-Put a pint of
milk in small tin pail, set it in a ket-
tie of boiling water and let it scald;
take the whites OF three eggs, beat to a
stiff froth, then drop spoonful at a
time into the milk and let them cook
about five minutes; then skim them out
into deep dish. Take the yelks, add
one egg. sugar, nutmeg, lemon and a
very little salt; beat and turn into the
milk; let it cook until it is as thick as
cream; then turn into the dish with the
islands, which will rise to the top.
"A Tennessee correspondent says:
l want to give you my plan for raising
geraniums from the seed. First, to
prepare the soil, take one-third of gar
den mold and two-thirds of "chip-
yard'' dirt. Then dampen the dirt
slightly before sowing the seed and COW
er of the thickness of quarter of an
inch. Of course you know they will
not bloom till the second year. Mine
doomed beautifully the second year,
and l gathered seed from them. Have
tried this plan for four years and know
it to be good.