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

Never keep your cattle short; few
farmers can afford It. It you starve
them they win starve YOU. hairie
Furftsf.
The simplest thing on the farm
needs Study. Not one NAH in ten who
claims to be afafmer, knows how tofeed
4 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.-StGte
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.-IoUa State
Register.
Sour Sauce Half a cupful of but
ter and stir in tablespoonful of flour
and one pint boiling water, nearly one
cupful sugar, two spoonfuls good vine
gar; spice to taste.
Dark Steamed Pudding. 10 be
steamed two and d half CT three hours
-one cupfh1 mulasses; one ctipful sweet
milk, two chpfhls butter, four cupfils
floar, one teaspoohful soda, three
quarters cupful 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 teaspoonful of soda, spice
to taste. Mix well together and set in
warm place to rise. When light bake
in q moderate oven.
Vinegar Pie.-One cup OF vinegar
(if very sharp have one-third water),
one tablespoon of flour, one cup sugar,
one egg, 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.
I'm reply to your questions regard
ing the cactus, would say that l new
er change the earth about the roots OF
the plant, but l occasionally REMOVE
the surface earth to the depth of d
couple of inches or so and replace il
with well-rotted leaf mold. 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-half of flour,
three teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
six eggs, leaving four of the whites out
for filing. 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 il
on top of icing.
Floating Island.-Put 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 9
stiff froth, then drop a spoonful at 8
time into the milk and let them coOH
about five minutes; then skim them out
into deep dish. Take the yelks, ado
one egg, sugar, nutmeg, lemon and &
very little salt; beat and turn into the
milk; let it cook until it is as thick az
cream; then turn into the dish with the
islands, which will rise to the top.
A Tennessee correspondent says
| want to give you my plan for raising
geraniums from the seed. First, t.
prepare the soil, take one-third Of gar
den mold and two-thirds of "chip
yard'' dirt. Then dampen the dir
slightly before sowing the seed and GOV
er of the thickness of a quarter of ar
inch. Of course you know they vii
not bloom till the second year. Mine
bloomed beautifully the second year
and gathered seed from them. Have
tried this plan for four years and know
it to be good.