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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.

FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.
TAp1ooA Sour. SOAK little tapioca
in water and set on the back of the stove
to simmer slowly when it looks clear,
pour over it the brown broth seasoned
as before. Boil up once and serve.
A NICE CusTARD. quart OF
milk and pour it hot on broken eggs.
Take five eggs, throw out the yolks of
two, three teaspoonfu1s of sugar, pinch
of salt, and add little vanilla. Set it
to steam in close. covered vessel for
six minutes, then set it on ice until
wanted for use.
M1NoE PEA shin of beef boiled
down till very tender, one pound of nice,
clear beef suet, chopped very fine, o
tablespoonful Of salt, six pounds of
greening apples, peeled, cored and chop
ped, three pounds Of raisins stoned,
three of currants carefully cleaned, one
pound of brown sugar, cup of maple
sugar, quart of the best cider (boil the
cider in the syrup, half pound of
citron, shredded, and half a pound of
canned lemon-peel. This mixture makes
rich pies, particularly fine in flavor.
MEAT GRAvY.-In roasting beef, if it
is to be rare, allow ten minutes cooking
to every pound of beef -; when done,
place it on heated dish. In carving,
the juice will run out, and this is con-
sidered by many as the choicest gravy.
However, a gravy should be made and
each guest given his choice. After re-
boiling the beef, place the pan on the
stove, add teacupful of boiling water
stir up once do not thicken send to
the table in q sauce-boat. Veal when
boiling needs bastin 6 freqently-at first
with salt and water, afterward with it's
gravy; allow fifteen or twenty minutes
boiling for every pound; remove the
beef when done place the pan on the
stove, and thicken the gravy with tea
spoonful of -four, first moistened with
little water to prevent Jumps boil up
well and pour into gravy-boat. Nut
ton or lamb gravy is made in the same
way.
Sowing Seeds.
The proper distribution Of seed in the
sowing is quite important, and there are
few who can do it Just right. Machines
have been invented for the purpose, and
many Of them do the work more evenly
than it can possibly be done by hand.
Some seeds, from their peculiar forma-
ton, have to be sown by hand. It is a
difficult matter to give directions for
sowing seeds, and to say how much is
required to the acre. Much depends
upon the season, and also upon the fresh
ness of the scotland even seed known
to be new may be deficient in germinat.
ing.properties. The best rule is, when
sowing in rows, to be governed by the
character of the seed and relative
7trength of the young plants ; for in
stance, carrot, parsnip, and some others
have light seed, and the young plants
are feeble. Such should be sown thickly
and afterward thinned out. Other
plants, such as cucumbers, melons, ETC.,
are liable to he attacked by bugs, and it
is we'll to make some allowance on this
account. Most heavy seeds can be sown
thin, especially if broadcast, the chances
being that they will be too thick in case
they are sown by inexperienced hands.
Take, for example, the seed of the fiat
turnip, one pound of which. in measure
but little more than o pint, will SOW an
acre of land, but it requires very nice
calculation to get the seed evenly dis
tributed and make such small quantity
cover 80 much ground.
Seeds sown by machine may be regu-
lated by sowing first on cloth or floor,
and setting the gauge to the proper
grade. Some seeds are variable in size;
such should be dividea by sitting, and,
if sown by machine, put in separately.
It is advisable to always SOW as soon as
the ground is prepared, while the surface
soil is still fresh and moist and when
covered by raking, and always draw the
rake lengthwise with the rows. Very
fine seed must not be covered too deep.
-Brilrs Farm Gardening
UnderErouud Ice Houses.
Where the soil is gravelly and porous,
such house will be very useful, and
may be built more cheaply than one
wholly above ground. The excava-
ton may be made as deep as may be
desirable, perhaps six Or eight feet will
be sufficient. There must, however, be
perfect freedom from surface water, or
the house will be q failure. The bottom
may be made of layer of large stones,
two feet deep; upon this smaller stones
should be laid, to fill all the inequali-
ties, and form level surface, and there
should be placed upon these layer Of
coarse gravel. This may form the floor
of the house. The walls, up to foot
above the surface, may be built of stone
laid in mortar or cement, and the sill OF
the upper frame should be bedded in
the stone-work and cement.-Agricul-
turist.
Scientific Potato Culture.
A French agricultural journal, the
Basse Cou7, describes the result of some
experiments in potato growing recently
conducted by scientific men in Germany,
in which it is demonstrated that the
"eyes" at the top of the potato produce
q much more vigorous offspring than
those in the lower part, and the conse-
quence is that those agriculturists who
cut their potatoes in half before planting
them are not we'll advised in cutting
them vertically, but should always
divide them horizontally, planting the
upper half and using the other as food
for cattle. But the best plan of all is to
plant the tuber whole, cutting out,
nevertheless, all the "eyes" except
those in the top part. Scientific Anseri-