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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,

FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Recipes.
PUDDING WITHOUT MILK OR EGGs.-
Make dough as for biscuits, or to every
pint of -four one teaspoon of baking
powder, half tablespoon of melted suet
or butter, saltspoon of salt water or
sweet milk to make soft dough; roll
half-inch thick, cover with fruit
of any kind, sprinkle with sugar and
roll, pressing the edge down and ends
together; lay cloth in steamer, place
the dough on it and steam an hour. If
dried fruits are used, they should first
be stewed. Serve with sauce. This
may be warmed over by steaming. Ex-
cellent, and may be made with chopped
suet and steamed three hours. -
SNOW CUsrARD.-Beat eight eggs
leaving out the white of four; add to
them ore quart of milk and five ounces
of sugar; have a shallow pan of hot
water in the oven; set the dish into it,
and bake till the custard is thick; then
set away to cool; beat the remaining
whites very light; add half pound Of
sugar and q teaspoonful of lemon juice;
when the custard is cold lay the whites
over the top in heaps, but do not let
them touch.
POTATO SALD.-Boil mealy white po-
tatoes; mash fine; season highly with
butter, pepper, salt and little sweet
cream. Prepare salad dressing as fol-
lows: Mash perfectly smooth, with q
little water, the hard-boiled yolks of
three eggs; add half teaspoonful OF
mustard, whole teaspoonful of salt,
pour off the tea, and keep it in cool
place. Stir before using, and season
to the taste with salt and pepper. Eat
hot or cold. N. Bone pound of water
is very nearly one pint (l.04.)
BEEF SoUP.-This is for invalids.
Take one and a half pounds Of lean beef.
one ounce of rice or barley, pepper and
salt, and one and half pints of cold
water; divide the meat into small
pieces; put this in a stone jar, covering
it tightly; then place the jar in ves-
sci with hot water, and let it remain in
the oven for four hours. By uncover
ing the jar at the end of the cooking
you can, of course, very much increase
the strength of the soup.
Tho Value of Wood Ashes.
In estimating the effect or value ofan
article as a manure, experience or OBJ
servation is a better teacher than the
laboratory. Many years ago tried the
carbonate. the sequi-carbonate, the BIZ
carbonate and the nitrate of potassia as
top-dressings for grass land, side by side
with leached wood ashes, and the latter
had much the best effect, both immedi-
nte and durable, of either article except
the nitrate, and the effect of that evi-
dently depended upon its nitrogen. l
think there can be nv dou BIT that silica,
combined with potassia as it is in wood
ashes, acts as a manure, notwithstand-
ing the assertion of some Of your CORES
pondents to the contrary. The expert
ence of many farmers in this vicinity
has established the fact that leached
ashes are quite as good. if not better,
than unleached when applied to grass
land. This could not be so were the
potash the effective ingredient.
Thousands of bushels OF leached ashes
are brought here from Maine every year
and sold for twenty-five cents per bushel
at the vessel TO practical men who have
proved their value beyond question
when thus applied.
The causticity of unleached ashes
may be beneficial to peaty soils, or those
having much decayed vegetable le matter.
By breaking down the structure OF such
matter, and facilitating its decay, it
may improve such soils. The dissolv-
ing OF such matter, however, will not
make plant-food either Immediately or
directly, but reaches this effect only. by
aiding the decay or rotting of such
matter. Many years ago tried to con-
vert peat-which is abundant in this
vicinity-into manure. | found that a
saturated solution Of carbonate Of potash
would dissolve every fiber of the peat,
and would give a clear liquor of the
color of strong coffee; but l could not
by dilution or in any other way, make
that LIQUOR nourish plant. The potash
in unleached ashes may also benefit
other soils by rendering some portion
of their silica soluble, but it does not
follow that it is the active or most
beneficial element in wood ashes.-Geo.
Haskellia, Country Gentleman.
Heaves In Horses.
Heaves is caused by over-feeding on
clover, hay or straw, and sometim es
by other bulky and innutritious foods.
The expansion of the stomach presses
upon and interferes with the action of
the lungs. Dusty hay, smutty straw
and other impure bulky su distances may
give trouble sometimes by Irritating the
air passages and cause heaves: Often
it is constitutional, being inherited,
with narrow chests and lungs incapable
of performing their true service during
violent exertion. 1t is doubtful If it
can be entirely cured. but relief may be
possible. Feed moistened cut feed,
meal mixed with it, or stepped oats A
horse with the heaves should be fed
and watered at least two hours before
going out to work. The trouble is
liable to return at any time, and no
certainty. of relief from it need be en-
ter:ained by the owner. It is quite q
care, when once horse seems to be rid
of it, to keep him so. It is not common
with horses that have the best attention
given to the preparation OF their food.
Hadl6le6.
Many persons fail to grow crisp,
perfect radishes because their soil is not
right. Radishes delight in a sandy
loam-in fact, as fine radishes as we
have ever seen or tasted grew in q sand
bank.
Those grown on heavy soil are apt to
be tough and wormy. To remedy this
on such soil haul on o load or two OF
sand and spade it in, mixing it through
the soil, having beds raised up so that
water will not stand on them. A very
good way if the soil is heavy or stony
is to make borders around with boards,
say six inches high, and fill in with
sand, having little wcll-rotted compost
mixed through it, and on this grow the
radish seed. Try it, you who like rad
ishes.-Fruit Recorder.
Sound and S0mn0IenCy.