The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-01-25
HOME AND FARM.

"A good sponge cake: One-haf
pound OF -four, three-fourths. pound of
sugar, seven eggs, beaten separately and
well. one-half lumber of water. Boil
the sugar in the water, and let it cool
before adding eggs.
Gold cake makes tie most satisfac-
use half q pound of sugar, quarter of c
pound of butter, half pound of flour,
the yelk of five eggs, one teaspoonful of
baking powL r; flavor with vanilla.
LIN making little gifts at home, a
mucilage is often required. The follow
ing recipe viii be found good for deli
cate work: Dissolve gum arabic to the
consistency of cream, then thicken with
-four and boil until perfectly smooth.
The National Lire Stock Journal
warns farmers against overlooking their
COWS with hay. The quantity of hay
given should never exceed what they
viii eat up clean, and twice day is Of
ten enough to give time for proper ru-
minating.
MIR. James j. H. Gregory's plan for
excluding frost from his large cellar dur.
ing sudden spell of Arctic weather is
10 light q kerosene lamp of six burners,
Which in short time raises the temper
atilre ten degrees. This is convenient,
cheap and very easy way of repelling
cold on such brief but critical occasions.
"A good glue for woodwork is made
by dissolving one pound of good brown
or white varnish according to the OBJ
ject), in one pint of water; place within
second vessel filed with boiling water
When entirely dissolved and while cool
ing add three ounces of nitric acid, and
when cold bottle and keep closely
corked.
-Children's stockings grow thin and
wear out first at the knees, as every
mother knows to her sorrow. II before
this happens pieces of soft flannel are
laid under those places and fastened
with fine stitches the result will be o
great saving of labor and expense.
The stockings will last as long again as
they would without the lining.
The farmer who has two cows and
no shelter for either needs the nerve to
sell one, If necessary, and buy lumber to
protect the other from storms. Or he
needs the grit to Gull ont the poorest
half of his herd and make more of the
rest. He needs always to feed well
young stock of all kinds, and work off
the old surplus at once in order to hus-
band his resources. A bushel of corn
will make more pounds of pig pork than
Of old pork. Work of the old hogs if
feed is short If you have plenty of
corn you can hold and be sure of win
ming, but there is risk if you are short.
As to the manurial value of differ
ent cattle foods, it is found that the oil
cakes yield the richest manure, as they
contain the largest amount of nitrogen
and phosphoric acid, with considera-
BILE amount of potash. Next these beans
and peas, malt dust and bran. Clover
hay yields q richer manure than oats,
wheat, barley or corn, while meadow
hay stands before the cereal grains. The
various grains and the roots, like tur-
nips, carrots and Swedes, contain about
the same proportion Of nitrogen in their
dry substance; the roots, however, sup
ply much more potash. Potatoes stand
below the roots in manurial value.
Straw takes the lowest place as q ma
nure yielding food, bean and pea straw
being more valuable for this purpose
than the straw Of the cereals.