River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22
HOME AND FARM.


Picnic Cake: One cupful Of butter,
ihree cupfuls of sugar. one eupful OF
cream or rich milk, four cupfuls of
lour, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
Ter, six eggs and a cupful OF seedless
-aisins. if desired; flavor with lemon.
The most intelligent and success
Jul farmer is the one who looks far
ahead. He so arranges his farm as.
10 be economically worked and then
plans his crops several years ahead.
Such a man is almost sure to make
good crops and at the lowest cost.
The hallowed influences of a home
in which there was a strong. social
element, and refined manners, will
never be forgotten. A home in which
there is ignorance is full of darkness
aud gloom. while home in which
there is culture and refinement, is full
Of sunlight and joy.
Gates may be properly classed
with labor-saving implements and ma
chinery. Some of the fields and in
closures are entered many times day.
A gate is opened and shut in few sec
onds The removal of bars or other
barriers requires much greater time
and labor
Washing Fluid: One ounce each
Of salts of tartar and dry ammonia,
and one box of potash or I've; put one
gallon of soft water in kettle, and
when hot enough to dissolve the lye.
pour it over the ingredients previously
put in Jug. and shake well; use one
half cup of fluid in two pals of water.
Household.
Saint of Veal: Put two tablespoon
fuls of butter into a saucepan, when it
melts stir in tablespoonful of -four,
then add half pint of water and one
onion sliced, salt and pepper and a
tablespoon of currant jelly, and little
Worcestershire sauce or mushroom
catsup; cut some thin slices of cold
roast veal, lay them on the prepared
gravy, cook ten or fifteen minutes;
serve on pieces of toast.
"A great many good-hearted, sober
minded and industrious farmers con-
slider the true end of their being
reached when they have provided for
their daughters houses and lands.
These provisions are right and proper
in their place; but without a well-dis-
ciplined mind, without true Christian
courtesy and refined manners, these
material things will not lead to true
Joy and happiness.
Peach Cake: One cup of pulver-
lied sugar, one half cup of butter,
stirred together until it looks like
thick cream; one teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in one half teacup of sweet
milk; beat the whites of three eggs
and put them in with two teaspoon
fuls of cream of tartar, mixed with a
teacup of flour, stir and add one-half
teaspoonful of corn starch. Flavor
strongly with extract of peach. Bake
in two square sponge tins in moderate
ly quick oven, and when done spread
with finely-grated cocoanut and pink
sugar Frost with icing and sprinkle
with pink pulverized sugar.
Thin seeding often gives nearly
the bulk of the thick seeding, and of
vastly better quality, even when the
season favors that thickly sown. If a
drought comes on, the corn covering
the whole surface dries up and is
nearly worthless. That put in so that
the horse and cultivator can run
through it keeps growing, and will
bear more or less ears. Even this,
superior as it is to sown fodder corn.
is not equal in feeding value to the
corn grown far enough apart in rows
to bear full crop. The stalks that
have borne full ear are richer than
those that only bear nubbin, unless
the latter is also thrown in.