Nevada County picayune., 1889-10-02
HOME AND FARM.

Picnic Cake: One cupful of butter, three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of cream or rich milk, four cupfuls of -four, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow der, six eggs and cupful of secdless raisins, if desired; flavor with lemon
 The most intelligent and success ful farmer is the one who looks Tar ahead He so arranges his farm as to bo economically worked and then plans his crops several years ahead. Such man is almost sure to make good crops and at the lowest cost.
 Tho hallowed influences of home in which there was a strong, social element, and refined manners, will n,ver be forgotten. 4 homo in which there is ignorance is full Of darkness aul 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 ono box of potash or lye; put one gallon of soft water in a kettle, and when hot enough to dissolve the lye, pour it over the ingredients previously put in jug, and shake we'll; use one- half cup of fluid in two pails of water. Household.
 -Salmi of Veal: Put two tablespoon fuls of butter into saucepan, when it melts stir in a tablespoonful of flour, then add half a 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 minutesi serve on pieces of toast.
 A great many good-hearted, sober minded and industrious farmers con- sider 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- ize6 sugar, one half cup of butter, stirred together until it looks like thick cream; one tcaspoonful Of soda dissolved in one half teacup of sweet milk; beat the whites of three egg 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 tinely-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 stallI that have borne a full ear are richer than those that only bear a nubbin, unless the latter is also thrown in.