AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
fattier at dinner, and noticed a nice pumpkin pie on 
ttie tatile. I was really surprised, because I was 
sure there was not a pumpkin in ttie ' 
bouse. We 
pumpkins, 
but wondered where ttie housekeeper got them, 
and after dinner I asked tier. She laughed and said it 
was made of turnips.—Turnips? Yes. Iproposed 
to render tier name famous by asking tier recipe to 
be published in ttie Agriculturist , she smiled, pout¬ 
ed, and went out. Here is ttie recipe: “ Take two 
good sized yellow turnips ; clean and peel them ; 
boil about two hours and masti them. Then addl 
pound of brown sugar, 4 eggs, 2 quarts of milk, 
% cup of molasses, 1 spoonful of ginger, 1 nutmeg, 
% cup of wheat flour. This is then used ttie same 
as in making ttie real pumpkin, or custard pies. 
ed according to a part of ttie recipe of “H.” of 
part; 6 oT that of J. Langdon, Vinton Co.^ 0. in 
with beef 1 suet, bread, eggs, parsley, nutmeg, pep¬ 
per and salt, and boil it.” Can I consider this com¬ 
pounded recipe my own? It is very excellc 
A fair article of wine for family use may be 
made from ttie juice of ttie rhubarb in the follow¬ 
ing manner: Grind or masti, and press ttie stalks, 
Add as much water as there b juice, and 3 to 4 lbs. 
engravings and 
for knitting socks for Soldiers and others, writes: 
“Would it not be better to make double heels? 
This is easily done by knitting a stitch and slipping 
a stitch on ttie wrong side, and knitting every stitch 
A Cat’s Tenacity of Life. 
passed into a proverb. Mrs. O. G. N. of Black Earth, 
Wis., gives ttie following in a note to ttie Agri¬ 
culturist : 
“Our old cat was ttie pet of 
,et of ttie family. When 
on ttie banks of ttie Gen- 
flts became “ small by degrees, and beautifully less,” 
until we were in danger of getting roundly scratched 
if we meddled with tier ladyship in ttie least. My 
mother finally induced me to part with my pet, and 
ttie boys carried her in a bag to ttie bridge which 
spanned ttie Genesee, just above ttie falls. They 
“ let the cat out of the hag,” and saw tier take ttie peri- 
come in. I wasMrly 
afraid of tier at first—thought it might be tier spirit; 
The Editor with his Young ] 
it it is made of. Thus : 
y are put together in di 
combined in a different manner. Indeed, you may gather 
all the plants that ever grew, all the animals in existence, 
the great bulk of all the soils we cultivate, all the air and 
The names of tl 
Tunite, they condense” and forL a mtle'dmpof 
cesses! he can get a quantity ot pure black carbon (char- 
hydrogen; also, that iron is one of the elements. Now 
when you moisten a piece of iron with water, and let it 
fie awhile, the iron unties with the oxygen, taking, it away 
dish compound”made up of iron and oxygen. The chem- 
substancTas ammonia; yet such is the case, and this is 
by the iron rusting in the water, as fast as it is produced, 
flies away into the air, and some of it is caught in the lit- 
itaro washed down into the^oil by rain and dew, where 
acid' 1 we Told yoT of"abTe!' and this goes off into the 
wooci is!Consumed^ dTwe^ityTthat is, it has been pulled 
to pieces, and its elements have gone off in different 
forms. Why! a whole cord of wood, or a tun of hard coal, 
soon escapes through the chimney in its new form, and 
