Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—Sand Tart.—Two pounds of flour, two pounds of Kgar, one and a quarter pounds butter, four eggs, salt, roil thin,' sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top, and bake on tin sheets. —To make an omelet, cut from the loaf a slice an inch thick and pour over it half a pint of boiling milk. Stir it smooth, adding pepper and salt. Beat five eggs, yolks and whites separately; pour on to the soaked bread; stir It together and bake in a quick oven. —To make pumpkin short-cake, take one cup stewed and strained pumpkin or squash, one cup “ C”, oatmeal porridge, and one cup water. Beat these up toE ether, and then add three cups fine Graaai flour. Mix thoroughly, spread half an inch thick on a baking tin, and hake half an hour in a good oven. Cover for ten minutes and serve warm or cold. —A writer states that farmers will find the following profitable for house or fence paint: Skim milk, two quarts; fresh slaked lime, eight ounces; linseed oil, six ounces; white Burgundy pitch, two dunces; Spanish white, three pounds. The lime is to be slaked in water exposed to the air, and then mixed with about onefourth of the milk; the oil in which pitch is dissolved to be added, a little at a time, then the rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish white. This is for white paint. If desirable, any other color may be produced: thus, if a cream color is de sired, in place of part of the Spanish white use the ocher alone.

—The London Veterinary Journal advocates a simple and inexpensive appliance to prevent horses from failing in winter. It consists simply of one or moresteel studs, let into the horse’s shoe. One in front is sufficient, but for heavy work two more at the sides aro recommended. The stud is a square bit of steel nearly an inch long, pointed at one end and tapering slightly from about the middle of the other that enters the shoe. No filling or’ finish is necessary, and any blacksmith oa&%ake a iarge »nuheT tow .vary abort time out of an old rasp or file. The stud must fit tightly, care being taken that it does not “ wobble,” and that it does not pass quite through the shoe. The hole is made with an ordinary square punch. This simple system has proved very efficient after an extensive trial, and saves dfbrees great pain, suffering, and often fatal injury.. Ir —To get early tomatoes, says a writer on the subject, you must, us soon as your tomato plant lias made four leaves, pinch the top hud from the stem, then take up the plant, pinch off two inches from the top root and transplant it in a common box-frame, where the soil is rich and loamy. The box will keep off the wind, and plants sown and grown there eighteen inches apart will produce fruit two weeks sooner than the same planted in the open ground. A mat or a few boards, spread over the frame at night will keep them from frost, and is far easier and quicker than going over a field nightly and setting boxes over each hill. As soon as the plants have set fruit on two blossoms of each branch, and the top has grown two to four leaves, the pinching off the ends of each branch ana top should he again put in practice. —Prairie Farmer.