Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—To make rice batter-cakes mix onefourth wheal flour to three-fourths of rice flour; add alittlo salt; raise and bake aa, buckwheat cakes. 5 - r -*- —Perfect cleanliness should be the rule in all stables, pens and sheds.... Filth is the most frequent cause of disease. Too much warmth it not healthful. Pure air, dry beds and clean skins keep well-fed animals in sleek condition. —ls the inside of your tea pot or coffeepot is black from long use, fill ft with water, throw in a piece of hard soap, set on the stove and let it. boil from half an hour to an hour. It will clean as bright as a new dollar, and costs no work. —To make an efficacious wash for weak and sore eyes mix one tablespoonful of pulverized white vitriol and two teaspoonfills of saltpeter, dissolved in one quart ot rain-water. Put one drop in the eye and keep it there os long as possible. If the eye Is badly inflamed, repeat the operation every five or ten minutes until the ball of the eye feels cool, after which repeat two or three times a day. The mixture is perfectly harmless, cooling and cleansing. It is likewise good for festering sores.— Exchange. —The Michigan Farmer says that the farming industry is a sound, healthy, strong and vigorous industry to-day. There is no over-production, no surplus stock, but a fair demand. There is a better show for tke larrner than for almost any other trade or profession. Labor is cheaper, machinery and tools are cheaper, and the farmer can buy his supplies and groceries at old ante-war rates. And farmers are in a position financially to take advantage of existing circumstances. —The Pacific Rural Press, in speaking of the selection of seed for planting, reiterates the well-known fact that in tbe seed is concentrated tbe strength and life of the plant. In it lie all the possibilities of reproduction, and if the soil and cultivation be favorable its future course is sure. It is true that in some farm crops very much depends upon the introduction of fi csh seeds, bulbs or tubers, where the tendency seems toward degeneration. These points should receive the farmer’s most careful consideration and observation. —We find the following item in one of our exchanges: i A breeder of poultry writes;... . Jh’ery~M»r4*g~ 4 procure a quantity of cedar boughs and scatter them plentifully in and around the hen house. This is all that is necessary, as the odor of the cedar keeps away lice. This remedy Is cheap, simple and effective, and is well worth trying by all who have heps to care for. Now, cedar boughs are not to be had in some localities, and we would advise all who have access to a good bed of tansy to utilize it for above purposes. A little sulphur sprinkled about the nests i 3 also valuable, and timely prevention may save a great deal of trouble and annoyance.— Rural Times.