Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1876 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—Fritters,—One quart of milk, one pound of flour, add seven well-beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of salt. Drop by the spoonful into hot lard and fry a light brown. —For “Maryland biscuits," take one teacup of flour, one of lard, one tablespoon of salt; make a stiff dough, work light, and bake in a quick oven; don't let the biscuits touch. —For a single cup of chocolate, grate a desert-spoonful, dissolve in half a cup of boiling water; bring to a boil a cup of rich milk, stir in the chocolate when thoroughly melted; boil three minutes; pour out and serve. When potatoes are planted, if a few peas be dropped in every other hill in every second row, a fine crop of green peas' will be produced, supported by the potato vines. The black-eyed marrowfats are best for such planting, as they grow freely and quickly; and the crop of ' potatoes will not be diminished in the least. —A herd law, as understood by the people of the Western States, is a legislative enactment which requires that animals be so guarded that they cannot Inflict injury upon fields in which crops are raised. They must be guarded by enclosures or attended by herdsmen in order that they may not encroach upon grounds that are cultivated, which are not protected by enclosures.— Kantat Fanner. —The following compound, recommended by a French chemist several years since, may be worth trying on potatoes for destroying the potato beetle. Take two and a half pounds of block soap, two and a half pounds of flour of sulphur, two pounds of mushrooms, of the species generally found in low, moist grounds, and thirty' quarts of water. Divide the water into two equal parts; put one-half into a cask with the soap and mushrooms, after they have been bruised; boil the other half of the water in a kettle, with the sulphur in a bag and kept down to the bottom of the water with a weight. The sulphur must be stirred about, in order to better saturate the water. The water thus boiled must be thrown into an ordinary sized cask until it has acquired a high degree of foul odor, and the cask then closed up tightly. This solution may be sprinkled over infested trees, or plants of any kind, and it is said to be certain death to all kinds of insects.— Rural New Yorker.

—To make Graham gems in perfection, put one quart of Graham flour in a basin, to which add two tablespoons of sugar, a little salt, and two heaping teaspoons of baking powder. One little dip more in the baking-powder will do no harm, if you want them extra. Then beat two eggs light in a bowl, fill up with cold water, mixing them well, fitir these quickly in the flour and stir like lightning, ana always have plenty of flour. The batter should be just thick enough to barely pour from the spoon. More cold water can be added, if too thick. The gem pans are supposed to be heating on the stove. Take a bit of butter on a knife and grease the pans quickly. If they are heated right the butter will “sizzle.” Fill half full of the batter, and bake in an oven almost hot enough to burn anything else up. If my oven is not hot enough on the bottom, I put the pan upon the grate. These will be good cold, and are healthful and economical, as no shortening or milk is required.— Cor. N. Y. Herald.