Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1879 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Standing Custard.—Boil together and steam half a pint of new milk, onequarter of a pound of sugar, one-half ounce of wring! mas, and thicken with the beaten jelks of four eggs; stir it until It is almost cold; potto a mold and keep it In water until quite cold, that turn out. Dr. Horne said: “Never pet a bull under any circumstances.” In this he is very much mistaken There is no domestic animal but what is improved in condition, docility sad more easily handled snd controlled by petting. And aboil is no exception to the rule.— lowa State Register. Au wool dress goods or colored flannels should be washed out quickly in tepid water, rinsed in water of the same temperature, wrung dry and then folded np for a time, together with one or two sheets, so that the moisture shall be extracted by the cotton or linen; they should then be ironed till dry. Fuchsias, after being exhausted with blooming, should have the terminal shoots of all their branches clipped off; then set aside for two or three weeks, giving very little water; then repot in a sou composed of well-decomposed leaf-mold, mixed with a sprinkling of good garden sol, a few rusty nails, and a layer of charcoal at the bottom at the pot, to secure good drainage. In a few weeks new shoots, full of flower-buds, will start all over, growing rapidly. Ik relation to the tuberose bulbs after blooming, the Gardener's Chronicle says if after flowering they are placed under a stage in a vinery, without other water than the moisture of the house, they will by the end of April throw up their flower spikes from young tubers formed immediately upon the top or crown of the old ones, and from the union of which—when the plants have received a thorough watering and otherwise are subject to a growing temperature—a profusion of roots will emanate. Later the plants should receive a suitable shift to a small pot, ahd each individual flower will expand in the most satisfactory manner. On many farms the female members of the family procure their pinmoney by raising fowls and senaing them to city markets. As a rule, poultry is sent to the cities in the largest quantities during the months of November and December. It not unfrequently happens that it sells for less than an equal amount of beef or pork, while the cost of transportation and the charge of commission men are much larger for the former than the latter. There is beside the cost of packages, which is quite an item. Beeves and hogs never accumulate iu 'commission stores, for the reason that they are purchased by packers. But the case is very different with poultry. It often becomes a drug in the market. If the weather does not a’low it to be shipped to the East, or transportation is stopped from any cause, the supply becomes so large that prices fall far below the cost of production, to say nothing o i the exEense of marketing. Farmers seem to ave an insane idea of the amount of poultry required for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. They forget that the market is supplied with fine game, delicacies, fish and superior beef and mutton, and other luxuries. In the majority of cases farmers would be gaining in two ways, by eating the poultry they raise, and by sending more pork and beef to market. They would have better fare on their tables and more money in their purses. —Chicago Times.