Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — THE KINGDOM OF CERES. [ARTICLE]

THE KINGDOM OF CERES.

Frtsh Twigs from th! Bowsra of the Daoghtets of Saturn. - Fhint on th* Farm -A Leeson of FrugalityCooked Food Preferable—Developing the Home Market—Wholesome Hints and Sea* a enable Keeipes Applicable and Dsefol. Farm Lo*se«. Every cattleman in the west has worked for low wages or lost money durimr the last four years. The depression seems to be over, cattle sell for good prices—that is, gods cattle. One consolation comes to the stock farmer who has had a severe time of it during the depression— his acres were getting better. His farm is in condition to yield now that the markets have touched bottom and are rising. This leads to the reflection that he must keep catlic whether they pay or not. It is observable that wellstocked farms yield best; that grazed land improves in fertility. The stock farmer has not oni.y the satisfaction of seeing his acre? improved, says the Des Moines Register. but he has no doubt improved his animals. There is a rush now to get stock cattle. Grass must be fed off. and stockers are scarce. The well-slocked farm furnishes its own stockers; better ones every year. The farmers who held steady hands and did not sell off their stock during the years of craze to sell, now have great advantage over those who sold for what they could get, and now must buy again. We wish to make this point. A farm requires stock of various kinds just as it requires a farmer. No selling off iu permissable, unloss the selling of fat stock, surplus young stock or bad stock. A good cow and her descendants should have as certain a right to the farm as the owner. So should the right mare and progeny. It requires long study and experiment to properly slock a farm. It requires growing knowledge to steadily improve, but once a farm is stocked with paying animals it is financial suicide to change. Now that the time has come when we must farm for the future, as well ns the present, nothing will atari d by us better than reliable stock of good farm animalp. So t many cows, for sale to no man, at any price. Such marcs, not to be parted with, and so on. The stock and the farm will sustain each other. The one will improve the other, if you do your part. We must get entirely over this uneasy desire to sell out, farm, stock or anything. No man <an do well moving from farm to farm, from stock to stock, from here to yonder and back. The steady fellows are getting into the beet shape—are there now. •

Bites mid sting*. ■Commonly, biles may be treated as lacerated wounds. But poison bites should be promptly, treated to destroy the poison. Hot water, the hot iron, nitric acid, nitrate of silver, though heroic remedies, in such emergencies, •ays the American Agriculturist. may be applied even by the uninitiated. The sooner the applications are made -after the accident the better. Where poison bites are suspected on the extremities, the venous blood.flowing to the heart may be retarded by a cord, band, or handkerchief tightly tied around above the wound. A cloth dipped iu boiling water applied to the bite destroys the poison, and is not so painful as the hot iron. If the latter is used it should be heated to a white heat and pushed deep into the wound, and swept over the lacerated surface. A stick of nitrate of silver should be applied on a fine stick or skewer. After cither of these applications, hot or cold applic <tions, by means of wet cloths, should be made. Stings of bees, wasps, or other insects, are best remedied by applying aqua ammonia by means of cloth soaked in a solution of two ounces of ammonia to a quart of water. Carbolic acid, one ounce to a quart of water, is a good application to either burns or bites. It is rarely necessary to use opiates for stings, as the local applications soou relieve pain. Painting Farm Building*. Every farmer ought to learn how to nse the paint brush. Then at odd times he can do much at home improvement that without this accomplishment would certainly go undone. Paint itself is not so expensive as its application. Country life, especially, would be brighter if old and young on the farm took their turns at brightening it with paint. Wagons, tools and farm buildings of all kinds are more durable when painted frequently, and painted they will not be, as experience proves, unless the farmer does it himself. The division of labor that in most other things works well is a mistake here. In the country at least each man may do some painting with benefit to himself, and preventing the entailment of misery and early death on a class of professional painters. Good and cheap paints are now furnished ready mixed, so that this greatest difficulty of painting by novices is done away with.

TiUce Caro of the Toul«, Stanton Hitchcock. Orleans Co., Vermont writes: Repair broken tools and don’t leave it to be done in the hurry of work. Broken tools may be seen lying beside the road, which could be rendered available ut slight cost Plows, harrows, crowbars and other tools are often left in the field where used last, and when wanted the farmer will be inquiring for them and exclaiming that some neighbor has stolen them. He afterwards finds them where he had left them. It pays to take good cure of tools, repair them when necessary, and house them when they •>* not in use. Cooked rood For Pits. Many coarse kinds of food, especial* ly roots, will be only freely eaten by pigs when cooked. Raw potatoes will barely keep pigs from starving. When cooked the same vegetable will fatten the nig- Even the potato peelings should bo boiled a few minutes before putting them io the swill tub. After boiling and cooling, it Is still better

'to give the peelings to the pig* separate from the swill, as paray de caying potatoes, if put in the barrel, soon make the swill very offensive, if not absolutely unwholesome. ZZZ ...... Waxi-JUla-XtieFear. E. W. Bold says: “A pear tree which blooms, but bears no fruit, is making too much root growth, and recommends digging a trench eighteen inches deep below the circumference of the first limbs, filling it half {till of compost manure, and returning the soil On top of it. This will check root growth and start the tree In bearing.” Developing Home Market*. The fruit grower who uniformly grows the best fruits is the man who can successfully develop a home market for the same. Good fruit never goes begging tor a market. It is salable anywhere. On the other hand, it is the great quantity of poor fruit in every market that makes a glut, and often makes low prices even for I the best.

Poultry Wifi. -.-J..-..-103 is the proper temperature of hatching eggs. It is wrong to remove the chicks before all are hatched, us their removal reduces the temperature of the remaining eggs, the animal heat of the chicks assisting to hatch the others. In selecting eggs for hatching or for use in an incubator, reject all rough or misshapen eggs. Use no extra large ones or very small ones. The eggs should be of normal size, well formed, and as uniform as possible in every respect. Lean meat from the butcher is the best egg-producing food that can be given poultry, as it is rich in nitrogen and supplies the albumen of the egg, which is the most difficult to obtain. One pound of meat fed to twenty bens, three times a week, will not bo expensive compared with grain and the results to be obtained. The secret of success in the poultry yard, says the Maine Farmer, is hot in hatching, but In feeding. How to raise the broods is a problem of magnitude. and for this no fixed rule can be applied. Here the breeder, who has clung to one variety year after year, will be best prepared for the work, because he will best appreciate the conditions as well as wants of the flock. The Douglas Mixture, a valuable adjunct to the poultry business, is composed of the following ingredients: Two gallons of water, one pound of copperas, one gill of sulphuric acid. Mix a few drops with the daily supply of drinking water. It is a splendid preventive of poultry diseases and should always be kept on hand. A supply of iron is a good thing in drinking wafer, and satisfactory results may be obtained by keeping a couple of iron nails in the bottom of the drinking fountain.

Wholeaonie Hints. All fancy hosiery should bo put into a strong sol ution of salt and cold water before wearing. Scratches in varnish are removed if a coarse cloth well saturated with linseed oil is laid over them. Never use the first water that comes from a pump or hydrant; it has been in a lead or iron pipe all night, and it is not healthful. Two ounces of cpmmon tobacco boiled in a gallon of water, rubbed on with a stiff brush, is used to renovate old clothes. It is said to leave no smell. Marks on tables caused by hot dishes may be removed by kerosene rubbed in well with a soft cloth, finishing with a little cologne water, rubbed dry with another cloth. For ingrowing toe nails use equal parts of mutton tallow, castile soap and white sugar made into a salve. Apply until the swelling is down, then trim the nail in the centre. Rub lamp chimneys with newspaper on which has been pouted a little kerosene. This will make them much clearer than if soap is used; they will also be less liable to crack. There should always he plenty of good kitchen aprons, which protect the dresses so much. Long-sleeVed and high-necked sack aprons for children should be kept on them while at play or at the table. To clean coats: take of ammonia two ounces, soap one ounce, soft water one quart, and a teaspoonful of saltpetre; shake well and let the mixture stand a few days. Pour enough on a coat to cover the grease spots; rub well; wash off with clean cold water.

Seasonable Ueelpes. For frying eggs, have plenty of fat and dip it up over them with a spoon instead of turning, also placing them in the pan from a saucer one at a time. Ginger Snaps.—Boil one pint molasses and One cup of butter five minutes; pour it over one scant tablespoonful soda; when cold stir in two teaspoonfuls of ginger, two of cloves and two ot cinnamon; stir in enough flour to roll them our very thin. Old-fashioned Ginger Cookies. - Two cups molasses, one cup butter (or half butter and half lard), one cup hot water, three teaspoons soda dissolved in the hot water, one teaspoonful ginger; make as soft as possible to roll? roll rather thick, cut in small cakes and bake in a moderately quick oven. Dumplings.— One pint of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and a half a teaspoonful of soda (or two teaspoonfuls of baking powder). Mix with one scant cup of sweet milk into a dough soft enough to easily. Pat it out" half an inch thick. Cut it into small rounds or mix softer and drop by the • spoonful into the boiling stew. Cook ten minutes. Milk Biscuit.—Put one quart of flour into a bowl, add one teaspoonful of salt and two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder; sift again. Now rub thoroughly into the flour three ounces of lard or butter. Moisten with a good half cup of sweet milk, knead lightly, roll a half inch thick, cut into bisculU, and bake in a very quick oven fifteen minutes. To have these biscuits in a perfect condition, make the dough as soft as can be conveniently handled. Handle lightly, and put them at once into the o ven.