Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1869 — USEFUL RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

A Western correspondent of Hearth and Home recommenu* the use of sweet corn, “ ears and all,” as green fodder for cattle. It should not be planted in drills, but In hills one foot apart, in rows three and a half feel apart. Geese-kuoa, carried to the cellar as soon as taken from the nest, and turned over each day, will hatch well. Above stairs the temperature is uneven. Number the eggs and let the first goose setting have those first laid. A writer in the Rural New Yorker dissents from the theory that many windows are desirable in barna He thinks the monev often expended in making them could be much more judiciously expended. To Winr Cream.— Sweeten a bowl of cream with loaf sugar and flavor with any extract or flavoring that suits you best. Whip the cream with a whisk, and as it rise* in the froth, takeoff witny skimmer, and place upon a seive to drain. An exchange says: “If a horse, afflicted with the colic, be drenched with a preparation of chlorine and permanganic arid, a cure will be efleeted. Our authority is so certain of it, that he would be willing to insure the recovery of any horse not too long neglected.” A correspondent of the Practical Farmer says that his experience shows that two quarts of cooked potatoes would . do as much toward fattening as four fed i raw, and that the value of corn meal is very nearly doubled by thorough cooking. He considers raw potatoes almost valueless for fattening. The agricultural editor of the Weekly Press reminds boys who have to split wood that it splits much more readily up from the roots than downwards. The stick should be turned upside down before striking it. S) too it is better to split by slabs than to strike through the center of the larger pieces. In using common salt, soot, or guano for manure, moist weather, should, if possible, be selected for applying it; for it is necessary that these substances should be dissolved before thsy-can be appropriated by the roots of plants. As long as they remain as a dry powder on the surface of the soil, they can be of no use.

To Prevent Hens Eating Egos.—A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer says he has accomplished this by keeping a setting hen upon the nest, and remotnng the eggs every night His hens that got so bad that they would “ go for ” a nest in a flock as soon as they heard a cackle, were broken of the habit edtirely by this means. The Scientific American gives the following mode of testing kerosene: “ Fill a cup with warm water, the temperature of which is to be brought to 100 deg. Fahrenheit, pour the oil on the water; apply flame to the floating oil by match or otherwise. If the oil is unsafe it will take fire, and its use in the lamp is dangerous, for it is liable to explode. But if the oil is safe and good it will not take fire.” When writing by common ink has become faded by age so as to be nearly or quite illegible, it may be restored to its original hue by moistening it with & camel’s hair pencit or feather dipped in tincture of galls, or a solution of ferrocyanide of potassium, slightly acidulated with hydrocholoric acid. Either of these washes should be very carefully applied, *o that the ink may not spread.— Scientific American. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says that he finds leached ashes and cut grass the best mulch for the grape vine. The ashes gather moisture and repel heat. Grape vines that were mulched at the commencement of the drouth last summer, stood the heat well. When the grass i-ots, the roots derive nutriment from it. The grass is put on first, and then covered with ashes This mulch is both protective and enriching, and the nutriment is of a kind that is wanted—vegetable and carbonaceous. The Country Gentleman, in an article reviewing some objections to the management of Agricultural Societies; sugges's that the best cure is a more general interest in and co-operation with the Agricul tural Societies by the general body of farmers. It will do little good to simply find fault with existing evils, if we make no effort to remove them. But, if all the farmers in a county will take an interest in the affairs of their Society, ita tnaJiagement may be made what they want it. The common practice of using pads or sheep-skin under a horse’s collar is objectionable, especially in warm weather, be cause it accumulates heat and makes the break tender. A better way is to take a piece of thick and smooth leather, ent it out just the size of the collar, or a little wider, and let it lie flat on the neck and shoulders. It will he smooth, while the collar itself moves about, and chaffing will thus be prevented. It is also well to wash the breast of a working horse every night with clean water. — Hearth and Home.