Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1869 — Farm and Household. [ARTICLE]

Farm and Household.

USEFUL KEClra, ETC. , A small or moderate-sized tree, says an exchange, at the transplanting win usually baa large bearing tree sooner than a larger treq set out at the same time, and Which is necessarily cheeked ingrowth by removal. Furniture Polish.-r-Take two ounces of beeswax, cut fine: spirits of turpentine, one ounce; one drachm of powdered resin; melt at a gentle heat, and add two drachms of Indian red to give it a mahogany color.. Lemon-pies vbom Rhusaku —The pie plant is first cut fine, stewed, strained, and to a pint of the liquor is adilftd half a cup of butter, three eggs, loaf sugar till it fi very sweet, and extract of lemon. Have a rich paste in cuitard tins, and fill with the mixture. Whip the white of an egg to a stiff froth, and spread over the top, and sift upon this a little powdered sugar. Bake In an oven not too hot. Autumn Peas.—lt is not a common practice to grow peas for eating greens in the autumn months, but we have found that when planted in August at a depth of from four to six inches they grow well, and during September commence blossoming ; and when froets have destroyed our beans, tomatoes, etc, our peas are ready for gathering, and prove a very desirable table acquisition for the season. We sow only the early sorts, such as Carter’s First Crop, Little Gem, etc., for this late production.— Horticultunit.

Repolishing FcßNrrußE.— Oiled furniture that has been scratched or marred may be restored to its original beauty simply by nibbing boiled linseed oil, used by painters, on the surface, with a wad of woolen rags Varnished; fhrniture, dulled, may be similarly restored by the use of a varnish composed of shellac disolved in alcohol, applied in a similar manner. Common beeswax rubbed over furniture and heated J»v the friction of a woolen wad briskly used, is also an excellent furniture polish.— Exchange. French Pancakes— Take blx eggs, separate the yolks from the whites; beat the.whites on a dinner plate to a snow: beat four yolks with two table spoonfuls of sugar, two of flour, and a teacupful of cream; add a little salt and a very little «rbonate of soda; put in the whites of p eggs and mix gently. Put one onnee pf butter in a frying pan; when hot, pour in the Whole pancake. Hold the pan a .good distance from the fire for fifteen minutes; hold before the fire to brown on th*. top. Dish on a napkin. Put any kina of preserved fruit over it. Serve hot. A Remedy foe Cribbing Horses.—Mr. Sanford Nowell, of Sanford, informs us that his (buddy for a horse addicted to the habit of “cribbing” is to buokle a strap arUffiff Che Reck of a horse just back of the ears and jaws. Have the strap an inch or an inch and a half axle and buckle it tight as the aninuifowill bear. This strap may rensaimupon tl» animal’s neck in the stall, or harasuM or pasture without any inconvenienoit and will, he writes, “ surely stop the animal from cribbing.” Mr. Ntraqllpoptinues.: “This disease, if you wlßpemtit me to c&U it such, ti in my opinion, entirely a nervous disease. I never knew alow-lived horse to *) crib; ” it is always Che high-nerved or highspirited animals that are addicted to it.”— Maine Farmer.