Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1869 — USEFUL RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

Chloroform is recommended as a cure for hydrophobia. A correspondent of the Massachusetts Ploughman says: “ Cover your strawberry vines lightly, or you smother them. Pine boughs are just the thing for if; butoak leaves, sea-weed, or coarse hay are good. Remember long manure is r fatal to them.” At a late meeting of the New York Fruit Growers Club, it was stated that a gentleman in New Jersey kept from two hundred tp_ three hundred barrels of apples last winter in perfect condition by simply piling them together in the open air and covering them with a quantity of salt hay. A celebrated New York physician says that Americans are too quiet at their meals. He says : “Itis a well established clinical feet that cheerful society at meals greatly aids digestion. The sympathetic influence which exists between the stomach Mid brain attest the truth of the assertiOT.’.' • Black Cake that Will Keep a Year. —Sugar, one pound; butter, one pound ; flour, one pound ; sixteen eggs; brandy, quarter pint; raisins, three pounds ; currants, two pounds; one pound citron, one table-spoonful molasses, one and a half gill of sour milk, one half tea-spoonful saleratus; Mace, cinnamon, nutmegs and cloves to flavor. Bake four hours.— Western Rural. A New CubcvXio Remedy.—Mr. Charles Arnold, a well known Canadian Horticulturist, says he has tried, with good success, the plan of whitewashing the soil under fruit trees as a protection from the curculio. He pours the whitewash on the ground, and spreads it with a brush so as to completely cover the surface, and says the larva of the curculio will not enter the ground—remaining and dying in the fallen fruit. Asparagus Beds in Autumn.—When I the stalks of asparagus have come to maturity in autumn, they should be mowed off and spread over the surface of the bed. After a few days, they will became sufficiently dry to burn, which should be done for the purpose: of killing the larvte of any insect that may be above ground; then a heavy top-dressing may be applied, and remain on the surface until spring, when it may be forked in. Asparagus beds are never too rich; consequently a liberal supply of manure may always be given, and the best time to apply it is in the autumn.— Hearth and Home. Pumpkin Pudding.—Take one pint o pumpkin that has been stewed soft and pressed through a colander; melt in half a Sint of warm milk a quarter of a pound of Utter and the same quantity of sugar, stirring them well together; one pint of rich cream will be better than milk and butter-, beat eight eggs very light, and add them gradually to the other ingredients alternately with the pumpkin; then stir in a wineglass of rose-water and two glasses of wine mixed together, a large teaspooniul of powdered mace and cinnamon mixed, and a grated nutmeg. Having stirred the whole very hard, put into a buttered dish, and bake tbree-auarters of an hour.— Cor. Cermantencn Teteffrapk. bad plan to place potatoes against the damp -walls of a cellar, or to put them in large, deep bins, where they will be likely to gather moisture. If bins are used, the bottom should be made of strips with small spaces left between, to admit air. Barrels or open boxes are also good, as Well as convenient vessels, in which to keep ixitatfWK and whenever it is neeessary to look dvet and tick out decayed tuban, it!» more aaaily iv’Sd than whan a Urg* number of buibalf aXplacad 1#

„heap or ‘bin. Qeljarsjln which potatoes are kept should, not be too light, because It will, as every farmer knows, make them turn green, ami injure their flavor and value. — Hearth <and Home. How to Fit a Collar to a Horse.— In purchasing a cpllar for your horse, it is important to got one that fits him, as both the animal and yourself will thus be saved much annoyance. The Uarneu and Carriagejournal says: “The plan adopted in the West, and which, we arc assured by men who have been long in the collar business, does not Injure the collar in the leaf*, is to dip it in water until the leather is thoroughly wet, then put It on the horse, secure the names firmly, keeping it there unt‘l it becomes dry. It is all the bette.” H heavy loads arc to be drawn, as that cab sea tlip collar to be more evenly fitted to t.hc neck and shoulder. If possible, the c’ollixf should be kept .on from four to five .hours, when it will be perfectly dry and r k fain the same shape ever afterward, and if >« exactly fitted to the form of the neck, will never produce chafe* or sores on thehot se’s neck.”