Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

( —Cream for Coffee.—Beat well one egg with om spoonful of sugar i pour a pint of scalding hot milk over this, stirring it briskly. Make it the night previous. —The three reasons given by those not _ln favor of live posta are: It iß,difflcult to grow a row of trees hear enougE Tn line; the wind swaying the trees will break the nails; and lastly, the growth of the trees would surely push off the boards that old Boreas spared. . —lt is said that tlfe disagreeable clicking noise caused -by overreaching in horses will be prevented if the blacksmith in shoeing cuts, off the toe or crust of the shell of the hoofs on the fore feet instead ■of on the hind feet, as is the frequent practice. —There are diseases to which cows are subject which do not lessen th,e flow of milk for some time; yet this secretion is seriously affected in quality, and is dangerous to use, and cases are on record where the milk of a sick cow is absolutely. poisonous and has caused death to many children! —The economy of rapid and comfortable transit for beef cattle was recently shown at a meeting held in Manchester, Eng, The loss attending the driving of fatted stock on foot to market was eighty pounds per head per 100 miles; now a fat bullock is taken 530 miles by rail to London with a loss of forty pounds only. ..--For mixed pickles, prepare any vegetables you like by cutting them in pieces and let them lie in salt and water for two or three then make the pickle in the following manner: Boil the quantity of vinegar required with peppercorns, mustard seed, a small quantity of mace, a few cayenne pods and ginger, and half a pound of flour of mustard mixed smoothly in a basin, to be put in while boiling; put all together in a large stone jar. —A.suggestion which may be of use to everybody who keeps house and owns a garden, a grape-vine, or a pear-tree, is made herein: Out of two bushels of bones saved from time to time during the year, a bushel and a half of ashes, a peek of lime and three pails of water, boiled together and mixed with muck in equal quantity, the writer has made a barrel of phosphate equal to the best in the market, and at the cost of less than a dollar. He it to his grape-vines and dwarf pear-trees with magical effect. ... —Of ali our domestic animals there are none that require more systematic care .than the horse, A horse should be fed regularly, and in moderate quantities and worked judiciously. Ahorse kept in this way may be kept at a moderate cost, will be more healthy and perform more labor than if fed highly, or as many we know of are in the habit of feeding their horses. They will surely eat enough to injure them if they can get it. When hay is kept constantly before them, horses are apt to spend their time in throwing it around topsy-turvy in the rack; they soon become dissatisfied with their food, end lose their keen relish for it. The general practice should be to feed regularly three times a day.