Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Cream for Coffee.—Beat well one egg with one spoonful of sugar; pour a pint of scalding hot milk over this, stirring it briskly. Make it the night previous. —The three reasons given by those Dot in ffivor of live posts are: It is difficult to grow a row of trees near enough in 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 the disagreeable clicking noise caused by overreaching in horses will he 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. —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 days , 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 Sound of flour of mustard mixed smoothly i 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 peck of lime and three pails of water, boiled together and mixed with muck in equal the writer has made a barrel of phosphate equal to the best in the market, sad at the cost of less than a dollar. He applies it to his grape-vines and dwarf pear-trees with magical effect. —Of all 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. A horse kept in this way may De 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, and lose their keen relish for it. The general practice should be to feed regularly three times a day. Many persons say that they have tried almost every remedy that has been recommended for humors, and they are no better now than when they commenced them, and they have no confidence in anything that is advertised to enre Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, and all similar humors. We wonld say to these that there is now a remedy that as yet has never failed of curing those diseases. It acts upon an entirely different principle from anything ever offered for them; it throws humor out of the blood through the skin, which is the only channel through which the system can be entirely freed from them. If you will try it, yon will not say of this as you have by the others, for it will cure you. We refer to Dr. Weaver’s Salt Rheum 'Syrup. —~ For sale by all Druggists.

Medical Guesswork. —The professional treatment of disease is in a great measure experimental. If one medicine fails another is tried, and sometimes this hit-or-miss practice is pursued until the resources of the faculty is exhausted. This, in the truest sense of the word, is empiricism. But when the physician has made a valuable discovery, he is called by his professionai brethren an Empiric because he advertises the result of his labor and research. When Dr. Walker, of California, introduced his celebrated Vinegar Bitters as a remedy for all blood diseases, he struck a tremendous blow at the empirical system , as applied in our hospitals, and in private practice. It was soon apparent that his medicine was not a mere palliative or alleviative that only modified the symptoms of a disorder; but that it reached the very source of the malady in the blood and the secretion?, and literally rooted it out. The process of renovation and disinfection went on together, vigor was imparted to the organs from which the virus of disease had been expelled. That such is the effect of this popular vegetable remedy, no one who has had opportunities of observing its operation in cases of liver complaint, indigestion, affections of the bowels, gout, rheumatism, and pulmonary disorders, can possibly doubt. We understand that the whooping-cough is quite prevalent in the towns around us; but that no cases have proved fatal. Some families use nothing bnt Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment. Our Doctor, however, says a little ipecac, to produce vomiting, would be an advantage. As Quick AS a Flash os Liohtnino does Cristadoko’b ExcxqsioK Hair Dyk act upon the hair, whiskers and moustaches ; no chameleon tints, but the purest Raven or the most exquisito Browns will be evolved. In One to Five Minutes, Headache, Earache, Neuralgia, Lame Back, Diarrhoea, Croups, Sprains, and all similar complaints, are relieved by f uauu'B Instant Relief, or money refunded. , There is no excuse for poor Biscuits, Rolls, Bread, Griddle Cakes, Muffins, Waffles, etc., when Dooley’s Yeast Powder is used. Grocers sell it.