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

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Soft Gingerbread.—One and a half eup-of moksHes;-two thirds ofa cup of sour milk; half a cup, of butter; one teaspoonful of soda) one teaspoonful of gingeh —To Kill Lice bn Cattle, dust the animal thoroughly with plaster or gypsum; or with dry water lime. But if this is done, do not let the animal get wet until the lime is cut of the hair. ■--To effectually cure setting hens put two or three chickens in the nest with them over night, coop them together the nmri day, then taking the chickens away from her, she will cluck around a day or two, and then begin to lay feggs again. —Sweet Sauce (for all kinds of pud•dings).—naif ctip of butter; ope citp of sugar; one,cup of milk. Stir the huttef and sugar to a cream; boil the milk, and while boiling stir in one teaspoonful of corn-starch previously mixed in a little cold milk; pour the milk, while boiling over tjhe butter and sugar. —A correspondent oi the Cincinnati Gazette eays that for forty years he has used a tea made of peach leaves, as a cure for hog cholera, and never knew it to fail to make a cure. He puts it in the food. In the winter, peach tree twigs can be used to make the tea with, in the absence of neaeh leaves. —The regulation of the admission of light into stables by the proper location of the windows has been found to be of the highest A side window, according to numerous observations, is apt to produce weakness id the eye on thatside; a window immediately in front of the manger throws a glare of light into both eyes, in the highest degree injurious; while one higher up, in front, tends to render a horse over-sighted, andtonsequentiy liable to shy at low objects. —Corn-Meal Bread. —Pour over a pint of nice corn meal one pint of hot hew milk; beat this well and add a little salt; then stir in a large spoonful of nice, sweet lard; beat two eggs very light-and stir in also; this must be well beaten, and of the consistency of thin batter; add more milk if it should be too thick, then mix in a large spoonful of yeast; buttefthe pans and set it to rise in them;-when, risen, have the oven of a moderate heat, and ptrt therrrhxit; bake twcrhtrars-snd- « - half to a light brown. Serve hot. —A certain amount of salt, in addition to that obtained from grass, either green or dry, is required by the cow. This shotild be placed f/here the tow will have free access to it every day, and shoitld not-be mixed with her food. Some cows in my herd will eat salt every day, while others, receiving the same kind of food, and drinkiug of the same water, will not eat salt oftener Ilian once in each week during the winter, nor oftener than once in four or five Jays during the summer. Hence salt mixed with the cow’s food, will furnish to some more salt than they require, and to others less than they need.