Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Seoke or poke root in recommended As a preventive of what ia called “ hornail” by a doctor, who says: Take a, piece Of tlie size of alien’s egg, grate it finely, mix with bran and a little salt and feed it. —For colifi in ft filly, Dr. Ilorne, in Western Fanner, recommends giving onequarter ounce of prepared chalk in her food every morning, for a few days, to correct the acidity of the bowels, which causes it. —A fanner of Maine thirteen years ago made twenty-five bushels out of a load of, potatoes of only twenty-four, by short measure. The fraud gained' him a few cents. For thirteen years these cents lay heavily on his conscience, and now he has returned $1.50 to his old customer, being the original sum defrauded, with interest at ten per cent., as conscience money, and he sleeps peacefully at last. —How to Choose a Good Cow—A writer in A, IF. Farmer says: Tlie crumply horn isagood indication; a full eye another. Her head should be small and short. Avoid the Roman nose; this indicates thin milk, and but little of it. See that she is dished in the face—sunk between the eyes. Notice that she is wliat stock men call a.good handler —skin soft and loose, like the skin on a dog. Deep from the loin to the udder, and a very slim tail. A jcow with these marks never fails to be a good milker. —Water Cure for Founder.—A correspondent of the New York Tribune cured a bad case of founder .as follows: In the first place, I physicked him; then I took a tight, strong box, got his feet into it, and poured boiling hot water into it, as high as the hair on his feet, and in ten or fifteen minutes lie was able to stand on his forelegs without the assistance -of--the tackle. I kept up this treatment for thirty-six hours, when lie was able to go about and help himself. In a few days I had his shoes put on, and in less than a fortnight more he was able to work as well as ever. —To Cure Dogs of Killing Sheep.—ls you have a good dog that kills or runs sheep, and you don’t want to shoot him, build a pen sixteen feet square, and run a pole across the top, and then pick the largest and oldest buck of the flock, put him in the pen, get your dog, with a collar around his neck, and rope to draw up over tlie middle of the pole, so that the dog will have his fore feel swinging oft’ the ground a few inches. Get out of the pen, and let the buck give him several good butts, and then turn him loose. This is a sure cure. I tried it on my father’s dogs when I was a boy; never knew them even to cross a field where the sheep were grazing. Try it.— Cor. Rural Sun. —Boiled Indian Pudding.—The following linow to be good: One pint Indian meal; one pint thick, sour milk; one cup sour cream; one teaspoonful soda, and salt, unless boiled in pork water, which improves it very much for some—l prefer clear water. Stir into the batter,fruit; raspberries are best—dried or fresh. If sour fruit is used, a trifle more soda is necessary. Put into a bag, and tie firmly, allowing from two to three inches for it to swell. Boil one hour; a little over will not hurt, but is not needed. The water should be boiling when the pudding Is put in, and be kept boiling. Serve with cream and sugar.—Cor. Rural New Yorker. —To Kill Our.rant Worms.—l give the following cheap and simple remedy that I have used for three years with perfect success: Take a few lumps of common quick-lime, pour on it a little water, just sufficient so that when slaked it will be a dry powder. When the worms appear, which will always be on the under part of the bush first, pepper them with this powder. It will kill them without fail, and will not injure the bushes in the least. If more worms should appear, which will very likely be the case, repeat the operation. Tins remedy has the merit of being effective, cheap, and within the reach of all. Lime for this purpose can lie prepared at any time, and can he used when wanted.—Cor. Rural New Yorker.