Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—When linen has become discolored, rinse it in a very blue water after washing, and let it remain in the open air all night. Repeat this treatment and exposure for several days, until it has become white. —Corns and Bunions.—Burn with caustic, after bathing; repeat if necessary. Another remedy: apply the pulp of lemon until the hard pulp can be removed. Cotton greased with linseed oil or turpentine is very good, as it softens the corn. , —The teeth, it should be impressed upon children, should be cleansed as well and nearly as often as the face—at least after each meal. The habit of taking care of the teeth should be early formed by the child, until it becomes as essential to its own comfort as cleansing any other part of the body. —Boiled Corn Bread,—Take two cups of corn meal, one of wheat flour, half a cup of brown sugar, one pint of sour milk, One and a half teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon pf salt. Mix well. 1 Put in a well buttered tin pail, cover tight and set in a ' .kettlb- of boiling water. Cover and• boil two hours. —Apple Meringue.—Pare, core and 1 stew ten tart apples in a very little water; season as for a pie and put in’* a fruit piedish into a not very hot oven. Beat up meanwhile the whites of four eggs as you would for icing, piling on the apples like rocks, avoiding the edge of the dish; re turn it to oven and nicely brown. Slip all out carefully by aid of knife or spoon into a China dish and serve with cream; but if you have not cream, make a custard of the yolks of the eggs, flavored with vanilla, etc.

—Paris Green for Vines.—lt is not generally known that Paris green mixed in the proportion of one part by measure to twenty-five parts of flour, will kill the striped bug from off cucumbers, squashes, muskmelons and other vines, except watermelons, the leaves of which latter are sometimes spotted if the mixture be used strongly! IT may be llustcd on from a slazy bag or dredging box. Usually too much of the powder is cast on; the slightest possible quantity "evenly distributed is sufficient, and ft should be applied in the morning while the dew lies on the plants.

—Permanent FlOWer Bedsr—To save t ime and labor est-reshaping flower beds every spring, when made in the sod, lay out the form you wish them, take off the surface to the depth of eighteen inches, cut The side straight down, set large, long shaped stones edgewise around, even and upright, supporting each other firmly, preserving the same height above the surface. The stones should stand six inches above; this will prevent the grass growing into the bed. Replace the sod to the height of one foot; fill up with soil and compost, raising the centre eighteen inches higher than the edge. Dressed up, and rich soil added every spring, you have a bed that will last over twenty years. The stone sides keep the roots moist, and enable them to stand the heat and drouth of summer., —Choosing Hatching Eggs.—Eggs for hatching should be chosen of the -Mraverage size usually laid by the hen they are from; any unusually large or small being rejected. Some hens lay largeeggs, and others small ones. A fat hen will always lay small eggs, which can only produce small and weakly chickens. Absolute size in eggs is, therefore, of but little impor tmice. .feXßad, short eggs are tiMally the best to select; very long eggs, especially if much pointed at the small end, almost always breed birdswith some awkwardness in style of carriage. Neither should rougli-shelled eggs be chosen; the}’ usually show some derangement of the organs, and are often sterile. Smoothshelled eggs alone are proper for hatching. It is a farce to suppose that the sex of a bird can be determined by the shape of the egg. Some time ago Dr. Mary E. Walker made application for a pension on account of disability incurred while performing duly as a contract surgeon wiffi the Union forces in the Southwest during the rebell ion. The disability of which she complained was weakness'of the eyes. The ease was investigated by the Commissioner of Pensions, who came to the conclusion that the disability was not contracted while she was a contract surgeon in the army, and therefore rejected her application. Consumption. —For the cure of this distressing disease there has been no medicine yet discovered that can show more evidence-of real merit than Allen’s Lung Balsam. This unequaled' expectorant for curing consumption, and all diseases leading to it, such as affec.tions of the throat, lungs, find all diseases of the pulmonary organs, is introduced to the suffering public after its merits for the cure of such diseases have been fully tested by the medical faculty. The Balsam is, consequently,- recommended by physicians who have become acquainted with its great success.