Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

One might as well skin a horse*and expect it to work* for him, as to skin a farm and expect it to grow crops. —Baked Eggs.—A matron says:—Beat up six eggs, one tablespoonful of flour, six of sweet milk; melt your butter in the frying-pan; when hot, turn the whole in, well-beaten, and bake in a hot oven. —Strawberry Juice.—Put two parts of clean strawberries, without crushing them, into a large-mouthed jar; add to it two-and-a-half parts of sugar, and agitate very frequently, at the ordinary temperature without heating. The sugar gradually extracts the juice of the fruit, which is left tasteless and colorless, and forms a clear syrup, which is readily separated by means of a flannel strainer, and must be mixed with once-flfth part of alcohol. The juice has a very delicate odor, but will not bear the least heat without destroying its taste. . ' . —Strong alum water, we see it asserted, (but we do not know who is responsible for the assertion) is sure death to bugs of any description. Take two pounds of pulverized alum, and dissolve in three quarts of boiling water, allowing it to remain over the fire until thoroughly dissolved. Apply while hot with a brush, or what is better, use a syringe to force the liquor in the cracks of the wall and bedstead. Scatter also the powdered alum freely in all those places, and you will soon be rid of these insect nuisances which fill one with, disgust. —To Plow Down Grass.—The Canadian' Farmer says: “Notwithstanding the utmost pains and care in plowing, the grass, especially if long, will bristle up in beards and tufts here, there, and everywhere* in-* juring alike the appearance of the field and its capacity for .growth. Do you wish to remedy this great difficulty? If so, use the chain and ball to your plow. No matter what kind of a plow you have, try them. A piece of ordinary trace chain will do very well. Fasten one end of it to your coulter, and to the other end attach a round iron ball of from two to three pounds in weight—leaving the chain long enough to permit the ball to reach back to about the middle of the mould-board, and there let it drag along on the off side, of course.” —During a late conversation with one of our egg dealers, lie advanced the theories tlrnt eggs spoiled because the yellow or yolk came in contact with the membrane between the white and shell, and if eggs were turned occasionally they would keep for an indefinite length of time. He further stated that if a sitting hen did not turn her egg every few days, they would invariably spoil, and fail to hatch. His theory was, so long as there was a portion of the white or albumen between the yellow and shell, the egg was practically air-tight, but when the yellow came in contact with the shell it adhered to it, and allowed the access of air—Journal of the Farm. Ask for Pressing's Cider Vinegar and take no other Warranted to preserve Pickles. Cholera and Pain-Killer. Perry Davis’L Pain-Killer.—This unparalleled preparation is receiving more testimonials of its wonderful efficacy in removing pains, than any other medicine ever offered to the public. And these testimonials come from persons of every degree of intelligence, and every rank of life. Physicians of the first respectability, and perfectly conversant with the nature of diseases and remedies, recommend this as one of the most effectual in their line of preparations for the cure of Cholera, Cholera Morbus and kindred bowel troubles now so common among the people. No More Heroics.—The deadly vegetable alkaloids such as Mercury, Strychnine, and Prussic Acid cannot cure disease or produce any but the most disastrous results. Perhaps no event has occurred of late years which is so well calculated to disabuse the public mind of a belief in the efficacy of mineral poisons and bleeding of Dr. Walker, of California, of certain medicinal herbs, whose healing principles he has extracted and combined in the form of Vinegar Bitters. The cures wrought by it seem marvelous. Its action is mild and agreeable, but at the same time rapid and effectual, and being unimpeded by the presence of alcohol or fermented liquor of any description, is attended with results hitherto unachieved by any remedial agent. The cures of Bilious Complaints, Malarious Fever, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Scrofula, and all diseases arising from impurities of the blood, attest the paramount excellence of this medicine, ami justify us in recommending it. 2 Our Readers should be careful to notice that .Procter&.Gam W upmr-the barsof their Mottled German Soap,-as all good articles are imitated, and this Soap being so popular, other manufacturers have copied their stamp. E. Hannaford ACo,, subscription book pub iishers, have matured a plan of selling books that enables their agents to coin money. Sec advertisement. A want has been felt and expressed by physicians for a safe and reliable purgative. Such a want is now -supplied in /’arsons’ Purgative Pills. Something that Takes.—The three-fold combination agency for selling “ Wealth anil Wonders of the PourMss W.” There is much sure money in it. See advertisement. Henry K. Bond, of Jefferson, Maine, was cured of spitting blood, soreness and weakness of the stomach, by the use of Johnson's Anodyne Liniinent \nterniA\y. Book agents can overcome the obstacle of hard-times on the new and liberal system adopted by E. Hannaford & Co. See advertisement.