Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—A faithful following of a well-selected plan of general fanning will always be followed by larger profits, at the close of a long series of years, than with the following of that system which attempts to change from one specialty to another, as the prices of different products vary. —Eggs in tlie Italian Method. —Moisten butter and flour in the stewpan, stirring constantly ; when of the thickness of rich batter, thin with a little boiling milk, and season with pepper and salt; add a little chopped--green parsley. Have ready, eight eggs boiled half an hour, slice, poutover the sauce, and serve hot. —Wherever good land is in a fair state of fertility and has been manured occasionally, clover sod plowed in the fall and exposed to the cold of winter, or plowed immediately after a crop of hay is taken off, or still better, if the crop of grass isplowed under about the time it is in bloom and left to lie until seeding time, will always yield the hest crops of wheat. —By means of the drill wheat is sown regularly and all at the same depth. If the seed is good there need he no allowance made for wastage as in sowing by hand. One bushel and a peck per acre is plenty, and, if the grains be small, one bushel. It is planted regularly and at a proper depth, and it all has an equal chance to grow and to fasten its roots firmly in the soil. -By-drilling, fertilizers..can. also be sown at the same lime. —“ Liver Rot.”—An English fanner, who has kept sheep for forty years, says lie lias found rock salt a valuable antidote for liver rot, and that these animals cannot be too liberally supplied with this saving substance. Re further declares that in cases of congestion of the liver, or rot, he has found two tablespoonfuls of turpentine, shaken up in half a pint of water and given to the sufferer, a frequent cure, unless the disease has made very great progress. —Features of a Good Ox.—A good ox should have a long, lean face, and bright, hkzcl eyes, which show capability to receive instruction and disposition to obey it. Large nostrils denote tlie capability of the ox to work on a hot day. Very large horns at the base denote lazmeisT Full breast, Straight back, wide ribs—by which is meant the ribs that round out nearly as wide as the rib bones—and wide gainbril, are evidence of strength. Straight knees, broad toes, pointed straight forward, show an ox can travel on hard road or pavement. —Feed for Colts.—A correspondent of tlie Maine Farmer, who is a successful breeder of horses for driving, Ac., gives that paper his method of feeding colts. He feeds all colts as many oats as they will eat up clean, feeding three times a daylie gives weanlings four pounds of oats per day, with eight pounds of hay; to yearlings five pounds oats; two-year olds, six pounds; three-year olds, eight pounds, with ten pounds ofliay for'each of the last ages. The colts are all handled from their birth. Even in the winter the young colts have a half-hour’s gallop "daily, while the ojd ones are daily driven. A warm bran mash is given once a week, and also three or four pounds of potatoes, occasionally sheaf oats instead of hay, and in cold weather an occasional feed of corn. —ljousekeeping Hints.—Never put a particle of soap about your silver, if you would have it retain its original luster. When it wants polish, take a piece of soft leather and whiting and rub hard. The proprietor of one of the oldest silver establishments in the city of Philadelphia says that housekeepers ruin their silver by washing it in soap suds, as it makes it loolrlike pewter. Stove luster when mixed with turpentine and applied in the usual manner, is blacker, more glossy, and more durable than when mixed with any other liquid. Tlie turpentine prevents rust, and when put on art old rusty To extract ink from cotton, silk and woolen goods, saturate tlie spots with turpentine, and let it remain several hours; then rub it between tlie bands. Tlie spots will disappear without injuring either tlie color of the texture of the article.