Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1874 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—To Dye Green.—Boil the article first ! in alum-water for an hour, then for three | hours in a preparation composed of four j ounces of verdigris, two quarts of white | wine vinegar, and four-quarts of water. —Saratoga Potatoes.—Slice raw pota,toes and throw into cold water. Have ready lard, bqjling hot; season the potatoes (after draining) with salt and pepper; fry a light brown. —A very good paste is made by taking | three ounces soft water, one ounce gum arabic, and one-fourth ounce glycerine. Dissolve by heat, and bottle for use. The glycerine prevents it from spoiling. —The Country Gentleman recommends linseed oil meal for horses that are never allowed to run out to grass, being slightly aperient. A handful in each feed, morning and evening, is about the quantity usually fed. —Hair Oil.—One pint of alcohol; two ounces castor oil; a few drops of perfumery. Shake well to cut the oil. This is said to be a splendid and nicely perfumed hair oil; it softens the hair, promotes ite growth, and prevents it from falling out. —French Mustard.—A fine French mustard, called moutard superbe , is thus made: Salt, one and one-hails pounds; scraped horseradish, one pound; garlic, two cloves; boiling vinegar, two gallons; macerate in a covered vessel for twentyfour hours, strain, and add enough of mustard to make a rather thin paste. —The Australian butchers have invented an improved method of slaughtering bullocks. At Sydney the animals are driven, five at a time, into the slaughterhouse, where there is no person to be seen. "While they are quietly staring around the strange, quiet apartment, a man silently passes above them, walking along the open beams which closely cross the house, lie is armed with a lance with a point like a mortising chisel. One by one the beasts are pierced with the weapon just behind the horns. They drop instantly, and, as soon as all are down, the other men, waiting in the next apartment, enter and bleed and dressthe carcasses.