Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—The best ink for postal cards U made of a solution of ten grains hyposulphite of soda in sixteen teaspoonfuls of water. This is colorless, but on being exposed to heat turns black. —Bone meal is highly recommended by those who have used it as a substance to be kept accessible to fowls. It is recommended to keep it in a trough where they can gain access to it without being able to scratch it out. —Never paper a wall over old paper and paste. Always scrape down thoroughly. Old paper can be got off by dampening with saleratus and water. Then go over all the cracks of the wall with plaster of Paris and finally put on a wash of a weak solution of carbolic acid. n»e best paste is made of rye flour with two ounces of glue dissolved in each Suart of paste; half an ounce of powered borax improves the mixture. V —Carrots for Eggs.—lt is not generally known that boiled carrots, when properly prepared, form an lexcellent substitute for eggs in puddings. They must, for this purpose, be boiled and mashed, and passed through a coarse cloth or hair-sieve strainer. The pulp is then introduced among the other ingredients of the pudding, to the total omission of eggs. A pudding made up in this way is much lighter than when eggs are used, and is much more palatable. On the principle of economy, this fact is worthy of the prudent housewife’s attention. — -Exchange. —Lemon Puffs.—One quart of milk, the yolk 6 of six eggs, two cups of white sugar, two tablespoonfuls of flour, three lemons. Beal the eggs, sugar and flour together wells beat the eggs first, then add the lemon juice; have your dish lined with paste; do not add the milk pntil you are ready to put it into the oven. Beat up the whites, add fine white sugar, a large teacupful, and beat very light; flavor to taste. When the custard is done spread the icing over it, set it hack in the oven amd let it brown nicely. Eat as soon as cold. —Rabbit Cutlets—Prepare the rabbits as you would for a stew; cut the different limbs into the size of cutlets —such as the shoulders cut in half, also the legs, with the ends of the bones chopped off, and pieces of the hack, even to the half of the head. Have ready some bread crumbs and the yolk of an egg beaten up. Drop each'cutlet into the egg and then cover it up with breadcrumbs, as for veal cutlets. Fry them a nice brown, and when you dish them pour round them some rich, brown gravy, which may be flavored with tomato sauce, if approved, and put round them rolls of fried bacon. —Experiments in Sweden have shown that the well-known effect of thunderstorms in* souring milk may, in a great degree, be avoided or counteracted by artificial heat in the dairy. The plan is to start a fire in the room where milk is kept whenever a tnunder-storm is seen Approaching. This is done even in hot weather, the purpose being to drive out the excess of moisture. The explanation given is that during the approach of such storm the atmosphere becomes loaded with moisture, and the damp, moist, heavy air resting upon the milk produces acidity and spoils it. Dry air, then, is important in the dairy, and whenever there are atmospheric changes which bring excessive moisture in the air of a dairy a fire should be at once started to counteract the bad influence it would have upon milk.