Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—Tin can be removed frota copper vessel* very thoroughly by immersing the objects in a solution of blue vitriol. —To tell good eggs put them in water —if thb large ends turn up they are not fresh. This is an infallible rule to distinguish a good egg from a bad one. —A wood-pile delivered at the back door weekly, in the log, thus requiring the early and later energies of each day in preparing it for the kitchen stove, is a waste that occasions many harrowing thoughts. —A writer in the Sanitarian says: “It is a remarkable fact that bran seems to breed vermin. With the greatest care, in cleanly wards and on iron bedsteads, I have seen a bran rfox accumulate in a few days bedbugs by the gill." —Take a tomato, not over ripe, and cut it into slices, as you would a cucumber; take a small onion, and cut it up as fine as you can, sprinkle it over the tomato slices, and salt, pepper and vinegar at discretion, and you will have a salad which, as a relish, puts the cucumber to shame, —The German washerwomen' use a mixture of two ounces turpentine and one ounce spirits of ammonia well mixed together. This is put into a bucket of warm water, in which one half pound soap has been dissolved. The clothes are immersed for twenty-four hours and then washed. The cleansing is said to be greatly quickened, and two or three rinsings iii cold water remove the turpentine Knell. —To cook asparagus, cut in very small pieces and boil twenty minutes in water pretty well salted; then skim it out, throw away the water, put back, and pour over it some cream. Take a tablespoonful of flour and the same of but»er, mix them well together, and stir into the cream. Let it boil up, and it is done. Try this, and you will say it is the very best way to serve asparagus you ever read or heard of. . —For spiced tomato pickles, to one gallon of sliced tomatoes that are just turning and have been scalded in salt and waterVufiieieat to make them a little tender, mix a tablespoonful ot ground pepper, one of mace, one of cloves, one of ground mustard, one of cinnamon, four of white mustard seed, two of celery seed or celery salt, one pod of green peppers, four onions chopped fine, halfpint grated horseradish. Mix all together, and put a layer of each alternate-, add one pound of sugar and cover with vinegar. „ , —Occasionally a farmer may make a good strike and make money by taking hold of a new thing and pushing it for a year or two. then dropping it. lint there is more often failures than success in this method. The man who makes the most steady gains is he who takes up a plan, and sticks to it through thick and -thin. When everybody goes into one product and creates a greater supply than there is a demand for it and the majority leave it for something else, he etieks to it, . sad, in the long run, maizes money. The most brilliant success often comes from learning to grow a given crop at less expense than anyone else can. lienee the good policy of growing that which one knows most about. — Detroit Tribum.