Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1875 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

, —Mush Waffles—One quart of flour, one pint of corn-meal mush, two eggs, a tablespoonful of butter and a little salt. Make a thin batter with sweet milk. Separate the eggs as for rice waffles; it makes them lighter. —The Gardener's Record says the prettiest basket seen for a long time was composed of five Roman hyacinths set in a circle in a small basket standing on a round table in the library with the best small plant of Platycerium alcicorne in the center, overhanging the hyacinths. The effect was really-very beautiful. —There is great danger in turning Stock on a grass-field on which plaster lias been recently sown, or until the plaster has been taken up either by rain or heavy dews. At Roanoke, Va., some stock turned upon a field on the same day on which it was plastered all died in a few hours. There were no indications of ” hoven,” the stock being in good condition, and the sudden death was believed to be solely the effect of the sulphate of lime. 9 —Some farmers make it a practice to keep their poultry in their orchards from early spring until cold weather sets in, and they find that it pays them for so doing. A picket fence should be built around the orchard, high enough to prevent their flying over, with a suitable house or shed in one corner of the yard to shelter them at night. Thus situated the poultry will thrive and prosper, keeping themselves in good condition, and the increase in eggs will be greatly augmented and their usefulness and value enhanced. —Mr. Bryan Tyson, Washington, D. C., sends the World the following upon fire-fanged manure: “This is stable or barn-yard manure that has heated in bulk until it lias turned to a white, moldy color, being very light. In that condition it is scarcely worth carting to the field, the ammonia, which constitutes the principal strength, having been driven off into the air by the heat. I once tested this matter by manuring a row of sweet potatoes with fire-fauged manure, putting about a quart to a hill, and a row beside it with same quantity of manure that had never heated. The uhheated doubled the yield. The firefanged made no perceptible increase.” —ln some sections—and it would be a decided advance in thoughtfulness and kindness in all sections—farmers give each of their boys, and girls, too, a strip of land to raise whatever they choose upon it, and dispose of the product for their own benefit. It is a favor that they all appreciate, and it is a pleasant and serviceable employment for them in their leisure hours. They will vie with each other in their skill at raising their little crops, and the proceeds applied to their own use are frequently of some value; and the whole arrangement, while it instructs them in the cultivation of the soil, early implants in the children th« idea of thrift and economy. Sometimes, where a good many animals are raised, a pig, a lamb, a calf, up to even a colt, according to the age of the children, is given to each to rear and to keep or sell. Farmers, think of this; it w r ill more than repay you in the happiness and confidence it will impart to your sons and daughters.—Germantown Telegraph.