Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1875 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—An obdurate screw may sometimes be drawn by applying a piece of red hot iron to the head for a minute or two, and immediately using the screw-driver. —To make baking powder, take onehalf pound baking soda, one-half pound flour, one pound cream-tartar, two ounces tartaric acid, and mix well. Use two teaapoonflila to each quart of flour; add milk when you hare it, but if not wet with. cold water and bake immediately. —To make Delmonico pudding, take one quart of scalding milk, eight tablespoonfuls of corn starch wet in cold milk; stir into the milk with the yelks of three eggs beaten well, a little salt and four tablespoonfuls of sugar. Take off the Are, flavor to taste, froth the eggs and put in the oven and brown. —ln shooting ducks, prairie chickens, etc., if you do not wish to draw them, hang them up by the legs, not by the neck; they will keep twice as long in warm weather. Also, when you catch a large fish, kill him at once by striking him on the back of the head with a hammer or piece of iron; he will keep as long as if left to die gradually.— Chicago —Bean pickles are delicate and very tempting yet, easily made. Procure young beans from the late crops, wash and boil in slightly salted water till tender; drain them through a colander or sieve, then dry with a cloth. • Pour boiling vinegar, spiced to taste, over them; repeat this two or three days, or till they look green. —To make lemon rice pudding boil one-half pint of rice in two and one-half pints of ihilk until soft; add to it while soft the yelks of three well-beaten eggs, the grated rind of two lemons, three tablespoonfuls of sugar and a pinch of salt. If too thick add a little cold milk; it should be a little thicker than boiled custard ; turn into a pudding-dish, beat the whites of the eggs very stiff, together with eight tablespoonfuls of sugar and the juice of the lemons. Brown and cat very cold. —Plants taken from the garden in autumn to winter in the house should be carefully potted early in September, hardened on in the shade out of doors, and removed to the parlor when the nights become frosty; in warm, sunny days they should have plenty of fresh air. ’Treated thus we may have autumn and early winter bloom, whereas if we delay tlie autumn transplanting until the plants are checked by frost thev seldom give bloom till February.— Horticultural Journal. —Never cut flowers during intense sunshine, or keep them exposed to the sun or wind. Do not collect them in large bundles, or tie them together, as this hastens their decay. Do not pull them, but cut them cleanly oft' the plant with a sharp knife—not with scissors. When taken in .doors place them in the shade and reduce them to the required length of stalk w ith the knife, by which the tubes through which they draw up water are permitted to act freely; whereas if the stems are bruised or lacerated the jpores are closed up. Ise pure water to set them, or pure white sand in a state of saturation, sticking the ends of the stalks into it, but not in a crowded manner.— N. Y. Herald.