Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1875 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—Bell peppers make very fine mangoes, stuffed just as you would musk-melons, omitting pepper and substituting celery seed. y —To seal preserves, beat the white of an egg, take good white paper (tissue is the best), cut it the size you require, and dip it in the egg, wetting both sides. Cover your jars or tumblers, carefully pressing down the edges of the paper. When dry it-will be as tight as a drum-bead. —Tomatoes and Rice. —Scald a tea-cup of good rice; scald and peel five to six nice, ripe tomatoes; put both together in a stew-pan, add a tablespoonful of sugar, salt and pepper to taste, and-water enough to bring the rice when done to the consistency of plain-boiled rice. Before taking up add a tablespoonful of butter. —Through the country everywhere we find as the corn is cut up such vast quantities of weeds. Now if one were to select a farm it would be satisfactory to have it capable of growing thrifty weeds, but it is too bad to have the capabilities of a field divided between twg crops, one of which is worthless to the proprietor. Weeds are not legitimate channels for the passage of elements of plant growth, and they are a shame to a farmer, and it only looks worse when we see them in a corn-field after the crop is cut.— Detroit Free Press. —A writer in the Florida Agriculturist says that kerosene will relieve the irritation occasioned Jby poison from ivy in forty minutes and eradicate the poison entirely in as many hours. With the point of -the finger or a soft brush rub a small portion of the oil over the places where the eruption appears, repeatingiftie application three or four times a day. Relief from the itching will be almost immediate and .the cure certain and speedy. Other cutaneous diseases, he adds, such as ring-worm, itch and the lighter type of tetter, can be cured by the same treatment, and the minutest drop of kerosene will kill bedbugs quicker than lightning. —To make tomato figs, pour boilingwater over the tomatoes to remove the skins; weigh and place them in a stone jar, with as much sugar as you have tomatoes, and let them s‘and two days; pour off the sirup and boil and skim it until no scum rises. Then pour it over the tomatoes, and let them stand two days, as before ; boil and skim again. After a third time they are fit to dry, if the weather is good; if not, let them stand in the sirup until drying weather. Then place on large earthen plates or dishes, and put them in the sun to dry, which will take about a week, after which pack them down in small wooden boxes, with fine white sugar between each layer. Tomatoes prepared in this manner will keep for years.— American Farm Journal.