Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1875 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—Bee-keeping is characterized by an intelligent correspondent of the Maine Jbraser as “ a science,” and he adds, very truthfully, that a person who would succeed in the business must have not only a fancy for it, to begin with, but experience. —’Tis pretty safe to say that none of our Maders will ever live to see frost-proof corn, for it has been pretty well shown bythose who ha-ve studied what are known as the laws of evolution that in all the changes ot form which plants or animals may base undergone in the course of ages the power of resisting cold is almost or entirely unchanged.— Philadelphia Prue. —Farmers are charged with being chronic grumblers. Harris, who is good authority, says: “We know that trials lead to patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and if it was not for hope arhat should we amount to* Now trials are the common lot of farmers. And it does not matter where we farm, East or West, North or South.”— lowa State Regidber. *— —Many a good wife and her poorly-clad children wonder why at the end of the year they do not receive the little comforts promised them. The editor of the Progressire Farmer says it is a little delay in •ecurintr the crops, a little carelessness in the manner of storing, a little wastefulness in the system of feeding and a 'little indifference to the state of the market. —Dandy Pndding.—One cup of milk, one tablespoonful of corn-starch, the yelks of four eggs, vanilla to taste. Boil it in a dish of hot water; when thickened put it in a white pudding-dish;' with the whites beaten to a stiff froth on the top and browned in the oven; to be eaten cold. Many people think it difficult to beat eggs to a nice troth. Take a large dining plate and with a silver knife whisk them quickly. If the eggs are good you can hardly tail. —To Preserve Apples.—Weigh equal quantities of good brown sugar and apples; peel, core and mince the fruit. Boil the sugar, allowing a pint of water to every three pounds of it. Skim it well and boil to quite a thick sirup; then add the apples, the grated peel of one or two lemons, and boil till the apples fall and look clear and yellow. If a very nice preserve is wanted, use white sugar, then the apples will be beautifully white and clear. —L. T. Scott writes in the Country Gentleman: Nearly every winter when I have my horses upin stable, I think, that I will ■call the attention of your readers to the practice of feeding potatoesto their horses. —-Lance came near losing a very valuable horse 4yom feeding him dry hay and oats with nothing loosening. I have never believed in dosing a 4 horse with medicine, but something is actually’ necessary to keep a horse in the right condition. Many use powders, but potatoes arc better, and safer, and cheaper, if led judiciously.