Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1876 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—When the hoofs of horses are brittle, a writer in the Now Yoj-k Tribune recommends rubbing the soles and the shells of the foot with a mixture of two parts tar, two parts beef suet, whale oil four parts, beeswax and honey each one part. . Melt over a slow fire and mix well. —To make crullers, take one cup of buttermilk or sour milk, three tablespoons of melted butter, one egg, one teaspoon of saleratus; flavor with nutmeg; a little salt; mix as soft as possible; and cut any desired shape. Have your fat hot. If a piece of raw potato be peeled and thrown in the fat it will keep the crullers from burning. —For Richmond batter cakes, take two cupfuls of sifted flour and one of corn meal, three eggs .beaten separately, made into a batter with buttermilk or sour milk, in which a teaspoonful •of soda has been thoroughly dissolved. Pour upon a greased griddle from & spoon, and allow the cakes to have the thickness of good buckwheat cakes. —The Drovers' Journal says: “ Get rid of old—that is, unprofitable—stock which it will not pay to winter. Carry this right through, frbm horned stock down to hens. It is unprofitable to depend on old horses, and thrifty farmers usually get rid of them before they are quite past labor. Biit'there is often a deep and laudable attachment between the farmer and his old four-legged servants, and we do not wish our recommendation to be taken as applying to them. Old milch-cows should be fatted as soon as they are past their milking prime. Old ewes give weak lambs and light fleeces; quality them for mutton as soon as possible.” —The drive-wells which are extensively used in the South and West are made as follows: A piece of inch and a quarter gas-pipe is perforated with seVeral hundred holes near the end, which is covered with a fine brass-wire screen, and this in turn is protected by a covering of sheet zinc or iron, also perforated. The extremity of the pipe is sharpened, or a steel point may be fixed. It is then driven into the ground, adding pieces at the top as it sinks in. As soon as the proper depth is reached a pump is attached, aud the result is an inexhaustible well, often giving an abundant supply, of water in half an hour after the emwof the pipe first entered the soil. —Scientific American.