Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—To Broil Calf Liver.—Ciit the liver into thin sltees, wash it, and let it stand in salt and vmter for half an honr to draw out all the blood. Season with salt and pepper, and broil, basting frequently with butter. Either fried or broiled liver is more delicate if, after it is cut in slices for cooking, it is parboiled in salt and water. —Harper's Bazar. < —An excellent sauce for pudding is thus made:. One-half cup of butter, onehalf cup of sugar; beat these together with one heaping tablespoon of flour. Pour into it (a little at a time, Stirring all the while), one pint of boiling water, and let it simmer on the stove a few minutes. Add one teaspoon of lemqn extract and the juice of one lemon or a teaspoon of lemon sugar. —lt is common to have a small hole in the pump-tube a few feet below the exposed . portions to let off the water and prevent its freezing. Where this provision has not been made the same result may be reached by placing a small nail, tack or small wire just under one edge of the leather valve which detains the water, sinking it partly into the leather to hold it. This will cause a small leak and the water will not remain long enough to. freeze. It is needed only in winter. Much labor is often spent to little purpose to remove the solid ice in pumps. It may be done very easily and with astonishing rapidity by setting the end of a lead or other tube within the pump on the ice and pouring hot water down this tube by means of a funnel. The tube carries the hot water directly and constantly against the ice.— Annual Register of Rural Affairs. —Many ladies are annoyed by their white spool cottons becoming gray with the particles of dust that will accumulate in work-baskets, but do not feel like spending money to buy a thread-case. Here are directions for making a substitute : Take a small pasteboard box (a collar box is good), cut a piece of thin board to fit it tightly, bore holes in this at convenient distances for the spools to stand, and into the holes fit small wooden pegs an inch in height and of such size that the spools placed on them will revolve easily; then in the sides of the box pierce small holes for the end of the thread to pass through, and you have a spool-case without cost, which, if not as ornamental as one bought at the shops, will be equally useful. If one chooses the box may be prettily ornamented with gilt paper, flowers cut from wall paper or any of the various methods for decorating fancy boxes.—JY. Y. Evening Post. —A Western farmer who feared to use Paris green for destroying insects and who heard that the white hellebore was sure destruction to most of these enemies, says: “ I was induced to try it upon our ten-lined beetle. My first experiment was made in July, after I got thoroughly disgusted with hand-picking. I have never known them so abundant as last year. I procured a package of the article and a dredging box with very fine holes; for convenience I attached the box to the end of a broom handle. While the dew was yet upon the vines I dusted them with the powder, and had not long to await the result. Every beetle* and slug that had been upon the vines so treated was dead. Subsequent applications produced the same results. I saved tny potatoes, but my neighbor neglected his, had them entirely stripped, and, as his abutted on mine, the whole hungry crew left his naked stalks for my better vines. As soon as I discovered their tactics I drew a cordon about them ot well-sprinkled vines, which entirely stopped further ravages. Treatment with hellebore should begin with the young vines, when a very little will suffice to kill the beetles and prevent the later brood. Care should be taken in handling this drug that none of it gets into the eyes or nose; as it is an active poison.”