Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1877 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Johnny Cake.— Two cups Indian meal; one-naif cup flour; two cups sour milk; one egg; one teaspoonful melted butter; two teaspoonfuls salerntus; a little salt; and two teaspoonfuls sugar. —The Druggists' Circular gives the following formula for a shaving soap: Take white soap, four ounces; spermaceti, one-half ounce; olive oil, one-half ounce; melt them together and stir until nearly cold; soent with such oils as may be most agreeable. —A correspondent ot the New York Press says that if any man will draw breath quickly and deeply for the space of three minutes or less, he will thereby lose acute sensibility to pain, so that he can endure a minor surgical operation without inconvenience. , —ln these days of bank failures it is safest for the farmer to make his deposits in banks of rich soil and more manure; buy improved stock instead of bank stock, ana the only shares he should indulge in should be to share with his wife and family the comforts of a good home.— lowa State Register. —lnto the whitewash pail, while the lime-water is still hot, drop a teacupful Of soft boiled rice, and mix thoroughly. Then pour into a quart pot of cold water, say ten or twelve drops of crude carbolic acid. Mix this into the rest, and swab the interior of your hen house with it. For outside, use rock salt dissolved instead of boiled rice, and dispense with carbolic acid. No other preparations of whitewash everequalled this for poultry buildings.—Farmer’s Advocate.

—A gentlem An writing to the Planter and Farmer gives the following remedy for a choking cow. It will probably act just as well with other animals, and it will be well to remember it. He says it has never failed in any instance, and has been tried by him and others hundreds of times. The remedy is to take a spoonful of saltpeter, open the animal’s mouth, throw it well back upon the tongue; let the animal go, and the obstruction will cither go up oy down in a very few minutes. —Take, say ten gallons, new cider, and suffer it to ferment fully, which will probably be in about two weeks if the weather be warm; then add about eight gallons of new cider for producing a second fermentation, and in about two weeks add a like quantity to produce a third fermentation. Stop the bunghole of the barrel with an empty bottle with the neck downward and expose to the sun. When the vinegar is come set in a cool place. When making let there be a moderate degree of heat and free access of external air. The process is hastened by adding to the cider a quantity of mother of vinegar, as it is called, a whitish, ropy coagulum, of mucilaginous appearance, which is formed in vinegar and acts as a ferment. The strength of vinegar depends on the amount of sugar or starchy matter to be ultimately converted into acetic acid. Cider made from late apples is esteemed the best for vinegar.— Scientific American.