Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDER. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDER.

—To remove old putty from windowframes, pass A rea-hot poker slowly, qver it and it will oome off easily. —As mdoh nitrate of soda as can be taken up between the forefinger and thumb In the glass every time the water is changed, will preserve cut flowers in all their beauty for above a fortnight. — N. Y. nines —Taney farming may be indulged In, as a recreation, ny men with other means of support. „ Such men may pride themselves in. it, and claim to be model agriculturists. They are not true farmer?.—Frame Fanner. *■ —Damp Floors.—lt should be a fixed rule that floor?, particularly those of sleeping-rooms, are to be scrubbed only on dry days, and where the health of the iqmates is delicate the drying should be quickened by lighting a fire in the room. —There is a profit in breeding nice carriage and draft horses. As a general rulo it, costs no more to raise a gxxl colt than a poor one, while the rmerwill bring two or three times as much as the latter. A dark stable is a very poor place to keep a colt.— DesMoines Register. —The very best thing to be done when anyone has received a burn or scald, is to lay on the part that is injured a thick coating of cotton, wool or wadding, so as to completely exclude the air. If the above wool happens not to be at hand, scraped potato or turnip will ease the pain. —ln buying stock steers, pay liberal prices for suon ones as have their digestive organs in an active state, and are capable of assimilating large amounts of food. Such animals, having been constantly growing since calfhood, will continue this growth and rapidly increase in weight.— lowa State Register. —Fish Cakes—Pare and boil two quarts of potatoes; put one pound salt codfish in about one quart of cold water; let it come to a boil; then pick up fine and put in cold water again and bring to a boil; pour off the water, and then mix potatoes and fish well together; make into balls or cakes, and fry brown with clear salt pork. —Few farmers buy too rnanv tools, but many farmers buy unintefligently and wastefully. The best tool is always more profitable to buy than an inferior one, and yet, no matter how good the is unsatisfactory unless you advantageous use. The machinery comes from use, not storage. — Prairie Farmer. —Cement for Sealing Bottles, Etc.— Mix three parts of resin, one of caustic soda and five of water; this composition is then mixed with half its weight of plaster-of-Paris. The compound sets in three-quarters of an hour, adheres strongly, is not permeable like plaster used alone, and is attacked only slightly by warm water.— Scientific American. —J jDmelet.—Beat six eggs separately; mix with the velks one and a naif cups sweet milk, a little salt and one tablespoonful of flour well mixed with a little milk; lastly, add the whites beaten to a stiff froth, then pour all into a heated buttered or larded pan and let it boil, stirring constantly until it thickens, then pour into an omelet or baking dish, and bake in quick oven.