Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Good Unleavened Bread.-Take hall
the flour you intend using and pour on
boiling milk (be sure IL bOils), and nave IL
about the consistency OF batter that yo'
would have for making pancakes let tiit
stand till cool enough 10 work, then
knead In the rest Of your hour just sum
GENTLY stiff 10 mold on board. One
hour In middling hot oven Is sufficient
for baking.
breakfast Puffs.-Take two eggs well
beaten. and stir into pint OF milk little
salt, a piece Of butter and pint ana
half Of flour. Beat the eggs and stir the
milk. Add the salt, melt the butter, anu
stir In. Then pour all into the Hour, 80
NJ not 10 have 10 luHpy. Stir up thor
oughly. and grease the cups Into which
the batter II poured, filling them two
thirds full. Eat with sauce.
The artisan says: "We hazard the
assertion that no class OF equal average
means live 40 well IA American farmers.
| One Of these possessing farm and build
iDgs worth, say, $4,000, will gather about
him and enjoy more real comfort than
could be obtained fiom the income OF
100000 In New York. He may live In
a more commodous dwelling than me-
tropolitan citizen having $4,000 annual
income. He may have his carriage and
horses. His table may be supplied with
everything fresh in its season.. His labor
Is less wearing than the toll of counting
rooms and offices, and ne has more leisure.
The best package for transporting
eggs is box or keg. The eggs should be
wrapped in clean papers, separately, and
be well embedded in fine cut hay or after
grass, being careful that the hay Is clo.e-
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lance from the sides of the package and
each other. One or two thicknesses of
newspaper should be placed between each
. layer of hay and eggs to prevent the lat
ter from working together in case the
. hay should not be well-packed. There Is
no patent or secret connected with this
plan. and usually three-fourths of the
eggs will hatch, if fresh.-Er.
Among the other floral fancies loved
! by ladies is the subject of crystalizing
flowers. The following is one of the
simplest ways to accomplish this object :
, Construct some baskets of fancy form
, with pliable copper wire and wrap them
with gauze. Into these tie to the bottom
, yiolets. ferns, geranium leaves-in fact,
any flowers except full-blown roses-and
( sink them in a ISOLATION of alum, of one
pound to gallon of water, after the solu-
, ton has cooled. The colors will then be
: preserved in their original beauty, and the
: crystalized alum will hold faster than
when from hot solution. When you
/ have light covering of crystals that COM
pletely covers the articles, remove the
, basket carefully and allow to drip for
twelve hours. The baskets make beauti-
, full parlor ornaments and for long time
, preserve the freshness of the flower.
D1l
{ Gently to move a colt one hundred miles,
1 found he would not follow, lead or drive.
e Said boy, s'Turn him out with his hal
{ ter on, dragging, and ne will break him.
: self to Lead" Stopping for the Sabbath,
. | left his halter on, with the end trailing.
D He was terribly spunky. / said to him,
e "You may get mad at that rope, and scold
{ and shake your head at it as long as you
v choose the rope can stand 1t as long as
2 YOU cam, He found out that 1t was so.
: and on Monday he walked close TO the
: leader. The best way to break colt is to
? let him break himself. A letter A, two
poles twenty feet long, and cross-bar,
with the post at the angle and wagon
wheels at the ends, makes a machine
into which colt can be harnessed and
G permitted to run around until he Is bro
!. ken. A colt with his whiflletree hitched
! to one pole and his halter TO the other,
$ soon learns what he needs to know, To
{ permit himself TO be driven. Such ma
, chine, costing halfa days work and pair
S of old wagon wheels--or the essential use
B. of pair-would often double the saleable
/, value of colt. A farmer having gang
7 of blooded colts, too small and spirited loI
, his use, sold them, full grown, at from SbS
!, to 500 each. One pair was resold this
G spring at S775. Others proved worth fal
$ more to use than was evident when they
h were wild. A colt should at least be nc
8 customed early to the halter, headstal
{ and girth. Then, when he must be used
he begins more like horse, and less lik'
# a mustang.-Cr. Rural World.