The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-27
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

pepper, and applied to halter, manager, or
neck-yoke, will not readily rub or wash Off,
and is always ready to reciprocate the at
tentions OF a gnawing horse-in fact, to
give bite for bite.
HERE are a few of the reasons why
horses are whipped: For stumbling, ow-
ing to careless and reckless driving; for
slipping down, owing to smooth shoes /;
for shying, when frightened; for any Wig
orous effort to be relieved of torturing
nles; for the breaking down of the vehicle !;
and, slxthly, because the wind blows off
the drivers hat.
SALT lisa simple remedy for many things.
lt Will cure sick headache, make cream
freeze, make the butter come, take ink
stains out of cloth of any kind, kill wens,
kill worms, make the ground cool, so it is
more congenial to celery, cabbage, etc.;
ease the itching pain caused by irritable
skin diseases, like hives, itch, ETC.; produce
vomiting or stop it, as you like, and many
other things too numerous to mention.
TOMATO SOUP WITHOUT MEAT.-Take
one dozen good sized, very ripe tomatoes.
skin and chop fine; put into soup kettle
boil for ten or fifteen minutes, add bit of
| saleratus as large as a pea, stir till it stops
foaming; turn in one pint of fresh, sweet
milk and three Boston crackers rolled fine;
season with salt and pepper and a good
| piece of butter; boil for fifteen minutes.
This soup can be made upon short notice,
and is really t0othsome dish, somewhat
resembling lobster soup.
| REMEDY FOR CRoUP.-This remedy is
simply alum. Take knife or crater and
shave or CRATE off in small particles about
| teaspoonful of alum, mix it with about
| twice the quantity of sugar or honey to
| make it palatable, and administer as quick
ly as possible. The doses shonld be sepa-
rated at intervals of fifteen minutes, until
the phlegm is cut and is cast off. This will
give almost immediate relief The patient
should also battle his feet in hot water and
apply cloths wet in cold water to the throat
and chest, changing as often as they get
warm.
JOSIAH HOPES contributes to the New
York Tribune the following suggestions as
to the picking and ripening of pears. They
should be gathered when upon being gen.
thy raised they will readily detach them
selves at the stem, and then be spread thin
ly and evenly upon blanket placed upon
the floor of a cool room, and covered with
a second blanket. Thus treated they will
in short time become beautifully colored
Another advantage is that, perfected in
this manner, they rarely have the meali- |
ness of their naturally ripened companions,
nor do they prematurely decay at the core.
LEMON PIEs.-Take two lemons; crate
the peel; yolks of four eggs; eight table
spoonsful of sugar. Beat well together !
then squeeze in the juice of the lemon; add 1
four tablespoonful of cream (where cream
cannot be got two tablespoonful of butter |
and three of water will answer) have |
ready the dish with under crust and pour
in the mixture bake until done. While |
baking, beat the whites of four eggs, add |
four tablespoonfills of white sugar; spread |
the icing over the top and bake until the |
frosting is cooked, but not burned.
INDIGESTION IN A HoRsE.-When the |
grain fed to horse passes from him undi-
gested and he in consequence becomes thin
and hide-bound and rough and staring
coated, it would be advisable to give him
change of food. Carrots or boiled potatoes
fed nearly cold with handful of salt sprin-
kled on them, scalded wheat-bran, scalded
oats, with handful of lnseed meal added,
and cut hay or oat straw might be usefully
given. In addition, a teaspoonfill of finely
powdered copperas, and another, heaped,
of ground ginger may be given daily in
the feed.-Hearth and Home.
An alleged remedy for cholera is given
in a London newspaper, which has at least
the merit OF being simple. When attack
ed with cholera, a mixture of an ednce of
an ounce of laudanup1, and an
ounce of brandy or other spirit, well shak-
en- together, is recommended, teaspoon
full to be given every five minutes. In
half an hour this has been known to effec-
tllally relieve and stay the disease. As the
patient becomes better, the mixture may
be given at Logger intervals. As pre-
yentive, a sman teaspoonful of powdered
charcoal may be taken three or four times
a week, iH the morning.
FRESH BUTTER IN WNTER.-As gen.
eral lining butter is scarce during the win
teX season, and fresh butter bears high
price. BY taking proper measures, which
include having the cows to come i'll from
October to January a warm, comfortable
stable, a frost-proof dairy, clover hay cut
in blossom and well saved, a supply of car
rots, perfect cleanliness in the stable, anda
plentiful supply of water free from ice and
snow, with daily drinks of bran or oat-
meal slop slightly warmed, and cooked
food, the dairy may be made as prolific and
far more profitable than in the summer.
The butter will be yellow, hard, aud will
keep fresh longer, and from its scarcity at
hat season, would bring a very high price.
-Neao York Tribune.
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