Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-06-21
FIELD AND FAMILY.

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sugar, one half cup of shortening, one cup
of sour milk, teaspoon soda. beason to
taste.
WASHING LIQUOR FOR COARSE ARTi-
Giles OR FLoORs.-Slacked lime, half
pound; soda, one pound; water, six
quarts. Boil two hours, let it settle, and
strain.
The barn-yard is the farmers main de-
pendence for manure. The yard should
be freely Uttered, the stalls cleaned out
regularly and their contents distributed
evenly over the yard. Plaster should be
scattered over the yar'l every week or two.
All stock ought to be induced to remain
In the yard when not stabbed. A little
hay or fodder will make them fond of the
yard. The yard ought to be securely ell
closed and cistern at theend of the barn,
of suitable size, will furnish large guam
tity of water for stock.
OUTLETS OF VEAL, LAMB, OR SHoTE.-
When the rack of veal is chosen, divide
each bone separately, break an egg, and
wet the pieces with it; then roll in bread
crumbs, afterward frying them in lard.
Make nice gravy with butter, pepper,
and salt, mixed with the bread-crumbs.
Any part of the veal almost, cut in small
pieces, may be dressed in the same way.
This dish must be thoroughly done to be
good. Either quarter Of lamb or shote,
cut up in small pieces-that is to say, the
usual size for chOps-may be dressed in
the same way, and will be found very
nice.
FROM the report of the Department Of
Agriculture for April, it appears that the
two great pests with which f1Ock-masters
have to contend are not confined to any
particular locality. Foot-rot and scab
hang like the sword of Damocles, Gus
pended over almost every county in the
Union. Nothing short of combined and
persistent effort will narrow the limits of
their devastating effects. Would it not be
well for the Wool-growers' Association
of the several States to take notice of this
matter and secure0 legislation compelling
owners of diseased sheep to cure them or
keep them in confinement so that healthy
stock may not be injured by contact with
them?
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
tleman says: "For the past ten years we
have raised Lima beans in great album
dance-in fact, have cooked none other as
even dry beans. The first year or so we
found difficulty in ripening them, as we
picked for the table as fast as they were
ready. There are only two points, if OBJ
served, to insure success. The first is to
pinch off the top of each vine when they
have reached the top of the stake-say six
feet, and the second is carefully to save
the earliest pods for seed. Many writers
say that they must be planted eye down,
etc. We never practiced 1t. We put the
ground in nice order, when it is warm
enough, and plant as any other beans, four
to hill, and they generally all come. By
saving the earliest for seed we have them
nice for the table three weeks earlier than
at first"
THERE are a great many contingencies
about farming which chemistry does not
cover, and probably never will. People
talk of agricultural chemistry as If it were
a special chemistry for the farmers adj
vantage. The truth is land it was well
set forth, remember, in q lecture OF
Prof. Johnson's) there is no such thing
as agricultural chemistry; and the term
is not onlya misnemer, but misleads eyre
giously. There is no more chemistry
| of agriculture than there is chemistry OF
horseflesh, or conchology of egg shells,
Chemistry concerns all organic and inor'
ganic matter, and if you have any of these
about your barn-yards, it concerns them.
1t tells you, if your observation and ex'
perience can't determine, what they are
! Of course it may be an aid to agriculture;
/ and so are wet weather, and good hoe
and grub, and common sense, and indus.
try. 1t may explain things you would
not otherwise understand; it may correct
errors of treatment it may protect you
from harpies who vend patent manures
not because it is agricultural chemistry
but l should say, rather, looking at q
good deal of farm practice, because it Il
not agricultural, and because it deals In
certainties and not Probabilities. There
is such thing as religion, ana it helps
sometimes to purify Democrats and some
times Republicans !; but who thinks O.
talking, unless his head is turned, about
Democratic religion or Republican Christ
ianity?
| SPoNGE-CAKE PUDDING.-Melt some
butter, and grease very well with it the
inside of fluted cake-mold, using fol
the purpose a feather or brush. Their
glaze the mold with powdered whit
sugar-that is to say, shake it about until
the part creased is equally covered with
the sugar, and looks white. Stone some
raisins, and have ready few currants
washed and picked. Place them accord
ing to fancy in the curvings of the mold
Take some sponge-cake, stale will do, ant
cut it up small, filling the mold with it
as you do so mixing lightly throughout
currants and raisins rubbed in flour tt
prevent their falling. Beat up four eggs
the whites separately from the yolks, ado
four tablespoonful of sugar, one to eacf
egg, and then pour gradually to them
until well combined three half pints o.
cold new milk, which quantity should b.
enough to fill the mold. Set your pud
ding in pan containing enough watel
to come little more than half way uI
the sides of the mold. Just as the water
begins to boil see that the oven is 81
moderately heated as to insure the slew
baking of the custard, else it might turn
to whey. Do not let the pudding brown
or burn; it should be done in about ,
! quarter of an hour after the water hai
boiled around it. Sauce made thus: Foul
yolks of eggs beaten up with four table
spoonfuls Of sugar, poured to pint o
milk allowed first to come to boil. Re
turn to the fire for about five minutes
stirring rapidly. Flavor with what you
please; rose-water is good. Turn OH
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