The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-04
FARM AND PRESIDE.

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CgpCAn.I cup of butter, l cup OF sour
milk, cups of flour, eggs, cups Oh
sugar,l teaspoonfll of soda. 90
EXPERIENCED bee-keepeIs have come TO
the conclusion that it is useless 10 under-
take to keep many bees unless forests or
LARGE breadths of orchard are near.
.srty-MrIKER.A4Pine tar applied to the
teats of self.milking COWS u few times has
nroved an effectua1 cure In the experience
of anew Yorks1Tibuae correspondent.
SOFT GINGER CAKE.-1 cup of molasses,
cup of buttermilk or sour milk, cup
brown sugar, cup of butter, 1 egg, ttea-
spoonful saleratus !; ginger and cinnamon
Stir soft. It is nice to add a little fruit ana
serve with wine sauce for dessert.
RAT REMEDY. Take copperas the
quantity to- depend upon the number of
buildings or places infested-pulverlze it
very fine, and be sure and sprinkle some in
all their holes, in the eornR crib, under all
the buildings, in a word, wherever they
conereeate. and in few days all the rats
will be gone. This is very simple and
easily tried, and has proved completely
successful several times attdifferent places.
No rat seen three days after thorough APP
pfcation.
A SOUTHERN farmer suggests success
full way of planting oranges, He filled a
can with water, and put il in a convenient
place. Wheneverang one about the house
ate oranges it was understood that if the
oranges were, fine and large, the seed went
into the can, small and worthless seed be-
ing rejected. Whenever the can was filled
the seed were planted, The can again half
filled with water,<a and put back in its old
place. By this plan the seed We're never
dry, plant has been produced for every
seed planted, and the result is FIVE thousand
plants a year old. 81 -
G. w. CAMPBELL describes method by
which he claims to be athletic ascertain in
advance the qualities Oftseedling grapes.
He says that s. in the taste of flavor of the
green tendrils of the vine may be found a
: true index of the character of its prospec-
tive fruit He further declares that the
tendrils of each variety possess a distin-
gushing flavor, by which it may always
be detected from any other, and a seeding
with this peculiar character may be at once
set down'as good, even i'm advance of its.
+. crop. His predictions have been verified
in every instance, and frequently too when
the appearance of the foliage would lead
him to the opposite conclusion.
i'' KALsoM1NNG. Eight pounds of whit
ineiand one quarter of a pound of white
glue make the right proportions. Soak
the glue one night in cold water, and in
the morning heat till perfectly dissolved.
Mix the whiting with hot water, stir the
two thoroughly together, and have the
wash of the consistency of thick cream.
Apply warmss with a kalsomine brush,
brttshfng ftwelf m, and finishing as you
go on. If warm skim-nilk is used in
stead of whiting. the glue may bloomfield.
Before the wash is applied allcreyices and
holes should be stopped with plaster of
paris mixed with water. IF it is desirable
to tint the walls, colors may be procured
ataiiy paint store and stirred into the kali
somineswash. s.-~ ,r.a,3: saa
IA WHfTE CAKE.-4Th cups of sifted
flour, II of sugar, lsef sweet milk, l egg,
2 tablespoonful of -buttef, of ereanl-tar-
tar, l teaspoonful of soda, and one Of va
nilla, almond, or lemon essence Beat the
butter and sugar to "a cream, add the milk
with the soda dissolved in it, then the egg
well beaten-7-and the essence. Mix with
this, very gradually, the flour, putting the
cream-tartar in the last cupful. and bake in
a quick oven. This is delicious cake for
jellyy chocolate Or eocoanalt layers LII the
latter is wanted, CRATE q large cocoanut,
add the beaten white of One egg and
cohee-cupful of fine sugar. Spread be-
tween the layers, icing the upper one.
This will make three layerssand a plate of
small ones besides.
a TQsPREsRRKE HAMs.-When first butch1t
cred rub the hams and shoulders with salt
.andat them be Sc hours G Them covered
with brine for six weeks longer will not
rrt them. Then remove them from the
brine, insert a strong string in the large
end and hang them. up in the smoke-house.
heck downard-by this means tender
ness and flavor are given to portion of
the ham often thrown away. Smoke with
green hickory chips, and when they are
sufficiently smoked and dried, wrap them
each in a large sheet of brown paper and
putinto loose bag OF brown domestic.
=. Tiesup. the bag carefully. leaving out the
string by which the ham was hung up,
'aTId' return to the hook in the smoke
house, or any other safe convenient place.
Hams thus treated will keepafor wears. So
says q large pork-raiser of Indiana whose.
hams command the highest price in the
markets. sri1asl- sssg#s b ass.5,i
tst q - 70