The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-01
FARM AND PRESIDE.

make, placed in the trees and around tne
buildings, will induce many pair OF
sweet singing birds to locate on your
premises, and you will find them servicea-
BILE as well as pleasant for they will rid
your garden of many of the pests, III the
form of insects, that infest 1t.
SoFT AND CLEAN PnLows.-PlioWs
long used acquire disagreeable sodor.
The ticks should be emptied and washed,
the feathers put into bag and exposed to
the heat of the sun for several hours. II
in the country. where the old-fashioned
brick oven is still in existence, it is good
plan to place the bag in the oven after the
bread has been Withdrawn. -.
PASTRY FOR Pies AND TARTs.-Take
cups of sifted flour, 1 tablespoonful OF
white sugar, tablespoonful of salt, cup
of lard, and cup of cold water stir with
spoon, and roll out for your pies. rms
| is for 8 pies and you can enlarge 1t as you
| wish. Do not put your hands to it, nor
roll it only to spread it out thin, If you
wish it short and crispy, and not haky and
tough.
no Do CAULIFLowER.--Picko one large,
or two or three small caulihowers to pieces
that is, in branches. Throw away the
leaves and the main stalk. Put good
] handful of salt into quart of water. Let
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will not be crowded. Let it get little
soft. Pick out with fork and drain in
colander. Put into bottles. Heat vinegar
and pepper, or cloves, if you prefer, as
you would for red cabbage, and pour over
| it in the bottles. When cold, cover up.
1t looks appetizing and eats deliciously
crisp in the winter.
TOMATO CATsUP.-Washs the tomatoes
and press them through fine sieve to b
quarts of Juice and pulp; add the same
! quantity of best vinegar; then set it over
the fire to boil. When it begins to thick
en-, add of pimento, cloves and pepper each
J ounce, cinnamon ounce, and 2nutmegs
| finely grated. Boil to the consistency of
thin mush, then add tablespoonful OF
salt, and take it out of the vessel. When
cold, bottle and cork tight. Boil in brass
or bell-metal kettle, or tin-lined vessel.
This can't be beat.
TO DRY SWEET CoRN.-When the corn
has become best for table use, remove all
husks and silk. With sharp knife cut
just the ends of the kernel off, and with
the knife scrape the milk and balance OF
the corn. leaving the hull On the cob.
Now. put the corn in pie-tins, or on plates,
an inch thick, and place in the oven and
just scald the milk; then place in the sun,
or any warm place, to dry. When wanted
for use, put in warm water and let soak
some time, and cook slowly. When done,
add little sweet milk, small piece OF
butter, salt and pepper to taste. This is
far ahead ofthe old way OF cooking before
drying.
A FINE polish for boots may be made as
! follows: Mix together pints of the best
. vinegar and pint of soft water; stir II
into pound of glue, broken up, pound
of logwood chips, 2 ounces of green cop
J peras, and l ounce of the best isinglass.
Put the mixture over the fire and let ii
, boil for about 10 minutes. After straining
t it. bottle and cork it. When cold. it is iii
, for use. Apply with clean brushaor soft
: sponge. Or take of ivory black / ounce,
sulphuric acid ounces. 1pint of molasses,
ounces of sweet oil, d ounces vinegar.
ounce of copperas dissolved i'll q ounces
J of hot water, and ounce of gum arabic.
: Mix in the order mentioned and grind all
together in druggists mortar.
GIVE Your HENS Coon FooD.-T here
: is vast difference in the flavor of eggs
: Hens fed On clean, sound grain and Kept
3 on clean grass run give much finer fla
vored eggs than hens do that have access
: to stable and manure heaps and eat all
: kinds of filthy food. Hens feeding on fish
: and onions flavor their eggs accordingly
7 the same as cows eating onions or cab
5 bage or offensive matter imparts baG
s taste to milk and butter. The richer the
0 food the higher the color of the eggs
a Wheat and corn give the best color, while
s feeding on buckwheat makes the egg col
, orless, rendering them unfit for some con
: fectionery purposes.
n HINTS ABOUT MILKING.-Always man
e age to have the cow eating when she is
s being MIXED, and when thus occupied
she lets down her milk freer, and is les!
e liable to kick or move about than wher
{ she can give her whole attention to thu
: mixer. 1t is best to milk diagonal teat!
4 at same time, but always take hold of the
), off teat first, for if the cow is going tt
: kick at all she will kick first from the sid,
= yeu commence to milk. In milking dag
!. onal teats the left hand milks a third tea
!, and thus the left arm serves as a fender il
% case she kicks or steps about. The bes
# stool is made by mailing a foot squar
!, piece of pine board on piece of3x4x1 feet
, and the knees most convenient buckle
: holder Get close under the cow; wor
: the bucket well under the udder, and tn
milk win not be near SO apt to be spille
) as when you put the bucket on the fiool
q and set off as far as possible. Milk quick
"a ly, steadily, gently, and never leave a COY
" until you have her last drop. Above a
. . things, never yell at her or beat her. KinC
- ness is a cows most effective master.
10 A&Tsosap ord Patient SufHarpr