The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-13
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

LEMON AND ORANGE PEEL.--Dry thor
oughly, pound or grind in a hand-mill
| sift, bottle and cork. Excellent for favor-
ing.
A PLAIN OMELET.-Beat eggs very
| light. Have ready pan OF hot butter,
| pour the beaten eggs into It and fry till
| il is of a fine brown color on the under
side. Then lap one half over the other
and serve hot. Chopped parsley or onion
may be mixed with the egg before it Is
fried.
LEMON PUDDNG.-3 pound sugar,
pound of butter, 5 eggs, the grated yellow
find and juice of l lemon. Beat the butter
and sugar to cream, whisk the eggs and
add them to it, then stir in the lemon juice
and grated rind. Make paste, cover your
pie plate, pour in the mixture, and bake In
a moderate oven.
/ FRoTHED ORANGE CREAM.--Make pint
of cream quite sweet; place it on the fire
and let it boil. Put the juice of large
orange into a deep, small glass, having
previously STEPPED bit of orange peel in
it for short time. When the cream is al
most cold, pour it in small stream upon
the orange juice, holding the dish as high
up as possible.
LEAKING teats have been closed by the
application of collodion to the teat imme-
diately after milking. To apply it wipe
the teat perfectly dry, and with a small
brush or camel's-hair pencil paint the end
of the tsat over with three or four coats OF
the collodion. 1t dries instantly, and con-
tracing as it dries, closes the orifice. Col
lodion is gun-cotton dissolved in ether.
DR.. DIcKIE told the Doylestown Farm
ers' Club that he keeps lice from his hem
house by hanging up near the roosting-
place an old piece of cloth saturated with
coal oil or carbolic acid" Mr.. Barber re-
commended free use of water by means
of hose. Mr.. Tergo cures bad cases by
applying coal oil about the roost, and
then setting fire to the oil.' Mr.. McNair
destroyed the parasites by application OF
fish brine with a whitewash brush.
APPLE BREAD.-Weigh 1pound of fresh,
juicy apples; peel, core and stew them to
pulp, being careful to use a porcelain
kettle or stone jar placed inside kettle OF
boiling water; mix the pulp with 2pOunds
of the best flour; put in the same quantity
of yeast you would use for common bread
and as much water as will make it fine,
smooth dough; put it in a pan and place
it in warm place to rise, and let it re-
main for II hours at least. Form it into
rather long shaped loaves, and bake in a
quick oven.
THE Gardeners Monthly gives the fol-
lowing list of hybrid perpetual roses
adapted to the Western States: August
ME, Victor Verdier, Madame Charles
Wood, La Refine, Caroline de Sansai, Gen
eral Washington, General Jacqueminot,
Louis Oder, La France, Prince Camille de
Ropan, Triomphe de PExposition, Queen
Victoria. The China and Bourbon are re-
commended as more strictly perpetuals, to
be wintered by taking them up in autumn,
cutting out immature parts, and burying
the whole in dry spot, and replanting
early in the spring.
/ A BAULKY horse is understood to be an
animal which, when harnessed, refuses to
start. Various expedients, many of them
cruel, are resorted to in order to overcome
such Obstinacy, and it may, therefore, be
well enough to please note the California
method. 1t is to put rope under the
horses body, behind his fore legs, and to
let two men, one at each end, draw the
rope backwards and forwards, as if 6 saw
ing" at the legs. 1t must not be done too
roughly, but still with force sufficient.
The animal, to escape something he does
not understand, will soon move few steps,
and, after a heightened but quiet applica-
ton OF such persuasive - process will
| not fall TO move on. Repeated Applications
will work a thorough cure.
MANAGING SMALL FRUITs.-If the cur
rants are more than a year old cut the tops
all off close to the roots. With grapes, if
the top is of the previous years growth
and has buds near the roots, leave one or
two. If not of last years growth, cut it
all away. The top of raspberries should
be all removed. Then, when the roots
get their machinery at work, they will
send up canes that will fruit well the next
season. But if the top is left on it will
require all the energy of the roots to sup
port it, and if the plant does not die the
first winter it will be feeble and sickly the
next summer, and linger along year after
year until the planter condemns the varie-
ty and throws them away in disgust. Last
spring | filled an order for raspberries, and
before sending them l cut the tops back to
two feet and came near having them re-
turned for doing so. told the dealer that
they should all be cut off when planted
out. He said that he knew that very well,
but his customers did not; they would
have plants that would bear the first year,
and it was the top that sold them, not the
roots. But my advice is, see that you get
good roots without any regard to tops
Exchange.