The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-21
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

COMMON I've of wood ashes will soften
hard putty in "a Iew minutes.
WHEN loading corn take piece of pine
board six feet long and a little wider than
YOUR shovel, blaze one end ON the tall
board close I'd one corner of the wagon,
and the other on the bottom of the wagon
box; fill up ais usual. In unloading, SHOW
ell down the board to the bottom of the
wagon, and not an ear need be touched by
the hands.
A REMEDY for catarrh, effective in some
cases, consists of equal parts of finely pull
verified bora1 and white sugar used as
snuff. Anoth her simple remedy is shutting
up warm, salt water-a teaspoonful of salt
to pint of water. We have two friends,
one of whom cured this malady by the
former method, the orher by the latter.
A HOG sweats, not like horse or aman,
but through his fore-legs. There is spot
on each leg, Just below the knee, in the
form of a sieve; through this the sweat
passes off, ard it is necessary that this be
kept open. If it gets closed, as is some
times the case, the hog will get sick. To
cure him, simply open the pores. This is
done by rubbing and washing with warm
water.
WHEN theIvines are properly trimmed
and laid DOWN in autumn, and covered just
enough to prevent alternate freezing and
thawing, the Catawba and Isabella grapes
! usually perfect their crops in the vicinity OF
Chicago, ana even the hardy Concord has
proved moro reliable when similarly treat
| ed In vineyard culture the work may be
expedited by placing the vines in one di-
rection and blowing light furrow over
them. Covering with boards and ever
| green bouohs is also advised as a conclud-
ing ceremony Western Rural.
SPoNGE-CAKE PUDDING.-l teacup of fine
white suga1t eggs, teacup of flour, J a
nutmeg, / teaspoon of baking powder, l
salt-spoon of bi-carbonate of soda, dissolved
in two tablespoons of milk. Beat together
the butter and sugar, add the milk, nut
meg and J d teaspoenful of extract of lem
on; then the yoIks of the eggs we'll beaten.
Stir in the -four slowly, and last mix in the
whites of the eggs. Beat well together,
and bake twenty minutes. Sauce of a
pint of white sugar, teaspoonful Of but
ter, of eoEn-starch, mixed dry into the
sugar. PoaH on 1pint Of boiling water,
and boil THE whole ten minutes. Add l
teaspoonful of extract OF lemon just after
taking off the fire.
To Make HENS LAY.-When eggs bear
such good prices, and are so delicious in
the many ways the good cook brings them
| to the table, it is necessary the hens have a
little attention. See that they have an
abundance of gravel old pieces of crockery
pounded up will do better than nothing.
Coneoct pudding for them, two or three
times a week, not oftener, with the follow
ing ingredients: Place an old pail out at
one side, aid into this throw the meat
scraps that are good for nothing else, egg
shells, beams, hominy, bread crusts, corn
parched very brown, coarse meal sittlngs !;
and then, when the day arrives TO serve up
this dish, take the water in which you
have parb0iled your pork and beans, or
other greasy water, stirring into it bran
sufficient to thicken well, allowing it to
cook a few minutes, pouring the whole
over these served-up scraps. Let it stand
short time after it is thoroughly stirred,
and feed while warm. Aside from this,
give warm drink every morning, and you
will have plenty of eggs.-Ohio Farmer.
FARMERS and fruit-growers often COM
plain that the trees they buy lack sufficient
root, having been mangled and cut off in
digging, and say that if they could only
| get to the nursery themselves and oversee
/ the digging of the trees, they could have
much better success. Now this can be
easily obvIated by purchasing 1000 to 1900
l SAefLGo anu OlAe III lhS
spring six inches apart in the rows, and
rows four feet apart, and when three years
old they can be carefully dug, and set out
Immediately after digging. Or one or two
| year old trees can be purchased, and set
one foot apart in the row, and rows four
feet apart, and allowed to stand one or
two years, and then transplanted into the
orchard. Many farmers sons would find
it pleasant, money-making business to
purchase a few thousand gratis at only So
to 81 per 1000, set them as above des-
cribed, and in three years time at least
two-thirds of them would become good,
salable trees at SIS to $40 per 1000. An
advantage that farmer would have who
wishes toEset out an orchard of 200 or 300
first-classf trees-he would have his choice
from double that number if 1000 gratis
| were set.
| Nil DIssPERANDUM.-Ar real healthy man
| or woman is a rarity: and what wonder I: