The Lake Charles echo., 1878-06-27

and oiling it.
INSECTS on vines can be driven of by
sprinkling the vines with plaster, scot OF
air Stacked lime.
IF you win plant feed of the castor
bean where moles are troublesome, il
will drive them away.
FINGER MARKs.-Finger marks may
be removed from varnished furniture by
the use of a little sweet oil upon sef.
rag.
POTATOES cut in small squares, and
put into cruets or bottles, with water to
wash them, viii clean them quickly and
well.
Do EoT trim up your trees five or six
feet. Let the limbs of the tree come
near the ground. In ether words, shorten
in your tree.
To RESTORE the color of black kid
boots take a small quantity of black ink
mix it with the white of an egg and ap-
ply with soft sponge.
TUREIP PICKLES Wash several tur-
nips clean, then boil till quite tender
then peel and slice them, and pour over
them hot vinegar. Add spices, If you
wish them.
CoCoANUT CgsrARD PIE--Grate one
ceeoanut; add three eggs and one and
one-half cup of sugar; beat well; add
the milk of the nut, one cup of rweet
milk, and piece of butter the size of a
Walnut.
TEE great English agricultural writer
and practical farmer lJethro Tuil), Ev-
ing and writing one hundred years ago,
held that frequent plowing and stirring
the soil was equivalent TO q liberal coat
of manure.
IT Is stated that 500 new cheese facto-
ries are to be put mp in the state Of Iowa
this spring. Other parts of the west are
also increasing the number of cheese
factories. In New York the same ten.
dency is evident.
CoREs.-Soh corns can be cured by
this corn-salve: Boil tobacco down to
an extract, then mix with it u quantity
of white pitch pine, and spply it to the
corn, renewing it once week until the
corn disappears.
WoRMs La horses are caused from hard
work, poor food aud general neglect.
For ordinary cases of worms, common
salt, nutritious food and pure water will
prove satisfactory. Salt should always
be kept In the stalls of horses.
PoRTABIELEMorADE.--Powderedt tar
taric acid one ounce, powdered sugar six
ounces, essence of lemon one dram, Let 1t
dry thoroughly in the sun, rub together
and divide in twenty-four papers. One
makes glass of good sweet lemonade.
CAULIFLowERs should be transplsnted
in rows some two feet apart, leaving
sbout tive feet between the plants. Cal-
tivate as cabbage. Aid the growth by
liberal manurirg sud protect from the
sun by breaking its leaves over the head
when in flower. Canlifowcrs succeed
best In deep, rich, moist soil
EXPERIMENTS have lately been made
in Germany TO determine the value of
the common nettle as textile fiber.
The weed having been treated the same
way ~ hemp yielded . Cher as fine as siik,
and ss strong as hemp fibre. A
considerable atea of ground is now
planted with tine nettie In the Prnsdan
province of Nassau.
CoDF.sH AND EGGs--Shrsd fine and
properly soak some eod6sh. Press itd,y
- possible. To one cup Of fish sdd one
cup of eggs removed from the shell; best
the two well toxether and drop in spoon
iuls into hot pan and Try light brown
on both sides.
CosE-srARcH CAKE--Two cnpfuls
Of powdered sugar, four cupfuk of corn
starch, sns,qasrter Of a cupful Of butter,
three eggs, tesspoonfui of cream Of
tartar mixed with cornrstarch, one-half
taaspsoniul Of soda dissolved In one
third Of q eupful Of milk.
To WASH the wool on the sheep's back
is not q profitable prsetice. The wool
Is net half washed. and the difference In
price will not pay fer the Loss of weight,