St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-01
FARM AND HOME.
FARM EKENT It's.

A VERY clear and transparent mucil
age of great tenacity, may be made BY
mixing rice -four with cold water, and
letting it gently simmer over the fire.
NEVER put the hands into butter
There ia no excuse for so doing, anC
every se4se of cleanliness forbids it
True, the hands are clean; still, as butte,
absorbs any and every imruritY with
which it comes in contact, excessive
perspiration of the hands, or any humol
of the blood, might thus be impaired tc
the butter. A wooden lsde to lift the
butter from the churn, or to turn il over
while being washed, answers Just as well
and a vast deal better Iowa State
Register.
NEW YORK continues TO be the great
dairy State. It has 1850 factories for
cheese-Jeferson county leading with
1875, followed by Herkimer 50, Oneida
81, Madison II aud Alegany. The aver
age number of cows contributing milk
was 30S,352, owned by 23,005 patrons,
and producing 63,11G,0C6 pounds OF
cheese, 3,2l3,125 pounds of butter and
7,880,752 pounds Of skim cheese. Orange
county sold Is, 10000 gallons OF milk,
Westchester, S, 244.O07, Duchess 5, 1OI,-
$40. Putnam 2428 500,
ONE of the very best preparations for
repairing roofs thai leak is to procure
coal tar at the gas works, and mix finely
:sifted coal ashes or road>dust with it till
about as thick as mortar. Plaster with
this carefully around leaky>roof valleys
or cutters, or about chimney fushings.
IT will soon set as hard as stone, and ap>
parently as indestructible. This prepar>
alton is very cheap, and would probably
answer equally well spread over root
previously laid with felt or roofing paper.
Once put on properly, it would seem to
be there for there for all time Prairie
Farmer.
MORE than 1000 years ago, Socrates,
the illustrious philosopher of Athens,
said of the cultivation of the soil: Gag
riculture is an employment the most
worthy the application Of man, the most
ancient and most suited to his nature. It
is the common nurse ofpersons in evrey
age and condition of life; it is the source
of health, strength, plenty and riches,
and of thousand sober delights and hon.
est pleasures. It is the mistress and
school of sobriety, temperance, justice,
religion, anu in short, of all virtues, civil
and military"
THISTLE seeds are frequently carried by
the wind Several miles on the land, while
they have BEER seen at sea twenty to
thirty miles from land. What shall we say
to a man who dare SOW seed weeds broad
cast over our land? And yet, practically,
those who permit thistles to flourish and
bloom unheeded, either On their own or
their neighbours property, are guilty of
suicidal neglect. In England land
owner recovered damages and costs in an
action brought against 8 neighbor who
refused the landowners application to
have the thistles cut down.
AN English writer thinks one cause OF
TIE greater frequency of blindness in
horses than in any other domesticated
animals is the announcement position of
the hayracks from which many of them
have to feed. Placed, as these fire.
quently are, high up on the stable wall,
the horse must seek his fodder with
raised head and chtstretched neck, and
Its removal is accompanied by shower
of dust and small, sharp-pointed parti-
cles of chaff and seed which naturally
fall into his eyes Further causes of this
very common affection may be found in
the pungent ammonia gases so freely
diffused in ill-ventilated stalls, 10 the
trying cross-lights common in stabling.
and in the indiscriminate employment
of binders, /" which divert the line of
vision from the natural direction.
A SOMEWHAT curious result of eoup.
ling two parents of different colors is
mentioned by 8 correspondent OF the
London Agricultural g zatte.. A sow of
the small black Suffolk bree1, having
had two filters to pure boar of her own
race and color, was put to large white
og OF the form and strain exhibited in
large breed classes When in farrow
divers speculations as to lie color OF her
produce were ventured by her owner
and his herdsmen, A neighbor was
strong on the certainty OF parti colored
pigs The actual result is litter of
twelve. OF which six are entirely black
and six are entirely white; not spot
mars the uniformity of either hue It
is not often the opposing claims of
fathers an mothers family to deter.
mine the charsctor of the children are
30 equitably adjusted
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
SWEEPING CARPETs.-Dampen corn.
meal sprinkle ii over tho carrat +hen