The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-02-22

breuuins are made by FASTING coloret
pictures, autumn leaves, or other design
upon a background of black cambria
finishing the whole with coat of goot
varnish.
BEEF LIvER.--Out in slices halt al
inch thick, pour boiling water over It
drain. and broil it with thin slices q
pork dipped in flour; cut it in mouthfuis
and heat it with butter, pepper and sail
for three or four minutes.
MEAT RoLLs.--Boil some potatoes
until quite done, mash them smooth and
add an equal quantity of salt meat chop.
ned fine. Mix with this several we'll
beaten eggs, one spoonful of butter, some
pepper and salt. Bake in little cakes
like potato cakes.
DRIED rose leaves sell for six dollars q
pound, but any farmers wife ought to
be able to have as many as she likes.
They make the most delicious of sachels,
either for the bureau or the linen closet,
and, when mixed with dry salt, retain
their perfume for q long time.
To make mats for the table.--Take
small sticks of black walnut and pine;
plane them dewn TO ene>sixteenth of an
inch in thickness and one.haif inch in
width. Place them alternately, and
glue to a piece of heavy cloth. They
can be cut round, square, diamond-shape
or anyoother pretty way, and when var
niahed make quite pretty ornamental
mat.
The horse that is about to be driven
on journey needs hardening by exer-
cise--prepariDg by sweating out the body
to purify and increase the circulation of
the blood, and also by hand-rubbing the
legs to make them firm and elastic-a
in some degree correspond
ing with that attained by horse that
is daily driven on the road for ordinary
work. For one week from the start they
need daily exercise, commencing with
eight or ten miles. and gradually increas-
ing to twenty per day. This exercise,
with appropriate food, win harden their
strengthen their limbs and pre-
pare them to perform their tasks without
giving out on the road, materially de-
clining in flesh, or seriously exhausting
their physical powers.
W1NDGALLs in the horse are the result
Of severe work. The back sinews are
encased in a fine sheath, which contains
synovia, or as tits commonly termed,
:" ioint~oil." The use of this oil is to
facilitate the motions of the two great
dexor tendons ,une upon the other; so
when the pace is too fast or the labor too
energetic, the delicate membrane which
secretes the eynoyia becomes irritated.
The consequence of irritation is increased
More joint.oil is poured forth
than the sac can contain. The mem
brane, therefore, bags out at those points
which are weakest. Windgalls generally
appear en- the hind legs, because these
generally do the heaviest por-
tione of the horses work. There may
be one or three on both sides of each
leg.
A WRITER in the southern Farmer
says that his COW gives all the milk that
is wanted in a family OF eight, and that
from it, after taking out of it all that is
required for other purposes, 26O pounds
Of butter were made this year. This is,
ia part, his treatmentof the COW: I'LL
you desire to get q large yield Of rich
milk, give your cow every day water
slighIly warm and slightly sailed, in
which bran has been stirred to the rate
Of one quart to two gallons of water.
You win find, if you have not tried this
daily practice, that your cow will give
twenty-five per cent. more milk imme-
diately under the effects of it, and she
will become so attached to the diet as to
refuse to drink clear water unless very
thirsty. But this mess abe will drink
almost any time, and ask for more. The
of this drink necessary is an
ordinary water pailful at 4 time. morn
ing, noon and night.
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