The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-07-31
FARM AND PRESIDE.


of cream tartar and one ounce of salt of
sorrel.
The iarring process is, many think,
the most practical method OF fighting |
the curculio.
"A teaspoonful of pulverized alum
mixed with stove polish will give your
stove fine luster, which will be quite |
permanent.
High farming is the growing of the
best crops on the best soil under the best
conditions; and finally the crop giving
the best profit in return!
Ginger Snaps. Boil together one
pint of molasses and teacupful of butter.
Let it stand till cool; add two table,
spoons ginger and one teaspoonful soda,
flour to roll. Bake quick, in thin
rounds, on fiat sheet.
To Clean Marble. two parts
of common soda, one part of pumice-
stone and one part of finely powdered
chalk; sift it through fine sieve and
mix it with water; then rub 1t well all
over the marble and the stains will be
removed; then wash the marble over
with soap and water and it will be as
clean as it was at first.
Farmers should make careful Sc
lection of the cattle they feed. A two
years-old that weighs in October 1,3OO
pounds is worth great deal more than
three-years- old of the same weight.
He has thrifty habit of growth and
can scarcely be fed at a loss. When
sold he will bring high price. 1t is
| fc AZ a n
a scalawag steer.
Berlin Potato Salad.-Cold boiled,
not mealy potatoes, ont in slices, pour
the oil upon them and let them stand a
little while; slice a third of an onion as
fine as possible and one raw apple and
mix with the potatoes; add vinegar,
salt and pepper to the taste. The addi-
ton of Dutch herring makes herring
salad.
-Scalloped Tomatoes.-Peel the to.
matoes and cut in slices one-fourth of ar
inch thick; pack in pudding-dish in
alternate layers with forcement made
of bread crumbs, butter, salt, pepper ane
little white sugar spread thickly OF
each LAYER of tomatoes; and when the disl
is nearly full, put tomatoes uppermost,
good bit of butter on each slice. Dus
With pepper and little sugar. Strev
with dry bread crumbs and bake cover
ed half an hour. Remove the lid thel
J and bake brown.
A writer in the Ohio Farmer test
, fies his belief, which he says is base
upon long experience, that if calves
PIGS, lambs and other domestic animal
are taken away from their mothers TO
the last time at night, those mothers wi
drop their next offspring in the daytrm
while if such young animals are above
to draw their mothers milk for the la:
time in the morning their successor
will come into the world in the nigh
time.
Ventilation of Cupboards.-
seems to be minor matter in the ere'
ton of houses, but the want of a tho
ough draft is apt to make itself III
pleasantly apparent to the smell. III
remedy of this defect is very simple.
possible have perforations made throue
the back wall of the closet and few
the door. When the wall of the clos
cannot be perforated bore holes free
in the door on the top and bottom.
prevent dampness with the accompan
inc unpleasantness and injurious ef1es
" of mldew in cupboards, tray OF quic
:. lime should be kept and changed fro
time to time as the lime becomes slake
Food for the subsequently '
find sick people whose stomachs reje
all kinds of nourishment until conc
: tons follow that in many instances t.
inmate fatally. In twenty instances
which we have heard the popular 81
bed nourishment prescribed and reje'
ed by an invalid's enfeebled stomae
we have never known the simple saue
of parched corn, pudding or cruel
fused. The corn is roasted brown, p
cisely as we roast coffee, ground as i
as meal in a coffee mill and made eitf
into mush. Cruel or thin cakes bak
lightly brown and given either warm
cold, clear, or with whatever dressi
the stomach will receive or reta
. Parched corn and meal boiled
skinned milk and fed frequently
children suffering from summer dl
rh9a, will almost always cure, as 1t
:. dysentefy in adults and we believe
IN cholera in its earliest stages.