The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-11-11
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
House or put under cover all i'm


plements not in use.
English Pudding. One pint milk,
four eggs, one cup sugar, one nutmeg,
one teaspoon soda, salt and cinnamon,
one loaf of bakers bread grated fine,
half pound suet chopped fine, half pound
currants, half pound raisins. Steam four
hours; eat with sauce.
To Broil Oysters.-Drain off all
the liquor dry, on a napkin, dip them in
cream, roll in bread crumbs or grated
cracker, seasoned with pepper and salt,
and nutmeg; lay on wire gridiron;
brown ON both sides. Serve on a plate
first covered with twice folded napkin.
Treatment of Burns.-Dr. Shrady,
of New York, recommends that burns
be treated by applying paste COM
posed of three ounces of gum arabic,
one ounce of gum tragacanth, one pint
of carbolized water Gone part to sixty
and two ounces of molasses. The paste
is to be applied with a brush, renewed
at intervals. and is stated to be sue
cessful method. Four applications are
usually sufficient, the graduating sur
faces being treated with simple cerate
or the oxide of zinc ointment, as indi-
Gated.
-Over-big horses for any purpose
are a mistake; so the corporation of
London have found out. When they
started to do their own scavangering,
instead of contracting for it, they Sc
lected all the giants they could get
seventeen hands was preferred. The
mistake has been found out; sixteen
hands is now the favored height. These
do more work, are less subject to roar
ing and are altogether more healthy.
Pumpkin Sculptor six persons
use three pounds of pumpkin; take off
the rind, cut it in pieces and put it in a
saucepan with a little salt and cover
with water; let it boil until it is soft
say twenty minutes-and pass through
a colander; it must have no water in it;
put about three pints of milk in cas-
serole, add the strained pumpkin and
let it come to boil; add very little
white sugar, some salt and pepper; no
butter is used.
German Pudding. Put a thick
layer of apples, which have been
stewed with sugar and little lemon
peel at the bottom of well-buttered
pie dish. Boil three dessert spoonfuls
of arrowroot in pint of new milk and
few spoonfuls of water. Beat three
eggs well, and when the arrowroot is
cool enough. stir them to it, adding
little moist sugar. Pour the mixture
upon the stewed apples, put some but,
ter on the top with a good sprinkling of
powdered sugar to make it brown<and
cracking when baked. Twenty min
utes in a brisk oven will bake it.
"A very common error in window
gardening is that of attempting too
much. Too many plants are crowded
into the little space at command so that
it is impossible to give each the air and
light it should have. Again, plants of
too diverse character are brought to-
gether. 1t is no uncommon thing to
see tropical plants and plants from the
temperate zone, if not even Alpine
plants, all crowded into the same win
dow and subjected to the same tenn
perature and treatment. Better far to
have one healthy, well grown plant that
will yield its flowers in perfection than
a dozen sickly, feeble, wretched plants,
that have no beauty either of leaf or
blossom.
Grease heel and scratches are two
names which are applied to the same
disease. For grease heel, apply poul-
tees of powdered charcoal, bran, and
linseed meal, during two days and
nights. Then, after proper cleansing,
apply, twice daily, portion of an clint
ment made of half an ounce each of
powdered acetate of lead and oxide of
zinc, with eight ounces of hogs lard
or apply, twice daily, portion of equal
parts of pyroligneous acid, linseed oil
and spirits of turpentine. Internally
| give, every evening, an Alternative pow
der. as the following: One ounce of
sublimed sulphur, half an ounce of ses-
quisulphuret of antimony, and two
| drains of nitrate of potassa. Mix it
with the food.-NationaL Live Stock
| Journal
do sheep owners realize the loss oc-
casioned every year in the condition of
their fiocks by the Astounding sheep
ticks? 1t is rare to see flock that is
not previously annoyed by these pests,
and the sheep are constantly nibbling in
their fieeces to allay the irritation caused
by them. 1 have known lambs to be
so pestered with ticks, after the sheep
A"fO UoCu SuodItu anu tue GlCkS O6-
prived of shelter have left them and
gathered upon the lambs, that they
have died in consequence. And yet
there is an effective remedy, viz: dip
ping the lambs early in the season or
both sheep and lambs later. The most
effective dip is an infusion of tobacco
and sulphur. The late Mr.. Grant, the
large sheep owner of Ellis Co., Kansas,
once told me that the produce of wool
was increased twenty per cent. by two
clippings in the year, one Immediately
after shearing and one in the fall.
The sheep and lambs feed and thrive so
much better from the ease given them
as to make this difference. From my
own experience am sure he did not
overrate the benefit and profit. -Rural
NeW Yorker.