The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-29
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

No live stock on the farm will pay
better for the capital invested than a
good breed of fowls well taken care of.
In making crust of any kind do
not melt the shortening. Let it be as
cool as possible and knead it through the
-four. Melting it Injuries the crust.
To Remove Stains from Mourning
Dresses.-Boil handful of fig leaves in
two quarts of water until reduced to a
pint. Bombazines, Grape and cloth need
only be rubbed with a sponge dipped in
the liquor and the effect will be instantly
produced.
Beans contain all the elements OF
true aliment excepting fat. To obtain
this it is not necessary to bake beans
with pork. A fat piece of corned beef is
an excellent substitute and is extensively
used by those who entertain q prejudice
to pork. Try it.
j. j. Mechi, the famous English
farmer, keeps three hundred head of
poultry that have free access to the fields
near the homestead; he says fowls are
the farmers best friends, consuming no
end of insects and utilizing and econo-
MIXING all waste grain. 1t costs no more
to produce one pound of poultry than
one pound of beef.
If your cows teats are sore from any
cause, wash them clean with warm water,
and then apply glycerine while they are
moist. Two or three applications will
cure the worst case and render, the teats
soft and pliable. For caked bag use
fresh lard as hot as you can handle it.
Apply with a rag or brush, and thor
oughly rub it in with the hand. 1t never
fails to effect cure in few days.
"A building rooted with tin is not
less liable to be struck by lightning than
shingled rooted building. If neither
house were provided with a lightning
rod the tin rooted building, if struck,
would be the safer, because the light
ming would be likely to divide and spread
over the metal, and find its way to the
earth by several different paths on the
exterior of the building, water leaders,
cutters, etc.
One can have the hands in soapsuds
with soft soap without injury to the skin
if the hands are dipped in vinegar or
lemon juice Immediately after. The acid
destroys the corrosive effects of the alkali,
and makes the hands soft and white.
Indian meal and vinegar or lemon juice
used on the hands when roughened by
cold or labor win heal and soften them.
Rub the hands in this, then wash off
thoroughly and rub in glycerine. Those
who suffer from chapped hands in winter
will find this comforting.
IF wound is made on tree when
1t is not growing it does not heal up
readily, but the wood dies back and
leaves scar for several years. A wound
made while the tree is growing vigor-
ously commences to heal Immediately
and will usually be covered with a new
bark in one or two years. Therefore,
when 1t is necessary to remove large
limb cut it off in winter short distance
from the tree, leaving snag about one
foot long; in the sixth month (June) cut
this snag close and smoothly, and the
wound will soon be healed over.
If marble is smoked or soiled, either
by bituminous coal or too free use of
klndling wood, Spanish whiting, with a
piece of washing soda, rubbed together
and wet with only enough water to
moisten and make it into paste, will re-
move the grease and smoke. Dip a
piece OF flannel in this preparation and
rub the spots while the paste is quite
moist. Leave the paste on for hours,
ana, II need be, remove it and renew
with fresh paste. When the spots dis
appear, wash the place with clean hot
so9ap-suds, wipe dry and polish with
chamois-skin.
Sponge Cake.-Four eggs; two cups
sugar. two cups flour; (after it is sifted);
half cup cold water; juice; and rind OF
one lemon; one teaspoon cream-of- tartar
and one-fourth teaspoon soda. Proceed
70 make the cake in this way: Break the
eggss-whites on plate and yelks in
bowl Beat the whites stiff, as for FROST
ng; stir in the sugar and beat well for
ave minutes; next beat the yelks, and
'tlr IN; then put cream-of-tartar and soda
n the water, stir and mix thoroughly.
Add the flour, then the juice and chopped
and OF lemon; have your tin lined with
'uttered writing paper and bake.
Dried Apple Cake.-Soak three cups
II dried apples over night in tepid water.
n the morning drain off water and chop
hem fine; simmer two hours in three |
ups OF molasses. Cool and add two
ups OF butter, one cup of sugar,
hree eggs, one teaspoon cinnamon, one
alf teaspoon cloves, one-half grated nut
neg, one cup sour milk, five cups of
our and two heaping teaspoons of soda
issolved in two tablespoonfuls of hot
1ater. Add raisins and currants if YOU
hoose; flour them well and stir in lust
efore putting in the pan. Bake in a
loderate oven and put away in a stone
ar, closely covered. This quantity
lakes two good-sized loaves Of cake.
'hlch will keep fresh and good for weeks