The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-07-10
FARM AND PRESIDE.

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dairyman recommends pint of beans
bruised and put in ground feed and fed
once day.
Keep your farm buildings and all
your premises absolutely clean. Use
absorbents such as dry earth and ashes,
and all offensive gases will disappear;
thereby promoting health and pros
perity.
when insects get in the beds or
walls pour boiling alum water into the
JOINTS and crevices and it is instant
death. Wash the bedsteads and sponge
the mattresses with it. Then scatter
pulverized borax in all the crevices and
corners and not an insect will be seen
or felt. Ammonia is also good and kills
the egg as well as insects.
Ginger Bread Nuts.-Take two
pounds OF flour, rub into it three-ouar-
tiers OF pound of butter, then add one
pound of sugar and one pound of trea-
Gle, two ounces of best powdered GIN
ger, two ounces of finely sliced can
died peel, and lastly two eggs we'll
beaten. Divide the mixture into any
shape and bake in the oven.
"A Providence correspondent gives
the following as cure for warts on an
lmals. Take small quantity of scraps
OF copper, cover them with cider vine
| gar and allow it to stand forty-eight
hours. Pour off the liquid and apply
1T to the warts several times, on alter
nate days.
Lemon Preserve.-One pound of
pounded loaf sugar, quarter pound of
I hyffar al nd
well-beaten, the rind of two lemons |
grated and the juice of three. Mix to-
gether and let it simmer till of the con-
slstency OF honey. Be careful to stir all |
the time or it will burn.
-Blanc-M inge.-Wet once ounce of
isinglass in cold water; boil one quart
of milk with stick of cinnamon in it;
drain the isipglass out of the water and
stir it into milk; when dissolved strain
it through flannel bag, sweeten it and
when cold pour it into moulds.
Keeping Butter with Borax.-The
Italian Minister of Agriculture gives an
account of experiments which have
been made at the experimental station
Florence, to the effect that butter, pur-
posely not freed from buttermilk, Kept
perfectly sweet for upwards of three
months by the addition of about eight
per cent of borax. 1t is stated that the
borax should be dry, in fine powder
and thoroughly mixed with the butter.
Pressed Cake.-One and a half
cups sugar, one-half cup butter,
one-half cup sweet milk, three
eggs, two teaspoons cream-tartar,
one teaspoon soda and two cups of
flour. To one-third of this mixture add
one cup chopped raisins, one teaspoon
cinnamon, one-half teaspoon cloves
and one of nutmeg. Make two cakes
white, with one of brown between. Put
together with frosting.
Chicken Pie-Take two full-grown
chickens, disjoint them. and cut the
backbone, etc., as small as convenient.
Boil them with few slices of salt pork
in water enough to cover them, let them
boil quite tender, then take out the
breast bone. After they boil, and the
scum is taken off, put in a little onion
cut very fine, not enough to taste dis
tinctly. but just enough to flavor little;
rub some parsley very fine when dry, I
or cut fine when green; this gives a ..
pleasant flavor. Season well with pep )
per and salt, and few ounces of good
fresh butter. When all is cooked well
have liquid enough to cover the chicken,
then beat two eggs and stir in some
sweet cream. Line a pan with a crust
made like soda biscuit, only more short !
ening, put in the chicken and liquid, I
then cover with a crust the same as the
lining. Bake till the crust is done, and
you will have good chicken pie.
DIR. J. w. Gally. Jacksonville, writes
thus in the California Horticulturist of
birds and boys: AS general rule if
you see one bird going in flock by I
himself Gf he is not hawk, he is do b
ing good work for the orchard and
farmer; but when you see more than two !,
birds in flock there is no good going ;
On. So far as teamwork is concerned t
birds and small boys come under the
same rule-to wit: one boy is a boy, two
boys are half a boy, and three boys are
no boy at all. When you see crow or
> blackbird walking in furrow behind {
! plowman, that bird is catching grubs
md doing some good to humanity; but =
when you see either of these birds in
anger flock then there is mischief up.
The best farm birds, aside from the
Dad, are those birds which climb around 9
lmong the limbs of tTees-all the wood
sap-suckers, yellow-hammers,
lockers, nut-thatchers, butcher-birds, b
Ind in word nearly all birds which go e
t alone"
How to Cook Rice.-A recent travel II
r in Japan says: They know how I
o cook rice here and for the benefit of
rrocers and consumers in the limited y