St. Landry democrat., 1880-08-07
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

as with medicine, more in Jury is done
by the ignorant than the skilled can
remedy.
For garget in COWS a Wisconsin
dairyman recommends pint of beans
bruised and put in ground feed and fed
once a 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
pulverzed 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-quar-
ters 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
imals Take a 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
it to the warts several times, on alter
nate days.
Lemon Preserve.-One pound of
pounded loaf sugar, quarter pound Of
butter, six eggs and the whites of four
ell-beaten, the rind of two lemons
grated and the juice of three. Mix to-
gether and let it simmer till of the con-
sistency of honey. Be careful to stir all
the time or it will burn.
-Blanc-M ange-Wet once ounce of
isingIass in cold water; boil one quart
of milk with stick of cinnamon in it.;
drain the isirglass 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 a fine powder
and thoroughly mixed with the butter.
Pressed Cake.-One and 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 ull-grown
chickens, disioint them, and cut the
backbone, etc., as small as convenient.
Boil them with a 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 of, put in little onion
cut very fine, not enough to taste dis
tinctly, but just enough to flavor little;
rub some parsley very fine when dry,
OF cut fine when green; this gives a
pleasant flavor. Season well with pep
per and salt, and a 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 pan with crust
made like soda biscuit, only more short
ening, put in the chicken and liquid,
then cover with crust the same as the
lining. Bake till the crust is done, and
you will have a good chicken pie.
DIR. j. w. Gally, jacksonville, writes
thus in the California Horticu1tarist of
birds and boys: GAS a general rule if
YOU see one bird going in flock by
himself (if he is not hawk, he is do
inc good work for the orchard and
farmer; but when you see more than two
birds in d flock there is no good going
on. So far as teamwork is concerned
birds and small boys come under the
same rule-to wit: one boy lisa boy, two
| DOyS dIc Hall a wy dtl1d ohlOO ooJS "i -
no boy at all. When you see crow or
blackbird walking in a furrow behind
a plowman, that bird is catching grubs
and doing some good to humanity; but
when YOU see either of these birds in a
larger flock then there is mischief up.
The best farm birds, aside from the
toad, are those birds which climb around
among the limbs of trees-all the wood.
peckers, sap-suckers, yellow-hammers
| ileckers, nut-thatchers, butcher-birds,
and in word nearly all birds which &C
it alone"
How to Cook Rice.-A recent travel
err in Japan says: "They know how
to cook rice here and for the benefit Of
grocers and consumers in the United
States investigated the matter. Only
just enough cold water is poured on te
prevent the rice from burning to the
pot, which has close-itting cover anG
is set on moderate fire. The rice is
steamed, rather than boiled, until it i:
nearly done; then the cover of the POI
is taken off, the surplus steam ano
moisture are allowed to escape and the
rice turns out mass of snowwhite ker:
nels, each separate from the other ant
as much superior to the soggy mass WE