The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-22
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

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will be able to keep away all animal.
and insects that destroy the bark.
There is nothing like having a goot
quantity of bedding for all animals. Il
makes their repose more comfortable
and serves an excellent purpose of alb
sorbing the liquid excrements.
BREAD PUDDING.-Soak the bread
crumbs in sweet milk until they will
mash fine; add two eggs, a cup of rails.
ms, one cup sugar, and flavor to taste
bake in quick oven. Serve with sweet
ened cream.
Save all the ashes that are made
upon the farm-even coal ashes are
useful as an absorbent and a divisor OF
the soil-but by all means save all the
wood ashes for their supply of potash,
which is an important element of fer
tility.
Laying hens need great deal OF
lime, in order that their eggs may have
the proper thickness of shell. Nothing
better can be given than raw bones
crushed fine. They are of special value
on account of the fatty matter contained
in their cells.
Wash for Messy Trees: Heat an
ounce of sal soda to redness in an iron
pot, and dissolve it in one gallon of
water, and while warm apply it to the
trunk: After one application the moss
and old bark will drop off and the
trunk will be quite smooth.
Moderately fat animals are the most
profitable. Every fat animal has been
fed at a loss during the latter part of it's
feeding. When an animal is ready for
market sell it; if there is feed left, buy
some more lean animals and feed them.
1.-The nimble sixpenee" brings the
profit. IN
To Color Butter with Carrots: To
color five pounds of butter, CRATE off the
deepest. colored portion of clean, good
sized carrot, pour over teacup of
warm water, let stand fifteen or twenty
minutes, then strain through a cloth
and add to the cream just before churn-
ing. 8
Apple Trife: Peel, core, and boil
till tender, a dozen tart apples, with the
rind of q lemon grated; strain through
a sieve, add sugar to taste and put into
a deep fruit dish. Make custard of a
pint of cream and the yelks of two eggs
with little sugar. When cold lay it
over the apples with spoon and over
the whole place whipped cream.
For fesh-producing purposes sweet
corn is the best, but, for making good
bread meal, white flint corn is the best,
possessing more starch and hesh-pro-
ducing properties and less oil than the
yellow corn. The white corn is also
better for working animals, but for but
ter and fattening purposes the yellow
corn is the best.
"A calf win draw milk in three min
utes, and the nearer a mixer can come
to that time the better. A slow mixer
makes the COW impatient and often
causes her to hold up her milk. The
strippings are the richest part, and if
COW is MIXED quietly, as well as quick
~, there will be more as we'll as richer
milk, because of the strippings.
This advice comes from an old LADY,
seventy-three years old: "Tell your
readers to put one pint of salt and one
pint OF soft soap Git ought to be farm
er's soap to ten gallons of water and
use it on currants and gooseberries. I'll
warrant them full crop. Put plenty
OF ashes, coal or wood, around the roots
to increase the size of the berries.
-Parsnip Fritters: Scrape and halve
the parsnips, boil tender in hot, sailed
water, mash smooth, picking out the
woody bits; add beaten egg to every |
tour parsnips, a teaspoonful of flour.
pepper and salt at your discretion, and
enough milk to make into a thick bat
ter; drop by the spoonful into hot lard
md fry brown. Drain into hot colan-
Ter, and dish.
Sulphur, one ounce to a gallon of
water, and sprinkled or syringed over
grape vines just at nightfali, will DESTROY
Insects and mildew, and leave no bad |
how afterward. When sifted rs a
powder it has an unpleasant and often
INES injurious effect, although it is
acknowledged specific manure of
alue, even when applied broadcast
pom the soil.
French poultry fanciers who make
speciality of raising fowls for the
market are now feeding their poultry
nth barley and steamed carrots. Their
apid fattening qualities are something
and it is said that the roots
lso impart peculiar flavor to the
esh that suits the taste of the French
picture exactly. The long yellow car
DTS are considered the best for this pur-
ose. aes
Angel Puddings: Two ounces Of
our, two ounces Of powdered sugar,
vo ounces of butter melted in half a
int OF new milk, two eggs; mix well.
AXE the above in small patty-pans I'M
nicely Drowned, and send to table on
dish covered with serviette. A little
owdered sugar should be shifted over
leh pudding, and slices of lemon served
18th them. The eggs must be well
eaten before they are added to the
her ingredients.
AN sold turkey RAISER" who has been
lperimenting as to the effect of char
'al upon turkeys. says he shut four
rkeys up in a pen and fed them on
cal, boiled potatoes and oats, while
ur others from the same brood were
ven the same food, except that pint
finely powdered charcoal was mixed