The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-10-30
FARM AND PRESIDE.

1t pays to sow salt and lime on
ground which is wormy, especially the
strawberry bed.
Providence never hides smiling
countenance from those who manure
highly, cultivate often and seed liberal
ly.
Nut Cake.-One and one-half cups
sugar, one-half cup butter, three cups
flour, one-half cup sweet milk, three
eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, one cup of hickory nuts, one
teaspoonful vanilla.
Irish Potato Pie or Pudding.-One
pound mashed potato. rubbed through
collander; half pound butter-cream
with the sugar; six eggs, whites and
yelks separately; one lemon squeezed
into the potato while hot; one teaspoon
nutmeg, same of mace; two cups white
sugar. Mix as sweet potato pudding;
bake in open shells Of paste. To be
eaten cold.
Green Tomato Pickles. Slice one
peck of tomatoes into lar and sprinkle
little salt over each layer; let them
stand twenty-four hours, drain off the
liquor, put the tomatoes into a kettle
with teaspoonful of each of the follow
ing spices: Ground ginger, allspice.
cloves, mace, cinnamon, teaspoonfuI
of scraped horseradish, twelve small or
three large red peppers, three onions, a
cup full of brown sugar; cover all with
vinegar; boil slowly for three hours.
Grape Jelly.-Grapes too coarse or
acid for table use make good Jelly; have
them firm. sound and ripe. Pick from
stem, wash in cold water. drain, put in
stone jar, place in pot cold water, boil
till skins are loose, remove skins, as
they darken jelly and make slightly
astringent; save all juice. Boil pulps
once again, pour into flannel bag.
squeeze through; allow pound lump
sugar to pint juice; mix, boil steadily,
not too quickly, until il will jelly when
tried on saucer. Put in small glasses
which are first wet in cold water. Place
over each piece of paper dipped in
brandy; tie closely and keep in cool
place.
: -One mode of getting green food for
cattle and sheep in early spring is to
sow rye in corn stubble early enough to
get good fall growth. What feed is
thus grown is as nutritious as ordinary
pasture or roots and costs nothing ex-
cept for seed and cultivating under.
Really the feed costs nothing. for in
sowing the rye many weeds are destroy
ed, new surface is turned up and the
weed seeds which sprout perish in the
winter. This alone is ample pay for
labor and seed. There is further ad-
vantage in having the soil covered dur
ing the winter instead of being naked.
as it otherwise would be. Rye sown
now will give considerable feed for
sheep and cattle this fall, and more yet
in the spring before blowing. This
spring feed is especially valuable for
ewes with lambs after the ground has
settled.
How to Pit Apples.-Fan apples
may be preserved in pits made as fol-
lows: Choose an elevated piece of
ground in the orchard and scoop out
shallow basin, in which heap the apples
in quantities of not more than ten OF
twelve bushels; cover them with straw
laid lengthwise from top to bottom of
the heap. Leave them thus for two or
three days, during which they will heat
and sweat. After they have dried,
cover the straw with light coating of
earth, except in three or four small
places at the bottom and at the top,
where large wisp of straw should be
inserted and bent over to make water
shed. The apples will keep much long
er in this way than in barrels, and
winter apples may be kept until spring
in fine order. Ifthe apples are picked
before they are quite ripe they viii
keep longer.