The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-07-16
FARM AND PRESIDE.

10 Whiten the Teeth. Mix honey
with finely powdered charcoal, and use
paste as dentifrice.
Farm Pudding.-One cup of Indian
meal; one-half cup of flour. one-half cup
of sugar, moisten with little milk.
Boil three pints of milk, pour slowly on
the meal and stir until quite thick; add
one-half cup of molasses and little
salt. Bake in an earthen dish two hours.
strawberry Cream.-A pint and a
half of fresh fruit, beaten with half a
pound OF loaf sugar; stir to it pint and
a half Of cream. or half that quantity of
cream and half of new milk, putting in
the cream first; beatit till it bears a fine
froth and put in glasses or in glass
dish. Other berries may be used in the
same way.
Lemon Sirup. Squeeze the juice
from twelve good-sized lemons, CRATE
the rind of half into it and let il stand
over night. In the morning strain,
squeezing as much oil from the grated
rind as suits your taste. add to it six
pounds of white sugar and boil until it
becomes thick. Bottle and cork. A
tablespoonful of this sirup in glass of
cold water makes very refreshing
drink.
Mutton Stew.-Stews of fresh veg
etables and lean mutton outlets, made
by browning the outlets with little
butter and flour, and adding warm
water to make gravy, then putting in
pepper, salt. chopped parsley, and any
vegetables desired, are nourishing for
summer. Potatoes can even be placed
over the stew, but must only be allowed
to steam over it gently, not be broken
up into pieces.
Canned Rhubarb. fresh rhu-
barb into inch pieces. placing a layer in
a large earthen dish, and sprinkle lib
orally with sugar. When you have
filed the dish. or used up your rhubarb,
turn large dipper-plate over it, place
it in the oven and bake until done
Have your canning jars heated. fill at
once and screw on the covers, tighten
ing them every half-hour until they are
absolutely air-tight.
A Nice Dish-C Cloth. Have about
half yard square, when you have fold
ed it four times, or any other dimen-
sions that may suit you, of mosquito
netting, haste it together strongly and
you have a perfect dish-cloth. This is
porous and light as sponge. and can
be cleaned with the least labor and
rendered SO perfectly sweet that no ty-.
phoid shall linger in it. This, with an
iron dishcloth for pots, pans. kettles,
etc., will be all that any one will need
to have perfectly clean and shining sill
yer, glass or dishes, as far as the cloth
goes.
There IS some difference of opinion
about the proper time for cutting hay.
Nearly every one admits that early cut
hay is better for cows and young stock, !
even when they hold that late cut
woody hay is best for horses and
working cattle. There can be no doubt
that late cut hay is better for working
stock than for growing and milch stock.
The majority of competent Judges how
ever consider that hay deteriorates in
food value by ripening its seed. They
think that haying should be begun when
the dust from the blossom begins to
fall, or a little before; and should be
finished before the seed is ripened.
Ploughman.
"A very rapid cure of the foot and
mouth disease in cattle is said to have
been discovered by the Duke of Bruins
wick. He uses solution of salicylic |
acid, prepared by pouring some
hot water on about three table,
spoonfuls of the acid in an earthen ves-
sci, adding lukewarm water to make up
q gallon The mouth and feet of the |
animal should be carefully |
washed three times day with this
liquid. and the tops of the hoofs well |
powdered with the dry acid after each |
washing. To the drinking water should !
be added two tablespoonful of the acid |
dissolved in hot water. GermantoUn
Telegraph.
"A fence post may easily be set so
that frost will not move it, as follows: |
Procure post with large butt, or spike |
4 few short pieces of plank on the lower !
part; dig hole at least four feet deep |
md wider at the bottom than at the |
sop; set the post, and fill the hole with |
arge and small stone with lime mortar:
-am the stone and mortar well, so that |
it is perfectly solid; raise the work
DOT above the ground, making zone
'r mound around the post; fill in
around the post and stone work with
ar, to keep any water from penelrat-
ng. and the tar and stone-work on the
top to keep it dry. A gate post SO set
will not bulge with the frost. and it /
will be very durable, as the lime is a
great preservative of timber.