The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-07

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TO clean old Iamp-burners, wash
| them in ashes and water and they will
come out bright as new. Many times
burner is condemned because the
light is poor. when having clogged up
with sediment, the wick is at fault.
"A boiled cider pie may be . novel;
ty to some one: Take four tablespoons
fuls of boiled cider, three Tablespoons
fuls each Of sugar and water, two table
spoonfuls of flour and one egg; beat all
together. Bake in deep plate, and
with upper and under crusts.
TO drive nail into any wood harder
than spruce, it is an excellent precau-
ton to file it off at the point like q cold
chisel. and rub it with beeswax. A nail
thus prepared will penetrate most kinds
of wood without difficulty and has little
tendency to split the wood.
Red Wash for Bricks.-Melt one
ounce of glue in a gallon of water; while
hot put in piece Of alum the size of an
egg. one-half pound of Venetian red
and one pound Of Spanish brown After
trying upon the bricks, if found too
dark add water, if too light add red and
brown.
When horse suffers from the
heaves the feeding should be very care
fully managed. The food should be of
small bulk. moist and very nutritious;
oats stepped in boiling water until cold,
or If corn is given it should be ground
and stepped in the same manner; car
rots, potatoes or turnips and wheat-bran
and very little hay may be given. One
dram of lobelia may be given daily until
some relief is apparent, and then five
grain doses Of arsenic daily for month
or six weeks.
Snow Pudding.-Pour one pint of
boiling water upon half box of gelatine;
add one-half cupful of sugar and a
very little lemon juice; stir until the
gelatine is dissolved; run it through q
thin cloth, then place in the refrigerator
until it begins to stiffen; then add the
whites of three eggs which have been
beaten stiff; beat all together until very
iight-fifteen or twenty minutes; put
into molds and set into cold place; use
the yelks of the eggs for a boiled custard,
to pour over the pudding.
"A correspondent of the New York
World says: /" In you paper, recently,
say y recipe for cement to fasten on the
brass head of lsmp to the glass globe.
A cement that has lasted on q lamp
used by me for years consists of alum
melted without the addition of water or
other substance. The melted alum can
be applied with q case knife on the in
side of the brass and on the outside of
the glass top; put altogether and let |
dry. 1t will become solid and is not |
affected by the oil. as is plaster-of-
Paris"
Light -Pie.-One pint Of sour
milk or butter milk, one teacup OF sour |
cream, and one teaspoon of soda; add |
-four and mix hard, like bread, and let
it stand one hour to rise. Never roll or |
cut it, but nip it off in pieces the size
you wish; boil thirty minutes and You
viii always have it as light as . puff. |
Almost any kind of fresh meat will |
make good pot pie, though chicken,
beef and veal are preferable. Prepare
the meat the same as for baked chicken
pie; drop one thickness of the crust all
around the top of the pot. Let the pot
be uncovered the first fifteen minutes,
then cover it and boil fifteen minutes
longer. Be sure that it does not stop
boiling from the time the crust is put in !
until you take itup; bring it to the table
When ones hands are chappAd he
is always more or less liable to absorb
poisonous matter into his systeTa-in the
say, of putrid meat, or in the
washing of clothes from q sick room. or
dressing some foul sore. Where the
'urface-oil is deficient it is apt to be
washed off especially with warm water,
'aster than it is secreted. But the diff
Guilty is greatly increased by the alkali
soda or potash) of the soap, which not
,nly takes up the oil but actually eats
through the epidermis. The best help
or chapped hands is. having washed
hem thoroughly before retiring, to rub
hem over with mutton tallow and wear
through the night pair of easy setting
Gather gloves. Persons in whom the
endency to chap is not so strong, may
Ieep their hands in condition by an oc-
'asional resort to this treatment.
Very few farmers have manures /
efficient for all their lands, and even
hose who buy commercial fertilizers,
re surprised at the bills that present
and so only few acres are
hus fertilized, at the best. The remedy
or this must be green manuring. Millet ,
r buckwheat can be raised SO that in
he early days of July it can be
urned under, and the crop imme-
lately sown. Then in September plow /!
gain and sow rye at the rate of one
ushel per acre with about five quarts
I timothy. Early in the spring sow at
east ten quarts per acre of clover. The 2
ED can be used for meadow for {
ear or two, and then the clover sod
nil, if turned under, bring the soil up Q
3 a high point of productiveness.
here is no use in the farmers cultiva- :
ing so many acres at an actual loss, as !
hey must be unless some way to Sc .
ure cheap fertility is adopted.