The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-24
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

A meal of peas, wheat and corn for
COWS will make the richest milk and of
yellow color.
Put one or two red peppers, or a
few pieces of charcoal into pot where
ham, cabbage, etc, is boiling, and the
house will not be filed with the often
sive odor.
-, Irish Potato Pie.-One pound
mashed potatoes rubbed through col.
ander; one-half pound butter, creamed
with sugar; six eggs, white and yelks
separately; one lemon, squeezed into
the potatoes while hot; one cupful of
milk; one teaspoonful of nutmeg and
the same of mace; two cupfuls white
sugar; bake in open shells of paste; to
be eaten cold.
TO Remove Ink Stains from Linen
| -Moisten the linen and put on the stain
thin paste of oxalic acid ground up in
water. Leave it on a few minutes and
wash it out. If the stain is not all re-
moved repeat the application, then
wash thoroughly with pure soap. Oxalic
acid is often called salt of lemons, but
is not the citric acid which is made from
lemon juice.
Sheep Pulling Their Wool When
sheep are confined in the winter and fed
on dry food they are very frequently
troubled with irritation of the skin,
which causes them to pull their wool
and nibble at their sides and TANKS
Corn-stalkS, bean-vineS, straw and dam
aged beans are altogether insufficient to
supply flock with all the nutriment they
need, and the consequenceisth this dryness
and discomfort in the skin. To remedy
it the sheep should have some roots il
possible; without these no flock can be
kept in the best condition. If no roots are
to be had give them pint daily of lin
seed, or linseed-oil cake, meal, or mess
of scafded bran; also give them once a
week some salt with one-tenth part each
OF sulphur and epson salts mixed with
it.---M. Y. Times.
10 Bake Ham.-Unless when too
salt, from not being sufficiently soaked,
ham particularly a young and fresh
one) eats much better baked than
boiled, and remains longer good. The
safer plan is to lay it into plenty of colo
water overnight. The following day
soak it for an hour or more in warm
water, wash it delicately clean, trim
smoothly Off all rusty parts and Law it
with the rind downwards into a
coarse paste, rolled to about an
inch thick; moisten the edges, draw
and pinch them together and fold them
over on the upper side of the ham, tax.
ing care to close them so that no gravy
can escape. Send it to a well-heated,
but not a fierce oven. A very small
ham will require three hours baking
and a large one five. The crust and the
skin must be removed while it is hot.
When only part of a ham is dressed,
this mode is better far than boiling it.
The Best Rice Pudding This rice
pudding is beyond comparison the best
ever made in spite of the fact that it is
the cheapest. The secret of its perfec-
ton is the long cooking it gets. For
six O'Clock dinner the rice and milk
should be put on the stove early in the
forenoon. The best thing to cook it in
is a double kettle. Add TO quart of
milk two heaping tablespoons of rice.
Let it simmer on the back of the stove
it must never boil-until couple of
hours before dinner. 1t will then be
thick creamy substance. Then salt and
sweeten it to taste, put it into pud-
ding dish and bake in moderate oven
until it is of jelly-like thickness and the
top is slightly Drowned. 1t can be eat
en- either hot or cold If the latter is
preferred, the pudding may be made
the day before if that is most convenient.
Ii desired, a flavoring may be added.
This is emphatically the perfect pudding
of its kind.
Mr.. Mcclellan, an extensive sheep
farmer of Australia, gives the following
cure for hoof-rot and scab: For hoof-
rot, troughs about thirty-ive feet in
length, containing a solution consisting
OF about two ounces of arsenic to the
gallon, are placed between padlocks
through which the sheep are driven,
the water being deep enough to cover
the hoofs of the animals. Sometimes a
sheep will carry the sore hoof and run
on three, to overcome which battens
are placed across the trough so as to
compel the animals to put down all
four in travelling through the solution.
Scab is cured by dip composed of two
ounces OF sulphur and three of lime to
the gallon of water, the sheep being
driven in and compelled to wet their
heads also by bar under which thew
must swim. In this way ten men will
wash fifteen hundred sheep per hour.
penalty of five hundred dollars for
every scab keeps the flock clean. In
New Zealand the scab is totally eradi-
Gated; in Australia it is nearly so.