The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-04-23
FARM AND PRESIDE.

| AIM AND flhESlDEe
-kefuse salt and brine from the
pickle barrels should be sown broadcast
under fruit trees.
Large bags made of brown wrap
ping paper will be found very convenient
receptacles for many articles of wearing
apparel which are not to be used for a
season. ser r4sk sFs fa
"A market gardener is reported by
the Chicago Tribune as saving that
neither salt nor ashes will kill the cab
bage-worm. but dry SCOT will do it every
time. provided it is applied after each
rain.
Filling for Pies or Turnovers.-A
quarter of a pound of raisins stoned and
chopped, cracker rolled fine, an egg,
the juice and grated rind of lemon
and nearly a cupful of sugar. If used
for pie, use top crust.
Crust for Savory Pies.-To two
pounds of -four and pound and half
of butter or lard add the yelks of three
eggs; rub part of the fat to cream with
the eggs and then rub in the flour; wet
with cold water and roll out with the
remainder of the butter. The crust is
suitable for pigeon, rabbit, hare and
other savory pies.
-Fleas in the Barn.-Fleas NAV ac-
cumulate in the barn from fowls that
are kept there. When they have gath
cred in large quantities they may be re-
moved by means of hot lime wash; they
will be found gathered under cleats and
in corners. These places should be
thoroughly washed with the lime and
the loose dust swept out. Rats are also
infested with fieas, and will soon stock
a barn with them.
Bread Mullins. Take four or five
slices of bakers bread, cut off the
crusts, put into . pan and pour over
hot water, only just sufficient to soak
the slices. Let stand an hour, drain
of any liquor that you can. beat the
mass smooth, mix in half a pint of
sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls OF sifted
flour, tablespoonful of melted butter.
a little salt and three well-beaten eggs.
Have muffin rings as well as baking
pan hot and buttered and fill each two
thirds full. Bake brown in a quick
oven. Eaten hot
Value of Rye Straw-Rye straw
is considered by many farmers who are
used to feeding it to horses as good as
timothy hay. We have seen horses that
have been regularly worked on the
roads drawing heavy loads, do well on
rye straw cut, wetted. and mixed with
four quarts of meal of oats, corn and
rye ground together. This feed is con-
sidered as preventive and curative
OF heaves. 1t is Certainly free from the
dust which is prevalent in all kinds of
hay, and this dust often causes heaves
and cough in horses fed uponit it. Where |
rye straw is in demand for paper MAX
ing. it is as costly feed as hay. 1t
brings just now, in some places, moro !
than the best hay. and some farmers
make money by growing rye chiefly for
the straw.
Look Over the Garden Seeds
Assert by themselves and put in
= separate box or pan the kinds |
hat must be sown early under glass,
and place those TO be planted early out |
IF doors in another. If any are of
dubious quality dom depend upon them;
md if of dubious age make a test of |
heir power of termination by putting
! few on damp sand in warmth of
about sixty degrees for hardy native
kinds. They will terminate at less.
lettuce, onions, parsnips. peas, beets,
,tc.. can be safely sown when the soil
$ ''cold as forty degrees" if it be but
Try enough to crumble. But the vege-
ables of Southern origin cannot endure
o be made wet in such state of the
thermometer. and so the tender beans,
'orn, cucumbers and squashes must not
,e set into the soil until it is warmer.
I the seed of corn aud its companions
s perfectly fresh and sound. and the
oil naturally warm, light and not liable
o pack, it is safe to SOW early in May
otherwise not till near June. The
common bush bears and summer
quashes will vegetate at lower tenn
'erature than other seeds.