The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-05-12
FARM AND PRESIDE.

He IuSbTc Oh IuOEOcCO3 lctttueI< Is
restored by vanishing with white of
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To clean old lamp burners, wash
them i'll ashes and water and they will
come out bright as new. Many times
a burner is condemned because the
light is poor, when having clogged up
with sediment, the wick is at fault. p
A boiled cider pie may be novel;
tY to some one: Take four tablespoon
fuls of boiled cider, three tablespoon
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 crusts39C., f.l
10 drive q nail into any wood harder
than spruce, it is an excellent precau-
ton to file it off at the point like cold
chisel, and rubit with beeswax. A nail
thus prepared will penetrate most kinds
Of wood without difficulty and has little
tendency to split the wood. .-s.T &.
RED Wash for, .Bricks.-Melt one
ounce of glue in gallon of water; while
hot put in a 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. ''ihf'2 1't3 y
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 ii corn is given it should be ground
and stepped in the same manner; car
rots, potatoes or turnips and wheat-bran
and a 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 a month
or six weeks.
Snow Pudding. one pint of
boiling water upon half ;abox of gelatine;
add one-half a cupful of sugar and a
very little lemon-juice; stir until the
gelatine is dissolved; run it, through a
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
light-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. & SS'.' q
"A correspondent of the New York
World says: :. In you paper. recently, 1
s " a recipe for cement to fasten on the
b ass head of a lamp to the glass globe. i
A cement that has lasted on lamp
used by me for years consists Of alum
melted without the addition of water or
other Substance Tho roalfol oJ Inv, n, ~
be applied with a case knife on the in
side of the brass and on the outside of Il
the glass top; put altogether and let
dry. 1t will become solid and is not
affected by the oil, as is plaster.os-.
Paris
Light Pot-Pie. One pint Of sour
milk or butter milk, one. teacup of sour
cream, and one teaspoon. of soda; add
lonr 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 sizee|
you wish; boil thirty minutes, and you
will always have it as light as a puff. |
Almost any kind of fresh meat will
make a good pot-pie, though chicken,
beet 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 bot |
De uncovered the first fifteen minutes.
hen cover it and boil fifteen minutes
onger. Be sure that. it does not stop |
polling from the time the crustis put in /
until YOU take it up; bring it to the table
DAG .l 9i3a aEe uagE
When ones hands are chapped he
s always more or less liable to absorb /
poisonous matter into his systeflAin the /
handling. say, efputrid meat. or in the
Washing of clothes from sick room. or
lressing some foul sore. Where the
is deficient it is apt to be
washed off especially with warm water
aster than it is secreted. But the diff
ulty is greatly increased by the alkaii
soda or potash) of the soap, which not
My takes up the oil but actually eats
trough the epidermis. The best HELM
or chapped hands is, having washed
hem thoroughly before retiring, to rub
hem over with mutton tallow and wear
trough the night a pair of easy setting
Gather gloves. Persons in whom the
endency to chap is not so strong, NAV
eep 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
themselves, and so only few acres are
bus fertilized, at the best. The remedy
or this must be green manuring. Millet
I 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 pillow
gain and sow rye at the rate of one
ushel per acre with about FIVE quarts
timothy. Early in the spring sow at
EAST ten quarts per acre of clover. The
cid can be used for meadow for a
ear or two, and then the clover sod
-ilh if turned under, bring the soil up
, high point of productiveness.
here is no use in the farmers cultiva-
ng so many acres at an actual loss. as
ley must be unless some way to sc.
IRE cheap fertility is adopted v-ss-
Rolling Grain in the Spring.
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