The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-28
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

| 10 w ulGou the 1eoGn.-MlX money
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 moasses and a little
salt. Bake in an earthen dish two hours
strawberry Cream. pint and a
half of fresh fruit. beaten with half a
pound of loaf sugar; stir to it pint and
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 it stand
over night. In the morning strain.
squeezing as much oil from the grated
rlnd 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 yer-
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.-Cut fresh rhu-
barb into inch pieces, placing LAYER in
large earthen dish, and sprinkle lib
orally with sugar. When you have
filled the dish, or used up your rhubarb.
turn large dipper-plate over it, place
1t 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 Cloth. Have about
half yard square, when you have fold
ed 1t four times, or any other dimen-
slons that may suit you, of musauito
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-
phold 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 mich stock.
The majority OF competent Judges how
ever consider that hay deteriorates in
food value by ripening its seed. They
think that having should be begun when
the dust from the blossom begins to
fall, or 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 Bruns-
wick. He uses a solution of salicylic
acid, prepared by pouring some
hot water on about three table,
spoonfuls of the acid in an earthen yes-
sci, adding lukewarm water to make up
q gallon. The mouth and feet of the
diseased animal should be carefully
washed three times day with this
liquid, and the tops of the boots 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 Germantown
Telegraph. $3.50
!, "A fence post may easily be set so
that frost will not move it, as follows:
Procure a post with large butt, or spike
few short pieces of plank on the lower
part; dig hole at least four feet deem
md wider at the bottom than at the
'op; set the post, and fill the hole with
arge and small stone with lime mortar:
am the stone and mortar well, SO that
t Is perfectly solid; raise the work a
DOT above the ground, making cone
'r mound around the post; fill in
around the post and stone-work with
ar, to keep any water from penetrat-
ng, and the tar and stone work on the
'op to keep it dry. A gate post SO set
vii not bulge with the frost, and it
will be very durable, as the lime is a
,reat preservative of timber.
Destroying Insects.