The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-10
FARM AND PRESIDE.

FAkM AND flkESIDE.
Vegetable charcoal is highly rec
commended by English army veterinari-
ans as cheap and efficient dressing
for wounds.
When COWS are found gnawing
bones or rotten wood it signifies they
are troubled with indigestion. Give
each cow pint of linseed oil or sweet
olive.oil, and repeat in a week if neces-
sary.
Tossed Potatoes. some pota-
toes in their skins; peel them and cut
into small pieces. Toss them over the
fire in mixture of cream, butter rolled
in flour, pepper and salt till they are
hot and well covered with the sauce.
Lemon Butter for Tarts.-Lemon
butter is excellent for tarts. tits made
as follows: One pound pulverized white
sugar, whites of six eggs and yelks OF
two, three lemons, including grated
rind and juice. Cook twenty minutes
over slow fire, stirring all the while.
BY using strip or molasses for mus
tard plasters, they will keep soft and
flexible and not dry up and become
hard, as when mixed with water. A thin
paper. or fine cloth, should come be-
tween the plaster and the skin. The
strength of the plaster is varied by the
addition of more or less flour.
The simplest and best remedy for
the cabbage-worm is said to be to
sprinkle air-slacked lime on the plants
in the morning, on the dew, till the
plants are white with it. One who has
tried it for several years says that. at
most, two applications are sufficient.
The lime is also good fertilizer for tine
cabbage. :
. Peach Butter.-Pare ripe peaches
and put them in preserving kettle.
with sufficient water to boil them soft;
then sift through colander, removing
The stones. Toeach quart OF peaches
put one and one-half pounds sugar, and
boil very slowly one hour. Stir often
and do not let them burn. Put in stone
or glass jars ard keep in cool place.
"A poultry house may be freed from
lice by first thoroughly cleaning out all
the manure, then removing the roosts
and everything in which lice may har-
Dor. Next take gallon of kerosene
oil and saturate every crack in which
lice may gather; take out the floor and
leave the earth, and lastly give the
whole thorough soaking with hot
lime wash. Lastly, grease the roosting-
poles with lard and kerosene oil SO that
1t gets upon the fowls feathers
"A deep punctured wound, such as
one made by a horse stepping on nail
which enters the foot. should be imme-
diately enlarged as much as possible by
cutting away the horny sole, and should
then be thoroughly washed with solu-
ton of salt in warm water, injected by
means of a syringe. Some compound
tincture of benzoin may then be in
jected, and plug of tow soaked in the
tincture should be kept in the wound
The foot should be thoroughly soaked
in warm water twice day and dressed.
If the wound is closed much mischief
will result, and it must be kept open
until it heals from the bottom.-N Y
Times.
Drying Apples. Apples sliced may
be dried very fast under a suitable
kitchen stove by taking up the ashes
clean every morning. Have three extra
wide boards of suitable length to fit
under the stove, nail strips of lath
around them to keep the fruit on; raise
the back end to get all the heat you
can. When the fruit gets hot. take the
board out and stir the fruit well and let
cool while another board of fruit is
heating; change often. A rack made
OF laths and hung over the stove should
also be used to save the heat. The
quicker apples are dried after being cut
the whittier they look.
"A Farmers Dainty Dish.-Peel and
slice thin potatoes and onions Give po-
tatoes to one small onion) take half
pound of sweet salt pork I'm thin slices)
to pound of beef, mutton or veal;
cut the meat in small pieces; take some
nice bread dough and shorten little;
line the bottom of the stew-pan with
slices of pork, then layer of meat, POI
tatoes and onions. dust over little
pepper and cover with layer of crust;
repeat this until the stew pot is full.
The size of the pot will depend on the
number in the family. Pour in sufficient
water to cover, and finish with crust.
Let it simmer until meat, vegetables,
etc., are done, but do not let it boil
hard. Serve hot.
The advice to pour hot soap suds
over an ants nest as means of extir-
patton will not always be found effect
i've. These insects are almost as diff
cult to eradicate completely as cancer,
and lnever saw gardener more nom
plussed and despairing than one who
tried everything conceivable to relieve
the ladies of the house from the annoy
ance of an ants nest near the summer
house, for two or three seasons, without
getting rid of them. He said he had
tried scalding hot water, used coal oil,
sulphur, blasting with powder, etc.,
and yet they would soon reappear.
That was before carbolic acid came into
common use, which, poured into dibber
holes. deeply sunk here and there,
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