The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-11-10
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

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1.-The feed we continually squandel
IN attempts to keep our stock in gooG
trim, would annually buy the lumber K
build them good warm shelters. - osce
Sta;el Register.
:, "A small early maturing hog is much
| mJre valuable than a large one, and nc
Eaore food will be required to raise two
good quick-growing ones than it viii
for large but slow all lard hog.
The Farmers Home Journal saws
II the cucumber which grows nearest
the root be saved for seed for humble,
OF years, the result will be a smaller
and earlier variety. If the fruit on the
extremity be saved it will make larger
and later variety.
--Chili Sauce. Twelve large ripe to-
matoess four ripe or three green 81 ppers,
two onions, two tablespoonfuls of salt,
two of sugar, one of cinnamon. three
cups vinegar; peel tomatoes and onions,
chop (separately) very fine, add the
peppers (chopped) with the other in
gradients, and boil one and q half
hours. Bottle and it will keep long
time. .|...
Canning Grapes. -Seuarate the
skin from the pulp, having j. vessel for
each, put the pulps on to scsid; when
thoroughly heated put through colan-
der to remove the seed, then add this
Jelly to the skins, boil a few minutes,
sWeeten to taste, and your fruit is ready
for canning; use glass jars; kahp in q
dark place, and the result will BIZ COM
plete success.
Professor "A. E. Blount, of the Col
orado Agricultural College, expresses
himself very strongly in favor OF light
seeding OF wheat. He says thai "a
single grain of wheat cannot carry cut
its habit and develop according to its
nature on less than sixteen square
inches, and that every pound of seed
wheat should be made to produce its
bushel all over the world"
Tomato Sauce. Stew ten tomatoes
with few cloves, and pepper and salt,
for fifteen minutes; add sliced onion
and sprig of parsley, or not, as is pre-
ferred; strain through sieve, put on
the stove in saucepan in which q
lump OF butter the size of an egg and a
level tablespoonful of flour have been
well mixed and cooked; stir all until
smooth. and serve. Canned tomatoes
may be used as substitute.
Mixed Pickle or Higdon.-Chop q
gallon OF green tomatoes, sprinkle over
them half pint of salt, and let them
stand over night. In the morning drain
off the water and add to them six onions
chopped or sliced, six peppers chopped,
malt q cabbage cut coarsely and then
chopped, half a pint of grated horse
radish, the same of mustard seed, one
tablespoonful of ground cloves, one of
black pepper, two of dry mustard; mix
oil well together, pack in jars three
fourths full. and fill up with cider vine
gar.
Apple Fritters. First pare the ap-
pies and then with an apple-corer
cut out the core from the center of
each; then cut them across In slices |
about one-third of an inch thick, having
, round opening in the center. Next
make q fritter batter by the following
recipe: Beat three eggs well; add part
II one pint of milk and little salt;
hen the remainder Of the pint of milk
md one pint of flour alternately, beat
ng it all quickly. The slices of apples
must now be Immediately dipped in |
his batter and fried in boiling lard:
sprinkle over with sugar and serve IN |
circle. one overlapping the other, with
" without sweet sauce in the center.
Fl. D. Slocum says in the Philadel-
'hia Medical Reporter: = About 4 year
lgo analysed sample Of cider pre-
ervative that was being sold here at
he rate OF two dollars per ounce; it was
IMPLY salicylic acid. 1t has been ex-
ensively used, and samples OF cider
hat have been kept from six months to
year still have the peculiar flavor of
Weet cider and are sweet cider. One
'uncc is sufficient for barrel of thirty
wo gallons. Put the acid in the sweet
lder and mix it well; then bung up. Ii
viii not ferment. The salicylic acid il
Iuite cheap, an ounce costing but q
riffe at the drug store; while the pack
ges sold as cider preventative were
wo dollars each. . 9
OF all dreary places, deliver us from
he dreary farm houses which MANY
all home. Bars for q front gate, chick
MS waliowing before the door. pig-pens
looWlng the house in the rear, scrao-
J trees never cared for or no trees al
Il, no Towering shrubs, no neatness.
Q trimness; and yet lawn, and trees.
nd neat walk, and q pleasant porch,
no PLAIN fence around, do not cost q
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