The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-14
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

The first one or two filters laid by
pullets are not so good for Matching
purposes as those laid later.
The most successful fruit growers
East and West have decided that there
is no better remedy for the codliny moth
than to pasture hogs in the orchard, to
eat the wormy apples and the worms
therein.
Fruit Cake Without Eggs.-One
pound OF clear fat pork minced fine,
over which pour one pint of boiling
water; add two cups of sugar; two cups
of molasses and little of all kinds of
spices. Mix it stiff; use two small tea
spoonfuls of saleratus and fruit to TASTE
Spring flowers are generally small
and delicate, but sweet; the flowers of
summer are larger and more plentiful
and have brighter colors and are also
very sweet and load the air with fra
GRANGE; the flowers of autumn are
bright and snowy, but have little fra
GRANGE.
In using oil-stones, mixture OF
glycerine and alcohol may be employed
instead of oil, which thickens and makes
the stone dirty. The proportions of
the mixture should vary according to
the instrument to be sharpened. An
article with large surface, like a
razor, sharpens best with limpid fluid
as three parts of glycerine to one OF
alcohol. For narrow surface, more
glycerine should be used.
-Millet needs hot weather and should
not be sown until late in June or early
in July. 1t grows very fast and is ready
for cutting in six weeks when sown ON
good soil. The ground needs blowing
and narrowing as for oats, and the seed
should be narrowed in lightly. The
seed is round and small, like turnip-
seed, but of yellow color. Two pecks
to the acre is usually sown. The seed
costs $3.50 to 80 a bushel. Hungarian
grass is species of millet and either
makes excellent, hay if cut before the
seed is ripe and cured green.
To Kalsomine Walls With Paris
White.-To give the walls of a large
room. say sixteen by twenty feet. two
coats, it will require about one-fourth
pound of light glue and five or six
pounds of Paris White. Soak the glue
over night in tin dish containing a
quart of warm water. If the wash is to
be used in the morning. set the dish
containing the glue into a kettle of boil
ing water over the fire, adding q pint
OF cold water to it. Stir the glue until
all dissolved and quite thin. Put the
Paris White into clean pail and pour
over hot water until of the consistency
of thin cream. Now mix the glue MKT
ure with the whiting and apply with
fine whitewash brush. 1t may be too
thick, in which case thin with hot
water. t-t
-Flaky Pie-C rust.-A nice flaky crust
is made by using one pound of flour,
half pound of butter, two eggs, and a
teaspoonful of baking-powder, in the
following manner: Mix the baking-pow-
der through the flour thoroughly, add
the whipped whites of the eggs and mix
into stiff paste, using about a gill of
cold water. Turn the paste upon a
well-houred board and roll it cut to
thin sheet; spread over it with knife
one third of the butter. Sprinkle over
the butter little -four; make three
folds of the paste, roll it out thin, spread
over it the second third of the butter,
fold and roll as before, and spread the
remaining third of the butter out; roll
out to the proper thickness for use.
This is the rule used at the Kensington
school.