The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-12-03
FARM AND PRESIDE.


Cooking does not render diseased
or putrefying meat wholesome.
Tho Chicago Times says mules are
not liable to be afflicted with the disease
known as pink-eye.
-Wintering in cellars seems to be
better for bees than wintering out; the
bees will consume less honey, have less
loss and be healthier at the end.-Food
and Health.
An easy way to make hard water
soft is this: Fill the wash-boiler with
hard water, then put half teacupful of
wood ashes into little cloth bag; let
this lie in the water until that is warm
enough to use.
DO not let your laundress or wash
erwoman put clothes into the bluing-
water until they have been well-shaken;
if tossed in while folded, as they coma
through the wringer they are almost
certain to be streaked with bluing, and
although after repeated washings these
streaks will come out, everyone knows
how aggravating it is to use napkins or
handkerchiefs that show traces of care
less washing.
The usual way of making ginger.
bread is to mix paste of flour with
butter and add about two ounces of
ground ginger to the pound of -four. A
very good gingerbread is made out of
oatmeal and molasses mixed to stiff
paste and sufficient ginger added to
flavor it. A little butter may be first
worked up with the oatmeal. The
paste is rolled out and baked in o mod
erately hot oven.
Rabbit, Farm House Way.--Cut up.
rabbit into quarters. divide the back
into three pieces. Slice large onion,
which must be previously parboiled in
order to remove the strong taste, and
place a layer of onion and layer of
rabbit alternately in q large stone jar.
with few whole peppercorns and a
blade of mace. half a pint of milk and
water, or good stock, little salt. q
bunch of sweet herbs-some people add
sliced boiled carrots. Tie the lid down
and put the jar into pot of water; let
It boil very slowly, and then simmer for
an hour, when twill be ready to serve.
Cream Puffs.-Melt one-half cup of
butter in one cup of hot water; while
boiling beat in one cup of flour, then
take from the fire and cool When quite
cold stir in three eggs one at time
without beating them; drop on tins and
bake in a moderate oven. Do not let
them touch one another. For filing
the puffs make custard of one and one
half cups Of milk. two eggs, four table
spoonfufs of -four or corn starch; sugar
to taste; boil same as custard--best in
vessel set in boiling wster-and when
cold flavor, and fill. by cutting with q
sharp knife piece from the top of the
pufs and then replacing it after the
pufs are filed
The wonderful and mysterious prin-
ciple Of life is the same in mankind and
animals. 1t is touched and affected and
destroyed by the very same influences
in each class. But with our stock it is
q question of dollars and cents. It ought
to be made a question of humanity and
morality. "Thc righteous man regard
eth the life of his beast" The converse
being true, he who disregards it is un-
righteous. Let us seriously think of
this obligation which appertains to our
higher position as holding dominion
over the beasts of the field" and make
our rule humane and kindly. This is
our duty and cannot be avoided with
out criminal responsibility. Rural Ne,c
Yorker.
1t Is believed that the general free
dom from disease among hogs for tho
past two seasons has been the result Of
not only greater liberty given hogs, but
also is due to giving them q more ex-
tended grass diet. The wild hog is q
grass eating animal, diet only varied
by "shack" which it obtains in the fall
months. Domesticated, the hog has
nearly all of its habits modified, and
from life of largest liberty it has be-
come condition of close quarters, and
the converting of so much corn into its
equivalent of pork in the shortest tine.
Given the range of clover lot during
the summer, the hog in the fall is in fine
condition to fatten rapidly. The grass
diet has put the animal in condition to
rapidly take on fat and pork unsur-
passed in quality must result.