The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-10-13
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Ill raw potatoes or the Feelings ar,
cut fine and sprinkled on the carpet be
fore sweeping they will be found NOR,
cffectual than salt or cornmeal.
Fried Potatoes. Take cold, boilet
potatoes, CRATE them, make them int,
flat cakes, and fry them in butter. Yo,
may vary these cakes by dipping then
in the yelk of an egg and rolling then
IN bread crumbs, frying them in boiling
lard. - s.. 2s3sfsfl 81
Hot Sauce for ats.-Four onions
two cups of sugar, thirty 1.-TWO tomatoes
one quart OF vinegar, four peppers, two
tablespoonfuls of salt,stwo tablespoon
fuls of cinnamon, two tabIespoonfuls Of
cloves, three tablespoonfuls Of red pep
per; cook, strain and bottle.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, a good
authority on domestic economy, saws
that ten pounds of the toughest kind Of
meat may be made very tender by soak.
ing seven hours in three quarts of water
calculated with little more than halt
q pint of vinegar. Then wash, wipe
dry, and cook as desired =
Apple Trifle.-Scald as MANY ap-
pies as, when pulped, will cover the
dish you design to use to the depth OF
two or three inches. Before you place
them in the dish add to them the rind
OF half a lemon. grated fne,. and sugar
to taste. Mix half pint of milk. half
pint of cream, and the yelk of an egg ;
scald it over the fire, keeping it stirring,
and do not let it boil add a little SUI
gar, and let stand till cold. then Law it
over the apples, and finish with the
cream whip. '4S,t =
The average results of experiment
and theory, so to speak, makes fifty
seven pounds of Indian corn equal to
100 pounds of hay, or LAO pounds of
corn to the ton of hay. it must be
remembered that the nutritive effects
of food upon an animal are varied by
many causes, and also that the compar-
ison OF foods is affected by the object
sought. as fat, growth, labor, milk. etc.
Inc above is the relative amount of nu-
tritive matter in corn and hay, as deter.
mined by experiment and theory.
Lettuce for Winter and Sprinc. =
Almost any time, from the middle of
September to the middle of October
lettuce may be sown in cold frames in a
sheltered situation, covered with glass
or boards when the weather is cool.
and exposed to the air when warm or
moderately warm. 1t will give a very
tam article the early part of winter, say
throughout December. Lettuce can also
be sown the last of October in the open
beds for early spring heading, taking
some OF the earliest and latest varieties.
and covering the plants carefully, but
not too heavily. through the winter.
Very good heads can be thus raised.
and 1t comes very OPPORTUNITY in April.
Mixed Pickles. Three hundred
small cucumbers, four green peppers
'lced fine, two large or three small
heads of cauli1ower, three heads Of
White cabbage shaved fine. nine large
'nlons sliced, one large root horse rad.
sh, one quart of green beans cut. one
nch long, one quart of green tomatoes
llced; put this mixture in a pretty |
trong brine tWenty-four hours; drain |
hree hours, then sprinkle in one-fourth
BOUND black and one-fourth pound of
White mustard seed; also one tablespoon
ooAN POPpCA ICt IL C0Iu6 10 /
good boil in just vinegar enough to
over it, adding a little alum. Drain
gain, and when cold, mix in one-hau
INT OF ground mustard; cover the whole
nth good cider vinegar; add tumeric
nough to color if you like. +
-Ex-Governor Seymour said recently
hat 1.-THE spirit Of gambling is the
reatest evil our farmers have to con-
end with. Take hops, for instance.
hat is an extreme case. More men |
ave been ruined by holding their hops
or higher prices, when they could have
Did at thirty cents d pound. than have |
cen hurt by selling in season when the
larket ruled at ten cents per pound.
0 with wheat. Farmers are always
gliding out for higher prices. This |,
eculiarity seems to be confined to the +
alive or American farmers, and that Is
lie reason why they are put at disad.
antage when they have to competa
18th German and other foreign born
rmers, who sell whenever they can
'allze a fair profit. Not until the
merican farmer rids himself of the
mania can he Compete on
rms OF equality with his neighbor
,road.'' .gas
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