The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-08-06
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Alcohol, slightly diluted. will kill
mealy bugs, scale and other pests that
infest house plants.
The best buster with which to clean
carved furniture is new paint brush;
You can remove absolutely all the dust
with it.
Calves should have a run in good
piece of grass The value of COW de-
ponds SO much on the first years growth
that the calf should have best of feed,
that the mature animal may be the
most profitable.
When fattening an animal for beef,
let the process be as quick as possible.
ANY stint in feeding will make the
meat tough and dry. Stall-fed animals
will fatten more readily than others,
and young animals require richer food
than older ones.
-Caledonian Cream.-Two ounces of
raspberry jam or jelly, two ounces of
red currant jelly, two ounces OF sifted
loaf sugar, the whites of two eggs put
into bowl and beaten with spoon for
three-quarters of an hour. This makes
a very pretty cream, and is good and
economical.
Pie Crust Shortened With Beans
Boil white beans until soft, rub through
a sieve and mix as much into -four as
can be done and preserve sufficient
| salt This crust is used at 'water
cures" and makes a far better pie crust
than one would suppose who had never
eaten it.
Potatoes a la Creme.-Put into a
saucepan about two ounces of butter, a
dessert-spoonful of -four, some parsley,
chopped small, salt and pepper; stir
these up together, add wineglass of
cream, and set it ON the fire, stirring
continually until it boils. Cut some
boiled potatoes into slices and put them
into the saucepan with the mixture;
boil all together and serve them very
| hot.
! To Make Roux.-Take one pound
| of very nice butter, and bring it to a
boil on the stove, but do not let it brown
at all. Stand it on one side of the stove;
take off the scum and let the sediment
| settle. Then pour off the clarified but
ter into clean basin. Stir in enough
| -four to make it as thick as it can be
stirred. Place it on the stove and let it
become very hot; then remove to the
back part of the FIRE where it cannot
burn. but will cook gently. Let it re.
main four hours, stirring every little
while. so it will not stick to the basin.
The sauce will assume bright golden
color, and if kept in cool place, will
last for weeks. 1t is French dish, and
is unequalled for thlckening oyster
soup, and all kinds of sauces, gravies,
etc.
Let me give your readers sure
method of dealing with rose-slugs. Ii
has been such comfort to me that
wish every lover of roses might make
use of it. Take an ordinary sprinkling-
pail, with free nozzle, put in few
spoonfuls of kerosene and two or three
spoonfuls of helebore. then fill with
water and give the bushes a thorough
sprinkling. Take care to have the mkt
ure reach the underside of the leave;
as far as possible Apply as soon as tbs
slugs appear, and you will be entirely
rid of them. Helebore alone had triee
in vain: but the kerosene sticks tn,
helebore to the leaves and the worms a.
well. l have tried the same method
with currant worms, and with entire
success. saving great waste of hele
bore. am not particular about thu
amount of either the kerosene or thu
helebore. The bushes will not b,
harmed or rendered unsightly, nor will
the foul odors of whale-oil soap coun
terbalance the sweetness of the roses
Cor. N. Y. Independent.