St. Landry democrat., 1881-10-29
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Straw mating may be cleaned with
q large coarse cloth dipped in salt and
water. and thea wiped dry. The salt
prevents the straw from turning Nel-
low.
Too many varieties OF fruit is n
of the dangers OF the novice in fruit
culture. Fol home use a variety is
well enough, but for market only a very
few are wanted.
Puff Paste with Milk.-Mix with a
spoon three-.ourths of a pound of butter
with one pound OF flour, then add milk
enough to moisten the whore, so as to
roll easily. Do not mold it with the
hands at all, Or as little as possible, and
the crust will be found much nicer made
this way than by the old methods re-
curing more labor.
Horse Radish for Winter. In the
fall mix the quantity wanted in the fol
lowing proportions: A coffee cup Of
grated horse radish, two tablespoonfuls
of white sugar, d half teaspoonful OF salt
and a pint and a half of cold vinegar;
bottle and seal. To make horse radish
sauce, take two tablespoonfuls of the
above, add one dessert spoonful olive
oil Cor melted butter or creamy and one
of prepared mustard.
Wagons need to be painted every
year, especially the wheels. in which
all the cracks should be we'll filled with
putty. Rcd lead and boiled linseed-oil
make a good body paint for the run,
ning-gear of wagons. Another good
paint is asphalt varnisL mixed with oil.
A dark reddish brown is a good color
for wagon wheels. as it is pretty neal
mud color. For finishing the wheels OF
a wagon the mineral paints will be
found durable and cheap.
In boiling a ham, if the ham is not
required hot, let it get coldin the liquor
in which it has been boiled. If you
place a boiled ham on a dish to get
cold, you will find a quantity of jelly
has run out of it and has got cold on
the dish. If you let the ham get cold
in its liquor, this jelly will settle in the
ham, which will consequently be juicy
instead of dry, as is too often the ease
with cold ham. Let the vessel in which
it gets cold be uncovered. and it is as
well to take of the scum when it is hot.
-Rice-Cake With Peaches. Cook
some rice in a steamer with milk and
while it is still hot add a little butter,
sugar and two eggs. Butter a plain
pudding mold, strew the butter with
bread-crumbs and put in a layer OF rice
half an inch thick; then a layer of
peaches, and continue the alternate lay
ers of each until the mold is full. Bake
this for about fifteen or twenty minutes
in an oven; when done turn the cake
out of the mold and pour into the bot
tom of the dish a boiled custard sauce
favored with anything preferred.
-Suet Pudding.-One cup finely.
chopped suet, two-thirds cup good
strip, one cup sweet milk with half a
~teaspoonful soda dissolved in it, M
cup stoned raisins, one t%easpoonful
cream tartar sifted with flour enough
to make stiff batter. Boil in a pail set
in a kettle of water, or steam in a
steamer if preferred, two hours. and
serve with a auc prepared as follows:
One teacup sugar, butter the size OF an
egg, a large tablespoonful of flour, all
stirred together. On this mixture pour
nearly a pint of boiling water. Let it
cook q few minutes, and season with
nutmeg or to taste.
The potato was discussed recently
at the Central New York Farmers
Club. The fact developed in the ex-
perience of farmers present was, that,
though soil and season unquestionably
have much to do with the flavor of
potatoes, the late potatoes retain their
favor over winter and into spring bet
ter than early sorts. Prof. Roberts
found that, under the same conditions,
small potatoes for seed gave the poorest
result, the middle part of large pota-
toes next. the seed end next. and the
stem end the best. A whole large
potato with a single eye is the best
possible seed. More work is needed,
but a better crop secured, by cultiyat-
ing in rows or drills, rather than in
hills.
1t is a poor practice to be c%ontinu-
ally dosing animals. When we see a
farmer frequently visiting the drug
store for medicines for his stock. the
impression is that there is something
radically wrong in his management.
He is the "sick one," and needs the aid
of a good physician-some n to show
him that sickness rarely happens on a
well ordered farm; that clean, warm
stables, and plenty of good feed. pure
water in abundance, ETC., are far better
than their opposites, with all the physic
that the largest drug store a supply.
Nothing is more clearly proved than the
Importance of care and keeping of the
right sort for the health OF farm ami
mails and their profitable growth and
increase. Sickness will sometimes come
with the very best management, and
when it does it is better to employ
skillod harhis TO c1lre than to &c GoctorN