The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25
FARM AND PRESIDE.

TO whiten ivory-boil in lime
water.
AN intelligent farmer says that the
leaves and stalks from an acre of corn
are worth as much to feed to stock as
the hay to be raised upon the same
amount of land.
Washington Cake.-One cup of
sugar. one-half cup of butter, one-half
cup of sour milk, two eggs, one-half
teaspoonful of saleratus, one and one
half cup of flour, lemon to taste.
Cooling moths fly and do not crawl
up the trunks of trees. The females of
canker worms are wingless and crawl
up the trees on warm days in winter
and early spring to deposit their eggs.
--Hiccough effects some persons very
persistently and where simpler reme-
dy does not check it, half teaspoon
full of nitre in half tumbler of water
is recommended as an instantaneous
remedy.
-Entomologists use mixture of sour
beer and molasses, spread on the trunks
of trees or on boards in the evening, to
attract moths. 1t has been suggested
that it would be a good way to destroy
the moths of worms destructive to fruit
by poisoning the liquid applied.
-Buckwheat may be made profitable
upon piece of rough or newly cleared
ground. No other crop is effective in
mellowing rough, cloddy land. The
seed in northern localities should be
sown before July IL; otherwise early
fall frosts may catch the crops. Grass
and clover may sometimes be sown sue
cessfully with buckwheat.
The catalpa timber being imperish-
able under or lying on the ground, it
can be used for the following purposes,
to-wit: Railroad ties, telegraph poles,
fence post, grapevine posts. gate posts,
hop poles, lumber for canoes, skiffs,
boats, ships, shingles, weather-boa
ing, cooperage, water-tanks, framing
timber for bridges, piles. the manufact-
ure of railroad cars, lumber for side
walks, pump-stocks. undertakers' stock,
etc.
We are well satisfied from expert
ment that rolling (should the weather
be dry) after planting corn is advanta-
geous in securing the termination of
the seed. The best stand of corn we
have ever raised was sown not until
June 10, and the land was rolled with a
heavy iron roller after planting. The
earth is thus brought in close contact
with the kernel and the radicle (rootlet)
finds support as soon as it energies
from the seed.-Rurdi New Yorker
-Doughnuts. large egg. four
and one half tablespoonful melted but
ter or lard. one coffee cup sugar. one
cup sweet milk, one teaspoonful ginger.
two of cream tartar. one of soda dis
solved in the milk. Mix the cream tar
tar with flour enough to mako the
dough just stiff enough to handle, fry
in hot lard, take out and lay on brown
paper a moment, then in a dish and
CRATE sugar over them first on one side
and then on the other; do not allow
them to cool before putting on the sugar
Green Gooseberries for Tarts =
Fill very clean, dry, wide-necked bot
ties with gooseberries picked the same
day, in dry weather, and Just before
they have attained their full size. Wrap
a little hay round each bottle, and set
them up to their necks in boiler of
cold water, which should be brought
very gradually to boil; little hay must
be put in the bottom of the boiler, and
the bottles fixed firmly. Let the fruit
simmer gently until it appears shrunken
and perfectly scalded, then take out the
bottles, and fill up as many as you can
quite full with some of the cooked
gooseberries 1T is generally necessary
to sacrifice one of the bottles in doing