The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-15
FARM AND fIREsIDE.

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III raw potatoes or the peelings are
cut fine and sprinkled on the carpet be-
fore sweeping they will be found more
cfectual than salt or cornmeal.
Fried Potatoes. Take cold, boiled
potatoes, crate them, make them into
flat cakes, and fry them in butter. You
may vary these cakes by dipping them
in the yelk Of an egg and rolling them
IN bread crumbs, frying them in boiling
lard.
Hot Sauce for Meats. onions,
two cups of sugar, thirty-two tomatoes.
one quart of vinegar. four peppers, two
tablespoonful of salt, two tablespoon
fuis OF cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls Of
cloves, three tablespoonfuls Of red pep
per; cook. strain and bottle.
Mrs Henry Ward Beecher. good
authority on domestic economy. says
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 half
q pint OF vinegar. . Then wash. wipe
dry, and cook as desired"
Apple Tribe Scald as. many APP
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 fine. and sugar
to taste. Mix half pint of milk, half
q pint of cream, and the yelk Of an egg !;
scald it over the fire, keepingi it stirring,
and do not let it boil add q little SUI
gar, and let stand till cold. then lay it
over the apples, and finish with the
cream whip.
The average results of experiment
and theory, SO to speak, makes fifty
seven pounds of Indian corn equal to
100 pounds of hay, or 1,140 pounds Of
corn to the ton of hay. But 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 tho object
sought, as Fat, growth, labor. milk, etc.
The above is the relative amount of nu-
tritive matter in corn and hay, as deter
mined by experiment and theory.
Lettuce for Winter and Spring. -
Almost any time from the middle Of
SOPeCnO0L W tuc mhuul6 VI OCUOOeI,
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 OF
moderately warm. 1t will give very
fair 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 it comes very OPPORTUNITY in April.
Mixed Pickles. Three hundred
small cucumbers. four green peppers
sliced fine, two large or three small
heads of cauli6ower, three heads Of
white cabbage shaved fine. nine large
onions sliced, one large root horse rad
ish, one quart of green beans cut one
inch long, one quart OF green tomatoes
sliced; put this mixture in a pretty
strong brine twenty -four hours; drain
three hours, then sprinkle in one-fourth
pound black and one-fourth pound of
white mustard seed; also one tablespoon
ful black ground pepper; let it come to
q good boil in Just vinegar enough TO
cover it, adding . little alum. Drain
again, and when cold. mix in one-half
pint of ground mustard; cover the whole
with good cider vinegar; add tumeric
enough to color, if you like.
-Ex-Governor Seymours said recently
that 1.-THE spirit Of gambling is the
greatest evil our farmers have to con-
tend with. Take hops, for instance.
That is an extreme case. More men
have been ruined by holding their hops
for higher prices, when they could have
sold at thirty cents pound. than have
been hurt by selling in season when the
market ruled at ten cents per pound.
So with wheat. Farmers are always
holding out for higher prices. This
popularity seems to be confined to the
native or American farmers, and that is
the reason why they are put at disad.
vantage when they have to compete
with German and other foreign-born
farmers, who sell whenever they can
realize a fair profit. Not until the
American farmer rids himself of the
gambling mania can he compete on
terms of equality with his neighbor