The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-15
FARM AND PRESIDE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE.
Vegetable charcoal is highly rec
commended by English army veterinari
ms as a cheap and efficient dressing
for wounds.
When cows are found gnawins
bones or rotten wood it signifies thel
are troubled with indigestion. Civ,
each cow pint of linseed oil or swee
olive oil, and repeat in week If neces
sary.
Tossed Potatoes. -Boil some pota
toes in their skins; peel them and GU
into small pieces. Toss them over the
fire in a mixture of cream, butter rollec
in flour, pepper and salt till they arr
hot and well covered with the sauce.
Lemon Butter for Tarts.
butter is excellent for tarts. tits made
as follows: One pound pulverized white
sugar. whites of six eggs and yelks Of
two, three lemons, including grated
rind and juice. Cook twenty minutes
over slow fire, stirring all the while.
BY using strip or molasses for mus
tard plasters, they will keep soft and
flexible and not dry up and become
hard, as when mixed with water. A thin
paper, Or fine cloth, should come be.
tween the plaster and the skin. The
strength of the plaster is varied by the
addition of more or less flour.
The simplest and best remedy for
the cabbage-worm is said to be to
sprinkle air-slacked lime on the plants
in the morning, on the dew, till the
plants are white with it. One who has
tried it for several years says that. at
most, two applications are sufficient.
The lime is also good fertilizer for the
cabbage.
Peach Butter.-Pare ripe peaches
and put them in preserving kettle,
with sufficient water to boil them soft;
then sift through a colander, removing
the stones. To each quart of peaches
put one and one-half pounds sugar, and
boil very slowly one hour. Stir often
and do not let them burn. Put in stone
or glass jars and keep in cool place.
:. "A poultry house may be freed from
lice by first thoroughly cleaning out all
the manure, then removing the roosts
and everything in which lice may har-
Dor. Next take gallon of kerosene
Oil and saturate every crack in which
lice may gather; take ont the floor and
leave the earth, and lastly give the
whole a thorough soaking with hot
lime wash. Lastly, grease the roosting-
poles with lard and kerosene oil so that
it gets upon the fowls feathers.
"A deep punctured wound, such as
one made by housekeeping. on nail
which enters the foot, should be imme-
diately enlarged as much as possible by
cutting away the horny sole, and should
then be thoroughly washed with solu-
ton OF salt in warm water, injected by
means of a syringe. Some compound
tincture of benzoin may then be in
jected. and plug of tow soaked in the
tincture should be kept in the wound.
The foot should be thoroughly soaked
IN warm water twice day and dressed.
Ii the wound is closed much mischief
Will result. and it must be kept open
until it heals from the bottom.-N. 2.
Times.
Drying Apples. Apples sliced may
be dried very fast under a suitable
kitchen stove by taking up the ashes
clean every morning. Have three extra
vide boards of suitable length to fit
lnder the stove, nail strips of lath
around them to keep the fruit on; raise
he back end to get all the heat von
IAN. When the fruit gets hot, take the
board out and stir the fruit well and let
'ool while another board of fruit is
leating; change often. A rack made
u laths and hung over the stove should
llso be used to save the heat. The
quicker apples are dried after being cut
he whittier they look.
"A Farmers Dainty Dish. Peel and
lice thin potatoes and onions Give DO
atoes to one small onion) take half
BOUND OF sweet salt pork I'm thin slices)
o a pound of beef, mutton or veal:
'ut the meat in small pieces; take some |
nee bread dough and shorten little: |
me the bottom of the stew-pan with |
llces OF pork, then layer of meat, DO |
atoes and onions. dust over a little |
'epper and cover with layer of crust:
epeat this until the stew pot is full. |
he size of the pot will depend on the
lumber in the family. Pour in sufficient
Fater to cover, and finish with crust.
.et it simmer until meat, vegetables.
to-, are done, but do not let it boil
ard. Serve hot.
The advice to pour hot soap suds
yer an ants nest as means of extir-
alton will not always be found effect
We. These insects are almost as diff
ult to eradicate completely as cancer.
nd never saw gardener more nom
lussed and despairing than one who
RED everything conceivable to relieve
ne ladies of the house from the annoy-
nee of an ants nest near the summer
ouse, for two or three seasons, without
citing rid of them. He said he had
red scalding hot water, used coal oil.
ulphur, blasting with powder, ETC.,
nd yet they would soon reappear.
hat was before carbolic acid came into
ommon use, which, poured into dibber
oles. deeply sunk here and there.
light have proved effective. N
!. Tribune.
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