The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-01-07
FARM AND PRESIDE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE.
If you permit those lead weeds to
stand about your young trees. look out
for girdled trunks by the mice next
spring.
Lace curtains that shrink when they
are washed can be heightened by let
ting out the hem and facing with thin
muslin.
Professor Riley says that kerosene
oil is sure death to insects in all stages,
and the only substance with which we
may hope to destroy their eggs.
"A good way to serve oysters to
tempt the appetite of an invalid is to
make stew wherein cream is substi-
tuted for milk; salt it well; then line a
small vegetable dish with thin slices of
buttered toast, and pour the stew in.
An inventive genius filled small
tarletan sack with a spoonful of cayenne
pepper and tackled it over rat hole.
When the rat bounced ont his eyes
were peppered by the sitting from the
shaken sack. He squealed like pig
aud escaped. The whole tribe have
since migrated.
Pork chops fried and served with
apples are not to be frowned upon; put
the meat in the frying pan. and then
scatter little sage and pepper and salt
over it; cook thoroughly; If it is fat
enough SO that there is plenty of gravy.
fry the sliced apples in that; If not, add
q lump of butter, brown the apples.
and lay them over the pork.
-Jumbles made from this recipe are
delicate and dainty: One quarter of a
pound each of butter, sugar and flour;
one egg; beat the butter and sugar to a
cream; add the well-beaten egg; stir in
the -four little at time; flavor with
rose water; bake in gem pans, or add
flour enough to roll them out and bake
as you do cookies. If you follow the
latter method, after the jumbles are in
the tins take a fork and pick the
tops of the cakes to make them look
rough.
Chicken Cream Soup. Boil an old
fowl with an onion in four quarts of cold
water until there remains but two
quarts. Take it out and let it get cold.
Cut off the whole of the breast and
chop very fine. Mix with the pounded
yelks of two hard-boiled eggs, and rub
through q colander. Cool, skim, and
strain the soup into soup-pot. Season;
add the chicken and egg mixture; sim.
mer ten minutes and pour into the
tureen. Then add a small cup of boil.
ing milk.
To make fishballs cut or pick cod.
| fish in small bits, taking care to remove
every piece of bone; let it soak in cold
water; let it cook slowly for twenty-five
minutes; season with milk, butter and
eggs; mix with this about double the
quantity Of boiled potatoes; add milk OF
cream to give the desired amount oil
moisture; shape in round cakes, roll in
-four and fry until brown in hot lard
II the lard is not hot when they are put
in they will soak up the fat aud will be
unpalatable.
Mixed Feed.-One of the points in
favor of the much-praised ensilage i
that animals eat it with relish. Nc
food, however rich it may be in food ell
ements, will prove profitable if the farm
stock cannot be made to take to it kind
ly. 1t is ON this account that mixing
of feed has been so successful. Same.
ness pals upon the Appetite change
of diet encourages and sharpens it. A
few ruots cut, or better, pulped and Civ
en- to the animals, will make them eai
the corn fodder or cut straw with al
the greater relish. Try and make .
little change in the diet of the animals
even though it be only once week
with some roots, potatoes, apples, etc.
it will pay.
"A cracked hoof can only be re
paired by new growth from the coronet
where the new horn is secreted. Horr
consists of precisely the same elements
as hair, and is really a solid, compac
form of hair growth; the hair of thu
skin ends where the growth of horn be
gins, and this goes on downward to re
pair the constant wear at the sole of tn
hoof-crust. But q crack in the hoo
will always extend up into the new ant
weak growth because the horn is ex
banded by the pressure of the horse
weight upon the foot To prevent thi
the sides of the crack must be sup
ported and held together by som
means. This may be done by BORN,
holes through the horn ON each side Q
the crack and putting horseshoe nail
through and drawing the hoof togethe
and clinching the ends of these nails o.
each side. The topof the crack shout
then be burned across so as to obliterat
the opening and form solid startin
place for the new growth. The hoe
should be kept soft and elastic by fire
quent dressings Of equal parts of glycel
inc and water.-NeU York Times.
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