The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18
FARM AND PRESIDE.

v-Sunfower seeds, fed in small guam
titles, imparts a beautiful gloss to the
plumage OF poultry.
Never set hen in box above the
ground or floor of the chicken-house, if
| possible to do otherwise, as the eggs dry
too fast and lose their vitality. Much
better success may be expected if the
nests are made upon the ground.
There are some kinds of cotton cloth
which almost invariably turn yellow
after the first washing; this can be pre-
vented if two days before the regular
| washing the cloth is soaked in clear
water. This is worth trying if you have
any doubts about the cloth.
"A very agreeable dentifrice for good
teeth is made from an ounce of myrrh
in fine powder and little powdered
green sage, mixed with two spoonfuls of
white honey. A druggist will make up
the compound, and the teeth should be
washed with itevery night and morning.
Before dipping a new pen into ink
thrust it into fresh-cut potato, and the
ink will never cling. When the pen is
thickly gummed with dried ink few
thrusts will clean it perfectly. When not
in use, some accountants leave their pens
sticking into potato kept on the desk
for the purpose.
Poor shelter, care and feed will, in a
few generations, make scrubs of the
finest thoroughbred stock. Thorough
bred scrubs are but little better than ma
tive scrubs, and the farmer who raises
either will always be poor. Breeding
the best stock and keeping it in the best
possible manner pays the largest profits.
Allowing for considerable variations,
owing to prices, etc., Professor Caldwell,
of Cornell University, names from three
quarters to one pound per day to 1000
pounds weight of stock. as the quantity
of linseed oil cake, which may be most
profitablv fed during winter when it is
only desired to keep the animals in good
condition.
The Croup.-Take lobelia, ginger
and cayenne pepper, of each one-half
drachm, put them in pitcher with one
half pound of sugar and pint of boiling
water; stir until sugar is dissolved; leave
to settle; then add one drachm of the oil
of peppermint, and one ounce of the
tincture of myrrh. Bottle when cool;
dose, from ten. drops to teaspoonful
every half hour until relieved. | hope
that every mother who reads this will
give it trial.--Maine Farmer.
The immense herds, now aggregat-
ing twenty millions, which roam over
the pampas of the Argentine Republic,
and comprise, with the sheep, most of
the wealth of that country, are all de-
scended from eight cows and a bull
which two Portuguese brothers, named
Goes, took to the Spanish colony there
in 1868. 1t is only within few years
that any effort has been made to improve
the much.depreciated stock of the coun-
| try. As yet only a few cattle near Bue-
nos Ayres have been crossed with short
horn breeds.
The alarming prevalence of the
smallpox makes timely this item, taken
from the Liverpool Mercury: 81 am
willing to risk my reputation as public
man" says Edward. Hine. " if the worst
case of smallpox cannot be cured in
three days, simply by the use of cream
of tartar One ounce of cream of tartar
dissolved in a pint of water, drank at
short intervals when cold, is certain,
never-failing remedy: 1t has cured
thousands. never leaves mark, never
causes blindness, and avoids tedious
lingering"
Cup Coffee.-Four eggs, two cups
sugar, one scant cup butter, one cup
milk, one small teaspoonful soda, two
of cream tartar. Beat the whites and
yelks separately. Beat the sugar and
butter very light, then add the
eggs and other ingredients and stir in
flour just enough to stiffen. The flour
should beused with good judgment, as
there is great difference in the quality
Three cups of flour is the prescribed
quantity, but Mrs. P.'s cook used less,
and her cup cakes cannot be beaten By
any one.-lNrs. Beccher.