St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-02-18
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

--Reclpe for Cologne. drachm
each of oil of lavender, oil of lemon, oil
OF rosemary and Oil of cinnamon, and
Two drachms OF oil of bergamot; mix
and add pint of alcohol.
Owing to the high price of feed for
stock, there are heavy shipments Of
"salt hay being made from the New
Jersey marshes. Formerly it was con-
sldered scarcely worth taxing, but the
growing demand for hay has given it a
value which it never before possessed
To make wall paper stay on white
washed walls, use one pound of glue
and one-fourth bar of soap, dissolved in
SIX quarts of scalding water. Let it
stand until blood warm and apply with
whitewash brush; let it dry thorough
ly, and paper.
1t is generally conceded, says a
Florida exchange, that the brown or
rusty orange is much the sweetest, and
can be kept longer than the bright fruit,
but by not unusual perversity of taste,
the brown fruit is deprecated in North
ern markets and sold at half the price of
fair fruit.
If one wishes to calculate the cost,
as he should, of the expense of covering
field with manure, it can be done as
follows: If each two-horse load is d.
vided into ten heaps, and the heaps are
placed four PAGES apart, thirty-one and
a quarter loads viii be required to cover
an acre. ....."". u"
The best sandwiches are made of
thin slices of bread buttered and folded,
with cold-boiled ham between them.
4 Chop the ham fine and season it with
salt, pepper and mustard. If the lean
meat alone is used little melted butter
may be added. Cheese sandwiches are
very nice; the cheese may be grated or
cut in thin slices. Mustard is added or
not. as you please.
Careful experiments have proved
that corn which is hilled will blow down
more readily than that which has level
culture. This can be accounted for by
the fact that corn roots run very near
the surface, and when hills are made
they are confined to the small space
covered by the hill; while in level Gull
ture the roots run from one row TO the
other, thus enabling the corn to stand
strong, as nature intended, and in no
way liable to be blown down except by
winds of unusual violence.
A dish of bright, red apples is al
ways an addition to every table, and
make the best center piece. Apples
and sage, or tapioca, make much bet
ter dessert than the much praised pies
which are so universal among the
Americans. Apples chopped fine and
cooked with half the amount Of bread
crumbs rubbed through colander, OF
grated with sugar, bits of butter and
cinnamon, or allspice, and baked in
layers for pudding, make a fine des-
Sert.
An Idaho stock-herder has discov-
cred ansunderground river. He found
funnel-shaped orifce, fifteen or TWEEN
ty feet deep by ten or twelve, at its rim,
in diameter. At the bottom of this fun.
nel-the soil giving out there2was a
rift in the rock, two or three feet in
width by four or five in length, which
seemed to open into the very bowels OF
the earth. Through this aperture came
up from the depths below terrible roar
ing, as of leaping cataract, a mighty
rush of waters, tumbling over rocks.
The ground trembled, and the subter-
ranean noise continued uninterruptedly.
1t is said that fire-proof houses can
be built of cotton and straw. In pre-
pairing these materials, raw cotton of
inferior quality and the SC catered refuse
of plantations and sweepings of facto-
ries are mixed and converted into a
paste, which becomes as hard as stone,
and then is called architectural cotton.
1t may be made in large slabs, whereby
the building of house would be rapid
in comparison with the practice of lay
ing brick after brick, and at about one
third the cost. For the other part
wheat straw is treated in a way already
known and converted into pasteboard.
The sheets thus prepared are soaked in
q solution which hardens the fibers, and
they are then compressed under enor-
NOUS power into beams and boards Of
any required size. The effect of the
soaking is said to render them difficult
of combustion.