St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-14
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

"A weak solution of ammonia viii |
hrlVe away worms from flower pots
Apply once a week.
In China night soil and other ma
nures are carefully preserved in pits in
The ground, covered over so as to pre-
vent evaporation and loss
Hard Sauce-Four ounces of but
ter, five ounces of sugar, beaten to a
cream; pile it on the dish You can
add scrape of nutmeg or a little lemon
juice when beating it, as you like mot
enough to thin it, only to flavor.
Wheaton Gems.-One egg, one cup
of sweet milk, three cups of flour, one
even tablespoon of butter, or two OF
cream. two teaspoons of baking-pow
der; bake in gem-pans in hot oven,
filling the pans one-third full. Have
pans hot and well buttered when the
batter is put on. Water may be used in
the place of milk. and the egg may be
omitted. Very nice.
Pink cream, which is very orna-
mental for dessert or for tea, is easily
prepared and well repays ones efforts.
Take the juice of red raspberries. or of
Strawberries, Or of currants; sWeeten to
suit your taste; beat sweet cream until
it is like froth; mix with the juice of the
fruit. Serve in a glass dish or in wine
glasses. The proportion Of cream to
juice is matter of taste; enough juice
should be used to color and flavor the
cream.
Prof. A. E. Blount says that sin
gle grain of wheat cannot carry out its
habits and develop according to its ma
ture on less than sixteen square inches
of land, and that every pound of seed
wheat should be made to produce its
bushel all over the world; also that the
sowing Of large quantities of seed to get
good stand is the worst kind of econ
omy, as the farmer loses his seed and
never in any instance can make as large
yield as by thin sowing.
DO not feed for at least twelve hours
before killing poultry. A fowl killed
while digestion is going on will not keep
week. The spotted appearance of the
skin of dressed poultry is caused by the
feathers having been plucked while the
blood was still fluid. 1t is better not to
pick the birds while warm. A full crop
and carelessness in dressing viii greatly
lower the market value of fowls. Pack
when entirely cold but not frozen. Lay
them with backs upward and legs out
straight.
A subscriber writes to the Country
Gentleman that he has followed the
practice of hauling manure to his fields
in the winter, and thinks the most ben
& eficial results follow the plan of spread
ing it directly from the sleigh. When,
he SAYS, the manure is all out, it is dis
posed of, there can be no further waste,
and it fertilizes the first crop ON the land
thus treated. He considers the manure
very much more valuable when applied
in green state, and when it is mingled
to great extent with frozen liquid ma
nure, than if allowed to leach and dry
for months before used.
Charlotte Russe.-Take half an
ounce of gelatine and put IN only just
enough warm water to cover it; while
this is slowly dissolving take one pint
of thick. sweet cream and whip it up to
a stiff froth; beat well the white of one
egg; after the gelatine is dissolved boil
it for two or three minutes, then sweet.
en- and flavor it; when it is about as
warm as new milk add the cream and
egg and beat the mixture until it is cold
IF the sponge cake over which this is to
be turned is baked ON large, round
tin which is scalloped around the edge,
it adds much to the pretty effect of the
dish. Put the cake, while warm, to
prevent it crumbling, into round dish,
following the scallops to show on top;
then pour the whipped cream over It.
The straw of all grains should be
carefully husbanded and utilized.
Properly fed, it can be made to go a
long ways toward bringing stock through
the winter in good conditionD But it
must not be fed alone. Grain, oilmeal,
or cotton seed meal must 60 along with
it to supply lacking elements. In feed
ing cows. the following plan may be
followed: Give all the straw they will
eat, with six quarts of wheat bran per
day to each COW; or mix corn meal and
bran,, one part of the former or. two OF
the latter, and feed four quarts per day.
Dampen it with bran or meal water to
which little salt has been added; or
mix bran, corn meal and oil meal.
Probably as good proportions as any
would be one part of meal, one of corn
meal, and four of bran, and feed four
quarts of this mixture per day to each
cow.
Gas Treatment Of Whooping Cough.
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