The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-24
FARM AND FlRESlDE.


Pop Overs: Four eggs. four cups
of -four, four cups of milk. small piece
of butter. pinch. of salt Bake in gem
pans, and serve with sauce.--1he Hoxse-
hold.
Fifteen tons of grasshoppers, COM
prising. it is estimated, 60, 000, 900 sepa-
rate insects, were captured at the Ma
toma Vineyard. near Folsom, Cal, by
drowning in the irrigating bitches.
I'm many sections stone set on end
make the best posts for supporting wire
fence. Where hedge plants are set to
complete the fence, the posts need not
be over forty inches long, ten of which
is in the ground, and the top carrying
the main barbed wire as a security
against breachy cattle.
Next to clover, perhaps millet is the
best forage crop. 1t requires rich land
and warm season. 1t is hardly any
use to SOW millet till the middle of June,
and the time of growth is till the middle
of September. 1t should be cut in the
most succulent condition to be the most
aluable.-BostOn Budget.
The slophole at the back door is
productive of doctors bills. Some
people take the trouble to pour slops
every day on different ground where
they become lost to the doctors profit
through speedy drying up. but where
the family will gather gain from their
wide and sure, if not always speedy,
manurial effect.--Erchange.
Baked Pineapple: Cut some slices
of bread very thin, place them in but
tered baking dish and cover each slice
of bread with slice of pineapple. Put
a bit of butter the size of large bean
on the center of each; place in slow
l.oveu and bake. When done, dish, turn
the syrup over and serve warm. II
liked, the slices of pineapple may be
soaked in kirchwasser for twenty-four
hours before baking.-N. Y. Mail.
-"String BEANS as they are more
frequently called, are relished by almost
every person either cooked or as picked
beans. A succession of sowings should
be made until August. Sow about two
inches deep in drills two feet apart, and
not too thickly in the row. The golden
wax is one of the best varieties. and has
the further merit of being one of the
best shell beans for winter use.-Clere-
land Leader.
"A correspondent writes that al
kinds of fruit can be perfectly pre-
served in crooks or other open vessel:
just as well as in cans, simply by pack
ing cotton batting over it so as to clos'
all the apertures. The fruit is cooked
the same as for canning, the crooks
| jars or other vessels filled. and the
common unglazed batting put over and
securely tied on. Professor Tyndal
demonstrated several years ago tina
all putrefaction was caused by bacterif
in the air, and that these could not pen
citrate cotton batting. = Chicago Herald
Stirring wet soil has such a bat
effect that an entire seasons cultivation
will fail to make it friable and mellow
Especially is this the case with heav,
land, where hard Jumps point clearly t
the mistake made in early spring
Nothing is ever gained by planting see
in wet soil, for the surface will certainl
bake hard and cause failure of germina
ton. Should abundant moisture re
main after heavy rains. il is not a fl
place for the garden, for the varietie
of plant life that will flourish unde
such conditions are few indeed. On tn
other hand, the moment soil is stuff
GENTLY dry to work loosely. the bette
for early crops.-N T. Tribune.
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