St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-28
FARM AND FIRESiDE.

Never set a hen that has scaly
legs. She will give the disease to her
chicks. Cincinnati Times.
1t is said that q person troubled
with an oily face can keep it clean BY
washing it vigorously with . towel
instead of with his hands.-Good
Housekeeping.
A stick, lattened at the end. vii!
be found help in planting flower
seeds. Make shallow hole with the
flat end of a stick and scatter the seeds
into it, covering lightly.
Into pound of soft soap dissolve
one ounce of carbolic acid crystals and
it becomes an excellent remedy for lice
on animals when they are washed II
warm wat with the aid of the soap
Troy Times.
-Caraway Biscuit: One pound o
crushed white sugar, four eggs, ont
teaspoonful of salt, the rind OF one
lemon, caraway seed, one pound o.,
flour. Stir all these ingredients well
together for one hour, adding the foul
last and then form into cakes. -BOStor
Budget.
For delicate puffs stir into half
pint of sifted flour. to which salt
spoonful of salt has been added, ont
Gill of milk. Beat the white of an egg
to stiff froth. Mix the well-beaten
yelk with gill of milk and stir into
the batter: add the white of egg and
bake in muffin pans in u quick oven.-
Boston Globe.
1t is said that pullet or a one
Sear-old fowl is not so liable to disease
rs two or three-year-old fowl. Seek
to improve your stock every year.
Market your old fowls and keep young
ones on your farms and in your poul-
try yards, and you will have no chicken
cholera. Western Rural.
"A rose jar may be made of rose
leaves gathered in their prime and free
from moisture. Mix with them the es,
sential oils of lavender. rosemary.
cloves, cinnamon, neroli ana lemon.
Keep the jar closed until the perfumes
mingle in an understandable compound
of sweetness like unto the spicy breezes
of .Araby the Blest. " Prairie Farmer.
Pasture is the most nutritious when
composed of many species OF grass.
and when young and succulent. As
grass gets older it contains Il less pro-
portion of albumino DIS, and is then an
inferior ration for milk. Cow peas and
corn ground together is excellent food
rs part of ration for rich milk
Montreal Witness.
-Crumpets: One and one-half pinti
of flour, one-half teaspoonful salt. one
! teaspoonful of sugar. two of baking
powder, one egg, nearly pint of milk
and cream mixed together; slit to-
gether flower. sugar. salt and powder
add beaten egg aud milk; beat all to
gether; bake in we'll buttered hot gem
irons; serve hottie Caterer.
Coffee Cream: Beat one quart Of
rich, sweet cream to a stiff froth. Iks
2 white of eggs for icing; then mix will
one-quarter pound of granulatea sugar
and. shortly before serving, beat int
one cup of cold coffee extract, which
has been male by slowly tiltering tw'
cups of boiling water through twt
5 ounces of finely ground coffee. Serve
i'm glass dish with lady fingers o.
fresh sponge cake.-Ths Household.
: Dwarf pears should be planted oil
spot that has moist subsoil. eithe
natural or make so by subsoiling o
mixing some material with the sol
that will give out moisture in Or.
weather. Trees already planted on
dry. gravelly subsoil should have
circle dug out two feet deep and two o
three feet from the tree. This shoul,
be filed up with we'll enriched soil.
the dwarf pear does not grow freely
4, is sign that something is wrong.
I; should be severely pruned, 50 az to al
/; in producing vigorous growth.-N
! Y Telegram.