The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-06-25
HOME AND FARM.

WHITENING inside is good thing to
90. 1t makes the rooms of house neat
er and more wholesome.
-Mouldiness is occasioned by the
growth of minute vegetation. Ink,
paste. leather and seeds most frequently
suffer by it. A Glove will prevent it; any
essential Oil will answer equally WE'LL
Cleveland Leader.
The best grass tor an orchard is un.
doubtedly orchard grass with red clover.
or red clover alone. Plenty of seed
should be used. Cut when weeds make
their appearance, afterward pasture
with hogs or Western Rural.
A farmer in Central New York.
where many beans are raised, says the
best crops are produced when they are
planted in hills two feet apart each way,
and tie soil worked with narrow Gull
tisator. He advises planting from five
to seven beans in Hill.
To make good rusks take one pint
OF milk, one cup of yeast; mix it thin;
when light add twelve ounces of brown
sugar, two ounces of butter. four eggs,
flour sufficient to make stiff as bread;
when risen again. mold and spread it
on tins.-The Caterer.
"A writer in the Poutry- Keeper
keeps what he calls homemade tine
ture OF iron" in bottle of water in
which a handful of rusty nails has
been placed. A little of this placed in
the hens drinking-water adds greatly
to their health, he thinks. but it may be
doubted.
-Whitewash is to some extent dis.
infectant. and should be used i'm cellar
and kitchen closets not less than once a
year, twice being better. A good white
wash is made of one peck of Stacked
lime, pound and half of white Wit
riol, a pound of salt and half pound
of melted glue. the salt and glue keep
ing the wash from rubbing off. For
cellars the Stacked lime is sufficient
Albany Journal.
For a milk pudding put one quart
of milk on where it will cook slowly.
Wash half a teacupful of rice and stir il
into the milk, and occasionally stir
this until twenty minutes before using;
then put tablespoonful of sugar and
small piece of butter, and bake twenty
minutes. This, sometimes called poor
mans pudding, is wholesome and pal
atable. 1t is better to be three hours
in cooking.-Boston Globe.
-Horseradish should be planted as
sarly in the season as possible, or Just
IS soon as the ground can be properly
and if large roots are desired
Tho coil o1vn ~ h, mad, Tor -, -
leep. In planting always use sets.
These are the rootlets or branches OF
he main root. which are too small for
able use. They are cut into pieces
about four or five inches in length, and
n such a manner that there win be no
LANCER in setting the roots upside down.
Sets planted upside down will never
make good roots.-Prairie Farmer.
Sweet Waters: Six eggs, one pint
Iour; two ounces melted butter, one
md one-half cups powdered sugar. one
mp milk and one teasponful nutmeg.
Beat whites and yelks separately and
cry stiff. rub the sugar and butter to-
.ether, and work in first the yelks, then |
he milk and then flour and whites.
sake in well-buttered wafer or waffle |
rons very quickly, browning as little as
'ossible. Roll them while hot upon q |
mootf,, round stick. not larger than
our little finger, slipping it out care
ully when the cake takes the right |
hape. These little cakes are an 40
eptable addition to any tea or supper
able, and look well among fancy cakes
a basket--Boston Budget.