The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-21
HOME AND FARM.

Clean tea or coffee cups with scour.
ing brick. 1t makes them look a. good
rs new.-Erchange.
Gazette thinks it unwise to feed ensilags
TO breeding cattle.
1t is well to remember that the tur.
Key must have wide range. Confine-
ment is death to him. He will show his
gratitude. if permitted to forage, by
making most of his liying.--Prairiie
Former.
Soda Cake: Two cups of butter,
TOUR OF sugar, one of sour cream, one
half cup of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls
OF soda, one of cream-of-tartar, flavor
with nutmeg or vanilla. Caterer.
If you want to get the goodwill Of
your hens, says the Prairie Farmer, feed
them dry. hot corn at night. Heat the
corn in an iron pan or kettle in the
oven. and stir occasionally. No matter
II 1t gets a little charred. 1t won't do
any harm to give warm water, either.
Stuffed Potatoes: Mince some cold
meat very fine and season it to taste.
Choose large potatoes of one size and
peel and core them, taking care not to
core them through. Fill them with the
minced meat and put them in a dish to
bake, with cupful of water and little
butter or nice beef dripping. If the po-
tatoes are large they will REQUIRE an
hour to bake; if small, half that time
will be sufficient -Boston Globe.
Mr.. j. j. II. Gregory makes the
statement that the corn plant has the
power of getting its nitrogen from the
air. We have, therefore, but to supply
potash and phosphate to the soil. For
three years the experiment has been
tried upon the poor-soil plots of the
Rural grounds. No matter how large
the quantity of potash and phosphoric
acid used. we can not get good crop
without nitrogen. NeU Yorker.
Milk should be strained at once
after milking. without being cooled or
shaken. Accurate experiments have
shown that shaking the milk, as in
carrying it in wagon, or reducing the
temperature several degrees before it is
set for cream, will lessen the amount OF
butter. This would indicate that carry
ing milk to a cheese factory in wagon
would be an advantage to the cheese, as
the cream would not rise so much while
the curd was forming.-1'otedo Blade.
More than half of the diseases so
prevalent among farm horses are due
to improper attention to the common
laws of sanitation, and farmers would
save many times the expense of a
properly constructed stable were they
to try the experiment The animals
that are so closely connected with the
successful working of the farm as
suredly deserve better care and atten.
ton than is usually given them. The
humane man will therefore see that they
have light, roomy. well-ventilated
stables. where disease will be far less
likely to enter.-N. Y. Telegram.
Says gossiper in the st. Louis
Globe Democrat: Eyes, there is such
thing as pen paralysis, sometimes called
writer's cramp,' and it is very incon-
venient affection. 1t is weakness OF
the nerves of the hand, caused by the
constant contact of metal, kind of cleo
trical action upon the nerves, and pro-
duces uncomfortable trembling. Writers
who use steei-pens great deal and tele-
graph operators are subject to it. 1t is
treated by electricity applied to the
nerve centers and by nerve tonics, and
readily yields. have had it, but am in
fair way of recovery.
Pearl wheat: This is good as vari-
alton on the oatmeal porridgc for
breakfast Take half a cup of pearl
wheat. two cups of milk and four cups
of water, with a scant teaspoonful OF
salt. Let the milk and water boil up in
saucepan on the stove. then stir in
the wheat and salt Put the wheat in
the inside kettle of steamer to cook,
pouring boiling water in the outside
kettle around it. Boil two hours. Let
the steamer stand all night on the back
of the range, and in the morning beat
it up gradually just before serving.
This can also be done with oatmeal