The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-07
FARM AND FlRESIDE.

Powdered rice is said to be very
efticacious in stopping bleeding from
fresh wounds.
Potato Croquettes: Make . sofs
paste of finely-mashed potatoes, little
flour and enough egg to moisten, sea-
soning with salt. Mould into balls or
rolls; dip in beaten egg and in fine
bread crumbs and fry brown in boiling
fat Western Rural. :;
-Woodworms in books and wood
work can be destroyed by benzine.
Books should be locked up in a cup
board with a saucer of benzine; furni-
ture and carvings should be placed in
a tightly closed room with an open
dish of the fiuid.-Prairie Farmer.
An Indiana farmer finds that it is
an advantage to mix bluegrass seed and
other light grass seed with moist saw
dust before sowing. He says the grass
seed adheres to the sawdust and enables
the sower to spread it evenly. He uses
about three bushels of sawdust to one
of grass seed.
Meat and Rusk Puddings: Chop
any kind of cold meat with salt pork or
ham, season it well with butter, pepper
and salt, and add two or three beaten
eggs. Then make alternate layers OF
wet rusk crumbs, with milk or cold
boiled hominy or rice and bake half or
three-quarters of an hour. Let the
upper layer be crumbs, and cover with
a plate while baking, and, when nearly
done. take off to blown the top.--Bos-
ton Globe.
If judiciously used the farm roller
may be made of much greater service
than merely leveling uneven surfaces.
That would be accomplished by rolling
as soon as the seed was sown. BY
waiting until the grain is up another
object is accomplished. The ridges
that project above the plants are broken
into fine filth and compacted about the
roots. This is the best possible cult
walton for oats and barley.-N 7.
Herald
Tho low price of fiaxseed is caus-
ing its moro general use for stock feed
ing. Much care is needed in its use,
as it is very laxative and if fed in too
large quantities may cause too open a
condition of the bowels. In small
quantities it is excellent for any stock.
Fed to cows or horses, with cut straw,
it will do no injury. but rather good.
as it helps to counterfeit the too cOnsti-
pating character of the less nutritious
feed.-N. E. Farmer.
"A nice way to cook veal is to take
a fillet of veal, have it boned, then
stuff it with dressing made of bread
crumbs moistened with boiling water.
AIDA generous supply of butter, season
with salt. pepper, the grated rind of
lemon and the juice of the same.
Put your meat in the dripping-pan,
sprinkle with salt and pepper. squeeze
over it a little lemon juice, roast well.
allowing fully twenty minutes to a
pound. Make rich gravy and serve
with sliced lemon.-Rural Neu Yorker.
Lettuce is almost always sown too
thickly. The seed is very small. and
I it is impossible to distribute it thinly
enough by hand unless mixed with
some diyisor. Wheat bran is as good
as any thing. Cover the seed very
lightly and press down with the hoe.
No matter how thinly the plants may
come up the crop will cover the sur
face if the soil is rich enough. if ordin-
airy care is used in sowing. If plants
come mp in masses the leaves are
stunted and worthless. Lettuce old
enough to pick may be transplanted
any time during the summer, and each
root set will make large head before
fall.-N. y Herald.