The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-12-22
HOME AND FARM.

One drop of castor oil placed on
warts every day for from ten days to
two weeks, will remove them and leave
no mark. -Eachange.
Gravy ladies of china or granite
ware have gone out OF use very largely
A good-sized spoon takes the place OF a
ladle, and is ghter and prettier.
CHICAGO Journal.
The theory that fowls and turkeys
iniure the grain by roaming through 1t
is not true, while the slugs they kill and
their droppings made soluble by the
rain increase the crop.-1roy Times.
White Cake: Two cups white sugar
and a scant cup of butter mixed to-
gether. Add the well-beaten whites OF
five eggs, one cup sweet milk, three
cups slfted flour, in which stir two tea
spoonfuls baking powder. Flavor with
any thing desired. Boston Globe.
Milk Gravy: Put in your spider
about one tablespoonful of fred meat
gravy or butter; when hot add nearly
one pint milk; when milk comes to a
boil, add pepper, salt, one heaping tea
spoon flour stirred in little cold milk
so it will not be lumpy The Caterer.
Dreamed Eggs Boil eight eggs un-
til hard, plunge into cold water, re-
move the shells without breaking the
whites, put into vegetable dish and
cover with drawn butter made of a p mt
of new milk, two spoonfuls of butter, a
little salt, and thickened with half a
spoonful of cornstarch. This is an ex-
.cellent breakfast dish. Housewife.
"A contemporary says it is easy to
get I'd of black ants. Open a hin with
hoe. scatter on a handful of salt,
sprinkle on u quart of water, and the
ants will leave Immediately. A few
days ago the house was overrun with
insects. The correspondent found
eleven anthills within two rods of his
building. After the above application
not an ant was to be seen about the
premises.
The most popular remedy in En-
gland for the gapes in poultry, and the
most successful is that which is known
as the powder cure. Some prepared
powder is placed in a bellows, and
when the chicks or young pheasants are
in the coop it is blown therein, so that
the air becomes charged with it, and
the BIRDS breathe it. They begin to
sneeze and cough, and in this way are
able to get rid of the worms. It is
much less dangerous than fumigation.
-Flaky Soda Biscuit: Mix together
a quart of very dry flour, a teaspoonful
of baking soda, two of cream of tartar
and saltspoonful of salt; pass through
sieve, then chop in two ounces of but
ter or lard, and mix quickly with m TX
to make very soft dough. Flour the
board well, roll out, sprinkle with flour,
| double it over and roll out again; cut
| into biscuits half an inch thick. Bake IN
very hot oven about fifteen minutes. -
Boston Badaet.
Onions with Hard-Boiled Eggs:
Half-cook four or five onions by boiling
them in salt and water. Take them
up, drain, and cut them in slices quar-.
ter of an inch thick. Fry them in lit.
tie butter until brown, and simmer fol
quarter of an hour in pint of thick
ened and seasoned broth; then put in
six hard-boiled eggs cut in thin slices,
mix with onions, simmer together for 8
minute, and serve. -Erchaage.
The National Stockman thinks colt;
are weaned too late It says: 1.As {
rule colts are weaned too late in thu
season. They should have time t.
learn to eat heartily of other foods
before cold weather. A colt foaled il
May should be weaned in September
which will allow both it and its dam Il
60 into winter quarters in better shape
than if the weaving is postponed unit
October or November. If the mare il
kept breeding, and has not anything
i else to do but to breed and nurse he
colts, she will get along if the colt i
not weaned until December; but TIL
colt will not do SO we'll if put upon fod
der and hay all Of sudden at that tim
of year. The young thing should b,
! taught to eat before it is weane d.