The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-03-27
FARM AND FtREsIDE.

"A little ammonia put in the water
given to plants about once a week win
have stimulating effect.-N. =. Her.
ald
There is no feed for sheep equal to
clover hay, especially II smaller pro-
portion of oats be allowed daily.-Chi-
cGgo Journal
Fowls must be fed Systematically
three times day. Give warm break
fast every day as soon as the hens are
off the roost.-Boston Globe. ~
When wash-boiler begins to rust
and is still too good to cast aside, make
a good sized bag of strong muslin or
old bed-ticking, put the clothes to be
boiled into it and so save them from
rust. Exchange.
"A highly nutritive drink for inva.
lids is made by dissolving one ounce of
Iceland moss in pint of boiling milk
and mixing it with a pint of water in
which an ounce of chocolate has been
boiled for five minutes. -Boston Bull
letin.
The best way of cleaning black
cas- hniere is to place the dress or goods
In strong borax water made lukewarm;
let it remain In soak all night, then
take out and hang on line to dry,
and when dry press off. Do not rinse
or wiring. Cleveland Leader.
Gold Weter Pie A good substitute
for custard pie when milk is
scarce. Two tablespoonful of flour,
level, two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
heaped, one egg, lump of butter the
size of hickory nut, nutmeg to taste,
and a good half pint of water. This
makes one pie.-7he Household.
Many farms have soft. springy
portions which can not be used for the
growing of crops, in which n fish pond
could be constructed without great ex-
pense, and enough raised for family
use. But in the taking of fish. whether
it be from natural body of water or
from private pond, you should regu-
late the killing of them the same as
YOU would your fowls.-.Ioronto Globe.
"A barn or stable should be kept at
between fifty and sixty degrees in order
to derive the best results, In some
cases this can not be conveniently done.
but as the animal heat is about ninety
eight the temperature of the stable will
have more or less influence on the
quantity of food required. and hence
the warmer it can be made in the stable
in winter the better.-Indianapohs
Journal.
Scotch short cakes are made thus:
Take one-haf pound of slightly salted
butter and one pound of -four; then
mix -four and butter with hands; then
add four ounces of loaf sugar and work
all into smooth ball; then roll out un-
til it is an inch thick; prick over with
fork and pinch round the edges and
bake for one-half an hour in an oven,
with a moderate fire. in a round or
square pan. according to taste.-Phila-
detphid Call.
ii. j. H. Gregory says the expert.
ment stations have proved great safe
guard againt fraud on farmers. They
have driven out imposters and sus-
tanned honest manufacturers. In the
South Carolina station six hum
dred specimens of fertilizers were ana
lyzed, and only one found which was
a cheat. For potash fertilizer hard
wood ashes are worth about thirty-five
cents q bushel. But there is great
difference in them. If manures do not
ferment ashes do no hurt them. Ashes
should not be put with hen manure un-
less it is to be used at once. Muriate
of potash is the. cheapest form to buy
it, the potash costing about four
cents a pound. but in good ashes it
costs about seven cents.-N. Y. 1rib-
u7e.