St. Landry democrat., 1888-01-14
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

No place for butter or milk-the
cellar.
Take your choice: kill the lice OF
let them kill the calves.
To remove soreness from the fee
try bathing them at night in pure alec
hol.
What goes to waste in many kinds
OF business is far more than what goes
to profit, and this will be SO until meI
learn that waste is irreparable loss.
When the rubber rollers of YOU
wringers become sticky, as they very Of
ten do after wringing flannel, rub with
Kerosene and wipe dry and they will be
nice and smooth.
If you want your pigs to thrive,
feed well and at regular intervals, not
more than can be eaten at one time,
but always as near the same time as
possible. "There is more in the trough
than in the breed. "-Home and Farm.
1t is becoming clear to the least
observant farmer that not only must he
mix his crops, but become stock
farmer, if he would maintain the fer
tility of his land and lessen the drudg
cry of his occupation.
Fried Parsnips: Scrape and leave
in cold water for an four, then cook
half an hour in hot sailed water. wipe,
slice lengthwise, dip in melted butter,
then in flour, season with salt and pep
per, and fry in boiling dripping.
Drain free of fat and dish. Boston
Budget
To wash old flannel dresses. put
two tablespoonful of spirits of am
monia Common hartshorn) into the
boiling soap suds as they are dipped
in; rinse the soap well out in another
bucket of boiling water; pull in to shape
with the hands until half-dry, and iron
while still damp. This will make them
resemble cloth.
The first thing the owner of rum
down farm should do, says the Amer-
icaa Culticator, is to stock up with the
best obtainable animals he can afford.
With the Eastern farmer. especially on
exhausted land, the breeding of his
farm stock, and its capacity for rapid
increase in value, are the factors most
essential to success.
-Souffie: Four eggs to three cups
chopped meat; equal amount of white
sauce as meat. Chop meat fine, add
yolks and white sauce and cook one
minute. When somewhat cool, add
beaten whites and pour into buttered
baking dish and bake twenty minutes.
Let the dish baked in be hot before the
mixture is poured in.-Good Cheer
A painless method of treating an
nail is to draw WOODEN
yarn under the corner of the nail,
leaving both ends projecting, and let
it remain thus until the nail has grown
free from the flesh. A little mutton
tallow may be used to soften the flesh
about the nail, and in trimming the
nail allow the corners to project little
beyond the flesh.
= For cake pudding sprinkle light
ly with water any kind of cake you may
happen to have and put in hot oven
for ten minutes; if the cake be stale it
will bear more wetting. While it is in
the oven make clear sauce, as fol-
lows: One cup of sugar. a teaspoonful
Df butter and a tablespoonful of -four,
together in bowl Pour on a |
pint of boiling water and beat hard |
three minutes. Serve hot. Indian
yp0ls journal. @
Cranberry Sauce: Take one quart
If cranberries, one pound of granulat-
I'd sugar, and half pint of cold water
Boil fifteen minutes. Far superior is
cranberry jelly, in making which cook
he sauce as for jelly, but emitting the
sugar. Strain and mash SO as to get
III the juice, with which proceed as in
making any jelly. Use moulds of
porcelain and not of tin. What is pref
Ter than an ornamental mould of cram
berry jelly. solid and translucent-
MrtstiGn Union.
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