The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-09

HERE AND THERE.


Let your milk thoroughly cool
quickly in clean, sweet cold water and
it will not be spoiled afterward by heat,
during seasonable period.
Sweet potatoes do not require as
long to either bake or boil as white
ones, so should not be put on to cook
till the others are partly done.
Feed your breeding fowls moder-
ately at all seasons of the year. They
should never be fattened, and this is
one of the best arguments for keeping
them by themselves.
-Donkeys of small size and docile
spirit are becoming popular again for
children in the cities, as they never go
fast and are considered perfectly safe
on the street Atlanta, Ca. has one
very fine juvenile turnout of this kind.
1t seems that the TEXAS Farmer,
the organ OF the Grange in that State,
has been successful in its efforts to
show up the mismanagement of the
Alliance Exchange at Dallas, and
thereby put the farmers of Texas on
their guard.
The Planters Alliance is composed
of negroes, and recently held meet
ing at Holmesville, Miss, of the Pike
and Marion County Alliances. One
resolution adopted states that swhen
the Planters Alliance dies every negro
in the State will be dead"
To break young horses from chew
ing harness or any thing that happens
to be near them soak some old straps
with a strong tea made OF cayenne
pepper, and hang them within easy
reach of the youngsters. This is gen.
orally effective.
Don't send dirty eggs to market,
in fact, don't have dirty eggs, and you
will not if your nests have been prop
erly looked after and kept clean. Still,
if you have neglected this, wash the
soiled eggs when you collect them. 1t
will pay if you send them to market
Horses can stand more exposure
than men, but the same kind of ex-
posure that produces colds, rheuma-
tism, etc., in men will be liable to af-
feet horses in the same way. 1t is
therefore apparent that warm stables,
good blankets and protection from
severe weather are necessary.
The glass-blowers' trade employs
the same methods to-day that it did
H.
blows the glass with his mouth just as
he did then-be it bottle. flask or COB
let that he is making. Even watch
crystals are made in this way. They
are cut from glass which has been
blown into a sphere.
During the rainy season give fowls
hot feed in the morning. Middlings
mixed with chopped greens, with a
portion of meat scraps once a week.
and wet with scalding water. makes
good rations. Give wheat or corn at
night Poultry Monthly.
AFTER carefully noticing the COM
position, principles and working Of
various agricultural societies for
years." remarks the Rural Neto Yorker.
1--WE haven't a shadow of doubt that
the Grange is the best of all. 1t is an
educational, refining, humanizing agent
wherever it finds foothold. and prop
erly managed is fruitful source of in
struction and profit.
"A picture of Count Tolstoi blowing
in one of his fields has attracted much
attention in European and American
illustrated journals. The Gastonia On.
CO. Gazette presents another case. that
of one Of the successful farmers OF
Iredell County, N. c., Colonel Julian
Allen, is a Russian nobleman. His
true name is Julian Alenski. and he
was exiled from Russia in 1849 because
of his political principles. He was a
Colonel in the Federal army, and in
1876 he settled in Iredell County.
where he has splendid homs and
farm.