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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-10-12

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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
The Esc,lriaI.

This palace is an immense pile Of
buildings situated near Madrid, Spain,
which has sometimes been called the
eight wonder of the world 1t was
built by Philip H., as a mausoleum, in
accordance with the will of his father,
and served at once many purposes, as a
palace, convent, treasury, tomb house
and museum. 1t was begun by Juan
Bautista de Toledo in 1868, and finished
in 1884. Its name, according to some,
is derived from Escori9, the dross of
iron mines, which still exist here. The
building was begun on the anniversary
of st. Lawrence, and, according to the
tradition, was made to assume the shape
Of a gridiron, the instrument on which
that saint IS recorded to have suffered
martyrdom This story, however, is
now believed TO be an invention of later
date. The huge and sombre structure,
standing at an elevation of POO feet
above the level of the sea, is part and
parcel of the mountain out of which it
has been constructed. 1t is built of
granite in the Doric order, and was till
lately the country palace and mausoleum
of the Spanish sovereigns, part of the
cdifice being used for educational pur-
poses. 1t is now, however, but mere
wreck, and being deprived of its monks
and revenues, and exposed to the mount
ain storms, is constantly subject to in
jury. Cuitirator.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Queer Travelling Thinkers.

A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from st. Paul De Loanda,
on the west coast of Africa, says; One
of the greatest oddities to be met with here
is the travelling tinker. He goes from
place to place on foot, carrying with him
all the implements of his trade. He is
not averse to the mucotah or refs or the
English coin, but he doesn't work for
that. That is his pretence, at least. He
works merely for his food and a shelter.
A planter desires a chain riveted, a lock
refitted, aplow FURNISHED up, fence re-
paired, hoe or spade hammered out or
repaired. The tinker comes along, he
squats down on road or in a yard,
makes his fire and does his job for so
many meals and so long rest in the out
buildings or barn. A large stone or
piece of rough iron serves for an anvil,
and the black oddity leisurely goes to
work and finishes his task. If he secures
little tobacco, few nails, some salt.
piece of calico or coin occasionally, in
addition to his board and lodging, he
feels amply repaid and goes on his way
rejoicing. He chatters and sings while
at work, and occasionally in the evening
amuses his employers with tales of travel
or dance, for which the tum-tum fur
nishes the music and in which the plan
tation hands join. These thinkers are a
jolly set, and literally as they travel
through life they live by the way.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
PUMPKIN PIE.

There are so many makeshifts in these
days that it is well once in the year to
remind housekeepers of the rich, we'll
made pies of the days when people were
less impatient to be through with their
work and took time to do it properly.
The first essential is good, sweet field
pumpkin, which is better than any squash
for this purpose. Peel it and cut it in
pieces and cook it very slowly for four or
five hours, with only water enough to
prevent its burning. This slow cooking
makes the pumpkin rich and sweet.
When it is done mash it and strain it
through colander, and to two cups of
strained pumpkin add slowly four cups
of boiling hot milk, half teaspoonful of
salt, two tablespoonfuls of ginger, one OF
cinnamon, one of mace and a half nut
meg, Beat well five eggs; stir them in
cup of cream and add with sugar enough
to sweeten the whole. Line tin pie
plates with plain pastry, brush it over
with the white of an egg, crimp an
ornamental border of puff paste around
the pie and fill it with the pumpkin
custard. Bake the pies in moderately
hot oven till they are firm in the centre
and brown.-New York Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

will be in condition TO pillow excepting
these piles, where IL will be frozen too
solid to admit OF blowing, A corre-
spondent of the Germantown PENN
Telegraph gives his way of making and
spreading manure as follows;
My horse and COW stables have double
doors and the space behind the animals
is wide enough to admit of cart to take
ont the manure, prefer not to clean
out the stables oftener than twice
week, but il the COW manure is very
soft clean them out every day, or every
second day, according to the circum-
stance of having an abundance or scar
city of litter After the manure is put
in the cart, if there should be any urine
in the channel behind the cows, it is
carefully baled out and poured on top of
the load OF manure, and by the time it
reaches the field the liquid is trickling
on the ground, but not much is lost. The
dripping manure is then drawn out of
the tail end of the cart and deposited IN
some half dozen heaps with dung drag,
and Immediately spread. The land thus
receives all the virtue that is in the ma
nure, which sinks down in the ground,
and none of the "gaseous matter escapes
up in the clouds" After the essence of
the manure has all sunk in the ground,
the straw remains on the surface as a
mulch, which is an effective agency to
improve land. By this method of manur-
ing | get my corn ground covered during
the fall and winter, thus avoid hav-
ing the leached carcass from the barn.
yard saturated with water, and dragged
out through the mud in the spring at a
busy time, While manuring my field in
winter / keep the manure spread in a
straight line, and put up guide poles at
each end of the line so that if snow falls
/ will know where to spread the manure.
/ find by experience that manure and
snow when in partnership make strong
fertilizing firm, which, when dissolved
by the sun, shows quite as good result
in the following crop as any other mode
of applying manure.
For more than thirty years have tied
my cows in the stable every night in
summer Just the same as in winter, with
out any detriment to a single animal.
My object in doing this is two-fold.
First, make an extra quantity of ma
nure; second, my cattle are in asafe place,
which relieves me from care and anxiety,
consequently can sleep soundly. Dur
ing the winter my horned stock have
only couple of hours each day out in
the yard-just long enough to eat their
mess of corn stalks and get drink.
Cows when used to being stabbed dislike
to stay long out in the cold, and evince
great alacrity to get indoors where it is
warm and comfortable. My procedure
in manipulating manure by handling it
only once and placing it where none of
! its virtues can be lost, | think is much
better than the old-fashioned way with
4 the wheelbarrow, taking the manure in
the barnyard to lay in the drenching
rain till spring, then to be handled again,
being soggy and heavy, with the ammo.
mia pretty much precolated through ii
and lost. Oftentimes it is not conven.
lent to apply the manure in some corner
of the field whereon it is to be spread.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
EscALLorEp oAuLIFLowER.

Cook good-sized caulihower in plenty
of water for half an hour. At the end OF
this time drain and separate it into flower
cts. Put layer in a deep white earthen
pudding-dish and sprinkle it with salt,
pepper and a few bits OF butter ana
tablespoonful of grated Parmesan cheese
Moisten this layer with cream sauce, then
add another layer and sprinkle with
cheese, and finally with fine breadcrumbs
and few bits of butter. Pour over all
enough cream sauce to moisten it well
and bake it in hot oven for twenty
minutes. To make the pint of cream
sauce used in this rule melt two table,
spoonfuls of butter in saucepan with
tablespoonful of flour, and when mixed
add slowly pint of cold milk and boil
at once,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
SETTING TREES.

The principal objection to setting out
trees in the fall is the damage that is
often done through the winter by thaw-
ing and freezing. If, however, the work
is to be done, care must be taken to have
the soil well prepared. Plow well, and
harrow until in good filth. In digging
or preparing the places for the trees, be
sure there is plenty of room for the roots,
so that they can be spread out evenly and
naturally.
The soil should be well loosened up in
the bottom. If manure is to be applied
around the trees, care should be taken to
incorporate thoroughly with the soil. 1t
is not good plan, where it can be
avoided, to have manure to come into
direct contact with the roots of the trees,
unless it be compost. Keep the roots
moist and see that they are not, or have
not been, injured by frost Spread them
out evenly and fill in with dirt. After
the roots are well covered, tramp down
well so that the soil will come in close
contact with the roots. Fill up well
around the stem of the trees.
A good plan is to make mound
around the tree, as this will not only aid
to protect from injury by thawing and
freezing, but be help in preventing
mice from doing injury.
Good drainage must in all cases be fur
nished. Never allow water to stand
around the roots of any kind of fruit
plants. The surest plan of avoiding this
is to provide good drainage in the fall.
After the ground freezes, a good mulch
should be put around each tree. Old
straw, bagasse, or corn fodder, are all
good materials. As this is applied to
keep the soil at as even temperature as
possible, rather than as protection, it
will be best not to apply too early. Wait
until the ground freezes hard, and then
apply.
Protection must also be given against
rabbits, and this should be applied early
generally when the trees are set out
in order to lessen the risk.
A plat should always be made of the
orchard in setting out the trees, so that
in case the labels should get lost, there
will be no danger of the names of the
varieties being entirely lost. If the
work is carefully done, the trees mulched
in good season. and properly protected,
fall-planting will succeed fully as well as
spring; but considerable loss is often oc-
casioned by carelessuess in this work.
Prdrie Farmer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Hospitable Danes.

The farmhouses in Denmark are all OF
stone, the roofs matched with straw.
None but the rich can afford slate or tile
roofs Where the servants wash the
floors are of clay; in the other rooms they
are of wood, well secured, and the
Weather people have mats spread
about.
Everybody goes to church, and in the
thinly populated region they come fol-
miles around. The services begin at s
o'clock and continue until 10, and the
hours are the same throughout the year.
The pastor does not take vacation. He
is man of great authority and the people
haze to obey him.
Notwithstanding their poverty and
unceasing toll, they are wonderfully
merry aud light hearted. 1t is probably
because they have never had their con-
tentment marred by contrasting Their
situations with more prosperous one.
They are all poor alike and poor to-
gether They do not know of any other
possible condition. The harvest parties
and May parties and Christmas are the
three great holiday occasions, and they
feast and dance and sing and play
cards.
The people everywhere arc the soul OF
hospitality, and the stranger who stops
to rest or ask the way is always well
coined and given bread and coffee, OF
whatever they may have 10 offer.
When child is born, cakes aud meats
and other delicacies are sent in by friends
and relatives, and there is eating and
drinking and visiting for several days.
All the acquaintance and kinsfolk call
to offer congratulations, and these atten-
tons are always sorupulously returned in
kind. 0ceaR.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Ancient Embalming.

In view of modern progress in en-
balming, desiccation and other methods
Of preserving the dead for an indefinite
time, it is interesting to note that it has
been estimated that more than 400, 900
human mummies were made in Egypt
from the beginning of the art of embalm-
ing until its discontinuance in the Sew
cnth Century. There were three grades
of cmbalming. For preserving his rela-
tive in the most approved style the Egyp-
tian had to pay S1225: in the second
grade the operation cost about 1878; the
third method was so cheap as to be con-
si,lered within the reach of the poorest
citizen, and involved the picking of the
body for some days, aud then boiling in
bitumen. These mummies are devoid of
hair and eyebrows, and are black, heavy,
dry and very hard to break
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
PREPARING TO KICK.

A we'll known citizen was discovered
going through some singular motions in
one of the corridors of the City Hall yes
terday, and an acquaintance who ran
against him cried out
"What on earth are you up to nowl"
Taking off my diamond pin"
''But where's your watch?"
SIN my coat tail pocket
"Afraid of being robbedi"
sob, no. It's business. ;"
''How"
"Why, the assessors have put me down
for four dollars tax on personal prop
erty, and I'm going in to kick"
"But you've got horse.
"Yes, but he wasn't in the day they
called"
"And piano"
"That happened to be at the factory
to be revarnished.
'But your bank account
"Sh! It's in my wife's name! Keep
quiet. Now, then, I'm ready to go in
and tell them that the people are ready
to take up arms to rid themselves of this
terrible burden of high taxation. DE.
t1OU free Press
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

For bilious collie soda and ginger in hot
water. 1t may be taken freely.
To remove tar rub thoroughly with
clean lard and wash with soap and warm
water.
Nervous spasms are usually relieved by
little salt taken in the mouth and al
lowed to dissolve.
When the eyes are tired and weak, il
they are bathed in slightly saline water
they will soon become soothed.
Bent whalebones can be restored and
used again by simply soaking in water
few hours and then drying them.
Use Turkish towels for the kitchen as
well as for bath towels; they wear well,
wash easily and requires no ironing.
Heartburn may be relieved almost in
stantly if half a teaspoonful of table salt
be dissolved in wineglassful of cold water
and then drunk.
Sleepessness caused by too much
blood in the head may be overcome by
applying cloth wet with cold water to
to the back of the neck.
Make bed comfortables for every day
use of domestic bingham instead of
calico. 1t only costs trife more, will
wash better and wear as long again.
A French cook tells us that piece oil
dry bread, tied in bag and placed in
the water while cabbage is boiling, will
prevent the unpleasant odor which usual
ly arises.
Sometimes vanilla bean is thrown
into the tea pot with the green and black
tea, and after the boiling water is poured
in there is delicate aroma of vanilla as
well as tea
Nothing is more soothing for burns OF
scalds than to pour the white of an egg
over the injured place. 1t is easily pro-
cured and is more cooling than sweet oil
and cotton.
Children need four suits; one for very
best, one for second best, and two for
the wear and tear Of every day. To get
on with scantier supply is poor
economy as general thing.
Be sure and put your clothes pins in
hot soap suds at least once in two weeks,
and let them boil; after which they may
be taken out, dried and put away in a
bag, ready for use on next wash day.
Glue that is delicate and nice for mount,
ing ferns and sea-weeds is made of five
parts of gum arabic, three parts of white
sugar, two parts of starch, add very lit.
tie water; boil until thick and white.
Nothing more surely shows good
breeding than refined table manners,
and you can never teach your children
these while habitually eating off an oil
cloth table-spread or slovenly linen
one.
Straw mating should be quickly
washed with soap and water; and, if
rinsed in salt water, it will turn yellow
in drying. Cane bottom chairs may be
washed in the same manner, and dried in
the open air.
TO clean carpet thoroughly, throw
damp salt upon it and then sweep it
briskly, ana it will be found that all the
coloring will be vastly frightened; or if
the carpet has been well swept, go over
it afterward with clean cloth and cleal
salt water, and the result will be almost
as good.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Irregular feeding makes thin horses,
even if the quantity given is good.
A stiff brush in the stable, judicously
used on farm horses, is good horse doc
tor.
A half a dozen varieties each of sum
mer and winter apples that are adapted
to the season and the market will pay
better than a great number.
Charcoal is much appreciated by the
fowls. The best is formed of charred
grain. Corn roasted like coffee and fed
twice week would no doubt pay for the
trouble.
One serious error in poultry keeping is
the custom of keeping hens until they be.
come too old to be profitable, because
they were favorites or good layers Dis
pose of them or you will suffer much
loss.
1t is great waste to burn leaves gath
cred along the roadsides, for they make
excellent bedding for stables, and that
use served they are worth all cost of
gathering if used as manure for garden
or lawn.
A warm stable need not be an expen
sive one You can stop up the cracks
with laths, and line the inside of the
stable with straw, mailing on sufficient
laths over the straw to keep it in place.
This will make warmer wall than a
double boarded one, and be vastly
cheaper.
Gather fine specimens of hickory nuts,
butternuts, chestnuts, ETC., and either
plant them now where you desire them
to stay pack them in sand little moist
and keep for spring planting. There are
very many farms the values of which
could be largely increased by having on
them thrifty growing young nut
orchard.
Gather the leaves which collect in the
fence-corners, all trash along fences, sods
which are slipping away into the road,
all the scrapings about cowyard, pigpen,
chickenyard, ETC., and place them in the
barnyard, to be incorporated with the
manure. A large quantity of valuable
fertilizer can be collected on any ordi-
nary farm.
There is considerable nourishmcnt in
apple pomace, and it is worth saving if
fed as it should be. 1t is not Il perfect
ration, and to allow stock to eat a great
deal of it is to injure them. But that
also is true of eating apples before the
juice is pressed out. To granted stock
little apple pomace fed daily is good
thing. 1t keeps their appetite good and
prevents overlooking of grain from in
juring them.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
THE POULTRY Yarn.

1t has been thought for many years,
says writer in the Country Gentleman,
that broken oyster and clam shells, if
not necessary, were beneficial to fowls
whether laying or not, and-somc pro-
tessional poultry keepers to the contrary
Think they are, for my fowls when let
out, go for the pile of shells and cat
them as they would corn, and l think if
the shells were not of some service to
them they would not do that, and also
think they are good substitutes for sharp
gravel, which cannot always be got as
easy as shells. Again, frequently have
read that yard of fowls having no cock
with them would lay more eggs and be
less inclined to set than where there were
cocks, and as thought that would be a
saving of feed | concluded to try it, and
in each experiment have lost more than
ten per cent. in number of eggs compared
with other yards under same circum
stances, except the company of male
birds.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Land boomers in Oregon arc called
"razxoopers."
The scientist says an absolute vacuum
cannot exist, and yet the dude lives.
The guests of hotel in Saratoga con
sumed 5000 eggs in one day last sum.
mer.
A cave discovered near Chico, CAL, is
said to rival the famous Mammoth Cave
of Kentucky.
Mrs. Sophia Bennington, of Xenia,
Ohio, aged forty, has given birth to her
twenty fifth child.
The electric light has found a curious
use in Russia, viz, for illuminating
sanity images in cathedrals.
A Wheeling, w. Va, inventor is al
work upon a watch which is expected tc
run month without winding.
John Horn, of Orvillc, Ohio, is six foot
.. high, weighs 1856 pounds,
ag F.. y-two years of age.
irginian has been arrested fol-
his deceased twin brother
GHe pcuSlOH VI tHC IdbIeT.
t... ~ nfoduces croocdiles as well as
alligators, but they are harder to capture,
being more wary and "chuck full'' OF
fight.
Mr.. o. II. Stanley, Game Commits.
sioner for Maine, estimates that there ar.
| 10000 deer within the limits of the
State.
Elijah Jacobs, of Wayne County, Ca,
has ten children mo twins), the Oldest
being only few days more than sixteen
years old.
A man of Van Vert County, Ohio, on
bet wheeled barrow containing $50
cats three miles through muddy coun-
try road.
Two inmates of the Milwaukee (Wis.)
almshouse, the man aged seventy-two,
and the woman aged seventy-six, were
married one day recently.
When Mrs. Alice Good, of Covert,
Mich, wants game dinner she shoulders
her gun and goes into the woods, return
ing shortly with mess ofsquirrels. She
is good shot.
Miss Caroline Hillegas, who recently
died at Charleston, S. c., was 115 years
old. She was teacher in the public
schools of Charleston for many years
She outlived all her relatives.
A Frenchman, attracted by the high
plce of the oil of the rose geranium,
proposes to set out an acre or more of the
plants next spring. He thinks that the
yield will be at least fifty pounds to the
acre.
The old pupils of Buttermilk Seminary,
at West Chester, Penn, held reunion
recently. The school was closed thirty
five years ago on account of the death of
one of the scholars and was never re-
opened.
During the heavy and unceasing rains
loon in its aerial fight over the village
Iof Martinsburg, Penn, left its home in
the clouds and descended to terra firma,
and after wandering about all day was
captured at nightfall by Eddie Butler.
| On the 4th of last July Nathaniel
! Green and wife, one of the oldest couples
in Fulton County, Ga, held family re-
union at their home, few miles north
of Atlanta. There were present 1852 Of
their children and grandchildren. The
table at which they ate dinner was fifty
feet long. Since the 4th of July there
have been nine births in the family, which
make the total III.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
A Chinese Pill.

eff you wish to see medical curl
osity," says a Cincinnati paper, sstep
into Appraiser Klimpers office in the
Government building and ask him to
show you Chinese pill. He has dozen
or so of them. They are as big as large
marbles, in fact, they are just the size OF
crab apples, and are coated with a semi
transparent sugary substance covered
with flowers and gilt letters. Some of
them have this sweet covering broken,
and you can see beneath the pill proper,
black as a ball of India ink, and the
very thought of masticating that mass il
order to get it down is an emetic. But
it must take an unusual amount of moral
courage in a Chinaman to tackle pill