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The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
how TO FEED MEAL TO A COW

The best way to feed meal to a COW
is to cut hay and wet it only as much
as to make the meal adhere to it, and
mix this with it, adding a small hand
tul OF salt Wit, each feed. The meal
is then more completely digestea than
If 1t were given by itself, in which
case it is apt to pass on to the third
stomach and miss the rumination,
which is necessary to the perfect di.
gestion of a cows food. Five pounds
Of cut hay and three quarts of corr.
meal will make a full single feed for a
COW giving ten or twelve quarts of
milk a day. 1t is not desirable to try
to feed a cow for milk and fat both, as
the food is then apt to be diverted to
fat only, and the milk may decrease
IN any but a specially-gifted butter
or milk animal. Some COWS will shrink
in milk as soon as they are fed dry
meal Or shots, and turn the food to
flesh and fat. Such a COW is not profit
able in a dairy. The best milk and
butter COW is one that is not easily
fattened, but turns the food to these
most-desired products, and keeps thin
as long al she is milking. New York
Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
POTATO

1t seems a pity to the New York
World that when there are SO many
delicious ways OF serving potatoes,
they are evcr sent to the table in the
unappetizing lump form which is most
prevalent. Here are a few substitutes
for the everlasting "bciled" potato.
Potatoes in Jackets Bake as many
potatoes as are needed. Cut a small
piecs from one end and a larger
from the other. Remove the inside
and rub through a sieve. Put on the
fire with half an ounce of butter and
one ounce of grated cheese for every
four potatoes. Add boiling milk, salt
and pepper as for mashed potatoes.
Fill the skins with this paste, sprinkle
tops with grated bread crumbs and
cheese and put in the oven to brown.
Potato Soufae-Boil six good-sized
mealy potatoes. Rub through a sieve.
Scald a teacup of sweet milk and three
teaspoons of butter. Add a little salt
and pepper and mix with the potatoes.
Beat to a cream. Add one at a time
the well-beaten yolkso Of six eggs. Bent
the whites to a froth and stir lightly
into the mixture. Pour into a we'll
buttered baking dish and bake fol
about half an hour in a quick oven.
Potato Balls-Mash some potatoes
with salt, pepper, butter and a little
chopped parsley. Roll into balls, dip
in beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs
and fry for a few minutes in hot but
ter.
Texas Baked Potatoes-Mash and
season with pepper and salt some good
Irish potatoes. Mince q large onion
fine, mix thoroughly with the potatoes
and bake in a brisk oven
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
Descendants of Montezuma,

The action of the Mexican Govern.
ment in recognizing the claims of the
Marquis of Castellanos and other de.
scendants of the Montezumas by the
payment of annuities, is regarded liz
Madrid as a partial restitution Of Be-
questered estates rather than a a pen
sion, as was announced from the City
of Mexico.
The living descendants of the line OF
Mexican kings who were overthrow
by Cortez are connected with the first
nobility of Spain and boast a family
tree which reaches back to the four
taenth century. They reside at Sala-
manca. They have not a large for
tune, but possess sufficient meal to
enable them to appear at court. Up
to 1850 they received handsome rev.
enues from entailed estates in Mexico,
but the estates were seized by the
Mexican Government and for forty
three years they have not derived a
penny from property to which, as heirs
of Montezuma, they claim to be emit
tied. The present head of the family
is Senior Don Augustin Malconado y
Carbajal Cano Montezuma, Marquis of
Castellanos and of Monroy. The Mar
quis is a lawyer, graduated by the
Salamanca University, but he devotes
his time to agriculture and to q large
factory which he has in Old Castillo
San Francisco Examiner.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
BITS OF LAMP LORE.

Lamp wicks should havet the charred
part rubbed off with a rag kept for thst
purpose. They should very seldom be
cut. They should not be used SO long
that the webbing becomes tight and
non-porous.
Lamps should be kept filled with
oil. 1t is bad for the wick and burner
when the oil is left over from n even
ing's reading and is made to do duty
a second time.
The tank should be filled again.
About once a month the wick should
be removed, the burners unscrewed
and boiled in a little water in which
commo washing soda has been dis
solved. This will remove the almost
imperceptible coating of dust and
grease that forms on the brass.
The lamp chimney should be washed
in warm, soapy water each day, amop
made especially for such work being
used. When dried it should be pol
ished with soft newspaper or chamois.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
ROYAL B%uckwheats.

For generations it has been the Gus
tom to mix the batter for buckwheat
cakes with yeast OF emptyings, retain
ing q portion of the batter left over
from one morning. to raise the cakes
for the following day.
II kept too warm, or not used
promptly, this batter becomes Excess
sively sour and Objectionable. Buck
wheat cakes raised by this means are
more often sour or heavy than light
and sweet. If eaten daily they dis
tress the stomach and cause skin erup-
tions and itching.
Instead Of the old-fashioned way we
have been making buckwheat cakes
this winter with Royal Baking Pow
der, mixing the batter fresh daily, and
find the result wonderfully satisfac-
tory. They are uniformly light and
sweet, more palataHe and wholesome,
and can be eaten continuously without
the slightest digestive inconvenience.
Besides they are mixed and baked in a
moment, requiring no time to rise.
Following is the receipt used:
Two cups of pure buckwheat -four
mot prepared" or mixed), one cup
of wheet -four, two tablespoons of Royal
Baking Powder and one-half teaspoon
full of salt, all sifted welltogether. Mix
with milk into a thin batter and bake
at once on a hot griddle. Once prop
erly tested from this receipt, no other
buckwheat will find its way to your
table.-Domestic Cookery.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
THE ART OF PATCHING.

How many patch clothes, par
ticularly children's clothes, with little
regard to the stripe and check, and
sometimes to the shade of the gar
meut patched. Then some seem to
think the larger the patch the better.
OF course the thinness of the cloth
near the hole will have something to
do with the size of the patch, but
when a three-cornered tear is mended
take a piece exactly matching the
check or stripe of the garment, and
just large enough to leave a space
equal to the fell taken on the other
side between the hem and the. run ;
then on the right side make a cut in
each corner equal to the depth Of the
fell, and a much squarer, heater patch
is made. If a wooden garment, it
should be dampened and the fell
thoroughly pressed with a moderately
hot iron. A patch should never be
put on the right side of a garment. If
the rent or wear is near a seam insert
aside of the patch into this, and some
times two seams are so near that the
patch a scarcely be noticed. Gener-
ally people fasten the patch on the
wrong side by running a thread along
near the edge. A better way is to cat
stitch the patch on to the garment.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
Do the Suns Rays Put Out Fire!

Last summer while making one OF
ny regular weekly excursions in
search of curious natural history spec
linens I happened upon some wood
choppers who were burning brush.
One of these gentlemen being a regu-
lar reader of "Notes for the Curious
put the following question "Why
does the sun, shining on a fire, deaden
it's heat, suppress the rsys and often
put it out %entirely?' had never even
heard n hint of the idea before, and
was perfectly staggered. l admitted
my inability to answer the question
off hand. Returning home / repaired
to the library and consulted Brew.
er's Guide to Scientific knowledge,
where the answer is as follows: "Be
cause the air, being rariied by sun
shine, flows more slowly to the fire,
and, secondly. because the chemical
action of the suns rays is detrimental!
to combustion."-St. Louis Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
wArER-cREss CULTIVATION.

In answer to inquiries, the Farmers
Voice gives the following directions
fer growing water-cress: Water-cress
requires a clear running stream and a
gravelly soil. The roots should be
planted in the spring of the year in
slow-running streams, where the water
is from three to eight inches deep.
When the roots are well established
the plants will rapidly increase, and,
by their natural process of seed-sow-
ing and spreading of the roots, they
will soon cover the surface Of the
stream. When planted the rows
should be planted with the purse OF
the stream and about eighteen inches
apart. The plants should always be
cut, not broken of, as breaking them
off is injurious to the plants. After
they have been cut off two or three
times they will begin to stock out or
thicken out, and then the oftener they
are cut the better. When raised from
seeds they should be sown> on the mar
gin of the stream, and when of suitable
size transplanted into it, where it is
an inch and a half or two deep. The
most suitable time for sowing is in the
months of April, May and June. There
are said to be three varieties OF water
cress-namely: the green-leaved,
which is considered to be the easiest to
cultivate; the small brown-leayed,
which is thought to be the hardest,
and the large brown-leaved, which is
said to be the best for deep water.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
transplanting than fall.-Prairie
Farmer.

GREEN FEEL AND PURE AIR FoR POULTRY.
1t should never be forgotten that
poultry need some kind of green food
at all seasons of the year. In winter
there a be given them cabbages,
chopped onions, or turnips, occasion
ally varying this diet with short late
dried hay. Poultry also relish corn
stalk leaves, if chopped fine. In the
early spring time, when the ground
first softens from the frost, grain and
other seeds should be thrown into the
pens, and unless they are kept in the
open, they should hazs 9 plentiful
supply of it daily. FOR young chick
ems, nothing is so beneficial and SO
gateful as a run upon newly-grown
grass. Grass torn up by the roots is
eaten by hens, it is true, but not with
that advantage o. relish as when they
can pluck it standing. Some poultry
keepers sprout oats in boxes of earth
and allow their birds to eat off the soft
shoots. Rutabagas and carrots are
excellent winter feeds, and about the
cheapest to be obtained. 1t may be
that the fowls will not take to them in
g raw state; if SO, the roots may be
cooked. mashed, and mixed with b1an
and meal. Next to a plentiful supply
of green food, ventilation is the most
important item to be considered in
keeping fowls healthy. More fowls
have perished for the want of perfect
ventilation than from any other cause.
One of the best and simplest plans to
let pure air into the poultry house is
to have a hole in the floor about six
inches wide and several feet long, and
covered over with wire netting, which
is left open in summer and kept COW
cred up in winter. With a CORE
spending opening at the top, this will
admit the fresh air from the bottom,
and also allow all heavy gases to es-
cape. It is the most perfect system
that can be devised for admitting pure
air to poultry houses, and it is, at the
same time. the cheapest and most
easily arranged. Sunlight, pure air.
and green food make poultry profit
able, but lack of them brings disease
and consequent loss. American Agri-
culturist.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds bes5 products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll Informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered,
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Trotters have too much energy for
farm work.
Horses differ in intelligence almost
as much as men do.
Drive the colt the first time with a
f~ast-walking horse.
After choosing a place for the bee
stands do not change it.
A little drive every day aids the
development of young horses.
Don't neglect to replace the roll of
salt in each stall as soon as it is gone.
Italians produce a larger number Of
bees than blacks, and so, indirectly,
more honey.
The French stuff their fowls with
fresh butter before roasting them, and
haste them continually.
Fertilizers should be applied broad
cast around the trees and not in imme-
date contact with them.
To leave the bees a reasonable supply
of honey for the winter is better than
attempting to feed them.
Mating for the best results in vigor
and fertility requires careful study
and practical observation.
The goose-raising English and Irish
counties are those with very thick
pastures with short grass.
Ducks should eve be yarded with
other poultry, as they will pollute tho
rokar op1 cauaa aickneae-
If young pigs are allowed to run
with fattening hogs they will lay on
| too much fat to grow well.
Feed and shelter the COWS well this
winter and you will be surprised at the
increased amount of butter.
The color of the shell is no indica-
ton of the quality Of the egg, but
simply shows the breed ct fowl.
Experience counts fer q good deal
in managing poultry. It is on the
little details that success depends.
Sell from the young stock, and do
not sacrifice fowls and turkeys which
have proved satisfactory, unless very
old.
Give the fowls ell the SKIM milk
and buttermilk you can spare. They
will return it to you IN the form OF
eggs.
Rolling or hilly land is the best stu
alton for the poultry house. Sandy
and gravelly soils are also to be pre-
ferred.
The more familiar a man becomes
with his orchard and other trees the
more quickly will he observe their
wants.
Cocks should not be kept in the pen
with the layers, as an egg producing
diet will fatten them and ruin them as
breeders.
The Dorking is the most popular
fowl in England. There are three
varieties-the colored, the s;lver-grsy
and the white.
The moth miller is q much to be
dreaded enemy of the bees, but if the
stock is kept strong they will not
allow it to deposit it's eggs on the
comb.
It pays to keep the best utock of
bees, as we'll as other good stock on
the farm, and by careful selection
great improvement is possible.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
SMALL FRUITS.

Now it is time to apply anu to
b~lackberries, currants, raspberries and
other small fruits. It should be scat
tered broadcast at the roots of these
plants, which should run over consid-
cradle territory. Autumn and winter
are the most favorable seasons for
spreading the manure, since the rains
and SHOWS of winter can distribute the
fertility through every portion OF the
soil much more cheaply and effectively
than man can with the best of tools
for the purpose. With the so-called
hardy varieties of fruits winter pro.
lection, even in quite northern lati-
tudes, does not appear very general,
Ind vet, without doubt, this is the
true plan.
If c%ultivators could but e how
their crops are oftentimes diminished
hy severe winters, even when plants
ARE not killed outright by the changes
Of temperature, protection would
more regularly be given. It is quite q
simple thing to cover the roots OF
plants several inches deep with leaves
or hay Just after the ground has begun
to freeze, and thus prevent the alter
nate freezing and thawing which prove
90 Injurious. In addition, raspberry
vines should be bent down aad COW
cred partially at least. Winter winds
harm the canes to a considerable ex-
tent.
Opportunity is offered to establish
new plantations until the ground
freezes and puts an end to such opera
tions. In transplanting remove fully
one-half the canes and set out. well IN
melIowed soil ; cover with deep mulch
and protect the entire plants as well as
possible. II spring work will not be
too pressing the plant may be secured
now and s.heeled in to be IN readl-
ness for setting early next spring.
Really spring Il ! better season for
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
TO ESTIMATE HEIGHT.

To estimate the height e colt will
grow to: Take a colt at any me be
tween six weeks and n year, PIT him
on a level surface SO that he will stand
naturally, then eas the distance
from the hair of the hoof to his knee
joint, and for every inch or fraction
thereof he measures he will be hands
high when matured. If he measures
fifteen inches, he will be fifteen hands
high; if 154 inches, he will be 154
hands high, and SO on.-New York
World.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
1nn Bus. Mahert From Two Acres.


This remarkable YELL was reported by
Frank Close, Minnesota, on two acres of Mar
vel Spring Wheat. Speaking of this wheat.
this new sort takes the cake. It is the greatest
cropping spring; wheat in the world. Farmers
who tried it the past season believe seventy
five to one huadred bushels can be grown
from one acre, snd are going to get this yield
for 1884,. At such yield wheat pays at ac a
bushel. Salzer is the largest grower OF vege-
table and farm seed in the world.
IF ron WILL CUT THIS ouTAND lend IT with
&c postage to the John A. salzer Seed Co, La
Crosse, Wis. yen will get free their mammoth
catalogue and a package Of above spring
wheat. A
TINS countty's coke trade in Mexico ID
growing very rapidly.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
A MEAT JUICE.

Raw meat juice is prepared by
mincing the best rump steak very fine
and then adding cold water in the
proportion Of one part Of water to
four of meat. Stir the mixture thor
oughly and let it stand in a cool place
half al hour. Press through muslin
or a course napkin. This p7pcess is
recommended by a physician, who
gives it as a result of many expert
ments for obtaining meat juice that
has the greatest nutritive value. It
is one of the foods often found excel
lent for children four or five years Of
age, who have not yet learned the art
Of chewing we'll enough to get the
nutriment from meat.-New York Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30
SELECT sIFTINGs.

st. Gothard tunnel is 81 miles long,
Petrifying human flesh is a lost art.
Coins were at one time made of
leather.
The Gear of Russia's typewriter is
his wife.
The most frequent crime in Cal.for-
MIA is burglary.
Iron and steel are made by native
tribes in the interior of Africa.
It is estimated that the worlds Gu
cumbers are worth $8, O0O,O 00 annually.
Real agate marbles are made from
agate found in Oberstein, near the
Rhine.
A cat with "eight well-formed legs
is owned by Edward Franklin, OF
Athens, Ga.
The largest locomotive was built four
years ago for the Northern Pacific,
225, 900 pounds weight.
The Greeks consume annually to
each 1nhabitant five pounds of sugar
and one pound of coffee.
The highest natural bridge is at
Rockbridge, Va, 200 feet from the
water to the bottom of the arch,
Engineers on the first locomotives
we're equipped with tin horns, with
which they warned people from the
tracks.
If ancient history is to be taken as
On authority, Phayllus of Crotona
| could clear ffty-six feet at one "stand-
! ing broad jump"
At Cannae, where the Romans sus-
| tanned the worst defeat they ever ex-
| perienced, there were 146, 900 men OF
the field, of whom So, 900 were killed.
A large elephant had to be killed at
| Stuttgart, Germany, on account of his
temper. A single bullet from a small
bore rifle delivered in the forehead
dropped him dead.
Toronto, Canada, has an Office called
the department of neglected children,
which is superintendent by j. J. Kelso,
whose duty it is to find suitable homes
for unprotected children.
The largest nugget of gold found il
Mexico within the memory of white
men was picked up by a Mexican at
Planchas placers, Sonora, in the spring
Of 1892. It weighed fourteen and one.
half pounds.
The estimated population of Mecca
is about so, 900, while the number OF
pilgrims massed together there last
year from all parts of the Moslen
world was variously estimated at from
200, 900 to 300, 900.
Application was made at the New
York Postoftice the other day fol
mourning stamps, and the applicant
expressed great disappointment whel
he was told that the Government die
not keep any in stock.
Revenue officers have captured, il
North Georgia, the smallest still OF
record. It is complete, with cap, tubs,
and all appurtenances, and is not owe.
eight inches high. Strange to say,
colored man weighing 225 pounds wa
arrested for running it.
The average number of students i
the reading-room of the British Nh
eur is 651 each day. The attendant
i'll the library and sculpture CALLER
has been less this year than usual, bu
the number of visitors to the museur
shows an increase of SO, 0 over las
year.
While making some excavations be
meath a church in the Prussien tow
of Angerburg, the workmen made
horrible discovery small walled-i
space in which they found a huma
skeleton, a broken chair, and the re
mains of a helmet and q pair of boots
The walls bore marks as of fnger-na
scratches, and there was other evidene
that some person had been walled i
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-30

Over in the Elkhorn country a novel
method of wood carrying from the
mountain sides to the railroad is i'll
vogue. Wood slides have been dis
carded, also the more difficult wagon
hauling, the pack mule being the sub
stitute for both. Eighteen of these
burden bearers ore employed carrying
fuel down the steep declivities. Sad
dies crossed by double half-circled iron
loops or hooks and girted by broad
leather belts, form the pack fixtures IN
use. Each mule carries one-quarter
cord of four-foot wood to the load, the
string of eighteen animals transporting
four and one-half cords OF every trip.
This method of moving the fuel is said
to be the best yet experimental with.
HELENE (Montana) Herald.