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VOL. XXIII. NO. 19.
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.NEWS AND NOTES.
Tennessee lias 94 counties and 153 news
papers.
Columbus, Georgia, is to have a public
bath house
The fruit crop in Northern Mississippi
is very promising,
Judge Jere Black wants to see an Eng
lish race horse.
The loss by storm at Macon, Miss., the
25th, is estimated at SIOO,OOO.
Memphis quarantines against tropical
fruits after May 10th.
Victor Hugo is said to know more than
10,000 people by sight and name.
A jute mill is being established in New
Orleans, La., with a capital of $50,000.
There are nearly a million volumes in
public libraries of Boston.
They are building a railroad direct from
Chattanooga to Rome, Ga.
In Mansfield, Mo., the tornado of the
18th blew down 112 residences.
In Hull, Canada, 300 houses were burned
the 21st. Loss #600,000.
Twenty-six vagrants wera arrested in
Raleigh, N. C„ in one day.
The Massachusetts Legislature has ap
propriated $112,000 to supply the militia of
the State with new uniforms,
i The Chicago Tribune thinks that the one
who invented sleep did not give babies
enough of it.
The desk on which Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of Independence lias been pre
sented to Congress.
The Georgia delegation to Chicago is
reported: Grant 5, Sherman 10 or 11, and
Blaine the remainder.
The cotton worm will again be investi
gated this year by a committee of the na
tional government,
Where a school is mainly occupied with
whipping there is very little time for teach-
Mi?.
The farmers of Stewart county are
exercising themselves upon the subject of
ditching.
Secretary Sherman is charged with giving
22 “Confederate brigadiers’ 7 fat positions
in the treasury department.
The New York Herald says that L. A N.
is a highly emotional stock and liable to
hysterical fluctuations any moment.
The new code of Mississippi allows a
married woman to convey her property
without the consent of her husband.
The hoard of public works of Mississip
pi have decided to lease out the peneten
tiary and convicts to the best bidder.
Dorn Pedro has telegraphed to the Paris
Academy of Science details of the appear
ance of the great Southern comet.
The New York Democratic Convention
elected Tilden delegates to the national
convention, but didn’t instruct.
Virginia delegates to Chicago are in
structed to vole for 11 rant so long as his
name is before the convention.
For the six months ended March 1,
Lvnchburg, Va., sold 10,000,000 pounds of
leaf tobacco, and Danville sold nearly 17,-
000,000 pounds.
The Tennessee Historical Society has
been presented with a c >at made hy the
late President Johnson for Judge W. W.
Pepper, in 1850.
The savings banks of New York and
Massachusetts and W. H. Vanderbilt own
one-eighth of the bonded debt of the United
States.
it is reported that a syndicate has been
formed at Richmond, Virginia, for the pur
chase of the Southern line of roads now
operated by the Pennsylvania road.
Sitgaii From Rags. —To the eye of the
chemist all things are clean; and there is
now in Germany a manufactory which
turns out daily 1,000 pounds of pure
grape sugar made from old linen. An un
derstanding of the process helps some
what to dispel the unpleasant feeling we
experience on hearing of the fact. Clean
old linen is pure vegetable fibre, and when
treated with sulphuric acid it is converted
into dextrine. This is washed with lime
water, then treated with more acid, and it
changes almost immediately and crystalizes
iinto glucose, or grape sugar, which is so
highly valued in making of rich preseives
and jellies. The process is said to be
economical, and the sugar is found lo be,
chemically, the same as that of the grape ;
nevertheless, a popular outcry has, we be
lieve, been raised against the rag-sugar
fac'oty in Germany, and it is in and inger of
being put down. Regarded in a scientific
spirit, there is perhaps little difference be
tween the trnnsmutation of rags into
sugar in the laboratory, and of manure
into grapes by the vine; but unfortunately,
the association of its origin will cling
about the artificial product in spite of our
•elves.
BILL ARP ON A PRILILEHE QUES
TION.
“Killing” and ‘‘Kissing” very “Different,”
Seven Years Service for a Sweetheart—
About those Potato Slips.
From the Dixie Farmer:
Mr. Editor: Tts not rnv disposition to
complain much about anything, but then it
sometimes becomes as necessary for an um
ble individual to set himself right before
the public as it is for Alex. Stephens or any
other member of congress who has to pub
lish a weekly personal card. T therefore
rise to a question of privilege : When I
was commenting in my last upon the hard
ships and severity of the old blue laws of
Connecticut, and mentioned one of ’em that
fined a man twenty shillings for kissing his
wife on Sunday, some individual in your
office, instigated by Satan, made me to say
killing instead of kissing; and the idea has
gone forth to your numerous readers that
my opinion is, that the fine was too much,
that it was disproportioned to the offence.
Then, again, its a reasonable inference that
if it was only twenty shillings for killing a
wife on a Sunday, it wouldn’t he anything
on a Monday. I’m afraid I’ll never get
over this. That type setter is, I reckon, a
Universalist, and has no fear of the bad
place, or else he’s tied to a wife in law that
he can’t manage no better than he does his
mother-in-law, and is mad because the old
bine laws are out of dale.
Now, I think that the intention of the
anti-Sunday wife kissing law was good, con
sidering that those old puritans wanted to
force a man to he extremely humble and
abject on the Lord’s day, for if a man has
got a pretty wife, and she conies out array
ed in her best clothe* with a little touch of
cologne in the air and a sweet Sunday smile
upon her lips, he had better not occulate
much if he is seriously trying to be hum
ble, for there is a degree of exaltation about
that kind of business that knocks up all
humility. Well, the scriptures do say that
when Jacob kissul Rachel he lifted up his
voice and wept, hut I reckon that was be
cause she was’nt his wife right then, and he
was afraid she never would be. Or it may
he she was the first woman he ever did kiss
and it overcome him so he wep for joy. I’ve
often wondered at the poor fellow’s devo
tion to that girl—worked for her stingy old
father fourteen years for nothing, and had
to take the girls in rotation, at that. Miss
Rachel Laban must have been the most
beautiful woman in all that country to have
inspired such long suffering love, for the
like of it don’t happen now a days, neither
among Jews nor Gentiles. The main thing
now is not how purty she is, but how much
boot will the old man throw in. I wish 1
could see a young man dead in love with a
purty girl, and when he asked for her hear
the old man say, “well, that’s all right, yon
may have her, but you must set in and plow
and hoe and dig on my farm for seven years
first.” Why, he would take it as an insult,
and run away withherin two weeks. I -ay
seven years! He wouldn’t work nary lick,
but be would want the old man to work for
him while he and Angelina were spending
the summer at Catoosa Springs. But 1
reckson its all right, only I don’t like to
hear of a young man examining the old
man’s tax returns before he courts his
daughter. One day 1 was called on before
the war to help an old man parcel out his
property ; I thought he wanted to make a
will, but be said no, be wanted to adminis
ter on bis own estate, just like he was dead,
for be had an idea that some of the children
were getting a little impatient. He said he
wanted to please ’em, but he did’nt want to
die to do it; and so he divided his negroes
and bis lands and his stock and notes and
money all into six lots, five for the children
am) one for the widow, and he gave it to
’em by deeds and bills of sale, and then he
went home happy and lived with his widow
till he died. I reckon that’s a very good
way, for when a man gets old and tired, its
well enough to cut lo se from care and bus
iness, and execute his own will, provided
he keeps enough to make himself comfort
able. It is a pitiful sight to see a man work
as hard as A. T. Stewart did, and as soon as
he dies some feller, no kin to him, steps in
and gobbles up bis earnings, and then so i e
vandals come along and steal his bones and
hide’em. That’s bad, aint it? I believe
I’d rather be what I am, an umble farmer
with a good pleasant home, and not enough
of this world’s goods to excite any body’s
envy.
I’ve worked hard to-day, harder than us
ual, and I’m tired, and when I’m tired I
feel honest and happy. I’ve been setting
out potato slips, and had to get down to it.
It’s a hack bending and knee bending busi
ness. Mr. Morton sent me about 2,0u0 from
Vine Hill, and a whole lot of tomato plants,
and a8 the day was cloudy, me and Ralph,
my twelve-year-old. undertook the job. We
don’t raise such slips down here; they were
nearly two feet long; I thought at first they
were some of last years vines he had ensil
laged and kept over. I believe it would
pay me to go up and stay a month with him
and learn how to do things. If 1 was a
young man I would choose horticulture for
my profession; there’s more refinement
about it than farming I think Mr. Donn
ing was one of the greatest men that ever
lived, and one of the best and most useful.
He loved nature, and loved to adorn her
with the works of art. He left the charm
of her taste and genius upon the landscape
of this country from Maine to Texas. I
like the picture in your paper that illus
trates Mr. Morton’s business. There is a
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1880.
sunshiny innocence about it that pleases the
eye, and makes a man wish he was there. I
could'nt help contrast it with that Durham
hull just below it, that bellows his Durham
tobacco all over the country, and that Dr.
Ilostetter on the other side, who has took
off his clothes and mounted a mad horse to
kill an imaginary snake about fifty feet
long. But I reckon its all right—every
man to his taste.
I am much obliged to Mr. Sprout for his
intelligent observations about seeds and
fruits. I read it to nabor Freeman, and he
says his rule is to find out where the find
or the vegetable was first found away back
in history, and if their summer was longer
than ours, get the fruit or the seed north of
us, and if their summer was shorter then
go south. He says we ought to get our cot
ton seed from Tennessee, as it will mature
sooner than seed from down country ; and
get our seed wheat from a warmer latitude,
for it thrives on cold weather, and will im
prove in this climate, whereas no them seed
will degenerate for want of snow. I reckon
we will find it all out after a while, for our
farmers are better educated than they used
to be, and better reasoners and closer observ
ers of nature’s laws.
I am much obliged to E. W. TANARUS., from
Texas, for his letter about moles, and shall
try his remedy in my garden, but I forgot
to tell him that they are all over my farm,
and there are not enough ashes in Bartow
county to clean ’em out of the whole plan
tation.
Now, if somebody will tell my wife how
to raise young turkeys she will be perfectly
happy ; she has a sick one every day wrap
ded up in a rag by the fire and it dies every
time, and the children dig another little
grave and bury it and stick up two more
sticks. My wife gives ’em black pepper
and onions mixed with dough, and every
thing el-e that the old women tel! her, but
they just keep dying like they did last year,
k grieves the good woman to see the little
things suffer so, and it grieves me to think
I wont have any for Christmas unless I buy
’em. Yours, Bill Arp.
Cartel svi lie, <ta., May fi, 1880.
Maniiring Trees.
Indiana Farmer.
Trees in general, and fruit trees in partic
ular, when they are so situated that the au
tumn winds carry away the annual crop of
leaves and thus rob them of any return for
its summer foliage, will require feeding, or
ultimately, they will starve; in the natur
al forest, the undergrowth of shrubbery and
weeds serve as a protection, and prevent the
removal of the leaves and their drifting in
piles where they can serve no pu.pose as
food to replenish the tree that bore them.
Under the circumstances, orchards bearing
he.tvy crops of fruit, which is annually
removed to market, grow prematurely old
and directly fail to pay a fair return for the
ground they occupy. The early decay of
orchards in this country is a common com
plaint among fruit growers; and in
fact it is a well founded complaint. An in
quiry into this subj. ct will reveal two prom
inent causes for this state of things. The
first is a saturated subsoil. Fruit trees will
not send their roots into a subsoil that for
months, in the winter and spring, is satur
ated with water, or if in the summer
growth, the roots push their extension into
this soil they will be drowned with the next
spring’s saturation. This confines the roots
to the narrow range of the surface soil, hut
in dry seasons the upper portions of this
fail to furnish moisture to support the su
perficial rootlets, and between too much wa
ter below in the spring, ami too little above
in the summer, the trees die. The second
cause of early decay is to he found in the
exhaustion of the soil. This exhaustion is
chiefly in the mineral elements —especially
potash and phosphates. The organic ma
nures containing nitrogen are but little de
manded in tree growth, hut in fruit hearing
these are in demand to supply the flesh
forming substance common to all cultivated
fruits. If the tree cannot obtain this sup
ply from the soil, the fruit will be im
perfect, or will fall into decay and ulti
mately die. But in all the selection and
application of manures to trees, care and
judgment are required. If barn yard or
compost manure is used, it should be well
rotted. If long manure is used, it should
be used only as a mulch. Wood ashes and
hone dust supply the chief demand for min
eral manures. These, mixed with old com
post or leaf mold from the forest, should
be spread under the tree, but not immedi
ately around the trunk. Avery common
mistake occurs here—people manuring
trees are apt to apply the fertilizer near the
tree, not reflecting that the absorbents are
at the extremity of the roots. The roots of
a fruit tree have generally about the same
spread as the branches. The manure
should be spread to correspond with this,
and should be plowed in, rather shallow
than othe r wlse.
If the ground is not cultivated it should
be mulched with old straw, bedding from
the stables or refuse from the sorghum mill.
This should cover the ground as far out as
the spread of the branches. By this means
we maintain a constant and uniform mois
ture in the soil and relieve the roots from
the excessive heat and drought of summer.
All the wood ashes of the farm should be
used on the orchard.
At a recent meeting of the Newport, R.
1., Artillery Veteran Association resolutions
of respect were passed to the memory of
Francis Brinley Fogg, of Tennessee.
Harrowing Corn.
One of the greatest triumphs of the mod
ern harrow is that of being able to success
fully cultivate corn in the first stages of its
growth and until it is ten or twelve inches
high. This has been positively accom
plished and successfully demonstrated in
many thousand corn fields. With a harrow
with slanting teeth a man can cultivate and
hoe in the most perfect manner —fully as
good as can be done by hand—fifteen to
twenty acres per day. The harrow is driv
en over the young corn, taking three rows
at a time, in exactly the same manner as
though the corn was not there. Why it will
thoroughly kill the weeds and not injure
the corn is a question asked by all who hear
of it for the first time. They do not see
how it is possible to be done. The follow
ing explanation will make it plain : Corn,
to he worked with a harrow, must he plant
ed two inches below the level surface of the
field —not on the surface with a mound
over it. Next, harrow the ground at least
twice before the corn comes up; this will
thoroughly pulverize the surface—the teeth,
when no weight is on the harrow, will not
disturb the seed corn. As the root of corn
grows first, when the blades appear above
the surface the corn plant is well rooted in
the soil and is not in the least disturbed by
subsequent harrowing. The seeds of most
weeds always germinate near the surface,
and by this constant harrowing are all kill
ed before they are a quarter of an inch
high, and the corn grows up with scarcely
a weed to he seen afterward. The growth
of the young corn is greatly stimulated by
this early cultivation. For in the usual
mode ol cultivation there is a square of
eight or ten inches in which the hill
stands, which, receiving no cultivation, be
comes crusted over and filled with weeds,
which hinder to a great extent both its
growth and final productiveness. There is
no doubt but that the thorough use of the
harrow in Western corn fields would soon
destroy the weeds so thoroughly that no
one would be seen where now a thousand
are. That these weeds are a serious injury
to the crop no one will deny. A lad oi fif
teen years can cultivate 100 acres of corn,
doing the entire cultivation until it has at
tained a considerable length, in the most
superb manner —far better than it is possi
ble by any mode now practiced. The in
crease of the yield of corn will be several
bushels per acre, while the cost of cultiva
tion is diminished, as only one cultivation
is needed usually after the corn is too large
to harrow. Potatoes can also be most eco
nomically cultivated in the same manner,
and the cost of cultivation reduced. The
same rules given for corn should be applied
to potatoes in their cultivation, and the
same benefits will be received. —Exchange
Orchard Culture.
There is no use in planting fruit trees on
wet land. It is sure to hurt them, and
eventually kill most or all of them. It is
little better to put them upon land that
seems dry, but is wet below, the usual water
line being near the tillable soil, and in a
wet time saturating it. In this part of the
State, where clay predominates, most of our
orchards are on such soil. Is it to be won
dered at that there is so much complaint?
Drain the soil deeply, and the main
thing is done. Then cultivate and manure,
and keep the tops of the trees open to the
influence of the atmosphere, which can be
done best, not by rash pruning, which is al
ways a hurt, but by removing superfluous
growth, and stopping the too large shoots,
by pinching off the tips, giving thus a
chance for the rest to advance which saves
the strength of the tree, no growth being
lost. This must be begun when the tree is
a twig, and continued —the attention to the
tree and the ground never relaxed,but as reg
ularly attended to as any crop on the farm.
Then every other crop will be surpassed by
it in profit. Planting an orchard and then
letting it take care of itself, is what greets
us in every neighborhood. Orchards pre
maturely old, with decaying limbs and
shrunken and rusty fruit, are a sight that
disfigures the landscape, and do not add to
the reputation of the owners.
On a deeply rich and naturally drained
soil, this may be done with success so far as
profit is concerned ; but such soil is rare.
If you are fortunate enough to possess it,
be sure and put an orchard of the finest
kinds of fruit upon it; fruit adapted to the
locality—l have reference more particular
ly to the apple. You will then get the
richness of the underground, which the
long roots will draw up into the trees, be
ing secure on such ground against frost, wet
and drouth ; but by underdraining, cultiva
tion and manuring, almost the same result
can be reached elsewhere. Of all the or
chards—apple—l have ever known, the
best is upon soil naturally drained the
whole depth of the roots, and with consid
erable fertility throughout. It is a yearly
bearer of good crops, and yet the land is
constantly in sod, and the trees are neglect
ed. It only shows what the right kind of
soil will do, particularly when long acted
upon below by natural drainage. Not that
attention to the trees is no account. It is
of decided advantage in improving the
specimens, and giving neatness to the tree,
also in promoting its health, and extending
the time of its usefulness. —Country Gen
man.
Tomato Leaves and the Curculio. —
A statement comes from South America
that a singular property of tomato leaves has
been discovered by a fruit grower. Having
cut down some tomato vines he used them
as a mulch around his peach trees. He
soon discovered that the curculio, which
was destroying his fruit, had abandoned
the tree surrounded by the tomato vines.
Following up this accidental discovery, tlie
tree use of tomato vines proved a perfect
protection not only against curculio but
other obnoxious insects. He found, also,
by steeping in water some fresh leaves of
the tomato, and sprinkling the infusion
upon other plants, the innumerable insects
which covered them were driven away.
Some gardeners have tried the above rente,
dy, some by accident and some by inteniion
and their success was remarkable. One
gentleman had his apple trees ravaged by
the curculio until last year, when he se
cured a splendid crop. He knows no
cause of his exemption from the curculio
except the tomato plants that were grown
from the first among his trees.
About “Crystaliziiig” Grasse*.
Grasses for this purpose should he gath
ered early in July, while in the fullest flow
er, and dried in the shade. They ean lie
tied up in bunches, and hung up with
strings in a dark closet. They can he crys
talized before they are formed into bou
quets, or the bouquet can be first arranged
and then crystalized. The long feathery
grasses are the most desirable for the pur
pose, as they are graceful if the alum does
not entirely cover the plumes, while other
varieties need to be entirely covered.
To crystalize them, take one pound of
powdered alum, procured at the druggists,
and dissolve it over a slow fire in one quart
of soft water —do not let it boil—and strain
it through a cloth when the alum is dissolv
ed, for the beauty of the grasses depends
greatly on the perfect purity of the crystals.
An earthen bowl is the best thing to hold
the solution, which should be cooled down
to gentle heat; arrange the grasses in the
bowl, and pour the alum water over them,
cover them closely, and let them stand for
twenty-four hours. Be very careful not to
move the howl, as it disturbs the crystals.
Take out the grasses carefully and hang
them in the sun for four or five hours —then
arrange them as desired in the vases. Do
not let them be moved or touched for a
week. If you prefer to arrange your bou
quets first, take a deep, glazed, earthen jar
and lay a stick across it, upon this hang the
bouquet and pour the half warm solution
over it.
Grasses ean be dyed in various colors by
using blue, purple or scarlet dyes—aiding
a table-spoonful of them to the quart of
alum water. Crystalized grasses are ex
ceedingly pretty to mingle with everlasting
flowers, for winter bouquets.
The seed vessels of several flowers can
also be crystalized with good effect. The
Maid of the Mist has'seed JJpods which are
very pretty for tnis purpose, and those of
wild roses are also desirable. Bright col
ored berries can be gathered in the autumn,
which will contrast well with the metallic
lustre of the crystalized grasses.
The Bitter Sweet vine—often called Rox
bury waxwork—has clusters of berries that
are very beautiful for winter decorations.
The varieties of ornamental grasses are
much used for crystalizing, some of them
being very handsome.
Field Beans.
Chicago Times.
It is stated that a few of the Western
States produce a supply of white beans
sufficient for home consumption, and the
amount eaten is far smaller than it should
be. No vegetable food contains a larger
amount of nutriment than beans. In the
formation of muscles they are nearly equal
to any kind of meat. Beans form a staple
article of diet in all countries noted for
their thrift. The institusion of baked
beans has had much to do with the pros
perity of the New England States. Famine
rarely, it ever, occurs in countries where
beans form a leading article of food.
Scarcely any crop can be produced from a
given amount of land that will supply as
many persons with food as a crop of beans.
Common field beans are easily and cheaply
raised. The seed costs very little, and the
labor of cultivation is small. Avery fair
crop of beans may be raised by sowing
them broadcast in sod turned over in May.
If sowed in this manner no cultivation is
required. It is usual to plant them in
drills on old land and to tend the crop with
a hoe and cultivator. The drills may be
as near together as will allow the running
of a cultivator between them. Little cul
tivation is required except to keep down
the weeds and grass. The plants should
never be disturbed while they are wet with
dew or rain, as the least touch will cause
the leaves to rust. The land on which
beans are planted should be of nearly uni
form character, so that they may all ripen
at about the same time. A very rich soil
is not necessary for the production of a
good crop of beans. It is necessary, how
ever, that the land be dry. No crop will
do as well on sandy hills and knolls as
common white beans.
Wabash, Indiana, claims to be the first
town to adopt the electric light for general
illumination. From the flagstaff on the
court house are suspended four Brush lamps
of 3,000 candle power each, which are ap
plied with electricity by a seven-horse pow
er generator. The test of this new method
of lighting the town was first made on the
31st day of last month and has proved to
be very satisfactory.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
GEORGIA FARM NOTES.
COTTON.
Greene county has excellent stands of
cotton. In Baker chopping is genera Uy
going on. In Elbert the cotton planting is
done. Crops in Bnrke are backward. The
Taylor county planters are putting in
cotton.
WHEAT AND OATS.
The II inesville farmers have plowed tip
their oats on account of rust, and put in
corn. Wheat gives good promise iu Tal
bot county. Wheat has improved in El
bert. The Whitfield county farmers will
make half crops of wheat and oats. The
wheat and oats looked badly in Greene, but
have improved and will make lair crops.
The wheat from Atlanta up to Gordon
county on the State road looks fine. L. H.
Carter, of Americas, has wheat five feet
tall. Walton county will have tine oats.
Tatnall county' will only make three
fourths of an oat and wheat erop. The
Schley county farmers will only get two
thirds of a wheat crop. The oat crop of
Emanuel has become promising. Monroe
will have an average crop of wheat and
oats. Judge Montgomery, of Americas,
has oats six feet high. The wheat in White
county looks well. The entire small
grain crops look well in Madison county.
FRUIT.
In Wilkinson county, about Gordon, the
fruit is not good. Rockdale county has
some fruit left. Hamilton will have some
peaches. In Taylor county fruit is better
than was expected. Elbert will have a
fair yield of peaches.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Captain Herman, of S-iundersville,
Washington county, put in collard seed
January I, and has a plant 3 feet across.
.In Henry county the lightning has
killed some hogs recently.
Dr. Mrtihews, of Elbert, will get four
tons of clover fr<>m a single acre.
The farmeis of Oglethope county are
agitating the great fence question.
Be Kind to Animals,
It is surprising how many farmers there
are that take no more notice of their live
stock than to get all the work limy can out
of their oxen or horses, and milk and but
ter from their cows. A kind word or a
caress is never bestowed on a single occu
pant of the barn. Now, we hold this to be
in a measure wrong; true, a farmer may
have a fine lot of cattle in excellent condi
tion, provided he gives them a sufficient
supply of nutritious food, without any of
this extra kindness, but, at the same time,
kindness to dumb animals cost nothing,
while it is greatly appreciated by the ani
mals on which it is bestowed. Teach your
animals to love ; learn them to follow in
stead of fleeing from you ; have a name for
every member of the barn yard, and a kind
word for any one. Our cattle depend upon
receiving a hearty good morning from us
when we go to the barn, just as much as
any member of our household, and in their
way show that they appricate it, too.
We have no animal on the place that ottr
children cannot approach and caress, wheth
er in the stable or in the yard, and both
have a mutual satisfaction in being thus
friendly ; then, too, there are advantages
beside those of mere satisfaction. Young
steers are far more easily managed when
thus tame and docile than when wild and
frightened at the approach of any one; it
is as much work to overcome the fear of a
pair of wild steers as it is to break in a
pair that are tame and docile at the com
mencement, and the same thing applies to
breaking young colts. Farmers are often
far too chary of this kindness to their do
mestic animals ; let them exchange blame
and scoldings for kind words and c tresses,
and they will be surprised to see how quick
the wild ones will become tame and docile,
and find that it will pay them well in the
end. —Exchange.
Worth Knowing:.
If your end-fire is low, throw on a table
spoonful of salt, and it will help it very
much. A little ginger put into sausage
meat improves the flavor. In icing cakes,
dip the knife frequently into cold water.
In boiling meat for soup, use cold water to
extract the juice. If the meat is wanted
for itself alone, plunge in boiling water at
once. You can get a bottle or barrel of
oil off any carpet of woolen stuff' by ap
plying buckwheat plentifully and faithfully.
Never put water to such grease spots, or
liquid of any kind. Broil steak without
salting. Salt draws the juices in cooking;
it is desirable to keep these in if possible.
Cook over a hot fire, turning frequently,
searing on both sides. Place on a platter;
salt and pepper to taste. Beef having a
tendency to be tough can be made very
palatable by stewing gently for two hours,
with pepper and salt, taking out about a
pint of the liquor when half done, and
letting the rest boil into the meat, Brown
the meat in the pot: After taking up,
make a gravy of the pint of liquor saved.
A small piece of charcoal in the pot with
boiling cabbage removes the smell. Chan
oil-cloth with milk and water; a brush
and soap will ruin them. Tumblers that
have had milk in them should never be put
in hot water. A spoonful of stewed toma
toes in the gravy of either roasted or fried
meats is an improvement. The skin of a
boiled egg is the most efficacious remedy
that can be applied to a boil. Peel it, care
fully, wet and apply to the part affected.
It will draw off the matter and relieve tin}
soreness in a few hours.