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siir ami Garden, ’•earn 1 -a nlons (o Im Farmers. [f y -'.j •' jJd have them self-reliant, iim pt i 1 i i and sure of a competency, kavu them-io cultivate the soil. Hav ing >pi e g from it, they should not bo nsh::m and to cultivate it. All retire to it, h nil firm business and from life If i’s honorable for broken down law yen, merchants, bankers and others to retiro to the farms, after having enjoy ed high positions in their trades, is it not even more honorable to have set mt and ended life cn a fart;.? We think it is. Old farmers do not have to retire from the farm to city life ard a mercantile or lawyer’s trade. All trades return to the farm —to mother earth, that dear old creature who gave us birth, sustained us through life, and bids us return to her quiet bosom in death Man has always exhibited an instinctive love for old mother earth, and lio who retires to the farm after spending his life in acquiring a fortune in the trades, as good as te Is us that he is weary of trade, weary of traffic, weary of perpetual vigilance agaitst sharping and trickery ; weary of con ventional forms; weary of the anxie ties. risks and responsibilities of trade, and above all, weary of‘the dubious morals he thought himself obliged to practice in order to win success. His retirement lo the farm tells us that as eld ago creeps upon him, he begins to que-tion those morals, and although it. may be that he is recognized as a very g.)od Christian man, yet there has been whispered in the great deep of his heart, a (fault. A still small voice breathed the shadow of reflection upon his method of conducting his business, his resorfs in accumulation, and a small shadow flitted across his brow, sending a fitful pain even to the heart, which '.used him to sigh a trifling regret that ieis• ow so old. But ho will endeav or to amend his life; he will retire to '’arm ; he has enough for the re r of life, and on the quiet farm bo exempt from tho great bur trade responsibilities—can have a nof rest, and time to prepare for demn tragedy which must inevb . My close his earthly career. : !' us be instinctively recognizes the t'v. uni; influences, fhe motherly affec iuJ .ndness of o’d mother earth, u nearer to her as ambition • y recedes, as the senses ' o; : -.a£7 , or dulled, and above ii a f >• j>; ie need of some sure - ' i' |f - - m sure support to bring fcim e■ ' ' cc to the grave. If in ; ’ u;; ' ’qualities shine forth A; u the An raster of mother earth, at® Muief -1 r u the lives of those who never knew nor. happy must be he who nov.'-r v < lore 1 from the sweet influ e • nor Ign, but learned to cul f iv? *ii .iligenco, her soil, and ap daily outpouring of her rich Acr devotee has no pangs of conacio -; about the morality of mar „m t file, no burdens of responsi hi ut the legitimacy of trade, and no r o idling anxieties about the chance i. nugle venture. He never makes a single venture that may endanger his living, but, sensible of the virtuous and inexhaiutable abundance concealed by her prudent mantle of £reen, be plies N.r with all the arts of industry, seeks her favor with a grand variety of seeds, and garners her abundance in joyous acknowledgment of her bounty. Bhe admits of no short allowance, tolercato3 no “trades unions,” and turns loose no multitude of “strikers” to de stroy in a day the accumulation of years. Her teachings are all of virtu ous economy and intelligent industry, pointing out the road to peace and prosperity in government, while laying the foundation of eternal life,in anoth, or world. A correspondent asks for a recipe for pickling cucumbers. We give him the following : Gather the cucumbers in the morning, along through the season, as may bo convenient, always cutting them off the vino, leaving a short stem attached, instead of pulling them off. — Wash the cucumbers and deposit in a jar, first putting down a layer of salt, then a layer of cucumbers, and so on. When the jar is filled, put on a weight to keep them pressed down beneath the bane, cover and set away. Grape leu-.s ore sometimes put on top to pre serve the 3 recn cojor of the cucumber. Three days are to keep them in brine, or they may v. kept in it six months without injuiy. • *a '-• ready to pickle, wash them off and soak fresh . ter a day and night, ohanging the wafer once ; after which boil vine o .. in a brass kettle, drop in some spice vw ' oicce of alum, and put the cu- ■" c - • - : in this liq od. iransfer them ro a cleaniy vr; . land scalded, pour the boiling ■ ii. :v over them, tie up securely and set a\ ay. They will be fit for use in a wek, or lc3s time. ; . •••:• Barren Tnr.ES —This can bo l.'mc by pruning, from the 25th of Auyust to • ; e ' sth or 20th ofSeptem ‘ . I don’t know as I cun give a ... • i- for it, yet L know, by 'v ’ '■ ■ 1 that it will have the '*•’ ; ’y"' y >roper!y done. If the ■ ■ ■ " >' 'Ous, root pruning mw '■••• • ho reason I assign fir is, t.i it, die fruit* 1 t that season, and if ’•? bo turned from the ’ 1 ' mature the fruit*bud. I r 'U, ■" i wh> is very successful in 'ahtry siys wiv n t , ..> wings tie turkeys Login to lop down, *ook s! k and v/enk, she pulls on • •••sgcfct feathers on oacli wing, iicy e all right in a few hours, very ■ Idoin loses any, and she lias .it for years. If it is so it worth Gag and practicing. An ingenious farmer pi; nted a few rows of potatoes zigzag, to bother the hugs. These, rows were just about enough for the crosseyed bugs, who , partook with feelings of profound grat° : itttde. (■rape* fbr Farmers* Families. The excitement about grape culture which prevailed a few years since has mostly subsided, anu it is not to go ex pected, and hardly to bo desired, that the wild expectation, of profit which then prevailed should be revived. In place of this we have more natural and reasonable views. But it would be a great mistake to intermit discussion of the grape question while moro than half the families in this country are poorly supplied with, or altogether destitute cf, this luscious fruit. Farmers, espec ially, ought to have an abundance of grapes. The grape is more easily g’own, and is a surer crop, than any other fruit, and can be brought into bearing in less than two yea s from planting. Pruning the vine is the bug bear which frightens most of those who have no experience with grapes ; but nothing can be simpler than this. Any farmer can learn in half an hour. In fact, if he iearns tho first lesson —to let but one shoot grow the first season and out back to three or four buds the sec., ond year, the after management of the vine will readily suggest itself to any intel'igent man. With good, hardy va rieties there need be no failure in secu ring a full supply of crapes every year from the third season nf er planting.— To give a list of the best vaiieiies as I iiavo.f >und them isn’t the purpose of this article. Nurserymen are selling grape vines vo cheaply that any farmer can afford to supply himself. If he wishes to be economical, it is easy to buy one vine of a kind and propagate addition*, a! ones by la>crs and cuttings.—Prai rie Farmer, Curing; Clover lij. Some facts about clover hoatiug in tho mow are little underfood. The fermenting clover is not becoming tvet ter, as the heating is only an effort to •throw off superfluous moisture. That it does not do this more perfectly is ow~ ing to the fact that the heated air from the mow, when rising to tho surface, is cooled and condensed by the cooler at mosphere outside. In the middle of a hot day there will still be some conden sation of moisture. Look at your clo ver mow early in tho morning, after a a cool night, and you will find the sur. face dripping with water. The moist ure fulls bftek and trickles through the mow. Many a time when a boy I heard it said : “There, throw that wet fork ful, or wet bundle, on top of tho mow where it will dry. * But I always no deed that it never did dry, and that un der tho wet bundle the grass or grain would be almost rotten. The reason why is plain enough. The remedy is to provide some dry, warm substance, under wr.icb the steam from the mow can pass away. If wo could have a stove on the mow it would answer the purpose, but as we cann *t we must pnv vide some substance that is at least dry, if not war nit Dry straw is the very best cheap and easily.obtained substance that can be had. Some farmers mix dry straw in layers through the mow. In this way very green clover may be saved in very good order. But how ever much straw you put in the mow or stack, on no account forget to top off with it. The greener the clover the thicker should be the covering of straw. IF. J. F.. in Country Gentleman. Read this article twice, and bear the fact constantly in mind, that the finest poultry in the world, the most beauti fully feathered, the purest in color, and the most accurately bred chickens, will, in hot weather, get lousy, unless care is taken to keep this pest of the fowl house at a distance. Venn in now generate rapidly, and in a few days swarm upon the bodies of jour poultry, on the roost, in the cor' ners and crevices of the building they occupy, in the nests where they lay— everywhere around the premises, when the simple precautions we have a hun dred times recommended in the pages of the Poultry World lor preventing the accumulations of this nuisance are neglected. Once more we suggest that during July and August the ben-’inotho'rs bo frequently dusted—and thoroughly, too —with carbolic or insect destroying powder. If this is attended to, sufiß cicnt of the material falls from her body feathers upon the chickens she is bn oding, to keep them free from lice, while it drives the parasites away from her own flesh, and renders her comoar' atively comfortable. Wash the roosts with kerosene onco a v/eck for a month or two, a: 1 white ’•’g-h all the rest of the woodwork in* sid l ;, When the red mites or small “spn*.,, I} CG ” appear, through neglect, and swarm in myriads on the walls of the heb'fhs*, j u not forget that whitewash, while perfectly efficacious, if properly applied, is of little avail unless you do your work thoroughly. Strike your dripping brush forcibly at every angle and crevice. Do not leave a space as big as a pin-head untouched. Use plenty of whitewash. This will destroy both lice and nits in those places. Mix a pound or two of Carb dated pov.der (sent from this of fice, prepaid, lor 25 cent? a package', in the ash-box or dust-troueh, where toe old fowls can roll themselves in it. Fumigate.the interior by the occasion. r, l Lurnis! ■' id a lump of rosin and come nnn brimstone in the tighiiy,close hen house, when the birds arc absent for an hour or so. Titus you may keep ym-r fowls tree from lice, render their existence comfortable, help to preserve their lien ‘h, and aid in keeping them in good thrift, during the heated term. —Poultry I for Id. It is not yet known where she live; l his year, out *,on t Jet worry j she wdl surely appear in the newspapers within the v C xt three mouths. We ah iUIG that farmer's daughter of sev enteen who plows twenty acres of ground, cuts fifteen acres of gu; r , w ith a reaper an 1 mower, thrashes an *h e wheat, cultivates me acre of cabbages,' milks twenty cows every morning be fore breakfast, and does nearly all the housework, while her father lies abed with the inflammatory rheumatism all summer. THE SINGER SEWING MACHINE. The People’s Favorite, THE LARGEST SALES BECAUSE THE MOST POPULAR The Most Popular Because the Best. VERDICT OF THE LADIES. THE stubborn fart shown by the official returns, that the Singer Sewing Machi nc the only one whose sales have largely and steadily increased every year, uninterrupt edly—that last year the sales more than doubled those of the nest, highest competitor, and nearly equalled the sales of Nli the other companies combined, demonstrates beyond all controversy that THE SINGER SEWING MACHINE i3 the most p pular, because, in the estimation of the ladies of the count y, is superior to any other ma ufactured. The following returns of sales, sworn to by each company tells the story : Sales in 1871. 1872. 1878. 1874. 1875. By the Singer... 131,200 219,753 232,444 241,679 249,852 Wheeler & Wilson 128,526 174,088 110,190 92,827 103,740 Howe (Jan. 1, to July 1) 34,010 145,000 No returns 35,000. 25,000 Remington .- 25,110 Domestic 10,397 49,555 40,114 22,700 21,452 Sales for 1876, 262,316 Machines. 3a?es Still Increasing. All Competition Distanced. 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