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ihc^dirood Cassette.
Published Every Thursday.
REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA
THE TROUBLE OF THE HOUSE.
They name her "Trouble of the HoH^"
My merry little one,
And toll larre stories of the dettda
Her busy hands have done
That every room has its own tale
)f mischief to declare,
Ofeyes wblih peer excedinjr bright
Through locks of golden hair.
I don't believe one-half they wr:
And if I did. what then?
Why, simply that her little lite
Was bubbling up ajrxin
That one more ray of sunlight streaMt
^Throimh this fair world of ours:
That one more bud was blossoming
w ithiii our garden bowers.
True, wrccks of msny a toy and
Lie scattered on the tloor:
And little fret come pattering
Through e\ ery open door
And tireless, as the bee which culls
Its honey from the (lower.
Her mind, with curious wondering* filled.
Is busy every hour.
But we as soon the streams may turn
Which to the ocean roll.
As quench this sicirk that glows and
In au immortal soul.
The wish to know the why and when,
The mj story to explore.
The will to dare the path to tread
We have not trod before,
Bute* lioth alike the man and child.
The simple and the wise
Both oluiso the bubble as it flits
Before their eager eyes
Both sport with tritles—bat and ball
Are in our hands alway
And longings, never satisfied.
Attend us day by day.
Then chi le her not. but rather bid
Her vMad heart soar and sing
The dow is fresh up her brow,
Be freedom on her wing.
We hail the promise of to-day
For, if the ruddy glow
Of morning breaks upon us such.
What may the evening show I
ba. H. S. »\ifhburn, in Childhood's Appeal.
A PYRAMID OF CABBAGES.
"Why, where are you going, Isabel
Eastman? Not into the farm-yard,
surely?-1
Yes. Miss Lottie Mayell, I am go
ing into the farm-yard," surely," re
plied Isabel, with a mischievous light
in her big gray e\ es. and a charming
suii.e on her prettily curved lips, as she
opeued the gate leading to that place.
Nowhere else can we be confidential
without running the risk of being
overheard. The farmer's family are in
the orchard Charley and a half-dozen
of his pl:iy-mates are playing in the
flower garden there's a young couple
in the parlor at the piano, he making
love, and she not making music, and a
still younger couple whispering and
giggling in the bay-window auutie is
in mv room enjoying "Splendid Mis
ery and grandma is in auntie's room
darning stockings. And so, if you
really want to hear right away' why
I am here instead of at one of my
usual summer haunts, you must e'en
follow me to the farm-yard. Besides
which "—speaking with increased ani
mation—"1 Lave lately, strange as it
may seem to you, developed quite a
passion for farm-yards."
"It doesn't seem at all strange to
me, my dear, for during our ten years'
friendship you've always been develop
ing some odd passion or other. But
I've never lost faith in you. Lead on
I'll follow."
And stepping daintily and gracefully,
unimpeded by trains or demi-trains,
the young girls threaded their way
through the crowd of hens and chick
ens holding a loud and lively conversa
tion preparatory to going to roost past
the cows waiting to be milked, and
turning their heads to look alter the
intruders with great solemn browns
eyes and old Lowhead. the white
horse, slaking his thirst at the water
trough—to the extreme end of the
yard, where a pile of cabbages, neatly
arranged in the form of a pyramid,
confronted them.
"Behold," said Isabel, stopping be
fore it, how Nature lends her.self to
Art! (That sounds well, though I
don't know as it means anything.) This
mighty structure, formed "of the green
and succulent cabbage, is no doubt the
work of some humble field-laborer,
who, having read of the Pyramids of
Egypt—incited thereto, no doubt, by
the newspaper paragraphs about our
own dear Obelisk—has sought to vary
the monotony of cabbage lite by build
ing
as
close an imitation as his material
would allow. Let us hope that this
flight of imagination may lead to a
higher one, and that the cabbage man,
like the butter woman, may meet with
public recognition, and at last be
crowned with
a
f=F=T
{ove
lexion
wreath of laurel. Often
from the humblest sources spring the
Ettie"—breakingof
eatest works genius. Burns—
off suddenly, and as
suming a reproachful tone—"why do
you break in upon my eloquence with
rude and unseemly laughter? I was
about to repeat to you Longfellow's
last poem now I won't, bee what
your frivolity has lost you! And take a
seat on the extreme base of the pyramid
(1 prefer the mound of sods in this
secluded corner, sacred to somebody's
rake and hoe), while I go back to the
commonplace."
Thauk you. Bell dear, Til share the
sods with jou, if you please. I have an
idea that a cabbage would prove a very
uncomfortable scat under any circum
stances. And do go back to the com
monplace, that's a darling, for I'm dy
ing to know what has happened since
we parted an age ago."
An age ago! One year and a half
exactly. 1 was then engaged to Claude
Yenner. Pretty name, isn't it? And
he was a pretty little fellow, with nice
curly hair, and lovely blue eyes, with
lashes long enough for a bang, small
dimpled hands, and not an idea in his
little round head. My mother—with all
due deference 1 say it—and his mother
—to whom I accord much less defer
ence-made the match when I was
eighteen, and 1 unmade it at twenty. I
never loved Claude. How could I?
And he never loved me. How could he?
We were the victims of circumstances
and match-making mammas, and two
mortals more unlike it would be hard to
find. He was the most conventional of
men, and would have nearly die4 if at
one of those dreary dinner parties in
which his soul delighted somebody had
whispered to him that his back hair
wasn't parted straight, while I have
often been strongly tempted to shock
the full-dressed guests, at the very
start, by asking for more soap.
"Well, last June, at Newport, my
diminutive friend, Eda Smythe, with a
head the exact counterpart of Claude's,
appeared upon the scene, and she and
my betrothed fell in love with each
other at first sight. Mamma fretted
and fumed and scolded, and asked me,
with tragic emphasis, how I could look
calmly on and see so many thousands of
dollars being lost to the family, for she
was sure that artful minx would per
suade poor dear Claude to elope or
something bat I continued to look
calmly on, until one evening Claude,
with a deep sigh, kissed Eda's hand as
he bade her 'Good-night,' when I
turned suddenly upon them and bade
them follow me to my room. Then 1
forgave—quite in the manner of a stage
parent—the infatuated midgets their
base duplicity, gave them my blessing,
kissed thein both and as soon as they,
beaming with joy, had departed, I
also, beaming with joy, and not quite in
the manner of a stage parent, except
perhaps in a Pinafore" one, executed
a pirouette—a mad, revolving pirou
ette, in honor of my newly-aoquired
freedom. Mamma was awfully angry,
but they're awfully happy, and they've
named the baby after me. My chains
(they were never very heavy, 1 must
"3®
1 I I i
ooafMs) broken beyond repair, I flirted
more than ever, all the time growing a*
weary as could be of hearing the same
compliments and making the same re
plies, and doing this thing in the morn
ing, and that in the afternoon, and the
other in the evening, and at last I fled
from the old familiar throng precipi
tately one rainy day, leaving my maid
to pack my wardrobe and follow. And
I determined that this summer I would
try pastures entirely new. Auntie had
otten told me of the pleasant, old-fash
ioned farm-house which she discovered
years ago, and I coaxed mamma—
promising to take Charley, our young
est, who is the worrit' of her life, with
me—to let me spend three of my four
out-of-the-city months here. And, Lot
tie. I have never been as happy before,
and I am firmlv convinced that here I
have found the kind of life that would
suit me best. I was born to love cows
and chickens, to make butter, to traild
pyramids of cabbages."
"You!" laughed her friend. "I
think I see you in the dairy, in neat
cambric dress, with sleeves rolled to
the elbows, stamping the pats of butter
with your monogram—for that's as
near as you'd ever come to churning
and in the hennery, scattering corn to
the chickens from a dainty white apron,
a curiously shaped rustic hat mean
while shading your rose-and-cream com-
from the sun. You born to
cows and chickens!—you who have
reigned a city belle for four long years!"
And for three been most ready to
abdicate. By-the-bye"—with assumed
carelessness—"have youseen the young
farmer, the only child of our host ana
hostess?"
"Certainly not and Miss Mayell
glances at her watch. I only arrived
two hours ago, and have seen no one
but you and your aunt. But I can see
him in my mind's eve'—tall, ungainly,
and speaks through "his nose eats with
his knife says •How?' and stares at
you as though you were a being from
another sphere."
Your mind's eye needs an eyeglass,
Miss Mayell. Its vision is weak. Tall,
broad-shouldered, and gainly, if I may
use the word as I mean it. I saw him
tossing hay to-day, and he looked like
an Apollo who had exchanged his lyre
for a pitchfork, and profited by the
change. And his table manners are as
exquisite as your own, Miss Mayell and
he has a deep, full voice, and does not
say 'How?' and has scarcely looked,
let alone 'stared,' at me. I have an
idea that he regards girls of our ilk with
a quiet scorn, and thinks of us, if he
thinks of us at all, as hot-house flowers,
not to be compared with the daisies
growing wild in the meadows."
"How long have you been here, Isa
bel?"
"Six weeks."
"Quite long enough, 1
think. You'd
better go away. You are regarding
this young farmer, who never looks at
you—I don't believe that, however—
too sentimentally. You might come to
believe that you had fallen in love with
him."
"And if I did, what harm could re
sult from that? He'll never come to
believe he has fallen in love with me.
He is so different from the soft-voiced,
perfumed darlings by whom I have been
surrounded all my life, to use your own
words, with a different application, 1
stare at him as though he were a being
from another sphere. The young farm
er reads, Lottie, and reads books which,
though printed in cur native language,
would be Greek to you and me andne
numbers the poets among his friends.
I peeped into his room oneday, and saw
them all, in blue and gold, on his book
shelf. He is an honest, manly fellow,
with no false pride about him. I was
idiot enough to fancy that he might be
the least bit confused when I first saw
him at worn in his red shirt, and coarse
very broad brimmed straw hat, but he
saluted me as calmly as though he had
been arrayed in the finest garments.
And his name is Nathaniel—not as pret
ty as Claude, but it means the gift of
God.' The gift of God, indeed, his old
mother says ne has been to her, and so
will he be to the woman he marries.
And that woman must be a bee. not a
butterdy. Lottie"—with sudden fierce
ness—"if ever you tell, I'll kill you."
My dear, when 1 do, you may. Isa
bel, I be win to suspect that you are
really in love with Nathaniel—another
of your odd passions—and that beneath
your butterfly wings lurks the spirit of
the bee. And I may live to see you
helping the pitchfork Apollo toss the
hay, build obelisks and pyramids of
cabbages, copy celebrated sculptures in
beots, and heap turnips in imitation of
classic old ruins."
"I fear me not. Miss Mayell. For
though 1 would be proud to" share in
each and every one of those occupa
tions, as spon would I expect that com
pact mass of green to suddenly tremble
to its base ana then topple over, sepa
rating one huge body into a hundred
or more heads, as dream that Nathaniel
Leigh would ever care for me."
The pyramid trembled to its base,
and its apex tumbled to the ground.
The girls rose quickly from their throne
of sods, and with little shrieks fled to
a safe distance, then turned to look
again. It toppled over, its many heads
rolling in every direction, and in the
place it had occupied stood the young
farmer.
"I bless your brother for building a
pyramid to-day, Miss Eastman," he
said, "though he did unload one of the
market wagons all ready for the pur
pose. Ana I bless the happy chance
that kept me from the orchard, and
sent me here to fall asleep behind it, to
waken at the sound of your voice.
Spell-bound I remained concealed, half
believing that I was still dreaming, to
prove the falsity of the old proverb,
'Listeners never hear any good of
themselves.' But can I—dare I hope
that grains of earnest mingled with
your jest, and that the pats of butter in
our dairy may some day be stamped
with our monogram? Stand my friend,
Miss Mavell, and you shall not be for
gotten when we make the beet statues
and the turnip ruins."
"Well, 'pon my word!" exclaimed
Miss Mayell, with a frank glance of ad
miration at the handsome young fel
low, and a smile that threatened to be
come a laugh in another moment.
And "of all things!" said Miss East
man, a lovely blush mantling her face
and then youth and fun conquered all
three, and they laughed until the farm
yard resounded, ana Lion, the watch
dog, came bounding toward them, ask
ing with loud bow-wows what was the
matter.
A few weeka after Miss Isabel East
man became Mrs. Nathaniel Leigh, her
husband, lying at her feet in the
orchard, and looking up into her face
with adoring eyes, said: "I never
would have gained courage to have
told vou of my love, though I loved
you from the very first, had I not heard
from your own sweet lips that yoa
cared a little for me. What good
spirit, my blessed, sent you of all
places to the farm-yard that after
noon?"
"It was an imp sent me there,"
she answered, demurely. "Mother's
youngest, who whispered to me, as I
left the house with Lottie. 'There's
something awful jolly 'way back in
the farm-yard—a pyramid of cabbages
—and Nat Leigh's" fast asleep behind
it' Harper'e Weekly.
—In the Baltimore American recent
ly was published an article declaring
that a ghost was said to inhabit a house
at the corner of Huntington avenue and
Bartlett street, that city. The proprie
tor of the American has now been au6d
for $10,000 damages, the owner of the
houseclaimmgthat since the publica
tion of the article nobody will rent the
bouse.
Gardea and Held Seeds.
Daring the long winter evenings the
farmer should look over his stock of
field and garden seeds, and promptly
make good any deficiencies. It is not a
good plan to wait until spring is at hand
and planting time actually arrived be
fore attending to such matters but
many do so, and in consequence suffer
losses which they can ill afford. A few
postage stamps invested in seedsmen's
catalogues will afford the farmer many
hours of pleasant' and instructive read
ing, and he can hardly look over one of
these publications without finding one
or more useful hints, together with de
scriptions of new and valuable seeds
that he may desire to add to his collec
tion, however large and complete it
may be.
He will also find that a list of weds
made out with deliberation will be far
more complete and satisfactory than
•ied
jpnng.
many sorts to be purchased, see that
one hurried off just before or at plant
ing time in spring. If there are few or
the list is sent in early While the seeds
man is not busied with orders then he
can, and generally will, be more care
ful in selecting, packing and shipping
the goods. Another advantage in mak
ing purchases of seeds weeks or months
in advance of the timo they are actually
wanted for use, is that they can all be
tested, and should any prove to be old
and unsound they can be exchanged or
others be procured in time for use. It
is not difficult to test seeds in advance,
and if all would do it many losses and
disappointments might be avoided. A^
'ew boxes or flower pots tilled with'
sand and kept in a warm room will an
swer well enough for testing the germi
nating powers of most garden or field
seeds. It the farmer has no sand or
soil handy, some cotton .wool or pieces
of sponge placed in a shallow dish of
water will answer almost as well. The
seed may be laid on the top and kept
moist and warm for a few days, when,
if there is any life in them, sprouts will
soon appear, and this is all that is
needed to ascertain if they will grow
when planted out in good soil. It is al
ways well to count the number of seed
tested in order to know what propor
tion are good then it is easy to deter
mine whether they should be sown
thickly or thinly in the field or garden.
If farmers would always do this with
their clover seed, corn, beans, and sim
ilar seeds, they might avoid many a sad
failure, caused by sowing old and poor
stock, which is always dear at any
price. Perhaps, too, if more of such
experiments were conducted, those who
depend upon seedsmen for their annual
supplies might learn why it is that some
can afford to sell so much cheaper than
others not that we think that any of
our leading seedsmen would knowingly
cheat their customers, but some are
more careful than others in selecting
their stock and throwing away old
seeds. Seedsmen are very much like
other men, and dislike to cast aside
stock that has cost them money, if it
can be worked off safely and not injure
their trade or reputation.
But the farmer should not stop his ex
periments when he has finished testing
the seeds he has purchased, but go .on
until his own stock has been fully tried,
even to the seed corn saved the past
season. It is not always certain that
seeds of one's own saving escape injury
during the winter, and while they may
appear to be all right, their germinat
ing properties are perhaps injured if
not entirely destroyed. Many a farmer
The expense of planting a field a sec
ond or third time in spring will not
only make an inroad upon expected
profits, but very likely result in a total
failure.
In making up a list of garden seeds,
the early and late varieties of the pea,
with enough for several plantings,
should not be omitted, and we mention
this, knowing that a great many farm
ers think the old Mrrrowfat is good
enough for table use, and provide no
better sorts. Ordinary field corn, while
green, is still extensively used for cook
ing by many thousands of farmers who
have either never tasted, or are too
negligent to procure, the best varieties
of sweet corn for their tables. No one
should be content with an inferior or
second-rate article of any kind, when
the very best is easily obtainable and
within a man's means. It costs no
more to raise sweet corn than field
corn, neither will it require any more
labor to cultivate a row of improved
pease than one of Marrowfats, although
to procure a few seedsof each may cost
a few cents extra.
The proper time to think of such
things is when one has leisure for de
liberation hence these hints thus early
in the season. While making up your
list of garden and field seeds to send
to the seedsman do not forget the
ornamental plants. A few beds of flow
ers about the house will help much
toward keeping the inmates cheerful,
and while they may not give any return
in the way of food or money to "the cul
tivator, the flower garden is a thing not
to be overlooked by any one who at
tempts to make a home worthy of the
name in the country.—If. T. Sun.
Hints en Domestic Economy.
Sweet, clean, airy bedchambers are a
luxury. Every room occupied during
the night should be thrown open to the
freest exposure of sun and air the next
morning, but unless the chamber-maid
thoroughly understands her business
ten to one they will not be the clothes
thrown down from the bed, mattress
turned over, and window opened from
both top and bottom, and left so one
half hour at least. The element of
thoroughness is one of the best points
in a good chamber-maid. Through and
through, from the dusting the walls and
ceiling, and the bed-slats on sweeping
days, to the wiping oft the picture on
the bureau or brushing up the hearth
each morning, thoroughness should be
her motto. Mirrors can be cleaned with
a soft cloth dipped in alcohol. Linseed
oil and vinegar boiled together make a
very good furniture-polish. There is a
little bug that infests matting which
nothing but constant vigilance mil de
stroy, killing every one. But bugs are
effectually killed by turpentine, the only
infallible remedy I know of. In furnish
ing bedchambers, artistic taste demands
that paper for the walls and paint for
the wood-work should harmonize in col
or and design. For rooms used chiefly
in winter, dark colors are suitable. For
summer apartments, lighter shades are
desirable, and while in large rooms large
patterns are not out of place, in smaller
sized rooms the figure of the paper
should correspond. It requires a high
ceiling for a high dado and deep frieze
to look well, while some flitting butter
fly or delicate flower pattern gives a
summer airiness to the country cham
ber. Patterns in wall-papers, as in
most othur things, change in fashion,
and the curious figures and landscapes
of thirty years ago are now never seen.
Within the last live or six years deco
rative art has been the race, and wall
papers have received1 due attention.
For a short time plain, deep-colored pa
per was much in vogue, with a gilt band
as frieze. Now more elaborate artistic
patterns are in use.
The furniture of the chamber ought
of course to be in keeping with the
rest of die house, and
fashion prescribes
regular sets. Some will vary to suit
their own convenience. If it is re-
Suringto
uired use the room as a sitting-room
the day, sofa and other furniture
beds can be obtained, at all prices,
from ten dollars to one hundred and
fifty dollars, though unless the room is
really needed it is better to use the
ohamber for a sleeping apartment only,
thus giving plenty of opportunity for
we room and bedding to be well aired
^====f
during the day. Mattings, of thg.
oheaper varieties are hardly a servicea
ble investment, but an excellent quality
can be obtained for about forty-five
cents a yard. In bedding, mattresses
are best made at the upholsterer's. I
have known one or two ladies who al
tered over some of their own, but their
task appeared anything but an enviable
one. A good hair mattress is more of
a treasure than the feather beds of our
fsir-looms
randmothers. Some possess these
still, and one lady of my ac
quaintance utilizes hers by placing
them between cheap excelsior"
(curled wood) mattresses and her hair
ones, thus making a bed unusually soft
and comfortable. Husks, seaweed,
moss and straw are all used in mattress
making, and, unless one understands
buying, an unprincipled dealer can
easily pass off a cheaper substitute for
the real hair one. Many ladies will
use nothing but bleached sheeting, al
though unbleached washes soft, whitens
by use, and wears better. Shoe-bags
of strong calico or twilled coutille,
bouttd with braid, and rows of pockets
strongly bound, are most useful* tacked
inside the closet or wardrobe door. A
very useful as well as ornamental thing
is the stocking-basket (a round basket
with cover, or a large round box.) This
can be finished by a cover with the
most artistic designs on linen, canvas,
silk, or even satin, embroidered, paint
ed, or simply finished with quillings or
ribbon bows. Silk bits work into the
prettiest kind of quilt coverings, and a
small eider-down foot-quilt is a useful
addition to any bed.
Whether the ornamentation be sim
ple or elaborate, whether the house be
of wealth or modest worth, there is one
treasure to be eagerly coveted by each
and every one. the spirit of which is
well described when in Christian's
journey "they laid him in an upper
chamber looking toward the sunrising
and the name of the chamber was
Peace."—Christian at Work.
Horse Dealers and Horse Dealing.
A horse dealer may be defined as a
person who reads horses, and under
stands all the virtues and vices of the
whole species. He has more ways to
hide the defects in horse fiesh than
women have to hide decays in faces,
with which oaths and lies are the most
general accompaniments. He under
stands the chronology of a horse's
mouth most critically, and will find out
the year of his nativity by it as certain
ly as if he had been at the mare's labor
that bore him. After all, few horse
dealers are really good judges of horses.
It Is true that many of them possess a
peculiar rapidity of vision, the effect of
a quickened intellect and that in the
inspection of a horse one of their earfe
glances will comprehend more than rialf
an hour's scrutiny from other eyes yet
this ohiefly has reference to what may be
termed his selling points. They too
often buy horses as butchers do bul
locks, by their size and weight and as
fat conceals many faults, their highest
notion of condition is being fat. Of
action—that is, proper, lasting action
—they are for the most part ignorant.
The vocabulary of the horse-dealing
fraternity is not less amusing than
pithy, having what is called a "flash"
term for almost every description of a
horse. Amongst these is the "fool
catcher," namely, a horse with a good
head and tail, possessing showy action,
but not intrinsically worth twelve
months'^ keep. This sort of animal,
from his worthlessness, is commonly
purchased at a small price but when
made fat, is sure to answer to his name,
especially in the larger cities. But all
this is classical. The horse-dealer's
heaven on earth is located in places
where there is much money and abund
ance of fools.
A great portion of horse-buyers, how
ever, have to thank themselves for be
ing cheated in their purchases, because
they will rely on their own judgment,
without its having had the benefit of ex
perience. Almost every man, in fact,
wishes to be thought a good judge of a
horse, which, from the various points
to be taken into consideration, not only
of form, but as relating to action, for
several purposes, is of all others the an
imal most difficult to judge of correctly.
But such is the case in other matters
than horse-dealing, and the experience
which often comes too late for our own
use, is rarely accepted for that of oth
ers. When a horse-case is brought into
court, the witnesses on both sides
usually seem to consider they have a
prescriptive right to indulge in an un
limited quantity of what is technically
termed "hard'swearing." We should
say there is no branch of dealings in
which every class of society is so freely
taken in, as in the purchase of horses.
In the daily, and especially in
the Sunday papers of our large
cities, may frequently be no
ticed advertisements of horses
for sale, said to belong to an invalid
lady, or a gentleman suddenly* obliged
to travel in foreign countries for his
health, and who must forthwith part
with her or his exquisite trotter, or
team of trotters, bought only recently
-at a high price in Kentucky. Besides
a spurious pedigree, and a statement
of tfceir capacity for trotting which is
always placed considerably Below three
minutes, the fiery steeds are said to be
so gentle that a child might drive them.
There are no specific rules by which
persons can avoid these impositions,
but they may, at any rate, decline
placing confidence in those with whom
they nave no previous acquaintance.
In transactions which are fair, the
negotiating party is anxious that every
facility be given to a purchaser to see
that he is being dealt with in good
faith and we should pause the moment
we detect undue haste or reservation,
as in nineteen cases out of twenty, we
may depend upon it, there is something
suspicious in the transaction.—Prairie
Farpmfc.
The Hessian Fly.
Dr. A. S. Packard, of the Entomo
logical Commission at Washington,
treats in his recently-pnblished report
on "The Hessian Fly" of the ravages,
habits, enemies and means of prevent
ing the increase of this insect. The
preventive measures have been sum
marized as follows:
1. It is advised to sow a part of the
wheat early, and if affected by the fly,
to put in the rest of the see'd after Sep
tember 20th, which will in most cases
save the crop. By destroying the first
brood the second will not appear.
2. Partially affected wheat may be
saved by the use of fertilizers and care
ful cultivation, and if winter wheat, the
fields may be recuperated in the spring.
3. It is stated that many of the eggs
and larvae may be destroyed by pastur
ing with sheep and close cropping of
winter wheat in November or early in
December. Rolling the ground will
answer nearly as well.
4. It is advised to sow hardy varieties
of wheat, especially those which tiller
vigorously. Diehl for early August
sowing and Clawson for late.
5. Lime, soot and salt are named as
special remedies, and it is also recom
mended to rake off the stubble, but too
close cutting and burning of the stubble
may result in harm by destroying the
useful parasites, of which there are sev
eral species. Indeed, it is claimed that
nine-tenths of all the flies hatched are.
destroyed by these minute parasites. .-
There are two broods of the fly. The
first deposits its eggs from early in
April till the end ofMay, and the seo
ond appears in August and September.
The eggs are laid on the leaves of the
wheat, and the young maggots, which
hatch in about four days, soon find
their way to the base of the leaf, re
maining between it and the stem near
the roots.
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
—It is only good seed that makes
good results possible.
—If corn meal is to be fed to cows, it
is best to grind one bushel of flaxseed
with fifteen bushels of corn, which
makes a good, healthy diet.
—Stove luster, when mixed with ter
pentine and applied in the usual man
ner, is blacker, more glossy than when
mixed with any other liquid, and the
turpentine also prevents dust.
—Frosted silverware or frosted orna
mentation on plain silver should be
cleaned with a soft brush and strong
lye, accompanied by frequent rinsings
in soft water. After the frosted parts
are dnr, the polished parts may be
rubbed carefully with powder.
—There is much difference of opin
ion as respects the proper season for
pruning, but if done in June, July and
August the wounds will heal over more
rapidly than at any other season of the
rear but there are occasions, especial
when trees are young and the
branches small, that pruning can be
erformed whenever the knife is sharp,
tabbing off the tender shoot is prefer
able to cutting away the branch in
after years.
—Good Stewed Chicken.—Put in a
saucepan a piece of butter the size of a
walnut, dredge in a little flour, set on
the stove and stir till smooth and a lit
tle on the fry add a very little water,
let it cook a trifle more, then put in
your chicken that of course has been
washed and cut up, stir it all round
slowly, then dredge in a little more
flour and pour in a little more water,
cover up and stew, occasionally adding
more water as required, but not too
much at one time. Let it be well done
before dishing.
—When a horse is nneasy and suf
fers, and turns around his nose to his
flanks, he is troubled with indigestion,
and this also affects the kidneys.
When a horse is not working, good hay
is sufficient without corn, and too much
corn will then be apt to cause trouble.
The remedy for such trouble is to les
sen the grain if he is in good condi
tion, give a pint of linseed-oil, and re
peat the next day. Then give a dram
(teaspoonful) each of ground ginger
and carbonate of soda twice a day in
some bran and cut hay wetted, or in a
bran mash. —N. Y. Times.
—The Bellflower is a fine eating and
cooking apple. The Prairie Farmer
raises the objection that it is unproduc
tive in some localities, and says "We
know of an orchard of them of 250 trees,
seventeen years old, from which not one
bushel of fruit has ever been gathered,
while it is immediately surrounded on
all sides by other varieties that have
been grandly productive, with the same
soil and culture. Therefore, it is one
of the varieties that should never be
planted except where experience has
shown they will bear fair crops." The
same is true of other apples, the North
ern Spy, for example. Suit your variety
to soil and climate.
—A writer in the Housekeeper furnish
es these hints: "There are many nice
ways of cooking potatoes, and our fa
vorite one is frying them. Slice raw
and put sweet lard enough in your
spider to well cover the bottom after it
is melted put in the sliced potatoes
salt, pepper and cover tight let them
cook until well browned on the bottom
before turning. The knack is to have
lard enough to brown them without
burning or sticking, and turning the
fresh ones to the bottom so that nearly
all may brown. Potatoes are also very
nice boiled in lard like doughnuts. To
those who love pot-pie, and do not suc
ceed in getting it light, I cau whisper a
secret make the dough without a bit
of shortening, and leave the cover off
your kettle for fifteen minutes, when it
will be nearly done then clap on the
cover, cook five minutes more and
serve, and say good-by to tough, heavy
dumplings."
—An elegant cake to be baked in lay
ers with a filling of fig paste is made
thus: Take one cup of butter, two cups
of sugar, three cups and a half of Hour,
half of a cup of sweet milk, the whites
of seven eggs, two teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder cream the butter and sugar
till very light—and by the way, this
should always be done when you wish
nice cake. Beat the eggs to a stiff
froth. It is to be hoped tnat you have
a good, egg-beater. I believe it is a
matter of economy. For the filling
take one pound of figs chop them tine
and cook until soft, and smooth with a
teacupful of water aud half a cup of
sugar. Another, but I think less de
sirable, way to prepare the filling is to
take ten ounces of figs and five ounces
of raisins stone the raisins and then
chop them and the figs fine, then soak
them all night in enough cider to make
with them a paste which will spread
almost like a thick custard. —Cor. N.
Y. Post.
!y
P«
Ru)» Calculating the Weight of
v Cattle.
Br the following rule may be found
very nearly the weight of live animals:
See th*t the animal stands square then
take his cirdtamference behind the
shoulder-blade—this is the girth. Then
measure from the bone of the tail
which plumbs the line with the hinder
part of the buttock, and direct the
string along the back to the fore part
of the shoulder-blade—this will be the
length. Then work the figures thus:
Suppose the girth of a bullock six feet
four inches, length five feet three
inches, which multiplied together
makes thirty-three square superiicial
feet and this multiplied by twenty
three—the number of pounds allowed
for each superficial foot of cattle meas
uring less than seven and more than
five feet in girth—makes 759 pounds.
When the animal measures less than
nine and more than seven feet in girth,
thirty-one is the number of pounds to
be estimated lor each superiicial foot.
And suppose a small animal to meas
ure two feet in girth and two feet in
length, these multiplied together make
four feet, which multiplied by eleven—
the number of pounds allowed for
each square foot when cattle measure
less than three feet in girth—makes
forty-four pounds. Again, suppose a
calf or sheep, etc., to measure four
feet six inches in girth, and three feet
nine inches in length, that multiplied
together makes sixteen square feet, and
these multiplied by sixteen—the num
ber of pounds allowed for cattle meas
uring less than five and more than
three feet in girth—make 256 pounds.
The dimensions of cattle, sheep, calves
and hog3 taken this way, will give the
weight of the four quarters of the
animal, sinking the offal. A deduction
must be made for animals half fattened
—of one pound in twenty from those
that are fat and for a cow that has
had calves one pound must be allowed,
in addition to the one for not being
fat, upon every twenty.—Boston Trav
eller.
—A telephone manager who is of an
observing turn of mind, says that when
aT&ffiily gets a telephone in the honse
they keep up a constant ringing the
first two or three days ajid hello them
selves hoarse. The next day or two the
racket is kept up in a more modified
manner. After the week is out they
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William F. Tolley, of Kingston, S.
Y., is an electrical marvel. Mr. Tolley
is so full of electricity that when he
slides across a carpet, even with his
boots on, he oan light the gas with his
fingers, and when
a
BRIDGET MUKPHY, born In Ireland,
died recently at Buffalo, aged one hun
dred and one years. When eighteen
years old, during the rebellion of 1798,
she was sent seven miles by her uncle
to hide a large sum of money in a bote
hole. She was met by British soldieii
on the way, but supposing she had
nothing of value, they let her pass. The
money was recovered two years later.
She came to Buffalo in 1844. She
leaves seven children, the oldest of
whom is oyer seventy. She has six
teen great-grandchildren in that city,
and probably a number in Ireland.
[Muscatine Journal.]
Two Days' W*rk.
Two day*' moderate application of the
means in question, enabled Mr. Otto £lch
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thus write ust 1 hai been a sufferer for the
past six weeks with severe pains In the shoul
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work. Advised by a friend I used St Jacobs
Oil. With the second application relief was
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A
BOY
who finds fault with pie and pudding
at home will take a pinch of salt and two
potatoes and make a good dinner, out In the
Woods on a rabbit hunt—Detroit Fret Press.
[Peoria National Democrat.]
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donkey keeps bis tongue still and his
ears In motion. Consequently his ears are
never frozen. There is a moral here, if
will search for It.—Bottom Transcript.
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