FARM NOTES.
THERE has been an unusual supply
of the small fruits this year, and the
prospect seems good for a large crop of
apples, pears and peaches; yet, with the
exception of blackberries, prices have
been better than during some previous
years, Whether the markets can be
oversupplied or not depends not so
much on the quantity of fruit shipped
as upon its quality and the condition in
whichit arrives. A few years ago, when
the markets were supplied with straw
berries, which had fallen in price as
low as 3 cents per box, a certain grower
sold all be could send to market at 50
cents per box. They were so superior
to anything of the kind sold that they
were at once In demand upon arrival,
and the price was even enhanced by
the comparison with other kinds sold
at the same time. This demonstrates
that a paying crop does not depend on
the number of bushels sent to market,
but according to the quality, which re-
presents expense and labor. While the
crops are growing larger every year, so
1s the average quality, and prices have
corresponded with the quality every
season. Growers who sometimes be-
come discouraged should not overlook
the fact that pepulation and demand
are increasing and that as buyers become
educated to a knowledge of the best
kinds of produce they naturally prefer
such, and are willing to pay more for
it. There is no product for the entire
season greater thao eggs, yet with im-
portations from Europe to assist in
supplying the markets the prices aro al-
ways high In proportien to cost, and in
winter vary from 20 to 90 cents per
dozen. It is well known that those
who purchase eggs will leave a well-
stocked market in order to procure
such as may be known to be strictly
fresh, and will not hesitates in paying
any price asked; so with milk and
Lutter, which command ready sale, but
for which no fixed prices are possible
owing to difference in quality.
Though butter has competed with sub-
stitutes and prices have at times been
very low, yet that of first-grade quality
has always been sold at an advanced
price over the usual market quotations,
There 18 no danger of an overstocked
market to the farmer, dalryman or
fruit-grower who is willing to expend
the labor necesfary for the production
of something that is cholce and not
easily procured. It should be the alm
to send articles to market that are a
little better than those to be had, and
mn 80 doing not only will the best prices
be obtained but the producer will build
a reputation for himself that will be to
his advantage the next season,
A LARGE English farmer says that
his manure which is taken frem the
stables and piled up under a shed all
winter Is worth in the spring four times
as much as that which has been exposed
to the weather. This Is undoubtedly
neariy correct if the exposure be a bad
manure out of the stable window and
letting it rest in a pile against the side
of the stable exposed to the rain drip-
ping from the roof. In this way most
of the fertilizing salts are drained out
of it into the earth below the heap or
are washed away in the overflow of the
yard, and the manure is left of little
value,
Tae experience of the closest stu-
dents mn dairying is that less corn meal
and more comfort in the way of clean,
warm stables, to promote animal heat,
and more bran, oats, etc,, are the
cheapest and best cow rations. If we
expect the cow to play the double part
of cow and steer stuff the corn meal
into her, the more the beiler, and get
her to the block as quick as possible, in
order to sell the butter and beef at
the same time; but if she is expected
to be a dairy cow treat her like the cow
and mother; feed like a mother, and on
the foods that mothers require, not a
buliock’s ration, and we may in time
become dairymen and get dalrymen’s
profits,
A LACK of pasturage must be sup-
plied in the form of some other kind of
food. If the number of cattle be few
and the pasture field large, with abun-
dant growth, but little grain will be re-
quired for growing stock, though mileh
cows should be fed all they will eat,
Where the cattle are compelled to for-
age over the pasture a mess of grain
will be required at night in order to
keep them in proper condition and in-
crease their growth.
THE practice of giving a final culti-
vation to corn and then allowing the
crop to remain until matured, whether
the field be covered with grass or not,
has injured many promising crops. A
field of corn should be cultivated as
often as may be necessary without re-
gard to its stage of growth. It should
be kept clean and themsoil always in a
loose condition. and the crop will there
by be larger and the plants better en~
abled to endure drought.
Tine experiments of De, Voelcker,
of the Royal Society of England, prove
that manure graduoally depreciates by
keeping, even under the very best
management. It gaing in water and
loses in valuable organic matter which
is spent in the fermantation. It stands
to reason, .f this be true, that the old-
fashioned method of turning and work-
ing over manure for six months before
using 1s wasteful and to be avoided.
Ix contagious foot-rot the following
foot-bath is excellent: Nitrateof mer-
cury, ons ounce; nitric acid, five
nts. The clean
HOUSEHOLD
Fresit SALADS ought not to lie long
in water the withered only long enough
to crisp them, The outside leaves are
thrown away, the inner ones parted,
well rinsed and examined,and if neces.
sary, plunged into salt and water for a
few minutes, which will quickly free
the leaves of any Insect that may cling
to them. They may then be thrown
into a colander or salad basket to draln
and thence into a napkin held by its
four coaners, and shaken lightly until
it absorbs the water hanging about the
leaves, Handle the salad as little as
possible in cutting. Do not mix it
with dressing until the moment of
serving, and then it is usual to put the
liquids at the bottom of the bowl and
stir it up just before serving. Salads
of fish, meat or potatoes are better
made half an hour before they are used
excepting such as are mixed with leaf
lard, Let chives or onions be handled
apart when used, not mixed in, as so
many object to the flavor,
PINEAPPLE PRESERVES, — Care
should be taken to select perfectly
sound fruit, and that which is not over
ripe. The skins should be removed
with a sharp knife and the pine cut in
uniform slices about half an inch thick.
A half pound of sugar to each pound
of fruit is sufficient. Add a half pint
of water to each pound of sugar, boil
to a fich syrup, put in the fruit and
bring to a boil. Remove from the fire
and seal in glass jars. The jars should
be put into hot water before the fruit
is put into them, They should be filled
to overflowing to prevent any alr get-
ting in between the juice, and covered
and sealed tightly.
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Don’t Kill the Ola Hens,
When hens areshedding feathers they of
ten stop laying and grow fat. Most Jeople
consider fat a elgn of health, The
ing of ruouliing hens, however, as with
some people, produces debility rather than
health. Many of the worst cases of roup
are contracted, while the hens are moulting.
The food of mouling hens, if largely
vegetable is fat-forming, and not required
for growing feathers. Therefors corn -fed
hens get very fat. They need more ui
gen and phosphate elements in their
Iro-
have used all, and left no nitrogeno
ter to form eggs. At this season,
old bens and relying on young pul
great mistake, where people have
hens and Inte pullets. Because, if properly
fed, the hens will have their new plumage
and lay well all winter; while the pullets
laying until spring, when hi
egis bh ave fallen one-half
hen's egg will Latch a more vi
en than a pullet's egg.
John EK. Jones, Suffield, Conun,, a breeder
of prize winning moitied Javas, says:
“1 find Sheridan's Condition Powder,
dally in the food, very valuable for mou
I have used If two years for exibition
gh prices for
gorous chick
a bright red, and gives a ric
age. It will
hatch well. 18nd when
used in quanti ues
egus do not hatch,”
The above is the experience of many peop
using Sheridan's Powder,
now as directed, they will begin 10 ay be
moaths old. Commence at once using Sheridan
Powder, It heips old hens trough moulin g.and
K%1s the pullets in laying trim before the season
of high prices, Eggs will sell very high this fall
and winter. Tucrelore be ready to get all
can.
1. 8. Johnson & Co, 20 Custom House St,
ra of Sheridan's Condition
Powder to make hens lay, will send 10 any address
far cae two cent stamp, testimonials with fail is
formation how (0 make a few
how to obtain Sheridan s Powde fr.
i gloss to the 3
ihe other SEL-foods are
to force egg product
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A DELICIOU 8 MurTtOoNs Pig. - ut
pieces, which are to be rubbed over
grains of pepper, salt and melted but.
ter. Unless the mutton has been
properly hung, it is best before this
process to give it a shallow bath of
either weakened vinegar or Jersey clar-
the venison flavor. The meat ple al-
ways needs a bottom crust, since the
the flavor.
have a few potato balla in it,
A DELICIOUS dessert is
canned peaches and gelatine In this
way: Soak one half cupful of gelatine
with a cup of sugar and a dozen halves
from a can of peaches for one hour,
then pour on a cup of boiling water
and pass all through a strainer. Be
sure to stir it all over the fire until all
the gelatine is dissolved. Set is aside
to cool, and when ready to congeal
have ready a cup of rich cream, whip
the cream until light, add a pinch of
soda and stir it into the gelatine quick-
ly, one spoonful at a time. Turn into
a mould wet with cold water, and set
in a cold place to harden,
Equasia Soup, — Pare two small
summer squashes and cut them into
slices. Put them in a saucepan, with
two ounces of butter, one onion, sliced,
saltspoon of pepper, a teaspoonful of
salt, and a half pint of good stock;
cover and oe for thirty minutes.
Press the whole through a fine sieve,
then add a quart of good boiling stoek
and a half pint of cream. Putitin a
double boiler, season to taste and, when
very hot, pour it into the tureen over
the well beaten yolks of two eggs.
Serve croutons with it. Very good.
DevLiciovs CAKE, — Cream half a
pound of butter with a scant pound of
sugar, add the beaten yolks of eight
eggs (ten If small), a wineglassful of
sherry. as small nutmeg and the grated
rind of a lemon with the julce of half,
and one pound of fine, auz sh flour, Stir
it all into a still paste, then add the
whites of the eggs, beaten to a snow,
with a pinch of a pound of well
washed and dfied curran ny floured and
warmed, to be gently in the
last thing. Bake In pans lined with
buttered paper, an hour and a half or
three-quarters, in a moderate oven.
RuuBARns JAM, — Peel and cut
Weak and Weary
Describes the condition of many people debills
tated by the warm weather, by disease, or over-
work, Hood's Sarsaparilla is just the medicine
needed to overcome that tired feeling, to
purify and guicken the sluggleh blood, and restore
the lost appetite,
“My appetite was poor, I could not sleep, had
headache a great deal, pains in my back, my
bowels did not move regularly, Hood's Sursapa.
rilla In & short time did me so much good that I
feel like a now man, My pains and aches are re-
leved, my appetite Improved” GrRorar ¥.
Jackson, Roxbury Station, Conn.
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by C. L HOOD & OU, Lowell, Mass,
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TrACH ER—1I have herea hemisphere
which is half of an orange, Now,what
have 1?
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“Yrs,” sald the sweet girl graduate
in & burst of confidence, my education
is now complete, but still Iam not al-
together happy, Mamma and papa,
unfortunately, have a habit of pro-
nounecing their words badly and they
know so little of polite literature and
the sciences, you know, that it really
is quite a hardship for me to associate
with them.”
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COUNRTRYMAN (In front of Stock
Exchange)— What's all that yellin’ an’
shoutin’ in there, mister?
Citizen—Bad break among the “¥gran-
gers,” they're being knocked ull to
pleces,
Countryman (whipping off his eoat)
— Whoop! lemme git in there, an’ I'll
do some paralyzin’, I’m a Granger,
myself,
Mes, DELLA Creme (wearily)—I
know everything we eat is adulterated,
but what can we do, Reginald? We
must trust our grocer,
Mr. Reginald Creme (drearily)—Ah,
yes, Della, very true. and if—oh, if—
our grocer would only trust us!
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way,” remarked Duamley, ‘‘that I do
not see that pretty little woman on the
lawn. She must spend the most of her
time there,”
“Yes,” replied Brown, “she does;
she’s a grass widow."
Mrs, DOLEFUL — The paper says
this morning that there's no prospect
of cholera coming this summer,
Mr, Doleful--Just my luck,
What do you mean, John?
Got my life insured the other day.
adn
A YOUNG lady attending balls and
parties should have a female chaperon
until she is able to call some other chap
her own.
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Rev. Mr, Higsure-~The very hairs
of your head are numbered, Mr, Scan-
tilocks.
Mr. Scantilocks—Well, it comforts
me to think how little trouble I give
the recording angel latterly.
DeAcoN--1 was terribly shocked, my
dear, to discover on my way home from
church a match game of base ball being
played on the vacant lot near the park.
Wife—Was it that which makes you
80 very late, Deacon?
“Mn. HusnLy, do you know what
you're about?’ asked Mis Il. ag she
Stopped at the head of the stairs with
lam
“I'm Prout er drunkest man I ever
saw in my life. Hurrah!”
SS AGHIRad IY, did you ever see
am
Little b boy--Only grandma.
Tie man who tried to get up a cons
genius whe, » ow a bat is the same
us who, a few days since,
upon the affections of a young
invent a new
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life once more. Thousands have,
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You are painfully aware that yoo
have nerves? Then you are sick:
That is
“well.”
Paine’s
Why not you?
“Axn 3 you will surely % be wine, Au
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surely bound to you when I amwear-
ing the ring.”
“T-the r-r-ring!”
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matter to you I'd like a heavy gold
band with a seal. I've always longed
for a real genuine seal, and you know
you said you'd do anything for me.”
“I’ve spent all this month's allow-
ance and anyway I don’t believe I could
afford it, 1-1 forgot. I thought I'd
have a diamond and sapphire just Like
Fred Tuthill gave Clara.”
“Yes, but he asked you knov.”
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Tie SBuperintendent of Schools in a
country town, we will call him Mr, A.
one day visited a school taught by Miss
B.,and in the course of the morning
said:
“Now, children, I wish you to take
notice what I do and then write an ac-
count of IL.”
aud wrote a sentence upon it.
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One little
pieted the story by addisg,
he went to the platform, sat down,
twirled
his mustache and winked at Miss BB"
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Clerk—Y es, sir,
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fork?
“No, sir; you can eat
fingers if you like.®
“Can I call for a second plate of soup
the buckwheat
“Yes, sir.”
“Then 1'll sign my name,
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fer a hotel with home
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“Goon morning, Mr. Gubbins,’
ing care of horses,
“1don't want you to speak to me,
horse for a living.”
“0, you don’t eh?" sald Pat.
shamefully. Good mornin’, Mr,
STORE (
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nothing to carry: two and six are eight
with nothing to carry; one and one are
two: total 280. (To the clerk) Well,
that’s mighty near, but I guess it will
do.
Proxrrenr (to boy)—-Tell Mr. Ham
that his cue will be given very soon for
the death scene; is be ready?
DBoy-Y es, sir; he's jest got through
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