FARM NOTES. STABLE and yard manure is consider- ed by many a complete manure, and, as such, indispensible for market garden- ing; but it has been demonstrated that on some soils a combination of stable manure and commercial fertilizers have, anil do invariably produce the best ear- liest, and, cousequently, the most prof- ftable crops. IT 18 the conclusion at the East that the raw materials told to a creamery, where good butter was produced, would bring larger returns than from home- made butter. For cows, the best grade of common stock do best. While the butter business has a chance of being overdone, legitimate cream trade seems to have a large and growing field. —————————" ALL field crops should be so planted as to allow plenty of room for cultiva- tion between the rows Some crops do not receive proper emltivation late in the season because the horses cannot pass between the rows after the plants are well grown, the consequence being that grass gels possession and lessens the yleld. Cultivation is necessary for some crops until they begin to seed. Tne chicken business is a matter of wonderful importance to the table com- fort and the financial outlook of the American farmer. Government statis- tics show that the annual expenditure in this line 1s $56),000,000; and despite the !mmense production of eggs, several million dollars’ worth are annually im- ported to meet the deficiency of the heme supply. BEES, according to Professor A. J Cook, are fond of salt. They are oiten seen hovering about urinals. This is sufficient. hint for the bee keeper to keep a shallow dish of salt and waler where the bees can get access to it. *robably clear salt pul near them would draw molsture enough during the day in wet weather and dewy nights for all practical purposes, J. 11. HALE, authority on such mat- ters, says that the peach grub,commonly called peach-Dborer, has been destroyed with eaustic potash made into a strong lve with the addition of lime and car- bolic acid, to which a little arsenic is added and sometimes a little clay to adhere it to the tree. The earth 18 irawn away from the foot of the tree and the mixture is applied witha swab. IT should be set down as a rule and plant should be permitted to mature its seeds on any part of the farm or along any roadside contiguous to the farm. It is the bounden duty of every farmer to utterly destroy and utterly exterminate the weeds on the roads that pass through or along his farm, FERTILIZERS FOR APPLE TREES. — According to good pomological author- ity the amount of fertilizer used in an orchard must vary with the condition of the apple tree. If growing vigorously only muriate of potash or wood ashes need be used—from five to ten pounds per tree, according to size and condi- tion, and from one-half to one bushel of wood ashes, 1f not growing well add of fine ground bone, all to be spread with'n ten feet from the trunk. fertilizer can be mixed in the soil with- out injury to the roots it will give quicker results than if only spread on the surface. MANETTIA CorRDIFOLIA.-This beau- tiful climber, from Brazil, bas had to struggle for an acquaintance with plant- growers, notwithstanding the fact of its being one of the most desirable climbing plants under cultivation, as it will adapt itself to nearly any situation in which it may be placed. Its mission seems to be to please. It flowers freely and constantly, winter and sunmer, Ii is admirably adapted for a trellis in summer, growing with the persistency of a weed, and flowering profusely all the season. As a pot-plant forthe win- dow garden it is a perfect success. Al- ways in flower—always beautiful It is propagated by root, or green wood cut- tings, JarN-Door FASTENING.—Profes- gor Samuel E. Rusk, of Claverack Col- lege, sends us a sketch and description of the device for fastening a barn-door. It consists of a wooden bolt, playing joosely In two wooden guides, A pin of tough hard-wood, two and a Lalf to three inches long, is firmly driven into the bolt, and extends through a trans. verse slot in the door, On the inside of the door is fastened a spring of ash or hickery, with its free end resting against the pin. As the door is closed, the bolt catches on the wooden fastening driven into the opposite deor-post, and is held there by a spring inside the door, This is a very simple contrivance, but it is none the less valuable. A bolt on the barn-doors is always in place, Even where honesty 18 the rule,it is better to lock the door before the horse is stolen, Uses vor A TeN-Foor ROD, — Among the things which are found con- venient in every farmer’s workshop is a ten-foot pole, made thus: A piece of wood, one and a quarter inches square and tem feet long, w nicely smoothed with the plane and then marked as fol lows: One side hae a mark every three feet, to Indicate yards; another side is marked every two feet; the third side is marked every foot; while the fourth side has feet, mches and half-inches, the pocket-rule furnishing the smaller sub-divisions of an inch, This meas- ure will be found usefulin many places, For instance, when a small building 1s being started, stakes are set in the ground at each corner. The proper angle of the sills may be found by meas- uring eight feet on one and six fest on the other, ~ Bring them together until the ten-fool pole just reaches both marks, and a right angle is the result, e proper lngth for a post, to sups Ort a low roof, is quickly measured with such a pole. If a corn-crib 1s be _ ing built, six feet wide at the bottom, seven ab the and nie feet high, the length of the various rcantling measured off, Many other uses will be su d when this simple implement is at HOUSEHOLD. BEEF LOA¥—[By request]-—Two pounds of raw, lean beef, one cup of rolled crackers, half teaspoonful salt, two eggs; chop all together, form into a large loaf, Cover the top with small pieces of butter and bake one hour. i - GINGER SNAPs—(by request)—Three tablespoonfuls of melted lard, three of boiling water, one teaspoonful each of salt, soda and ginger; put in a pint cup and 11 up with molasses; stir in flour to make dough; roll and bake quickly. Or1LcroTus can be kept like new if washed once a month m skim milk and water, equal quantities of each; rub them once in three months with lin- seed oil; put on very little, rub it in well. polish with an oil silk cloth, and they will keep for years. ————————— CLAM STIFLES- Fill a deep pan or dish with a layer of sliced potatoes, a layer of clams, a layer of sliced onions, a layer of sliced potatoes, and a few small slices of salt pork, season with pepper, a little water, cover it with plate or pan, and bake in moderate oven five hours, add a little water if it dries away too much, —————— UREAM ORANGE.~—Make a custard with the yelks of eight eggs,four ounces of pounded sugar, a quart of mk and the thin rind of two oranges; stir it in a bain marie till it thickens, Dissolve one ounce of gelatine in a little warm set, orem per. pan, mix and add a gill of cream, stir continually until it bolls, take 1b from the fire, add the well-beaten yelks of four eggs and a half pint of chopped ham. Put this into buttered cups, stand them mn a baking pan halt filled with hot water, cover with paper and cook In the oven for twenty Serve with cream sauce. To PREPARE DEVILED CrABsS— Boil a numbe: of crabs and after carefully large lump of fresh butter. Deal an to it enough fresh milk or cream moisten the crab forcemeat. Fill the upper crab shell with this mixture and dust with crumbs, dot with bits of butter and PorTED SoLEs.—Take two pounds of filleted soles and roll up each piece with a little parsley, cayeune Have half a pint of stock the stock and stew hour. Soak half an in one-half pint of gently half an ounce of gelatine well done, along with two tablespoon- a minute; then lay the pleces of soles in a mold lined with sliced bard-boiled eggs and minced parsley; fill in out in a dish, If the shrimps are convenient use essence of shrimps or anchovy sauce. Some fine, creamy salad dressing poured on before serving will be an improvement. This forms a nice cold lunch or supper dish, carefully removed, issn the steak into small squares and them lightly. Put some dripping put them into a sauce-pan, strain the contents of the frying-pan, add a little salt, pour over the steak and simmer gently for nearly an hour. rice bolled as for curry. The slices of oulons can be left in with the steak if serving of an inch thick, brush it over beaten eggs; make some nice light veal stuffing, spread it on the steak, roll it up and tie it round; lay it in a baking dish with some dripping, and bake it, basting it frequently, When done strain and thicken the gravy before pouring over it, -—— Nice BREAKFAST Disues, Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in the fry- ing pan, add one teaspoonful of flour and stir till smooth. Then add a cup of water or stock and season with salt and pepper. When it boils add a quart of coarsely chopped meat, Cut lean beef in pleces and put ina close-covered pall, Putin one layer, then a little salt and pepper and a sprinkling of clove and cinnamon; so on until the pail is full, Pour over all a cup ot vinegar and water for three pounds of meat, Cover the pail closely, set into another partly filled with boil. ing water, and let simmer for hours. When warmed up thicken the gravy a little, . Baked Mwce Beef—Use one cup of cold roast beef, one cup of belled rice, acup of milk, one egg, two table spoonfuls of salt, one-fourth of a tea spoonful of pepper. Heat the milk,add everything but the egg. Stir two minutes, take off, add the egg well beaten, put in a dish and bake twenty minutes, Desf Rolie The remains of cold roast beef or boiled hou! un bowged, sensan, ing to taste of salt, minosd herbs, Mince the beef quite fine with a little of 16s own fat, and the season. ing to taste, and put the whole into a roll of puff naste, Bake half an hour or longer 3 8h roll is argo, Pouxp CAke—One and one-half cups of flour, one cup of butter (scant), one cup of ezvs, one and one half cups of sugar. Beat butter and flour to a cream, beat eggs and sugar very light, put all together, stir until smooth, flavor to taste; will keep a long time. pio —— QUICK Loar CAkre—DBeat two eggs with two cupfuls of sugar, one of bui- ter aud one of milk: add two cupfuls of raising, half a cupful of shredded citron, four eupfuls of flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of cream tarlar and one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a very little hot water. Bake at once. Provide good, dry quarters for the ewes during the lambing season, sn SS ————— Natures Own Hemedy. Have you indigestion, dyspepsia, constipa tien, colfe, cholera morbus, fever, skin disease, eatarrhdiabetes, liver complaint, jaundice neu- ralgia, piles, rheumatism, ulcers, bolls, scurvy, scrofuls, suppressed menses, worms, malaria, headache or hippo,—they all come fom bad blood and insufficient excretions wifich pro- duce congestions that may be prompily, salel and easily removed by one remedy, St. Bernat Vegetable ills, the universal remedy of the old wouks, which never Las been surpassed and is not now squalled by any compound known to science, A suipie of the Bl. bernard Veg” table Fills will be sent free to sll applicants. Address, 8t. bernard, Box 2416, New York. The forty-fifth anniversary of the ad- mission of Ca'ifornia will be celebrated at San Francisco in September, After reading the Life of George H. Btuart, he world-renowned Prof, James MeCosh, Ex President of Princeton College, says: “George H. Stuart was one of the heroes of our age, quite equal to the greatest men who fought in the war, His life should be a perpetual stimu- i lus to young men.” Agents are wanted every { where, {. STODDART & Co. Publishers, Ti Flibert Street, Philadelphia a The Chinese tan the skin of the stur- | geon and make it into shoes, { esa r————— Siz Novels Free, sent by Cragh Pa. to any one in U, 8. or Canada, upon receipt o Dobbins's «| Wrappers, see list of each bar. This soap for sale by all & Co. Phila, post paid, rical Soap lars around ETOCers, eel wd A - Travellers in Russia are now obliged to have their photographs annexed to their passports, HALLSCATARRH CURE is taken internally, and ts dir blood and mucous for t or testimonials, fre M F.J. CHEN Stock should be fed according to age | and condition. A young and growing animal requires a different ration from a mature fat one, Rupture cureguaranteed by Dr. J. B. Mayer, 831 Arch st, 'hil'a, Ps. Ease at once, no operation or de- lay from business, attested LY { sands of cures after others fail, free, send for circular. -—— Two varieties of squash cannot be | grown near each other without danger t of mixing. The same rule i Corn, tho. |§ advice Cann’s Kidney Care for Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's, Heart, Urinary or Liver Diseases, Nerv- ousness, &c¢. Cure guaranteed. 831 Arch Street, Philad’a. for $5, or druggist. 1000 certificates of cures, Try it es —— It takes a wise man to distinguish the fact that what interests him is not | always what 1s pleasing to everybody else, Fraser Axie Grease. The Frazer Axle Grease received medals i at the Centennial, North Carolina State Fair, Paris Exposition, American Iusti- tute, New York, and others, Plush goods. and all arth aniline colors, faded from exposure to | tight, may be much improved by spong- ing them carefully with chloroform, EiTS: All ita mopped free by Dr. Kline's arom Nerve flestorer, No Fits alier Ores day's use. Mar. velous cures, ‘Treatise and §L WW trial bottle free 10 1 ii cases. Send to Dr. Kline S31 Arch 86. Phila. Pa sittin a— 1n four foot rows it will take about 3000 asparagus plants to the acre. —— AP MafMicted with sore eyes use Dr. Jsaao Thompe son ‘sEye-water, Druggists sell at 250. per bottle d——————— AD WO Os —— The general opinion is that cows im- | prove untill they are seven or eight years iold, Itpays to take good care of the | heifers, : A pocket pin-cnshion free to smokers of { “Tansill's Punch’ Se. Cigars, i ———————— | The first newspaper advertisement | | appeared in 1652, i ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when tem effectually, di head- aches and fevers pa Eb a i ! E £ : : 2 i i : 3 For Fifty Years the Standara Blood-puritier and Tonic, Ayer's Sarsapatillz has no equal as a Spriug Medicine Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co, Lowell, Mass. = ————————————— SCOTT'S MULSIO Of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites Of Lime and Soda. Theve are emulsions and emulsions, and there is still much skimmed milk sehdch masquerades as cream. Try ve they will many manufacturers cannot #0 disguise their cod liver oil as to matic it palatable to sensitive stomachs. Scott's Emulsion of PURE NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL, combined with Hypophos- phites (s almost as palatable as mille, For this reason as swell as for the fact of the stimulating qualities of the Hypo- phosphites, Physicians Jreguentdy preo- scribe it {n cases of CONSUMPTION, { { { SCROFULA, BRONCHITIS { CHRONIC COUGH or SEVERE COLD. : { 5 and ! the genuine, as there ave poor imilations, OPIUM 5 nfisi ELE: BEECHARY'S PILLS ONA WEAK STOMACH. 25 Cents a Box. STEPHENS, Lebanon, O ACT JOKE MAGIK OF ALL DRUCCISTS. PURELY VEGETABLE. ) 25 Cewrs pen Box, ‘ 8 Boxts ron 8S en THOROUGHLY RELIABLE. } gt be mit ABSOLUTELY BAFE eon rect s prow. FOR BALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. NR. J. H. SCHENCK & SON, PHILADELPHIA, PA EN S i O Wash iagion, 4 TIL AA LR alms. yre in leet war, 13 adjedicating aims, stly winom 20MIN WTORKIS, MeOermick & Bens Washingtes, D.C, & Clubisnsti, © WANTE "A CANVASSER for this town and vicinity, Somelbing sure to take. Write for tuil particulars to MHS, 8, D. ARMBRUSTER, Philadelphia, Woman's Ex- change, iv 8, 13th Street. 22 683 What is a Cood Book? A good book is one that interests you. One in which the bright rather than the dark side of life is shown. One that makes you see how mean are the small vices of life and how de- spicable are the great sins. fering, by the by, that may be of the mised for the future, world 1s filled with good men and good women. One that breathes forth the goodness erning laws, meeting real people—people who ele. vate your thoughts as you associate with them. A good book is one that you remem- ber with pleasure, that when the dull hours come you can think of with in- terest and feel that there are people with whom you have a most interesting acquaintance, who are yet only charae- tors of the imagination. A good book is one that tells, in good nglish, the story it has to; sees no necessity for using foreign words and does not quote from the Arabic or the Sansorit as if the author had written it pith an Encyclopmdia Britannica beside m. A good book is one that we want when weary of the people of the world; that wo can read out aloud and discuss; that we can hand to our daughters that it may give them pleasure, and which wiii only be a stepping-stone on the road of taste, not only to better and pobler books, but a better and nobler e. That is a good book—and, my friends, there are hundreds of them. Ladies’ Home Journal. ho co ——— Te sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilia if you want an honest, relfable medicine. Do not take any other which is alleged to be “about the same" or “Just as good.” Insist having Fiood's Barsaparilla, which is to itself. Sold by all druggists. Try it, SOME MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES, | salt, pinch cayenne, one and one-half | cups melted butter, one and one-half | cups vinegar, eight tablespoonfuls oil, | juice of two lemons, one tablespoonful mustard (mix with hot water;, Just] before using, add whipped cream, al-| thongh it is delicious without it. Beat the yolks thick and yellow, add the in-| gredients in the order given, beating | vigorously all the time, When finish- ed, the dressing should be thick, but if | it is not, put in a cold piace and it will be in a short time, Of course it is not | necessary to make the full recipe but it | is very convenient to have in the house. | Mus, Liscons s GradaM BREAD, -— | One pint of milk, scalded and cooled, | two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one tes-| spoonful of salt, one-half cup of yeast (condensed yeast,) two cups of white flour and three or three and one-half | cups sifted Graham flour. In the morn- ing mix in the order given into a dough | a little softer than for white bread; let] it rise till light, sfir it down, pour it| into well-greased pans, let it rise again | and bake a little longer and in a less hot oven than white bread. : Creamep Porators.—Cut cold boiled yotatoes into cubes or thin slices. Put in a small pan eover with milk and eook until the potatoes have absorbed nearly all the milk. To one pint of potatoes add one tablespoonful of butter, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a saltspoonful of pepper and a little chopped parsley. | This must be cooked very slowly or the milk will burn. Porarors CREAMED AND BROWNED. | For two cupfuls of potatoes (cold boil- | ed), heat in a douile boiler one cupful of milk, thickened witha tablespeonful of butter rolled in flour. Season with salt and pepper. Into this stir the po- tatoes, cut into dice, letting them re- main on the fire just long enough 10 become smoking hot throughout. When | well heated turn into a greased baking lish, and brown in & quick oven. I is liked, cut some fine and stiz i | milk with the potatoes. Camamep Oxsters. (Delicions).- | One pint of cream or milk, one heap- | ing tablespoonful of butter, two heap- | | ing tablespoonfuls of flour, one-half | teaspor nful of one-half salts] oon- | | ful of pepper, cayenne an 1 celery salt. | | Melt the butter, add flour, then the | boiling cream and seasoning; to this | add one pint of oysters parboiled. Turn | into a baking dish, covered with but-| tered crumbs snd brown in & quick | Oven. i A Frew Hivrs ox Bovr, | form a part of every dinner table, and if carefully made, will cost nothing- - 1 | or but & trifle. The water in which | beans, eanhifiower, onions or celery are | | boiled should always be kept to make | | the foundation for pourees and soups. Every kind of liquid which has extract- | | od the flavor of vegetables or animal | | matter is too valuable to waste. They | { may be thickened and flavored for din- | For example when rice or| | beans are boiled for dinner, brown two | { ounoes of butter, add two tablespoon- | | fuls of flour, brown again and add the | strained rice or bean water (one quart), i | stir constantly until it boils, season with | | salt and pepper, take from the fire and | stir in hastily a well beaten egg. Or, | | suppose there is a cup of mashed pota- | | toes or a turnip or a very little chic) | Jeft over, rub them through a pou sieve, blend with milk or stock,orb | thicken with butter and flour and sea- | son with bay leaf, salt, pepper and a Lit. | | tle omon juice. A quart and a pint will | | serve six persons when soup is only a | part of the meal. Meat soups, such ss bouillon and con- | gomme, are too expensive for ordinary | | family use, but all white or cream soups | oan appear on the list. Cream of fish, i | cauliflower, rice, tomato, dried | lam, carrot, lentil, ete., are also good. | | Take the bones left from roasts and | steaks, cover them with cold water, add | an onion sliced and a bay leaf and «i | mer for one or two hours, strain, sea- i | son and then add the beaten yolks of | | two eggs, and you will have a simple | | and inexpensive Turkish soup. All 14 8 { { fa Soup should ree | * - 4 . ] m- | of | these soups should be made at a cost ol | | from b to 12 cents per dinner, allowing | | one and one-half quarts for six persons, i { which is an nnusually large portion. | | Give variety to your seasonings, For] | instance, if you use onions one day use | celery the next, making appetizing nov- i eltths of rather the same foundation. 3, ir y nr sth b- . oN ihe ol » royalty DO YOU LIVE by using the best To live in Grease in all the stores, and THAT THE ONLY LINBN-LI What it Costs necessary. Hood's Barsaparilla It is the 100 Doses One Dollar ording to directions will average to last a This is practical and coneite and economy, Hood's Sarsaparilla $l:six for 85. Prepared 100 Doses One Dollar Ely’s Cream Balm WILL CURE Price HU wiiis, | SE I, WILL CURE N32 VY BROS.56 Warren 51 - Piso's Remesy fo sent, Easiest to Us SALT LAKE CITY. fertile forming dant Be 8 4 ee As rriond never Tall igh prices Splendid nk, good so rand City or Utah t address Uwah wurches of ali demomin ot olimate. A great healt pportutities for is vestanent In the rick and unde veiope For full perticnisrs ae ue COMM ERS 2 Spool Holder NEW PATENT, Saves time and trouble. Ag in- dispensable article for § «very household. No lady s houid be without it Sean ples can Le at this office, ITS STOPPED FREE Insane Persons Restored . pr. ELINE'S GREAD NERVE RESTORER for off Pusw # Nenve DISEases Omily sre owe for Bowe Affection, Fos, Fpiery, we, InrAiians takes ss Oirecied. No Fue after day's sms. 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