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10R THE FAR3I AND HOME.
Plum Cnrcullo.
The plum curculio, once regarded as
one of the most formidable of all de
structive insects, is easily destroyed
by means which many years have
proved quite efficient, consisting of
jarring the beetles down on spread
sheets, by the mode which we have oc
casionally described. But this remedy,
o efficient when rightly performed,
usually fails because imperfectly ap
plied. Padded mallets, making a soft
and feeble jar, are used instead of a
heavy iron hammer struck sharply on
iron plugs. Spikes are sometimes in
serted to strike on, but being s arp at
the inner end they are gradually
driven into the tree and become use
less. All attempts to , repel
these insects by throwing nauseous
substances over the trees mostly end
in failure, besides requiring more labor
than the jarring mode. Country Gen
tleman. Sunlight in Stable.
We tried an experiment some years
since to test the effect of absence
of light on a calf. We had two red
calves of the same aga (sixty days)
one weighing 180 pounds and the
other 182 pounJs,. The latter we
placed in a dark room, with a trough
that could be filled by a spout through
a partition. The other was confined
in the same amount of space, but in
full light, and both were fed exactly
alike foi the next three months. The
object was to test the effect of light
upon smb. a growing animal. At the
end of the time the one in the light
weighed 430 pounds, and the one in
the dark weighed 300 pounds and its
color had faded to a very pale, dirty
red. Its eyes were sj much affected
when admitted to the light that it kept
them closed most of the time for the
first week or two. The two calves
were kept on together, but the one
from the dark room never fully re
covered from this three months of
darkness. It never recovered its
bright red color, although the color
improved. Any one who noted these
two calves during this experiment
would never after doubt the impolicy
of dark stables. Lice Stock Journal.
Suiliwc Cattle.
It is a matter of surprise to us that
the soiling of cattle in portions of the
country where the farm3 are small,
and where the dairying is the most
profitable branch of the farming busi
ness, that can be pursued within reach
of our large cities. There was a time
when it appeared to have taken an
active start, but whether it has in
creased or even maintained the footing
then shown, we really have no means
of knowing. If we can believe the
statements of those who have experi
merited with this system of dairying,
it clearly showed that no other branch
of farming paid so handsomely.
Soiling" is the feeding of cattle
in their stalls or yard, instead of graz
ing them in the open field, allowing
them to roam at will and destroying a
large part of the pasturage, whili to a
great extent the manure was wasted
It is said that the principal draw
back was the increase of la
bor which the system required,
cultivating and hauling the grass to
the cattle three or four times a day.
While we admit that the labor i3 in
creased as well as the expense con
nected therewith, yet at the same time
the saving of manure is a strong point
on the other side; and the driving of
the cattle to and from the pastures is
another; and the saving of at least one
half the land required for pasture is
strongest of all, and together would
far more than over-balance this one of
labor.
Nevertheless, whatever tb.3 reason
may be, it is not in our power to say
at this writiag that we know of a
single instance in which sjiling is fol
lowed by any. fanner within our
knowledge. In England, among small
f arms, and, especially in France, where
thre are comparatively few large
.farm?, soiling is adopted generally as a
principle as the most profitable mode
a which at least dairy eattb cm
fed. ifermantoum Telegraph.
The Value of Clov r.
Clover as a manure acts i.i hey ?r,U
ways. A3 a shade it imparts nitrogen
to the soil, a.nd when a crop of it is
turned under besides fertilizing
dements it has a mechani-
cal effect. This does more
than make the land work easily
it enables the roots of other plants to
penetrate the soil, and find food which
they otherwise would be unable to
reach. It furnishes humus whicn has
other value in the soil besides supply
ing plant food; its dark color making
the soil warmer. It also gives the soil
greater power of retaining water and
of absorbing moisture and ammonia
from the air.
Clover not only produces an abun
dant growth of great manurial value
above the surface, but Isd one of still
greater value beneath. The large
fleshy roots of the clover, as they decay
in the soil, yield both humus and
ammonia. The roots of the clover run
deep; pores are created for imbibing a
greater quantity of atmospheric ele
ments of growth, and bringing up
mineral matter from below; the ad-
vantages arising from this process are
not to be disregarded by the farmer.
Prairie Farmer.
A Large Butter Diary.
0. M. Tinkham, secretary of the
Vermont Dairyman's Association, has
visited a farm in Pennsylvania, owned
by Jessie and .Tared Darlington. The
farm contains 650 acres, and the herd
consists of 250 cows of no particular
breed. Their feed is bright clover
hay cut and mixed with an equal quan
tity by weight, of corn-meal and
wheat bran, about eight and one-half
pounds of each. The milk is separated
directly after it is brought in, the
separators being run by an engine in
the creamery and the cream set aside
in the cans to ripen, as the late fash
ionable phrase is, or, in plain
United States, xto sour before
churning, which is done twice a week;
and in cold weather a little sour cream
is left in the cream can to hasten the
process. The churn is made of cedar,
barrel shaped, except being of uniform
size and with three narrow staves pro
jecting inside. The butter is wa3hed
by pouring cold spring water into the
churn after the buttermilk is drawn
out and before the butter is "gathered."
It is worked by hand, not salted by
guess, and after standing about an
hour is re-worKed, lumped and printed,
then put away in the coolers to be
shipped next day. The prints are
half-pound and pound lumps, each
wrapped in muslin, and are shipped in
galvanized iron cans, in cedar tubs,
with ice in warm weather, and holding
from a pound and a half to seventy
pounds of butter."
Their average product is about
twelve hundred pounds per week, and
it is sent to Philadelphia, New York,
Boston, Washington, etc, and they
are now sending to families which
have been supplied by their father
and grandfather for seventy-five years.
The lesson in this for the dairyman
seems to be: Careful feeding, the
making of a uniform article the year
through, and getting a good reputa
tion for your butter. By this is meant
the making of a good article and get
ting it to the consumer with the
knowledge of where it is made.
Keclpes.
Husks. One pint of flour, one pound
of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one
cup of butter; four egg3 beaten sep
arately; one table3poonful of cinna
mon, one teaspoon of cloves, one tea.
spoon of soda, two teaspoons of cream
tartar, or three spoons of. baking pow
der. Bake on tins, an inch thick, and
when taking from the oven sprinkle
with white sugar while hot.
Amber Pudding. One dozen large,
tart apples, one cupful of sugar, the
juice and rind of two lemons, six ffrgs.
four table-spoonfuls of butter, enough
puff or chapped paste to line a three;
pint pudding dish. Pare and quarter
the apples. Pare the thin rind from
the lemon, being careful not to cut in
to the white part. Put the butter,
apple and lemon rind and juice into a
stew-pan, with half a cupful of water,
cover tightly and simmer three-quart-te.'s
of an hour, rub through a sieve
add the sugar and set away to cool,
Line the dish with paste. Beat the
yolks of the eggs, and stir into the cool
ed mixture. . Turn this into the lined
dish. Bake slowly for half an hour
Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff
froth, and gradually beat into them
three table-spoonfuls of powdered su
gar. Cover the pudding with this; re
turn to the oven, and cook 12 minutes
with the door open. Serve either hot
or cold.
AppU Snow. Put twelve very tart
apples in cold water over a slow fire.
When soft remove the skins and core
and mix in a pint of fine sugar ; beat
the whites of twelve eggs to a stiff
froth and add to the apples and sugar;
cool in glasses, with a piece of red cur
rant jelly to ornament the top of each
To Recook Cold Fresh Fish. Pick up
in flakes any cold fish, boiled, broiled
or fried; brown some butter, add to i3
a pinch of grated nutmeg and a few
whole pepper-corus, a little minced
parsley and one onion, with a table
spoonful of salad oil; stir the fish in
this sauce, and when dished squeeze
the juice of a lemon over it
Household Hints.
Quassia in sweetened water will
destroy flies.
Vinegar will remove lime from car
pets. In dusting use a cloth; feathers
only set it afloat.
To wipe dust from papered walls
take a clean, soft piece of flannel.
Tobacco tea will kill wormers in
flower pots and is also good for the
plant.
One teaspoonful of chloride of lime
in three quarts of water, will take
stains from white goods.
Rose water is a pscular flavor for a
sponge cake, but it i3 highly recom
mended, especially if the cake is being 4
served with ices j
A Comparison of Statues.
The Bartholdi Statue of "Liberty
Enlightening the World" has been
presented by its creator in Paris to the
representatives of the American Gov
ernment. The pedestal on Bedloe's
Island i3 not yet in readiness. In
deed, the popular collections come in
very slowly. 31. Bartholdi has recently
been comparing his statue with the fam
ous Colossus of Rhode3. The figure of
Liberty stands, without reckoning the
diadem, 105 feet high; but the extreme
height from the feet to the upper end
of the torch held by the outstretched
hand is 137 feet 9 inches. The statue
will be placed on a granite pedestal 83
feet high. It is interesting to learn
that a person six feet in height, stand
ing on the lips of M. Bartholdi's head
of Liberty, can only just reach the eye
brow; that people can jump with ease
in and out of the nose, and that the
eyes measure five feet from corner to
corner. Turning to the old. "Wonder
of the World," we find that it was the
largest of the hundred colossal statues
of the Sun which at one time embel
lished the city of Rhodes. It was up
ward of 105 feet high; few persons
had arms long enough to embrace its
thumb; the fingers were longer than
the whole bodies ot the majority of the
statues then extant; the hollows of the
limbs, when broken, resembled caves,
and inside might be seen huge stones
inserted to keep the statue in position.
It took twelve years to erect, and cost
three hundred talents. The story that
the leg3 of the Colossus extended across
the mouth of the harbor is generally
considered to be a fiction; but that it
stood close to the entrance of the port
of Rhodes, and was made to serve as a
pharos or lighthouse, seems certain
enough. It was overthrown and
smashed to pieces by an earthquake
fifty-six years after its erection. For
03 years the fragments of this Won
der of the World strewed the mole at
Rhodes, and then they were sold by the
Caliph Omar to a merchant at Emesa,
who carried away these prodigious
marine stores on the backs of 900
camel3. Hence Scaliger calculated
that the aggregate weight of the bronze
must have been 700,000 pounds.
Demorest.
.The Oldest Tree.
The oldest tree in the world, so far
a3 known, is the Bo tree of the sacred
city of Amarapura. It was planted,
according to tradition, B. O. 288, and
is therefore now 2170 years old. Sir
James Emerson Tennet gives reason
for believing that the tree is really of
thi3 wonderful age, and refers to his
toric documents in which it is mention,
ed at different dates, as A. D. 182,
A. D. 223, and so on to the present
day. "To it," says Sir James, "king
have dedicated their dominions, in testi
mony of belief that it is a branch of
the identical fig-tree under which
Buddha reclined at TJrumelya when he
underwent his apotheosis. Its leaves
are carried away on streamers by pil
grims, but it is deemed too sacred to
touch with a knife, and hence they are
only gathered when they fall. Th
King oak in "Windsor Forest is said to
be 1000 years old.
j Is Tear Blood Pare?
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ScoviU's Sarsafarilla, or Blood and Liver
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everything else fails. Take it in the spring
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; the blood incident to that s asonof the 3'car
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liver comp:aints, weakness, boils, tumors,
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To insure a cheerful disposition take this
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