IPS, .--fW
j To Susjar Care Pork. -
Hogs of 200 to 250 pounds weight
are best for family use. In dressing
p hog It should be so hung that It can
he split down the back, and the sides
allowed to separate, the head being
cut off. The leaf and some other sur
plus fat should be removed at ooe.
This allows the meat to cool thorough
ly, and It Is In good shape to handle.
The moat barrel should be kept In a
cool place without freezing. A good
way to keep the hams and shoulders
after being cured Is to elice and fry
ana pack In Jars, covering with hot
lard. , Fresh pork may be kept this
way In hot weather, but It must be
thoroughly cooked. While the cured
meat requires much less cooking to
preserve it.
Allow the hog to thoroughly cool be
fore cutting, carefully trim hams and
shoulders and spilt the sides In two
lengthwise. Sprinkle bottom of bar
rel with fine salt, and rub each piece
of meat with salt. Pack to barrel with
hams on the bottom, shoulders next
and sides on top. After' three days
cover the meat with brine made as
follows: Water, 8 gallons; salt, 12
pounds; sugar, 3 pounds; saltpeter, 3
ounces; concentrated lye, 3 teaspoons.
Boll all together anil skim. After cool
ing, pour over the meat. Leave In
brine from four to six weeks, then
smoke as desired. The brine should
be strong enough to bear up an egg.
Philadelphia Record
JEW'S ULTIMATE DESTINY.
J.M,
n in vll lR
Rain and ttnn Proof Coop.
I have a chicken codp which I think
suits me better than any other I have
tried before. This coop Is made out
of cheap lumber. The bottom Is hinged
if
MR. BECRAFT'S COOP.
at the back to the upper part. At the
front I drive two staples to fasten the
coop down so as It can be moved
about. The upper part comes down
over the floor nil the way so that you
can put a nail through the staple.
The shade In the front Is to keep the
sun and rain out. These coops are
very easy to clean. J. C. Becraft In
Poultry Keeper.
( A Primitive Ihreahingr Machine.
A common Bight In the agricultural
districts of Hungary Is two women
trending out grain by means of n
beam. The woman seated on the
ground takes a bundle of grain and
puts It under one end of the beam.
When the grain Is Is place the woman
leaning on the pole for support takes
a step backward which has the effect
of raising the broad, flat end of the
beam, and making the other end fall
In a hole made for that purpose. Then
a quick step forward, with some little
pressure, brings the thick end of the
beam down on the wheat and flattens
It out so effectually as to separate
the grain from the husks.
The cow that gets fat Is never thai
best one for the dairyman. The good
dairy cow has a good appetite and eats
heavily, but her feed goes to milk rich
in butter fat Instead of to the making
of flesh.
1 A great deal of hay is sent to mar
ket that is full; of weeds. Such, hay
brings the lowest price, and also indi
cates that the farmers who ship it are
not only careless, but also Ignorant of
the true methods of farming.
The Kelfer pear Is one of the best
varieties for canning, and Is also hardy
and a strong grower, but the supposi
tion that it Is free from . a'ttacks of
blight is not corrolKrated by growers.
There Is no blight-proof pear.
BearJlest Wheat.
Those who have had the ' most ex
perience In combating the hessian fly
are the strongest believers In the late
sowing o f wheat
wherever it can be
done. Some varieties
nrA Hrfrp fni Into
sowing than others,
and the two show
the illustration seem
to be especially suit-
ed for- late sowing.
The center head of
the Illustration shows
a beardless sort
known as the Claw
on Longberry. The
variety Is a strong bkardukbs wmtAr.
grower and stools proliticfilly, the straw
being strong and wiry. The heads are
full and long and wide. The chaff,
which Is brown. Is free from beards.
The grain, which Is of true Long
berry type, Is dark amber In color,
large and long and of the finest qual
ity. The other heads shown are of
the bearded sort. . Sheaf Longberry
Ued, and claimed to be the most per
fect Longberry read wheat grown. It
is one of the hardiest varieties, a
strong, healthy grower, and especlnlly
desirable for late sowing. The straw
Is strong, though only medium tall.
The chaff Is thin and of a peany
white. The grain Is dark and flinty,
and nearly as large as rye kernels.
This variety Is much prized as a fancy
milling sort. Indianapolis News.
The Farm and the Man.
Flow any farm should be cropped
depends upon where the farm is, its
character and location. Some farms
are by nature pasture farms, because
they are not adapted to cultivatforJ;
other farms Invite tillage. Size, too,
is a controlling factor. A crop rota
tion and schedule of farm work that
Is admirable for fifty acres may be
wholly Impracticable for five hundred
or a thousand. The ambition to own
and cultivate broad acres Is an Ameri
can disease. This disease Is not so
much a desire to add to worldly pos
sessions' as It is for a gratification of
the ownership of dominion; when an
alyzed It will be found to be a feature
of man's kinship with nature.
Another and the most Important fac
tor of all Is the man himself. The
man makes the farm good or bad, aa
he makes everything else that conies
under his control. The experience of
one farmer is invaluable to another,
but each farm is nevertheless a separ
ate and local problem which the farm
er must think out and work out himself.
Return to Palestine Likely to Be" by
, Gradual Staees.
; Israel Zangwlll, writing In , the
World To-Day, says pertinently: "The
freer the Jew Is left the more he tends,
if not toward 'Christianity, toward a
broader view of It and toward the ac
ceptance of Christ In the apostolic
chain of Hebrew prophets. " The mod
ern Jew . is a pro-Chrlstlan, only too
eager to admire the Ideals of what
ever nation he lives . amid, only too
uncritical. There can be little doubt,
therefore, that were the Jew left to
himself and given a free ran In Chris
tendom and free elbow room he would
In the course of a few generations be
practically merged with his environ
ment. , 1 ' '
For this consummation, however,
Christendom Is too unchristian to wait.
It requires three or four generations
after the first emancipation, and be
fore these generations are up some
thing Is sure to happen to throw the
Jew back upon himself. The Dreyfus
case is what Bacon, calls an "ostensive
Instance." But apart from such un
predictable particularities, It may . be
prophesied generally that with such a
good "whipping boy" as the Jew ready
to the agitator's hand, no economic or
other crisis will pass In any country
without its Jews being called to ac
count for It. It is a notorious device
of statecraft to divert attention from
Internal evils to foreign affairs and
the Jews are a quasi-foreign body pro
vide at hnm in flfst!!t O? H !PtteT
cover. These outbreaks of anti-semlt-lcism,
these Incipient persecutions will
always be answered by reactionary
rigidlscence in the Jewish ranks.
The road to Palestine Is hard and
long. The Jew will probably make
many a detour to his goal, and is most
likely to settle as a first step In some
neutral territory, less beset with po
litical and religious pitfalls, there to
reorganize his scattered forces, to re
learn the lessons of co-operation and
self-government, to readjust the bal
ance of the old world and the new and
to reconcile his conceptions with . the
modern scientific vision of the universe
and with the new, historical perspect
ives opened up to us by archaeology.
Thus tempered and prepared and re
united, he will await the opportunity
of colonizing the holy land with his
overflowing population and there re
Inspired and resanc titled by the fulfil
ment of his secular dream, he will
continue his word toward the creation
of a model state, which, set on Zlon's
hill, may be a light to the people.
THE ORIGINAL DEVIL WAGON.
Farm Notes.
It Is the seed that mostly exhnusts
the land of plant food. A grass crop
that Ih allowed to produce seed takes
more from the soli In mineral matter
than two crops cut for hay while the
grass Is young.
If n garden Is made on sandy soil,
espwi.illy in a nwllon whore nearly nil
the soil Is Kimly. the use of nlr-sbirked
lime will be found very l.onellclul. as
mu ll s:1!h are d'Helent In lime. Gnu
Unit will not serve as n substitute for
stone lime, but shell lime is excellent,
however, though the use of stone lime
should be preferred. The cost Is small
compared with the benefits derived.
The horse has a tall that should nev
er be docked. The lightning rod ped
dler ami the cloth peddler have talcs
that should be completely and effectu
ally docked.
When It Is known thnt the olfacto
ries of a cow are ten times more acute
than those of a man It would be secu
at once the necessity for keeping the
troughs clean and sweet. A little feed
left In a trough will become as dis
tasteful to a cow aa It would be for
a man to continue for a week eating
from the same plate without cleans-lug.
Pekln Ducks Are Popnlar.
The Peklns are Jhe most popular and
probably the most protltable of all
breeds of ducks. They reach heavy
SlwPl
FAIR OP PEKIN DUCKS.
weights at an early age, lay a large
number of eggs which hatch well, and
produce strong, hardy ducklings. They
are pure white In color with yellow
bill and legs. As a farmyard- fowl
they are somewhat noisier than some
other breeds. Farm nnd Home.
A Katlnn nt Pnmptclns,
Pumpkins are a most excellent food
for milch cows, but owing to their
bulky nature und their tendency to
freeze and decay, tboy are chiefly val
uable as a late fall food, when the'
answer a splendid purpose, to be fed
for a couple of weeks while the cowa
are changing from grass to dried or
preserved fodder, in some Instances,
when fed In very large quantities, the
seed has a very stimulating effect on
the urinary system, which may be pre
vented by removlnf the teed part.
. To foil Mntten.
Boiled mutton is not a poetical dish,
but It Is good standby for the family
dinner. It appears much oftener on
the English tables than on American.
The leg on boiling should be v quite
fresh. Wipe, remove all the fat and
put Into a kettle of well-salted boll
lug water. As it begins to boil, skim
frequently, then 'set back on the range
and simmer slowly, allowing twenty
minutes to each pound of meat. A lit
tle rice Is frequently boiled with the
mutton. Serve with a thick caper
sauce poured over the mutton and
currant Jelly. The caper sauce is
merely a drawn-butter sauce, made by
combining a scant half -cup of butter
with two tablespoonfuls of flour In a
saucepan, adding when bubbly one
pint of the hot water In which 'the
mutton was boiled, seasoning to taste,
and adding at the least six tablespoon
fuls of capers or pickled nasturtium
seeds.
English Olnjrer flnnps.
Fourteen ounces of white sugar,
eight ounces of butter, eight eggs, one
ton ntinf il of rnilk, two ounces of
ground ginger, two tablespoonfuls of
baking powder, one and a half pound
of flour. Mix up in the usual way for
cookies. Sift sugar over before cut
ting out the cakes. It Is generally
best to make the dough for all kinds
of cookies and sugar cakes as soft as
it can possibly be rolled out. Differ
ent persons make very different cakes
of these sorts from the same recipes,
and the common fault Is too much
flour In the dough. The baking pow
der, too, Is responsible for. some of
the changes. With too much powder
the cakes run Into each other and lose
the 'good round shape they ought to
have.
First Idea of an Automobile Was New
ton's Road Knglne.
In the Field Columbian Museum in
Chicago the progress of the science of
transportation Is shown in a series of
object lessons. It Is possible for a
man to enter the department of the
museum set aside for the purpose and
Corn Chowder.
Chop fine one-quarter of a pound of
fat salt pork, put Into a deep kettle
with two large white onions, chopped
fine, and cook for ten minutes without
browning. Add one pine of raw pota
toes cut into half-Inch dice and suffi
cient boiling water to cover. Cook for
ten minutes, add one pint of corn cut
or scraped from the ear, salt and pep
per to taste and simmer for fifteen
minutes longer. Have ready one pint
of milk made into a thin sauce with
one tablespoonful of butter and one
and one-half tablespoonfuls of flour.
Add to the chowder with more season
ing If necessary and boll up twice.
KEWTON'I "DEVIL WAGON."
there is an hour's time learn by means
of the best teacher the eye the de
velopment of railway and water way
transportation from the day when the
first nomad moved his tent until this
day, when time and space are ap
proaching annihilation in the ages of
steam and electricity.
The first idea of propulsion on land
by steam Is made known by a replica
of Newton's engine of the year 1680.
The engine was reproduced from de
scription. It looks In part not unlike
a gigantic tea kettle. In its day It was
thought by those to whom steam was
but a name that this child of the good
Sir Isaac was of close kin to the devil.
Insect Balloons.
Insects enjoying aerial navigation by
the use of balloons were recently
caught by a French naturalist, who
noticed them as small, bright objects
floating In the air arid behaving as If
they were being steered. He cauarht
some of them and found them to be
viscous air bubbles one-fourth of an
inch long, of uniform dimensions, and
showing iridescent reflection. Bach
balloon was suspended by the feet of
an bisect resembling the hornet fly.
Fishes Thrown Up by Volcanoes.
Tho vomiting of fishes from volca
noes is no now experience and it
seems more startling thnn mysterious.
M. J. Glrlrdln explains that in the in
terval between two eruptions often a
century or more tho craters become
filled with fish-stocked lakes, and the
next eruption blows out the water and
its contents.
Potato 8alad.
One of the best methods of serving
cold potatoes is to make them into
salad. Cut them In any convenient
form, add one small onion finely chop
ped and a little celery. Mix thorough
ly with a dressing made ns follows:
Break Into a bowl the yolks of three
eggs, add a pinch of red pepper, a tea
spoonful of made mustard, a teaspoon
ful of salt, and beat hard. Add of best
oil, beating constantly, enough to make
the dressing as thick as cake batter,
alternating occasionally with a few
drops of sharp vinegar. Finish by add
ing one cupful of thick cream sweet
or sour.
BtnflTed Mushroom.
Chop one shnllot, saute In half a ta
blespoonful of butter. Itemove the in
sldes of mushrooms, chop with half
the stalks and add to the shallot; add a
little good broth. (Steep the remaining
stalks In one-third cup of water fot
mushroom broth or gravy.) Cook fur
one-half hour, then season with salt,
pepper and nutmeg. Add chopped pnrs
ley, butter, yolks of two eggs, fresh
crumbs and a little lemon Juice. Fill
the mushrooms, place In a pan well
buttered. Bake thirty minutes. Mois
ten with the gravy. Garnish with
parsley.
Ratal a Good Customer.
Russia takes nearly half the agri
cultural machinery that the United
States export.
Prudence it merely well-trained com
mon mom.
Lrmnn Pie.
Two lemons; bake them a short time,
then squeeze nnd strain the Juice; boil
tho rind In hnlf a pint of water, then
pour the water In the following mix
ture: Two cups of sugar, half cupful
sweet milk, one tablespoonful (-orn
starch, one of butter, vnlka ,f ,iv
eggs. Bake it in paste; then beat the
whites with eight tablespoonful,, 0f
sugar and pour over the pie; brown
slightly. This quantity makes two
pies.
"once Hnllsndalse.
Iuto a cupful of druwu butter beat
ine joik or an egg, then a large to;
spoonful of salad oil. clrnimlnu- ii.t. i
gradually as you would for niayon
niuoe. Aim. men, tno Juice of half
lemon, a pinch of penner. onn rr ...
the sunie of sugar und serve at once
Tohinto ance.
Brown a sliced
spoonful of melted butter. Stir In
oi parwey, one bay loaf n
ui wiuuioes, a little cayeni)
pinch of salt and a teaspoonful
un. iwu rapiujy, thicken
and train.
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