t i FARM AND IIOUSEHOLR Fat Walking Horr. One experienced in the management of horses tells us that any colt may be taught to be a fast walker by a littlo continued care in handling. A fast walk in a horse is the most valuable gait that training can acquire. It is valuable in a plow horse, in a team horse, and partic ularly so in a driving horse. Some horses will trot along very well until you come to ascendiug ground, wheu you wish to relieve him by letting him walk up grade; he then falls into a Blow lazy walk that is very trying to the driver's patience, but a vvell-trained walker will step off briskly at the rato of four miles an hour, and the driver feels that he had been detained but very little by letting his horse walk up the hill, as he starts off at his usual trotting speed, being relieved by the change of walking up the hill. Colts should be trained to walk fast before there is an attempt made to im prove them in any other gait. This may be accomplished by commencing very young, and leading at a walk by your side, urging additional speed little by little without letting it break into a trot ; but this must not be continued long at a time so as to worry or tire. One or two short lessons a day will soon show a wonderful improvement; but after les sons will be' required to prevent a re lapse. 0 4 Farm and Garden Notes To keep hens from flying over high fences, cut off all the fly feathers on one wing and it will stop them. Scotch farmers believe that cut straw is better for the dairy wheu newly threshed, hence they thresh every day enough fodder for the following day. Horses may be taught to canter slowly and gracefully by riding them under the saddle for long distances up hill. The canter is a gait not so much desired since horseback riding has gone into dis use, but there arc many indications that the healthful exercise given by riding on horseback is to become more popular, as it certainly should. The quince is a slow grower. For this reason it is an advantage to buy trees well grown, say four or five feet higb, rather than mere slips. Such iieg will come ia bearing in three or foax years, and prove cheaper in the end than smaller trees at a lower price. They will have more than paid all expenses be fore the smaller trees will yield any thing. Abide from the looks of the thing, dead limbs on fruit or other trees should be promptly removed. Where limbs die from blight the cutting should be below any diseased part, or it will spread the infection. Prompt cutting down to healthy wood will check moat cases of blight. The saw used should not be ap plied to healthy trees unless first washed with carbolic acid and water. Barnyat d manure is commonly deficient in phosphate, which is one reason why the two kinds of fertilizers go so well together. There is one advantage in mixing phosphate in manure heaps, as the fermentation which takes place makes the mineral mauure more soluble and available. In soils deficient in veg etable matter phosphate often becomes insoluble before it can do any good. The only safe way when weed seeds abound in manure is to thoroughly com post it until their vitality is destroyed. Turning the heap over at least once, to get the outer edges of the first heap in the middle, it is necessary, in order that all the seeds may be exposed to the heat. If well done, so as not to burn the cen tre, the manure will be all the better for the operation, as the plant food .will be more soluble. There is a growing inquiry among farmers as to the profits from keeping geese. Feathers are high, and though geese if unrestrained are destructive to grain crops, yet it is the belief of many that they fully pay for all that they -de-p stroy. A gooso- may be plucked three ' to four times during the warm season, : and despite the outcry against the cruel ty of picking live 'birds, the goose will "bo in as good condition in fall as if the feathers had been allowed to drop out. It is well known that the common po tato is the product of seed which in its wild state is wholly unfit for food. Thit s he quality of potatoes now, however, rends largely on the soil and methods iltivat.icn, i? less generally under- The potatoes grown on the soil ivegetab.'e matter will be large rse. In a wet season they will be bv . "soggy" when cooked. If not well covered from the sun while growing, the tubers will be green and have a harsh, bitter taste, which is really that of poi son. At a recent meeting of the Massachu setts Horticultural society Dr. Goessman announced that in his analysis ho had found that the ashes of asparagus con tain a very large amount of potash fifty per cent. With this knowledge he de cided that the asparagus plant requires Eotash fertilizers, and for several years as ured potash on his asparagus beds together with bono dust. On an acre and a half of poor gravel land he has grown prize asparagus by the applica tion of bone ana potash only, no animal manure. For uso on the farm, especially in drawing manure, the tires of wagons should be three inches or more in width. Th host mndn rf nnnlvinr m.inur ia a uicoaiug unci juuvyiujj, uuv wis ta made impossible by the common narrow tired wagons, which cut into the plowed soil like knives. On roads broad tires are equally beneficial, as they fill up rather than cut the ruts more deeply. It is, however, discouraging for one or twq alone in a neighborhood to use broad tires on roads, as they are mending, at some expense, the ways of other people. English farmers make much of then turnip crop. It is, with oil meal, and corn meal when it is cheap enough, the staple food for fattening stock. We, perhaps, do not grow as large turnip or rutabaga crops as English farmers, but we do grow mangold wurtzul as large as anybody, and presumably ol greater sweetness, as our summers are warmer and dryer than those of England. But here roots are scarcely considered a staple food for anything. We feed some to milch cows to promote milk secretion, but supplement it with grain. The rea son is that we can grow Indian oorn. II English farmers had our corn crop they would think less of roots. Sulphur-bleaching, by which means even inferior dried and evaporated fruits are made to appear white and attractive, is denounced by Professor E. W. Hil gard, of the California university. Pro fessor Ililgard, having duly investigated by analysis and otherwise the effects of sulphur fumes on the fruit, states his ob jections in an effusive bulletin. These objections are not alone on the score of health, but he insists that fruit arti ficially bleached by means of sulphui loses its flavor and is not nearly so pala table as the darker-tinted fruit. He therefore advises consumers to select dried fruits that possess a light, brown ish hue in preference to the white bleached fruits. J Recipes. Oatmeal Muffins. One cup of oat-, meal, 1 pints of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, two of baking powder, one table spoonful of lard, two eggs, one pint of milk Sift together meal, flour, salt and baking powder; rub the lard in cold, and then add beaten eggs and milk. Turnip Soup. Slice five turnips and three onions, with a piece of butter, in a saucepan (cover close.) Let it stew half an hour; then pul in as much good stock as you require for the quantity of soup, add a few peppercorns ; let it simmer for two hours, add a good slice of bread, rub it through a sieve and add half a pint of cream before serving. Boimno Fish. After washing thor oughly in salted cola water, sprinkle the fish with 6alt and pepper, and tie in a clean cloth with a sprig of parsley. Cover with cold water, except in case of salmon, when luke-warm water must be used to preserve the color. Cod requires fifteen minutes for each pound. A fish weighing one pound will be done in ten minutes after the water begins to boil. Draw butter sauce, with a hard-boiled egg chopped fine and stirred in at last, is very nice for bass. Oyster sauce is the best for cod. Apple Puddino, Baked. Cut two or three slices of bread from a stale loaf; cut them not any thicker than a quarter of an inch; pare one pound of good bak incr apples, cut them in quarters and en tirely move the core; then slice them very thin; butter rather liberally a good sized pie-dish, and lay at the bottom one of the slices of bread, cut to fit the dish; put upon this a layer of the apples, a good sprinkling of sugar, and a few very tiny pieces of butter; next another slice of bread, apples sugar and butter, and so on until the dish is as full as re quired ; pour over the top one pint of milk, and bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half, or until the apples feel quite soft , when a fork is pressed into them. A Slngln? ItlTer. A peculiar musical resonance, which John Boyle O'Heilly describes in Outlna as occurring in a e juestered portion of the Susquehanna, finds its counterpart in the low sandy banks and marshes of the Pascagoula river, and is accounted for by the inhabitants of its shores in a more picturesque, if not so practical, a manner. Among the numerous Indian legends which have drifted back to us from the old colonial life of our country, there are none more Iihcnish iu flavor than the oft told legend of Pascagoula bay. Upon calm, moonlight nights a mysterious music has been heard to issue at intervals from the water, and floating over its sur face for a time, dies away in soft melo dious fragments. Apparently it comes from caverns or grottoes below the bed of the stream, and, ascending from the water in a volume of sound, it curls under the very keel of the traveler's boat, and reaches the ear like tho strains of a thousand distant seolian harps. To the wholly practical mind the phenomenon may be accounted for in Earthy the peculiar formation of the anks of the stream, the wild rushing of the wind through the reeds and ledges on the shore, or the hollow indentations in tho bed of the river. Outing. Killlngr Sit Jc Captives In India. On another occasion one of the wri ter's people describes a raid into Cachar. On the return march a youncr woman sank exhausted and unable to proceed: The chief halted, and after a short consultation, he sa:d to me: "Go, 11a moni, and spear her. I will stand by and see that you do it properly." I felt much afi aid, for I had never killed a human creature, and I was only seven teen years old. When the girl saw me &nnroachin? her with the snear in my hand she fell a-weeping. and caught at my feet ana garments, entreating me. Then my heart beat and my head be came giddy, so that I said to the chief: "I cannot do it." But the chief reproached and the young men mocked him. Then I shut my eyes and rushed at her with my spear, but the blow was ill di rected; and Rutton Pola snatched the weapon from my hands and killed the girl with one blow. "Here," said he, giving me back my spear with the biood onJt, "lick this to strengthen your heart." The blood of Bengalis is very salt, added Bamoni; but since then I have not been afraid to spear any one. Travel in India. Agreeable to Everybody. -Col. Bobert G. King, for ten years Deputy Collector Internal Revenue, Bal timore, Maryland, writes: I endorse the Red Star Cough Cure. I have used it in my family for a violent cough and found it excellent. Its use was entirely free from the' depressing effects of other Cough remedies. It can readily bo taken and agrees with and benefits everybody suffenng from throat and lung troubles. The relief is permanent, and there is no reaction. There are very nearly 1,500,000 acres of unimproved land in Massachusetts, ac cording to Professor Maynard. Especially to Women. 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