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- I TTOliSEHOLD affairs. Cau»e of Soggy t'otatora. Strange as it may seem, baked pota I nature, but a continuation of them i»«j drill a«n I I ^ A. 1. ! ■> ... M»al on Cat Corn Stalk*. It is only possible to use meal on out corn stalks with advantage after they have been steamed enough to •often them. It is best done when the feed is steamed after the meal has been applied. This partly cooks the meal and diffuses it through the stalks, «o that the whole will be eaten. When -'dried stalks are cut and merely wet ■with cold water, the meal put on them will be l:cked off by cattle, and this will soon make the unused stalks very offensive. Cut hay and straw •re much better to feed meal with than are cut stalks. It is better to have the out hay or straw steamed as the meal is applied to them. Estemporlsed Grain Bln*. It is no small job and requires not ft little lumber to make a grain bin tor the stables, having four compartments. GRAIN BINS FOB STABLE. The out shows an easy way of secur ing the same accommodations. Four •mpty sugar barrels are set in a row »nd secured by a few narrow strips of board. A cover is hinged either to , the wall or to this frame-work and the bin with four compartments is eomplete. It may even be made by setting the four barrels in a row and hinging a cover to the wall behind them. A sugar barrel is very com modious and easy from which to dip meal. Burlng Feed For Fertllltv. The question how a farm shall be best manured is not one that can be solved in all cases off hand. There farms where the best improvement taa to run a few underdrains through a very rich part of the farm and use the crops grown on this to feed stock which should manure the rest of the farm. Wherever this is possible it should be done in prefer ence to buying either feed or fertil izers. But with a farm that is nat urally underdrained the question how to increase its fertility must depend much on its location. If it is where milch cows may be kept and there is a good market for milk, it may pay bet ter to enrich the land by purchasing and feeding wheat bran, linseed meal or cotton seed meal, together with such coarse feed as can be grown on the place, than in any other Way. The milk sold will more than pay for the feed, and the manure product will be therefore a free by-product in this method of manufacturing. It is often believed that milk takes so largely from the nitrogenous and mineral sub stances in food that little is left for the manure. But experiments with milch cows shows that when they are highly fed, fully eighty-five per cent, of the mineral substances in their food atod eighty per cent, of its nitro genous substances goes out in manure. —American Cultivator. Beadtnritr In Salting the Dairy. If the cook should conclude that the trouble of salting our food is all un necessary, or that if we require it at all, once each week is sufficiently often, she would undoubtedly meet with a vigorous protest from all concerned. What reason is there, either in theory or practice, to lead us to suppose that our dumb animal friends are less sen- «itive to such irregularities? The writer remembers well that with •very Sunday morning in his boyhood days came the duty of giving both cat tle and horses a handful of salt. As time went on a cheese factory was built, and as we became its patrons we had an excellent opportunity in weigh ing our milk from day to day to study the effect of changing conditions. We soon learned that “salt day” was in variably followed by a shrinkage in weights at the factory. We very nat urally concluded that such over doses of salt irritated the stomach of the cow, causing a feverish condition of the en tire system, and consequent lessening of the flow of milk. We at once adop ted the plan of sprinkling the man gers with salt before the stabling the cows, both at night and in the morn ing, and the irregularities noted above were at an end. The cows seem to en joy the licking from end to end of a salted box much better than a large quantity of salt. They come into the stable as soon us the doors are thrown open instead of waiting to be driven in as formerly, and stay each in its ac customed stanchion much better than when there is nothing to take up their attention, and every dairyman knows that “in contentment there is a great gain.”—A Dairyman, in F»nn> Field and Fireside. nctlnclng Blacksmith*’ Bill*. Farmers who do much team work on the road are obliged to make pretty heavy bills at the blacksmith’s. This is especially true in the winter season, when ordinary smooth shoes are not enough for safety. To sharpen and reset a round of shoes every two or three weeks makes an expense that can only be afforded by farmers who have a great deal to market on good prices. So many kinds of implements are now used on the farm that every farmer onght to have some acquain tance with some blacksmithing, so that he can mend what is broken with out being obliged to go off the farm to do it. A quantity of bolts and nuts of different sizes, with a full ret of tools to go with them, can now be purchased for less than two or three visits at the blacksmith’s would cost. It Will be a great convenience if ibe farmer learns enough about his horse’s feet so that at a pinch he can reset a shoe when one has been cast, and the blacksmith shop cannot be conveni ently reached. We have V jowu farm ers who learned to set a t’loe as well as any blacksmith coaid do it. As a good deal of this work was dene dur ing rainy days, it did not any more intefere with farm werk than it would to drive to the nearest blacksmith’s and wait while he shod perjiaps a dozen horses before your turn came. At this season of the year, horses have to be reshod frequently, so as to keep the toe calks sharpened. As the set ting of a shoe is a comparatively sim ple matter, it ought to be included in the practical education of every man who intends to make farming his life business. And yet pronably, should this be done, some intermeddling law maker would frame a law to require all who did any horseshoeing to pass an examination and be registered, and forbid a farmer even to shoe the horses on his own farm until he had been to this trouble and expense. WORDS OF WISDOM. Any one may do a casual act of good "Klondike Freight Cmn." A young man who has charge of a party of gold-seekers on the route to the Klondike sends a full account by letter to a companion in Spokane of the means by which he has been trans porting his supplies northward. One of these means was a pack-dog which has been denominated, on acconnt of his importance, a “Klondike freight- car.” “He is not a large dog, either,” says the letter writer,” “but he will pack seventy-five pounds through the snow after the snow-shoes have made the trail. Dogs that will pack forty or fifty pounds are common. “The Indians at Madison Creek move everything with dogs. They handled something like a million feet of logs in that way last season. Some of the logs were forty feet long and five feet in diameter. They use no horses in this country in winter. The dogs are fed only at night, and then but half of a dried salmon. The na tives live on the same food. “The priest is the high ruler among them. It was he who caused this year’s extra supply of fish to be kept; he told them to put up enough for two years. Now they eat the fish they caught the summer before last. It is not uncommon to see fish piled as high as twenty-five to thirty feet, all dried. It rests on posts set in the ground, and on the top of the posts are kettles to keep mice and squirrels from getting at the fish.” Another Klondike “freight-car” which this expedition came across was a “klootchman,” or Indian wom an, who did not weigh more than 125 pounds, bat who would, nevertheless, carry a barrel of provisions weighing not less than 150 pounds, nailed to a board and the board strapped on her back. With this harden she marched thirty miles between daylight and dark, making camp at night, and keep ing it up. The Americans who have taken the Klondike trail need no convincing that the notion that “an Indian won’t work” is a fallacy. But for Indian packers, male and female, no gold would have been brought out of Alas ka, for no supplies for the miners could have been taken in.—Youth’s Companion. How Bee*-Wnx I* Made. One of the most taxing of the bee industries is the making of wax. Bees gorge themselves with honey, then hang themselves up in festoons or curtains to the hive, and remain quiescent for hours; after a time wax scales appeal', forced out from the wax pockets. The bees remove these scales with their natural forceps, carry the wax to the mouth, and chew it for a time, thus changing it chemically. Thus it may be seen that wax-making is a great expense to the colony, for it costs not only the time of the workers, but it is estimated that twenty-one pounds of honey are required to make one pound of wax.—The Chautauquan. water. r, - or jr ' 3 of thk tions—1 toes are still occasionally seen on th table in a covered dish. Served thi way, they become soggy almost at ouc< After pricking them with a fork, | they are being taken from the ovet they shonld be laid on a folded napki on a platter, the napkin folded so thi one corner will cover the potatoes, order to preserve their heat withoi condensing the steam from them. Home-Made Flavoring Extract*, A New Hampshire woman who always made flavoring extracts for ife in her own family began some thirtan years ago to manufacture the extrais for sale, using the same process, tfat of making them directly from the fr Jts themselves, instead of from oils, aat she had used when making the Ix- tracts on a small scale. The relilt has been that she had not only re- gained vigorous health from the ftit- of-door employment ueeessary in glk- ering and overseeing her materils, but she is building up a constattly enlarging sale for her extracts thro«h- out New England. —Philadelfbia Times. Sworplnc and Hatting. In the course of a series of psfeera on “Cookery For Girls,” continual in the Woman’s Home Companion, tmllie Joy White gives these simple rul«for orderly housekeeping: “Begin at one side and sweep to ward one place. Hold the broom close to the floor. Sweep with short strokes, and let the broom take the dust along the floor instead of tossing it U th# air. “I wish every girl would learn the rule for dnsting by heart. I dare say yon have all seen the aimless way in which the majority of girls—and wo men, too, for that matt er—dust a room. They seem to think there is no such thing as a systematic way of doing it. Dust the room thoroughly. Begin at one corner and take each article in turn. Dust from the highest things to the lowest, taking up the dust in the cloth, but not brushing it off on the floor. Shake the duster occasionally iu a suitable place, audwheu through, wash and hang it to dry.” Pat Flower* on Tour Table. "* Set flowers on your table—a whole nosegay if you can get it, or but two or three, or a single flower, arose, a pink, a daisy. Bring a few daisies or but tercups from your last field—work, ( and keep them alive in a little water ' Preserve hut a huntrtTtJi clover, handful of flowering grass—one most elegant of nature’s production: and you have something on you* table that reminds you of God’s creation, and gives you a link with the poets that have done it most honor. Put a rose, a lily, or a violet on your table, and you and Lord Bacon have a cus tom in common; for this great and wise man was iu the habit of having flowers in season set upon his table, we be lieve, morning, noon and night—that is to say, at all meals, seeing thatthey were growing all day. Now here ii a fashion that will last you forever, if you please—never change with silks, and velvets, and silver forks, nor bo dependent on caprice, or some fine gentleman or lady, who have nothing but caprice aad changes to give them importance and a sensation. Flowers on the morning table are especially suited to all. They look like the happy wakening of the creation; they bring the breath of nature into your room; they seem the very representa tive and embodiment of the smiles of your home.—Detroit Free Press. Vegetarian Keeipas. Fried Cucumber—Boil a good-sized encumber till nearly soft in milk and water flavored slightly with onions. Eemove and drain dry, cut it np into slices when cold and brush each slice, which should be about a third of an inch thick, with egg, and dip in bread crumbs, after which fry in butter till amber brown. To be served in the center of a hot dish with mashed potato round. Fricassee of Beans— Steep one pint of haricot beans for a night in oold water, then remove them, drain and put on the fire with two quarts of soft water. When boiling allow the beans to simmer for another two hours. While they are cooking thus put on in another saucepan two ounces of butter, an ounce of parsley (chopped) and the juice of one lemon, and when the but ter has quite melted throw in the beans and stir them round for a few minutes. To be served in a casserole of rice. Carrots a la Creme—Take a large bunch of very small new carrcta, scrape them, tie them loosely in a piece of coarse muslin and pnt into a saucepan almost full of boiling watsr, to which has been added a small laup of beef dripping and two ounces of salt. In about twenty minutes they will be tender, when remove from tie hot water and plunge for a moment in cold. Next melt an ounce of batter in a saucepan and stir into this a des sert spoonful of flour, a small quanthy each of pepper, salt and cayenne, alio a little nutmeg and -half a teacupf nl ot cream. Remove the carrots from tL« muslin, pat them into the saucepan with the other ingredients and let them simmer in them for a few min utes, then serve very quickly white hot* Man I* Conrtrn*c<l Air. Liebig, the greatest chemist of the century, writes: “Science has de monstrated the fact that man, the be ing which performs the great wonders, is formed of condensed air and solidi fied and liquid gases, that he lives upon condensed as well as nncon- densed air, and that by means of the same mysterious agent ho moves or causes to be moved, the heaviest weights with the velocity of the wind. But the strangest part of the matter is that thousands of millions of these tabernacles ml condensed air are go ing on iyo legs, deatroypg other forms of comic QftJ ^ air which they may need/ wasted tissues llig, or, on and fancied other in pitch meats which are 'eondensed air, the m they themselves are shows it is a part of the temperament. The man who is ever lamenting, never rejoicing, is playing a part, for life is neither constantly painful nor connantiy gay. The great duty of life is not to give pain; and the most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse for one who voluntarily wounds the heart of a fel low creature. Teach self-denial, and make its prac tice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wild est dreamer. True nobility is shown by gentle consideration and courtesy to all, and brings its own reward in the extra fineness of perception its practice bestows. Good resolutions are like vines, a mass of beauty when supported on a frame, of good deeds, but very poor things when allowed to lie unheeded and untrained on the ground. My experienee leads me to believe that the supply of poetry, or verso as sumed to be poetry, is more egregi- ously in excess of the demand than any other description of literature. To-morrow you have no business with. You steal if you touch to-mor row. It is God’s. Every day has enough to keep every man occupied, without concerning himself with the things that lie beyond. It may be truly said that no man does any work perfectly, who does not enjoy his work. Joy in one’s work is the consummate tool without which the work may be done indeed but without its finest perfection. p their own or cloth- egotism oying each sing imple- er forms of al of which famed or com posed. Chemistry supplies the clear est proof that, so far as concerns this, the ultimate and most minute compo sition and structure, some of which are so infinitesimal as to be beyond the comprehension of oar senses, man is, to all appearances, at least, com posed of materials identical with those which compose the structural being of the ox or the dog, or even the lowest animal in the scale of creation.” Solomon seems to have entertained the same idea. See Ecclesiastes iii., 19: “For that which bsfalleth thj sons of men befalleth the beasts; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast.” Pittsburg Dispatch. Had a Montiy-Maklng Hip*' Railroad officials here arc blue over news received from Virginia. Two months ago a man fell on the platform of a train abont five miles out of] this city. His heel caught in a crack and his hip was dislocated by the fall. Three surgeons examined him, includ ing the company’s surgeon, and all de clared that the man would be a cripple for life. The man was paid $2200 and his lawyer’s fees. In addition to this he was furnished with a baggage car and transportation for his lawyer and a nurse to go with him to Chicago. The railroad officials felt that they had made a cheap settlement. The other day a man fell on a platform on the Norfolk and Western in Virginia and worked the same old story of the dis located hip. But he had been seen on the previous day banting for a place to catch his heel. A traveling man was present and reoognized him as the man who had been paid by the Indian apolis road. An investigation revealed that the man was a professional con tortionist and could dislocate any part of his body without paiu. He has swindled several roads.—Indianapolis Correspondence Chicago Inter-Ocean. A Bobbing Wind. A curious instance of the effect of .he shape of the ground upon the wind Mowing over it was recently noted by M. Hatut as he was experimenting with kites in France. When a north wind loaled the kite the latter kept its bal ance easily, but when the wind came from the south or southeast the kite pitched and bobbed in a very irregular manner. The explanation was furnish ed by the character of the surface over which the wind had passed. Coming from the north it had a plain country to blow over, but coming from the south and southeast it passed across broken hills, which set it into irregu lar puffs and undulations. Th* Plea of an Indian. An educated Arapahoe Indian, speak ing recently of the wholesale arraign ment of the Indians by the whites, as “lazy and dirty,” and that tent life was not conducive to cleanliness; that he himself had often watched white people when they were camping in the summer, and he was positive that af ter even two weeks of it they emerged far less immaculate than when they went in. “How were your own ances tors of Gaul, Briuin or Germany?” said he, warming to his subject. “Think of them *nd realize that the Indian is not the only dirty, lazy one, even in the United Htates, and the white people are in advance of the In- dianin having soap.”—Trenton (N. J.) American. It is too late to feed the ewes after the lambs have come. The feeding for well luted udders should be done now, hut in safe moderation. Short feed now cannot be made up by and by with over feed of grain when the ewes’ udders have been formed by half rations for light milking. It is economy to feed reasonably well now, and a waste t« try to make up for short rations by and by.—American Sheep Breeder. A Virtu* *n4 a Vie*. Vanity and a prwpar retard tor ttt* to«Unfso! o«h«T* should both urg* yoa ta rid of thM dintTutlng akin dUnaao. Wn*Ui*rtt i»* arimptn abrasion, a chap or a burn, or whether It u a chroalo caae of Eciema, Tetter or Bln*wonn, Tettertn* will poelttrely, infallibly <#nr» U. Cure It so It will *tay cured, too. OS cent* e bos a drat (tore*, or br mell for M cent* in oeeb at . T. Sbuptrtn*. Seranneh, Oa. (tamp* from J. Don’t TRY to keep hon** without Blua Ribbon Baking Powder. At all OrAoer*. B. H. B. P. Company, Richmond, Virginia. It U *aid that the French eat snails, and yet they are accused of Hying fast. DTirar*!*. Ixpiorerioa eadsll Btomteh tmnble* sored by Tab*r’« Poptln Coaipuead. Baao" brittle mailed free- WHU Dr. Tmkei k(!« Co.. aeTtnnib. Qe. The divorce judge, like the poor marks man, make* a good many mlsaee. 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