I * The Farm and Garden. 



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GENERAL WITHERS, OWNED BY G. J. SHAW, HaBTLAND, MAINE. 



GEN. WITHERS, 1157. 



Chestnut horse; no white; 1.5% hands high- 

 weighs 1050 pounds; foaled June 13, 1875. Bred 

 by Col. R. West, Scott County, Kentucky, and 

 purchased by me of Gen. Win. T. Withers, Fair- 

 lawn Stock Karm, Lexington, Kentucky. 



Sire, Almont, sire of Westmont (pacer), 2.133<; 

 and 2.01% with running mate; Fanny Wither- 

 spoon, 2.16^4; Piedmont, 2.17H; Aldine, 2 19V..- 

 Early Rose, 2,20Ji and 20 others with records of 

 2.30 or better. 



Dam, bloom, by Hitchcock's Ashland, son of 

 Mambrino Chief, and sire of Highland Win 2 26 

 and Joe I'ettit, 2.30, and sire of the dam of Edwin 

 Thorne, record 2.16}^. 



Second dam. Lady Brant, by Toronto Chief, 

 sire of Thomas JetTerson, record 2.2:j; Royal 

 Revenge, sire of Lucy, 2.2014 ; Fred Hooper,»223, &c 



The season of 1884 was by far the most suct-ess- 

 ful with Gen. Withers of ' 



any he has ever made. 

 His wonderful speed, his 

 great courage, and re- 

 markably clever disposi- 

 tion, together with his 

 great breeding, have won 

 for him a reputation sec- 

 ond to no stallion owned 

 In Maine: and that he 



transmits his good qualities in a remarkable 

 degree to his get, is beginning to be quite well 

 demonstrated and believed. Although none of 

 his get have a« yet appeared in public races, thev 

 command higher prices, and a more ready sale 

 at same age, than do the getof any otlier stallion 

 in Maine. His oldest colts are now coming five 

 years old, and there are but ten of those, and 

 nearly every one of them were used in 188;j and 

 ISW fer breeding purposes, as was also a large 

 per cent, of his foals of 1881. In 188t many of 

 his yearlings and two year olds were shown some 

 remarkable trials. One three year old was shown 

 a full mile in 2.49}^, without training, and kept 

 for service. Several others have shown better 

 than three minutes, and a four year old a full 

 mile in 2.40, and his foals of m4 I tliink proini.se 

 better than any of his previous get. 



General Withers was awarded first prize at 

 Maine .State Fair in 1884 for standard bred stall- 

 ions, and he, with Ave otliers from Cream Brook 

 Farm, was awarded rfrst premium on studs 

 of horses, and many others of his get from 

 weanlings up were winners of first premiums at 

 same fair.— G. J. Shaw, Hartland, Me 



SPRING TABL E-FARE. 



By Edifh Ma,/. 



Ncwthatspring is again here, the system is apt 

 to rebel against the winter diet, while as yet 

 there are no fruits of the earth to vary it. Yet 



IKJiJJlfiEST PREMm EVER MADE BY "us! 



«iiJ 4 beautiful ro.e, lor the " "e^ ," ,l"'.„ b' T."'" '",l-'-,;"l' ""laice of It. .V r,e,.. h.,ok l..r , >, r. -i:,,.. »ul..erlb,,. 



■ only a limited number of these books and S?„ , '""PI '■"""= """I'J' °f " "CIl } __ 



uickly. This offer does no. applrto'crbs■,?S^TIy;oTs^;%;i'i^i;a'MVp^^^^^^^^ ^^''i'^^ something guod 



■> *^ ^ • lor amiier, nave it. 



money when our supply is exhausted. So ord 



the daily food is our dependence for health and 

 strengtli and it is very important to have itappe- 

 tizing. Now IS the time for the good housekeeper 

 to display her skill. One new dish at a meal 

 will be very acceptable, and with careful study 

 may usually be compassed. When oranges are 

 cheap, an ample orange short-cake will induce all 

 the family to pass lightly by the dinner, and 

 make a meal of the dessert. Make a shorttake 

 split It in two, and cover one buttered half with 

 s iced oranges suga,-ed, being careful to take out 

 all the seeds, layover the other half, and serve 

 with sugar and milk, or any pudding sauce! 

 Sugared oranges are very refreshing at this sea. 

 son and an excellent change from canned fruits. 

 The system is apt, also, to crave acids, and 

 nattires suggestions are worthy of attention. 

 Cabbage made into cold slaw is often relished by 

 or ZiIh ° Tk"" '"f" """" ''^'■■■'ion from a plate 

 nro,?eH V .''f "'^se. Indeed this vegetable has the 

 property of growing more indigestible the longer 



manv of',; '*' Y'^'y ^=^-^' ''^'"g «<> believe with 

 many of us, yet raw cabbage tends to promote 



ftlooked.' '^"'"' '"'"' '"''"y '"'° <=^° "°' ^^' 



Dr. William Hall wrote a book on "Health by 

 Good Living," and it was full of good hints which 

 he had gathered in a long professional life He 

 was a strong lieliever in -'food cure," in a large 



himself in need of a bottle of medicine, his real 

 ne«d was a good chicken dinner." Thire is no 

 question which would be 

 the pleasanter to take. Do 

 not grudge yourself or 

 your family the best you 

 have when you need' it. 

 Do not sell the chicken and 

 buy a bottle of patent 

 medicine with the money. 

 When you feel "just jik 



