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are folded peacefully on your breast, and the toil in your home is over, your chil- 

 dren may say of you: "This was our queen, this the shrine we worshiped; so 

 long as we live never shall we forget your teachings; they will follow wherever 

 we lead and save us from the evils that threaten. To us you have been queen on 

 earth, bright be your crown in heaven." May God prosper the woman of every 

 clime whose sweet and holy influence has circled the world like a halo of glory, 

 and may He hasten the day when she shall stand where she rightly belongs. 



THE HOME DAIRY. 



H. J. FLYNN, MARSHALL, AT CALHOUN COUNTY INSTITUTE. 



Our dairy is a room partitioned off from one corner of the cellar. It is lathed 

 and plastered, has a cement floor, and is well lighted by two windows on opposite 

 sides, which can be opened to allow a current of air to pass through. On one side 

 stands a tank about ten feet long, fourteen inches wide, and twelve inches deep. 

 From the windmill a pipe leads to the tank, and another waste pipe leads out again 

 to the big stock tank in the yard, so all the water raised by the windmill passes 

 through the tank in which the cans that hold the milk are set. This gives the 

 most uniform temperature possible to be obtained, that of the water at the bottom 

 of the well, and is a very important essential. There is a table to work the butter 

 on, and the churn stands close at hand. The skim milk is carried by a waste pipe 

 to a tub outside, where it can be easily fed to the pigs. Two strips beveled and 

 fastened in the bottom of the tank engage lugs on the edges of the cans to keep 

 them from floating at the top when partly full of milk, and prove a great con- 

 venience. The cans are the ordinary creamery style. This dairy can be run in 

 the winter by keeping it slightly warm by means of an oil stove or otherwise, but 

 we find it easier to set the cans in the pantry on a shelf, and it does very well. 

 Extreme care of the milk should commence as soon as it is obtained, and continue 

 through all the stages of its handling. 



EDUCATION FOR THE FARMER. 



E. C. McKEE, LAINGSBURG, AT CLINTON COUNTY INSTITUTE. 



A very important element, and perhaps the most powerful of all toward the edu- 

 cation of our youth, is the power of home influence. Samuel Smiles has said, 

 "Home is the flrst and most important school of character; it is there that every 

 human being receives its best moral training or its worst, for it is there that he 

 imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood and close only 

 with life." It is mainly ia the home that the heart is opened, the habits are 

 formed, the intellect is awakened and the character is moulded for good or for 

 evil. The good home is the first and best educator in the world, not only in 

 youth, but in age. It is there that the young and the old learn lessons of cheerful- 

 ness, patience, self-control, and the spirit of service and duty. Much depends upon 

 the home, for it is the very corner stone of society and good government. Then 

 how important it is that we spare no pains in surrounding our homes with all the 

 influences possible, to make them pleasant and attractive, to enlighten and uplift, 

 that they may be true educators not only to instill the principles and attractions 

 of farm life, but in the development of pure manhood. 



