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scription to this paper, to say nothing of the directions 

 how to get rid of the fleas — to which add some of my diet 

 for dogs, and it will help the matter, for then there will 

 be less fleas. To the old lady's recipe for making "cream 

 cheese," let me add my old Pennsylvania wife's recipe for 

 making soft cheese — in Dutch, Smear Case. — Take a pan 

 of lobbered milk and heat it gently, about blood warm, 

 and the whey and curd will separate ; pour it in a strainer 

 and hang it up until well drained; then break up the 

 lump and rub it between the hands quite fine and add half 

 a pint of cream to a soup-plate full, and it is cream cheese 

 in our every day form. Try it; I guess you will like it; 

 it is cheap. 



Allen's American Agriculture. — If this is not a better 

 American book than "Johnson's American Farmer's En- 

 cyclopedia,"^ I never shall thank my friend Richard for 

 my copy which I have not yet read. But I think I know 

 the author from his boyhood up, and can vouch for the 

 work in advance, as being one that will interest every 

 reader who undertakes its perusal, and if it don't make 

 him a wise, good, and intelligent American agriculturist, 

 he will not be what this author is. 



Premiums Aivarded. — Those of the State Society it 

 will be seen are mostly in dollars, or books. I doubt the 

 good policy of all premiums, at these shows, as well as 

 the manner in which they are awarded. And I hold it 

 to be entirely bad policy to give them in dollars. Cups 

 and medals, such as those the American Institute give, 

 are in much better taste. They will be preserved long 

 after the dollars are melted away and gone. If all these 

 sums expended in premiums could be funded, how long 

 would it take to accumulate a sufficient sum to endow an 



' Cuthbert William Johnson, agricultural writer, born at Brom- 

 ley, Kent, September 21, 1799; died at Waldronhurst, Croydon, 

 March 8, 1878. Wrote numerous books and pamphlets on agricul- 

 tural subjects and in 1844 translated Thaer's Priyiciplcs of Agri- 

 culture from the German. An American edition of his Farmers' 

 Encyclopaedia was published in Philadelphia in 1844. Dictionary 

 of National Biography, 10:896 (1908 ed.). 



