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oue day nud bread the next. We go through 

 the same process of yeast making every time, 

 adding your cup of okl yeast from the jar — 

 which article is much better than tin, as it 

 will keep cool and sweet longer. You can 

 make bread of the same yeast as long as it 

 will keep sweet, and youliaTe enough left to 

 start another mess with." 



Ah, fathers and brethren and husbands, I 

 wonder if you half appreciate the life and love 

 we women put into your very blood through 

 the stomach, or how tired and weary many a 

 woman grows in attending to her daily round 

 of duties that keep your homes clean, neat 

 and thrifty. If you do, pray acknowledge it 

 in words of cheer. Women need praise for 

 their kindly labors and trials much more than 

 your wonderful new grain-cutter which works 

 BO to a charm — and llial you can praise to a 

 neighbor or your wife, perhaps, without ever 

 a thought of the far greater and more wonder- 

 ful piece of machinery by your side, whose 

 complex structure combines intelligence of 

 mind with affection, and soul life with so 

 much mechanical power and skill. See to it 

 that you give her equal care and rest you 

 do your horses and iron and wooden 

 machines — oil her with loving words 

 and actions, and bestow equal praise 

 for faithful work, and my word for it, 

 your human machine will last longer, work 

 better; and, more than all, will be worth more 

 in the end than when you first promised "till 

 death do us part. " For age should improve 

 as gray hairs add a charm that sunny curls 

 never owned. The wrinkles that have dis- 

 placed the dimples of youth, should only 

 show where the smiles and joys have left their 

 mirriads of foot-prints behind them. Living 

 and loving together for years must bind our 

 hearts together. Our joys and sorrows oue, 

 life's interests the same, our minds and souls 

 will grow more harmonious and sympathetic. 

 Age softens the passions and impulses, ele- 

 vates the ambition, matures the judgment, 

 and, though more grave, we are not sad, for 

 life begins to grow more comprehensible, and 

 death nearer and dearer to us. 



Before closing this rambling letter, I will 

 give a recipe for making 



CREAM PIE-CRUST, 



something which our country readers can en- 

 joy but which few city folks can. Take flour 

 and seive it with a little soda; wet up with 

 sour cream ; roll same as for other pie-crust. 

 It is very nice. Made with Graham flour, 

 you need no soda, nor will it be sour. 



Here, also, is a palatable dish, which is 

 called 



ENGLISH FRUIT PIE. 



Take a deep, round dish to bake in; fill a 

 cup with sugar; turn it upside down in the 

 center of the dish, leaving it there; then fill 

 with fruit, cherries, plums, berries or any 

 kind. If very juicy, no water is added; if 

 not, put in a little water, then put on a crust 

 and bake as for pie, and bake slowly. When 

 served, cut a circular piece and take out the 

 cup, when the juice will fill the dish. Very 



Gruel Recipe. — For a very delicate sick 

 person, take two tablespoonfuls of Graham 

 flour; stir this with cold water; strain through 

 a seive; stir this into one quart of boiling 

 water, and cook five minutes. Season it with 

 a very little salt and sugar — a little lemon 

 juice added makes it better. This is excel- 

 lent. Try it. Alice. 



Familiar Talks — No. 2. 



BX "snip." 



I had intended giving my rules for making 

 yeast and bread this month, but it is likely 

 there will be plenty such recipes sent for 

 "Jewell's" benefit, so I will only ofifer a few 

 suggestions in regard to 



MARINO bread. 

 I always knead bread twice. Letting it be- 

 come just as light as possible in the sponge 

 before moulding into loaves. If, as is some- 

 times the case, I am obliged to let it stand 

 longer than it should, and there is danger of 

 its being sour, I knead in a little white sugar. 

 I once thought soda was indispensable in such 

 a case, but I do not like to put it in light 

 bread. Sugar is better. 



I have tried "Jewell's" plan of cooking rice 

 in a bag, and shall always cook it so when I 

 want plain boiled rice. I make a stibskinlhil 

 dish of this article by cooking it in the water 

 in which fresh beef has been boiled. 



HOW TO COOK CAKKOTS. 



Many think that carrots are unfit for table 

 use. We like them very much when cooked 

 in the following manner: Pare them and cut 

 into slices about a quarter of an inch thick; 

 boil in clear water until done; pour off the 

 water, and cover them with milk in which a 

 very little flour has been stirred; add a little 

 butter, pepper and salt to your tase, and then 

 boil long enough to cook the flour. 



Onions cooked in this way mal^e a favorite 

 dish with those who are brave enough to eat 

 this condemned vegetable. 



A Farmer's "Jewell." 



Eds. California Agriculturist: Please al- 

 low me to say a few words to your new cor- 

 respondent, "Jewell," before she again gives 

 to the public her knowledge and experience in 

 making bread, and thereby injures our claim 

 to political equaUty to which our social and 

 moral superiority gives us so sure a title. 

 Immorality and dishonesty in every branch of 

 our political and social system proves the 

 great depravity of the male element; and 

 while the only hope of reform lies in the su- 

 perior mental capacity of our sex, here comes 

 a "Jewell" of a farmer's wife saying that she 

 cannot make a loaf of bread, but that at last 

 she learned to make salt-rising from her hus- 

 band, who "knows everything." This may 

 be amusing to her, but it is not so to me, to 

 whom she is pointed out as an example — one 

 who can instruct others, but cannot even 

 make salt-rising without instruction from her 

 lord! 



Now, a word to "Jewell." First have good 

 potatoes to make yeast stock by boiling and 

 driving through a colander the potatoes with 

 the water; add for one pound of potatoes one 

 tablespoouful of brcrwn sugar and half a 

 spoonful of salt; add also the water of a small 

 handful of hops; put all of this into a glass 

 jar and keep the air out. This will keep for 

 a mouth in a cool place. When you wish to 

 make a loaf of four pounds, put three pounds 

 of flour in a dish with some salt, and into this 

 one pint of yeast at least twelve hours old. 

 Mix oue teacup of the above yeast stock with 

 three tablespoonfuls of flour and warm water. 

 This will bo your sponge. Let this stand in 

 a temperature of about GO degrees until it has 

 risen very visibly, then, and not before, add 

 flour and work it until it no longer sticks to 

 your hands; then put it into your pan and let 

 it rise again, aud bake it under such a heat as 

 to give it oue hour's time to bake brown. On 

 the day when you intend to bake bread be 

 sure not to wear any " blue." 



Camp Saea Toqa. 



POULTKY AT THE INTERNATIONAL 

 EXHIBITION. 



The admirers of fine poultry will no doubt 

 have an ojiportunity during the International 

 Exhibition to gratify their taste fully, as it is 

 the design of the Centennial Commission to 

 provide everything requisite to the proper re- 

 ception and display of fowls and birds of 

 every class. 



It is desired by many that there be a per- 

 manent, as well as a temporary exhibition of 

 poultry, and if applications for space for the 

 exhibition of fowls during the six months 

 covered by the exhibition, are received in suf- 

 ficient numbers to warrant the outlay, the 

 Commission will probably adopt measures to 

 afford the proper facilities. 



If the design of a permanent exhibition be 

 carried out, the display should be such as 

 would impress the character of each breed 

 upon the mind of the observer. 



This cannot be done when the exhibition is 

 confined to trios in separate coops, but only 

 by the display of as large a number as can be 

 placed in one enclosure; thus affording by 

 the multiplication of individual birds, eoch of 

 the same breed, an opportunity of studying 

 the characteristics of each particular family. 

 Prominent poultry breeders could readily sup- 

 ply the birds for such an interesting and in- 

 structive exhibit. 



The temporary exhibition will commence 

 on October '25th, 1876, and last till November 

 loth, a period of fifteen days. The Commis- 

 sion will erect shedding, and the birds will be 

 exhibited in the same boxes or coops in which 

 they were transported. For the ])ur|io8e of 

 preserving uniformity, these boxes will be 

 made according to specifications furnished by 

 the Bureau of Agriculture. 



Exhibitors will be acquired to assume all 

 responsibility of feeding, aud general attend- 

 ance on their birds. 



Only such specimens will be received as are 

 of pure breed, and even these must be highly 

 meritorious. 



Further information may be had by ad- 

 dressing the Chief of the Bureau of Agricul- 

 ture, Internation Exhibition at Philadelphia. 



The Farmer's Cause. 



We shall endeavor to advance our cause, 

 says the Western A</riciiUuruit, by laboring to 

 accomplish the following objects: To develop 

 a better and higher manhood and womanhood 

 among ourselves. To enhance the comfort 

 and attraction of our homes aud strengthen 

 the attachment to our pursuits. To foster 

 mutual understanding and co-operation. To 

 maintain inviolate our laws, and emulate each 

 other in labor to hasten the good time coming. 

 To reduce our expenses, both individual and 

 corporate. To buy less and produce more, in 

 order to make our farms self-sustaining. To 

 diversify our crops and crop no more than we 

 can cultivate. To condense the weight of our 

 exports, selling less on the bushel and more 

 on the hoof aud in the fleece. To sj'stematize 

 our work, aud calculate intelligently on pro- 

 babilities. To discountenance the credit sys- 

 tem, the mortgage system, the fashion system, 

 and every other system tending to prodigality 

 aud bankruptcy. We propose meeting to- 

 gether, talking together, working together, 

 buying together, selling together, and in gen- 

 eral acting together for our protection and 

 advancement, as occasion may require. We 

 shall avoid litigation as much as possible, by 

 arbitration in the Grange. We shall con- 

 stantly strive to secure entire harmony, good 

 will, vital brotherhood among ourselves, and 

 to make our Order perpetual. We shall ear- 

 nestly endeavor to suppress personal, local, 

 sectional and national prejudices, all un- 

 healthy rivalry, all selfish ambition. Faithful 

 adherence to these principles will insure our 

 mental, moral, social, and material advance- 

 ment. 



