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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



moist fish and should not be fried, but broiled or 

 baked. We have worn out several planks in our 

 family in baking them over liickury coals. We 

 tliouaht the fish was not fit to eat in any other way. 

 But when it became diffieult always to have hickory 

 coals in an open kitchen fire-place, we tried them over 

 oak coals, and could discover no difference. Next 

 we tried on a griddle over maple coals, and no one 

 ignorant of the manner of cooking failed in praising 

 the excellence of the fish. Afterwards when wood 

 of any kind became scarce, I had them broiled — par- 

 don, epicurean reader — over the anthracite coals in 

 the range, and the fish was just as good as ever ! 



But to be more precise and certain, having a few 

 eticlis of hickory left, I had one shad baked upon a 

 plank before these coals as formerly, and another 

 broiled on a griddle over anthracite coal. They were 

 placed side by side on the table, with a private mark on 

 one of tlie dishes, and the family and a couple of guests 

 were told that they were cooked in different ways and 

 their opinion was desired. Pieces were taken and 

 placed side by side on each plate, and in this way the 

 question was decided — and how ? Some said one was 

 better, some said the other, and some said they could 

 taste no difference. And such 'was the fact — there 

 was no difference. — F., Gertnantown Telegraph. 



Valuable Household Receipts. 



Fire and Watehpkoof Paint: Slack stone lime 

 by putting into a tub, covered, to keep in the steam; 

 when slacked pass the powder through a fine sieve, 

 and to every six quarts add a (|uart of rock salt and 

 a gallon of water; then boil and skim clear; to every 

 five gallons of the liquid add pulverized alum one 

 pound, pulverized copperas half a pound, and still 

 slowly; add powdered potash three-quarters of a 

 pound, then very fine sand or hickory ashes four 

 pounds; then use any coloring matter desired, and 

 apply with a brush. It looks better than any ordi- 

 nary i^aint, and is as durable as slate; will stop small 

 leaks in roofs, prevent moss from growing thereon, 

 make it incombustible, and render brick impervious 

 to water. 



IIOKSE-RiDisn S.\rcE. — This sauce is a great im- 

 provement upon the plainly scraped or grated horse- 

 radish for eating with either hot or cold roast beef. 

 A dessert-spoonful of olive oil or cream, same quan- 

 tity of powdered mustard, a tablespoonful of vinegar, 

 and two tablespoonfuls of scraped horse radish, with 

 a little salt to taste, must be stirred and beaten up 

 together until thoroughly well mixed. Serve sepa- 

 rately in a sauce tureen. It will keep for two or 

 three days, or longer, if oil and not cream be used. 

 I have tried this two or three times lately, and am 

 much pleased with it. It is an English idea, but 

 will soon become an American one if its excellence is 

 once known. — Aline, in Ger. Tel. 



Jemnv Lind Soup; Wash a quarter of a pound 

 of the best pearl sago until the water poured from it 

 is clear; then stew it quite tender in water or thick 

 broth; it will require nearly or quite a quart of liquid, 

 which should be poured on it cold, and lieated very 

 slowly; then mix gradually with it a pint of good 

 boiling cream and the yolks of four fresh eggs, and 

 mingle the whole carefully witli strong veal or beef 

 stock, which should always be kept ready for boiling. 

 Mile. Lind was in the habit of taking this soup before 

 Bhe sang, as she found the eggs and sago soothing to 

 the chest and beneficial to the voice. 



FiiRNiTTRE Polish: An excellent furniture polish 

 is made of ten cents' worth of bees wax placed in a 

 tin cup and melted in a hot oven. Into this pour two 

 ounces of turpentine, and let it stand to cool. Apply 

 it briskly to the furniture with a woolen rag, and give 

 it a finishing rub with an old silk handkerchief. This 

 polish is almost equal to a coat of varnish. 



SuoRTS Pudding. — Take four eggs well beaten, 

 a pint of milk, and make a thin batter with shorts. 

 When boiling corned beef dip in your pudding bag 

 and fill with the above. Have plenty of room in the 

 kettle witli the beef, and he sure the water is boiling, 

 put in the pudding and boil two hours without letting 

 it stop. Eat with sweetened cream or any other pud- 

 ding sauce. 



Indian Pudding. — Let a pint of sweet milk come 

 to a boil ; stir in enouii'h corn meal to make a tliin 

 batter, cool with anotlier jiint of milk. Beat four 

 eggs, one cup of sugar anil nutmeg together, and stir 

 into the other. Butter a pudding dish and put it in ; 

 steam or bake. 



Fhuit Pudding. — Take sour cream and saleratus 

 and a little salt ; mix and roll out as for biscuit. Line 

 a basin with this, fill with any kind of fruit and cover 

 with more of the crust, li-aving a place in the centre 

 for the air and steam to escape. Bake or steam as 

 preferred. Eat with sauce.. 



Minute Pudding. — Put some milk over the fire 

 to boil, salt and thicken with flour stirred in slowly, 

 and sifted through the hand. As soon as it is tliick- 

 ened take it up and send to the table. Make one 

 minute and eat the next. Sauce — sweetened cream. 

 Cheap Pudding. — One riuart of milk, four table- 

 spoonsful of corn starch, four egL''s, six taldespoons- 

 ful of sugar, nutmeg; stew tlu'ce-fburtlis of an hour. 

 — Mks. Tcknek, in OennantowH Telegraph. 



The Cotemporary Press. 



The Agricultural Gazette, an Illustrated 

 .Tournal for Landowners and Tenant Farmers, a 

 weekly journal published in London, England, is one 

 of the last and Ijest additions to our exchange list. It 

 is printed in the imperial magazine style, each num- 

 ber containing thirty-two pages, each page the size of 

 The Farmer, and the columns the same width. It 

 is the best printed agricultural paper that comes to 

 our oflice. Tlie pajx'r is tinted and well calendered, 

 of unusual weight and fine texture ; the typography 

 is as nearly perfect as good taste in the selection of 

 material and care in "spacinGr"' etc., can make it, 

 while its illustrations are practical and well-executed, 

 especially its photographs of live stock. It is hardly 

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 its discussions coverinEc the entire range of subjects 

 in anywise interesting the farmer and gardener. The 

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 including postage, is £1 l.s 8d per annum ; and if 

 any of our progressive readers want to keep posted 

 in English agriculture, we commend them to the 

 London AgrieuUural Gazette. 



The Bushderg Illustrated and Descriptive 

 Catalogue, a royal octavo pamphlet of 80 pages 

 and a cojiious index, is, to our apprehension, cer- 

 tainly the best and most elaborate work of the kind 

 that, has ever issued from the American press. It 

 contains 31 separate illustrations of the same num- 

 ber of varieties of grapes; 1 on the mode of plantins; 

 10 on grafting, trellising, &c., and 1.5 — including f>7 

 figures — illustrative of the different noxious insects 

 that infest the grape — its canes, its leaf, and its fruit 

 — and amongst the rest the notorious grape root 

 aphid {Fhyllorera rastatrix) which has been so de- 

 structive to the finest varieties of the European 

 grapes, and for a safe and certain remedy against 

 which the French government has offered a premium 

 of one hiiiidred thoaMind francs. 



The Herdsman's Horn, by C. A. Harness, Pied- 

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 pages, purporting to be in the interest of the "Ameri- 

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 indeed', that the author complains that he has been 

 charged with "communism." ll'c, however, do not 

 regard him as a communist by any means; he is too 

 impractical for that, as instanced in the declarations, 

 "A government without taxes; a church without 

 tithes; a money without usury; a people without 

 poor ; " and, as a consequence — " a chief mairistracv, 

 a national Senate, and a House of Congressmen hv7/«- 

 out pay," &c.; &c. Verily, with such an advocate, 

 the grange might well exclaim — " Oh save us from 

 our friends." 



Gallinoculture has become a very important 

 branch of domestic and rural economy. The last 

 number of The Farmer contained a carefully pre- 

 pared statistical statement of its commercial import- 

 ance, which presented some facts that astonished 

 those who had not given the subject more than pass- 

 ing attention. Those who wish to be fully posted up 

 in all branches of this specialty, including birds and 

 all kinds of ]iet s, as well as fowls, should subscribe to the 

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 by Jos. M. Wade, No. 39 North Ninth street, Phila- 

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 six. It is the best publication in that interest which 

 has come under our notice. 



The Pennsylvania Journal op Dent.^l Science. 

 " A monthly record of the proceedings of the dental 

 societies, and dental science in general ; " edited and 

 published by Samuel Welchens, D.D.S., Lancaster, 

 Pa., price SI. 00 a year, in advance, single copies 35 

 cents. The April number of this publication has 

 been laid on our table by the editor. It is a beauti- 

 fully executed octavo of .50 pages, embellished with 

 a finely engraved portrait of L. P. Meredith, M.D., 

 D.D.S., of Cincinnati, Ohio, a biographical sketch of 

 the same, and a large amount of first-class dental 

 literature in general — a credit to the jjrofession, the 

 city of Lancaster, and the editor and publisher. 



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 How to exercise and how to preserve them. This work 

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The American Artizan, a royal quarto of 36 pp. 

 in the higliest style of typograjiliic and illustrative 

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 country. Brown iSc Allen, 3.58 Broadway, N. Y. 



Monthly Report of the Department op Ag- 

 riculture, for February and Marcli, containing a 

 large portion of agricultural and horticultural hiatler 

 interesting to the farmer, fruit grower, <.tc. Printed 

 lor gratuitous distribution. 



THE PROGRESS OF INVENTION. 



Official List of Patents, 



Relating to the Farm, the Dairy, Apiart,&c., 



For the month, ending May 1st. 1875.* 



Plows ; Wm. Adams, Long Island, Kansas. 

 Horse Hay Rakes; Wm. S. Archer, Dayton, Ohio. 

 Oats Screens ; J. N. Bell, Fort Dodge, Iowa. 

 Potato Harvesters ; A. J. Davis, Prairie City, Iowa. 

 Mowing Machines ; J. Garfield, Ayer, Maes. 

 Butter Workers ; W. Johnson, Buffalo, N. T. 

 Machine for Digging Stones, Stumps, &c.; C. M. 



Lufkin, Langdon, N. H. 

 Sod Cutters; Jas. McArdle, Winona. Minn. 

 Revolving Harrows; J. Philips, Thorntown, Ind. 

 Disk Harrow Cultivators; S. G. Randall, Greene, N. T. 

 Harvester Cutters; Geo. J. E. & M. Vanvossen, Be- 



thesda, Ohio. 

 Plow Standards; H. Borger, Urbana, Ohio. 

 Chinch Bug Destroyer; .J. Cochran, jr., Roscoe, Mo. 

 Hay Elevators; E. V. R. Gardner, Jahnsen, N. Y. 

 Horse Stopping Apparatus; J. Laul)se,Milwaukie,Wis. 

 Harvester; C. W. Levalles, St. Paul, Minn. 

 Mowing Machines; J, P. Lord, Readsborough, Vt. 

 Milk Testing Processes; A. Midiiaugh, Scio, N. Y. 

 Plaster Sowers ; M. C. Moder, Ilortonvillc, Wis. 

 Grain Separators; M. O'Brien, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Corn Harvesters; W. T. Orr, Kewanee, 111. 

 Driers; John E. Register, Dover, Del. 

 Cultivators; L. G. Roberts, Gorham, Maine. 

 Fumigators for Greenhouses; T. Shaw, Danville, Pa. 

 Churns; H. A. Simpson, Greenfield, Ohio. 

 HeatersforCheese Vats;L. A. Sunderland, Madison,0. 

 Grain Separators; W. Toepfer, Milwaukie, Wis. 

 Machine for Crushing Grain; C. C. Washburn, Madi- 

 son, Wisconsin. 

 Well Reamers; Wm. Young, Troy, Iowa. 

 Plow Wheels; David ARer,' Allegan, Mich. 

 Hay and Cotton Presses; H. K. Burnett, Poughkeep- 



sie, N. Y. 

 Bag Fasteners; T. A. Danielson, Calumet, Mich. 

 Fruit Jars; Pierre F. Darche, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Peat Cutters; Benj. T. Denton, Oswego, N. Y. 

 Harvester Rakes; M. F. Gitibs, Livonia, N. Y. 

 Churns; Geo. P. Herndon, Tavelo, Miss. 

 Agricultural Boilers; F. N. Mitchell, El Paso, 111. 

 Farm Fences; Andrew N. Moore, Trenton, Ky. 

 Butter Workers; A . H. Reid, Brandywinc Manor, Pa. 

 Gang Plows; S. S. Scheumack, Victoria, Texas. 

 Seed Planters; U. T. Stewart, Rossville, Texas. 

 Windmills; J. M. Armour, Northwood, Ohio. 

 :\Iowiinf .Machines; W. W. Briglin, Avoca, N. Y. 



Farm (iatcs ; S. R. Holt, Worthington, Oliio. 

 Wagon Bodies; R. W. McClelland, Cerro Gordo, III. 

 Wagon Standards; R.W. McClelland, Cerro Gordo, 111. 

 Horse Hay Rakes ; D. P. Sharp, Itqaca, N. Y. 



Apple Slicers and Corers ; H. S. Siler, St. Lawrence, 

 N. C. 



Corn Droppers ; I. G. Vail, Logan county. 111. 



Machines for Hulling and Cleaning Grain ; T. Wal- 

 lace, Chicago, 111. 



Grain Scourers; T. Wallace, Chicago, 111. 



Earth Augers ; Don Juan Arnold, Brownville, Neb. 



Pruning Implements; C. B. Cannon, Keokuk, Iowa, 



Harvesters ; J. H. Elward, St. Paul. Minn. 



Harvesters; J. H. Elward, St. Paul, Minn. 



Cider Presses; D. F. Enery, Canton, 111. 



Horse Hay Forks ; E. V. R. (iardner, Johnson, N. Y. 



Bee Hives; G. H. Mobley, Nevada, .Mo. 



Seed Planters; W. Post, Warsaw, Mo. 



Sulky Plows; E. Robertson, Fairmount III. 



Grain Drill Teeth ; J. B. Sandusky, Lexington, Ky. 



Feed Cutters; J. A. Schwerdt, New York, N. Y. 



Cultivators; F. W. Tolley, Coxsaxie, N. Y. 



Apparatus for Breaking Horses; J. Z. Walling, Red 

 Wing, Minn. 



Butter'Prints ; R. S. Williams, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Lever Attachment for Mowing Machines; A. B. 

 Conde, Freemansburg, N. Y. 



Ditching Plows; A. L. Harncd; Boston, Ky. 



Field Rollers ; A Hilts, Springdale, Ohio. 



Potato Diggers ; H. W. King, Canaan, N. J. 



Fruit Gatherers; Nathan Lash, Montpelier, Ohio. 



Churns; P. La Tourette, Vestal, N. Y. 



Apparatus for Bleaching Cane Fence ; J. M. Lescale, 

 Painctmrtville, La. 



Harvesters ; S. S. Loudenslager, Polo, 111. 



Mowing Machines; H. C. &'U. C. Markham, Lyons' 

 Falls, N. Y. 



Harvester Kakes; J. P. Monnett, Bucyrus, Ohio. 



Filter Wells; Wm. P. Powers, La Crosse, Wis. 



Horse Hay Kakes; A. Bugbee, Elkhart, Ind. 



Comb Gang Plows and Cultivators; W. Clements, 

 Fiskville,"Texas. 



Bee Hives; C. Gerry, Garden City, Minn. 



Milk Coolers and Cheese Vats; C. W. Grannis, Co- 

 wanda, N. Y. 



Sheep Shearing Chairs; C.H. McCan,Morristown, O. 



Churns; C. W. Patton, Louisville, Ky. 



Hay Slides; A. I. Reed, Pleasant Grove, Ind. , 



Cui-y Combs; J. O. Berry, Vienna, Va. 



Horse Powers; G. E. Burt, Harward, Mass. 



Seed Planters; J. T. Carr, .Milo, Maine. 



"Prepiived expressly lor The Lancabtek FAnMEit l)y 

 Louis Biigger & Co., Solicitors of Piitenta, Washington, D. 

 C, from wtioni complete copies of the Patents and Drawings 

 may be obtained. 



