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torn. The thin, or cheap muslin covering preventing the sun from turning tJje 

 fruit dark colored, and the wood has no tendency, either, to darken the shade 

 of the apples, or other fruit. When once made they last for years , with proper 

 care. 



Canning Fruit. — The Manchester Mirror gives the following tables for 

 time to boil, and the amount of sugar to each quart jar: 



Ounces, 



For cherries 6 



" raspberries 4 



" Lawton blackberries 6 



" field blackberries 6 



" strawberries 8 



" whortleberries 4 



" quince 10 . 



" small sour pears, whole 8 



" wild grapes . . ; 8 



" peaches 4 



" Bartlett pears 6 



" pineapples 6 



" crab-apples 8 



" plums 8 



" pie plant 10 



" sour apples, quartered 6 



" ripe currants 8 



Minutes, 



Boil cherries moderately 5 



raspberries " 6 



blackberries " 6 



plums " 10 



strawberries " 8 



whortleberries" 5 



pie plant, sliced 10 



small sour pears, whole. . . 30 

 Bartlett pears, in halves. . . 20 



peaches 8 



peaches, whole 15 



pineapple, sliced 3^ in. thick 15 

 Siberian crab-apple, whole 25 

 sour apples, quartered. .... 10 



ripe currants 6 



wild grapes 10 



tomatoes 20 



Hemarks. — The plan of preparing fruit for canning is so well understood, 

 generally, it is not deemed necessary to give any more instruction than is found 

 in the tables. The sugar and the juices are calculated to make syrup enough 

 to fill the crevices. If there is no juice, in any case, a very little water must 

 be put in to start the juice and prevent the sugar from burning at the first. 



1. RATS— To Destroy or Drive Away.— Arsenic, bread, butter 

 and sugar. Directions — If arsenic is to be used, get J^ or i^ oz., and label 

 poison, and keep it away from children. To use it, first spread some slices ot 

 bread lightly with butter; then sprinkle on rather freely of the arsenic, and over 

 this with a little sugar, and with a case-knife press the sugar and arsenic well 

 into the butter, so they will not fall off. Now, cut the slices of bread into 

 squares of half an inch or so, and drop into the rat-holes, out of the way oi 

 children, chickens, and other animals which you do not wish to kill. 



Remarks. — The rats will eat enough of it to kill some of them, and as 

 soon as they begin to die the others will go away and remain a long time 

 but as soon as they begin to show again repeat the dose, and this generally 

 makes a clear riddance of them. 



2. Bats, To Get Rid of Without Poison, German Method.— 

 A Grerman paper gives the following plan of doing this: " Having first for 

 sorne days placed pieces of cheese in a part of the premises, so as to induce thti 

 rats to come in great numbers to their accustomed feeding-place, a piece of 

 cheese is fixed on a fish-hook about a foot above the floor. One rat leaps al 

 this, and of course remains suspended. Hereat all the otaer rats take suddeD 

 flight, and at once quit the house in a body." 



