DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



INTEREST— Simple and Easy Rules to Compute.— For find- 

 ing the interest on any principal for any number of days. [The answer in each 

 case being in cents, separate the two right-hand figures of answer to express in 

 dollars and cents]: Four per cent. — multiply — the principal in all cases — by the 

 number of days, and divide by 90; 5 per cent. — multiply by number of days, 

 and divide by 72; 6 per cent. — multiply by number of days, and divide by 60; 

 7 per cent. — multiply by number of days, and divide by 50; 8 per cent. — multi- 

 ply by number of days, and divide by 45; 9 per cent. — multiply by number of 

 days, and divide by 40; 10 per cent. — multiply by number of days, and divide 

 by 36; 12 per cent. — multiply by number of days, and divide by 30; 15 per 

 cent. — multiply by number of days, and divide by 24; 18 per cent. — multiply 

 by number of days, and divide by 20; 20 per cent.— multiply by number of 

 days, and divide by 18; 24 per cent.— multiply by number of days, and divide 

 by 15; without regard to fraction or remainder in any ca.se; may add, however, 

 the interest to the amount found for any fractional part of a dollar, if any such 

 is found in the note or principal. 



1. STRAWBERRIES.— To Raise Large and Abundant— We 



have known strawberry growers to have the soil for strawberry plantations 

 spaded 2 feet deep, and to apply 100 two-horse wagon loads of good stable man- 

 are per acre, before a plant was put out. Then during the first season the soii 



