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NEAV ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



his subversion of the family. No mere 'commu- 

 nity,' whether foreshadowed by a Grecian philos- 

 opher or organized by a French Socialist, can 

 develop in men the deepest sympathies and the 

 highest energies of their nature. Sunder the 

 ties which unite them in family groups, and the 

 incentive to labor is gone. The sweet charities 

 and beautiful amenities which spring up and 

 flourish in the magic circle of home, cannot take 

 root by the wayside of a nomadic life. They re- 

 quire 'a local habitation.' Family and property 

 are correlative terms ; the love of the one cre- 

 ates a desire for the other. The incentives which 

 impel men to the drudgery of the shop or field 

 lie in the fact that they 'have given hostages to 

 fortune ;' that they can in reality, or in prospect, 

 enjoy the fruits of their industry around some 

 warm domestic hearth-stone. 



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There are many homesteads which are not 

 homes. Philosophically speaking, a true home 

 has an attractive outward seeming and a lumi- 

 nous inward life. To secure the former, there 

 must be some architectural fitness about the 

 buildings, and an exhibition of good taste in the 

 grounds. To secure the latter, there must be 

 books, social and intellectual culture, and the 

 hallowing influence of every Christian virtue. 



and a sluggish circulation, except in these spots 

 where the inflammation is intense. The cure in 

 the early stages is efi"ected usually by kneading 

 the bag, frequent milking, and washing with 

 warm soap and water, or spirits and water, or 

 both ; often, however, the bag is so sensitive that 

 the cow will neither allov/ the calf to suck nor 

 the udder to be touched, even. The use of Tinc- 

 ture 0/ Arnica has come in great repute for the 

 allaying of this sensitiveness. Its effects are won- 

 derful. We have known this tried, when immedi- 

 ately, a cow with a most painful udder, at once 

 permitted it to be pressed and worked by the 

 hands, washed with soap and camphor, etc., al- 

 lowing the application of any of the common 

 remedies. 



We advise in this and similar cases to use ar- 

 nica at once. Take tincture of arnica and dilute 

 it with twice as much water, or rum and water, 

 and wash the bag with it. Then milk and knead 

 it, and then let a hungry calf take a turn at it 

 awhile ; wash thoroughly with soap and water, 

 and then anoint with sweet oil. — Uomesiead. 



ABOUT DBYING APPLES. 



October and November are the best months 



Human beings may exist m a habitation whose L^U varietTes are by far the best for the purr 

 uncouth ugliness, concealed by no overshadow- o , have an idea that anvthin- ir 



for drying apples, and the well-ripened, choice 



pose. 



- ,. , . . . . , .Some people have an idea that anything in the 



ing tree or climbing vine, is a pain to the eye. I , ^ ^^ ^^ 1 ^. ^ y^ ^^ ^,^^ ^^^ 



They may accustom themselves to its shapeless I Q^e, let the flavor be what it may, is just as good 

 deformity; to the rude inconveniences which ^^^ ... ^^ ^n^ther. We beg leave to correct 

 fruitlessly exhaust time and strength; to the 'ear- L j^j^ ^/^^° j^ j -^^^ ^^ important to have a good 

 piercing fife' of half-starved squea ing brutes [.^ ^^ ^ J ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^j. ^^ ^^^^_ ^o 

 looking wistfully from hollow eyes, like animated ^^^ therefore, who want good dried apple, we 

 'anatomies of melancholy, or wallowing in im- - - 



passable mud before the kitchen door ; to the 

 stercoraceous stenches which, exhaled from con- 

 tiguous manure-heaps, do not 'waste their sweet- 

 ness on the desert air,' but pour through the 

 windows, checked by no intervention of 'shock- 

 ing bad hats,' and neutralized by no fragrant 

 breath of flowers. Such a place is not a home, 

 but rather a lair for wild beasts ; and the chil- 

 dren who come forth from it will carry its taint 

 and its barbarism to the grave. 



A fine-looking house, on the other hand, like 

 a fine-looking woman, cannot but exert a cheer- 

 ful and elevating influence upon the community. 

 There is a renovating power in every object of 

 beauty and of worth on which the eye of man 

 can rest. Steele was not extravagant when he 

 said of a certain lady, whom the poet Congreve 

 had admired and celebrated, 'that to have loved 

 her was a liberal education.' We always grow 

 into the likeness and catch the spirit of our sur- 

 roundings.' " 



TREATMENT OF GARGET. 



Within a year or two past some of our cows 

 have been troubled by one quarter of their udders 

 becom.ing hard, and would give bloody milk for 

 a few days, then would dry away and lose the use 

 of it entirely. G. M. K. 



This is a clear case of garget, and if taken early, 

 the remedy is simple ; but first it is an inflamma- 

 tion of the bag or one or more of the quarters, 

 and arises from various causes. Almost univer- 

 sally it is accompanied by coagulation of milk 



will off'er a few suggestions. 



1. Let your apples be of good size, fair in 

 shape, choice in flavor — sweet or tart, as you may 

 prefer ; both are good for a variety of purposes. 

 They should be gathered without bruising ; laid 

 by till nearly ripe, but not quite ripe ; pared with 

 a machine — if you have a good one- and quar- 

 tered, or half-quartered, according to the size of 

 the fruit, or the use to be made of the article 

 when dried. 



2. Let the work be done as rapidly as possible, 

 for the fruit may ripen too fast after beginning 

 to do them, and keep the cutting and coring up 

 with the paring ; for the moment the open flesh 

 of the fruit becomes exposed to the atmosphere, 

 or heated, it begins to lose its aroma, moisture, 

 and flavor, all to the damage of its quality when 

 dried. 



3. If you choose to string them, which may 

 be done, or not, as you prefer, do it as soon as 

 you can. Wc should not dry thus, preferring 

 wire-racks for the purpose. Then instead of 

 hanging them up by the side of the house, in the 

 sun, or in the kitchen, where millions of flies will 

 alight upon, and live on them for several days, 

 put them in a kiln, or drying-room, with a heat 

 of a hundred degrees of thermometer. Let the 

 kiln be ventilated at the bottom and top, to pass 

 ofl' the exhaling moisture, but not enough to 

 make a perceptible draft through it. 



4. When the drying heat has sufficiently closed 

 the pores of the cut fruit to prevent the escape 

 of its aroma, the heat may be modified ten or 

 twenty degrees, and so continue until they are 



