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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[ August, 1877. 



ment ; when the fermentation is over bung it up, 

 and in the follovviner March bottle it if desired. 



A RErRESniNG Dkink. — A refreshing drink for 

 the harvest days can be made of jelly — grape jelly 

 preferred — mixed in ioe water, one teacupiul jelly to 

 a quart of water; stir well and drink directly after it 

 is mixed. A little ginger added, improves the drink 

 for some, and will satisfy thirst better than water 

 alone. Grape jelly is considered very healthy, and 

 is recommended by jihysicians iu many cases of sick- 

 ness — acting as a cooling stimulant in many cases 

 of weakness and fever; gives strength without con- 

 sequent debility, or drag of the system. 



PRE.SERVING PEACHES. — As pcach time will soon 

 be here, I send you my method of preserving them. 

 Select fruit just ripe, pare, halve, and throw into 

 cold water to preserve the color. After everything is 

 ready, lay them in the cans, putting a little sugar 

 over each layer. Now set the can iu a vessel con- 

 taining water, set on the stove and let it remain until 

 the fruit is thoroughly he.ated through, which will 

 take half an hour with a brisk fire. The tempera- 

 ture should be 1I50O. (Every woman should keep a 

 thermometer.) Seal at once, and put a weight on 

 the cover — that i%, if you use cement. With self- 

 sealers it is not required. This method makes the 

 nicest kind of preserved fruit. 



To.MATO Preserves. — I can not make wine — never 

 tried — do not believe in wine — but I can give the 

 readers of The Far.mer a good recipe for preserving 

 tomatoes. Take smootli, round fruit, ripe, and 

 scald and peel them. Then add a pound of white 

 sugar for each pound of tomatoes, and let them 

 stand ten hours. Now remove the tomatoes from 

 the syrup which will be formed, and boil the latter, 

 removing the scum. Then put in the tomatoes and 

 boil gently for twenty minutes. Talve out the fruit 

 and boil the syrup agani until it is quite thick. Put 

 the fruit in jars, and when the syrup is cool, pour 

 over it and add a few slices of lemon iu each jar, to 

 give flavor. 



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Recipe for Butter. 



In a small work, describing the method of making 

 butter in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, celebra- 

 ted in the market of that city, I find the following: 

 "Take of saltpeter one part, of loaf-sugar one part, 

 of fine rock-salt two parts; beat the mass to a fine 

 powder, and use one ounce of the composition to one 

 pounil of butter. This will give it a peculiar, rich 

 flavor, but it should not be used before two weeks 

 old. Butter is often injured by using too much salt 

 in preserving it; but this composition renders it un- 

 necessary to salt to excess. For immediate use, salt 

 alone is preferable." This recipe is for butter that 

 may be kept perfectly sweet for months. The best 

 salt must he used (Ashton's Liverpool is the most 

 used), or butter cannot be depended on to keep 

 long. The following is a good test before using it : 

 Dissolve a little in a glass tumbler; if the brine form- 

 ed is clear and free from bitter taste, the saltis good; 

 if, on the contrary, it is of a milky appear- 

 ance, leaves any sediment or throws scum to the 

 surface, it should be rejected. There are times when 

 the butter comes, that it is soft and warm, and diffi- 

 cult to take out. Then the milk should be removed, 

 and the churn half filled with ice-cold milk or pure 

 ice-water, and churned until the butter hardens. If 

 the ice disapj)ears before this takes place then it must 

 be renewed. If the butter comes rather warm put in 

 twice the salt you usually do, work your butter just 

 enough to mix the salt well through it, and set it 

 away in a cool place for 24 hours, then lake it up and 

 work it over ; much of the salt will be dissolved and 

 work out. — Fanners' Frieml. 



The Spare Bed. 



One rule ought to be invariable With every good 

 housekeeper: Tliat the bed in the guest chamber 

 shall never be "made" except when it is to be direct- 

 ly used. Let it lie fallow between whiles, and turn 

 the mattresses every few days, with all precau- 

 tion against dampness gatherng on them. 

 Then, when put in order, "with fresh sheets and 

 blankets, having the dry hc.at of the kitchen fire 

 in them, there will be small risk of that chill 

 which the travelers dread. We repeat it, a room 

 that is kept undamped, sweet and wholesome, with a 

 dried bed and plenty of well-aired bed clothes, is 

 within the reach of all to give tlieir guests, and is 

 all that sensible visitors ask. It is better than a hot 

 stove in the room, or hot bottles, jugs or India rub- 

 ber grannies in the bed, and whoso complains of 

 this — let him complain. 



LITERARY AND PERSONAL. 



The abundant harvests which are everywhere so 

 promising this fall, with a good demand at fair 

 prices, will suggest to our readers the propriety of 

 purchasing a good and reliable piano. To those who 

 would buy a strictly first-class instrument, we would 

 recommend to look into the merits of the Mendels- 

 sohn Piano Co., No. 56 Broadway, N. Y., whose ad- 

 vertisement appears elsewhere. This Company is 



regularly incorporated under the laws of the State of 

 New York, and composed of eminent Piano manu- 

 facturers, with the express object of selling Pianos 

 direct to the people at Factory Prices, without the 

 intervention of agents or dealers, thereby saving 

 them more than one-half the prices usually charged. 



The Pianos, including Grand, Square and Upright, 

 made one of the finest displays at the Centennial 

 Exhibition, and were iinauimouxly recommended for 

 the Diploma of Honor and Medal of Merit. 



The leading papers of the country speak in very 

 high terms of the Company and their Pianos. 



We would recommend any of our readers who have 

 any idea of ever buying a piano, to send for their 

 Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue, which will be 

 mailed free to all. 



Art Publishing. — Few people are aware of the 

 wonderful progress that Art has made in this country 

 during the last quarter of a century. It is but a few 

 decades since, that those who desired to beautify and 

 adorn their homes, were obliged to depend almost 

 entirely on foreign artists. But such a state of affairs 

 in this age of progress and improvement could not 

 last long with the great American people. Genius 

 from the East to the West, from the North to the 

 Gulf of Mexico on the south, answered the demand 

 for beauty, taste and refinement, and to-day our 

 leading artists are not surpassed by the leading 

 modern masters of Art in Europe. 



Great Art publishing establishments have sprung 

 up, and by various processes the finest and most ex- 

 pensive p.aintings are reproduced in all their elegance 

 and beauty, and at a price within the means of the 

 masses. So that no one need be without the refin- 

 ing influences of beautiful pictures at home. 



Among the progressive leading Art Publishing 

 firms of the country, we take pleasure in mentioning 

 George Stinson & Co., of Portland, Maine; they were 

 among the first in the business, and we can only 

 understand the colossal proportions their trade has 

 assumed by remembering that this is a great and 

 mighty Nation of nearly fifty million people. We 

 cannot better illustrate the magnitude of their busi- 

 ness than to state the amount of money paid by them 

 for postage stamps during the year 1876 ; we have 

 the figures direct from the firm, or we should think 

 there was some mistake. They paid for postage 

 stamps during the year 1876, thirty-three thousand 

 one hundred and four dollars and ninety-two cents 

 (.$3.3, 10-1.92) and, in connection with this it should he 

 remembered that only the small orders were sent by 

 mail, the larger going by express and freight. George 

 Stinson &, Go's., agents are to be found in every 

 State in the Union and Dominion of Canada, and in 

 every county, with scarcely an exception. 



Long since, this enterprising firm recognized the 

 value of printer's ink judiciously used in advertising, 

 and they inform us that without it they could never 

 have extended their business as it is to-day, in three 

 times the number of years. A short time since they 

 paid in a single day twenty-four thousand dollars 

 ($24,000) on a contract for newspaper advertising. 

 They evidently long since found the road to success, 

 and have neither turned to the right nor the left. 

 Three things are necessary for eminent success in 

 business. First, standard honest goods that the peo- 

 ple generally need and desire — let them be the best, 

 whatever the line of business. Second, let your 

 prices be reasonable — as low as possible. Third, let 

 the people know what you have, and what you can 

 do, by lilicral and persistent advertising, and you 

 will find low prices, made known and proved, will 

 bring trade that will give a larger income than can 

 be made in any other way. 



Sorrento and Inlaid Work ; by Arthur Hope. 

 Price, $1.. 50. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Phibadelphia. 

 Mr. Hope is evidently a veteran in the art of wood 

 carving. He tells us that his first rude attempts at 

 scroll-sawing were made twenty years ago with a 

 roughly whittled saw frame, fitted with a blade made 

 from a watch spring, in which "teeth few and far 

 between had been unevenly and laboriously cut with 

 a common file." 



The object of Mr. Hope's book is to furnish a man- 

 ual for alt who are interested in scroll sawing and 

 carving, both beginners and experts, and with this 

 in view, he has treated of every branch of the sub- 

 ject, from woods and their preparation on through 

 the various branches, to overlaying, inlaying, silhou- 

 ettes, etc. The book is illustrated with full page 

 designs, many of them the choicest silhouettes, the 

 designs alone, if bought at retail, amounting to more 

 than the price of the book. We do not see how any- 

 thing better than Mr. Hope's little volume could 

 well be prepared. It is remarkably explicit, and yet 

 remarkably full in explaining and describing the 

 very things that the amateur worker most wishes to 

 know, and being himself an enthusiast, he can have 

 little difiiculty in awakening a corresponding inter- 

 est in others. The chapters on overlaying and in- 

 laying are the best we have ever seen on the subjects, 

 and contain instruction to be found in no other form. 

 Altogether Mr. Hope's book is a gem, and no ama- 

 teur can afford to be Without it. 



Circular and Price List, for summer »nd fall 

 of 1877. Those who are engaged in — or who prt)pose 

 to engage in — the cultivation of the Strawberry, 

 Raspberry, Gooseberry, Currant and Blackberry 



plants, &c., will no doubt be greatly assisted in their 

 enterprises, of this kind, by having on hand and 

 consulting the circular and price list of E. P. RoE, 

 Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, Orange co., New York. 

 Wenever have halfcnough of what are usually termed 

 "small fruit," in Lancaster county, and there are 

 never half enough persons engaged in their cultiva- 

 tion, nor ever half enough acres of land devoted to 

 their production. Mr. Roe has the reputation of be- 

 ing very successful in originating new varieties of 

 seedlings, which have been endorsed by some of the 

 best fruit growing names of the country, and there- 

 fore it might pay to have his circulars and a copy of 

 his " Manual on the culture of small fruits" on hand_ 

 Ellwanger and Barry's catalogues, Nos. 1 and 

 2, for fall 1877. We acknowledge the receipt of 

 these descriptive lists of fruit trees, ornamental trees, 

 shrubs, roses, flowering plants, bulbs, ifec, &c., now 

 in ample stock at Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, 

 N. Y., by these enterprising nurserymen. These 

 two catalogues comprise 186 royal octavo pages, ex- 

 clusive of title pages and covers, with many fine il- 

 lustrations, and include all that is good, ornamental 

 and useful in the nursery line, both foreign and do- 

 mestic; and we are almost tempted to say, that what 

 they have not got, is not worth having. "These lists 

 are the most systematically arranged, and the easiest 

 consulted, of any we have yet seen; and we could 

 not imagine a more satisfactory source of informa- 

 tion on this subject, except a personal visit to the 

 nurseries themselves. 



Butter and Butter Makino, with the best 

 methods for producing and marketing it. By WilHg 

 P. Hazard, President of the Chadd's Ford Farmers' 

 Club, author of "the Jersey, Alderney and Guernsey 

 cow," &c. Published by Porter ife Coates, No. 822 

 Chestimt street, Philadelphia. Price 2.5 cents. A 

 royal 12mo. of 48 pages, in paper covers, with four 

 well executed illustrations of imported cows, which 

 took high premiums at the Centennial, namely, the 

 Jersey Cow, "Duchess," "Tiberia," "Niobe" and 

 "Milkmaid." The value of the book may be inferred 

 from the subjects it so ably discusses — cleanliness 

 and attention ; important rules ; chemistry of butter ; 

 feeding for milk and butter ; coloring butter; method 

 of milking ; care of the milk ; skimming and care 

 of cream ; spring-houses, ice-houses and dairy 

 rooms ; churning ; working ; washing, marketing, &c 

 Don't Put the Poor Working Man Down ! — 

 This is the title of the greatest motto song ever pub- 

 lished in America. Written and composed by Bobby 

 Newcomb. Will be sung in almost every theatre in 

 the land. Price 3.5 cents per copy. If you cannot 

 get it from your regular music dealer send to the 

 publisher, F. W. Ilelraick, No. .50 West 4th St., Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio. 



chorus. 

 Let capital sliaiie lianda with labor, 



Let the. jioor fiave ttie bread tliat they earn, 

 For surely tliey need every peuuy, 



Iri a leasou quite easy to learu. 

 Remember the poor love their children, 



So give them a smile, not a frown, 

 Live, and let live, lie your motto. 



Oh ! don't put the poor working man down. 



In the July number of The Farmer we called the 

 attention of our readers to a new and useful cooking 

 utensil recently invented, which is knoivn as the 

 Centennial Cake and Baking Pan, made of Russia 

 iron, and is so constructed that after your cake is 

 baked, you can instantly remove it from the pan 

 without injuring it; and having a raised bottom the 

 cake can not possibly burn. It is also provided with 

 a slide on the bottom, so that when you remove the 

 tube, you can close the hole, making a pan with 

 plain bottom for baking jelly or plain cakes, bread, 

 etc. 



Since then we have seen one of the pans, which was 

 shown us by Mr. B. G. Lefevre, formerly of Quarry- 

 ville, who 's agent for this county, and who is now 

 canvassing for the same. 



National Agricultural Congress. — The sixth 

 annu.al session of this body will be held at the Grand 

 1'acifl.c Ifotel, in the City of Chicago, 111., commenc- 

 ing at lOo'clock, A. M., on Tuesday, the 25th of Sep- 

 tember, 1877, and continuing three days. All agri- 

 cultural societies, boards of agriculture, agricultural 

 departments, colleges, periodicals, grangers' clubs, 

 and other organizations in the interest of agriculture, 

 in the United Stales and British America, are re- 

 quested to send delegates. Specimens of agricultural 

 productions are solicited for exhibition and compari- 

 son from all parts of the country. The Chicago 

 Inter-State Exposition will be open during the meet- 

 ing of the Congress. W. C. Flagg, President; H. J. 

 Smith, Secretary. 



We call the special attention of our readers to the / 

 advertisement of Mast, Foos & Co., in this number! 

 of The Farmer, and to the article and cut, on pagej 

 118, illustrating the superior qualities of their "Iron 

 Turbine" wind-wheel. 



Attention is called to the advertisement of E.^ 

 Moody & Sons, Lockport, N. Y. This house is onel 

 of the oldest and largest in the nursery trade ln| 

 the United States. 



We would call the attention of our readers to thol 

 advertisement of Marsh & Comp, Mt. Joy, Pa., who! 

 manufacture a new and improved double land roller.j 



