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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[June, 



in a stiff dough ae can be made with a spoon, tie It 

 in a cloth, leaving room to swell, and steam or boll 

 it three hours or longer. The rule for a batter pud- 

 ding is half an hour to every pint of pudding. 



Fine Sweet Rusks.— Soften two tablcspoonfuls 

 of butter iu a bowl, whisk two tablespoonfuls of 

 sugar, three eggs and flavoring to your taste (lemon 

 generally), together with a pint of milk, add to your 

 butter in the bowl two quarts of flour with four tea- 

 spoonfuls of baking powder sifted in it, then add 

 milk, eggs, etc., and mix, adding a little more milk 

 if required to make It of the desired consistency. 

 Bake in balls size of large walnuts placed together 

 on buttered pans with sides to them. Moderate 

 oven. 



OrsTER Fricassee. — To make oyster fricassee 

 take no less than six oysters for every person — good 

 box oysters — strain the liquid into a porcelain-lined 

 saucepan; add a large cup of strong bouillon, a 

 piece of butter, the size of au egg, rolled in flour; 

 season with celery salt, and beat the yolks of three 

 eggs, (for about 30 oysters); let all this boil nicely 

 and smooth, and then add the oysters; they must 

 not boil but get heated through well ; serve as soon 

 as prepared; while you prepare the dressing have 

 your oysters in a colander over a pit of boiling water, 

 to heat them gradually ; they will keep their size 

 prepared this way; if the dressing is too thick add 

 some bouillon. 



Scrap Bags.— It is a good plan to have bretty 

 scrap bags in stting- room, dining-room and bed -room; 

 they may be ornamental, and are certainly very use- 

 ful. Since trying this I have saved paper rags 

 enough to buy all the new tinware needed iu the 

 house, and have occasionally bought a broom also. 

 Every bit of cloth, every postal card and circular 

 that would otherwise have been put into the stove as 

 not being worth the trouble of a walk to the regular 

 rag bag, finds its way into the little scrap bag. 



Pork Chop.— The chop must be well cooked to 

 be wholesome, but they must neither be suffered to 

 dry up or to lie soaking in greasy gravy. Cut them 

 from a neck of pork ; trim them neatly ; give them 

 a few blows with the bat, or the potato masher, if 

 you have no meat bat ; broil over a clear Are; have 

 ready a bit of butter, rub into this a teaspoonful of 

 salt, half of pepper, the same of powdered sage, 

 and one spoonful of chopped onions ; heat this up 

 with a dash of vinegar, and turn each chop over in 

 it before serving. Cover closely with another plate, 

 and keep hot in the oven for a few minutes before 

 serving. Eat with apple sauce or roasted apples. 



Literary and Personal. 



The Trumpet.— The organ of the "Gon6titutional 

 Amendment Association " an eight paged quarto, 

 published at Pittsburg, Pa., and specially devoted to 

 the enactment of the following amendment to the 

 State Constitution of Pennsylvania: 



" Article XIX. Section 1. The manufacture and 

 sale of all intoxicating liquor is forever prohibited 

 within the commonwealth, except for medicinal, 

 mechanical and scientific purposes, and the legisla- 

 ture shall enforce this provision by sufficient penalties. 



Section 2. "The manufacture and sale of intoxicat- 

 ing liquors for the purposes excepted in the perced- 

 ing section, shall be regulated by law." 



Semi Monthly at ?125 per annum, by D. H. Mar- 

 tin, No. 6, Sixth street. Its platform is Prohibition 

 of the Liquor £usineu; Ood in the Constitution; 

 Sacntification of the Sabbath; Bible in the Public 

 Schools . 



The paper is Interesting, neatly gotten up, and 

 advocates its specialties with singular ability. It has 

 the sympathy and support of a long list of D. D's., 

 M. D's., Esquires and G. W. C. F's., besides, no 

 doubt, many thousands of the untitled in our State 

 and nation. But, it antagonizes a fearful odds, and 

 that odds is iti power, whilst »< is still on the outside 

 "ragged edges" of power. 



A great convention of the friends of Prohibition is 

 to be held in the Union Hall, at Johnstown, Pa., on 



Wednesday, .Tune 28 and 39, 1881, and a pressing in- 

 vitation is extended to all the friends of the cause. 



If only mankind could be induced to " First seek 

 the kingdom of God and his righteousness," how 

 easily all the moral and civil problems could be 

 solved. 



If the subject of temperence involved but a single 

 civil question it perhaps would not be so difficult to 

 reach the case by legal enactment. But it is more, 

 much more than this, and in this complexity lies the 

 chief difficulty; for it is also a moral, a physical, a 

 social, a domestic and a political question, and until 

 all these influences can be brought into harmony 

 with its civil bearings, nothing can be expected but 

 tovflict to the bitter end." 



Illustrations of nests and eggs of birds of the 

 United States, with text, by Thomas G. Gentry. 

 Published In parts by J. A. Wagonseller, No. 23 

 North Sixth street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price, $1.00 

 per part, each part containing from two to three 

 full-page plates in illustration of this Interesting and 

 beautiful subject. This work will be issued in 

 quarto, monthly, and is sold only Ijy subscription. 

 It is printed on neavy super-calendered paper, and 

 the plates are magnificent chromo' lithographs. 

 Part I of this rare work is on our table, and it more 

 than realizes our most sanguine expectations when 

 we first read the circular of its announcement. 

 Perhaps no man in our entire country Is better quali- 

 fied to write or edit such a ivork than Mr. Gentry, as 

 is abundantly shown in his " Life-History of Birds 

 of Eastern Pennsylvania " in two volumes. This 

 work, we are admonished, will not exceed 25 parts, 

 which will make a solid quarto volume of about 200 

 pages, and about 60 plates. 



The Sugab Beet.— Devoted to the cultivation 

 and utilization of the sugar beet — for the second 

 quarter of 1881, is a most capital number, and 

 appears in a fine tinted cover with other improve- 

 ments, and the illustrations are executed In the 

 highest style of art. This number contains an able 

 and elaborately illustrated paper on " Foreign Seed- 

 drills." On page 33 we are informed that " an 

 American beet-sugar factory pays a dividend to the 

 stockholders." This is regarded as encouraging, 

 and the first earned by any beet-sugar company In 

 the United States. But this has been, accomplished 

 west of the Rocky Mountains, in the " Golden State," 

 and by the " Standard Sugar Manufacturing Com- 

 pany," at Alvarado, Cal. From every quarter, 

 home and foreign, the beet-sugar enterprises seem 

 to be progressing, and especially In foreign lands. 

 The sugar-beet question will ultimately work a do- 

 mestic revolution In our countrj . All that is want- 

 ing is to get things so arranged and economized that 

 the enterprise will jjay. That is the lever that will 

 move It, and perhaps that alone. In this selfish age 

 it Is folly to expect that any considerable number of 

 persons will engage in any enterprise from motives 

 of patriotism or philanthrophy alone. 



Premium List of the twenty-ninth Indiana State 

 Fair, 1881, to be held at Indianapolis from Septem- 

 ber 26th to October Ist. Premiums increased twenty 

 per cent. ; no limit of location for competition. 

 Twelve railroads centering in Indianapolis, with 

 their connecting lines in the State, will carry pas- 

 sengers at excursion rates, and return freight free 

 that has been on exhibition. This is an octavo 

 pamphlet of forty pages, .with cover, sundry Illus- 

 trations, a map of the State with contiguous terri- 

 tory, and a plan of the fair grounds and location of 

 buildings. Every industrial interest— agricultural, 

 mechanical, domestic, scientific and professional— as 

 well as all kinds of stock, are to be represented, ans 

 liberal premiums offered to bring them out. Of 

 course there will be "trials of speed," but It Is 

 caWei racing in Indiana, and they ofi'er a premium of 

 $100 for the fastest horse. The premiums range 

 mainly from $1 up to $50, and from that to ?100 iu 

 special cases. Also, a large number of silver and 

 copper medals, diplomas, &c., &c. It also included 

 lists of 18 district fairs and 46 county fairs which are 

 to be held in Indiana between now and the 15th of 

 October, 1881. 



The Mount Joy Herald.— The issue of this 

 journal for June 11, 1881, comes to .us greatly "en, 

 larged and improved," and it now — in size, mechani- 

 cal execution, and literary contents — takes its posi- 

 tion in the very front rank of the weekly journals of 

 the State. We rejoice to see this progressive "de 

 parture" by the Herald, and think we can bespeak 

 for the enterprising editor and publisher the appre- 

 ciative co-operation of the public, and we believe we 

 can assure that public that nothing of an Immoral 

 or dishonest character will ever intentionally find a 

 place in Its columns. 



The Herald Is now a large (20x28) eight columned 

 folio, with a new heading and new type; published 

 by J. R. Hoflfer, Esq., at Mount Joy borough', Lan- 

 caster county. Pa ., for the low price of ( we presume) 

 81.50 a year. We wish abundant success to this 

 movement of the Herald, and hope It may be duly 

 compensated. 



And just here, we beg permissiou to Indulge in a 

 few general reflections, in reference to the prices of 

 publications. We believe that, every newspaper — 

 whether daily, weekly, quarterly or monthly — every 

 magazine, pamphlet or other [jeriodical, should have 

 its price conspicuously priuted on its first (or title 

 page), and not In small type In some obscure corner 

 of the paper, or burled in a long paragraph elsewhere. 

 And this rule should also be applied to every book 

 notice, or review, as well as to every book in a cata- 

 logue. There is not a doubt that loss is sustained 

 by publishers every year, by the absence of the 

 prices of their publications, and we know that 

 patrons are often disappointed on reading book ■ 

 notices, or the publications themselves, in which the 

 prices are omitted. The title, the publication, or 

 the notice impresses them favorably, and under the 

 Impulse of the moment they would patronize them, 

 but the absence of the price causes a diversion and 

 the occasion passes, or is absorbed by subsequent 

 Intervening contingencies. Depend upon it, this is a 

 matter of paramount importance to all patrons of 

 literature, of any kind. 



The Illustrated Scientific News. — A record 

 of the Sciences and their application to the Arts and 

 Industries. Published by .VIunn & Co., No. .37 Park 

 Row, New York, at $1.50 a year, single copies mailed 

 at 15 cents, postage paid. A handsome deml quarto 

 of 32 pages, beautifully Illustrated and printed in 

 clear type and double-calendered paper. The illustra- 

 tions iu natural history, natural philosophy and ma- 

 chinery are particularly fine — indeed, there is no 

 other 32 page quarto published in the country that 

 will at all compare with this journal, either iu me- 

 chanical execution or scientific literature. 



The -American .Monthly Microscopical Jour- 

 nal, edited and published by Romyn Hitchcock, F. 

 R. M. S., and printed by Thompson & Moreau, Nos. 

 51 and 53 Maiden Lane, New York. A 30 page oc 

 tavo, of great merit, and particularly acceptable to 

 yound microscopists throughout the country. The 

 subject of microscopy is bccomming very popular, 

 and it appears to have "come to stay." Nothing 

 seems to speak more emphatic on this point than the 

 spirit and industry manifested by its members in pro- 

 curing first-class and expensive instruments, which 

 is not usually the case in a temporary or transient 

 embrace. As an exponent of the subject In its funda- 

 mental and collateral details, we can safely reccom- 

 mend this Journal. 



Prospectus of the Bullion King Silver Mining 

 Co. of Gunnison county, Colorado. Capital stock 

 two million dollars. Incorporated January 28, 1881. 

 Dr. Joseph Leidy, President ; C. S. Boutcher, Vice- 

 President; William Hacket, Jr., Treasurer; Winfield 

 S. Hulick, Srcretary; Easton, Pa. OflSce : Room 12, 

 Drake & Hulick's building. Among the directors 

 we notice the name of Prof. Thomas C. Porter, of 

 Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and the whole 

 board is composed of staunch citizens of Easton and 

 Philadelphia, with a single exception. The history, ' 

 act of incorporation and by-laws, are contained in a- 

 beautiful octavo pamphlet of X2 pages. Send and 

 get a copy before you invest eUewhere. 



