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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



Celery is good for headaclie and is an ex- 

 cellent brain food. — CVii'cayo Tribune. 



All extra mat, an old one, should be placed 

 in the hallway on a rainy day. 



An exact number of acres of every (ield 

 should be known to the owner. 



E. L. Stuetevant says the great draw- 

 back to obtaining satisfactory yields of corn 

 conies from .slovenly culture, not only in oper- 

 ation in the field, but from careless planting 

 by the fai'mer. — Ti-oy Times. 



The supposition that the introduction of 

 farm machinery would cause a displacement 

 of farm laborers has not been borne out by 

 facts, as at no period has there been a greater 

 demand for liuman labor than at the present. 

 Farm hands are always scarce in some sec- 

 tions. — Prairie Farmer. 



Farm and Garden says an acre will iiroducc 

 five or six times the amount of strawberries 

 it will wheat. 



ArPETiziNU dressing for fowls is made of 

 mashed potatoes, well seasoned; for ducks or 

 for wild game a flavor of onions is desirable; 

 herbs also may be added.— iV. Y. Post. 



Breed up the cows; bring them to as near 

 perfection as possible. Weed out the unpro- 

 fitable, though you give them away and set 

 your standard at not less than a day per cow 

 for at least eight months in the year.— CVifet- 

 go J(Htrndl. 



CR.\XBEl!ltY pudding is made by pouring 

 boiling water on a pint of dried bread crumbs; 

 melt a tablespoonful of butter and stir in. 

 When the bread is softened add two eggs, 

 beat thoroughly with the bread. Then put 

 in a pint of the stewed fruit and sweeten to 

 your taste. Bake in a hot oven for half an 

 hour. Fresh fruit may be used in place of 

 the cranberries. Slices of peaches put in lay- 

 ers make a delicious variation. — Boston Post. 



Cows which are to give milk through the 

 winter, says the American Agriculturist, need 

 to be fed with special care. If i)Ossible, the 

 flow of milk must not be permitted to decrease. 

 Mangels and sugar beets are excellent cut in 

 slices and sprinkled with bran. The rule that 

 good feeding brings good maimre, should be 

 kept in mind in a judicious care of farm ani- 

 mals during winter. Good feed in abundance 

 is not enough ; it should be given with regu- 

 larity. 



Home-made oatmeal crackers are so nice, 

 and it is really so little trouble to make them, 

 that almost any mother or cook, can get time 

 to try this rule : Wet one pint of fine oatmeal 

 with one gill of water ; after mixing as well as 

 you can take it out of the dish ou the knead- 

 ing board, on which you have scattered plenty 

 of the dry meal ; roll out and cut in squares 

 with a sharp knife. The crackers should be 

 rolled very thin ; these should be baked in a 

 slow oven, and after you are sure they are 

 done leave the oven door open to allow them 

 to dry. Salt should not be omitted.— A^. )'. 

 Post. 



To remove specks of dirt from the eye, im- 

 merse it in cold water, then roll and wink it 

 rapidly, still keeping it in the water till the 

 desired result is accomplished. In cases of 

 slight inflamation or dryness of the eye, this 

 bath has a good eflect. Use tepid, slightly 

 s.ilted water, instead of cold. — 'The Household. 



Cottonseed oil is largely used for adulter- 

 ating butter and cheese. 



The finest peaches in Centre county came 

 from the College Superintendent's farm. 



The Crown is the largest land owner in 

 liussia, po.ssessing more than one-half of the 

 eutire empire. 



Fruit men all say the best way to treat 

 trees infested vvith borers is to remove the 

 earth about the base of the trunk. Fill up 

 the hollow after freezing weather is well under 

 way. 



The hogs in the West are growing slowly, 

 cause, soft corn. The early frost made a 

 short crop and imperfectly ripened grain, and 

 this means blue beef and skeleton poultry, as 

 well as light pork of inferior quality. 



Sixty thousand of the Swiss pcojile an- 

 engaged in the silk industry, most of them in 

 their own houses. Zurich alone has 3000 

 power looms and 53.000 looms, all told. The 

 silk production of the country reaches S17,- 

 000,000, of which something less than one- 

 third comes to thisjcountry, and pays an ad- 

 valorem duty of 50 per cent. 



Ak Indiana farmer who raises many turnips 

 harvests them late and stores in trenches. 

 The trenches are two feet deep, about a foot 

 and a half wide, and of any desired length. 

 He puts the turnips in, filHng the trenches 

 about half way to the top, then puts on a light 

 covering of soil. As the weather becomes 

 more severe he adds more covering until the 

 trench is iaW.— Chicago IVibune. 



In many localities, where the potato bug 

 has been very destructive, it has done little or 

 no damage the past year. This may be partly 

 owing to the peculiarities of the .season, but 

 is probably also in part to the increase of in- 

 sects which prey upon the potato beetle and its 

 larvffi in various stages. — Chicago Times. 



The Cuuculo Smoked out at Last.— 

 Some time since, we announced that the Ken- 

 tucky Horticultural Society had ottered a 

 premium of five hundred dollars for a cheap, 

 and eflectual remedy against the curculio. 

 Several have already been proposed, of which 

 the following published in the Louisville Jour- 

 nal, has the merit of cheapness and simplicity 

 at least, and is said to be effectual. Here it 

 is, with the proposer's specification: 



I take an old tin pan that is worn out or 

 unfit for other use, put some coal from the 

 fire into it, and lay on strong tobacco and 

 smoke the tree and young plums well. One 

 nail through the bottom of the pan into the 

 end of a stick or pole five or six feet in lencth 

 is sufficient, so that it can be raised handily 

 and carried about the tree through the branch- 

 es. Care must be taken not to have a blaze. 

 This should be repeated about once a week 

 for three weeks, after the plum is formed 

 from the blossom. Tiios. T. Glenn. 



Niks, Berrien county, Mich. 



A WRITER in the Country Gentleman recom- 

 mends the soaking of the wood composing a 

 summer house in crude petroleum, saying it 

 will make any common wood nearly or about 

 as durable as cedar, imparting to it a rich 

 brown color. It would be an excellent idea 

 to apply the same preservative to trellises, 

 etc., on lawns. 



Henry Stewart notes in the New York 

 Times the fact that some varieties of potatoes 

 seem to be more distasteful to Colorado beet- 

 les than others, and instances Wall's Orange 

 and the Dakota Red as two sorts which with 

 him required no attention, while others grown 

 near were given daily pickings. 



There is a vast difference in the flavor of 

 eggs. Hens fed on clean, grain and kept on 

 a clean grass run give much finer flavored 

 eggs than those that have access to stable and 

 manure heaps, and eat all kinds of filthy food. 

 Hens feeding on the oily species of fish and 

 onions flavor their eggs accordingly, the same 

 as cows eating onions or cabbage or drinking 

 offensive water impart a bad taste to milk and 

 hutU'V. — Chicago Herald. 



The Jefferson county Union thinks that 

 farmers must meet the hog-butter trouble by 

 learning how to make better butter from 

 cream. 



CoL. Richard Peters thinks that stock 

 farming pays in Georgia. This year he has 

 sold Sli^OO worth of butter, $4000 worth of 

 Angora kids, $s00 worth of yearling Jersey 

 l)ulls, $550 worth of Essex pigs, $1,500 worth 

 of wheat, besides an un.sold increase of flocka 

 and herds amounting to at least $5000. His 

 farm grows richer year by year, and the basis 

 of its improvement is clover ploughed under, 

 roots and tops. 



The crop report for November places the 

 yield of buckwheat at 11.7 bushels per acre in 

 New York, and 11 bushels per acre in Penn- 

 sylvania, the two States which produce two- 

 thirds of the country's crop. In the West this 

 crop is grown in a small way only. Maine 

 produces twice as much as Illinois, in the 

 South it is not grown at all. About 11,000,- 

 000 bushels will be the product for the year. 

 It would have been 13,000,000 but for the 

 September frost, which caught the late sown 

 grain. 



The making of cider is one of the important 

 industries of France. There are now in that 

 country more than 4,000,000 cider apple trees, 

 which, if planted side by side, would line a 

 Boulevard 15,000 miles long. The average 

 annual product is more than 220,000,000 gal- 

 lons. The best cider is made in Normandy. 

 It is dark brown in hue, and is mixed with 

 water for drinking or bottling. The second 

 best quality is made in Brittany. It is of a 

 l)right amber color, and is also esteemed too 

 strong to be drunk "straight." 



The rinderpest, or cattle plague, which is 

 prevalent in Southeiistern Russia, has ap- 

 peared in Silesia. It has leai)ed across the 

 Europeau Continent, following the course of 

 the plague of seventeen years ago. It is now 

 within three days' jouruey of Hull and the 

 Northeastern ports. Assuming that this 

 rinderpest is identical in subtlety and malig- 

 nancy with that of ISCO, when inflicted a 

 colossal loss on the agriculturists of England 

 —in Cheshire alone it was about £1,000,000— 

 it is the obvious duty of the Crown authorities 

 to instantly adopt the extremest precautions 

 to prevent the introduction of it into the ports 

 of Great Britain. 



If there has been colder weather for a long 

 series of years in the Western country than 

 that of Friday and Saturday the united mem- 



