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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



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filled, according to the directions given. I 

 often seal up cherries and tomatoes, only for 

 winter use, in one-gallon stone jars that are 

 small at the top, prepared just the same as for 

 glass. Leave off the covers, seal with melted 

 rosin, adding a little tallow. Try it on a piece 

 of cloth ; if too brittle, add more tallow and vice 

 versa. Cut a paper also for the top of the jar, 

 just so that it will come over the edge, and dip a 

 piece of thick cloth into the Tl sin, only upon one 

 side, spread over the jar and tie down ; now 

 with a spoon, dip and spread on the hot rosin, 

 until entirely covered, pressing down the sides 

 with the hands dipped in cold water. When 

 cold, if the jar is air-tight, the cover will be 

 depressed a quarter of an inch or more. But 

 if it is level, then you must seal it over again. 

 Those who can common sour cherries, will 

 find them greatly improved by first drawing off 

 all the juice, and then covering them with wa- 

 ter — scald and drain olF, and cover again for 

 sealing, canning, preserving or drying. — Farm 

 and Fireside. 



How TO Train Boys. — "E. H. Arr," in 

 writing to the Springfield Republican, gives 

 some sensible remarks in regard to training 

 up a boy in the way he should go. She says : 



"Hosts of selfish, thoughtless mothers shall 

 send upon us another generation of listless, 

 vapid sons, open to temptation. Years ago, 

 a son of my own was the object of pleasant 

 theories and plans. An unerring teacher took 

 him hence ; yet have I learned through him to 

 look with loving eyes on other women's sons, 

 and think what I would do for them. O moth- 

 ers ! hunt out the soft, tender, genial side of 

 your boys natures. Make the most of any 

 gentle taste or comely propensity. Encourage 

 them to love flowers, pictures, and all the 

 beautiful things which God has made. Talk 

 with them, read to them, go out with them into 

 the fields and woods, and hallow pleasant 

 scenes with holy memories. A daily minis- 

 tration to their unfurnished hungry minds, a 

 daily touch to their unformed taste, shall make 

 them more comely than costly garments. They 



will ever bear you witness in the character and 

 conduct of your children ; but your laces and 

 embroideries will crumble to dust. Why don't 

 mothers teach their children more, and dress 

 them less ?" 



To Preserve Crab Apples. — Take off the 

 stem and core them Avith a pen-knife, without 

 cutting them open. Weigh a pound of white 

 sugar for each pound of prepared fruit ; put a 

 teacup of water to each ponnd of sugar ; put 

 it over a moderate fire. When the sugar is all 

 dissolved and hot, put the apples in ; let them 

 boil gently until they are clear, then skim 

 them out and place them on flat dishes. Boil 

 the syrup until it is thick ; put the fruit in 

 whatever it is to be kept, in and when the syrup 

 is cooled and settled, pour it carefully over 

 the fruit. Slices of lemon boiled with the 

 fruit may be considered an improvement ; one 

 lemon is enough for several pounds of fruit. 

 Crab apples may be preserved whole, with 

 only half an inch of the stem on ; three-quar- 

 ters of a pound of sugar for- each pound of 

 fruit. 



Cost of Cashmere Shawls, — The best 

 Cashmere shawls, the long shawls with plain 

 ground, crimson, purple, blue, green, or yel- 

 low — green are best — never cost less than £135 

 a pair, and are never sold singly. The next 

 kind, or square shawls, much more frequently 

 imported into Europe, are either loom-worked 

 or needle-worked, needle-worked being the 

 more original, and they cost from £30 to £50 

 in the Punjaub, without freight or interest or 

 profit to the importer — little facts which we 

 commend to the attention of women who think 

 they can buy the best Cashmere at £15 or even 

 £10 a shawl. What they do buy is either an 

 imitation which never was in India at all, or a 

 Delhi shawl, very good in its way, but no more 

 approaching a Cashmere shawl in beauty than 

 in durability. A man might lie on heather in 

 a black Cashmere for twenty years, and it 

 would be as perfect as on the first day, while 

 every imitation whatsoever will die out. — Eng- 

 lish Paper. 



