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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



or as many as can well be attended to. Let 

 the cans stand open until you can comfortably 

 bear the hands upon them. Meanwhile more 

 fruit may be heated. Cut thick writing paper 

 in round pietfes the size of the top of each can, 

 and when the contents of the cans are cooled, 

 slip a piece over the top of the fruit in each 

 can, and at once fill up on top of the paper 

 with boiling juice (saved for the purpose), 

 and put on the covers as soon as filled, accord- 

 ing to the directions given. 1 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 resin, 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 

 it will come over the edge, and dip a piece of 

 thick cloth into the resin, only upon one side, 

 spread over the jar and tie down ; now, with 

 a spoon, dip and spread on the hot resin, un- 

 til 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 draining off all 

 the juice, and then covering them with water 

 — scald and drain off, and cover over again 

 for sealing, canning, preserving or drying. — 

 Farm and Fireside. 



better — and why ? because the cause of his 

 wretchedness has not been found out, and un- 

 til it is other attempts are but vain. If the 

 owner of a pet in such difficulties will take 

 doAvn the cage and cast his or her eyes up to 

 the roof thereof, there will most likely be seen 

 a mass of stuff looking as much like red rust 

 as anything, and fi-om thence comes the cause 

 of the poor bird's uneasiness. The i-ed rust 

 is nothing more nor less than myriads of para- 

 sites infesting the bird, and for which water is 

 no remedy. There is, however, a remedy, and 

 one easily procurable in a moment — fire. By 

 procuring a lighted candle and holding it un- 

 der every particle of the top of the cage till 

 all chance of anything being alive is gone, the 

 remedy is complete. The pet will soon 

 brighten up again after his "house-warming," 

 and will in his cheerful and delightlhl way 

 thank his master or mistress over and over 

 again for this, though slight, to him important 

 assistance. — Land and Water. 



PARASITES IN BIEDCAGES. 



Many a person has watched with anxiety and 

 care a pet canaiy, goldfinch, or other tiny fa- 

 vorite evidently in a state of perturbation, 

 plucking at himself continually, his feathers 

 standing all wrong, always fidgetting about, 

 and in every Avay looking very seedy. In vain 

 is his food changed, and in vain is another sau- 

 cer of clean water always kept in his cage, and 

 all that kindness can suggest for the little pris- 

 oner done ; but still all is of no use, he is no 



The Fashions. — The fiat has gone forth, and 

 Fashion declares that gentlemen are to wear pan- 

 taloons "as tight as possible," and ladies the 

 smallest crinoline and the narrowest dresses. 

 Most fashionable color for pantaloons, green; for 

 dresses, brown. Business and morning coats will 

 still be worn short, the variety with short tails 

 prevailing; so also Avalking and even morning 

 dresses will continne to be worn short. Eugenie 

 has adopted them, and that settles the question, if 

 there was any doubt about the matter before. 

 Gentlemen will wear hats with low cro\vns and 

 broad brims ; and ladies will wear — what they 

 please, provided it belongs to the Broun family. 

 Full dress vests for gentlemen will be low in the 

 roll, and have but three buttons ; ball dresses will 

 also be low "in the roll' if we may be alluwcd the 

 expression — and ladies will exhibit as niaiij^ Imt- 

 tons on their attire as the material will admit. 

 Dress shirt bosoms will not be plaited but highly 

 emljroidered ; the same may be said of the silks 

 and satins designed for grand toilets. Both sexes 

 seem to agree in adopting the coat sleeve. On the 

 whole, there is quite as much similarity in the 

 latest fashions for ladies and gentlemen as could 

 be expected. 



