their progress ami quality, then I watch the 
month of August and notice what kind of 
weather it was through that month, then I will 
pass my judgment by it for the next season, and 
it will come pretty close to my calculations. 
Last August was pretty favorable for the fruit 
buds to form aright according to the weather. 
This is my guide and God is the giver and ruler. 
Yours Respectfully, S. H. Kauffman. 
Nicholasville, Ky., Nov. 9th, 1883. 
Mr. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—I am a young 
man just starting in life and want to start as 
near right as possible. I want to put in five 
acres of potatoes next spring. The ground is 
very good, it will yield about 60 bushels of corn' 
under favorable circumstances. If you can, I 
would like you to give me all the information 
you can on potato culture. The main thing I 
would like to know is what is the best fertilizer 
for a beginner with little money, and also the 
best kind of potatoes to raise in this climate? 
I have been raising Early Rose, but raised some 
Burbanks last year, and for some cause did not 
do quite so well as Early Rose. I guess 1 will 
plant mostly Burbanks and Early Rose, bat I 
would like to try some other kinds if they are 
better. Please send price of kind you recom¬ 
mend, and any other information you can give 
will be highly apprecated. I have been taking 
Seed-Time and Harvest for nearly two 
years and am very much pleased with it. 
Yours Truly, A. B. Piper. 
Pittston, Nov. 7th, 1883. 
Sir: I have bought seeds of you for the last 
six years. They always gave good satisfaction. 
I bought four kinds of potatoes of you last year. 
They were good first quality of seed. 1 planted 
them in ihe garden side by side. They came up 
and looked well, having good healthy vines. 
When I came to dig them there was a good 
crop of laige potatoes. We got 61 bushels from 
the 16 pounds, but the potatoes all rotted so we 
could not use them. They were not even fit to 
give to the pigs. 
The ground was a sandy loam. I put on 
about four inches of manure all over the ground, 
and put manure in the drills with the seed, and 
gave a good sprinkling of Mapes’s No. 1, A. 
Brand, Manure in the rows with the seed. 1 
put on considerable salt and lime previous to the 
rest. Will you give me your opinion of why 
they rotted so bad iy ? 
Gideon Cadman. 
Answer: 1 think they were “killed with 
kindness.’’ Too much of the strong and highly 
concentrated manure was used. As “D#w, Jr.” 
expressed it in one of his “patent sermons:'’ 
“Plum pudding is most an excellent thing to 
wind off a dinner on, but all plum pudding 
would be worse than none all.” Probably the 
old garden was already rich enough for potatoes. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Have you not a rich muck bed on your 
farm which can be opened up this fall, and a 
large heap thrown up where it will dry and 
make an excellent absorbent for your stables? 
Try it once. It is worth more than you may 
think. 
There is no question but there is money 
in Quinces if properly attended to, for they 
yield largely and sell for high prices. But 
it is useless for a careless person who can¬ 
not watch them to try to get either profit 
or pleasure from them. The borers are 
bound to destroy them unless constantly 
watched and protected. 
AS many persons are f#nd of cabbage who 
cannot digest them cooked in the ordinary way, 
I give the way in which they meet with the 
most favor upon our table: Boil a firm head of 
cabbage, aud when half done drain off the wa¬ 
ter and pour on more from the polling tea-kettle 
and slightly s«,lt it. When tender, set aside 
until thoroughly cold; chop up fine, aud add 
one-half teaspoonful butter, pepper, two eggs, 
well beaten. Mix all well together, and bake 
until brown in a pudding dish. Serve hot. 
“Kate” sends the following recipe for 
making a potato pie to the Minneapolis Tribune: 
Peel and grate one large white potato into a dish, 
add the juice aud rind of one lemon, the beaten 
white of one egg, one teacupful of white sugar, 
one cup cold w T ater; pour this into a nice under 
crust and bake. When done have ready the 
beaten whites of three eggs, half cup powdered 
sugar, flavor with lemon, spread on the pie and 
return to the oven to harden. It is delicious. 
A correspondent writes to the Country 
Gentleman that not long ago he noticed among 
a flock of ducks that some were so paralyzed as 
to iose all power of locomotion and lie flat on 
the ground with both feet thrown up, On ex¬ 
amination he discovered that the ones thus 
affected were literally svrarming with vermin 
which infested their heads and necks. He at 
once applied lard to the affected parts, and in 
less than an hour the ducks were on foot, and 
to all appearances sound and well. 
