Demorest’s Magazine for July contains over forty 
illustrations and its usual large variety of interest¬ 
ing matter. Its “Mirror of Fashions” is especially 
excellent, embracing almost every thing in the line 
of Summer Costumes. The ladies are always pleased 
with Demorest. 
The steady growth of the Rural Record, of Chat¬ 
tanooga, is an index of the interest felt in mixed 
agriculture in Tennessee and other Southern States 
in which the planting of large areas with cotton was 
formerly the rule. Though only an infant in years 
it bids fair to lead the van in discussing scientific 
and practical farming. Published by Ochs, Young 
& Co., at $1.00 per year. 
During the next few months the desire for some 
good political pa(. er will take possession of almost 
every voter in the land who is not already a sub¬ 
scriber to one, and publishers at the present time are 
offering great inducements to increase their circula¬ 
tion and secure permanent subscribers, as well as to 
aid in the election of their party candidate. 
Among those received at this office which contain 
a good agricultural department, we may mention 
The New York Weekly Tribune, The Weekly World, 
The Philadelphia Record and the Philadelphia Press. 
Subscribers to either of these papers get their mon¬ 
ey’s worth, both in politics and agricultural in¬ 
formation. 
I 
How to Grow Fine Celery, A New Method, by Mrs. 
H. M. Crider, York, Pa., is the title of a small pam¬ 
phlet printed in very large type and mailed for 25 
cents. While the method is not new to most old 
celery growers, the author simply emphasizes a 
point made by nearly all who have written upon 
Celery Culture; namely, the unlimited use of water 
to perfect the plant. 
The Dingee & Conard Company, Rose Growers, of 
West Grove, Chester Co., Pa., have favored us with 
one of their elegant Guides to Rose Culture, which 
is fit to embellish a parlor table so neatiy and tastily 
it is prepared. It is finely illustrated -with cuts of 
Roses, Carnations, Lilies, etc., and contains some 75 
pages. It will be sent free to any of our readers who 
desire to purchase of them. 
ed but the grocer. He made three several 
attempts at blushing, and then went into 
the back shop and kicked his dog. 
For your own benefit, experiment in a 
practical way as much as your means will 
allow. It is not necessary in doing this to 
make great expenditures of money. Do 
not keep in the ruts. Try new methods of 
fertilization; new fruits; new breeds; new 
tools. At a slight outlay you can purchase 
a few new varieties of strawberries or rasp¬ 
berries, or add some new varieties of fruit 
trees to the orchard. It will pay you to 
keep abreast of the times in this way, and 
to be successful you cannot well do other¬ 
wise. Remember, that all the improve¬ 
ments on the farm are the results of ex¬ 
periment. 
As the season tor insect pests once more 
comes around, it will be well to prepare for 
them a fitting reception. Paris green and 
London purple are cheap and effective 
remedies, but their use is attended with 
more or less danger. Four ounces of ker¬ 
osene thoroughly mixed with one gallon of 
skim milk, or soap suds, and then added to 
four gallons of water, if applied through a 
rose sprinkler, will effectually dispose of 
the majority of insect enemies, and at the 
same time involve no danger in its use. 
Pyrethrum powder is an effectual insecti¬ 
cide in many cases. Cabbage worms may 
be disposed of by sprinkling upon them 
water heated to 130 degrees Fahr., or by 
spraying on the plants a mixture of 200 
grains of pyrethrum with two gallons of 
water. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
They were in a grocery store. Said Brown 
(seeing a blind man about to enter): “Were 
you aware how delicate the touch of a 
blind man is? When nature deprives us of 
one sense she makes amends by bringing 
the other senses to extraordinary acuteness. 
Let me illustrate by this gentleman. I’ll 
take a scoop of sugar and let him feel of it, 
and you see how quickly he’ll tell what it 
is. The blind man having entered, he was 
put to the test. He put his thumb and 
finger into the scoop, and without hesita¬ 
tion said: That is sand.” Everybody laugh¬ 
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