NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Farmers should live like princes. Eat 
the best things you raise aud sell the rest. Have 
good things to cook with. Of all people in our 
country, you should live the best. Throw your 
miserable little stoves out of the window. Get 
ranges, and have them built that your wife need 
not bum her fare off to get you a breakfast. Do 
not make her cook in a ki'chen hot as a fiery 
furnace. The beef, not ihe cook, should he 
roasted. It is just as easy to have things con¬ 
venient and right as to have them any other 
way. Cooking is one of the fine arts. Give your 
wives and daughters things to cook, aud things 
to cook with, and they will soon become most 
-excellent cooks. Good cooking is the basis of 
civilization. The man whose arteries and veins 
are filled with rich blood made of good and well- 
cooked food, has pluck, courage, endurance and 
noble impulses. Remember that your wile 
should have things to cook with. Ia the good 
old days there uould be eleven children in the 
family and only one skillet. Everything was 
broken or cracked or loaned or lost. 
There is no reason why farmers should not 
have tresh meat all the year round. There is 
certainly uo sense in stuffing yourself full of salt 
meat every morning, and making a well or cis¬ 
tern of your stomach for the rest of the day. 
Every farmer should have an ice house. Upon 
or near every farm is some stream from which 
plenty of ice can be obtained, and the long sum¬ 
mer days made delightful. Dr. Draper, one of 
the world’s greatest scientists, says that ice-water 
is healthy, and that it has done away with many 
of the low forms of fevers in the great cities. Ice 
has become one of the necessaries of civilizet 
life, and without it there is very little comfort. 
You can divide mankind into two classes: 
the laborers and the idlers, the supporters ano 
the supported, the honest and the dishonest. 
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the un¬ 
paid labors of others, no matter if he ocoupies a 
throne. All laborers should be brothers. The 
laborers should have equal rights before the 
world and before the law. And I want every 
farmer to consider every man who labors ei hei 
with hand or brain as his brother. Until geuiuc 
and labor formed a partnership there was no 
such thing as prosper'ty am«> g men. Every 
reaper and rnuwtr, every > gric dturai implement, 
has elevated tne work of Drmer, and his vo¬ 
cation grows grander with tvci\> .uvention. In 
the olden time the agricuftur >t was .gu rrant; 
le knew nothing of machinery; he was a slave 
of superstition. 
The idea must be done away with that there is 
something intellectually degrading in cultivat¬ 
ing the soil. Nothing can be more noble than to 
)e useful. Idleness should not be respectable. 
Remember, that you are in partnership 
with all labor—that you shou d join bauds with 
all the sons and daughters cftoil, and that all 
who work belong to the same noble family. For 
my part, I envy the man who has lived on the 
same broad acres from his boyhood, who culti¬ 
vates the field where in youth he played, and 
lives where his father lived and died. I can im¬ 
agine no sweeter way to end one’s life than in the 
quiet of the country, cut of the mad race for 
money, place and power—far from the demands 
of business—out of the dusty highway where foolB 
strive for the hollow praise of other fools. 
Make your houses comfortable. Do not 
huddle together in a little room around a red-hot 
stove, with every window fastened down. Do 
not live in this poisoned atmosphere. Have 
plenty of warmth. Comf-rt is health. Do not 
imagine anything is unhealthy simply because 
it is pleasant. This is an old and foolish idea. 
Let your children sleep. Do not drag them from 
iheir beds in the darknees of night. Do not com¬ 
pel them to associate all that is tiresome,irksome 
and dreadful with cultivating the soil. In this 
way you bring farming into hatred and disre¬ 
pute. Treat your children with infinite kind¬ 
ness, treat them as equals. There is no happiuess 
in a home not filled with love. Where the hus¬ 
band hates his wife, where the wife hates the 
husband; where children hate their parents and 
each other, there is a hell upon earth. 
Use of Lime. —The first and one of the most 
important rules to be obstrv* d in ihe use of liu e 
is, that it should be applied in the e large doses 
only to soils comparatively rich in humus, or 
strong clay soils, rich in finely divided si.icates. 
It has been proved by experiment that lime will 
convert plant food from insoluble to soluble 
forms in either case. We find ilie proverb cur¬ 
rent in France and Germany, as we 1 as in our 
own language, that “lime without manure maaei 
the father rich, and the children poor;” which 
iDt ns, plainly enough, that not only should we 
>ta 1 with a good soil in using lime but should 
m u< ain its good soil in using lime. 
Celery. —After trying for a number of years 
almost in vain, says a farmer, to »aise good cel- 
- ry on ordinary dry garden soil I finally borrow - 
. d the use of a little patch oi reclaimed swamp 
land—deep, black muck, well drained but moist, 
