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speeches; they wouldn't make any if the 
speeches were not reported. It might be 
a good thing if all the newspapers would 
suspend. Then the world would have 
nothing to talk about, and perhaps would 
reposefully grow in grace and sanity.— 
Charles Dudley Warner , in Harper's Mag¬ 
azine for August. 
Some Tilings I Have Learned This 
Year. 
That it is very hard to cultivate a crop of 
sorghum among a crop of crab grass. 
That it pays to soak sorghum seed twenty- 
four hours in water before planting. 
That tomato vines will grow faster and 
blossom quicker if a little manure is 
worked into the hills than if set out with¬ 
out.— N. J. Shepherd, in Farm and Gar¬ 
den. 
How to Can Fruit. 
That tomato plants in the same hill with 
squashes, cucumbers, and pumpkins will 
not keep off the bugs. 
That an application of air-slacked lime 
will not keep bugs away from vines, cab¬ 
bage plants, radishes, turnips, or egg plants. 
That saltpetre water will not accomplish 
anything in that line. That coal oil for 
that purpose is also a failure. 
That a good application, repeated three 
times, of reasonably strong liquid manure 
does well, and that an application of fine 
sul phur sprinkled over the plants and vines 
will greatly help in getting rid of these 
pests. 
That a reasonable application of wood 
ashes is very beneficial in a garden. But 
that it is comparatively an easy matter 
to make the application too strong, es¬ 
pecially if the ashes are unleached. 
That with a good, clean, rich soil and 
early sowing and good cultivation it is 
possible to raise fine onions from seed in 
this section. 
That it is useless to plant sweet corn 
before the ground gets warm as well as the 
weather, as corn planted three weeks later 
will come to maturity just as quick with 
the same soil and cultivation. 
That there is a very decided advantage 
in good, sound, quick germinating seed 
corn, and this will be evident from the time 
the corn begins to sprout until it matures. 
That peas will not do as well on new, 
rich ground as on old. 
That I can raise more and better Lima 
beans by planting in a row, the plants six 
inches apart, than in hills with three or 
four beans to a hill. 
That it is not profitable to use oat straw 
to cover potatoes. 
Glass and stone jars are the only kind to 
use—for the acids of fruit will not be 
healthful if preserved in tin—and they can 
be purchased very cheaply. Nearly all the 
fruits retain their flavor better if they are 
steamed instead of stewed, as they are not 
so much broken up. To four pounds of 
fruit take one pound of lump sugar, as it 
is less subject to adulteration. Fill the 
jars within two inches of the top with the 
fruit; melt the sugar in a very little water 
and turn it boiling hot upon the fruit; 
place the jars in a pan of boiling water, and 
let them steam about ten minutes, or until 
the fruit, by expulsion of the cold air, has 
been forced to the top of the jar; put the 
cover on at once, with a cloth, so as not to 
burn your hands, and screw it down tight¬ 
ly while in boiling water; set the jars on 
the table to cool, and if any bubbles appear 
in them take off the covers and boil again 
until the fruit is again forced upwards. 
Fruit canned in this manner will keep its 
flavor perfectly. 
Medical Uses of Eggs. 
For burns or scalds, nothing is more 
soothing than the white of an egg, which 
may be poured over the wound. It is softer, 
as a varnish for a burn, than collodion, and 
being always at hand can be applied imme¬ 
diately. It is also more cooling than the 
“sweet oil and cotton” which was formerly 
supposed to be the surest application to 
allay the smarting pain. It is the contact 
with the air which gives the extreme dis¬ 
comfort experienced from ordinary acci¬ 
dents of this kind; and anything which ex¬ 
cludes air and prevents inflammation is the 
tiling to be at once applied. The egg is 
