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n. S. RANDALL, J,L. D., EDITOR, 
Of Cortland Village, Cortland County, Nkw York. 
EARLY OR LATE SHEARING. 
A “Wisconsin Wool Grower” asks-: 
“ Will you be good enough to tell me what 
you consider the respective advantages and 
disadvantages of early and late shearing ? ” 
Again reminding correspondents that we 
much wish they would send us their com¬ 
munications, whether inquiries or opinions, 
just before instead of just after the season 
when those manipulations of sheep hus¬ 
bandry to which they pertain are put in 
practice, we proceed to answer the question. 
In our judgment, the expediency of early 
shearing or late shearing depends upon the 
objects and circumstances of the flock 
own- r. Early shearing time in the climate, 
of New York and New England—and we 
suppose in that also of Wisconsin—means 
the 1st of May; late means from June loth 
to the 1st of July—a difference of two 
months between the extremes. It is to tin's 
climate the remarks below apply. 
Early shearing is practiced very generally 
by those who make sheep breeding a. special 
business; and we suppose our correspond¬ 
ent hardly needs to he told that “ breeding” 
in this sense means growing sheep claimed 
to possess peculiar excellence of blood and 
quality for the purpose of selling them at 
extra prices, to improve other flocks. Tito 
profits of the business nrise from obtaining 
such prices—those arising from the sale of 
wool arc hardly taken into account. The 
advantages of early shearing, viewed from 
the breeders standpoint, arc thus very fairly 
stated in the following extracts from an arti¬ 
cle in the Vermont Farmer: 
Amonjf the improvements introduced when 
sheep commanded war prices, was that of early 
ShOdriiis?. The practice hart Its origin, without 
(lout-t, in the desire to show a long staple on the 
back of tiie sitnep liurin;? the full and winter, 
when the exhibitions occur, and the sales are 
consummated. This was all fair, being perfect¬ 
ly undersiood by all parties. * * * 
Sheep that have been shorn throe weeks, en¬ 
dure ordinary spring rains as well as those Unit 
wear their fleeces, and recover from Ihom with 
surprising celerity. In an hour they arc dry, 
and feeding in comfort, while those wearing 
tloooes bear a heavy load of water for a whole 
day, and sometimes for thirty-six hours, causing 
a cold sweat, which reduces the vitality, health 
and condition of the Animal. In u rainy spring, 
the tilll'croiKie is mure marked. There is also 
much weather, before Juno 15th, wln-u sheep 
mi der severely from tbo warmth of the fleece. 
We have sometimes observed a loss of at least a 
dollar a bead in those wearing flooees, com pa red 
with a lot shorn I he first Of May all running in 
! lie same pasture. 
The shock to tile system in washing is injuri¬ 
ous. sheep often sutler permanent Injury from 
washing, even when the process iaattended with 
Cnre. 
It is more convenient to shear while the.sheep 
m e at thy burn, and before the hurry of planting 
and hoeing. 
To otfaet tit esc advantages, is the loss on sales 
of wool in the dirt. Among the arbitrary and 
unreasonable rules by which wool buyers are 
governed, Is ono requiring a deduction, of twen- 
ty-ilve per cent, on unwashed wool, in nil enacs. 
when It Js mu undoubted fact that wiauv lots of 
wool shorn In thu dirt before warm weather, are 
more free from oil uml extraneous matter, and 
worth more bv Lite pound, than I hut shorn in the 
warm, dusty June days, after washing. The re¬ 
sult of comparison in our own Hook shows that 
thui-c liu lose of ut least Hfty cents on euchilecoc 
ot unwashed wool sold atoue-quarier shrinkage. 
Wo believe this Is fully Covered by the gain re¬ 
ferred to. 
Tlte ncwly-Ahorn slieop Is acutely sensitive to 
cold, mid should bo protected with extreme earn 
for a week or ton days. The barns ami sheds 
should he close ami warm, and they should have 
uu ample bed of dry straw, with good feed. 
This contains the general reasoning of 
Merino sheep breeder# on the subject, except, 
that one feature is casually omitted. Not 
only is early shearing necessary to give the 
“ long staple" tit that period of the year 
“ when the exhibitions occur and the srdes 
are consummated,” but it is believed that it 
essentially contributes to the rich contraband 
color which has been recently so imperatively 
demanded by fashion. A part of the “Far¬ 
mer’s” reasoning, however, does not appear 
to he intended to apply exclusively to breed¬ 
ers ofsheep. 
The breeder, as already seen, lias a decided 
object In shearing early. And if lie has the 
preparations for his business generally 
deemed adequate, he can do so in safety, un¬ 
less in very extreme cases. Among these 
preparations are sheep-houses “close and 
warm,” but capable of a perfectly graduated 
ventilation, ample enough to give sufficient 
room to the entire flock, and fitted up with 
convenient appliances for both feeding and 
watering within doors, These houses are 
generally on one side of, or immediately 
contiguous to the pasture on which the 
sheep feed. The sheep being kept, in them 
in winter and constantly driven into them 
nights and during storms in summer, become 
so accustomed to them that a child can 
readily drive them in. 
The grower, whose primary object is to 
grow wool, lias not any corresponding in¬ 
ducements to early shearing. He, for all 
that has ever been shown to the contrary, 
gets as much wool annually by shearing in 
the middle of June as a month and a half 
earlier. An artificially procured or pre¬ 
served color is not of the least value to him. 
According to our experience and observation 
Merinos of good constitution , which are hab¬ 
itually exposed to the weather through the 
season of grass, do not suffer materially from 
any ordinary showers or from the heat, in 
May and the first half of June, with their 
fleeces on, though in very cold and protracted 
storms it, would doubtless he better to bring 
them under cover. As for brook or vat 
washing, when the water is as warm as usual 
after a few hot days, in Juno, wo believe the 
very brief immersion produces no unfavor¬ 
able effect at all on a decently rugged sheep. 
With those which are housed from storms 
the year round the case might be different. 
Running out of doors in a wet fleece thirty- 
six hours would do no sensible harm, if the 
rains were warm and the weather mild. A 
sheep exposed for that time to cold rains and 
a cold temperature would suffer; but how 
much more would it suffer with its fleece off? 
In the first case, it might take cold; in (lie 
last case, if recently shorn, it would inevita¬ 
bly die. If exposure then is dangerous in 
the fleece, it is ten times more dangerous 
with the fleece off. 
Scarcely one farmer in the Northern 
States in five, who keeps sheep, lias any¬ 
thing like suitable, safe uml conveniently 
acceptable shelters for l hem in a very cold 
storm after shearing, in which they can be 
promptly put on the first approach of 
danger, and in which they can be fed, 
watered and kept, Comfortable through 
several days if need be. Even after shear¬ 
ing In the middle of June we have witnessed 
painful scenes In the effort to save flocks, 
some of them necessarily turned away in 
fields more or less remote from the farm 
buildings on the sudden approach of a 
storm, and especially in the approach of a 
storm near nightfall. And the effort was 
not always entirely successful. It is usual 
to ha ve several cold snow storms between 
the 1st, of May and the 15th of June, so that 
the wool grower who should shear at the 
former period would voluntarily incur much 
additional labor and danger—and incur 
them without any adequate object. The 
Vermont Farmer, too, thinks that unwashed 
wool is usually sold at, less advantage than 
washed, and 1st of May shearing admits of 
no previous washing. 
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WOOLEN MANUFACTURES. 
Exposition of Northwestern Association. 
11 aviso upwards of six thousand subscrib¬ 
ers in the State of Ohio, move in Michigan, 
and a proportionate mini her in all the North¬ 
western States, wc republish for tholr benefit 
—for it will apply in one State as well as 
another—the following spirited appeal of 
President. Stevens of Ohio to wool growers 
to attend and compete at. the approaching 
eijliibj'ion of the Woolen Manufacturers’ 
Association of the Northwest. We find the 
article in the Ohio Farmer. 
To the Wool Groweus Of Ohio Tha third 
annual exhibition of the Woolen Manufacturers’ 
Association of the Northwest will bo hold In the 
city of Indianapolis, Indiana, commencing Ant?. 
fid, 1870, to continue four days. 
A very urgent request is 'made for the wool 
growers to participate uml furnish samples of 
their wool. Samples of an amount io convey 
with mjfilciont clearness the quality, mav bo sent 
in sacks or boxes, marked “ For the Exposition, 
111 euro of the Committee of the Woolen Manu¬ 
facturers’ Associationol’ the Northwest, Iudiun- 
Hpolls, Inch” it is desirable that whole flccecs 
bo sent, that Hu; aunt mitten may be the better 
able to judge of the merits of the several samples 
On exhibition ; tho larger the amount tl|ohotter. 
Last, year the man that carried otf the golden 
prize on Spanish Merino wool had eighteen 
fleece:: on exhibition. 
Gentlemen wool growers of Ohio, it. is to be 
hoped thnr yon will not lot thisopport unity pass 
without showing to thomanufitefurersthat«thin 
produces clothing ami combing wools equal, if 
not buperinr, to Hint, grown anywhere on tho 
globe. Though tho woolen interest of the 
United States, as well as Hie entiro commercial 
world, Is somewhat doprcs 30 d.it is but tempo¬ 
rary. ui\d beyond the eonrroloi either• thr* lnanu- 
I’aelurer or wool grower. A normal condition 
will soon be restored if Congress will adhere to 
Its present position on tho tnrltf. A business so 
vast ami so Important cannot remain In so lan¬ 
guishing a condition long. These Expositions 
cannot fail to awaken an interest to the vast,ness 
of Iho woolen interest of this country. I will 
venture to predict greater prosperity before 
twelve months, 
These Expositions will a lso afford an excellent: 
opportunity for thn wool growers to become 
acquainted with their best and only customers. 
Hie manufacturors. A comparison of products 
must prove of great, value, as well as satisfac¬ 
tion, to each. Here tboy can converse us to the 
kinds or wool needed for certain varieties of 
goods, and the kind llnil will bo most In request 
I or a number of years. One year Hie wool buyer 
ha? advised the farmer to grow a certain kind 
or wool, and the next something quite different, 
which has proven very unprofitable. This evil 
will he more or less avoided by it personal inter¬ 
view with the mantifneluvurB, 
Now, brethren wool growers, let. ns rally to tbo 
importance of our Interest at this critical mo¬ 
ment, and assist in milking tho next Exposition, 
like tho last, a triumphant success. Lotus not 
only send samples, but attend the exhibition; 
we may there form valuable and lasting ac¬ 
quaintance, that will prove pleasant and profit* 
abb in after life Justus 0. Stbvens, 
1 resident Ohio State Wool Growers’Association. 
Ken to ii, June, 1870. 
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BELLS ON SHEEP. 
An exchange says“ Bell your sheep, farmer, 
i !Y ; 1 UI U) Protect them from dogs. Tho 
bells will last many year-and still In* worth half 
cost. I hern is no dog thut would eh use a. (lock 
of twenty-five sheep jf each one hud a bell on ; 
the noise would bo too alarming, ho could not. 
stand u. A stieep dog is a grim I coward when at 
that business; lie wants to do i! slyly and quietly, 
and could not bear an alarm of iwenty-fivo 
bolls.’ 
Hanging u bell to the neck of every sheep in a 
flock is a new idea, but one fur general purposes 
not practical or economical, unless wc make the 
matter one of humanity. So far as economy 
goes, the bolls would cost five times Hie loss h‘v 
dogs, taking i lie average number of sheep killed 
as a Ini sis oi calculation, and, furthermore, we 
never regarded bolls a protection further thin 
apprising (he Dock-master when the sheep are 
alarmed. A neighbor of ours bail his stump 
ohased by dogs when live or six cow bells were 
borne by the flock. 
Some dogs do not appear to exercise any eau- 
.Hon or fear when ravenous fora taste of' fresh 
mutton. Our own flock was once chased into 
the barnyard near to tho dwelling by two dogs, 
mid three or four slicep killed there before we 
could succeed in getting bullets through the 
heads of iho desperate curs.—Ohio Former. 
Remarks.— Oar friend the Farmer is gen¬ 
erally right, and may be so in this case; but 
we know those who have tried them,and who 
aver that bells—say one to six or eight sheep 
—will prevent dogs from pursuing a flock, 
and they claim to have established this fact 
by actual observation. Wc never before 
heard of pul ting one on every sheep. Sheep 
hells, rigged with straps and buckles, ready 
for use, cost about 25 cents apiece. Alter 
having some sheep killed by dogs a few 
years since, we used Ibe bells for a season or 
two, and had no more killed; blit we are 
bound to say the same immunity continued 
after the bells were gone, so our personal 
evidence in the premises amounts to 
nothing. 
>j!0rmk |l,nfarmatioit. 
CLEANING THE PREMISES. 
As the hot weather is at hand, the things 
to be attended to, if not yet done, are the 
cellars and drains. They contain germs of 
mephitic poison which will surely develop 
in diphtheria, typhoid lever ,el id ovine genus. 
Why Should the dwellers in the pure, fresh 
country air he subjected to such fearful 
scourges? The pestilential vapors of the 
city are known to generate such diseases; 
hut in our country villages, hundreds perish 
every spring and summer by these fearful 
scourges. We know of a family living on a 
high hill, in the midst of the purest atmos¬ 
phere, who, in the short space of four weeks, 
buried five of its members, whoso deaths 
were occasioned by diphtheria. The head 
of the family would not admit that there 
was anything amiss about Iho out-houses, 
cellar or drains; hut an intelligent physician 
ferreted out an old, neglected drain, which 
run under the kitchen and pantry, and had 
thus poisoned t he blood of the whole house¬ 
hold, and laid five of the youngest of Its 
members under the sod. Such lamentable 
visitations are considered ns chnsteninga 
from an Almighty Hand, whereas they are 
directly traceable to an ignorance of com¬ 
mon physical laws. 
A damp, close cellar*,filled with disagree¬ 
able odors, proceeding from decaying vege¬ 
tables, will smv the seeds of disease in every 
family, and the youngest will first succumb 
to its noxious influences. Have you in¬ 
spected the lower regions of your house this 
season? Have yon looked over llm pota¬ 
toes, cabbages ami turnips, and thrown away 
the mould and decay which has collected V 
If you have not, do not delay any longer. 
Throw open the hatchways and the win¬ 
dows, gather up all the decaying fragments, 
sweep the walls and floors thoroughly, mix 
a whitewash of unslaked lime and water, and 
add to it enough copperas to make it a bright 
yellow. There is no disinfectant which 
is more efficacious than sulphate of iron, 
commonly called copperas. It is very cheap, 
costing only a few cents per pound; it is 
very obnoxious to rats aiftl mice, and they 
will vacate a cellar which is washed with it. 
If hits of the crystals are scattered among 
their haunts and in the corners of the cellar, 
they will “ vamose the ranch.” Wc know 
this from experience, living in an ancient 
house greatly infested with rodents, whose 
nightly rampages banished sleep from our 
eyes. We tried copperas, In whitewash, ami 
dissolving it in water, sprinkled the floors 
thoroughly with it. The woodliouse was 
soon alive with rats, and two large cats en¬ 
joyed huge sport, for a week or ten days, 
slaying them hourly. Not a rat’s footfall 
has been heard since. We hog our rat- 
inlested readers to try this simple remedy. 
They will purify the whole atmosphere of 
the house and expel their unwelcome ten¬ 
ants. 
Cleanliness is the best, physician we can 
employ; his charges arc comparatively low; 
he gives no medicine, and ho invigorates the 
system better than till the “ hitters ” manu¬ 
factured in this broad land. With an abun¬ 
dance of pure water, fresh air and exercise, 
we should exorcise that imp, disease; and 
he would surely be made to keep his dis¬ 
tance if we could only understand tlie laws 
of hygiene—/, e., the art of preserving our 
health. Without it, life is a bitter strife; 
there is no comfort or pleasure to the invalid. 
Small, close sleeping-rooms, iron stoves 
and foul cellars are making the families of 
our farmers as sickly as those of the cos¬ 
mopolites. Is it, not time that they should 
consider their ways and by-ways ? 
In city or country, well ventilated and 
clean cellars are most advantageous; bid, 
the drainage should he good. Wet cellar 
floors are prolific of sickness. The floor 
should slope toward the sewer in order to 
cany off all water. The walls are much 
better if made of stone than of brick, for the 
latter is liable to crumble under the effects 
of moisture. Ventilation and light, should 
be admitted or excluded at will; but though 
we highly prize a cellar, we feel certain that 
many families would enjoy a much greater 
degree of health without one, on account of 
the neglect, which is so often, allowed. 
Drains are most fruitful causes of illness. 
They must be thoroughly cleansed out once 
in every three or four years, and weekly, in 
the summer time, purified with copperas. 
Let the crystals lie in it and dissolve gradu¬ 
ally, or if the odor is bad, dissolve one pound 
ill two quarts of water, and turn down the 
pipes. A sink in summer is often disagree¬ 
able; copperas will prevent all bad odors in 
them. Lime is a desirable purifier for 
mil-houses, bushels of it can be used during 
the summer to great advantage, and if the 
refuse, is taken out in spring and autumn 
and composted with ashes and loam, you 
will have an excellent fertilizer. 
We hail with gladness the use of earth- 
closets. They will certainly save many 
byes. The sickening odors which arise from 
so many of tho cabinets in city bouses are 
deadly as the far-famed Upas tree. If the 
earth-closets can he introduced into tenement 
houses, and properly attended to, they will 
work a much to be desired reformation. The 
Chinese make great use of night-soil, and by 
the aid of these arrangements the market 
gardens around New York could he provided 
with the best of stimulants, and a prolific 
source of disease would thus he made to fur¬ 
nish most succulent food. 
S. O. Johnson. 
\omtstk rrancrwth 
CONDUCTED BY MARY A. E. WAGER. 
PRESERVING 
Strawbcrrie* and Raspberries. 
BY JULIA COLMAN. 
Of all the pleasant associations of our 
country home, we can, on this blight morn¬ 
ing, recall none more vividly than the straw 
berry excursions. With an elastic sense of 
freedom, not quite smothered out, even by 
the deep, close sun-bonnet and the gloved 
bands, we capered down the shady lanes and 
out into the broad, green meadows, heedless 
of the sweltering sun, if we might only fill 
our baskets with the tempting fruit. And 
What fruit! Wliftt flavor I Who can resist, 
the charm ? Even cold science herself cries 
out “ Fr.aga.ria i” The keen taste of child¬ 
hood does if full justice. The thrifty maxim 
of “ Never eat when you arc picking,” was 
forgotten sometimes, and the exquisite flavor 
was enjoyed to Us utmost. To our taste, 
this still continues to represent the perfec¬ 
tion of strawberry eating. Tills quaffing the 
ruby juices fresh from their starry cups, 
gives us a taste of Nature’s own distilling. 
Why may we not profit by the charming 
lesson, and serve them up thus at our simple 
meals, for bemily and for flavor? Why need 
they bear the marks of being handled, and 
“ mussed ” by some one’s fi tigers, and crushed 
by the spoon, and drained half to death by 
the sugar ? 
It is true that the berries wc mostly gel in 
these degenerate days arc too sour to relish 
well as “ sauce” for other food without some 
trimming; hut to cat them, as many of us 
do, after the other food, they would look far 
more tasteful if served neatly in their hulls, 
and taste far better if we could pick them 
up by their stems and eat them one by one, 
as wc do in the green meadows. We cat 
far too much sugar now for our own good, 
and it may not be amiss to know how we 
might sometimes dispense with it pleasantly, 
and benefit the digestion at the same time. 
As for pouring in milk to mingle with the 
uncongenial acids, we do not wonder that 
the pale fluid blushes and curdles at the 
thought. This is, however, not quite so bad 
as cooking strawberries in “ essence of pork.” 
There is certainly room for great improve¬ 
ment in the flavor of our cultivated straw¬ 
berries. It is no great credit to our culture 
that, in this respect, they fall fur behind the 
uncultured berries of the woods and the 
meadows. Our present aim seems to bo to 
secure size, show and quantity, rather than 
flavor. That would do very well if they 
were only to be looked at, and sold. But 
why people of any discrimination should 
cultivate for their own eating such great, 
sour monstrosities as—but there, I am not 
going into a discussion of strawberry varie¬ 
ties, for I Could not be certain where or 
when T might come out, 1 have, however, 
been into the culture deeply enough to know 
that varieties, at once delicious and tolerably 
prolific, can be had by persistent inquiry. I 
assure you, if I ever get a chance to experi¬ 
ment in hybridizing, I shall keep in view 
the flavor of fruit first of all. By the way, 
T wonder if those people who believe in 
“spheres” would not allow that woman 
might find an employment in fruit culture 
that would be specially benefited by her 
taste and ingenuity. I think, though, if I 
chose to try tt, I should not stop long to 
consult the “ spheres” about it. 
But any way, by whomever 'tone, I am 
quite delighted to see a hint now and then 
that the time may come when cultivators 
shall consider quality the prime excellence 
in the articles they produce. I suppose that 
happy time will coincide with the era when 
we, the consumers, shall be less greedy and 
more appreciative. Still I understand tho 
difllculty of supplying tho demand even 
under the present regime of “quantity,” aud 
especially that of getting the more delicate 
fruits to market in good condition. Those 
who raise their own fruit have less excuse. 
Another thing would be a great improve¬ 
ment every where— to have the ground lit¬ 
tered in some way so as to prevent the ber¬ 
ries from being covered with the soil ill 
every rain, If (his were, done wc might 
often avoid washing tho fruit, and so save 
much of ils flavor. 
If, however, tho.berries must be washed, 
wo will do it lightly, before they are hulled, 
by plunging a few at a time into a large 
proportion of water, drain nicely and then 
serve. If they are very sour, hull and cook 
them. Do this in a porcelain kelllc in their 
own juice, with a little water if necessary— 
just enough to scald them through. Flew 
them five minutes, skim out carefully, add 
sugar enough to the juice to sweeten the 
whole, boil up once, pour over the fruit and 
serve cold. 
Sira wherry Pyramid 
is a charming dish. Prepare rice by wash¬ 
ing thoroughly, pulling it to cook in four 
times ils quantity of water, lotting it boil up 
fifteen minutes, ami then selling it back 
where it will barely simmer for an hour. 
Tills is tlte standard >vay of cooking it, and 
leaves the grains whole and yet tender. 
Place a half-inch layer of this on a plait*, 
cover it with a layer of straw berries, with 
barely sugar enough to sweeten them, then 
another layer of rice and another of berries, 
and so ou, tapering up to a point, crowning 
it with a large berry, or, belter still, with a 
choice, stem of berries, leaves and all. If the 
rice was hot, and the berries small, tender 
and delicate, it is ready to serve, either now 
or when cold. If the berries lack either of 
these essentials, set the whole into the oven 
just long enough to scald it through—per¬ 
haps fifteen minutes. If the berries are very 
juicy, tlu: pyramid should be built in a nap¬ 
py; the result, when cooked, may look more 
like a pudding than a pyramid, lml, still very 
palatable. This can also he prepared with 
well cooked pearl barley instead of rice. 
Those who know the perils of shortened 
food will find this, with the accompaniment 
of thin batter biscuit, an excellent subslilute 
for “strawberry short-cake,” without un¬ 
wisely trying to imitate that tempting but 
dangerous disli. 
Cmmcd Strawberries. 
The coarser kinds will hear canning well. 
The better method is to dress and put them 
into the cans before scalding. Boil the cans 
fifteen minutes, and then seal like other 
fruit. This is the time also to secure the 
exquisite juice for future pudding sauces. 
Let it not hoi) more than five minutes, liicn 
pour it hot into small bottles, also hot, drive 
in the cork and cover it with hot sealing 
wax. 
Raspberries. 
This is a fruit whose culture is scarcely 
open to the criticisms just made upon the 
strawberry; but much as we appreciate ils 
aristocratic flavor, we cannot help being 
thankful that there are fruits with more 
democratic prices. This rarely needs sugar, 
and those who have never learned to oat it 
without, do not know how good it js. Just 
pick them up one by one a few times, and 
acknowledge the truth. The choicer varie¬ 
ties cannot well be canned, though the wild 
red raspberry and the black caps have both 
flavor and substance sufficient and will re¬ 
pay the trouble. Raspberries are well adapt¬ 
ed for making pyramids with rice, as already 
directed for the strawberries. Tlte juices are 
also equally lino for pudding sauces, only 
they are still more delicate and more easily 
overdone. These berries arc excollen t when 
dried, especially the black caps, but they 
should bo kept in close jars, to preserve their 
flavor unimpaired. When stewed, or when 
dried and stewed, they make a delicious 
fruit toast, by having them very juicy and 
alternating them in layers with sliced wheat 
meal hatter buiscuit, and permitting them to 
stand until the latter is perfectly soft. Serve 
either warm or cold. Other fruits can be 
used in the same manner, those which are 
less acid being preferable. 
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HOW TO KEEP EGGS A YEAR. 
Take perfectly fresh and sound eggs and 
pure water; for every three gallons of water 
put in one pint of fresh slacked lime, and of 
common salt one half pint; mix well, and 
let the barrel be half full of this liquid. 
Then with a dish let down the frcsli eggs in¬ 
to it, tipping the dish alter it tills with tbo 
water so they may roll out without cracking 
the shell.— Mrs. II. 0. II. 
f 
Domestic InqulrlCM.—H. R. P., Dougins Co., Ne¬ 
vada, asks some one to give the best modes of 
preparing celery for table use.—Another cor¬ 
respondent asks if water cress is used in soup. 
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