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JIWE 8 
<&qouomiJ. 
FAMILY JARS. 
.Tara i>f Jo 11y, jars of Jam. 
Jars ot potted beef and ham. 
Jars of early gooseberries nice, 
Jars of minoe-iueat. jars of spice, 
.Tara of orange marmalade. 
Jars of pickles, all home-made— 
Would the only jars were these, 
Width occur in families! 
YES AND NO! 
Dear Mr. Editor:—D on’t, you think wo¬ 
men should have opinions, and having them 
express them ? I do ! Especially in matters 
of household economy and management 
should this he t he case. I am quite sure it 
always will he with me, whether said opin¬ 
ions are right or wrong. For instance, I 
was calling at Mrs. Blank’s the other day, 
when Mr. Blank said, ‘'Wife, now that, the 
carpenters arc here, 1 think 1 had better 
have them dose up that door on the west 
side of the kitchen (which led directly to the 
outside cellar door, and which was the most 
direct way of getting to the cellar in sum¬ 
mer from the kitchen); it isn’t of much use 
and lets in a. powerful sight of cold in win¬ 
ter.” “Very well," responded meek Mrs. 
Blank. “ You can go through the dining 
room and down the inside stairs when you 
want to go to the cellar, you know, though 
it will he a little longer road,” said the con¬ 
siderate Biank to Ids meek, overworked 
wife, who responded, “I s’pose so.” But 
Mr. Blank was evidently not entirely satis¬ 
fied with her method of acquiescence, and 
finally said: 
“ Mi s. Allen, what do you think about it? 
—come and see,” and [ went and saw that it 
would multiply I he steps of the poor wife 
four-fold, this summer, in her care of the 
milk and management of the butter, and in 
going after the food kept in the cellar. Ac¬ 
cordingly when he said, “What do you 
think?” 1 responded that 1 thought, the clos¬ 
ing of that door an outrage, a cruelty to his 
wife which no sane or humane man would 
for an instant think of doing! I told him 
why, and in such a way 1 was satisfied ho 
saw the point. 
After he had left us, Mrs. Blank said, “ T 
think just as you do, but f didn’t dare say 
so or give the real reasons why it should not 
be closed, for I knew he would at once call 
# me lazy or use some other expression equally 
hard to endure.” 
f did not tell Mrs. Blank (who is really a 
noble woman) that 1 thought her to blame 
for this state of things; nevertheless l do! 
1 think wives should learn to use those two 
little words, “ yes” and “ no ” very distinct¬ 
ly and emphatically whenever any proposi¬ 
tion is made that affects their labors in the 
house. Thera should be no such acquies¬ 
cence without conviction, it is the wife’s 
duty to know what is best in her realm, and 
insist upon it. She should form judgments 
and have opinions, ami assert them as a 
matter of economy, to say nothing of the 
folly of letting a man, who cannot know as 
well as she wliat is needed, get the Idea that 
he knows what is best. Besides I know that 
most men will prefer to let the wife have 
control in her own house if she manifests 
judgment. 
So you see why 1 have written at the head 
of this scribbling, “Yes” and “No,” and 
why i think they are words that belong in 
the Domestic Economy of every household. 
Esther Allen. 
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RECIPES FROM “ EM.” 
Corn Sturch Cake .—1 cup butter ; 2 cups 
sugar ; 2 cups flour ; 1 cup corn starch dis¬ 
solved in 1 cup of sweet milk ; 1 teaspoon 
soda; 1 ounce crenm tartar; whites Of 5 eggs. 
Molasses Candy. —1 cup sugar ; 1 cup mo¬ 
lasses ; piece, of butter an inch square; stir ; 
boil until it will rope ; last of all 1 teaspoon 
of soda. 
(.'renin Candy. —1 pound loaf sugar ; 1 tea¬ 
spoon cream tartar? 1 tablespoon vinegar; 
% tumbler of water; 1 teaspoon butter. 
Let the candy boil without stirring ; then 
add 1 tablespoon flavoring. When it will 
drop hard in cold water turn in a buttered 
dish to cool, then pull it the same as molasses 
candy. 
Mock Miner Pit.—1 cup powdered crack¬ 
ers ; 1 cup molasses ; 1 cup chopped raisins ; 
2 cups sugar; *■£ cup warm water; J cup 
vinegar ; cup melted butter ; i tablespoon 
cloves, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. If 
the vinegar is very strong, % vinegar filled 
with water. This will make three round tin 
pies. They are delicious. 
MOCJRE’S RURAL WEW-YORKER. 887 
Pork Coke .—1 pound of pork chopped flue; 
pour on one pint of boiling water ; 1 pound 
of sugar ; I cup of molasses ; 3 eggs ; 2 table¬ 
spoons butter, 2 pints raisins ; 2 teaspoons 
soda ; 8 cups flour. Em. 
Speodsvllle, N. Y. 
Domestic Inquiries. —“ Em” asks for a re¬ 
cipe for lemon mike, from some lady reader 
of the Rural. 
Jiiflii!iti[ial Jmplenu'ntfi 
THE HARTFORD AUTOMATIC PUMP. 
There arc not many country houses in 
which one finds a plentiful and convenient 
supply of water. This is not entirely because 
plumbers’ bills are large, for the same people 
who occupy these houses would never dream 
of building in the city without putting in 
plenty of pipes and basins and a boiler in 
the kitchen. It is merely because they are 
FiG. t.—WINDWftEEL HE 1*1 Ml’, 
not acquainted with any satisfactory means 
of bringing their well or spring water to 
their upper floors without a good deal of 
hand labor. We have lately seen a machine 
made by the Hartford Pump Company of 
Hartford, Conn., that apparently docs this 
work and keeps the house supplied without 
trouble and at little or no cost beyond the 
first investment. In the belief that wo arc 
doing our readers a favor by introducing to 
their notice one of the best means yet de¬ 
vised for securing an abundant supply of 
water for the house and burns, we herewith 
give cuts and a description of the Automatic 
Pump. 
The pump raises water by I he action of 
compressed air on the surface of the water— 
hold two or three days’ supply, will never 
run dry. 
The Automatic Pump (Fig. 2) is composed 
of a pair or cylinders fastened together by a 
brace, which is hung on a pivot at its central 
point in such a manner as to allow each cyl 
iiuler a certain amount of motion in a verti¬ 
cal plane. These cylinders have valves for 
the entrance and discharge of the water and 
a pipe at the top for the compressed air. 
They are connected by rods or wires to a 
pivoted bar which in turn is connected with 
a cock through which the air pusses in such 
a way that when one of the cylinders rises 
the cock is turned. The cylinder having 
risen, is held in place by the engaging of a 
latch with the weighted lever shown at the 
top of the cut. The arrangement of parts is 
such that the air passing through t he cock 
goes to the lower of the two cylinders and 
expels the water from it. As the cylinder 
grows light it tends to rise and draw down 
the other, but. owing to the weighted lever it 
cannot do so till a certain quantity of water 
has been driven out. When this point is 
reached the cylinder suddenly rises, the cook 
changes its position and (he compressed air 
is forced into the other cylinder, which now 
occupies the lower position. The stream is 
not broken by this change. 
The device is an ingenious one, and is 
claimed to be the first thoroughly successful 
attempt to force a continuous* stream of 
water for ordinary use by compressed air. 
The plan has many advantages to commend 
it—in economy of power, convenience, and 
general applicability—and bids fair tooomo 
into general use. Wo should say that practi¬ 
cal tests are not wanting, as some machines 
have been in daily use for the past year, and 
are strongly commended by their owners. 
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ALLEY’S PLANET COMBINED MACHINE. 
THE GARDEN FAVORITE. 
Sowing seeds by hand is almost “ one of 
the lost arts ” - at least should be a forgotten 
one in these days of excellent seed-sowers of 
various styles and prices. After a man has 
sown Ids seeds and the plants appear, the 
ground must be cultivated, and Mr. Allen, 
in inventing the “Planet Combined,” no 
doubt thought of this, and he has given us a 
machine which will not only sow seeds from 
the size of an English Horse Bean down to 
those ol’ a poppy with mathematical pre¬ 
cision, but when plants appear the same 
may be employed for weeding and culti¬ 
vating the ground, with a rapidity only 
limited by a man’s power of locomotion and 
endurance. 
The machine can readily be adjusted to 
hoe both sides of a row of small plants or 
only one—just to suit the fancy of the*.pera- 
tor. Hit and-miss seeding or weedy vege¬ 
tables should he things unknown whore the 
“Allen Maclaines” arc known. 
— — -»-»» — 
DIRECT DRAFT EUREKA MOWER. 
We call attention to the advertisement of 
fioMolatjmtl. 
QUINN’S EXPERIENCE IN PACKING 
PEARS. 
P. T. Quinn has been talking to the New 
•Jersey Cranberry Growers. During his 
speech ho urged the importance of knowing 
limv to pack fruit for market and t hen doing 
it properly, and illustrated and enforced its 
importance by the following little story : 
Ono day lie happened in New York and 
called fit a commission house where his fruit 
was sold. There he saw fruit being repacked, 
and Inquiring why this was done, was told 
that ho did not know how to pack fruit. 
Surprised at this response, but seeking infor¬ 
mation, lie watched the process with pears 
of his own cultivation. The packer knocked 
out the bottom of a barrel; put in a layer 
ol white paper, and upon it a layer of pears 
all one way. When one-third full, the barrel 
was shaken, and so on to the top. When 
the work was clone, the packer called in 
Smith, who was going up Broadway, and 
sold him the repacked pears for Mo per bar¬ 
rel. Then Smith was asked if lie did not 
want a barrel of pears standing near at *10 ; 
and although they were the same fruit, 
grown by the speaker in the same orchard 
and packed by him, Smith did not want 
them nor would he take them at *5 loss. Mr. 
Quinn was satisfied when he found that 
without seeing the process of packing he 
should not have known his own fruit, that 
he did not know how to pack. That lesson 
in packing had been worth thousands of 
dollars to him. The object was to get first 
class pears. To do this growers must go 
over their orchards and thin out. When the 
fruit was the size of a walnut thin it out; 
[mil olT the surplus in mid summer, and leave 
only as much fruit as would properly ma¬ 
ture. Good fruit would firing high prices in 
a glut year. He had seen one bushel of pears 
assorted from a barrel, sell for more money 
than the entire barrel would bring un¬ 
assorted. 
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P0M0L0GICAL NOTES. 
The \VaShinylon Pear. —“ An old garden¬ 
er” writes to the Horticulturist;—! don’t 
see what is the matter with our pnmologists 
uow-a-days, for it strikes me they are turn¬ 
ing their backs on many of the good old- 
fashioned fruits, that some of us can recol¬ 
lect with such vivid suggestions of excel¬ 
lence. Now, the old trees planted by my 
ancestors still stand, and among them not 
one, no, not even the Becked, can exceed this 
delicious pear—the Washington. True, there 
arc seasons when it does not produce largely 
but then it is generally at its best, and when 
It is loaded heavily, the fruit does not ripen 
properly. A proper thinning of the crop 
obviates this difficulty, however, and 1 would 
then like to see the pear that will sell better 
in the markets or in thy confect ioner’s win¬ 
dow. It delights in a rather heavy soil, with 
a good coat of manure occasionally, and then 
the reward is sure. 
Rutter Pear lor Can winy. — The Horticul¬ 
turist says Specimens of this pear have 
been canned the past fall by Richardson and 
Robbins of Dover, Del,, which wore ob¬ 
tained from the trees of Mr. 8attert.liwaite. 
We judge, from the tests and specimens 
placed at our disposal, that the pear is a suc¬ 
cess for this purpose. It cooks all through 
firmly, does not soften, is white, sweet flavor 
and large size, it is not as handsome in ap¬ 
pearance as the Bartlett when canned, but is 
more sweet. Neither of them, however, can 
compare with a canned La wrence. The test 
we consider a satisfactory one, and fruit 
growers may plant the flutter freely, know¬ 
ing that it Is desirable both for market and 
canning. The more we can have of such 
sorts, the greater the value of each variety. 
Pears not Rood for Cunning. —The Horti¬ 
culturist says: -Richardson and Robbins, 
who have experimented considerably in can¬ 
ning, say that the Bello Lucrative, Howell, 
Beurre Clairgeau and Onondaga, arc entirely 
unsuitable. Thus far only the Bartlett, 
Lawrence, Duchess, Vicar, Beurio D’Anjou 
and Rutter are esteemed best. The test for 
a pear for canning is, that it shall not be too 
soft, either on surface or at core, but must 
be firm enough to cook all through. Fears 
with good flavor arc of no value if their 
flesh is too soft; yet pears of good, firm grain, 
without any flavor, arc also equally unde¬ 
sirable. 
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The Gold Pen Received.—G. R. c., Ells¬ 
worth, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., writes, April 
20 “ The Gold Pen you sent as a premium 
for Rural club, was received this evening, 
and is very nice indeed. With good wishes 
for you and yours, 1 remain, as ever, &c.” 
Fig. 2.—Hartford 
the air being compressed by a small wiud- | 
wheel (Fig. 1). This may be placed in any 
convenient position without reference to dis¬ 
tance from the well. From the windwheel 
the air is led to an automatic apparatus in 
the well, which forces water to the required 
liight as long us air is supplied. A suitable 
water tank is set in the upper part of the 
house or barn, and if made large enough to 
Automatic Pump. 
this machine. It is made to cut a swath of 
from five to six feet, and owing to its direct 
draft, is claimed lo cut these widths with 
less labor than a side draft machine can cut 
a swath twelve inches narrower. The grass 
is not? touched by either horses or machine 
after it iR cut, and being left nearly stand¬ 
ing, cures very rapidly and evenly. The 
Eureka is made at Poughkeepsie, by a com¬ 
pany of which Mr. Isaac W. White is Presi¬ 
dent. 
