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OOKE’S BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB 
^omcstiq Gffcmomtr. 
PROFIT OF FEEDING HELP WELL. 
Dear Mr. Editor :—You arc so kiud and 
print my scribblings with such abandon, and 
some of my Rural friends are so kind in 
their criticisms, I begin to feel as if I had the i 
freedom (not of the city) of the ‘‘good old 
Rural,” mid can say thing* I think ought 
to be said by some one. Accordingly I lay 1 
aside my sewing, this June afternoon, to j 
write something about the economy, both 
stir in good wheat Hour; let if boil five min¬ 
utes ; keep stirring to prevent burning. For 
the sauce take a pint, of new milk, piece of 
butter size of an egg, two tablespoonfuls 
sugar, a little nutmeg ; make it hot but do 
not boil: oat very soon. 
Catskdl Apple Pudding — l pint sweet 
milk, four eggs beaten to a froth, 1 teaspoon¬ 
ful soda, a little salt, flour enough to make a 
stiff flatt er, four largo apples, chopped ; mix 
well, or rather, stir ; bake in deep tius ; serve 
hot, with butter and sugar or sweetened 
Pineapple or Orange Cake .—One cup but¬ 
ter, cups sugar, beaten well together; 5 
to the farmf r and farmer’s wife, of feeding u 
,, . . , , . ,, . ,,. i eggs beaten up well, three and a half cups 
the lured men (and women) well, especially , , ... 
, , 4 . , . . Hour; V cup sweet milk, 2 cups sugar, 2 
nrittr Hint fhn otra urn lnnrr ntui < • a l » * ° ' 
now that the days are long and the labor 
hard and continuous. It is not long since 
Sahah (my hired girJ) and myself came from 
the field where we took a nice lunch for the 
farm men at work there—cakes, sandwiches, 
and milk. “A bother?” No, no, my dear 
sister ! It was as easy a thing to do as any¬ 
thing the housewife does. It rested ns to go 
out into the fields, especially to watch the 
gnitifig.it ion and refreshment on r o<no ing and 
the contents of our baskets gave the men. 
They did not halt long from their work to 
consume what we furnished •, but it divided 
the long afternoon, vested and refreshed 
them, and gave us “ women-folks ” real en¬ 
joyment because — well, because! Every 
woman will understand that reason 1 
Now, about the economy. Mr. Allen says 
it is economical for him, when he is at work 
in the field, to have a “ snack ” of something 
to eat between meals. “When the fuel is 
exhausted,” he says, “the lire goes out.” 
True he don’t eat as much at the dinner and 
supper table, nor do the hired men ; hence, 
there is no loss of food to the larder. The 
spoonfuls cream tartar, I of soda; bake your 
cake in jelly tins, having it four or five layers 
deep. Grate the pineapple or 5 oranges, 
whichever you use, and spread between the 
layers ; frost the top if you choose, which is 
quite unnecessary. 
While Cup Cake .—1 cup of fresh butter, 2 
cups’of white powdered sugar, 4 cups of 
sifted Hour, 5 eggs, 1 cup sour cream or rich 
milk, soda to sweeten it, half a grated nut¬ 
meg, 1 tsaspoonful cinnamon ; bake in small 
tins. Brownie. 
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DOMESTIC BREVITIES. 
Glue Pots .—Nothing about a house is more 
useful than a glue pot, so many things may 
be repaired by means of it. If the knobs 
on the bureau drawers become loose they 
can be speedily fastened again by the timely 
application of a little glue. If the thread 
of the scre w has become worn put on some 
glue, and then wind on some flax or tow if 
you have it, or a soft rag, then put on more 
glue and fasten on the knob and it is all 
, • | . , » j i ilUU OJ1U IU.SLKL1 (JU lilllj MIUU cum 11 / I.-) t*** 
hired men work more cheerfully and at a & . , . , , . „ 
, ‘ . nght, It pieces ol veneering fall on the 
more uniform pace, and reohv accomplish „ h . 
furniture they can be replaced by means of 
mill a tlmr. if ihtur frol o-YrIi<iiiiit..H liiinrirv nm J * *’ 
.. ... , , ... i iui iiii/ui iri ran i * ■ i mu.'i'u my im una i.i* 
moie than if they get exhausted, hungry and , , V ., 1 *; 
. . . , , *.. . I glue and a feather, and any thing else of 
faint, before the dinner-bell rings, and then 
. , . 1 .,, that kind also, lean think ol no wedding 
gorge themselves with food so that they are . , 
.... . i .i .. , , present winch, for the expense, would be 
in no condition to ivork with eomlort under 1 „ , ’ ... , 
i ... , . more useful to a working housekeeper, or 
two hours afterward. Thus there is a gain ’ ’ , 
, , , a , , .. cause the giver to be oftener remembered 
of tune and no loss of substance. Bo far as , A , ,, . ,. . .. 
... .. ,, ,, , with kindly feelings than the gift of one ot 
we “ women-tolk ” are concerned, it is a , ,, , _ B , ,,, 
„, , ., . , ,. f , these little conveniences.—F armer’s Nvui'e. 
matter of habit and system. When wo arc 
frying or baking cakes it takes but little to Cucumber, Pickles.— Die old style of lay- 
provide for lunch for a day or two ; then the * ll 3 cucumbers down in brine, then when 
cheese, which is wholesome and nutritious, wanted for use, soak mg them out in a brass 
is always at hand; ditto the milk (without kettle to make them green is tedious, and 
the cream being skimmed off), and our roast * think rather dangerous. Now l hav e good, 
meats or boiled ham or Leaf of the day be nice solid pickles that were put, down last 
fore are kept on the ice, are sweet and tooth- summer, and the follow lug is my method of 
some, and it don’t take long to put up a preparing them. I pick from the vines, 
sandwich or two, per man. To tell tue truth, wash carefully, anil w hen dry put them in 
we get as much pleasure out of it as the good cider vinegar; ric a paper over the top 
labor costs us strength ; and I believe there \ o£ tlie.jur; some seal them, but I have not. 
is profit every way, in feeding the hired help | i this way very much. Mrs. Loretta 
well. Esther Allen. e * Knapp Turner. 
_ 44 -*_ Domestic. Inquiries .—Will some of the 
SUNDRY CONTRIBUTED RECEIPTS. numerous readers of the Rural tell me if 
_ green peas partly cooked, salted and pep- 
Lemon Coke. -1 % cups sugar, VC cup butter, P erc(J « !uul I’ ut in 8 las3 caQS . whil ° hot > 
V cup sweet milk. M teaspoonful soda, 3 kee Pi mid also strm 2 beans ? I£ llot r hmv 
eggs, s> cups flour, 1 whole lemon. sllalJ 1 P ut Ulutn «P to kee P them 1 Is P le ‘ 
ir 1 ip *. i plant jelly good, seasoned with lemon, and 
Carme.dFridls.-Vsc only fresh fruit, and £ ovv ^ 8 * gar a]mll l put to tt pound of 
that which w pericctly ripe; not too soft, but , thg iee , Afeo how much 3Ugar to a 
just right to eat well. Uill your cans full of of oh or rfrawberry juice ? How 
fruit, put the can in a kettle ot cold water ; * haI1 f mako good pudding aauc(3) lemon pie 
put a few iron rings m the bottom of the pot and ice croam ? Whal is productive of cream 
to prevent the cans from breaking ; then put flaJre ? _ Youno Hol sEKEEPER. 
over a sloiv fire, at first, making it hotter _ , , 
after the fire has become hot. Too great a Orange Cake .-1 saw an inquiry 1.1 a recent 
heat at first will crack the cans at the bottom, number of the Rural New Yorker, for a 
Meanwhile, make a nice sirup of white sugar, 
and when your fruit is half done cookiug \ 
pour your syrup over the fruit in the cans, | 
and continue boiling until done; remove 
from the fire and sea). Home people cook 
their fruit before putting in cans, but it does 
not preserve its natural flavor as well, neither 
will the sirup be as clear. Cooking the fruit 
inthecansis the proper way of canning fruit, 
in my estimation, i use half a pound of 
sugar to a quart jar of fruit; c* erries, 
peaches, pears, and raspberries, will do with 
0 ozs. Cook quart jars 30 to 30 minutes, ac¬ 
cording to hardness of fruit. Keep watch of 
your cans while boiling, and as fast as the 
fruit in the can lowers, fill up with well- 
ripened fruit ; next morning test your jars ; 
if they do not hold, boil them over again, in 
ten days from time of canning test your fruit 
again, and if the cover holds them it will 
keep for years, as 1 have some now nearly 
four years uld, which look as if they might 
keep four years longer. By testing ten days 
after canning, you will never be awakened 
in the night by a loud report as of a gun 
going off . as I have heard people tell about, 
and breaking some half-dozen cans nearest 
to it. Keep your cans in a cool but not damp 
place. 
Minute Pudding .—One quart of sweet 
milk, a little salt; let it come to a boil, then 
@Iii| fatalist. 
flake ?—Y'ouno Housekeeper. 
Orange Cuke .—I saw an inquiry in a recent 
number of the Rural New Yorker, for a 
receipt for orange cake. 1 send you mine : 
2 cups sugar, of flour, y, oup cold water, 
1 teaspoonful cream tartar, W spoonful soda 
in water, yelks of 5 eggs and whites of 2, 
jifice and grated rind of an orange ; bake in 
four square tins. Frosting to be placed be¬ 
tween layers. Whites of three eggs, juice 
and grated rind of one orange, and sugar us 
for common frosting. 
To Color Purple or Lilac.— For one yard 
of yarn or cloth dissolve one ounce cudbear 
with a gentle heat, in sufficient water to 
cover the yarn or cloth. First dip the yarn 
or cloth in saleratus water, wring out and 
put into cudbear ; let it stand one half hour 
or more ; it you wish a dark color, wring 
out and wet again in saleratus water; then 
again into cudbear, with the cudbear and 
two ounces of alum. 
Arrowroot Biscuits .—Rub together three- 
quarters of a pound of sugar and the same 
weight of blitter, until they rise, Beat 3 
eggs well and mix with it, then stir in two 
cups of sifted arrowroot and two cups sifted 
flour, roll them out thin, cut them with a 
biscuit cutter, place them in buttered tins, 
and bake in a slow oven. 
Borux and Cockroaches .—We saw it stated 
in one of the late Rurals that borax was an 
exterminator of cockroaches. How should 
it be used i— W. J. Purdey. 
CHARLES V. RILEY ON THE BIRDS, 
At a late meeting of the Alton Horticul¬ 
tural Society, attended by Chas. V. Riley, 
State Entomologist of Missouri, after some 
talk about the cedar bird, “which was pro¬ 
nounced to be an unmitigated scamp,” Prof. 
Riley was called upon to give his views as to 
what birds were the farmers’ friends. We 
take a sketch of his response from the St. 
Louis Democrat: 
Mr. Riley was not sentimentally blind to 
the faults of some birds, aud, perhaps, the 
bluejay, the crow, blackbird, tlie red-winged 
blackbird, the common robin, the golden 
robin, the cedar bird, and the king bird de¬ 
serve to be classed among our enemies, 
though much might be said in favor of these. 
But ho could not allow such wholesale de¬ 
nunciation of our little feathered friend# 
without a word in their defense. 
The chinch bug is certainly a first-class in¬ 
jurious insect, and yet there is abundant and 
cumulative testimony that the blithe little 
quail devours immense numbers of them, 
especially when hard pushed in winter. Let 
those who are skeptical examine tho craw 
of this bird. He had reason to believe that 
the prairie chickeu would also eat these 
nauseous bugs. The curcullo is a hard cus¬ 
tomer, and we must not expect much aid 
from the birds in diminishing its numbers; 
for the cunning little hunchback, in the bee¬ 
tle state, knows well how to hide, simulate 
dead objects, and deceive even the sharp 
eyes of a hint ; and in the soft grub state 
takes good care to leave the fruit for trans¬ 
formation, either in the night or from the 
under side of the fruit as it lies on tho 
ground. But even hero there Is good evi 
deuce, from such men as J. W. Hobson aud 
Dr. Trimble, that the Baltimore oriole will 
devour it — the former having seen the bird 
in the act, and the. latter having taken the 
beetles from the crop. 
The* codling moth is certainly another of 
our worst fruit pests, and he knew positively 
that it. was devoured by several birds, and 
mentioned the black-capped tit-mouse aud 
the downy wood pecker. Bo thoroughly do 
birds gut its cocoons in our orchards that the 
pest would be well kept down by them were 
it not for our own carelessness in harboring 
it in our storehouses, where they cannot 
roach it. 
The yellow-billed cuckoo devoured the 
larvai of the white-marked Tussock moth—a 
serious orchard-pest; and even so bad a bird 
as the king-bird had been seen devouring 
the rosebug and the different cabbage 
worms. The tent-caterpillar is partially 
preyed upon by the Baltimore oriole, and 
greedily devoured by the American cuckoos 
and the jay. The canker-worm is also de¬ 
voured by a number of the different birds, 
and among them the blue-bird. Thus some 
of our very worst insect enemies ore preyed 
upon by birds; and who cun estimate how 
many hundreds of insects there are which, 
though not now classed as injurious, would 
soon become so were it not for the birds. 
Not one in a thousand of the worms that 
hatch on our vegetation ever livo # to go 
through all their changes, aud he had never 
been more forcibly reminded of the impor¬ 
tant part birds play in their destruction than ! 
the present year in rearing silk-worms. He 
hatched thousands of these out-of-doors on 
an Osage orange hedge this spring, and 
though such as were protected with netting 
from birds and other enemies wore remark¬ 
ably healthy, and in due time spun their 
cocoons, not one of those feeding without 
such protection lived to spin—nil devoured 
by birds, 
He admitted that birds sometimes de¬ 
voured our friends, the parasitic insects ; 
but so docs man destroy these also in apply¬ 
ing liis artificial remedies against the nox¬ 
ious ones. He asserted, however, that, us a 
rule, predaceous or cannibal insects—those 
which are our best friends—such as ground 
beetles and lady-birds—are shielded from 
the attacks of birds by some peculiar at¬ 
tribute, such as pungent Oder, &c., which 
renders them unpalatable ; and that most 
parasites were able to defend themselves by 
their own stings or other weapons of of¬ 
fense and defense. Thus a hundred vegeta¬ 
ble-feeders were devoured to one cannibal 
or parasite ; and, all things considered, birds 
are very essential and important friends of 
man. He spoke of them as God’s appointed 
guards and protectors of the vegetable 
kingdom, carrying aud dispersing its seeds, 
and ever present to clear it of insects v, inch 
SS 0 
gnaw and destroy, llo gave it as his convic¬ 
tion that if adozen varieties of our most com¬ 
mon birds could bo swept from existence, we 
should no longer be able to grow our prin¬ 
cipal crops, and insects would riot and mul¬ 
tiply until they became unendurable. 
Tnjqicnic information. 
“ CATARRH REMEDIES.” 
I WISH to say a few words in regard to 
the numberless “ Catarrh Remedies” which 
arc everywhere extant, and quite a number 
of which have appeared in your columns re¬ 
cently. A dozen or more of Rural corre¬ 
spondents have given some “ infallible reme¬ 
dies” (?) which consist in snuffling salt and 
water, ashes and soot water, Ace., up tlie 
nose. As If the act of snuffing stuff up the 
nose would cure catarrh ! As well might we 
say that taking down our water spouts would 
prevent rain I Why, my dear friends, the 
nose is not the offending organ ! The seat of 
thu disease is in an entirely different part of 
the body. Why thus expect to experience 
any permanent results through any such 
remedies us I hesc ? A stream of water is not 
obliterated by damming ; the flow of water 
behind it is tho same. W r e only cause an 
accumulation of the water which, if dam¬ 
med entirely, w r ould soon burst out in a new 
place with fearful results. Bo with catarrh. 
Salts, ashes, and such stuff have the result 
of stopping the flow of mucus at the nose, 
but It doesn’t prevent the accumulation in 
othor places. This stopping and accumula¬ 
tion of mucus is always dangerous, and there 
are generally immediate consequences more 
flo be avoided t han the flow from the nose. 
But you ask how catarrh can be cured, 
T answer not by snuffing stuff up the nose— 
not by the thousand and one nostrums which 
are thrust upon the public from every coun¬ 
ter, but by Something ton times more easy 1 
and rational—the simple return to natural 
modes of living. Ten to one, you who are 
suffering from this offensive, involuntary 
(low of mucus from the nose, are pork eaters 
—ten to one, your diet consists largely of rich 
paltry, the curse of modern cookery. Your 
hours of eating are irregular, and with little 
reference to quantity or quality. It makes 
little difference whether you cat two or three 
meals per day, (and in no case should you eat 
oftener, provided your hours of eating arc 
regular.) This is of the utmost importance. 
By irregular hours tho liver becomes dis- 
eased. Catarrh is tne offspring of a diseased 
liver. If your liver is diseased, the first thing 
to be considered is the water you drink. I 
might say an hundred to one, if you have 
got the catarrh, you drink hard water, it 
is impossible to over-estimate the importance 
of using none but soft and pure water. If it 
is not. in your wells or cisterns, prepare a fil¬ 
ter by which you can catch and filter pure 
rain water. Add to this plenty of out-door 
exorcise, warm clothing, and by all means 
well ventilated rooms. More cases of ca¬ 
tarrh come from sleeping in unventilated 
rooms Hum from any other cause. Add also 
a thorough bathing of the body as often as 
once in every one or two weeks, and catarrh 
Yvill be a thing of the past. I would advise 
every one who is suffering from disease of 
the liver, to use none but Graham bread. 
By its opening nature it will be found a re¬ 
lief which you have long sought for in vain. 
Doc. 
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NEW TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTION. 
Dr. Wm. Kocti of Berlin, has discovered a 
new method of treatment for consumption 
It consists of healing up the affected portions 
of the lungs by injections of iodine, so as to 
check the progress of festering, which is the 
origin of the disease. This treatment has 
been tested in the great hospitals of Berlin 
within a short time, among others at the 
Royol Charity, in the presence of the most 
eminent surgeons. All the reports of the 
cases in which this treatment has been ad¬ 
ministered are favorable, and hold out a 
premise of a complete cure. For many years 
Dr. Koch has been trying the experiment 
with animals, having tested it with more 
than 300, at a vast outlay of time and money. 
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HYGIENIC NOTES. 
Glycerine, and Cantharides Lotion tor the 
hair, if falling off :—Rosemary water, 1 pint; 
aq. ammonia, 1 dram; tincture canthari¬ 
des, 2 drams ; glycerine, % ounce. To be 
used with a sponge or ::oft hair-brush twice 
a day. 
