MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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MARSH 27 
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CANNING MAPLE SIRUP. 
Dear Rural :—As the season for sugar- 
making has arpved, I won Id like to give 
your readers my experience in canning 
Maple Sirup. 1 have succeeded in keeping 
it as nice as when first canned without any 
trouble from erystalizntion, by simply turn¬ 
ing the can bottom side up, and letting it re 
main so for an hour before putting'it away. 
By serving it in this way, I have kept it 
when the sirup was nearly as thick as 
strained honey, as free from crystallizing 
as when first put. up. It, is but due to the 
Rural New-Yorker to say that I got the 
idea from its columns a few years since, but 
do not remember who advanced it. 
Try it, “ troubled Martha's,” and you will 
have no more broken cans from that cause. 
Ritta Reed. 
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ORIGINAL RECIPES. 
Kovel lFYxj/ of Making Jelly Cuke. —Take 
the whites of six eggs, one cup white sugar, 
same of Hour, tablespoon butter, two table¬ 
spoons sweet milk, two teaspoons cream 
tartar, and one of soda. Bake in a large 
oblong dripping pan, so the cake will be very 
thin. Meanwhile stir another batch, making 
just the same, with the exception of using 
the yelks instead of the whites ; when both 
are done, spread while warm, between with 
jelly or preserve juice of any kind, put to¬ 
gether; bring the largest side of the cake 
toward you, and roll immediately ; or cut in 
four or eight parts, put together alternately, 
putting jelly between each layer, and frost 
lightly over t he top. Another method is to 
make three pans, making the third layer of 
one-third red sand sugar, tilling the cup w.th 
white sugar, using the eggs and proceeding 
the same as for the other layers. In putting 
together let the first layer be the yellow, 
made of the yelks, than themed, and lastly 
the white. Nicely frost thj top, and you 
have a beautiful as well as a delicious party 
cake. They arc very pretty marie into rolls. 
—Brownie. 
Coal Ashen. —I would like to inform your 
readers of the efficacy of coal ashes. Accord¬ 
ing to my experience, there is nothing better 
for cleaning knives and forks and tin without 
injury to the ware. One of our hired men 
last season boarded at home, living some 
distance away. Ho would bring his dinner 
with him, in oh ! such a clean, bright tin 
paiL I one day said to him “Jones how 
does your wile manage to keep your dinner 
pail so very bright ?” as the tin did not seem 
to be thiu from the effects of soap and sand, 
as was the case with ours. “ Why,” he said, 
“I guess slio uses nothing but coal ashes,” 
“coal ashes!” I said. So, quickly taking 
the hint, 1 proceeded to brighten the tea and 
coffee pot, tin pails, &e., and the result was 
a beautiful polish ; and I give it for the 
benefit of your many readers who may be in 
ignorance of the fact—having myself thrown 
all the knife-cleaning, tin-pollslfingnuisances 
out of the window, and say, “ No sir !” em¬ 
phatically to all such tra3h peddlars. Use 
only the white, soft part of the ashes, and 
gather before sifting.— Brownie. 
Remedy for Rheumatism. —Procure one 
pint of good alcohol; add one pint of water ; 
make it sharp by adding red pepper pods of 
any kind, broken in smull pieces. In twenty- 
four hours it will be fit for use. Bathe the 
affected parts well and frequently, warming 
it in by the stove,—the action of the heat 
being of great benefit. Let those complain¬ 
ing of lame shoulders, wrists, hips &c., try 
this simple and inexpensive remedy, and 
they will find relief.— Brownie. 
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SELECTED RECIPES. 
Flavor for Frosting.—In frosting for cakis 
or puddings a little lemon juice, tartaric acid 
or cream of tartar is a very pleasant addi¬ 
tion to the taste., besides making the f resting 
much lighter. 
Lamb Cutlets.—Trim the slices free from 
fat, beat up the yelk of egg with rasped 
bread or crackers, season with pepper and 
salt, dip in the cutlets and fry in butter 
gently, until thoroughly done. 
Lemon Cake .—Three cupfuls of powdered 
white sugar, one cupful of fresh butter, one 
cupful of milk, five eggg and four cupfuls of 
flour. Beat the butter and eggs to a cream ; 
beat the eggs separately, the whites to a 
stiff froth, and then dissolve a little soda in 
the milk ; mix all together ; then sift the 
flour and put in by degrees, and add the 
juice and grated peel of a fresh lemon. This 
cake is delicious. 
Cold sin ic. —Yelks of two eggs ; a table- 
spoonful of cream ; a small teaspoonful of 
mustard ; a little salt; two tablespoon fills 
of vinegar. If cream is is not used, put in a 
small lump of butter rubbed in a little flour. 
Cut the cabbage very Hue ; heat the mixture 
and pour it on hot. 
Good Miner. Pics .—Four pounds beef, six 
pounds sour apples, two pounds raisins, three 
pounds brown sugar, one quart molasses, 
three quarts cider, one-half pound suet, one- 
half pint brandy, two tablespoonfuls salt, 
oucouneeeaoh of nutmegs, cloves, cinnamon 
letuon-peol and mace. 
Rice Pudding Without Eggs. —Put into a 
well buttered dish half pound best Carolina 
rice, simply washed ; pour on it three pints 
of cold milk ; sweetuu and flavor to taste; 
put a little butter and nutmeg on the top to 
brown ; bake t.wo and a half hours in a slow 
oven, on which much of the success of the 
pudding depends. 
Venison Steaks.—Cut them from the neck ; 
season them with pepper and salt. When 
the gridiron has been well heated over a bed 
of bright coals, grease the bars, and lay the 
steaks upon It. Broil them well, turning 
them once, and taking care to save as much 
of the gravy as possible. Serve them up with 
some currant jelly laid on each steak. 
Fricassee of Fowls ffrown.— Broil as for 
pot-pie, then fry slowly in butter until 
browned ; toast bread and lay it on the 
platter under the cliickeu. Pour a little of 
the broth in the spider with The browned 
butter, thicken with Hour, season to suit, 
and pour it over the chicken ; or if you 
want it very nice, add the butter for the 
gravy to the butter in which the chicken 
was browned ; dredge with flour, add salt 
and pepper, brown well, and lastly add the 
chicken broth. 
A good ('ukr. when Eggs are Nearer,—One 
(>int of cream, one pint of sugar, yelks of 
three eggs, soda, if cream is sour, and soda 
and cream of tartar if cream is sweet; flavor 
to taste; flour enough to forma moderately 
still' batter ; bake in a loaf if you want a 
plain cake, or in layers if you want a jelly 
cake or eocoanut cake ; make stiffer and put 
in twoCUps of fresh, best currants, and you 
have a nice plain fruit cake. Tills cake 
receipt should be named ‘ hard times cake,’ 
as it is valuable to a person whose supply of 
butter, sugar and eggs is limited. 
2-HORSE CORN CULTIVATOR WANTED. 
Expecting to have a-good deal of corn to 
cultivate next summer, I should feel very 
much obliged if gome farmer having used a 
sulky cultivator which does two rows at 
once, would state through your paper if it 
worked well and who is the manufacturer ; 
or if those having these implements for sale 
would advertise them, giving the names of 
agriculturists who have bought and tried 
them. 1 have one son of thirteen who is an 
excellent driver, and stands iu the place of a 
man in hauling liquid mauurc, which he has 
been doing with others fall and winter, and 
if 1 can get a good two-horse cultivator on 
which he could ride, he would stand in the 
place of two man from May till July in culti¬ 
vating betwe-en the row’s. A gentleman told 
me a few days since he was going to plant 
corn six feet apart, in drills, and thus use a 
very wide sulky cultivator ; but I would pre¬ 
fer to plant four feet each way and use an 
implement which would do two rows and 
work the crop across bo as to save liaud-hoe- 
mg. If the price is not too high, 1 would 
have two or three of them, for they would 
soon pay for themselves in the saving of 
labor ; besides, why should men walk when 
they can ride at tins work more than when 
using the mowing machine ? 
A Working Farmer. 
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MOWING MACHINES AND HORSE RAKES. 
A New England Farmers’ Club has been 
discussing the utility and profit of these ma¬ 
chines, and, strange to say, considerable op¬ 
position to their use was developed. One 
man objected that they rendered the hay 
less valuable, as much that in not desirable is 
gathered in with it. Another objection was 
the loss ol horse-flesh. The loss of imtu-ilesh 
resulting from their non-use does nut seem 
tu have been taken into account. Another 
woul 1 not, have his meadows mown over by 
a mowing machine if it could bo done for 
nothing because it injured the roots of the 
grass ; but he did not seem to know that a 
machine could be adjusted to cut almost any 
required bight. Of course there were advo- 
cates of the use of these implements in this 
club, else somebody would be likely to call 
it aii Old Fogies’ instead of a Farmers’ Club. 
DRINKING WATER. 
Dr. Hall is opposed to the immoderate 
drinking of water. He says : 
The longer one puts off drinking water 
in the. morning, especially in the summer, 
the less he will require during the day ; if 
unioli is drank during the forenoon, the 
thirst often increases, and a very unpleasant 
fullness is observed, in addition to a metallic 
taste in the mouth. 
The less a mail drinks the better for him, 
beyond a moderate amount. The more 
water a man drinks the more strength ho has 
to expend in getting rid of it, for all the 
fluid taken into t he system must be carried 
out; and as there is hut little nourishment 
in water, tea, coffee, beer and the like, more 
strength is expended in carrying them out 
of the system than they impart to it.—The 
more a man drinks the more he must 
perspire, cither by lungs or through the 
skin ; the more he perspires the more curbon 
is taken from the system ; but this carbon is 
necessary for nutrition, hence the less a man 
is nourished the less st rength he lias. 
Drinking water largely diminishes the 
strength in t.wo ways, and yet many are un¬ 
der the impression that the more water 
swallowed the more thoroughly is the 
system “ washed out.” Thus, the less we 
driuk at meals, the better for us. If the 
amount were limited to a single cup of hot 
tea or hot milk aud water at. each meal, an 
immeasurable good would result to all. 
Many persons, have fallen into the practice 
of drinking several glasses of cold water, or 
several cups of hot tea or coffee, at meals, 
out of more habit; all such will be greatly 
benefited by breaking it up at once ; it may 
bo very well to drink a little at. each meal, 
and, perhaps, it will bo found that iu all 
cases it is much better to take a single cup of 
hot tea at each meal than a glass of cold 
water, however pure. 
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ANOINTING FOR SCARLET FEVER. 
Upon the recommendation of Bcheeman 
the anointing of the body with fat has been 
extensively pratieed iu Germany during the 
past ten years, with the view of lowering the 
temperature, and hastening t.lie desquama¬ 
tion. 'i>r, Baylos suggests, in this connec¬ 
tion, the employment of cocoa butter, as 
producing a more cooling and refreshing 
effect upon the patient, and emitting a more 
agreeable odor in the. sick chamber. This 
agent, on account of its solid consistence, 
is more readily applied than either fat or 
oil, and is more easily absorbed by the skin. 
Furthermore, it is thought to afford the 
system a certain amount of nourishment. 
In severe fevers tire entire surface of the 
body should be rubbed with t his substance 
every hour, or at least once every four 
hours. Its application, in typhoid fever, in 
cases where the patients manifest a dread 
of water or where t ie application of water 
is impossible ; likewise in other inflamma¬ 
tory diseases, especially the severer forms of 
inflammatory rheumatism and tuberculosis. 
—Herald of Health. 
Some years ago an acquaintance of ours 
had several children very sick with scarlet 
fever. After their recovery he communi¬ 
cated his recipe, which was published at the 
time in this paper ; he had kept his little 
patients well anointed with the rind of 
smoked iuuns. He believed his treatment 
to have saved his children, and wo remem¬ 
ber to have received at the time a number 
of letters from persons who had pratieed the 
method after our publication, commending 
the ham remedy as important to the eorn- 
munity .—Scientific American. 
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DIPHTEHRIA AND ITS CAUSE. 
When a cose of diphtheria occurs in a 
house, writes a physician, without evidence 
of importation from without, still more 
when several cases occur together or in 
quick succession, there will be good reason 
to suspect thut'sewers, cesspolso or contami¬ 
nated water may be the source of the 
disease. My belief is that., in a very largo 
proportion of cases, there is as close a rela¬ 
tionship between diphtheria and insanitary 
conditions as exists between typhoid fever 
aud similar insanitary conditions ; and I 
scarcely need say that, if this be so, the 
general recognition of the fact is of the 
greatest importance with reference to the 
adoption of preventive measures. There is 
reason to believe that much more harm 
would result from ignorance of the fllth 
origin of diphtheria than from pratically 
ignoring its infectiousness. Many instances 
have come to my knowledge in which fetid 
fecal emanations have appeared to be the 
direct cause of diphtheria. 
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SOUND COMMON SENSE. 
Ik you are well, let yourself alone. One 
of the great errors of the age Is, we medicate 
the body too much. More persons are de¬ 
stroyed by eating too much than by drinking 
too much. Gluttony kills more than drunk¬ 
enness iu civilized society. The best gymna¬ 
sium is a. vyoodyard, a clearing, or a corn 
field. A hearty laugh is known, the world 
over, to be a health promoter ; it elevates 
the spirits, enlivens the'circulation, and ia 
m irvclously contagious in a good sense, 
1 Bodily activity andbodly health are insuper¬ 
able. If the bowels are loose, lie down in 
bed, remain there and eat nothing until you 
arc well. The three best medicines in the 
world are, warmth, abstinence and repose. 
Jlit.'iuranrc jpi'partnrent. 
INSURANCE NOTES AND NEWS. 
Another “Life Association ’’ Going. —A 
year ago, when the St. Louis Mutual Life In¬ 
surance Company got into trouble and went 
out of existence, it was prcdicto that its 
rival, the Life Association, which had then 
a. very small margin of assets above liabili¬ 
ties, and is said to bav©‘anywhere between 
loss and none now, would soon follow it. The 
latest premonition of such an ending comes 
to us in the shape of an application to have 
Hie affairs of that company overhauled, aud 
asking, for various reasons, that a receiver 
bo appointed. This is the company that hangs 
Up a highly ornamental talisman iu tlieeount 
lug rooms of a policy holder to frighten away 
the fell destroyer. 
The Proposed NonrForfeiture of Polic ies. 
—“Some one is about to introduce, or has in¬ 
troduced a bill in the Asscuiby providing for 
the non-forfeiture of policies, &C.’’ This item 
is from our last year’s files and will be stereo¬ 
typed for convenience of future use, for some¬ 
thing of this sort blossoms as regularly every 
winter as the peach trees do, and is as j-egu- 
larly frost-bitten. Nothing of this tenure can 
or will ever become law in this .State until a 
pronounced popular revolt compels the com¬ 
panies to permit the enactment; that is, until 
a majority of the companies, finding it expe¬ 
dient to adopt it, force the minority to com¬ 
ply. 
Will there bean Investigation ? —We should 
be glad to learn that the resolution to inves¬ 
tigate the amalgamation processes by which 
Hie North American and the Guardian are 
i losing their best risks had been adopted, but 
have, little expectation that it ever will b?. 
Somebody will go to Albany and see the Su¬ 
perintendent and the Insurance Committee, 
and this good resolution, like the boy's little 
brother, will “ die a-borning.” If we did 
not know why the insurance papers do not 
fitly characterize and condemn this disgrace¬ 
ful proceeding we would ask somebody. 
'Hint Special Reserve Fund. —No far only 
three lire companies have availed t hemselves 
of the act authorizing the creat ion of a spe¬ 
cial reserve fund. This law, like a good many 
others relating to and proposing to regulate 
insurance, is not mandatory, but only per¬ 
missive. No company is thereby compelled 
to augment its reserves, but those which elect 
to do so should be rewarded by a popular 
preference whenever possible. Ample re¬ 
sources means ample security. 
Are. the Reports tu be Examined? —The 
rumor comes from Albany that, the Superin¬ 
tendent of Insurance is having a deal of 
trouble with several life companies, and that 
he will institute examinations to discover al¬ 
leged errors in t heir reports to him. Several 
companies have dispatched their officers to 
see about it, and the travel to and from the 
Capitol has been quite lively, and profitable 
t.o the II. H. 1L R, Co., if not to the policy 
holders. 
More. Light Wanted. —And now Mr. Secre¬ 
tary White of the Charter Oak Life Com¬ 
pany rises to explain that there is no founda¬ 
tion of fact in the charges of Mr. B. F. Al¬ 
len that he (White) had been investing the 
money of that Company in wild cat mining 
stocks. Bo, until the Courts decide the mat¬ 
ter, one statement is as good as another, and 
we will suspend our opinion until there is 
further proof forthcoming. 
Legalizing Assignments by Wives.— Now 
Jersey proposes to legalize the assignment 
by a wife of her policy upon the life of her 
husband without the consent of that domes¬ 
tic potentate. If it would work the other 
way there would be an opening for specula¬ 
tion, 
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