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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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GEESE AND FEATHER BEDS. 
A few years ago I wished to have a new 
goose feather bed. Husband said it was 
cheaper to buy one than to be bothered with 
geese ; but the greatest trouble about, it was 
this:—Wo were never quite ready to spare 
the money for it. Aunt said when she com¬ 
menced keeping house she had two feather 
beds ; one she raised from geese, the other 
she bought, warranted to be good goose 
feathers. In a few years the boughten one 
was heavy and soggy and no longer lively, 
while the other one is yet lively and good 
after thirty-five years wear. So, woman¬ 
like, I said, “ I’ll sell a few hens and with 
the money I’ll buy three geese and raise a 
bed that I know to be good.” Here is the 
result, though not so very flattering ; but 
one thing is certain—I have my goose-feather 
bed. It’s paid for, nud 1 know it to bo a 
good one. In 1R72 I paid $3 for three geese. 
June 1st, goose hatched nine goslings ; raised 
them all. In 1837 had four old geese ; gos¬ 
lings hatched middle of May, raised only four. 
In 1874 goslings hatched middle of May ; 
raised seven of them : 
1872. —Dec. 2 S, sold 3 fr'ialtngs, dressed, at 15c....* R OO 
Six pounds rwithers. 7 vt 
1873. —Sold 2 live name.2 in 
Four «eesi.\ drvmiml, at 12qc. V 3 25 
Picked five pound* feulliorM.. 6 ‘>5 
1871.—Sold two KoMlInsa, (Irctmeti, M lbs,, at lYo.'.' 1 54 
Picked live pounds fuiith,.rn,.. 3 o, 
Seven geese intend to winter.. ^ m 
Total... *m *rg 
Deduct for three geese.’, 3 00 
$38 79 
I pick my geese as soon as the feathers are 
ripe —generally in May, July and Sept. 
Those I do not keep through the winter I 
kill in December ; got a quarter of a pound 
feathers from each goose—nt other pickings 
not quite so much. Goslings are fit to pick 
(on the breast only) when two months old. 
They are. more likely to live when not hatched 
until the flint of June, because the weather 
is then warm and they are not as likely to 
get chilled—for they are a tender bird, and 
require good care until one month old ; that 
is, to be well fed and kept in a warm place 
with plenty of water. The same amount and 
same kind of food will raise and keep a goose ' 
that will a hen, with this exception—they f 
require a little salt in their food, plenty of 1 
grass and water. Bernice Better. 1 
Binghamton, N. Y. £ 
little salt. Don’t knead this. Bake in a 
quick oven. Another way is, sift a quart or 
two of flour in the pan. Stir in the center 
a little salt and half a tcaspoonful of soda 
well pulverized. Now put in the hole a cup 
of soft (not liquid) lard, or butter arid lard 
[ mf *od ; stir it. thoroughly with the flour; 
next add two scant cups of good soar milk 
or buttermilk. Stir all quickly with the 
flour, in such a way that you need hardly 
touch it with your hands till you can roll it 
out. Bake quick. This will make three or 
four pies. 
Preservation of Smoked Meat.— Professor 
Ncs8ler says that the keeping qualities of 
smoked meat do not depend upon the amount 
of smoking, but upon the uniform and prop¬ 
er drying of the meat. It is of considerable 
advantage also to roll the meat ou its re¬ 
moval from the salt, before smoking, in saw¬ 
dust or bran. By this menus the crust formed 
in smoking will not be so thick; and if 
moisture condenses upon the meat it remains 
in the bran, the brown coloring matter of 
the smoke not penetrating. The best place 
to keep the meat is in a smoke house, in 
which it remains dry without drying out 
entirely as it does when hung in a chimney. 
(items or Iron-clad s. — Stir Graham flour 
into soft., cold water, making a battera trifle 
thicker thau for griddle-cakes. Drop from a 
spoon into the cups of tho bread-pans, which 
are already heated, and bake in a hot oven. 
Take them from the pan as soon ns they are 
done and arrange them on plates, taking 
care that no weights rest on them to make 
them heavy. These, after standing two or 
three days, are made as good as new by dip¬ 
ping in cold water and setting in a hot oven 
a few minutes, or steaming over boiling 
water. All cakes of this kind are made 
lighter and more delicate by being beaten 
ten or fifteen minutes while mixing the bat¬ 
ter, but it is not necessary in order to make 
good bread. 
(information. 
THE MEDICAL USE OF STIMULANTS. 
MBS. SWISSHELM S EXPERIENCE. 
Sfluj gtpijian. 
THE SENSES OF BEES. 
SELECTED RECIPES. 
Comment Pudding .—Two pints meal, one 
pint grated bread, one of molasses, one of 
brown sugar, one of sour milk, two table- 
spoonfuls butter, a half teaspoonful of ginger 
and two of cinnamon, three eggs, half a tea- 
spoonful soda; slice soft, juicy apples, and 
add oue teacupful, if liked ; bake half an 
hour. Sauce—cream and sugar. 
Housework Hints. —It stove polish is 
mixed with very strong soapsuds, the luster 
appears immediately, arid the dust of the 
polish does not fly around us it usually does. 
Dry paint is removed by dipping a swub with 
a handle in a strong solution of oxalic acid. 
It softens at once. Water lime applied with 
a dry, soft cloth, will give glass a nice, clear 
cast. 
Grits Pudding with Apples. — Take ten 
apples, pared and quartered, cover the bot¬ 
tom of your pudding dish, sprinkle a little 
sugar and grate a little nutmeg over them ; 
cover this with well-boiled grits, seasoned 
with butter (as for breakfast), then another 
layer of apples, and so on until the dish is 
full. Bake until the apples are well done, 
and eat with sweet cream. Good either cold 
or hot. 
Boiled Sweetbreads. — The best way to 
cook sweatbreads is to boil them thus Par¬ 
boil them, aud then put them on a clean 
gridiron for broiling ; when delicately 
browned take them off aud roll in melted 
butter in a plate to prevent their being dry 
and hard. Some cook them on a griddle, 
well buttered, turning frequently ; and some 
put narrow strips of fat salt pork on them 
while cooking. 
Stewed Shoulder of Mutton. — The shoal- 
der must not be too fat. Bone it, tie it up in 
a cloth and boil it for two hours and a half. 
Take up, put a little cold butter over it and 
strew it thickly with bread crumbs, parsley 
and thyme, pepper and salt, all properly 
mixed. Let it be in tbe oven half an hour, 
so that it may lie perfectly browned. Serve 
it with lumps of currant jelly on the top and 
gravy or spinach round the dish. 
I te Crust .—The most healthy pie crust is 
made of thin, sweet cream and flour, with a 
We find the following in Popular Science 
Monthly The senses of bees were the next 
subject of investigation, and we will give, in 
brief, the results which Huber reached. Tho 
lenses of the bobs’ eyes are not adjust¬ 
able ; and, though they can see accurately 
to great distances, they seem blind to 
objects close by. Bees dart down to the 
door of their hives with a precision which is 
generally unerring ; but if, from any cause, 
they miss the opening, they are obliged 
to rise in the air, In order to take another ob¬ 
servation. 
if bees hear—which is a doubtful question, 
the old-fashion “ tanging ” to the contrary 
—they certainly hear only what affects 
their welfare. Their sense of taste is also 
far from perfect, foul ditch-water being 
often preferred by them to limpid streams, 
or even dew, and ill-smelling plants having 
quite as much attraction as sweet ones ; it is 
the quantity, rather than the quality of 
their food, for which they cure. They are 
also fond of the secretions of the aphides, the 
milch-cattle of the ants. 
Their sense of smell Is very keen ; the 
presence of honey they detect even in the 
most carefully-concealed places. Honey¬ 
bees often, in scarce seasons, uttack the 
bumble-bees on their return from fields 
laden with honey, and force them to dis¬ 
gorge all they have collected. Its presence 
in the honey-bag must have been detected 
by the sense of smell. The. seat of this 
sense is in the mouth ; this Huber determined 
by presenting successively to all parts of the 
body, on camel’s hair pencils, odors especial¬ 
ly repugnant to them, When held near the 
mouth, the bee started back as if annoyed. 
On one occasion he mixed honey with 
camphor, which they especially dislike ; 
they managed to separate arid remove all 
the honey, leaving the camphor untouched. 
The sense which seems te be most perfect 
in these little creatures is that of touch, and 
that seems te reside wholly in t he anteon®. 
Greetings, caresses, and the communication 
of intentions, are always effected, by one 
bee toward another, by crossing their 
autemi®. It must be remembered that no 
light enters a hive under ordinary circum¬ 
stances. “ The bee ” says Huber, “ constructs 
its comb m darkness ; it pours Its honey into 
the magazines, foods its young, judges of 
their age and necessities, recognizes its 
queen, all by aid of its untemuo, which are 
much less adapted for becoming acquainted 
with objects than our hands. Therefore 
shall we not grant to this sense modifications 
and perfections unknown to the touch of 
man?” 
Mrs. Jane Giiky Swisshkt.m has written a 
t letter giving some instructive personal ex- 
r perience in the use of stimulants as a reme¬ 
dial agent. She says :—Nearly forty years 
ago, < octors began to order mo to take 
' brandy and port wine, but I had known 
people beginning taking such prescriptions 
and die drunkards. I was afraid of myself, 
signed a pledge and resolved to die rather 
than risk such remedies except in had attacks 
te ulceration of t lio throat, when sharp eider, 
porter, or currant wine seemed essential to 
recovery. Only in cases of severe illness or 
great prostrat-iou could any physician induce 
me to take alcohol in any form ; but in these 
r learned something of its efficacy. IVhen I 
went into hospital service in 1803, T was at 
once confronted with a gangrene, and called 
publicly for “ lemons ! lemons ! lemons ! ” 
Soon pymmia followed, and then 1 called for 
“ Whisky ! whisky ! ” Everything I asked 
for came in abundance, pyaemia treated ex¬ 
ternally with alcohol and water, friction 
and heat; internally with milk punch, egg, 
rich broth, cherry wine, although 1 have had 
fifty struck by the premonitory chills In oue 
night. Surgeons never interfered with my 
treatment except when I went to them for 
advice, and I became so confident of success 
that 1 used to say. “ If Death wants to get 
a man from me ho must send some other 
messenger than pyiemia, for I do not recog¬ 
nize that creation of unskilled surgeons and 
incompetent nurses.” Alcohol was the 
basis of my remedies, and “ we praised the 
bridge that carried us over.” In Fredericks¬ 
burg l was inoculated with gangrene in 
. dressing wounds, and it produced an acute 
form of disease from which I suffered for 
years. The doctor w ho undertook and accom¬ 
plished its cure ordered a smalt glass of wine 
every day for dinner. 1 took it three weeks, 
with little pi I Is twice a day, and have had no 
return of the trouble. 
Some years after, when Pennsylvania 
doctors sent mo back to Minnesota to die 
among my kindred, a German physician 
was called in ; but heart and stomach were 
on a strike, and refused to assimilate food. 
In great perplexity he said : “ Can you take 
peer ?” i could try, and he wont oil to pre¬ 
scribe : “You get the ghcneral to get you 
some coot peer, fresh from the prowery. 
Duke you lee tie half a glass, mifc a pit of hart 
pread and leetle pit uv cheese. Chew de 1 
bread nchlow, and sip de peor. Do not culp 
it like some do; schust sip schlow, and eat, 
de pread and cheese mit it. 1 dinks maybe 1 
dut set de stooinaeh do vork vonce more!” 1 
His prescription worked like a charm, and in 1 
any dyspepsia now I go back to the hard 
bread and beer. 1 know them are plenty 1 
of folks to say that better results might have ‘ 
been reached by other means ; but I had no < 
lack of medical advice, and could not find ’ 
the moans ; and in the pyiemia cases, cer¬ 
tainly, no remedy was then known to the 
medical faculty. The highest authorities of 
Fiance and this country regarded this 
disease as the gaunt specter which swept 
hospitals with the beiotn of destruction, un- 1 
challenged, aud I have never heard that, up 1 
to this time, they have found any stay to its t 
desolating march. Now, when I took men * 
given over to death and restored them to life, • 
did 1 become morally responsible for any 1 
abuse they might afterward make of what ' 
was so beneficial in the use ? I never knew < 
that any of these men took to drinking ; hut 1 
I took the risk that every physician does 1 
who prescribes alcohol. t 
by some protecting agent, as a respirator. 
W e can readily understand how a respirator 
should be an effective protection against 
winter bronchitis in those so disposed.” 
— — ♦ « »•-- 
Action of Cod Liver Oiu—A French 
physician reports in Comptes Itendus, as 
the result of nearly one hundred observa¬ 
tions, that it is in rickety patients, as pre¬ 
viously shown by various writers, that cod 
liver oil has its most positive and curative 
action, but that it cures neither scrofula nor 
consumption ; in those, as in all other dis 
eases, in which it has been tried, the oil 
acting as a restorative and roconstituent, is, 
therefore, usfol in tho treatment of all such 
conditions of tho system as exhibit a general 
cachexia, without being addressed to any 
particular malady. It. seems also to be a 
fact, verified by numerous instances, that 
tho increase of weight always ceases in 
individuals attacked with consumption 
whenever, by the use of cod liver oil, they 
have attained normal weight.. The oil 
should be administered with the food, in¬ 
stead of in the intervals between meals.' 
TO THOSE WHO WISH TO MAKE HOMES 
IN THE SOUTH. 
We are sick and tired of sectional men 
ami sectional measures. We have played 
Uie tune of sectionalism to an impoverished 
South. w e want peace. The farmers of the 
country, the toiling masses, demand it. We 
want, ami must have, men and measures for 
the whole country. If wo have erred, we 
think that, debt is paid, and we want re¬ 
ceipts on that score. Those who now pass 
laws—sectional in their bearing—dishonoring 
one section of the United States more than 
another, are guilty of a crime not .second to 
secession. Let us hold such as odious and 
mark the perpetrators. 
Wo are now in favor of going to work in 
Older to build up this beautiful laud, and in 
order te build up we must quit tearing down 
Wc want more population. Our farms are 
too large. We oau do better with half, and 
sell the other half to some honest, hard¬ 
working man. The resources of this country 
equal any in the world. Wc want them de¬ 
veloped. And as far as there being danger 
in a Northern gentleman or a Northern lady 
locating in this country, it is simply too 
chin ; if, (a not only a falsehood, but can be 
nothing but a political trick. Wo are ready 
to welcome all who come in tho true spirit 
But those who prefer mixing and mingling 
with tile colored part of our population to 
associating with their own color will find 
less sympathy in this country than an hon¬ 
est negro mau or negro woman. 
The farmer North, South, East and West 
has more at stake and suffers more in conse¬ 
quence of the unsettled affairs at the South 
than any other portion of our community. 
There is a grand movement among them to¬ 
day which is showing its happy benefits in 
every nook and corner of this onco peaceful 
country-a movement as much opposed to a 
monopoly in politics as in railroads—to spec¬ 
ulating Kings, as double salaries and Credit 
Mobiliers. We mean the Patrons of Hus¬ 
bandry. Let the members of this noble 
Order, who take the same obligation and 
are governed by the same ritual North 
South, East and West, demand men and 
measures that will bring about peace, and it 
will come. Let the Southern brother wel¬ 
come In earnest the Northern brother, and 
the Northern brother extend the same wel- 
come, and prosperity in all sections will be 
the reward. 
HOW TO AVOID COLDS. 
An editorial in the British Medical Journal 
on catching cold, concludes thus ” The 
practical considerations which arc tho out¬ 
comes of this review of the pathology of 
colds arc theseNever to wear wet clothes 
after active muscular exertion has ceased 
but to change them at once ; to meet the 
loss of the body heat by warm fluids and dry 
clothes ; te avoid long sustained loss of heat 
which Is not met by increased production 
of heat; to increase tho tenacity of the 
vessels of the skin by cold baths, eto., so 
educating them to contract readily on ex¬ 
posure by a partial adoption, indeed, of tho 
‘hardening’ plan; to avoid too warm and 
debilitating rooms and temperatures; to 
tuko especial care against too great loss of 
heat when the skin is glowing ; and to pre¬ 
vent the inspiration of cold air by the mouth 
T hen come ! We bio you welcome to tho South 
And to our own delightful Tennessee, 
Whose romantic hills, whose fountains and fertile 
valleys 
Ulfor homes to the Industrious, the beautiful and 
the free 1 Ur. W. P. Mooms. 
Hichland Station, Sumner Co., Tenn. 
--♦♦♦-—— 
From Gaffney’s, 8. C.—This is a new 
town on the Air-Line Railway, twenty miles 
east of Spartanburg, it. full view of the Blue 
Ridge, twenty mile* from any other town 
and one and one-fourth miles from Limestone 
Springs. The productions of the surround¬ 
ing country are cotton, corn, wheat, rye, 
oats, sweet and Irish potatoes, vegetables of 
all kinds ; clover does well here also, and 
might be made a great source of improving 
our lands. What we lack is capital. This 
part of the country has abundant water 
power on the Broad and Pacolet rivers, and 
plenty of lime and iron ore of the best qual¬ 
ity.— h. o. o. 
