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THE RUBAI, NEW-YORKER. 
a lot of work!" Well, this is like all things else, 
“ labor always accompanies possession.” 
Now as to breeds: I have tried many kinds 
and find tho treatment is the main thing after 
all, but the breed that has served the best 
purposes with mo is a mixture of Brahma and 
Hamburg. If I wore beginning life again, I 
should purchase a trio of light Brahmas and a 
half dozen silver-spangled Hamburga, thus se¬ 
curing a few full-blooded Brahmas and a mixture 
also. During tho past live years my fowls have 
suffered from almost every disease chicken llesh 
falls heir to, because my neighbors aro exceed¬ 
ingly careless, and allow every disease to make 
raids on their fowls for want of proper care. 
Wo have quite a field range for our fowls, und, 
of course, the neighbors' fowls avail themselves 
of the range also, and consequently mine have 
been at times oxposed to contagion. The Brah¬ 
mas died by dozens, the common fowls tho 
same, but those half Hamburg liens ran all day 
long exposed to diseases, singing as happy as 
birds, and luying regularly the year round, 
except while molting, not one, during the five 
years, having been sick. They are exceedingly 
pretty, too, retaining the short blue legs of tho 
Hamburg. They have enough of the Brahma to 
secure good size and weight, while the flesh re¬ 
tains all the compactness of the Hamburg. In 
fact, they look like waddling puff-balls, they are 
bo round and plump. 
Now I think of it, having spoken of the range 
my fowls have, may make Mime beginnor say, 
“ Oh, ho ! Aunt Lou doesn't know by experi¬ 
ence, after all, how to raise fowls without a 
range.” But lot mo tell you, Auut Lon does 
know. She has had all sorts of ups and downs, 
and once, for two years, her only poultry-houso 
was a “piano box” turned upside down, with 
pieces two feet long nailed on for legs. Tho 
perches wore placed within the box and the fowls 
were thus kept warm, while the open space below 
gnvo full ventilation. I would not u set’’ my 
hens in the bouse; let them have nests in the 
fence corners, and when hatched the littlo chicks 
should be removed from the poultry-yard, unless 
it is a largo one. They may be plaoed in tho 
yard or even garden, in coops until old enough 
to take care of themselves. Chickens hatched 
in March begin laying in .September ir properly 
cared for. Last year I gavo a dozen eggs of the 
mixed breed to a little girl. Hho set them under 
her own bed; raised them in the house. They 
wero hatched tho first of April. All began laying 
in September and two hatched a brood of chicks 
the first of November. A mother only seven 
months of age! 
Now, I would not advise you to sot your hens 
under your bed, raise your clucks in your kitch¬ 
en, or feed them from your own plate, as this 
little girl did; hut Ibis serves to show us what 
one can do. They wore always comfortable and 
happy, never hungry nor thirsty; and no piece 
of meat ever was caton by the child but these 
pets had their slqirc, beridos many a bite snatch¬ 
ed from other members of the family and a sly 
pick now and thou at the dltmer-pot left on tho 
hearth. Only try, and seo if fowls don't pay yon, 
remembering always never to neglect them, and 
always to save for them every scrap that would 
add to their food. Don’t throw scraps of meat 
and bread out to feed your neighbors' oats and 
dogs—or worse yet, the rats—and let your fowls 
go hungry, or be at the expense of buying food 
in place of what you throw away, and then say 
they don't pay. 
Whenever you have a dozen eggs as surplus, 
pack them In salt; don't be in a burry to sell 
them. Have your jar ready: begin with a littlo 
salt in the bottom, then a layer of eggs, then 
Balt, and seo how sqpn your jar will bo full; and 
then when the winter comes on, your hen& will 
belaying when other hens are idle, and as you 
have eggs packed for your own use, you can sell 
all your fresh ones at the highest prices, and 
thus add something to your house which you 
have fancied but not felt able to purchase. Well, 
I onoo wrote a great deal for a certain Editor 
who invariably, when requesting anything, said, 
“ b<! brief.” Guess the Editor of the BunAh will 
often reiterate tho words if Aunt Lou comes in 
with her chats oftener than once in a while. 
Aunt Lou. 
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HOW RICE SHOULD BE COOKED. 
Mr. F. B. Tuukber of New York, writing 
from Japan to tho American Grocer, gives the 
following account of tho Japanese method of j 
cooking riceRice hero is worth from £1.50 to 
£1.75 per picul of 133 pounds, or about one and 
one-eight to one and three-eighth cents per 
pound; at first thought it seems as if there 
might bo a profit to import it into the United 
States, but our duty of two and one-balf cents 
per pound, together with freight, insurance and 
premium on gold, brings it up to a figure where 
there is uo margin. They do know how to cook 
lice here, though, and for the benefit of grocers 
and consumers in the United States, I investi¬ 
gated the matter. Only just enough cold 
water is poured on to prevent the rice from 
burning to the bottom of tho pot, which has a 
close-fitting cover, and, with a moderate lire, the 
rice is steamed rather than boiled, until it is 
nearly done; then the cover is taken off, the 
surplus steam and moisturo allowed to escape, 
and the rice turns out a mass of sue.w-wliito 
kernels, each separate from tho other, and as 
much superior to the soggy mass we usually 
get In the United States as a fine, mealy potato 
is to tho water-soaked article. 1 have seen 
something approaching this in our Southern 
Htates, but I do not. think even there they do it 
as skillfully as it is done here, and In the North¬ 
ern States but very fow persons understand how¬ 
to cook rice properly. I am sure that if cooked 
as it is hero, the consumption of this wholesome 
and delicious cereal would largely increase in 
America. 
ORIGINAL RECIPES. 
Graham Bread .—One pint of bread sponge; 
one pint of sweet milk; two tablespoons molas¬ 
ses ; one-half teaspoon salt. Mix all together 
and with Graham Hour knoad into a soft dough ; 
put to riso in tins, and when light hake in a 
moderato oven. 
Fritters.- Two eggs; one pint buttermilk; 
one teaspoon saleratus; three-fourths teaspoon 
salt; flour enough to make a stiff batter. Fry 
in hot lard, putting in a spoonful at a time. 
Feather Cake .—One egg well beaten; two 
tablespoons butter; one oup sugar; one-half 
cup sweet milk; two teaspoons baking powder 
in two cups of lh>ur; flavor with lemon. This is 
choap and while fresh very good. 
Mather's White Cake .—Ono cup sugar and 
one-half oup butter mixed well together; whites 
of three eggs beaten to a froth ; one teaspoon 
soda in one-half oup milk; two teaspoons cream 
of tartar in one oup of flour ; one-half cup corn¬ 
starch. lemon. 
Fruit Cake. —Three eggs ; one pound of sugar ; 
throe-fourths pound butter ; two teaspoons soda 
In two cups sour milk ; one wineglass of brandy; 
ono-fonrtU pound citron; three-fourths pound 
currants ; ono pound raisins ; one nutmeg ; two 
tablespoons cinnamon; one tablespoon of cloves. 
As cups, spoons, eggs, etc , vary considerably 
iu size 1 seldom trust entirely to a cake recipe, 
unless it is one that T am well acquainted with, 
but when the cake is mixed, I bake a little to try it, 
if that is all right I put the rest iu the oven with 
a groat deal of confidence. An allowance must be 
made, however, for the difference in size, as a 
large cake requires to be a little stiffer than a 
small ono, to keep it up when it rises. If the 
littlo cake is not right then there is an oppor¬ 
tunity to U8e your judgment, skill and patience, 
iu order to save the large ono. Mrs. 8. 0. 
Ijygmiir Information, 
AGAINST VACCINATION. 
It is an old saying that there are always two 
sides to every question; and in regard to the 
value of vaccination for small pox there has al¬ 
ways been a strong opposition to its compulsory 
use both in Europe and this country. In the 
Galaxy for March, we find tho roport of an Eng¬ 
lish physician who opposes compulsory vaccina¬ 
tion on the ground that it prevents further dis¬ 
covery, and compels medical science to halt just 
at that point, because it forbids experiment upon 
mothods of prevention that may prove to be bet¬ 
ter. He says: “ it stereotypes a particular stage 
of scientific knowledge, and bars further pro¬ 
gress. If I remind you of tho great improve¬ 
ment thought to have been made by the intro¬ 
duction of inoculation by Lady Mary Wortley 
Montagu at the end of the last century, and ask 
you to suppose that Parliament might then have 
passed an act to compel every one to bo inocu¬ 
lated, you will, 1 think, see what is meant. This 
method was tried for some years with great 
eclat, but afterward it was found to spread the 
smallpox so much that an act of Parliament was 
passed to forbid its use. 
Vaccination, introduced by Dr. .Jenner, has 
followed, and this was another step in advanco. 
I was the first child in my father’s family vac¬ 
cinated seventy-one years ago, several elder 
brothers and sisters, having been inoculated. 
Both methods answered iu our cases. But for 
many years 1 have been satisfied that other dis¬ 
eases besides tho modified smallpox (called cow- 
pox) are now introduced by the old vaccine, aud 
have steadily refused to use it, seeking rather, 
at increased trouble and expense, new vaccine. 
And tho question which comes forcibly to the 
front is this: May not some other preservative 
be discovered which shall be a further improve¬ 
ment? This question cannot be answered so 
long as vaccination is compelled by law. There 
are no persons upon whom experiments can be 
tried.” 
So far as it goes, this is valid ground for criti¬ 
cising vaccination laws. But the proof that 
smallpox is more disastrous to the human race 
t han the evils that vaccination brings with it is so 
strong that there is little likelihood society will 
subject itself to the attacks of the greater enemy 
in order to avoid the less. The evils of the 
old system of usiug vaccine taken from human 
beings for now vaccinations aro now uo longer 
inevitable. Fresh vaccine direct from the calf, 
and called “-Bovine,” can be had everywhere. 
A large establishment for obtaining it is situated 
near New York. 
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BELLADONNA FOR ASTHMA. 
Dr. Reaves, iu the Melbourne Medical Record, 
states that smoke from tho leaves of Belladonna 
possesses much moro power in cutting short nn 
attack of asthma tliftu that from stramonium. 
A long pipo is tlio host means of smoking them, 
the patient being instructed to draw the smoko 
deop into the chest. If when the attack is at its 
height ho has not the power ol’ doing this, the 
leaves may bo placed in a saucer containing 
lighted charcoal or wood-ashes, which should bo 
placed on a chair in front of the patient, this 
chair, as well as his own, being covered with a 
large shoot, so as to confine tho fumes, before 
the leaves are put on tho hot charcoal. From 
two and a half to five grains of the loaves aro 
sufficient when smoked, and from five to twenty 
grains when burned. I r the smoke is drawn 
deoply into the chcBt, the relief is immediate, 
expectoration of phlegm taking placo. 
It is iu the spasmodic form of asthma, whero 
there is little or no expectoration, that the great¬ 
est relief is obtained; for when the tubes are 
loaded with mucus, the smoko cannot get access 
to their muscular tissue. The relief is most 
marked when the remedy ia used soon after tho 
paroxysm has commenced, before the spasm 
prevents access of air to the smaller tubes and 
air-cells.—-Tobacco smokers do not receive the 
same amount of relief as others. Temporary 
headache of a throbbing character may bo pro¬ 
duced if the leaves are used too freely. 
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SULPHUR FOR SCARLET FEVER. 
Du. Henry Piokun writes to tho London Lan¬ 
cet as follows: “The marvelous success which 
has attended my treatment of scarlet fever by 
sulphur induces me to let my medical brethren 
know of my plan, so that tlioy may lie able to 
supply the same remedy without delay. All the 
cases in which I used it wero very well marked, 
and the epidermis on tho arms in each case came 
away like the skin of a Bnako. The following 
waR the exact treatment followed iu each case: 
Thoroughly anoint the patient twice daily with 
sulphur ointmeut; give live to ten grains of sul¬ 
phur in a little jam tliroo times a day. Sufficient 
sulphur was burned, twice daily (on coals on a 
shovel >, to fill the room with tlm fumes, and, of 
course, was thoroughly inhaled by the pationt. 
Under this mode of treatment each case im¬ 
proved immediately, ant^none was over oight 
days in mailing a complete recovery, and I firmly 
believe in each it was prevented from spreading 
by the treatment adopted. One ease was in a 
largo school. Having had a largo experience in 
scarlet fever last year aud this, 1 feel some con¬ 
fidence iu my own judgment, and I am of opin¬ 
ion that tho very mildest oases 1 over saw do not 
do half so well as bad cases do by the sulphur 
treatment, and as far as I can judge, sulphur iB 
as near a specific for scarlet fever as possible. 
COFFEE AS AN INVIGORATOR. 
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owns a water-power mill, says: 
I am frequently compelled, at this season of 
tin year, to have men working in water even in 
frosty weather. 1 find the following allowance 
gives great satisfaction to the men, and we never 
have a case of cold or injury to tho men in any 
way: Kettle of coffee, made with half sweet-milk, 
half water, three or four eggs whipped poured 
into it when off the boil; hot toasted bread with 
plenty of butter of finest quality. .Servo up this 
every two and a half hours. The expense is 
much less than tho usual allowance of whisky, 
and the men work far better, and if onreis takou 
to have the coffee, milk (cream is still better) 
broad, and butter, of the very finest quality, the 
men arc delighted with it. I am persuaded it 
would be worth while to try this allowance in¬ 
stead of grog. Giving extra grog gives the men 
a notion that it is good for them, and perpetu¬ 
ates the belief iu stimulants among workmen. 
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