Raspberries should be set about three to four 
feet apart, and a liberal dressing of rotted ma¬ 
nure given every fall to be incorporated with the 
soil every spring. We have used coal- ash sift¬ 
ings two inches deep about the stems as a mulch, 
and are prejudiced in favor of its use, though it 
may bo mere prejudice as comparative tests have 
never been made. 
Convenience may determine whether to plant 
in the fall or spring. If in the fall, protection 
had better be given tho roots, as the old stem is 
of no consequence, by heaping np tho earth, 
or by the uso of coarse hay or straw. Suckers 
of the red varieties may be detached and plant¬ 
ed now, and tho tips of tho Black-caps, which 
will fall over and root later, may he transplant¬ 
ed so long as the ground is not frozen. 
J. M. f7., Jamaica, L. I. —Any soil so rich that 
it supplies the various kinds of food that the 
plant requires, and in snlHcient quantities, will 
not be benefited by manure of any kind, For 
your experiments, a partly exhausted soil should 
be selected. Then the effect of a givon manuro 
may bo ascertained by planting a part without, 
and the rest with the manure, the effect of 
which It is desired to ascertain. 
Win. Brawnier. —Tho number of land holders 
in Croat Britain and Ireland is about 170,000. 
Of these 523 noblomeu own between them ono- 
llfth of the whole. There are 5,000 large pro¬ 
prietors who average 10,000 acres eaoh ; 12,000 
with from 500 to 2,000 oach ; 52,000 with from 
50 to 500 acres each. The 0 millions of acros iu 
Belgium are divided among more than a million 
of owners, average less than C acres oach. 
Student. —The Astor Library in New York is 
ono for reference only, no books being allowed 
to go from the rooms. The intention is to col¬ 
lect here such books as are not to bo found 
readily in otlior libraries. There is no member¬ 
ship but admission and uso of the books are free 
to all. About sixty thousand dollars have been 
spent for now works during tho past year. 
Win, Mi-. Ira T. Blackwell send Eds. his ad¬ 
dress ? 
Wm. Bavnim .—Will yon please answer, in 
your columns, tho best way to clean smoky 
painted walls of a room ? 
A.n's.—A weak solution of salsoda water. About 
half the size of a hen’s egg in a pail of water is 
tho right proportion. Commence at tho bottom 
and wash up, because othorwi.se the salsoda, if 
permitted to run down, would streak the dry 
wall. 
M. W. F., Bryn Mawr. —(1.) One of tho plants 
you sent mo, now in bloom, is very ^aristo¬ 
cratic ’’-looking. It is a shrub (woody like Fuch¬ 
sia), -with numbers of delicate purple (mauve) 
flowers. Can you give me its name ? (2.) Also, 
please tell me the most desirable variety of Block- 
Cap Raspberry, for home nse ? 
Ans.—1. A seedling from Deutzia crenata 
fl. pi., according to the best of our remembrance. 
2. Raspberries: Mammoth Cluster, Davison's 
Thornless, Doolittle. 
domestic (gtoitomi). 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
SYSTEM IN DISH-WASHING. 
We have yet to hear a woman say she liked dish¬ 
washing. It is, indeed, a tedious task, and the 
following items, condensed from the July Wide- 
Awake, will be read with interest by those who 
desire to render the process less irksome, and 
are willing to take the trouble to do so : 
Keep the outsides of the plates clean by re¬ 
moving all emmbB and scraps before packing 
them. The dish-washing of some house-keepers 
must be very disagreeable and tedious, owing to 
their non-observance of this precaution. Stack 
the table dishes, like to like iu the order of 
their size in the dish - pan, and the cooking 
dishes in another, immediately pouring hot 
water through them alb It is always the quick¬ 
est way to let them stand thus a moment—it 
saves a deal of scraping and rubbing. 
Make your suds but barely warm, since the 
dishes are aU hot from the Boaking water, and 
aU greasy particles dissolved and gone. There 
is never any need of immersing the entire hand 
and wrist in scalding dish-water for an hour or 
two at a time, soaking, reddening, and chapping 
it beyond &U recovery. 
Puncture one corner of the dish-cloth with a 
fork, and winding tho tineB up in it, like a co¬ 
coon, wash the dishes with it, wetting the hand 
but momentarily duriug the whole operation. 
After pouring on the rinsing water — which 
have very hot—remove them, in Btacks, to an¬ 
other pun, and place them on their edges about 
some tall dish to drain and dry. Rinse and 
drain forks and spoons by themselves iu pitchers. 
ring your dish-cloth as Uttle and Ughtly aB 
possible. ThiB will keep it soft, and a soft dish¬ 
cloth makes dish-washing twice as easy. Keep 
it sweet by rinsing thoroughly at the last. 
Hundreds of soft little white hands are not 
only hardened and spread, but grow np fairly 
distorted, from useless wringing and squeezing 
of the dish-cloth. 
Toilette soap is also recommended, and, by 
following the above, can be made to outlast a 
bar of yellow soap. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Beef Tomato Fie. —Gold roast boef out in 
tbiu slices; ripe tomatoes peeled and sliced. 
Line a deop rlish with a light biscuit crust; put 
a layer of beef, then a layer of tomatoes ; salt, 
butter, and pepper to taste, and so ou until tho 
dish is nearly full; put on tho top crust, cutting 
a gash in tho conter. Bake two hours in a slow 
oven. 
Tomato Preserves. —Pare and quarter good, 
ripe tomatoes; place them in a porcelain kettle 
with a little water, so they will not burn. They 
require to bo cooked until the juico is nearly all 
out; then add one pound of white sngar to each 
pound of fruit. Cook slowly one-half hour. 
Summer Squash. Take thorn before the seeds 
begin to harden; wash clean, remove tho atoms, 
and cut Into pieces; boil until tender; pour off 
all tho water you can; mash as firm as possible, 
thou put into a bag and squeeze out tho rest of 
the water. Season with salt, plenty of buttor 
and pepper, or with sweet creaui. 
Squash. Fritters. —A pint—more or loss—from 
tho dinner-table, ono egg and two tablespoi>ufuls 
of flour. Fry on tho griddle for breakfast. 
To Pinkie Beans.— Oatlmr tho beans whon 
young; remove tho strings and boil until tender. 
Put into a stono jar with a small piece or alum ; 
boil tho vinegar with maoo, ginger, and whole 
popper, and pour it boiling onto tho beaus, cov¬ 
ering closely to prevent the escape of steam. 
Blackberry Pudding .—'.Two eggs well beaten, 
one pint of milk, a little salt, one-half of a small 
teaspormful of soda, ono of cream-or-tartar ; add 
flour to make a thick batter; beat well, and add 
ono pint or blackberries, well - sprinklod with 
flour. Pour into a buttered mold, or, if you 
have no mold, into a floured cloth. Boil hard 
one hour ; then remove from the pot and dip it 
quickly into cold water, and as quickly turn it 
out. Serve at once, as it soon becomes heavy. 
Blackberry Jelly.— Crush tho fruit, then 
squeeze through a flannel jolly-bag. To every 
pint of juice allow one pound of tho best white 
sugar; boll twenty minutes, skimming often; 
All your bowls, Bet aside for twenty-four hours, 
then cover and paste. 
Chocolate Custard.— One qnart of milk, one 
cupful of white sugar, three eggB, a quarter of 
a pound of chocolate. Boat tho whites of two 
of tho eggs so that you can turn the dish over 
without spilling: as tho milk begins to boil, 
place the whites on it for a moment; then re¬ 
move to a platter, and make the custard as fol¬ 
lows ;—Orate tho chocolate and stir it into tho 
milk on the fire; as it thickens, add the sugar 
and the rest of the eggs, well beaten; stir con¬ 
stantly a few minutos ; fill your cups, and on the 
top of each place some of the cooked whites. 
Eaten when entirely cold. 
LEMONS A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. 
It is natural when medical scienoe has en¬ 
countered a malady so tenacious and fatal as 
consumption, that, from time to time, many 
remedies should he suggested, and many fraudu¬ 
lent nostrums puffed by interested parties. 
Where the danger in so great and the hope so 
smaU, the victims and their friends are generally 
too ready, in the absence of any assured treat¬ 
ment by tho regular faculty, to grasp at the hope, 
in nearly all cases fallacious, holdout to them by 
quacks and charlatans. Wherever, therefore, 
these vaunted remedies either put money in tho 
pockets of those who profess to have discovered 
them, or are at all likely to prove injurious to 
those who test their efficacy, we would in every 
instance advise our friends to have nothing 
whatever to do with them. 
Where there is no inducement for fraud, how¬ 
ever, and no risk of injury to the experimenter, 
it would often bo well to test new recipes for 
old evils. So various are the phases of human 
constitution, that it often happens that either 
through the patient’s faith in tho efficacy of a 
prescription or through its special adaptability 
to his peculiar system a cure is, by this means, 
effected. 
A supposed remedy of this kind for tho cure 
of consumption is the following recipe furnished 
by a correspondent of an English medical 
journal: 
Pat u dozen whole lemouB in cold water and 
boil until soft (not too soft), roll and squeeze 
until the juice is all extracted, sweeten the juice 
enough to be palatable, then drink. Use as 
many as a dozen a day. Should they cause pain 
t or looseness of the bowels, lessen the quantity 
V a™* nse five or six a day until better, then begin 
i and use a dozen again. By the time you have 
used fivo or six dozen you will begin to gain 
f strength and have an appotito. Of course, as 
i you get better you need not use so many. Fol¬ 
low these directions and wo know that you will 
never regret it, if there is any* help for you. 
Only keep it up faithfully. We know of two 
caseR where both of the patients wore given up 
i by the physicians, and wore iu tlio last stages of 
consumption, yet both wore cured by using lem- 
Ona according to the directions wo have stated. 
One lady in particular was bod-ridden and vory 
1 l°w. had tried everything that money oould pro¬ 
cure, but alt iu vain, when, to pleaso a friend, 
she was finally persuaded to uso tho lemons. 
She began to use them in February, and in April 
she weighed ono hundred and forty pounds. 
She is a well woman to-day, and likely to live as 
long as any of us. 
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EATING FRUIT. 
While few articles of food are more injurious 
than unripe fruit, still it is almost impossible to 
take too many of those that are ripe, fresh and 
perfect when oaten in their natural state. The 
earlier in tho day such fruits are oaten the better. 
Their healthful qualities depend on their ripe 
acidity, hut if sweetened with sngar not only iB 
this acidity neutralized, but tho stomach is 
tempted to receive more tliau It can digest, and 
if cream he taken with them the labor of diges¬ 
tion is increased. No liquid of any description 
should be drank within an hour after eating 
fruits, nor should anything else bo caton within 
two or three hours after- -thus, time being al¬ 
lowed for them to pass ont of the stomach, tho 
system dorivos from them all their enlivening, 
cooling and aperient influences. The groat rule 
is, oat fruits and berries while fresh, ripe and 
perfect, in their natural state, without eating or 
drinking anything for at least two hours after¬ 
wards. With these restrictions, fruits may be 
oaten in moderation during any hour of the day, 
and without getting tired of them, or ceasing to 
bo benefited by them during tho whole season. 
Iffottni) % llqjitMtr. 
NOTES FROM MINNESOTA. 
IIoward Lake, Minn., July is. 
“ Hoppers are nearly all gouo !” is a sentonco 
often spoken in these parts, nowadays. Ono 
often hoars, also, “ Wo need fear foreigners, 
alone, now.” These luivo visited some vicinities 
after the local brood had hatched, grown ami 
hail flown away, so that we never know when 
we are safe, as they are flying nearly all the time, 
and we cannot tell when they may fall upon us 
iu showers. They are so extremely destructive, 
after they are grown, that they very soon destroy 
a field of wheat or oats. In this region, and in 
many other parts of tho “Big Woods," there 
are a nurnbor of good fields of wheat, and splen¬ 
did crops where hoppers have not fed. Some 
fields around hero are entirely destroyed, hut 
fewer than was feared at ono time before 
hoppers flew. Ono farmer has oven been so 
hopeful as to buy himself a new hat, which 
makes liis neighbors stare for wonder! A pretty 
good crop of potatoes is expected, as well as of 
peas and beaus. Most of the corn-fields are look¬ 
ing well, although many were badly eaten. Alto¬ 
gether, in this locality, crops are keeping tho 
heads of farmers and others above water. Small 
fruits and apples also were much injured by a 
very hard frost in Jane, which papers noticed 
through the country. While we are, so far, spared, 
tho comities of Mocker and Kandiyohi are terri¬ 
bly devastated, as well as portions of many other 
oounties. Several weeks since, we heard of some 
farmers in Kandiyohi who were so reduced as to 
sell thoir fanning implements for one-fonrth 
their value to get broad for their families, not 
knowing where the next food would come from. 
___ A. M. 
NOTES FROM TEXAS. 
Houston, Tex., July nth, 1877 . 
My success in horticultural pursuits is not 
very flattering thi3 summer. A hail-storm in the 
the last days of May, smashed up almoBt every¬ 
thing I had iu the line of vegetation. Some 
things are completely rained. This hail-storm 
was confined to a narrow strip, not over a mile iu 
extent, aud I happened to be J list about in the 
middle of it. Of the Geranium cuttings you 
had the kindness to send me, and which I had j 
nicely started, not one is left. i 
I have a bnlb in bloom, for tho name nf which ‘ 
I havo huutod all tho catalogues accessible to mo, 
without any success, until 1 found it described 
in an old French work on Gardening, by the bo- 
tanical name of Eueonds punctata. It has large * 
AinarylUs-llke loaves, tho under sidos of which 1 
are thickly dotted with black Bpots. It throws t 
up a scape about two feet high, thickly studded t 
with regular six-sepaled, greenish-white flowers, 
which change gradually to a leafy apex. I think 
it a very interesting plant, and it would, without 
doubt, make a fine, showy specimen if planted 
in a largo pot. It is, however, a tender bulb, 
and needs to bo green-housed over winter. 
TIow are tho Prairie Tulips with you ? Are 
they blooming? If so, will you please give mo 
tho botanical name for them ? (It is Kustoma 
Jiussdianum , blooming now.— Eds.) 
Of fifty White Crape Myrtle seedlings, I havo 
about twenty in bloom, aud not one true to tho 
color of the parent plant, they all being pink or 
purple. o. h. 
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NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. 
Henderson, N. C., July 20 . 
After a rather dry spell wo have, to-day, had a 
heavy rain, winch almost insures our corn crop, 
as far as wot and dry are concerned. Wheat and 
oats yield fairly. Cotton a poor stand, but doing 
woll now. Fruit crop good, and so far paying 
the growers a profit; a favorable season gener¬ 
ally. Some hogs dying from cholera or some 
other epidemic. ax. b. p. 
Industrial Implements, 
A SILVER MEDAL FOR BRADLEY. 
There has been a recent Mower Trial at 
Adams, N. Y., on tho farm of 8. D. Hunger- 
ford. The Mowers of eight different makers 
participated and, after what was considered a 
thorough test,, the Silver Modal was awarded to 
the Bradley Changeable Speed Mower, made by 
tho Bradley Mf'g Co., Syracuse, N. Y. The com¬ 
mittee, composed of Messrs. A. C. Middleton, 
E. Makepeace., J. L. Green and W. A. Worth- 
jnoton, after a careful examination of tho 
ground after mowing, and the points of tho 
competitive mactiinos, report as follows: 
'■ The Bradley Mower has two spreads of tho 
knife which can bo instantly changed from fast 
to slow, or slow to fast, at the option of tho 
driver. It is claimed tho slow speed is sufficient 
to cut a greater part of the grass, and as it is one 
quarter loss than that used in Mowers having 
but ono speed, there is a saving of cue quartor 
of the wear and draft. This machine has a 
rocking or tilting bar, enabling the driver to de¬ 
press tho points of tho guards at pleasure for 
cutting lodged grass or clover, or to olovato them 
for the purpose of cutting rough, stony or boggy 
ground. It seems woll adapted for cutting all 
conditions of grass and ground,” and they award 
a Silver Medal as above stated. 
We congratulate the Company on their suc- 
WHY NOT TRY IT! 
The new plan of soiling their Threshers adopt¬ 
ed by Williams <fc Co. deserves careful consider¬ 
ation. They make a cash price for their product, 
and then make it to the advantage of the pur¬ 
chaser to abjure notes and all kinds of obliga¬ 
tions by paying his money on the spot, just as a 
merchant would do. This system onco inaugu¬ 
rated has vory enticing aspects aud is popular 
with those who try it. It is a great saving in the 
original outlay, and the Tact that an implement 
is owned out-and-out, with no reservation, has a 
remarkable effect on one’s peace of mind. 
Those who are longing for Threshers will do 
well to try the plan, (and all readers of this 
journal know our opinion of the Williams’ Noise¬ 
less Thresher), and the first step is to communi¬ 
cate with tho makers at 81. Johnsvillo, N. Y., 
whore they will receive detailed information on 
all subjects concerning the Thresher. 
• - ♦♦ » 
A GOOD PRINTING PRESS 
Is that made by Kelsey A Co. It costs $3, we 
believe, and is an admirable piece of mechanism. 
We don't pretend to divine what wonld have 
been Gutten berg’s sensations if lie could have 
had a prophetic vision of the excellence to which 
his invention would attain, but wo think it will 
puzzle future inventors to improve greatly on 
the appliances now existing for the benefit of 
the art preservative. As a muanB of amusement 
we can think of nothing better than one of these 
little presses, and at tho same time they are emi¬ 
nently practical. If the average American can 
combine pleasure and profit he seems to be in 
his true element. ThiB is his opportunity. The 
" Excelsior" is made at Meriden, Conn. _- 
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THE UNION CHAIR WORKS. 
F. A. Sinclair, Mottville, N. Y., has succeeded 
in producing some very nice chairs, that are 
adapted to a variety of purposes. The frames 
are made of hard wood, principally Maple and 
White Elm, carefully selected, free from knots 
and shakos, aud thoroughly seasoned, not kiln- 
dried, and they are finished with coach varnish. 
'J’lie seats are of Ash splints, split from young, 
tough timber, and combine comfort, durability 
and fiqish. The stuff is hand-turned and 
smoothly finished, and with the variety of pat¬ 
terns offered it would be strange indeed if all 
tastes coiild not be suited. 
