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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER. 
AUG. 3 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Practical departments : 
Arabian Horse, The (Illustrated). 
Poultry Breeding—A. M. Van Auhen..... 
Neglect of Young Chickens—Henry Hales.. 
The Champion Hereford-(IUustrated). 
Farm Work for Aminat. 
Seasonnblr Hints—F. H. J)... 
Encourage Homo Manufactures... 
Tobacco Culture In New England, No. I. ■ 
Growing Beans Cheaply— VV. J. F.. 
Kamie Culture... 
Caro of Village Kofusc... 
Waste of Manure Ob the Farm ...... • • • • .. 
Hooting Cuttings in August Q. H. (Ills.).... 
S 'll* Lucbla Charles Downing..................... 
Transplanting i anbage, tier.,— l. F. rilllnghaat... 
Grntting Grape V'ines—S. B. Peck. 
What Others Say. 
Annual Fair List... 
Eureka Safety-Power. (IPiistrated). 
Banner’s Friend Drill. —(Illustrated).. 
Aiutweni to CoiresponderUs: 
Namesot Grasses. 
1 Manure Ingredients..... 
'i'elllnga Horse's Ago by Its Teeth 
A Good Potato Store-House. 
Salt and Water In Pastures. 
Cholera Among Poultry. 
Miscellaneous. .. 
Everywhere : 
Dodge Co., Nell. 
Brown Co., WIs. 
tin tool Co.. Term. 
Clinton Co., Iowa. 
t St. I.awr. nee Co.. N. Y 
JelTUrson Co., N. Y. 
Meeker Co.. Minn. 
Kmmuc Co., Ya...... 
DomAvltc Economy: 
About Mosquito Netting-Mary Wager-Fisher.. 
Mop Handle Papers... 
Domestic Recipes. .. 
Markets .. 
Editorial Page: 
Potatoes ns Food. 
“ Cornels" m Grain... 
Latest Crop Reports. 
Prtok i y Cotafrey. . 
Singular Aquitegla.•••••• 
Watering Plants During Sunshine. 
Brevities. 
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the work as well. 
Now, 1 kuow from experience that luke-warm 
water, or oven oold water, will cleanse wood 
from all ordinary impurities. I do not pretend 
that it will bleach a floor; but is it necessary 
that it should be snow-white? If it is, why not 
paint it the desired color, and thus save one’s- 
self a “ deal" of hard work, and do away with 
the last chance of scalding the little ones to 
death. 
An innocent, God-given life and a clear 
conscience are of vastly more importance than a 
chalk-white floor. So I enter an earnest protest 
against the uho of boiling water for cleaning 
purposes, ho long as there are helpless, toddling 
children in the house or vicinity. 
May Maple. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
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Make the paste as usual, and place the under 
crust upon a deep tin, and the upper one, out 
the right size, on a flat tin ; prick both orusts to 
prevent bliBtoriug, and bake until nicely brown¬ 
ed. Fill the under crust, while hot, with ripe 
blackberries: sprinkle powdered sugar over 
them, cover with tbo flat crust, and return to 
the oven for a very few minutes—just long 
enough to heat t he fruit. This pie may be served 
with cream and sugar, and, according to our 
taste, is preferable to the average berry pie with 
its 6oaked aud heavy crusts. k. h. b. 
Carbonate Ammonia Cookies. 
For the benefit of Mrs. Martha Hinds, I send 
P iBl ry..494 
Mamie Grey's Sacrifice. 494 
InumMu.Js ....... *91 
UHCi nt Literature..494 
Mngur.lne Ni.len. 494 
Keep Out of the Kitchen-J. K. M. 4-> 
l.iuie Pi>iiM»ur< » oi Life —Ella F. Mosby .495 
OKI Seltbrs’ liny—H. C. 1>.... 495 
Will Ling lur the Buys -Mrs. MnConoughly.' ■> 
I.IneonMdored Tritius . 495 
CaliforniaU Paradise for Women.. 495 
Reading for the young : 
A I'ockot-Muney SuggO-tion—(Illustrated...... 498 
How Poor Readers are Manufactured—May 
Maple.. . 498 
my recipes for the following : 
One ounce of oarbouato ammonia, one pint of 
sweet cream, two teacupfuls of sugar, half a 
grated nutmeg, and flour to roll very thin. 
Ammonia Spo tge Cake. 
Three oggs, one oup of sugar, one cup of flour, 
one tablespoonfnl butter, one teaspoouful pul¬ 
verized carbonate of ammonia, dissolved in a 
very little bot water and added the last thing. 
Flavor with nutmeg. Mrs. M. Aldrich. 
Sabbath Reading: 
Mischief and Danger of Exaggerations in Re- 
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Pern,mills .... 499 
News of the Week—Herman. 49*' 
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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
ABOUT MOSQUITO NETTING. 
In the first place, buy it by the pieoe. It will 
probably cost half-a-dollar, and will cover all the 
sashes for windows that you will require—prob¬ 
ably—and enough be left for a door oi two. 
Most people know its value in summer time, but 
there are mauy farmers’ families that do not, 
and upon such I urge its use. It saves in labor, 
ten times its cost in labor and money. It adds 
to the comfort of a room, beyond measure. Any¬ 
body who i* clever with a carpenter’s tools can 
make frames enough for doors and windows, in 
two or throe days of the winter time, when 
there is no other driving work. Especially for 
the windows and doors of Ihediuiug-rootn is the 
netting a necessity for keeping out the flies. 
The frames for the doors should be hung on 
hinges, such as will admit of their being lifted 
off after the reign of tbo flies is ended. Noth¬ 
ing is more tantalizing aud vulgar than to sit at 
table in a swarm of flies. With netting at the 
windows aud doors—especially the outside door, 
if there be one—the room may be darkened be¬ 
tween meals, leaving a tiny crack for the flies to 
crawl out, and in such easy wise, the room may 
be kept comparatively clear of thorn. Try it, 
and be gratified. Mary Waqek-Fisheb. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
MOP-HANDLE PAPERS-NO. 2. 
I have had occasion to wonder on cleaning 
days at jthe carelessness of house-keeperB, who 
have little toddling children just beginning to 
run about. Perhaps I ought not to call the 
fault carelessness, but there surely muBt be a 
lack of calculation when the mother can not 
clean her kitchen floor—and, as it frequently 
happens in country places, the kitchen includes 
the nursery—without the use of boiling water. 
In how many incidents do we read of children 
being sc tided by falling into the pall of boiling 
mop water! And all too often are we obliged 
to witness the agonies of the little household 
pot who has met with this frightful accident. 
The afflioted mother presses the darling to her 
heart, and crying over her own negligence, 
moans: “If I had only watched my darling 
closer, or tied him in hiB high chair out of the 
•way, I might have kept him with me for long 
years to come, but now I must witness his dying 
agonies, and know that I am to blame for all 
this suffering and for the Jobs of his precious 
life. How can I ever forgive myself!” 
Aud yet, strange as it may seem aftor such 
stem experience, the very next oleaning day, 
although there are other little toddlers about, 
she .must heat the water to its boiling point, as 
Baked Tomatoes. 
Scald and peel a sufficient quantity of Bmooth, 
round tomatoes; put into a deep earthenware 
dish, sprinkle plentifully with Balt and popper ; 
have a te&cupful or more—according to the 
quantity of tomatoes—of fine cracker crumbs, 
and spread ovui the top. Bake in a quick oven 
from thirty to forty-five minutes. Drop a few 
lumps of butter onto tbo tomatoes and serve. 
Tomatoes on the Half-Shell. 
Have toasted a few slices of bread nice aud 
brown ; butter, cut in half, and place where it 
is warm. Select tomatoes which are smooth, 
and not over-ripe; cut in two—llat-wise—and 
put, skin down, on a hot grid-iron; serve on 
slices of toast with butter, pepper and salt. We 
have eaten them with a teacupful of hot cream 
poured around the slices of toast and tomatoes— 
the addition of which did not improve them to 
our taBte. 
Scalloped Tomatoes. 
Teel as many ripe tomatoes as required ; cut 
into slices, aud place in a puddiug dish first, a 
layer of tomatoes, seasoned with butter, pepper 
and salt, thou a thick layer of broad crumbs, also 
seasoned with butter, pepper aud salt. Thus 
alternate the layers uutil the <linb is nearly full, 
having tomatoes last; cover tightly, and bake 
one-half hour or longer if the oven be not hot. 
Tomato Soup. 
Take of a neck piece or from the round, two 
or three pounds of beef; remove every particle 
of fat, and out the meat into very small pieces; 
put into the kettle, with two or throe quarts 
of oold water, aud simmer for ono hour; as 
the senm arises, remove, aud keep the kettle 
covered; strain the moat from the broth, aud 
add a quart of tomatoes, wbioh have been 
pressed through a colander, with a bunoh of 
parsley, and boil twenty minutos ; cut and scrape 
the kernels from three ears of sweet corn, aud 
add to the soup, with & half teaoupful of sweet 
cream, two small tablespoonfulB of flour, pepper 
and salt; boil fifteen minuteB and serve. 
Tomato Salad. 
Skin, remove the seeds and pulp from fresh 
tomatoes ; chop what is left with the heart—if 
it may be so called—of a cabbage and a little 
parsley, and serve with a good salad dressing. 
Cucumber Relish. 
T his pickle may be made from those cucum¬ 
bers which havo grown too large for pickling 
whole. 
Peel, out in half, remove the seeds, and grate 
on a coarse grater; drain the water from the 
mass, season highly with pepper, salt and 
ground cloves, cover with cold vinegar, bottle 
and seal. 
Stuffed Eggs. 
Boil ten eggs uutil bard ; plunge into cold water 
for a moment or two, remove the shells, cut in 
half, take out the yelks, chop, and mix with them 
some chopped cold chicken or veal, season with a 
little parsley, peppor and salt, and with a little 
melted butter, shape into a form to fill the cavi¬ 
ties ; press the two halves together ; roll first, in 
a beaten egg, then in bread or cracker crumbs, 
put into a wire vegetable basket, and dip into 
boiling lard; when delicately browned Berve 
with a tomato sauce. e. m. 
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QUERIES ANSWERED. 
Stuffed Ham. 
Please give directions for stuffing a ham. 
E. B. 
Ans.—W ash and Borape the skin until it lookB 
white and clean; cut out quite a large piece 
from the thickest part—whioh by the way may 
be uBed for fryiog—and Bteam four hours. The 
skin should be left as whole a* possible on the 
ham as it answers for a sort of oapo for the 
stuffing. Fill the space out out with a dressing of 
bread-crumbs, seasoned with pepper, salt, sage, 
a little onion if liked, and all mixed together 
with a couple of raw eggs; bind a strip of cot¬ 
ton cloth around to keep in place; Bcore the 
skin in slices a quarter of au inch deep and bake 
an hour aud a half, turning so as to brown on 
all sides. The last half hour sprinkle with 
bread crumbs and baste frequently with butter 
and water. Mauy peel off the skin before bak¬ 
ing and cover with a regular cake-icing just be¬ 
fore it is done—it should bo then left in the 
oven only long enough to brown. 
Stuffed, baked or boiled ham, providing it has 
been nicely cured, oau bo tuado into the most 
tempting and healthful—so the writer thinks— 
dishes. The nicest portions may be cut into 
slices and served, while the ragged parts may be 
chopped fine and with pickles and other ingre¬ 
dients be made into sandwiches, omelet, grated 
ham on toast, etc. 
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POLITICAL. 
Monday, July 29. 
The National party, now generally known In 
this State as the Greenback-Labor Party, held a 
convention at Syracuse on Tuesday and Wednes¬ 
day. The greenback clement of the party from 
the outset took control of the assembly, complete¬ 
ly throwing the labor party Into the background. 
Three sets of rival delegates, belonging chiefly to 
the later faction, presented themselves for admis¬ 
sion from this city, hut all three wore stoutly ex¬ 
cluded. in the main, the body was made up of 
farmers, country merchants and labor representa¬ 
tives, together with a fair sprinkling of lawyers, 
political enthusiasts and other adventurers. Tbe 
political papers are loud in their sneers and Jeers 
at the Eccnes of excitement, disturbance and re¬ 
crimination that took place, but In reality, Judg¬ 
ing from even prejudiced accounts, these were 
hardly worse than those witnessed at mos6 con¬ 
ventions of democrats or republicans. 
They nominated Gideon Tucker as Judge of the 
Court of Appeals, and adopted a platform de¬ 
manding, In brief, repeal of the Resumption Act; 
the withdrawal of national bank notes; the Issue 
by tbe government of Irredeemable legal tender 
notes receivable lu payment of all debts, and the 
Immediate payment of the whole of the national 
debt lu such notes; a protective tariff upon all 
articles grown or made here; a graduated Income 
tax, bearing heavily on the very rich, and more 
lightly on the less wealthy; a wise and judicious 
system of internal Improvements; the adoption 
of a tax designed to Umlt the amount of land ono 
man can own; a prohibition against competition 
with convict or Chinese Cheap labor, and a few 
other planks of minor Importance. 
This seems to bo a fair Bam pie of the principles 
of the party throughout the country, Judging 
from the platform adopted by It at the late con¬ 
vention In Ohio, and from other authorized declar¬ 
ations. Among many thoughtful men In this sec¬ 
tion, the notion Is growlngstrong that the system 
of contempt, abuse and ridicule, with which this 
party has hitherto been generally treated by the 
Eastern press, is a raise one; and that the princi¬ 
ples of the new organization should be combatted 
by arguments as seriously aud temperately as are 
the principles ol me old political organizations. 
An allied organization, known as the Knights of 
Labor, ft secret and professedly non-polltloal 
party, claims a membership throughout the coun. 
try of 870,000, of whom 500,000 have Joined within 
the past year. 
Yesterday morning Kearney, the California agi¬ 
tator, arrived lu Boston, after a journey of eight 
days from San Francisco. Shortly after his 
arrival be was waited upon by a large crowd of 
workingmen, to whom he made a speech full of 
boisterous language—death to monopoly I death 
to debased capital 1 death to Mongolian as well as 
to African slavery! death to political plunders!— 
blood-SHCkere Of all parties, etc I etc 1 etc! After¬ 
wards he attended a meeting—with his mother— 
a respectable, old Irish woman, who had not seen 
rum for fourteen years. He goes lu for Butler for 
governor of the old Bay 8lute. 
Sherman, Garlkid, Trumbull, Kelly, and a num¬ 
ber of other Visiting statesmen, were before the 
Potter Committee during the week at Atlantic 
City. Their testimony directly contradicts that 
of Anderson and other “ Fraud " witnesses on 
most points; but. the public, all over the country, 
are getting tired of tbo endless mass of contra¬ 
diction, perjury and corruption, and Uokal read¬ 
ers will, doubtless, wait with patience for a synop¬ 
sis of the evidence later on when all Is In, and It 
Is possible to arrive at some definite conclusion as 
to its bearing and Importance, 
UI8CBLLANKOUH. 
A farmer near Faribault, Minn., shot and In¬ 
stantly killed a couple of tramps whom he 
caught setting Are to a harvesting machine In 
lffs wheat Held. He surrendered to the authori¬ 
ties, but was Immediately released. The rail¬ 
road presidents lately held a conference at which 
It was recommended to the Western road9 to 
advance grain rates from Chicago to New York 
from 16 to 20 cents, and other freight in propor¬ 
tion. Another monster defalcation In Boston ! 
The guilty party this time is John G. Tappan, 
Treasurer of the Boston Belting Co; President 
of the McKlUop and Sprague Commercial Agency 
company of this city and largely engaged In 
several other branches of business. Ilia misappro¬ 
priations will probably amount, when all are dis¬ 
covered, to over $1,000,000. lie lias surrendered 
property nominally worth that amountand claims 
sympathy for Ills dishonesty. Itisthe old story 
ot reckless speculation. There has been a scare 
In Brooklyn and this city at the appearance of 
half a dozen cases of yellow fever on board a 
government vessel lately arrived from the West 
Indies. No new cases have appeared, however. 
The pest has already made its yearly vlsLt to New 
Orleans, where some 40 odd deaths have already 
taken place, and that city has been quarantined 
by Memphis, Shreveport, Galveston, Mobile, and 
Pensacola. 
Three men were killed and four others seriously 
Injured by the explosion of the boiler of a thresh¬ 
ing machine neui Bellevlllo III, a week ago. Such 
Items might truthfully bo very common for the 
next couple of months at least. A meeting of 
about 2oo of Jay Cooke’s creditors mot a week 
since In Philadelphia. But after waiting live 
years they could learn nothing of the sum they 
arc likely to get,out of the assets of the bankrupt. 
As yet only live per cent has been paid on the 
$8,000,000 for whioh Cooke failed; and naturally 
some Indignation Is felt at the delay Inclosing up 
t.hq estate. But then the receiver etc., would 
lose their present tat, salaries and pickings. Forty 
per cent, It Ih hoped, will ultimately be realized 
from the assets. By a decision Just rendered by 
Secretary Sohurz all land granted to railroads to 
help to build t.hom, and whlcb have not been sold 
within three yours from the dale of the entire 
completion or such roads, are declared to be sub¬ 
ject to the right of pre-emption at $1.25 per acre. 
It Is unjust that these lands, after having been 
accepted dlsttn t.ly on this condition, should be 
Indefinitely held at, much higher prices or for 
speculative purposes. This righteous decision 
will throw a vast extent of excellent land open 
to settlers on ravorable terms, and though the 
Supreme Court has not yet been culled upon to 
decide the question, It has given undoubted in¬ 
dications that Its decision would coincide with 
that of the Hecretary ot the Interior. The land 
Is some of best to be found, lying, hero aud 
there, right along the railroad and never far 
irorn It, aud therefore It is probable most of It 
will soon be “ entered." 
Gross frauds In the accounts of the Indian 
Agent at the Crow Creek reservation have been 
discovered by Gen. Hammond, a recently ap¬ 
pointed Indian Agent. The Government has 
been cUarged for a vast quantity of goods never 
purchased; agents, clerks and employes of all 
kinds, together with their ramllles have been 
supported on supplies that oughl to have been 
distributed among the Indians; trains to tbo 
Black UlUs have been loaded with goods from the 
same source, and every form of peculation lnra- 
mously practiced. The thing has been goffig on 
for years, enriching numbers of public plunder¬ 
ers, but just now the detected culprits are Dr. 
Livingston, tbe-agent, ami a number ol subordi¬ 
nates, all shining lights of the Episcopal Church. 
It la much to be feared that this robbery is only 
a flagrant sampleor what Is going on, or has been 
going ou, at many other Indian agencies. Out In 
Oregon, rrhmdly L'matlllas under Gen. Forsythe, 
have contributed greatly towards ending the 
war by falling upon the hostlles near Baker City, 
utterly routing them, and capturing many scalps, 
women and horses. Subsequently Howard Joined 
Forsythe. The combined forces followed hot 
upon the trail of the lioaii lea, who soon separated, 
the Flutes heading for their reservation, probably 
there to surrender, and live ou Uncle Sam until 
the next outbreak, and the Bannocks making for 
Camas Prairie and Capl. Jack's famous Lava Beds, 
which they too may use as a stronghold. It la 
thought, however, that this war Is uow virtually 
over. The Sioux, under Spotted Tall and Red 
Cloud, are about to move poacofully and content¬ 
edly to their .new reservations on White Earth 
River and White Clay Creek, Missouri. 
In the year ending June 30, 1879, the entire ap¬ 
propriations made by Congress for the beueflt of 
all Indians amount to $4,741,076, aud besides this, 
some or the tribes are nearly self-supporting, 
others have annuities from tym proceeds of the 
sale of their lands, etc,; whBc a few claim no as¬ 
sistance; yet the chief oause ot Indian disturb¬ 
ances every year Is a scarcity of supplies. If, In 
addition to the above sums, we take Into account 
the injury they do In war, the expenses of the 
army needed to keep them In order, and the value 
of their possessions, It, would seem a cheap plan 
to bring them all East and board thorn at first- 
class hotels. 
Bugar-cane culture is extending into all the 
Gulf States, and as far north as Georgia; the 
area under cultivation tbls year is considerably 
larger than hitherto, and the outlook Is promis¬ 
ing. The wool clip la about three per cent, larger 
than last year. There has been a falling off of 
c percent, In New England, or 3 per cent, lu the 
three northern Middle States, and of 9 per cent. 
In California, and au Increase everywhere else, 
amounting to as high as 14 per cent. In North 
and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama 
and Tennessee, with a very large Increase in 
Texas also. A considerable weakening In prices, 
however, Is Indicated. Tramps are busy com- 
mlllUig all manner or outrages through the 
country. A partial list of their crimes during the 
past week, us reported in the Rural exohanges, 
would fill a couple ol columns. The patience of 
farmers is getting exhausted, and It is not Im¬ 
probable that ere long mauy districts will be 
made too hot for the reckless vagabonds. 
