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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
has been wafted to the table, and is accepted 
as confirmatory testimony, from a young 
friend who is doing good service in the cause, 
Professor W. H. Lazenby, formerly of Cor¬ 
nell, and now of the Ohio Agricultural and 
Mechanical College, an honored collaborator, 
who has given the following postulates to the 
agricultural press:— 
1st. All ravines and steep hill sides, all land 
too rocky to be thoroughly cleared of stone 
and plowed, should be devoted to trees. 
2d. Protecting belts of timber should be 
planted wherever buildings, orchards, gar¬ 
dens, etc., are exposed to cold, sweeping 
winds. 
3d. The banks of streams, ponds, open 
ditches, etc., should be so planted with trees 
that they will be protected from abrasion by 
floods and rapid currents. 
4th. All public roads should be belted by 
graceful, stately trees. 
We should preserve, improve and extend 
our existing forests by keeping up a constant 
succession of young growing trees of the best 
varieties. To do this it is necessary:— 
1st. To allow no stock to run in wood lots 
for purpose of forage. This should be a rule 
inflexible and relentless. 
2d. Young growth in forests should be thin¬ 
ned moderately and judiciously. Worthless 
varieties should be cut out and the valuable 
sorts should he trimmed up so that they will 
grow tall, forming trunks rather than branches. 
3d. Timber should be cut with intelligent 
reference to future growth. Valuable trees 
that you wish to propagate should be cut in 
the Spring. Those that you wish to extermi¬ 
nate should be cut in August. 
In the next article the “ Preparation of the 
Soil” for timber planting will be discussed. 
Domestic (£concmuj 
_ CONDUCTED Bi EMILY MA PLE _ 
RUGS AND BUGS. 
Rugs stamped aud wrought out in beauti¬ 
ful figures, are useful and ornamental in their 
places, but there are grades in rugs as well as 
in other household goods, and the mud-mat, 
made of a piece of plank bored full of two- 
inch holes and fastened to pieces of joist or 
strips of plank, is useful in its place, which 
should be along the path where the men come 
from their work. Nailed to one eud should 
be a strong door scraper, and a very good one 
can be made of worn-out scythe backs. 
At the entrance way, a husk mat, braidtd 
and sewed, or draw thickly through inch aml- 
a-half holes, bored thickly together in a piece 
of plank, should complete the boot toilet to a 
nicety. A foundation of burlap of oblong 
shape, covered with strips of thick cloth from 
old garments, pinked upon one edge aud sewed 
on by the other, row after row, finishing in 
the middle with one pinked upon each side, is 
pretty. A piece of carpeting or thick cloth 
for a center, finished about the edge with 
braided rags, will do for another. The plain 
cloth center can be made ornamental by cut¬ 
ting out leaves from bright cloth, and sewing 
them on. The old-f.ishioued cup and platter 
style is not to be despised. A foundation should 
bemadeof burlap and braided ragssewedonin 
rounds, like small plates set down, then fill in the 
irregular spaces between them with drawn rug 
work, and finish the edge with scallops, or I 
have made a kind of fringe that looks well. 
Cut a strip four inches wide, long enough to 
reach around the nig; then cut from one edge 
to within half an inch of the other, successive 
ly, till it, is all like a coarse fringe. Take three 
of the pieces at a time, lay them across each 
other as though commencing to braid, and 
sew them stiongly together, just far enough 
from the uncut edge so it will lie flat; then 
when all is done, sew around the rug. A rug 
of blue and gray water-proof, scalloped, 
pinked, and cliain-stitched ou to a founda¬ 
tion, a little way from the edges of the scal¬ 
lops, is quite pretty. Chain stitch the blue 
cloth with gray yarn, and the gray with blue. 
Similar pieces set ou in diamonds, rounds, or 
as one pi ases, form the button rug; only 
pieces of decreasiug sizes, fastened one above 
another, of different colors also, an custom¬ 
ary. Strips sewed on in log cabin style make 
quite good rugs, and the pattern, as also the 
colei’s, can be varied. Carpet rags knit gar¬ 
ter stitch on wooden needles, look well, and 
can be shaped to suit the fancy. Cast on ton 
stitches, kuit a foot or a foot and a-half in 
length, bind off and fasten, then knit a strip 
to reach around that, and so on striping in the 
colors as you please, and you have au oval, or 
round rug, strips of equal length, sewed side 
by side, a square or oblong. Au old time 
fancy was to cut out rounds, give them a little 
twist like a horn of plenty, at one edge, and 
sew on row after row until the foundation 
was covered; line and put ou au edge of points, 
or scallops, which are improved by button¬ 
hole stitching the edges, with bright-colored 
yarn. The same rounds, or heart-shaped 
pieces, were sometimes put on in contrasting 
colors, flat, row after row just over-lapping 
each other. The chenille rug, made of thin 
goods, cut bias, gathered on a thread through 
the center, and sewed on thickly, is not a very 
modern invention, though a very good one. 
Old knit goods can be made of use, by ravel¬ 
ing the edges of strips, and sewing on a foun¬ 
dation through the centres. 
SOAP-STONE GRIDDLES.—CONFLICT¬ 
ING EXPERIENCE. 
In reply to Mrs. T. S. H. “Reader" says: 
“ When new and before using give one thor¬ 
ough greasing—thisisallit requires. Heatvery 
hot before putting on the cakes and you will 
have no trouble with their sticking. I have 
used a soap stone griddle five or six years.” 
Mrs. F. D. C. says: “I have used n soap- 
stoue griddle seveu years, and I find that 
cakes will stick to it unless it is greased about 
every time it is used. ” 
Mrs. D. E. II. says: I have used a soap¬ 
stone griddle for three year; and have had no 
trouble with its sticking. After each heating 
I clean it with flue salt before putting away. 
I was told never to grease it; for after once 
greasing it I should be obliged to do so ever 
afterward. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
SUET PUDDING. 
One cup of milk, two of suet (scanted) 
chopped flue, three of flour, one cup of seeded 
raisins (1 chop part of them) one teaspoonful 
of cloves, one of cinuamon, a little nutmeg, 
one teaspoouful of soda. Steam three hours. 
My experience is, that the longer they are 
cooked the better they are. 
SAUCE. 
One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, 
one ecg beaten to a stiff froth, one-half cup of 
boiling wine. 
STEAMED PUDDING. 
One cup of sweet milk, two eggs, two table¬ 
spoonfuls of melted butter, one-half cup of 
sugar, one pint of flour, two teaspoonfuls of 
baking-powder — steam one-half hour. It is 
nice with a cup of raisins added to it. 
CHOCOLATE PUDDING. 
One pii.t of grated bread crumbs, one 
quart of scalded milk, seven tablespoonfuls, 
of grated chocolate, the yelks of five eggs 
added to the bread and milk, butter the size 
of a walnut, sweeten to the taste, bake 35 
minutes. Whites of five eggs beaten, one 
teacupful of sugar. Mix and spread on the 
pudding. Bake a few minutes. 
STEAMED CORN BREAD. 
Three cups of corn meal, one cup of flour 
two cups of sweet milk, one cup of sour milk, 
one cup of molasses one teaspoonful of soda, a' 
little salt. Steam three hours and bake one- 
half hour. 
HICKORY NUT CAKE. 
One-and one half cup of sugar, one-half 
cup of butter, three-fourths of a cup of sweet 
milk, two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder, whites of four eggs, one-and 
one half cup of chopped nuts. 
DELICATE CAKE. 
Whites of three eggs, one cup of sugar, one- 
third of a cup of butter, oue-aud-one-half cup 
of flour, one-half cup of milk, two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of baking powder. 
SNOW CAKE. 
One-and one-half cup of powdered sugar, 
one cup of Hour, whites of eight eggs, three- 
fourth of a teaspoonful of eream-of-tartar. 
This is just as good as the “Angel’s Food” 
so much spoken about lately and much less 
troublesome, I will give the recipe for that, 
however. 
MOLASSES DROP CAKE. 
Oue cup of butter, three teacups of molasses> 
three eggs, one teacup of sour milk, one 
tablespoonful of soda. Stir quite stiff and 
drop on tins. I always bake oue to try for 
they are not good if too stiff. If right and 
eaten warm, they are splendid. 
ANGEL’S FOOD. 
Take the whites of eleven eggs, a tumbler 
ful and-a-half of granulated sugar, one , 
tumblerful of flour, one teaspoonful of vanilla, 
one teaspoouful of cream of-tartar; Sift the 
flour four times, theu add the cream-of-tartar 
and sift again, but have the right measure 
before adding the cream-of-tartar, sift the 
sugar and measure. Beat the eggs to a 
stiff froth, on the same dish add sugar then 
the flour very gently, then the vanilla ; do 
not stop beating uutil you put in the pan to 
bake. Bake 40 minutes in a moderate oven. 
Try with a straw and if too soft let it remain 
a few minutes longer. Turn the pan upside 
down to cool. Use a pan that has never 
been greased. The tumbler to hold two and 
one-fourth gills. To be cut with a sharp 
knife. Mrs. J W. Storm. 
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