JUNE 3 
THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB. 
would suggest that a good man be hired to be 
making the necessary improvements in the 
fences, do some draining, and get everything 
into ship shape for regular work. And take 
mv advice; don’t spend a dollar about fancy 
work; nor without thinking several times 
about how it can be brought back to you 
again. George has a business education and 
bunness men as a rule make the most success¬ 
ful farmers when they aro wise enough to 
avoid useless and extravagant expenditures. 
In improving a farm oue must make haste 
slowly; and if possible, by beginning judici¬ 
ously, make the farm pay for its own im¬ 
provements. 
“Verv gool advice, Uncle John,” said Mr. 
Bates, “very good indeed. For myself, I have 
often thought a great responsibility rests upon 
wealthy persons who amuse themselves wi'h 
farming. Everything they do is watched and 
reported and made public and their mistakes 
are imitated by persons who really cannot 
afford the expanse, and some over confident 
ones suffer serious losses in consequence, and 
some are ruined. No one can afford to play 
at fanning, on this account, aud besides, it 
has the elfecb of injuring the very interest it 
is supposed to serve, by creating fictitious 
values f >r stock of superior kinds which have 
no other legitimate use than to improve the 
condition of agriculture. Many a farmer 
who would like to possess good animals and 
could turn them to good account, is made 
envious an! jealous, because they are put 
bayon i his reach by men who bid extravagant 
prices for them for the pride and ambition of 
owing them, and, lodging them in costly 
palaces, where they simply minister to and 
gratify vanity: rather than serve their proper 
purpose. There are a few worth v rich men 
who are not actuated by this spirit and who 
have the public welfare at heart, and strive 
with earnestness to do good to their fellows; 
but unfortunately, these are persons whose 
modesty prevents their work from becoming 
notorious, and newspaper reporters who are 
looking for sensatious, don’t seek out these 
men What do you think about it, John?” 
“I think so too. You are right.” 
wind, brushing hard, to raise all the dust high 
enough to blow out, and what does not blow 
out is taken np. After the dust has settled the 
carpet is swept over again iu the same manner, 
and it will surprise many how much dust and 
dirt will be gathered at this second sweeping. 
Each time she sweeps just as clean as she can, 
for on this depends the not being obliged to 
dust every day. The pictures, brackets, man¬ 
tles and casings are all wiped clear of dust, and 
not a particle must be allowed to fall on the 
carpet, but taken out and shaken from the 
cloth. After all dust is removed from doors, 
windows and base-boards, it is a good time to 
clean any spots from the carpet. When the 
room is put to rights she feels well repaid for 
her extra care. m e h 
stand until firm, cut into pieces about four 
inches square, and put away to harden. If 
soft soap is needed, let the above boil only 
about an hour, then turn into a tub slowly, 
stirring in about six quarts of water or enough 
to make a hard white jelly. The grease 
should be well melted and allowed to stand 
after straining, then only the hard cake on 
the top used, scraping away auydirtor ex¬ 
traneous matter. We use the skimming* of 
everything not fit for other purposes, even 
candle ends and grease, and if mutton fat pre¬ 
dominates the soap is harder. Of course, like 
all other soap, the older it is the better. 
Economy. 
and Pacttltury 
. RYE BREAD. 
At night boil one quart of water and one 
quart of milk. Set it on a cooler part of the 
stove where it will stop boiling and stir in 
yellow Indian meal till it is a thick mush. 
When sufficiently cool stir in one cup of wheat 
flour, and one half cup of good home-made 
yeast. In the morning add a little salt and 
stir as stiff as possible with rye flour. Let rise, 
put iu pans, let rise agaiu and bake. It is im¬ 
portant that the iuush does not boil, as it has 
a tendency to make the crust of the bread 
break off while cutting it. 
If wheat and Indian bread is liked, take out 
two cups of the Iudian sponge (before adding 
the rye) aud one cup of warm milk, and stir 
stiff with wheat flour. 
SPONGE CAKE. 
Two scant cups of sugar, two even cups of 
flour, one teaspoon ful of soda, two teaspeon- 
fuls of cream-of-tartar, five eggs, four table 
spoonfuls of water and the juice of a lemon. 
Beat the yelksof the eggs with two tablespoon 
fuls of water, and mix it with the granulated 
sugar till a perfect cream ; theu the whites of 
the eggs, w'hicb must have been first beaten 
stiff. Next stir in the lemon juice and tw o 
tablespoon fuls of water, and lastly stir in 
lightly the flour in which has been sifted the 
cream-of-tarter, soda and a little salt. Bake 
in a steady oven until it can be pierced with a 
broom whisk without sticking, The lemon 
Run the selvedge of sheets through the wring¬ 
er first, rather than the hem, then hang with 
selvedges down, and it will save work in iron¬ 
ing, as the edges w 11 not wrinkle so much. 
Soda makes one of the best powders to polish 
silver with. 
I w-ould advise every- housekeeper to get 
silver knives as well as forks, and use them 
every day, too. I have used mine (which have 
plated handles) all the time for over six years, 
and the plate is only worn a little on the edges 
now. It savesa great amount of labor as well 
as looking better. Those too old to learn new 
ways aud those sometimes termed vulgar (be¬ 
cause they choose to use the knife to convey 
food to the mouth) need not fear cutting their 
mouths, a3 they are dull. After you get the 
knives and forks get red table cloths. The 
first cost is more, but they will last enough 
longer to make it up. Ret. 
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DANDELION TEA. 
Pull up six or eight dandelion roots, accord¬ 
ing to size, and cut off the leaves; well wash 
the roots and scrape off a little of the skiu. 
Cut them up iuto small pieces and pour on 
one pint of boiliug water. Lot them stand all 
night, then strain through muslin, and the 
tea is ready for use. It should be quite clear, 
and the color of brown sherry. One wine- 
glassful should be taken at a time. The de¬ 
coction will not last good for more than two 
or three day s, and therefore it must only be 
made in small quantities. The above is an 
excellent drink taken in early Spring and 
superior to many more expensive so-called 
blood purifiers. Farmer’s Wife. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
Special attention given to Plantation Ma¬ 
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HINTS ABOUT WASHING DAYS. 
The discomfort and exhaustion of washing 
days may be avoided somewhat by using 
some forethought about dinner. Picked- 
up dinners should be contrary to domestic 
law, because if one ever needs a good dinuer 
it is on washing day. The easiest bill of fare 
is baked beans. They should be put to soak 
over night in tepid water, and in the morning 
the water should be changed and they should 
be scalded up in water with a little soda in it. 
This takes away the strong, disagreeable odor 
aud makes them cook more easily. The water 
should be changed afterward, aud when the 
beuns become a little soft they should be 
skimmed out and put baking with enough salt 
pork to flavor them. If there are some left 
they make an agreeable addition to the supper 
table of workingmen. 
If potatoes are -wauted besides, a few may 
be baked. For a pudding, one easily made 
and very good is Indian meal pudding. Scald 
a quartof swret milk; when just at the boiliug 
point thicken it with seven tablespooufuls of 
meal, st rred in a little milk. Add a teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt, one-half teacupful of molasses, one 
teaspoonful of ginger or cinnamon, as prefer¬ 
red, and a table?poonful of butter. After 
taking from the fire add a little cold milk, stir 
well and bake three hours. A skillful mana¬ 
ger can prepare all these dishes between times 
of her other work and with the dinner all in 
the oven, leaving the whole of the stove free 
for laundry operations, and it saves the hurry 
aud trouble of cooking au ordinary dinner, 
and the mind is free to attend to other busi¬ 
ness without feeling so hurried. 
Aunt Rachel. 
John & Water Sts., Cincinnati, O. 
Mix same as plain sponge cake. Bake in lay¬ 
ers and join together with an icing made of 
white of an egg, juice and grated rind of an 
orange, and powdered sugar to spread nicely. 
Put more sugar in that you reserve for the 
top of the cake. 
bread cakk. 
Two cups of wheat bread sponge, two eggs, 
one-half cup of butter aud lard mixed, cup of 
sugar, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one- 
fourth teaspoonful of soda, flour enough to 
make as stiff as plain cup cake. Let rise till 
very light, put in a shallow, greased pan and 
rise agaiu. Sprinkle ground cinnamon and 
sugar on top and bake. 
SOFT MOLASSES CAKE. 
Two cups of molasses, one-half cup of but¬ 
ter, one half cup of lard, oue cup of water, 
four even cups of flour, two large teaspoon¬ 
fuls of soda, and two eggs. Pinch of salt, cin¬ 
namon and ginger to taste. 
Grease pans for bread aud cake with lard, 
instead of butter, as it is less apt to stick. 
Mrs. S. 
Whitman’s Patent Americus 
VEGETABLE SOUP. 
Fry leeks, onion, parsley, carrots cut up fine, 
turnips also cut up, until they are brown; add 
two quarts of quite ordinary stock. Let this 
simmer very gently for three hours ; add 
small slices of toast just as the soup is served. 
It should not be strained. 
SUBSTITUTE FOR CREAM. 
When milk and cream are not plenty, try 
the following for coffee, short cake, etc. Beat 
the white of an egg to a froth, and mix well 
with it a very small lump of butter. Add it 
to any hot liquid gradually, so that it may 
not curdle. f v v 
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"'f; Aim made. Will make 
1 Ml twenty p, r cent, more elder 
Glau any oilier. 
Perfectly Adjustable. 
I T7[j| ; 1 rl Pri< i s as low as any flrst- 
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R Deep setting perfected. Will get all the 
cream without ice. Includes a perfect re¬ 
frigerator box. Cans are sold without 
boxes, and furnished with glass gauges 
when requested. Special attention given 
to fitting ouUarge creameries. One cream 
ery at wholesale, where I have no agents- 
Agents wanted. Send for circular. 
W . E. LINCOLN, Warren, Mass. 
By far the best driuk is thin ottmeal and 
water, with a little sugar. The proportions 
are one-fourth pound oatmeal to two or three 
quarts of water. It should be well boiled, 
then one ounce or one-and-one-half ounce of 
brown sugar added. Shake up the oatmeal 
well through the liquid. In Summer drink 
this cold, in Winter hot. You will find it nut 
only quenches thirst, but will give you more 
strength and euduranee than any other drink. 
If at any time you have to make a very long 
day, as in harvest, increase the oatmeal to 
one-half pound or three-fourths pound to 
three quarts of water. Many will find a 
piece of lemon-peel boiled with it an improve¬ 
ment. Farvv« 
one-half teaeupful of butter, one half teacup¬ 
ful of sweet milk, oue aud one half teaeupful 
of flour, lemon flavoring, two teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder. This recipe makes a very 
good plain cake, by using three eggs instead of 
seven yelks. 
CORN-STARCH CAKE—(TWO LOAVES.) 
Two teacupfuls of white sugar, one teacup¬ 
ful of butter, one teaeupful of sweet milk, 
one teaeupful of corn starch dissolved in the 
milk, three teacupfuls of flour, whites of six 
eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 
Lemon or vanilla flavoring. All corn starch 
cake should be eaten when new as it soon be¬ 
comes stale. 
These recipes are just right for Winter 
wheat flour. If Spring wheat flour is used, 
about a quarter more of flour should be add¬ 
ed. When I get a new grist of flour I always 
try it iu bread first, as I And there is quite 
enough difference in it to spoil the best cake 
recipe ever invented. Mrs. C. D 
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SWEEPING: AUNT MARY’S METHOD. 
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HARD SOAP FROM REFUSE GREASE. 
Ibis recipe which has been used in my 
mother’s family for several years, will be 
found excellent for all household purposes, 
except for the toilet aud it may be for very 
nice paint, and the l enity cf it is that refuse 
grease which is needed for nothing else can be 
used. Materials are three pounds of solid 
grease, three pounds of common washing soda, 
one-and three fourth pound of lime, one half 
pound of lump borax, two gallons of soft 
water; boil water, lime, audsodaall together, 
until soda and lime are melted, then pour into 
a pail, leaving it to stand until next morning, 
so that it shall be settled; then pour off the 
water into the vessel you intend boiling it in, 
place on the fire, adding grea a d borax, let 
it boil slowly for two hours without a cover, 
then pour into pans, or a shallow box, led 
It sill passes all other 
It sut passes all other sv sterna In quantity ai. J quality 
o i hatter. In case and cleanliness of wr.rkin 1 " is 
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Addresses Wanted. —Parsley seeds sent to 
George U. Bonnet, New Bedford, Mass., were 
returned, because letter was not addressed to 
street aud number. 
M ill Madam I. L. O. Vidal please send her 
full address. Emily Maple. 
