32 
JAN. JO 
THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB. 
Samestir (Ktouomn. 
OOKDUOTED BY EMILY 
MAPLE 
PEN-THOUGHTS FROM 
HOUSE. 
EVERY-DAY 
MRS. ANNIE L. JACK. 
I tlilnk the most unromantic time of the year In 
a farmer’s kitchen Is that period designated In 
some localities “slaughtering time.” Then half 
the men of the neighborhood collect at some, place 
of rendezvous, generally near the principal store 
of the village, or on the premises of some one famed 
for fat pigs. The work Is done with a coolness and 
evident relish that are surprising and the chief 
conversation for days afterwards Is of the weight, 
size and fleshiness of tne defunct animals. To the 
housewife It. Is a busy time and entails a large 
amount of prosy and extra work that 1 cannot 
begin to recount. But one Important Item we have 
been lately preparing, and knowing my own diffi¬ 
culties In times past, I give one method for the 
use of young housekeepers, or those who have 
no better plan. It Is 
Brawn, or Potted Head. 
Soak the heads in Balt-and-water twenty-four 
hours, changing the water and turning them once 
in that tune. Then place in clean water in which 
Is dissolved a tablespoonful of saltpeter and enough 
salt to make a weak brloe, after two days they will 
be found clean and ready to prepare. Then wtth 
a sharp knife thoroughly clean each piece, rinse 
and boll until the bones slip out. Do this from the 
back and under-slde of the head. The feet and 
ear i, 1 should mention, should he put on tlrst, as 
they require half au hour or more extra boiling. 
A beef tongue to each head Is an improvement; It 
Is also better to omit the fatty part of the cheek; 
season with black pepper, powdered sage, salt, 
mace and cloves to taste. A little cayenne adds to 
the flavor for those lilting high seasoning. Wet 
your molds or dishes with cold water, and pour in 
the compound while hot. taking care to have even- 
small bone removed. Thta, when kept cold and 
only turned out of the molds when wanted, Is a 
nice relish tor breakfast or tea, and keeps fresh a 
long time. The chopping machines have made the 
making of sausage meat easy, and there Is quite a 
difference between now and the time when we 
tired our wrists and wearied our patience with the 
wooden bow-1 and mincing knife, so much for the 
march of Improvement which Is comparatively 
slow In the housekeeper's department compared 
with the rest of the world’s work. 
AMENITIES OF RURAL LIFE. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Keeping Sausage. 
Mrs, s. it. Green asks how to keep sausages 
through warm weather. 
Ans—M ake up into little cakes as for table; fry 
until about half done; pack them into gallon stone 
jars and pour melted lard over the top. When 
wanted for use. scrape oil the lard, take out what 
is required, a nd always be particular to mult the 
lard and return It immediately to the Jar. Or, the 
sausages may be sUtffed lu skins, partially cooked, 
and packed In jars, same as above. The Jars may 
he sealed in either ease with pieces of brown 
paper smeared with flour paste. Keep in a cool, 
dry place. 
To Restore Graining. 
Miss M. E. Sanford asks how to restore the grain¬ 
ing of a room which Is badly cracked by the use of 
hot water In cleaning. 
ans.—B o far as we know nothing w-ill restore it, 
but perhaps some of our readers can offer sugges¬ 
tions. 
SaUHy or Vegetable Oysters. 
w. A. Marean asks for rectpeB for the above. 
Ans.— To stew: wash thoroughly, scrape off the 
sirin with a knife, cut across In thin slices and boll 
In water only enough to cover, until tender. Add 
a cup of rich milk or thin cream, thicken with flour 
and butter rubbed together, season with pepper 
aDd salt. Toast some thin slices of bread, place 
In the tureen and pour over the oysters. The 
thickening may be omitted, more milk added and 
served with crackers like oyster soup. 
7b Fry: Scrape, parboil, cut into slices, dip Into 
a beaten egg then In cracker crumbs and fry until 
well browned. 
Fritters Mo. I: Scrape, boll until tender, mash 
fine, wet to a paste with a beaten egg, a little milk 
butter and flour for each cup of salsify. Season, 
make into little cakes and fry until brown. 
No. 2; Three beaten eggs, one-half cup of milk, 
half a dozen small roots of salsify, flour for a thin 
batter, salt and pepper. Grate the roots Into the 
batter made of the eggs, milk and flour. Drop by 
the spoonful Into boiling fat. 
I was Interested In reading Mrs. Annie L. Jack’s 
remarks in a late Rural. 1 agree with her that 
contact and intercourse with the domestic life of 
other families thun your own, are healthful In their 
effects on any housekeeper who, perhaps, has 
often been tempted to think her experience In life 
a Utile more complicated and Irksome than that 
of others could be. The dull routine of domestic 
life becomes tiresome and burdensome without a 
change which Is so invigorating to mind its well as 
body. What Is pleasanter than an Interchange of 
visits among those who can enter Into our needs 
and sympathise with our trials J Sympathy Is a 
great panacea and heals many a wound which 
might otherwise cause sad results. We are none 
of ns so poor and lowly but that we can And plenty 
who will understand our trials and be ready with 
words of comfort. Don’t, thcreiore, shut your¬ 
selves In day alter day and year after year with¬ 
out an endeavor to cultivate the amenities of life, 
for in so doing you do yourself, your husband and 
your children an injustice, for they will certainly 
lose much by such a course. Set apart certain 
times or days as sacredly for the cultivation of 
social Intercourse, and enter into it as religiously 
as you do the care of your home, thus opening the 
way for Improvement not only ior yourselves but 
for your neighbors and friends. a h. s. 
A. G, 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
DUms of tjje 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Graham Uema. 
Stir Graham flour In sweet milk to the consis¬ 
tency of griddle cake batter; add one egg well 
beaten and a little salt. Bake In hot gem pans. 
M. M. Wash burn. 
Indian Pudding. 
Eight tablespoonsful of corn meal; one-half cup 
of sugar; one-half cup of molasses; one-half tea¬ 
spoonful of cinnamon; one-half teaspoouful of 
allspice; one-hall nutmeg and a piece of butter the 
size of an egg. Stir these well together and add 
milk well moistened. Have the milk boiling and 
stir all well together and bake one hour and 
fifteen minutes. I think you will not And this 
the oft despised Indian pudding. 
Drying and fanning Pumpkins. 
Mrs. w. S. M. asks how to dry pumpkins for win¬ 
ter use. 
^,8,—Take the ripe pumpkins, pare, cut Into 
small pieces, and steam until tender. >1 ash, strain 
through a colander and spread on greased pte 
plates not quite an Inch thick. Dry la an oven as 
quickly as possible without scorching. When 
partly dried turn over. Keep as you would any 
other dned fruit. When wanted tor use, soak the 
pieces over night in a little mUk and they will re¬ 
turn to a nice pulp. The following recipe for pre¬ 
serving pumpkins In cans is au excellent one, and 
may give better satisfaction than drying. Steam 
and put through a colander the same as In drylDg. 
Fill glass cans with the pulp and place over the 
flreffiooid water. Boll an hour or longer. Re¬ 
move from the Are and seal air-tight. 
Crops. 
Wheat.— The December crop report of the Dep. of 
Agriculture states that preliminary investigation 
points to an increase of twelve per cent in the area 
sown In winter wheat. The only Sta tes reporting 
a decline are Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, 
in which the uulted wheat area would not exceed 
chat of some counties oi the Northwest. All the 
other stales show an Increase, especially the 
spring win at States of the Northwest. The winter 
wheat acreage of these States, however. Is small, - 
and hence their Increase. Even a very high ratio 
does not add materially to the breadth sown in 
the country. But many- laige winter wheat States 
report great enlargementNew York, West Vir¬ 
ginia, Ohio and Michigan, each T per cent; Texas 
and Tennessee, each 10 per cent; Kentucky and 
Indiana, each 14 per cent; Missouri, 16 per cent; 
Kansas and Oregon, each 2o per cent; Illinois, 22 
per cent. There are quite general complaints of 
the ravages of the Hessian fly In the early-sown 
crops, and of the drought hindering germination 
In tne latc-&own. Yet the crop sui ts out on the 
whole uuder prospects considerably above the 
average, especially In the large winter-wheat 
States. 
Tobacco.— The final returns have not yet sen¬ 
sibly changed the November estimates of the to¬ 
bacco crop. The total product of the country is 
within a small percentage of that of 1876, the gain 
being chiefly in Kentucky, Tennessee and Con¬ 
necticut, and the most serious loss in Ohio and 
Missouri. As a whole, the quality is but slightly 
better than that oi last year’s crop, although the 
Improvement is quite marked lu several States. 
The total ci op of 1879 Is estimated at 384,059,659 
pounds, valued at $21,643,591, against 392,546,700 
pounds, valued at $22,131,428 In 1878. 
Oats.— The return of the oat crop made on No¬ 
vember l. Is confirmed by the report of this month 
The total product of the country Is estimated at 
364 , 253,000 bushels lor tills j ear, against a total In 
1878 o£ 413,678,000 bushels a decline or 12 pr cent. 
The price as returned on the ilrst of this month 
averaged 33.2 cents per bushel, against 24.6 cents 
last year at the time, making a total valuation 
this year of $120,655,000, against $iul,845.000 la 1678. 
Potatoes.— There Is no change In the estimate 
of the potato crop of the last month. With an 
Increase of three per cent. In the acreage for this 
year, there Is a yield of 96 bushels per acre, against 
69 bushels last year and 94 bushels In is77, '1 he 
total crop for the country la esllmated at 181,369.000 
bushels, w hich at the price returned—43.5 cents as 
the average—would make In round numbers $Tu,- 
ouo.ooo, against a valuation last year of $73,050,mio. 
Winter Kye.— The area In winter rye has fallen 
off about three per cent, from lust year. The New 
England States, the states north of the Ohio River 
and the pacific states equal or slightly Increase 
their last year’s acreage. Texas, the only one of 
the Gulf States in which this crop Is of sufficient 
importance to attacf attention, reports an Increase 
of 19 percent. The other sections report a dimin¬ 
ished breadth. The falling off In the Southern In¬ 
land States la rully one-flfth. The condition ot the 
crop Is about average on the whole, being above 
in a majority ot States reporting It. 
Kay.—T he hay crop is about 10 per cent, less 
thau tliatol 1878. The New England and Gulf States 
have sllghly Increased ihelr product, but all other 
sections have declined. The heaviest loss Is In the 
Southern inland States wnlch taken together have 
fallen off 27 per cent. The drought In this section 
has fallen wtth especial severity upon the grass 
crop. The same disastrous Influence has been felt 
In the States north of the Ohio, where the loss is 
20 ner cent., and In the South Atlantic States, 
where It amounts to 17 per cent. The Middle 
States, the largest hay-producing region ot the 
country, fall off nine per cent.; in the remaining 
sections the losses have been much less, the Pacific 
States falling off but one per cent. Tbe average 
price of bay Is about $9.2-1 per ton, against $7.21 In 
1878. Te aggregate value will be over $325,000,000 
against $285,543,752 last year, an Increase of nearly’ 
14 per cent. 
An elevator with a. capacity of a million bushels 
will be built at Duluth next spring. . . The new 
grain elevator now building at Jersey City will be 
the largest In the world. The Erie Company Is 
also building a monster elevator at Jersey city. 
. . . America contains 13,000,000 milch cows; 
Germany, 9.000,000; France, 5,000,000; Great Brit¬ 
ain and Ireland, 4,000,000; acd Switzerland, 000,- 
000 . In 1870 there were manufactured In this 
country 960,000,000 pounds of butter and 340,000,000 
pounds of cheese. About 4 per cent, of the former 
and over 40 per cent, of the latter were sold for ex¬ 
port. . . Short-horns In England have sold on 
an average fully $52 each lower In 1879 than In 
1878. In the past year the average price of 2,354 
animals was £4719s. 9d.. while the average price 
ot 2,811 animals the year before was £57 5s. 9d. . . 
The total exports of produce from this port since 
Jan. l ’79 were $353,237,730 against $346,916,873 for 
the corresponding period last year, and $298,620,928 
In 1878, A very fair increase. 
The Wes .urn N. Y. llort. Society will hold its 
25th annual meeting In Rochester, In the com¬ 
mon Council Chamber, commencing Wednesday 
Jan. 28 th. 1880 at 11 a. m. Prof. G. C. Caldwell, 
Professor of Chemistry. Cornell University; Prof. 
W. R. Lazenby, Professor of Horticulture. Cor¬ 
nell University; Hon. Lewis F. Allen, Buffalo, 
N. Y. An early member of the society, and one 
of the most eminent Agriculturists and fruit 
growers of our state; Mr. John J. Thomas, Edi¬ 
tor of the Country Gentleman, and author of 
“American Fruit Culturlst;” Mr. James Vick, the 
renowned seedsman and florist of Rochester; Mr. 
11. E. Hooker, Esq., of Rochester, a vice-president 
of the Society, and a. cultivator of great exper¬ 
ience; Piof. C. U. Dann, of Warsaw, K. Y. Mr. 
J. S. Woodward, of LOCkport, a vice-president 
of the Society, and a practical, successful or- 
chardlst; Mr. H. B. Ellwanger, of Rochester, 
whose papers on the Rose have, been so accepta¬ 
ble, will each make an address at this meeting. 
After the reading of each paper, there will 
be discussion on the topics suggested by It. Full 
reports are expected from the standing Com¬ 
mittee, ten in number, and also from the Special 
Committees on Orchards. A great variety ot 
questions have already been proposed lor dis¬ 
cussion. When all have been received a com¬ 
plete list win be prepared and sent to members. 
Farmers’ club and all kindred societies are in¬ 
vited to send delegates and ladles are especially 
invited. Specimens of new and rare fruits, or 
such as possess some special Interest, also other 
rare garden products, new Implements, etc., are 
solicited. Parties who may not be able to attend 
can have the transactions mailed to them by re¬ 
mitting the annual fee of membership, one dollar 
to Mr. I*. C. Reynolds, Rochester, Treasurer. . . 
Pleuro-pneumonla Is reported to be spreading In 
Westchester Co., N. Y. . . Great floods occur¬ 
red In the Canary islands in Dec. 21 st. Houses 
and crops destroyed. . . The Chicago Board 
of Trade has protested against the adoption of the 
central system here. The grain operatives are 
still bitterly opposed to it. In any event It will 
take years before prodtuers can get accustomed 
to it . . St Louis grain receipts for the year 
fS 79 were 45 , 000,000 bushels, an increase of 10 ,- 
000 , 000 . Cotton receipts largely Increased, and 
all leading lines of business showed a marked 
lmprovemeet. . . Cincinnati grain receipts for 
the year 1879 were the largest In the history of the 
city, belug 11,263,275 bushels, against 11,165,697 
bushels tor the previous year. The total value 
of all merchandise receipts was over $ 203 , 000,000 
and of shipments over $192,000,000. . . Muchdis- 
satlsfactlon Is expressed by the farmers who sup¬ 
ply Philadelphia and this city with milk, at the 
prices they are getting for their product, and an 
agitation is now under way on the subject of de¬ 
vising some means for forcing dealers to pay a 
higher figure. 
aggregate loss Is not so large as It might have 
been. The total loss Is estimated at $ 35 , 000 . 
A double lynching took place at Golden Colora¬ 
do on December 28th. Two men, Sam Woodruff 
and Joe Seminole, committed a cold-blooded and 
cowardly murder on a farmer. R. B. Haywood, last 
September. They were both arrested and were 
awaiting trial when they were taken from the 
Jail by 150 masked men and lynched. The se¬ 
verest weather reported for years prevailed In 
Dakota Minn., and Northern Wisconsin at the 
close of the old year. The cold wave seemed to 
come from the British Possessions. At St Vin¬ 
cent the thermometer stood 50° below zero, at 
Crookston 56°. 
FOREIGN, 
Although prices of food are unusually low In the 
British Isles, yet the pressure of extreme want Is 
upon thousands In Great Britain, and that of star¬ 
vation upon tens of thousands In Ireland. Earnest 
appeals for relief are made to the public on this 
side of the Atlantic and on the other ; but succor Is 
alow and people are actually starving in tbe west 
of Ireland. . . The French have a new Cabinet 
under the presidency of De Freycnet, whose pro¬ 
gram is very radical. He Intends to enforce a 
purification of the civil service, by turning out 
every omnia! who does not emphatically endorse 
the Republic, suspending established laws Ureffect 
this purpose. . . Canada has lately b r BOm - 
what reorganizing her Cabinet. She has now 
thirteen ministers to 5,006 ,000 population, while we 
with 60 , 000,000 manage to get along with seven. . 
The King and Queen ot Spain were tired at as they 
were driving through the palace gate at Madrid, 
the other evening. The would-be assassin was 
Immediately arrested, and has confessed his crime. 
. . King Humbert of Italy, has been shot at 
while out hunting, recent ly, by a gang of poachers. 
, . A portion of the bridge across the Firt h of 
Tay, on the east coast of Scotland, was blown 
down the other night while a train from Edinburg 
to Dundee was crossing, plunging the cars Into 
deep water and drowning about 75 passengers. 
The bridge opened to traffic In May, 1S7S, was 10 ,- 
320 feet, about two miles long, being the longest 
Iron bridge In the world, and It had 89 spans. It 
cost $2,545,000 and was 130 feet above high water. 
The Proof of the Padding is In the 
Eating. 
Grocerymen and storekeepers pay 3 to 5 cents 
a pound extra for butter made with Gilt-Edge 
Butter-Maker. It increases production 6 to 10 per 
cent.; reduces labor of churning one-half ; gives a 
rich golden color the year round. Sold by drug¬ 
gists, grocers and general storekeepers. Send 
stamp for “ Hints to Butter-Makers.” Address, 
Butter Improvement Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 
For Allaying Hoarseness and irritation of the 
Throat It Is dally proved that “ J^rown's lironchica 
Trocnes” are a mild remedy yet very efficacious. 
Truth Is mighty and has prevailed, 
umph In Hop Bitters. 
See ltstrl- 
, <§lu| Ipaijlujts. 
THE GIST OF THE MARKETS. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, January 5,1830. 
A political event has occurred In Maine which is 
calculated tocreato widespread alarm. A republican 
majority ot seven in the Senate and twenty-nine 
In the House of Representatives of that State has 
been counted out by the Governor and council, 
who act as canvassers of returns of votes cast; 
and a democratic and greenback majority of eight 
in the Senate and seventeen In the House has 
been counted In. If tbla action Is eonsumated by 
the organization or the two houses of the Legisla¬ 
ture as thus constituted by the canvassing board, 
a greenback Governor and State officers will then 
be elected. The republicans have of course done 
all in their power to reverse this action of the 
Governor and council, and attempted to bring the 
matter before the supreme Court, but the court 
held the opinion that It could not interfere with 
the Executive Department. At last accounts some 
of the democrats to whom the Governor had 
granted certificates of election refused to occupy 
the contested seats in the Legislature. 
The energetic French engineer M. de Lesseps is 
now in the Held wtth a large staff or assistants mak¬ 
ing the Anal survey for the projected canal across 
the isthmus of Panama which shall separate North 
America from South America ana unite the Pacific 
with the Atlantic Ocean. Indeed, It Is not yet 
known whether it la practicable or even possible 
to construct tbe canal at all, but this question 
M. de LessepB Is expected to decide at the end ot 
this month. A conflagration took place on the 
evening of New Year’s day at Red Bank New 
Jersey, which destroyed the business block of 
the town. A number of buildings were destroyed 
but it being mostly plain frame structures the 
What was said hero last week about the state 
of trade in agricultural products, in various parts 
of the country, may be repeated this week—things 
are nearly at a standstill, and w ill probably re¬ 
main so far a week or two at least. The prices of 
our surplus cereals depend on the necessities of 
our transatlantic customers, and these seem de¬ 
termined not to pay our figures until torced to do 
so by the cry for food from their suffering country¬ 
men Well, we can afford to wait, and that seems 
the present intention of the dealers and specu¬ 
lators here. The prices still offered by these for 
grain tor future delivery, show plainly that they 
expect, a further rise, and generally as a class they 
have pretty correct Information about, the amount 
of grain that can bo supplied to our furelgn mar¬ 
kets from other sources, and therefore can esti¬ 
mate pretty accurately the prices at wblch we can 
afford to hold our produce. .Just at present, how¬ 
ever, the general tendency ot prices for cereals 
throughout the country, Is downward. 
The produce dealers are joining the grain men 
Jn their opposition to the Cental system In this 
market, and another pettllOD was presented to the 
Board ot Mauagers of the Produce Exchange on 
Saturday 3d lust., asking that auother ballot 
should be cast to decide whether It should go Into 
operation or not. This Is Important to farmers, as 
upon the action taken will most likely depend 
whether they will soon have to sell their produce 
by the old-fashioned bushel or the uew-faugled 
Cental As yet, despite the last vote here, the 
sett ling price or grain is still posted up lu the Ex¬ 
change In bushels. 
It will be seen that we have enlarged the scope 
ot our market reports at several points this week, 
notably at Boston, Chicago and Louisville, In com¬ 
pliance with the wishes or our friends in districts 
tributary to those points. For the sake of con¬ 
densation as well as or Intelligibility, we arrango 
all the quotations in each market together, so that 
anyone Interested In any item can readily discover 
It In capital letters, on casting his eye over the 
proper report. _ 
The following were the net receipts ot cotton at 
the below named ports from September 1 , 1879, to 
Jun. 1st, I 860 : 
Porte. Buies. 
Porta. Bales. 
Galveston. 339,036 
New- Orleans... 833,636 
Mobile. 247,329 
Savannah. 647,860 
Charleston. 343,689 
Wilmington.. 65,863 
Norfolk. 373,32!) 
Baltimore.... 9,614 
New York. 88,621 
Boston.125,366 
Providence. 20,076 
Philadelphia.— 16.281 
City aua W eet Point.. 138,327 
Brunswick. 3,156 
Port Royal. 20,767 
Pensacola. 406 
IndiunoLa.. 6,364 
Total.3,183,569 
SPECIALS FROM ALL CENTERS. 
Until Saturday, Jan. 3. 
Baltimore.— Since last report No, 2 West’n winter 
red wheat has fallen _k,0. on spot and a shade more 
on futures; other grades unchanged, southern 
white corn is from 2 c. to 3c lower; do. yellow, a 
shade lower; Western mixed is from 2 &c. to 2 x 0 . 
