MARCH 20 
gorarstii (Btoiumg. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
SMALL FRUITS FOR THE FAMILY. 
E. K. B. 
This is the time of year -when farmers are 
planning what their work shall be for the 
coming summer, and already each field has an 
imaginary crop growing upon it; but how 
few include a plot for small fruits when layiug 
their plans for tbe future. It seems slrauge. 
yet it is true, that farmers, as a rule, enjoy 
fewer of earth's bounties in tbe form of a 
plentiful supply of small fruits, than do many 
of other callings; and yet they of all others 
could have them with least trouble and ex¬ 
pense. 
In the city there are always the markets. In 
the village there are often fruit peddlers who 
drive from door to door, but seldom is there 
one who goes through the country to isolated 
farm-houses. They probably think it would 
be “carrying coals to Newcastle" to take fruit 
into the couutry; but they wou’d find it quite 
the contrary. As far as my observation has goue f 
not one farmer in teu raises his own strawber¬ 
ries, to say nothing of other small fruits. What 
can 1 say to lead them to a better enjoyment 
of the fruits of their land? If the story of 
our pleasant experience in the culture of small 
fruits shall lead even one other family to go 
and do likewise, then shall I consider that the 
time I spend in writing this does not go unre¬ 
warded. 
Teu years ago when my husband’s failing 
health drove us from the city, we bought a 
farm in the hope that out-door life and a plen¬ 
tiful supply of fresh fruits would drive away 
impending invalidism. But we soon found 
our supply of fruit was limited to certain 
months of the year, and that during the sum¬ 
mer our only supplies, until apples ripened, 
must come from three “old-fashioned” Eng¬ 
lish cherry trees and a few straggling rasp¬ 
berry and curraut bushes. These, with a 
dozen forlorn, scrubby dwarf pear trees not in 
bearing, and a good apple orchard, constituted 
our stock of fruit. Two big Lilacs, two clumps 
of Payonies and a Cinnamon Rose-bush formed 
our list of ornamentals. But wo soon changed 
all that. The thought of owning land and going 
without strawberries was an intolerable one to 
me, and the first spring after coming here I 
set with my own hands (because, though far 
from idle, they were the least busy bauds lu tbe 
family just then), a Wilson strawberry bed a 
few feet square. The next year we had all the 
strawberries we could use, aud we have never 
been without them since, but, of course, the 
bed has been renewed. Tbe Wilson is still 
our favorite, although my husband whoso sweet 
teeth are innumerable, prefers a sweeter berry, 
and in his search for one has tested several 
other varieties. 
We have added to our Btock of fruits from 
time to time by purchase aud propagation, 
until now we have of small fruits, blackberries, 
raspberries, gooseberries, currants aud grapes, 
all of choice varieties. Nor have the larger 
fruits been neglected; and we can. “poiutwith 
pride” to our growing peach, pear, cherry, 
plum and apple trees and say. “All tbese are the 
work of our hands ’ On countiug up I find that 
the aggregate of varieties that we have planted 
amounts to over seventy-five, aud yet we have 
not made any great outlay of mouey. Our 
purchases having been made directly from the 
nurseryman, we have got much better terms 
than if we had dealt through ugeuts. 
Our fruit is nearly all in bearing now, and 
it would be hard to describe our delight iu the 
enjoyment of a succession of delicious fruits 
through tbe whole summer. First come straw¬ 
berries, which begin ripening the middle of 
June, and by haviug early and late varieties, 
their season is much prolouged ; before they 
are fairly gone the raspberries, cherries and 
currants are ready for use, followed in rapid 
succession by blackberries, grapes, peaches 
and pears. Last summer we had fresh berries 
on our table from the middle of June until the 
first of October ; aud, incredible as it may 
seem, but probably owing to the very warm 
weather that mouth, I picked several clusters 
of large, beautiful KiltaUnnies on the 28th of 
October with which to decorate the wedding 
supper-table of a friend. 
We do not purpose to raise small fruits for 
sale, but we do intend to have an abundance 
for our owu consumption; aud ouc-fourth 
acre devoted to their cnlture gives us such 
overflowing measure that every year there is 
a surplus of nearly every fruit we raise, for 
which we find a ready Bale among our less 
favored but wealthier neighbors, whose daugh¬ 
ters gladly come and pick our fruit for a share. 
Indeed, they tell me that they can with greater 
ease and more profit pick the fruits in our 
garden for u small share thau to search 
through the woods and tangled brush-heaps 
for wild ouea. We reduce the work of raising 
them to a minimum by setting our plants iu 
long Hues between the rows of young fruit 
trees, bo that a hone and cultivator may as 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
readily he driven between as through the rows 
of a corn field. Treated in this manner but 
little bard labor is required and the young 
trees are also greatly benefited and kept in a 
thrifty condition by the frequent stirring of 
the soil. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
IT DON’T PAY. 
I no not know why Mary Wager-Fisher or 
any other lady should wish to expend her 
“spare can money ” upon cans either of glass 
or tin, for the preserving of tomatoes, when 
one can purchase them of good quality for 
eight or nine cents per tin quart can. I do not 
believe “it pays" to do them up at home. 
The cans cost as much or more thau the above 
price without the tomatoes, and, although it is 
true that they cau be us cd more thau one sea¬ 
son, I have found by experience that the best 
of glass cans can uot be made air-tight enough 
to keep tomatoes in, without the buying of new 
rubber rings or metallic bands, after two or 
three years’ use. Wiih the labor of preparing 
the lomatoes, the heating of one’s-self over a 
hot fire on an August day, and the possibility 
of failure, where the housewife has only for 
her time, labor and money a quantity of acid 
or worked tomatoes which no amount of 
sugar or soda can render palatable, it seems to 
me but a “ penny-wise-and-pound foolish” kind 
of domestic economy to do up yonr own toma¬ 
toes whether in glass or tin. 
Atkins, Mich. Mbs. A. B. 
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TOMATOES IN STONE JUGS. 
I think stone jugs are preferable to glass or 
tin for preserving tomatoes in. Although they 
cost more in the first place thau glass, they 
will last a life-time with any reasonable usage. 
I prefer those holding two quarts or a gallon. 
With ns, tomatoes arc used as freely as pota¬ 
toes, and I have frequently done up 30 or 35 
gallons in a season. The tomatoes are cooked 
10 or 15 minutes, salted, skimmed and put 
through a funnel into the jugs, which are first 
rinsed in hot water. Secure wilh good corks 
and a cement made of two parts resin to one 
of beeswax. Mbs. L. E. R. 
HOUSEHOLD HINTS, 
To Wash .Mourning Calico. 
Put the dress into a boiler half full of cold, 
6 oft water; place on 1 he 6tove and when the 
water becomes as hot as you can bear your 
hands in i’, wash out the dress. Use hard 
soap. Rinse thoroughly and in the last water 
put in bluing and a little dissolved glue. Do 
not use milk or salt-and-umter for calicoes. 
To Wash Flannels. 
I use my wringer to wash woolen blankets 
and stockings. Make a strong soap-suds with 
boiling water and wring them through five or 
six times. Then rinse through two clear hot 
waters, the last one well blued. I have washed 
flannels, both colored and white, in this way 
for the last tweuty-five years without “full¬ 
ing." To prevent the edges of cotton or woolen 
sheets from curling, pass the selvedge edge 
of the sheet into the wringer instead of the 
end. 
That Sausage Recipe. 
The recipe for sausage in Rural of Feb. 
14, Isa good one except the adding of water. 
Instead of water add a pint of molasses and 
a pint of flour. Put the meat with all ihe 
seasoning into the wash boiler (I have one 
that leaks which I use for this purpose) ; stand 
on the stove and mix thoroughly until the 
juice has 6et. Then put in bags made of 
cheese cloth one yard long—one width will 
make four bags. Suspend from the ceiling 
in a cold place where they will freeze. 
Lime in Tea Hetties. 
One or two clam shells kept in the tea¬ 
kettle, will prevent the lime from forming on 
the sides of the kettle. I always turn a clam 
shell over the drain hole in the bottom of my 
flower pots, to prevent the earth washing into 
the saucers. 
Sponge Cake. 
Four eggs; two cops sugar; two cups flour ; 
(after it is sifted); half cup cold water, juice; 
and rind of ono lemon ; one teaspoon cream- 
of-tartar and one-fourth teaspoon soda. I 
proceed to make the cake in this way : Break 
the eggs—whites on a plate and yelks in a 
bowl. Beat ihe whites stiff, as for frosting; 
stir in tbe sugar and beat well for five min¬ 
utes; next beat the yelks, and stir in; then 
put cream-of-tartar and soda in the water, 
stir and mbc thoroughly. Add the flour, then 
the juice and chopped rind of lemon ; have 
your tin lined with buttered writing paper 
and bake. I have used this recipe a good 
many years, and always have good cake. 
Mrs. C. F. Reynolds. 
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