broom, being careful to get all the water off 
at each time, sweeping with the wind so that 
if any dust rises it will go out with the 
the wind, and you will be surprised to see how 
dirty the water is when you get through. I 
do not sweep my carpets unless they need it, 
as every sweeping helps to wear them out 
(Trees, feeds, Plants, &r 
" I used the ‘ACME’ 
Pulverizing Harrow , Clod 
Crusher and Leveler to 
cover wheat with last 
Fall, and this Spring to 
cover oats. It is perfec¬ 
tion itself A {See page 
151 this paper.) 
Dorr’s * Iowa * ^eedQ 
DORR'S J 
Iowa <Js 
ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS IN COOKING. 
Thk Rural is highly prized at our house, hi 
all its departments. But, being a housekeeper 
and mother, I find the Domestic Department 
especially interesting and instructive. But 
with all that, is good I find one fault. In these 
days of reform (or attempted reform) some 
things are brought to notice that.we hardly 
thought of in former times. I refer to the use 
of alcoholic liquors in cooking. We only oc¬ 
casionally see a recipe in the Rural having 
wine or brandy as an ingredient, but occasion¬ 
ally is too often. We would see our favorite 
Rural a model of temperance as well as of 
agriculture. And let us raise our pen for tem¬ 
perance in cooking and eating as well asdrink- 
ing. C. E. Jack. 
now out, and is the most valuable number yet published. 
•a and is the finest Seed Manual ever published in low-. 
It contains a wonderful amount of information for the FARM 
and GARDEN, with descriptions, directions for cultivation, and 
the latest prices in the following general departments: 
VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, FRUITS. 
Mulberry Trees for Silk Culture, 
FIFTY VARIETIES OF THE 
CHOICEST SEED POTATOES, 
VEGETABLE PLANTS. FLOWER PLANTS AND B'JLBS, 
FARM AND GRASS SEEDS, 
The Best Horticultural Implements, and the Greatest 
Newspaper Premiums ever Offered to the 
Public, and How to Get Them. 
It is elegantly printed, and sent to any 
address on receipt of stamp. 
Last year’s customers need not write 
for it. 
Send immediately to the largest Seed 
Store in Iowa, and you will be surprised 
to see what we offer you. 
fTrec.si, plants, 
ff ADSHAKIIM .EE-Xi 
Yellow Flint, 8-roWed , hag produced 123 bushels per 
acre. The most-carefully bred Indian corn In exist 
cnee. Our seed was grown ou Waushakum Farm and 
from seed selected by Dr. Sturtevant. Bushel, $4 
peek, 81.35: <|tinrt, by mall, 15cents, 
C, W, Dorr & Co., 
Seed Growers 
AND IMPORTERS 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES 
CLEANING NICKEL-PLATING 
F Clean the plating ou stoves with Sapolio 
and polish with chalk, rublted on a woolen 
cloth. E. L. 
BUCKWHEAT CAKES. 
Some people have a mania for deriding all 
kinds of food, and buckwheat cakes coiue in 
for their share of abuse, living stigmatized as 
unwholesome, indigestible and all that: but I 
deny the charges: that is. if they are properly 
prepared. The meal for them should be 
stirred up in warm water and a little salt and 
a teacup of veast In? added. Have a pint or 
so of batter left in the pail to raise those for 
the next time, and when it gets a little sour 
put in, each time before baking, a third of a 
teaspoon of soda dissolved in a little hot water. 
Do not have the batter too thick. In baking 
do not get the upper side spattered with batter, 
as the cakes are turned, it makes them look so 
unsightly. A little sweet milk put ill when 
they are wet up, will help to make them n 
nice brown. Aunt Rachel. 
flPTUfNURTlI 
ur int nunin. turmg De«t com 
grown. Originated and the seed is grown on the 
northern border of Iowa. It ripened In Minnesota 
Michigan, Now York, Vermont, etc., Iu<l season, the 
worst for coi n m ■£, years, lu many localities where 
Dent Corn had not before been ripened. Ordinary 
y ields, s) in lui bushels per acre. Bushel, s 1.50; peck 
£1.25; quart, by mall 15 cents. 
IN IOWA 
POTATOES 
grow them can testify. Funner* get this polato aud see what profitable erops you can raise. 
Xfin BUSHELS per acre is not an extraordinary yield for O. K Mammoth Prolific. Tbev will be in a 
dtman/1 as soon MS known. Those who get them first can nutbe money l>v supplying their m 
hors. Price—1 pouud, $1; 8 pounds, £2; 4 pounds, £2.50; by mall, prepaid. Bv freight or express, halt n 
#8.if ); j,eck. $('■: half bushel, £11; per bushel. *3UP. We have s. niethlug e.rfru In the way of SLED CORN 
& CLOUB’S CELEBRATED EARLY YELLOW BEST ,.*“*"* 
more shelled corn per acre than any Other variety; 60 to 70 ears will shell n bushel. We give a -fugle re 
as a sample of the many received. J. J.Sehaublfn. BlufTton, O.. writes; planted the corn, one grain 
place, one foot apart; bad IS2 stalks; yield, two two-bushel sacks full and half bushel of ears- averaged 
bushel to every ,1 stalks; ffl of the best ears made a t wo-hu-n,l sack full. It <:< v t «>rnu'»*l v product fee I 
plant a field of It uext Spring. Fanners, this A|||ka Is the corn for vou.’’ Send for it P 
one pound, 40 cents; tnree pounds for £1, V I i U L post-paid; bv freight or express, nne-o 
During the last unfavorable season very little corn 
matured suitable for seed, therefore 
We keep full stocks of all Die standard varieties of 
Seed Corn which we arc confident will germinate, 
because we scud out none except Its vitality has been 
A PRETTY TIDY. 
IT nitf. two wide strips of shaded satin rib¬ 
bon with a strip of lace insertion. Point or 
round the ends and finish the whole edge with 
a ruffle of lace. Mary B. 
We have recently published the only work of the 
kind ever Issue,I. a GRAIN AND FARM SEEDS MAN 
CAL (Illustrated, s-t pagesi, containing histories of 
Indian Corn, Wheat and other cereals, by Dr. E. L. 
Sturtevant; Methods of Culture by B. F. Johnson. 
Essay on Grasses by Frof. w. J. Beal; and descrip¬ 
tions of all the new and standard varieties of Farm 
Seeds. Price I 0 cents. Annual Catalogue and Price 
List Fkke. 
II I It A 11 SI III.ET A CO,, Seedsmen, 
Rochester. N. V., nnd Chicago. III. 
HOW MANY LAMPS A WEEK t 
How many lamps would a household require 
so that it would not be necessary to wash them 
hut once a weekf I have two in use each 
night, generally; how could I make them go 
through the weekf a. a. c. c. 
Ans, —We are afraid we cannot enlighten 
our friend. The number of lamps lighted at 
night, we think, depends upon the number of 
persons in the family aud whether they all sit 
in one room or each in his own room. The size 
of the lumps, too. decides the time of filling as 
also the habits of the members of the family 
as to early or late hours, 
YEAST-CAKES. 
Will you please publish a good recipe for 
yeast-cakes: w. B. H. 
Ans, We republish the following excellent 
recipe for yeast-cukes, which was contributed 
by Mrs. Buck and published in Rural of Aug. 
*21. 1880, page o-l-i:—At night make a sponge of 
flour, a pint of warm water aud two yeast- 
cakes that, you are certain are sweet and good. 
In the morning boil lor One-half hour two 
quarts of loose hops in water enough to cover 
them; then strain out the hops and into the 
scalding liquid stir all the corn-meal that it 
will wet Up, When the meal is lukewarm, 
mix in the bowl of light sponge and let it stand 
from one to two hours to rise. When light 
pinch off little pats, shape them into cakes and 
lay them on the molding-board to rise again, 
When light, set the board in an open window, 
or other airy place, and turn the cakes quite 
frequently for t wo or three days until they are 
thoroughly dry: then park away in paper bags. 
.MAILED FREE. 
Dili- ILLUSTRATED SPRING 
CATALOGUE OF 
.Seeds.Plants and 
Florists’ Supplies. 
(Extra Inducements t<> 
rnaVket gardeners. 1 Address 
MICHIGAN SEED CO., 
DETROIT. MICH. 
. tescRlClz- Pf>1c£C4i- 
Sent Free to 
any Address. 
D. LANDRETH & SONS 
Seed Growers, 
PHILADELPHIA 
"’U be mm led t'KKK to ail applicants, and to cus¬ 
tomers of lost year without ordering 1 it. It contain* 
ibout I7C i'iures. 600 illustrations, prices, accurate 
aeserlption* »ud valuable directions for pUutltur 
Ifioo varieties of Vein,table mil Flower Seeds. 
I' cits, Fruit Toe»*. s4o In valuable In all, espec¬ 
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D. M. FERRY &. CO. Detroit M ch- 
I’hf Ouiou ^eetl was superior to any l e\er Ll 
U A lien I Tllr Krmurk- 
nftHOCLL ableliA*pberry ever 
Pntwluc#*L Spml for full Account 
*1)4 a beautiful ctirumo of it. The 
stock lo Vhn t!. S, of 
il« i *iipt ru>r *u»ck of Fruit 
Sitmll Fruit* 
K tbq rafalofuo, brilliant- 
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mf rvfo-, r u."3W *» ow t0 ***1 *row them, 
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The famous KitjftrBybrid /%4?, § 1,50 
f iVur, ^1^ Chatnpim 
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Pkturat r y^J>%earr t ’Scsa j . fruit im- 
_1 - •'"s-r,,-'mwiscly Urge, sweet, 
T5 Had;. rAiAi.'.rsi^avw.J^AOc imd‘.‘uau.j- if,/ 
12 t’hr i -mfei.t-sj. ^sJr *a*r . bardv as tbe 
a^Jrr»”l2 BKAl TI lTl.iyaUv^ 0 ^' r '' - 
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F7>" --r .S>-U, 4(1 .iui'x, etc i O It 1> 
:rRAKfi A\D CHEAP! 
Kt«\ PTIAN* CORN. A sT>'iit curiosity. ConiMru-s tll> 
ptcpertlM of com. buckwheat and wlu nt. Seed 25c. per 
Isicket. K> V, I dt CO. Box I 1|, Now Haven, LV-nn 
Wanted—A n American girl to do general 
housework (not washing) in a family of five, 
17 miles from the city in a lonely but pleasant 
country home. Must be kind to children, 
w illing und truthful. Wages #11$ jjer mouth. 
Address Mrs. Kuiily Maple, River Edge, Ber¬ 
gen Co., New Jersey. 
W IF YOU LOVE 
PAlNF>VlTdYK, 
LAKLUO..(>lno 
K.YKK FLOW KKS. send 10c. for pa, ,et ■ t Hil>i«. 
oils CoeeineuM seed, our specialty fur l>s;i, one ,,f tlie 
choicest new plantsc-own, KIciub first summer from 
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KINGSLEY, Seed sun 1 u, Box 418, New Haven, Conn. 
CHOICE NOVELTIES 
A SPECIALTY ! ! 
i.nnn.nnnsMALLFBuiTPUNTs 
Horaiertl’ii Acid Plioophate 
For Wnkefulness. 
I)K. WM..P. CLOTHIER, Buffalo, N. Y., 
says: “T prescribed it for a Catholic priest, 
who was a hard student, for w akefulness, ex' 
trente nervousness, etc., and he reports it has 
been of great benefit to him. .b/r. 
anil Grape Vines. One of the lac t and dnewt 
stocks co r Krown, combined with exceedingly LiU 
Scud forour new Illustrated i 'ala 
Icurile ; no c\.,c---vrated co!<>:-<1 ‘ 
-an 1 ONE OOLLAR 
end o'ferK. Vll tiio leading 
I roc. 
Corn wall-on-Hud non, 
• Now York. 
DUTCHESS NURSERY 4 SEED ESTABLISHMENT 
