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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A Cheap, effective press, handy to use and 
but little trouble to keep clean, would do 
much to lighten the labors iu the kitchen of 
every farm house, and savo much that ordi¬ 
narily goes to waste. There are plenty of 
presses in the market, but these cost money, 
and many are very difficult to cleanse after 
use, so that in many little things the good 
woman will dispense with their use rather 
than be to the trouble of washing them. The 
implement which we show at Fig. 234, while 
Fig. 234. 
not new in design, meets the ubove want per¬ 
fectly aud, withal, is easily made. 
The only noticeable new feature about it is 
the substitution of a pair of strap hinges for 
the strip of leather usually employed to form 
the connection between the sides; and these 
are a great improvement, for tho reason that 
they do not absorb grease or the juice of the 
fruit and are so much easier to get cleau 
when wushed. To construct it procure a 
board eight or nine inches wide, GO inches 
lougund one inch thick; some hard wood is 
preferable, i’lane it all round, saw it iuto two 
pieces of equal length and shape it as shown 
in the cut, leaving the wide parts 15 inches 
long and leaving the handles two inches wide 
with the edges nicely rounded, Buy a pair of 
What are kuown as heavy strap hinges, three 
inches wide, ora single one six inches wide, 
and put them on as shown in tho cut. with 
kind of small fruit for making jellies, etc 
A strong bag or sack will be needed to hold 
whatever is to be pressed, or it can be placed 
in a plain cloth—gathered up so as to consti¬ 
tute a sack for holding it. 
Any housekeeper who will procure this 
simple press will find it very convenient and 
worth all it costs many times over. 
ROACH EXTERMINATOR. 
In reply to A. L. J , in Rural of June 13, 
as to what would effectually rid her friend’s 
house of roaches, I would say that the exper¬ 
ience of several years in city houses, where 
these pests are far more troublesome than in 
the couutry, leads me to the belief that 
“Buhach” powder, which is manufactured 
from a California-grown plant (Pyretbrum 
cinerariaefolium; the flowers only are ground 
into powder.— k. m.) is an effectual extermi¬ 
nator of these pests. I saw It applied in a 
hotel once, and after the application of the 
powder one bushel of dead roaches were swept 
up. Bubach contains no poison, it simply 
acts upon the spiracles of the insect and kills 
by suffocation; therefore, no possible harm 
can result to the operator or others coming 
iu contact with the powder. 
.TAMES E. CONDON. 
Domestic CcoHflina) 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
The Edmiston & Waddell Co., 351 and 
353 First Street, Brooklyn, E. D.—An illus¬ 
trated circular with full description of the 
new John P. Manny Mower. This machine 
is claimed to be the only one with the patent 
short stroke and shear cut, a new feature, 
which is said to make'it of very light draft 
and very easy to handle, very desirable fea¬ 
tures in a mower. 
Also circular of their riding corn and pota¬ 
to cultivator, which is so made that the rider 
aud driver can, while riding, easily guide the 
teeth so as to closely follow the row, cutuug 
up all weeds aud stirring the ground. There 
are also shields provided that prevent the 
young corn from being covered during the 
first working. All our readers are cordially 
invited to send for and examine these circu¬ 
lars. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
RASPBERRY vinegar. 
Pour one quart of vinegar over three 
quarts of raspberries, and let stand three 
days. Strain them, and to each pint of juice 
add one pound of sugar, boil for 10 minutes, 
skiiu closely, and bottle up. A few spoonfnls 
in a glass of cold spring or ice water make a 
most refreshing summer drink. 
Editor of the Rural with having been in a 
cloth store. “One of its long-time Asso¬ 
ciates” (A. S. Fuller, no doubt) “found him 
there and endeavored to make an editor 
of him.” It is quite true that we tvere en¬ 
gaged in the wholesale woolen business for 12 
years, in the firm of Charles Abernethy & Co., 
prior to 1870, It may also be true that the 
“long time Associate” tried to make an editor 
of us. But we humbly submit that, if so, he 
succeeded only too well, since he does not 
hesitate to accuse us (privately) of having 
robbed him of the R. N.-Y., while it is plain 
that we have succeeded remarkably where 
the “Associate,” with full swing as Editor iu- 
Chief, disastrously failed. Had the “Asso¬ 
ciate” been blessed with a trifle more of 
brains and a deal more of integrity, he might 
now have been enjoying a part of the Ru¬ 
ral's income instead of being obliged to re¬ 
tire from it with a loss of five thousand dol¬ 
lars in money aud an exhaustless secretion of 
spleen aud mortification. 
Now after the above remarks, If the A. A. 
chooses to persist in its crazy-headed personal 
attacks, we can not save it. If David Judd is 
mad enough to fancy that he is to be raised 
up in the ratio that he reviles others, he will 
ere loug, if he is not already, be scouted as an 
insufferable disgrace to farm journalism. We 
do not know him personally. He has over and 
over agaiu, through personal friends, pressed 
us “to bury the hatchet.” But we have uo 
hatchet to bury. It is not a personal matter. 
It is as the inefficient, unscrupulous “mana¬ 
ger” of an old farm journal that bears a na¬ 
tional name, and that should be worthy of a 
national support, that we call upon him to sell 
out his interest—while yet there may be time 
—to capable, broad-minded, conscientious 
men. 
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*IK-ST-CLASS FERTILIZERS AT HO.TIE, for LENS THAN HALF their usual cost. 
one-inch wood screws, bending the binges so 
as to tit, as shown. With this lard, or tallow 
can Le’straintd, the juice pressed out of any 
It is said that we are indebted to a people 
who lived aud thrived 20 centuries ago for 
our cauuiug industry of fruits and vegetables. 
Years ago, so goes the tale, a party of Acueri- 
caus excavating in the ruins of Fompeii, 
found some jars of preserved tigs, which upon 
opening proved to be fresh and good. It was 
thought that the figs had been put into the 
jars iu a heated state, for small punctures 
had been made in the jars, apparently for the 
escape of steam, and then resealed. The hint 
was takeu, and from those few jars of figs the 
industry has gone on increasing year by year 
until it has assumed the colossal proportions 
of the preseut day. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
renovation of furniture; blood purifier; 
pie-crust. 
1. Can you tell me how to take scratches off 
from common furniture! We have a pine set 
that was stained and varnished which is iu a 
deplorable condition. Could I stain and var¬ 
nish it again! 
2. Is red clover tea a good blood purifier? 
Scrofula 
Probably no form of disease Is so generally dis¬ 
tributed among our whole population as scrofula. 
Almost every individual lias this latent pols. fi 
counting bis veins. Tlio terrible a offerings on 
dured by those attiu toil with scrofulous sores 
cannot be understood by others, and their grati¬ 
tude on finding a remedy that cures them, aston¬ 
ishes a woti person. The wonderful power of 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
iu eradicating every form of Scrofula lias been so 
clearly and fully demonstrated that it leaves no 
doubt that It is the greatest medical discovery of 
this generation. It is made by 0. 1. HOOD & CO., 
Lowell, Mass., and is sold by all druggists. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
BLACKBERRY ACID. 
To 12 pounds of fruit add two quarts of boil¬ 
ing water aud five ouuees of tartaric acid. 
Let stand 48 hours, and then pour into a bag 
and let drip. To each pint of juice add one- 
and-one-half pound of sugar; heat but do not 
boil. When the sugar is all dissolved, strain 
again, bottle ami cork tightly. Use same as 
above. 
WALNUT PICKLES. 
Scald the nuts with lye and rub off the outer 
skin. Put them into strong salt water,chang¬ 
ing the water every third day for nine days, 
keeping closely covered from the air. Then take 
them out and wipe them carefully, and pre 
pore the pickle as follows: For 100 nuts,take 
of blciuli popper and ginger root, oaob, one 
ouuce; of clove?, mace aud nutmeg, each, oue- 
half ounce. Pound all the spices te powder, 
and mix well together, adding two tablespoon 
fuls of mustard seed. Put the nuts into a jar, 
strewing the powdered spices between every 
layer. Boil for five minutes oue gallon of good 
vinegar, and pour,while boiling,over the nuts, 
tie up closely and set away for use. I have 
always used the white waluut or butternut. 
Gather when half-grow n, dr when they can 
be readily pierced with a pin. This pickle is 
good for a long, long time, in fact, age im¬ 
proves it. COUSIN MYRA. 
A FRUIT PRESS. 
If so. bow is it made? Can any of the Rural 
readers tell me? 
3. Can you give me a good recipe for nice, 
flaky, pie crust which is measured in a cup, 
not the crust but lard and flour? 
HULDAH. 
Ans. 1.—The only thing to be done with the 
furniture is to have all of the old paint and 
varnish removed aDd then to stain or paint 
and varnish anew. You could no doubt get 
the materials mixed for use, at a cabinet shop. 
2. There is no such a thing in the world as a 
blood purifier. All so-called nostrums are 
humbugs. The desired effect can be brought 
about only by dieting, cleanliness, plenty of 
out door exercise and good, pure air. 3. There 
are cups and cups and they have caused many 
a culinary failure. Take a cup and a half of 
butter, or butter aud lard mixed, and a quart 
of sifted flour. Chop it into the flour with a 
knife—never mix with the hands—until it is 
tine, yellow and crisp like meal, add a little 
salt and wet up with ice-ccld water—the last 
is imperative if you would have your crust 
flaky. Mix briskly and evenly, handle as 
little as possible, roll from you and manage 
to get the paste into shape with a very few 
strokes of the pin. 
Please address all communications for the 
Domestic Economy Department to Mrs. 
Emily Maple, River Edge, Bergen Co., New 
Jersey. 
Prof. Horsford’s Baking Powder 
is made under the direction of Prof. E. N. 
Horsford, the well-known authority on wheat 
and its conversion into bread. Always re¬ 
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