850,00fl CRAPE VINES 
IOO VARIETIES. Al so SMALL FRUITS* Quality ini surpassed. W arranted true, Vervcheai 
Q \ : n I>c t.i'itlarl r..f , -r- T ! 1... ♦ .. . . 1 : . . • ruin' rmriNAn »■ < * * * > J 
Very chc:iii, 
LEWIS ROESCH. Fredonia, N.Y 
3 Sample Vines mailed for 15 c. Illust descriptive price I'istfree 
semi li'.. ftTr 1 Pea r' TnbeiW; t.»all who 
5*22 -IiiVil.' 1 Hi ualion Plums, t; splendid 
A Uw mvd 4 Vl s 'r'Vi V.V. 1 " ,U «»Pu. 1 - hull's I Oe. 
A1 m.*UL i l| v*. 1 . AvonutiW, tb*-3t(«r to.. Pa, 
2 “V»toS 130 per month ^ made. 
This la a rare ofiance. Apply at once 
Wiuior ClsTLK a 10 ., llucUe.l.r, ». *1 
THE BUBAL 
and llaate. 
AND OTHER SPRING BULBS, etc. 
Our Descriptive List of above will be mailed, on application, to any of our 
friends who have not yet received it. 
All requiring High Grade Vegetable or Flower Seeds, should not 
fail to have our priced General Catalogue. 
J.M. Thorburn&C o:.15 JohnS: NewYork. 
IT IS IMPORTANT 
That seeds should be new and true to name. They should he bought of men who have had experience in the 
the business. By sending to us you will get just what you order, and that which will give you satisfaction. We 
are Importers and growers of Seed. Send for our Catalogue. I,. G. SHER II .W «Y C O.. 
Mention fills paper. Providence. It. I. 
^f^^You Will Not Find 
375 g|Ev erab.e with years, 
r \greater travellers than Stanley; seed saved from llte odds 
>-<flEUUends of various crops; seed raised from unsalable 
QEpy ,. . l ~ASSSV. onions, headless cabbages, sprangling carrots, Or refuse 
■— O Ip X? A bee Is. (_l an: ahuaysluipfy io skovumy seed stock.) But 
MJUV you want Northern seed, honestly raised, home 
P a Y ,~T Ij grown (pot rnoie than two other catalogues contain as 
| A |_0 V W manyh seed warranted (see the cover), valuable novelties, some 
„ .•. of which are to be found in no other, send for my vegetable and 
. flower-seed catalogue for 18 S 7 , FREE to 3-1 It contains 60 varie- 
tj es 0 £ Beans, 43 of Pears, 41 of Cabbages, 53 of Melons, 44 of 
Corn, etc., etc., besides a large and choice variety of flower seed. 
JAMES J. JI. GREGORY. Marblehead, Mass. 
SPRING VEGETABLiES and FIjOWERS 
T , „ Also EA R1.V AND PRIME TOBACCO BED PLANT*. 
lAUMERS. C.AJtbSSEns, and PLoatsTs, use the PATENT PRi iTBCTING CLOTH originated and prepared only 
by undersigned. It Is equal to glass sash land costs but tenth a« mucin on CoM Frames and Hot Reds, and 
for Tobacco 1 lant Hods has no equal. Protects from frost. Promotes hardy and rapid urowth. Don't 
shrink or decay rapidly. widely known, strongly endorsed, and freely u-ed by large growers. Retails 
for3, s, and 9 ets per yard, and Is .Ki inches wide. Send for circulars. Samples, etc., free. 
C. S. WATERPROOFING FIBRE CO., 5« SOUTH STkEET, NEW YORK. 
STREET, NEW YORK. 
ful it is in sickness. I keep big bundles of it 
ready to share with auy one who may need it. 
AUNT EM. 
MILK CRACKERS. 
F. P. would like directions for making milk 
crackers. Will some one who has been suc¬ 
cessful in the home making and baking of 
crackers please respond? 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
STEAMED RICE. 
Wash a teacup of rice, put it into a two- 
quart. basin or other convenient dish; put in 
as much water as will swell and cook it. 
Stir in a teaspoonful of salt. Put in a steamer 
and cover closely, and steam t wo hours. Look 
at. it occasionally to see if it is becoming too 
dry; hot.milk or water maybe added to it if 
necessary. When done, it should lie nearly 
dry. Add, in the beginning, if liked, a hand¬ 
ful of chopped raisins or some dried raspber¬ 
ries. It is less trouble than to cook it iu the 
ordiuary way. Oat-meal may be cooked in 
the same manner; but should not be stirred 
much after it begins to swell, as that would 
make it. stringy. Both may be eaten with 
cream and sugar. 
aunt hattie’s pork cake. 
One pound of fat salt pork free of rind, 
chopped very flue; two cups of sugar, one cup 
of molasses, one teaspoon of soda rubbed fine 
and put in the molasses. Mix all and stir in 
sifted flour to make it of the consistency of 
common cake. One ounce each of cloves and 
nutmeg, two of cinnamon finely ground. 
Fruit and citron to the taste. Bake slowly. 
Pork cake is rather too rich for the average 
stomach, but it has the advantage that it will 
keep moist a long time and may bo made and 
kept ready for company, and if well made it is 
as good as any ordinary fruit cake. 
Raisins should always be chopped; then 
they cook better and help to keep the cake 
moist. 
FRENCn LOAF CAKE. 
Two eups of white sugar, one small cup of 
butter, three eggs, one cup of sweet milk, three 
of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking 
powder and one cup of fruit. Beat the whites 
of eggs to a froth. 
CORN-STARCH CAKE. 
One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, 
one-half cup of sweet milk, one-half cup of 
corn-starch, one cup of flour, one-fourth tea- 
spoonful of soda, one-half teaspoonful of cream- 
of-tartar, whites of three eggs, beaten to a 
high froth. 
SPONGE CAKE. 
One cup of sugar, one-half cup of sweet milk, 
one and one-half cup of flour, butter size of a 
walnut, two eggs, one teaspoonful of cream- 
of-tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda. 
GOLDEN CAKE. 
Yelks of eight eggs, one cup of sugar, three- 
fourths of a eup of butter, one-half cup of 
sweet milk, one and one-half cup of flour, two 
heapiug teaspooufuls of baking powder stirred 
in the flour. Flavor to the taste. 
SILVER CAKE. 
Cue cup of butter, one and a half cup of 
sugar, two and a half cups of flour, one cup of 
sweet milk, whites of live eggs, .ne-teaspoon- 
ful of cream-of-tartar, one-half teaspoonful of 
soda. Flavor with lemon. 
ORANGE CAKE. 
Oue cake made like golden and one like sil¬ 
ver cake. Oue grated orauge, one and a half 
tablespoonful of cocoanut, two tablespoonfuls 
of sweet milk, three of sugar. Stir well to¬ 
gether and spread between the two layers. 
AUNT RACHEL. 
CARAMEL LAYER CAKE. 
Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one-half eup of 
butter, oue-half cup of milk, one teaspoonful 
of cream-of-tartar, one-half teaspoonful of 
soda, two cups of flour, scant. 
FOR INSIDE. 
Two cups of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of 
milk, butter the size of au egg. Boil ten min¬ 
utes. Stir till cold. Flavor with vanilla. 
D. N. SPAULDING. 
WHEAT-BRAN PUDDING. 
Take one and one-half eup of wheat bran, 
oue cup each of flour and bread crumbs, half 
a cup each of sweet milk and cream, one egg, 
one cup of brown sugar, half a cup of molas¬ 
ses, one cup of raisins, the same of currants, 
oue cup of suet chopped (hie, one-half tea- 
spoonful of soda, oue teaspoonful of cream-of 
tartar; nutmeg uiul a little cloves. Steam 
three hours, jessie langfokd. 
soup. 
The following is a good soup, easily made. 
Chop flue u few slices of meat, one onion, the 
root and stalk of one bunch of celery, Rut iu 
boiling water " ith one-half cup of rjee. \Vbeu 
3AGENTS WANTED 
*3 K, ffar ARNOLD 
J AUTOMATIC STEAM COOKER 
tender add a pint of milk. Season with but¬ 
ter; salt and pepper to taste, subscriber. 
CORN BREAD FOR DYSPEPTICS. 
In the first place never eat it except when it 
is warm unless you are willing to risk mak¬ 
ing a dyspeptic of yourself. Here is a rule I 
have used for years and never knew any ill to 
come from it,always remembering—what dys¬ 
peptics And difficult—that moderation in quan¬ 
tity is quite as imjKirtant as fastidiousness as 
to quality. 
One cup of corn meal scalded with boiling 
water to the consistency of mush: cool and 
thin with one cup of sweet milk. Add oue cup 
of flour—cither graham or fine—a little salt and 
au egg, if you choose. Bake in an iron gem 
pau heated as hot as for buckwheat cakes, in 
a hot oven half an hour, or perhaps less. They 
should be nicely browned and will be light, 
sweet and digestible. Some add sugar of mo¬ 
lasses, but the dyspeptics are better off with¬ 
out cither. The old-fashioned hoe cake, or 
the coru dodger of the South, is also a safe 
form of corn bread. A modification of it 
which we use much under the name of Flori¬ 
da Fritters, is made by scalding meal with 
either milk or water uutil it is thiu enough to 
drop from the spoon readily, and cooking the 
cakes on a hot buttered griddle till nicely 
browned on both sides. They should not be 
more than half an inch thick, and they are an 
excellent accompaniment to beef-steak when 
one is uot able to digest vegetables. 
Bo sure to for yet. that you have had any 
dinner as soou as possible, and try to believe, 
as my Western friend does, that corn meal is 
the grand ‘‘cure-all’' for dyspepsia instead of 
being difficult of digestion. I sing its praises 
with Whittier: 
“Let earth withhold her goodly root, 
Lot mildew blight the rye. 
Give to the worm the orchard’s fruit. 
The wheat-lleid to the fly; 
dttrtccUancou.s SUrcvti.sinfl 
That Feeling 
Of exhaustion expressed in the words 
“all run down,” indicates a thin and 
depraved state of the blood, reacting 
upon the Nervous System. Nothing 
will reach this trouble with more speed 
and certainty than Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 
“I was all run down,” writes Mrs. 
Alice West, of Jefferson, W. Va., “ be¬ 
fore 1 began to tuke Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
and now I am 
GAINING IN STRENGTH 
every day. I intend using it till my 
health is perfectly restored.” 
“ Being very weak and despondent 
after an illness which caused frequent 
loss of blood, 1 tried Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
and two bottles have restored me to my 
former health," writes Miss Blanche S. 
Brownell, 4 Boylston Place, Boston. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr.-T.C. Ayer Sc On., Lowell, Mass, 
bold by all Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5. 
IOOO 
IANT LAltGE 
Given lo llie LADIES of purchasers of Sumple 
Harness with a view or an agency 111 territory where 
we have no agent. Send for full particular-. 
SHERWOOD HARNESS CO.. Syracuse. N. Y. 
Hli’Tl RE RETAINED AND CURED. 
We ngroe to retain any etwe „ r < _ —- 
reducible or refund your mo A 
uey, also to cure any accept 
edeii.se. our Modleahd Soft 
Pail and Rupture Solution - —~ - 
cures bad cases or direct and scrotal her- ■ jj# 
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treated, either at ottloe or by correspond 
mice. For circulars, rules of measurement, and sclf- 
Instmetlon, call on or address 
SANITARY l M, East Market * i trrct, 
I mliii 1111 polls, I iidittim . 
SCABBY 
more of them BOW KM 
TJXT potatoes are raised on man 
II f lire Smooth potatoes are 
* raised on our fertilizers, and 
BOW Is HR PERTH USER UO., Boston 
MAKE HENS LAY 
But let the good old crop adorn 
The hills our fathers trod; 
Still let us for His golden corn 
Send up our thanks to Gotl I ” 
QHERIDAN'SCONDITION POV"DERisabsoluta 
O ly pure and highly concentrated. It is strictly 
» medicine to be gtven with food. Nothing on earth 
Will make hens lay like It. It cures chicken chol¬ 
era and all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mall f>eo. Sold everywhere. or sent hy mall for 
25 cts. In stamps 2V-D». tin cans, $!; by mall, 
$1.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $5. 
I. S. Johnson & Co.. P. O. Box 2118. Boston, Mass 
WEAVER ORGANS 
Are the Finest In Tone, Stylo, FinMo nnd cental 
tusXc ap of any Roods made. G aan,r.i.t>l lur £ yir.rs. 
Scad lur CsUltyuc, ('-.lunoniala and u-riua, me, to 
Weaver Organ ami Plano Co., 
I I'uotary, York, p. u 
nnrriO FARM ANNUAL for 1887 
■■ mm m Will tie sent FULL to ALL -*L-> writ* for :t It is a 
j fel n ■ ■ Handsome Hook of 128 Pages, with hundreds of 
111 |Lh illustrations, three Colored Plates, sad tells all about 
m THE BE 8 T GARDEN, FARM sad FLOWER 
CCCnQ BULBS ' PLANTS. 
scribes RareNovelties Ln A egemble* sect Flower-. 3 /mat 
» value, which cannot be obtained elsewh&re Send address . m i»o«tal 
flltttsaw. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. Philadelphia pa. 
PI ANTC BY ->I AIL a tp'rialtM. 
1 LA II I O Nia 4 fU.ru, and a full 
st. ick of other Grapt-s. 1 ~.it, j* ,tnrk 
Mraivfcrrries and Raspberries. 
Erie and other Rinckherries. As* 
—- murnirus Roots, etc. Dee. Catalogue 
Free; contains is I. S2 A S3oouec'ns Jt instructions 
forplantiug. JOEL HORNER & SON, Mrrchantviile, N J. 
FOR SALE. 200 barrel* Morning Star Poia 
toes. J. A. ROBINSON. Belcher, N. 4, 
FOR SALE.— I have a fine lot of the celebrated 
Empire State Potatoes, which l otTer at $1.00 tier bush¬ 
el. C2.50 per bhl.. f. o, b. here. 
E. D. CO PI’, Clilton Springs, X. Y. 
HIGH CLASH GARDEN SEEDS. 
. Special Offer. 12 following 
mw choicest new varieties by mall 
for 73 cents. Golden Self- 
Blanching Celery, AU Seasons 
Cabbage. Perplgnam Lettuce. 
/G’yfvRedtaud Glam Musk Melon. 
A ' .\tI sluik. iv Sugar rorn. King of the 
W . i\Vf Garden i.iimis. Alaska Pea. Scar- 
1 |U ( i iwu||a 1 t WaxDush Bean. Golden Chis- 
t. r Uoli- uoan. 'Mammoth salsify. 
1 Beauty Tomato and Chartin'^ 
Radish. Catalogue mulled on receipt of 3Cts in stamps. 
Win. C. BKCKKKT, Seedsman, auleoheny, Ua. 
MAPLEWOOD OAT¥. 
The most productivi- variety known Entirely new. 
Sample and full particulars sent on application 10 
MAPLEWOOD STOCK FARM. 
ATTICA. NEW YORK. 
W Scetl Potatoes MlMiClTA LOC.tK FRKK. 
NORTHtRH SEED I I A. C. SABIN, 
a specialty. !■! Glen wood, Iowa. 
e s t e r n J, fadquart f rs 
For Ear hart D ACDDCBDICC 
and Carman ” eA O 1 D E n n I 
For< R 1 nso.v t Li s qtD AUf D C B BIC C 
TER and J EWEl.I.w I D A W B t n f| 110 
and many other Xoveltws. Alsofull stock of Standards. 
• 
BFAnCBriyou love RAKE FLOWERS, 
nCHIICnMotivtl only, address hl.Hs BROS., 
Keene, X, H. It will astoulsh and please. FREE. 
POTATOES AND OATS FOR *F.EO. 
Send for Price List. t,'. It. Pit K BRING, 
FISHERS, ONTARIO CO., N. V. 
orrn potatoes 
M.LU AND SEEDS 
^^From the Famous ARjOSTQOK. 
\ The great suporlori 
i. v nf true A runs took 
Frown potatoes for 
seed is well known 
|AAg Q Wherever p I a 111 e d, 
j J they 1 ield large crops 
/f~N uqjnf hatulsntpo tubers, 
in’hibly tree tVom dis- 
,T** ~ ease. And t tie short, 
• unicK season of this 
1<>r north-east land 
_-^-T makes all our seeds 
hardy, productive. 
T T &tf S&rHs and early 
My Illustrated 
Oat. mu:f k will N 
GEORGE W. P. I ERRARp, CarilHUi, Maine 
THE BEST PAYING 
MARKET KA^PHEKRY is 
THE SPRINGFIELD 
and the earliest, sweetest, and be-1 family berry; of 
large size, vigor, as growth, al wav s healthy, wonder¬ 
fully pr. l:ti<‘. without thorns, c-asilv hare. -t'Xl. pleas- 
nnt to handle- perfectly hardy-, jutev sweet and excel¬ 
lent For canning It is unequalled. Commended.by 
all who have >ecn it. 
Price by mall $3 pt-r di :;e-M; |3 for 30. 
J. W. ADAMS & CO., Springfield,Mass. 
GE 
COLLECTION. 
IMPORTED FLOWER SEED?*. 
13 pae-kels tor 25 cl*., retail price in iinv cata¬ 
logue $i < yiixrrf varii-ties:- Astern. Balsams, Calli 
opsis, Alyssum, Mlguoueite. Pinks. Calendula. Ver¬ 
bena. Petunia. Phlox, portulaca. Zinnia anti Pansies: 
first 5 or last s, 10 cents. 
GRAND -PECIAL OFFER. 
1 dozen assorted Pansies - 2 s c , 
1 dozen assorted Verbenas, - 3 f. c ‘ 
1 dc-zc-u assert eel F.vrrbhx>mj«c Roses - - 50c. 
1 dozen assorted e’liryeaiitlicmums, - - 5 oe. 
: dozer, sssorr d tmuDle and Single Geraninrts 5 oc. 
a II free by uiall al prices quoted. I haw 15 green¬ 
houses devoted to the growing of plants Send stamp 
forCatalogue N.J. Herrick.Springfield,Muss 
FRUIT 
-AND— 
NUT TREES 
ROSES, 
-SMALL FRFITS,— 
SHRUBS, ETC- 
Scud for 
FREE CATALOGUE. 
Geo. R. Ksapp. GreenticId,Mass. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
All the leading varieties true ut name, at half the 
usual rat-s. Send fer special pru-i s, statii g quantity 
wanted. Adtlresa JOHN S. B.lKMI U(T, 
WILMINGTON, DEL. 
TUBEROSES ™car*nat*on! 
.‘,.V,, V, 1 * w v Uw . Trea_u.se h,... to mw them 
MWMMf MMM Q8MJ8B 
Rhododendrons 
of American grown hardy sorts. 
Red Flowering Dogwood 
O O 
And other Rare Plants. 
Parsons&SonsCo., 
LIMITED. 
K iscem Xurseries. Flushing, N. Y. 
NURSERIES. 
Address J* 
W S LITTLE 
U(tehester,^ff<F 
N.Y. W 
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a nd RARE 
P Zrm OeD and 
VyRELIABLE 
Both Knit| Hod Orna- 
y/Wr usvtitttL Rl> 8 ES, Vines, 
JjOTlrm AtU, K hml«Hlcii (Irons, 
y *Two Bin*, t utfiloirucb 
m 3 rl^. Knee («> cu«(oiu«*rs. 
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