be made up of persons (either men or 
women as preferred) whose names shall be 
a sufficient guaranty of strict, impartial 
action. 
FINALLY. 
All of our female readers, whether young 
or old, who desire to enter the lists will 
kindly send in their names and addresses 
on postal cards, adding the words ‘’Fob 
the Potato Contest.” 
The value of the souvenirs already 
promised amounts to over $1,050, as will be 
seen by reference to another page. Our 
lady friends are sending in their names for 
the contest freely and a grand national con¬ 
test, likely to engage the attention of the 
civilized world, is assured. 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
STRAWBERRY HILL PRIZE PORK 
PRODUCTS. 
W E received from Dr. J. B. Learned a 
package of his pork products—; ausage, 
lard, and scraps. The Rural family rarely 
eat pork in any form, and so perhaps are not 
very good judges of these products. The lard, 
which was used for pastry and for frying pur¬ 
poses, seemed the purest, sweetest, and so the 
least objectionable that we had ever tried. 
The sausage was most savory and appetizing, 
and, when well browned, free from grease. 
The scraps we found an agreeable accompani¬ 
ment to eggs, beans, etc. How much the 
knowledge of cleanliness and the neat manner 
of putting up the goods had to do with our 
enjoyment of this pig food,we, of course, can¬ 
not say. 
We have never thought the pig the filthy, 
wallowing fellow he is usually set down to be. 
That he should he kept in nauseating filth and 
fed stomach sickening filth, while all other 
farm animals are kept moderately clean— 
clean by comparison at all events, and given 
wholesome food—and that the flesh of this in- 
spissation of filth should constitute nine- 
tenths of the meat food of the farmer’s family 
—wife and young children particularly— 
seems to us a highly culpable state of affairs. 
We are not acquainted with Dr. Learned, 
but we certainly w sh him all succtss, and 
trust that his humane end hygienic treatment 
of the pig as described in the Rural of Feb¬ 
ruary 3, may be followed, the sooner the 
belter, by all intelligent farmers. 
WHAT A MOTHER THINKS. 
T HE tirade of “ A Man” against refinement, 
in a late Rural, is a proof of “ many 
men of many minds,” as the old copy-books 
used to say. It also proves that customs vary 
in regard to work in different parts of the coun¬ 
try; for in this locality it is the housewives 
or housekeepers who work lti hours a day, 
having to wash the dinner dishes while the 
nun are resting, aud to work two or three 
hours in the evening after they have finished the 
chores. While not agreeing with the young 
lady waiter whom he criticises, in every par¬ 
ticular, it is a fact bsyond dispute that the 
reason why farmers’ sous cannot hold their 
own among other educated people is that they 
lack the refinement s;me of them affect to 
despite, and then they wonder why refined 
people do not like to associate with them. I 
have often noticed the children of farmers, 
and always observed that the litile boys while 
small were as shy and delicate as the girls 
and often bade fair to become refined men. 
But as they grew to manhood, they gener¬ 
ally liked to imitate the swagger and “ tall” 
talk of the men who frequent the grocery, 
and if allowed all the litei ty they wanted 
they soon resembled them. 1 kuow many 
families where the girls are refined aud the 
boys content to be rcugh and uncultivated, 
though the latter have had better schooling 
than the former. These girls never went to 
school to ham to paint, (mere’s the pity!) hav¬ 
ing only the rudiments of an education, and 
attending to home duties faithfully, and to 
me there is something beautiful in the home 
adornment by the daughter, if she has a 
natuial taste for such work; for life is really 
more than pork aud potatoes. 
Concerning the fish story, I only ask “ A 
Man” if be would think it just for his wife to 
throw her pailful of dirty water over his 
harness just blackened; why then should such 
ill-smelling articles as fish be cleaned in the 
WE ROML NEWCOMER, 
U3 
kitchen, if there was a shed or other covered 
place where it could be done? Most men 
when they dirty a kitchen, think it is only 
their women folk’s work to clean it after 
them, and after a woman spends a few years 
in continual back-aching scrubbing and 
cleaning up, she is apt to get tired or go 
crazy, and though supposed to be good at air¬ 
ing their grievances, there are plenty of suf- 
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to the last to their thoughtless households. 
It is no use tor “A Man” to make light of, 
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tion. A MOTHER. 
KINDLY THINK OVER. 
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A scholar recently remarked in our hear¬ 
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an education could be content not to continue 
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Fancy-work seems to us such a poor re¬ 
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EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. 
T HE reason given by a Btelle City, Neb., 
subscriber, in Rural of January 30, is 
worthy of being immortalized in an adage, 
“ I am a farmer because then I can alwaj s 
know where my home is, and I am never out 
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ON COTTON WILL NOT FADE. M 
Enclose 25c For enough to dye 
Eight Pounds of Rags. 
PRIJYTXIt 1HRXCTIOJV8 SHJYT, 
C. E. HELFER, Druggist, Akron, O. 
For recommendation, write to any farmer's wife in 
Summit county. ESTABLISHED 1859. 
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YOUH OWN 
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J. E. Shepard * Co.. Cincinnati. O. 
office day atter day, waiting for patients or 
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rest. MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
RMS and MILLS SOLD 
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. CHAFFIN & CO. .Richmond, Va 
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MICHIGAN FARMS 
AND TIMBERED FARMING LAN DS 
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