WHAT OTHERB SAY. 
(Continued from pag-e 457.) 
American Wonder Pea and Defiance 
and Champlain Wheat. —We find in the 
Sydney Morning Herald a full report of 
the Agricultural Society’s Exhibition, from 
which we extract the following, as of spe¬ 
cial interest to Rural readers: “Among 
those specially worthy of notice was the 
American Wonder Pea, shown for the first 
time. It is remarkable for the rapidity of its 
growth, as it is ordinarily ready for the table 
in thirty-three days from the time it is sown ; 
and Mr. Dunnicliff has had three crops since 
September last.” Our readers tnay remember 
that we tested this pea two years ago, when 
first sent out by Mr. Bliss, its introducer. We 
found it as early as the Little Gem, prolific, 
and of excellent quality. 
In another part of the report, in the same 
journal, we find Mr. Pringle’s Spring Wheats, 
Defiance and Champlain, spoken of: “Both 
wheats were sown by Mr. Dunnicliff, of Bur- 
rawang, in September and reaped in January, 
on comparatively poor soil. The Defiance 
yielded 57 bushels to the acre. and. with high 
cultivation, it is said that the yield in Amer¬ 
ica has been as much as 128 bushels (!.— Eds. 
Rural). From the other variety—the Cham¬ 
plain—the exhibitor obtained a yield of 45 
bushels to the acre.” A private letter from 
Burrawang informs us: “The new hybrid 
wheats, Defiance and Champlain, received a 
great many special visits, and were well spoken 
of by millers from other colonies as well as 
by our own. They received first and second 
prizes respectively for the best and most val¬ 
uable new grains introduced into the colonies 
for the year." 
The Value op Poultry. —I. K. Felch tells 
the Scientific Farmer that of all the agricul¬ 
tural pursuits, none payB better than the labor 
bestowed upon the poultry on the farm. This 
fact is acknowledged, and yet how many of 
our farmers fail to make the same careful, 
outlay for their poultry that they do for their 
cows and swine! They run the dairy with 
care, and the butter-box goes to market each 
week regularly. Why not have as a companion 
to it a poultry farm and an egg-box? The 
sour milk from the butter-making will pay far 
better fed to poultry than to hogs. Poultry 
sells at an average higher price than beef or 
pork, and it costs no more to make it. Our 
farmers in most cases near our cities have 
regular customers for their butter ; these same 
parties would take weekly a much larger 
amount in money’s worth of poultry and eggs. 
In this way 200 fowls upon a farm would pay 
as much into the family fund as would ten 
cows. Many of our farmers do not believe 
this: but let them try the experiment of keep¬ 
ing an exact account with both cows and hens, 
and they will find what we tell them is true. 
One bushel and a peck of corn, or its equiva¬ 
lent in other food, will keep a hen twelve 
months. 
To Overcome Weeds. —The editor of the 
Rural Home, while traveling through portions 
of New York, makes some very entertaining 
notes from which we take the following: In 
the clover field were spots of Anthemis arven- 
sis. a species of chamomile, which we judged 
were caused by the shocks of wheat which 
stood a long time last year, to dry out, and 
probably smothered the clover. This is a con¬ 
firmation of our theory that the best way to 
overcome vile weeds is to manure and cultivate 
highly, seed thickly, and overcome the evil 
plants with good, and this is in accordance 
with the instructions of the Great Teacher, 
“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil 
with good,” a precept as applicable to mate¬ 
rial as to spiritual things. 
Cure for Gapes in Chickens. —A corres¬ 
pondent of the London Agricultural Gazette, as 
an experiment, tried sulphur and salt, namely, 
two parts of sulphur and one part of salt 
mixed with water to the consistency of thick 
cream (it is best to use the finger in mixing, as 
sulphur will not readily mix with water). He 
then applied it with a feather from a fowl’s 
wing, dipping it in the mixture and putting it 
down the chicken’s throat about three inches, 
worked the feather up and down a few times, 
then applied some more in the same way 
again. He soon found they were much better, 
and repeated the operation three or four times, 
leaving two or three days between each appli¬ 
cation. They are now all cured and doing 
well. 
To Rrn Sheep of Ticks. — A cheap and 
effectual remedy for these jiests is the follow¬ 
ing : Mix a little sulphur with salt and feed 
occasionally through the warm weather. It 
will effectually clear sheep of all ticks. I keep 
a few sheep and have not seen a tick on them 
in two years. The same remedy applied to 
cattle troubled with lice, will soon rid them of 
the vermin. So says C. Chamberlain in The 
Husbandman, and W. A. Ward says that the 
use of sulphur with salt well repays the trouble 
of keeping a supply for cattle and sheep. If a 
mixture of one part sulphur with seven of salt 
be freely supplied there will he no trouble 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 49 
with vermin. He gives his horses the mixture 
with good effect. 
The Future of Journalism.— Mr. J. White- 
law Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, 
says: “We shall not have cheaper newspa¬ 
pers. They are the cheapest thing sold now, 
considering the cost of making them. We 
shall not have bigger newspapers; they are 
bigger now thau a busy people can read. We 
shall have better newspapers; the story better 
told; better brains employed in the telling; 
briefer papers; papers dealing with the more 
important of current matters in such style and 
with such fascination that they will command 
the widest interest. In making a newspaper, 
the heaviest item of expense used to be the 
white paper. Now it is the news. By and by, 
let us hope, it will be the brains.” 
Lucern in Canada. —Mr. Romeo Stephens, 
of Slocum Lodge, St. Lambert’s, near Mon¬ 
treal, tells the Farmer’s Advocate that he com¬ 
menced cutting his first crop of Lucern on 
Monday, the 2d day of June. Some of the crop 
was two feet five inches high, yet not a drop of 
rain had fallen on his farm this spring np to 
that time. Mr. S. cut four crops of this valua¬ 
ble fodder from the same ground during the 
season, aud six cuttings are often taken from 
it in England. 
Ammonia for Flowers. —A lady correspond¬ 
ent of the Country Gentleman does well in re¬ 
minding window flower growers of an old but 
nearly forgotten fact, that a few drops of 
hartshorn in the water given to plants is an 
excellent fertilizer. Mr. Meehan says that it 
i6 worth all other “ concentrated ” manures 
for this purpose. 
Some fear exists in England, as we leam 
from the London Garden, that the refrigerat¬ 
ing process will be the means of inundating 
their markets with American peaches. A 
writer advises that they plant the “ Early 
Alexander,” so that the crop will ripen before 
the American harvest begins. 
3B o mestir feiwmjr. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
IN SMALL THINGS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
“She has not beeu brought up to know very 
much about work, and it is very likely she 
will be extravagant.” It was a vinegar-faced 
woman who made the remark of one younger 
and prettier than herself, who had just com¬ 
menced housekeeping, and I thought to my¬ 
self that although it was not likely to be true 
of the person under consideration, it is too 
often the case that when young girls enter 
upon the life of responsibility that housekeep¬ 
ing entails, they are, iu nine eases out of ten, 
ill-prepared to conduct affairs with economy 
and regularity. 
While the cooking schools do a good work, 
they only accomplish a part of the necessary 
education, and leave the student ignorant of 
many practical details. The art of house¬ 
keeping must become fashionable before it 
will be recognized as of importance and take 
its proper place in the world. The word is 
one I utterly despise as carried out by the 
women of the day, who have, in many cases, 
no independence, but must bow to all the un¬ 
gainly and costly fashions that are invented to 
spend money and spoil the next generation. 
But if the sex would take in hand to study 
how to keep house, making the dutieB therein 
a part of education under a judicious mother, 
there would be less bankruptcy, fewer sui¬ 
cides and runaway bankers, and less misery 
and dishonor. “ But it is not the sensible home 
girls that men choose as wives,” says one over 
my shoulder. I fear there lies the trouble. 
The young men, with their extravagant and 
high-flown notions, must follow the butterflies 
who 
4 4 Play with Ivory keys, 
And dance the polka’s measure.” 
And then they wonder why their wiveB are 
poor housekeepers, so unlike their mothers, 
who, reared in a slower age and different at¬ 
mosphere, have been the household fairies of 
their lives so far. Ah! it is in small things 
that we must try to improve, never ignoriug 
the lesser duties of our station in grasping at 
the higher; but with ceaseless, never-weary¬ 
ing touch giving attention to the ways of our 
household, aud as the old song says, “Pay as 
you go and practice what you preach.” 
•»»» 
ICE AND ICE-WATER. 
There iB no doubt that many a life will be 
lost during the summer through imprudence in 
the use of ice. In this particular, the majority 
of persons are careless, notwithstanding the 
warnings of the past. Ice, if used cautiously, 
is not apt to do harm, but to the sick, it is 
generally a great comfort. All do not stop to 
think that to drink ice-water when one is 
warm from exercise is dangerous. The reason 
is obvious, when the high temperature of the 
stomach is compared with the icy fluid which 
is taken into it. Bits of ice may be taken with 
impunity, when ice-water would have serious 
effects. 
As ice has at the present day come to be 
looked upon as a necessity in house-keeping, 
a refrigerator is iu many families considered 
as important as a sewing machine. An elab¬ 
orate refrigerator is a most convenient article 
to the housewife, but a plain one, that any car¬ 
penter can make, will answer. Those who 
have no ice-chest can keep a day’s supply by 
wrapping the ice in flannel and placing it in a 
tub in the cellar. It is best to put a block of 
wood in the tub for the ice to rest upon. 
Otherwise it would not keep so long, on account 
of lyiug directly in the water from the melting 
ice. m. g. r. 
-♦♦♦- 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
To Cook New Potatoes- 
Wash, rub the skin off, aud drop into salted, 
boiling water. When tender, drain, give a 
sliake and set on the back of the stove to dry, 
with the cover a little at oue side to allow of 
the escape of steam. Boil some milk; put in 
a large tablespoouful of butter and thicken 
with a little flour ; wet smooth in milk. Take 
up the potatoes iuto a vegetable dish and pour 
over the gravy. 
String Beans for Winter Use. 
Wash, take off the strings and cut into pieces 
an inch in length. Put them iuto a stone jar, 
first a layer of beans, then a layer of salt, and 
so on, until the jar is full. Put a plate with a 
weight on top, and pour over cold water until 
covered. Keep iu Lhe cellar. When wanted 
for use, throw as many as are needed into a 
pail or pan of eold water, and let freshen for 
half a day. Change the water twice or thrice. 
Cook the same as if newly gathered. When 
packing, use plenty of salt. e.m. 
Molasses Cookies. 
One teacup of New Orleans molasses, the 
same of white sugar, one-half cup of hot water, 
in which one tabiespoonful of soda is dissolved, 
two-thirds of a cup of shortening (some prefer 
butter, but I use meat fat or lard), and one egg. 
Stir in as much flour as possible, then place 
upon the board aud mix in just enough to have 
them roll out nicely—they must be quite soft. 
Roll them about one-fourth of an inch thick, 
and bake in a quick oven. Ginger, if liked. 
Doze Cake. 
Two cups of sugar three-fourths of a cup of* 
butter, cream, then add four beaten eggs, one 
cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda 
two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream- 
of-tartar. Dissolve the soda in the milk and 
stir the cream-of-tartar into the flour. Flavo r 
as you wish. 
Puff Cake. 
Three eggs, three-fourths of a cup of butter, 
two cups of sugar; beat well together, then 
add one cup of sweet milk, two teaspoons of 
cream-of-tartar, one teaspoonful of soda and 
three teacups of flour. Put the soda in the 
milk, and the cream-of-tartar in the flour. 
Palermo. m. c. w. 
Brown Bread. 
One quart of buttermilk, one-half teacupful 
of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of saleratus, oue 
teaspoonful of salt. Stir in one-third cora- 
mcal and two-thirds coarse flour, until stiffer 
than a batter, but not stiff enough to pile up. 
Steam two hours, then put into the oven long 
enough to brown. 
Fried Cakes. 
Two cups of sugar ; two cups of buttermilk ; 
three eggs; one-half cup of butter or fried 
meat fat; two teaspoonfuls of saleratus aud 
any seasoning you like. Mix just hard enough 
to roll out. 
Hard Soap. 
Six pounds of soda ; seven pounds of grease ; 
three pounds of unslaked lime and four gal¬ 
lons of water. Put soda, lime aud water iuto 
a kettle and boil until dissolved; let it stand 
two days, pour off the liquid, throw away the 
dregs, add the grease to the liquid and boil 
until it is of the thickness of honey. Then 
turn out iuto a wash-tub to harden, cut into 
whatever shape you like, dry and pack away 
for use. Any grease will answer if cleansed. 
E. M. P. 
Cold Slaw. 
Slice or chop very flue oue head (or enough 
for family use) of cabbage aud season with 
salt and pepper. Beat three eggs well togeth¬ 
er ; mix with it a teacupful of vinegar, oue 
teaspoonful of uumixed mustard, a tablespoon- 
fnl of sugar and a tablespoonful of butter. 
Bring to the boiling point and pour over the 
cabbage. Mary B. 
Cucumber Plcklea. 
Take fresh from the viues, wash carefully, 
put them into an earthware jar, pour salted 
boiling water over them for three or four morn¬ 
ings in succession and the last time drop a lump 
of alum into the water. Then turn off the wa¬ 
ter and pour over weak, hot vinegar and let 
stand overnight. In the morning drain and 
cover with hot spiced vinegar. Cover with 
horse-radish leaves and they will keep for a 
year. 
Cream for Coffee. 
The members of my family prefer the fol¬ 
lowing made cream for their coffee to the gen¬ 
uine article. Beat one egg to a foam, add a 
tabiespoonful of white sugar, and pour over a 
pint of boiling hot milk stirring briskly as it 
is poured over the egg. Prepare at night for 
the morning. 
A New England Housekeeper. 
uf tjje SEftlt. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, July 14,1879. 
The export of dressed meat from this city to the 
English market, which readied a large proportion 
two years ago, but was temporarily suspended In 
consequence of the Increasing shipments of live 
cattle, Is about to be revived on an extended scale. 
The action recently taken by the British govern¬ 
ment to check the exportation of oaltle from this 
country has produced Its natural effect. Large 
dealers In came and beef have given up exporting 
live cattle and have again turned their attention 
to the export trade tn dressed beef. A new system 
of refrigerating lms been put Into action whereby 
the necessity for the use of Ice on board steamships 
Is done away with. It has been found through 
numerous trials In the exportation of meats, that 
they must not be frozen, but only kept at a tem¬ 
perature which will delay decomposition. The new 
system is said to be a perfect and cooling process. 
It Is produced by means of compressed air, which 
can, it necessary, be reduced In temperature even 
below'zero. It Is expected that the fresh meat 
trade to Great Britain can bo revived to Its former 
magnitude, and even exceed It. Such has been 
the speculative tendency tn cotton that since last 
September eighteen million bales have been sold 
in New York alone, which Is five times the actual 
crop. Information has been received here that, 
on the evening of the 4th, a terrific storm swept 
over Merrick county. Neb,, entirely destroying the 
crops. The county Is four miles wide and several 
miles long. All the wheat aud corn within Its 
limits was entirely destroyed. Jeff Davis has 
struck a bonanza. Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, of Mis¬ 
sissippi, who died recently In Now Orleans, be¬ 
queaths to him two large plantations In northern 
Mississippi and an elegant villa at Beauvoir on the 
sea coast. The bequest was made because of “ the 
great services and sacrifices” of Davis 44 In behalf 
of the South.” 
Connecticut refuses to adopt the scheme of 
Issuing State bonds to take up town and city 
bonds Issued lor railroad purposes. The proposal 
was for the towns and cities to give the State their 
bonds bearing 4.85 per cent. Interest, while the 
State bonds should hear only four per cent. At a 
meeting to advance the scheme only one town 
favored it, and even a committee to consider It 
was refused. Such State Indorsement would be 
only an opening wedge to the payment of the debt 
from the treasury of the commonwealth. A like 
proposition has been pul forth in this state. Con¬ 
necticut sets New York a good example In this 
respect. Seventeen western railroads report an 
Increase of gross earnings during June amounting 
to $425,485, as compared with the same month last 
year, or fully ten per cent. The Increase for the 
six months of the year Is only $158,798 in excess 
of the earnings of the first hair of 1878. Improv¬ 
ing business Is counted on for the rest of the year. 
Reports from various southern cotton exchanges 
show that the cotton crop June 30, was a week 
or two weeks behind last year. Crop reports from 
all parts of Canada indicate a fair average yield. 
The only black spot Is the condition of spring 
wheat, which promises to be below the average. 
Wednesday arternoon over 500 Mormons arrived 
at Castle Garden. New York. 
The “ Arlthmatlc men ” of both sections have 
begun their predictions In regard to the effector 
the next census on the political strength of the 
Bouth in Congress. The “ stalwart" reckoners 
rely chiefly on Kansas; the 44 Brigadiers” on Texas 
and Arkansas. When these examples arc departed 
from the guessing Is of the loosest, it may be 
that the 44 solid South” will become of small Im¬ 
portance after the readjustment of the represen¬ 
tation, though It will make no contemptible part 
of the Senate ; but morally it will exist just so 
long as sectional dissensions growing out of the 
war are fostered by oue party or the other. The 
editor of the Kansas Nationalist has reprinted In 
his paper a warning article, bearing date of Christ¬ 
inas, 1S75, in which the danger to the country of 
a “political Macedonian phalanx” was pointed 
out, and an Internal remedy proposed Instead of 
the external so fruitlessly applied by Grant’s Ad¬ 
ministration. He urged the systematic coloniza¬ 
tion of selected States In the South, with a view 
to Introducing a fresh Northern or European pop¬ 
ulation which would “ nationalize them, lie now, 
with greater force, renews hla exhortations to this 
effect, and shows how easily Florida and Arkansas, 
for example, could be won over, not to Democracy 
or to Republicanism, but to sympathy and co¬ 
operation with the Nortli on national questions, 
by an Emigrant Aid Society like that which res¬ 
cued Kansas from being a slave State. He has 
perfectly sound Ideas In regard to the mode of col¬ 
onization—In masses, or by accretion where Nor¬ 
thern settlements have already established them¬ 
selves, and with no party distinctions or noisy 
porpagaiullsm ; aud he certainly gives reasons for 
thinking that Eastern philanthropists who are 
contributing money to General Conway’s exodus 
steamboat, would better employ their money In 
some such scheme as he advocates. 
