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OONDUOTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
MRS. ENDICOT’S JOURNAL. 
Early Tomatoes ; something to interest the boys ; 
how to take out machine oil ; kerosene in starch; 
rusks and French currant cake ; carbolic acid 
for heat and insect bites. 
July 18—We had pome of Harry’s tomatoes 
this morning for breakfast. He was quite 
proud to think that he had been so successful, 
and had bis ripe before any one else. He 
has always been instructed in gardening, and 
last year his father gave him 6ome ground for 
his own use to cultivate. He did very well 
with it, and this year, having had more ex¬ 
perience, he is succeeding still better. 
Mr. Kensie, an old experienced gardener, 
gave him some hints about tomatoes, which 
helped him, but part of his success was due to 
his own enterprise. He saved his own seeds 
from some tomatoes we had last summer and 
planted them In boxes in the house. As soon 
as the plants were an inch or less high, he 
transplanted the six he wished to keep, each 
into a pastboard box by itself. Every pleasant 
day he would put them out in the sun, in a 
sheltered place. By the time the garden was 
made he had strong, healthy plants, a foot 
high and quite bushy. Being in paper boxes, 
all he had to do was to set the box iuto a 
bucket of water a for few miuutes ; then, after 
peeling off the bottom of the box, put box and 
all into the ground without disturbing the 
plant in the least. He set the plants four feet 
apart and trained them up on supports made 
of the branches of the peach trees we cut down 
this spring. Barton has always let his toma¬ 
toes run on the ground, so Harry was very 
much elated to hear his father say that he 
would try frames for his next year. Harry 
gets a good price for all he will sell, and the 
money goe6 toward the 6um he is saving to 
buy a saddle and mounted bridle for the colt 
hie father is having broken for him. 
If farmers and those who have large gar¬ 
dens—or even small ones—would give some 
part of the ground to their boys to raise what 
they please on, and try experiments with, 
they would be astonished to find how much 
more interest the rising generation will take in 
the general work. Give the children for their 
own the discarded Jamb which must be raised 
by hand, one from the first litter of pigs, and 
a few chickens, and see how much pleasure 
they will take in them. 
July 28.—Washing-day on Monday always 
makes a very busy day, for there is the cleaning 
up and generally sweeping to be done also. 
Since I have been doing without a girl, I have 
had Mrs. Balligau to do my washing, ironing 
and scrubbing. She washes and scrubs ou 
Monday and irons ou Tuesday afternoon ; for 
6 he cannot come iu the morning, and ironing 
is such clean work that 1 do not care. 
I learned two things from Mrs. Balligau to¬ 
day. I had got 6ome oil from the machine on 
a piece of muslin I had just fiuished for the 
wash, and when I put it in I told her to wash 
it out as well as she could, then lay it ou the 
grass to bleach. “ Give me a little lard and 
baking soda and I can take, it all out,” Bhe 
said. And she did, just by rubbing the stains 
well with lard, then 6oda, rubbing It well in. 
After letting it lie a little while, she washed the 
muslin in hot suds, and by the time it had been 
boiled, rinsed and dried 1 could not have found 
the places that had been 6taiued. 
Some time ago I bought some starch polish 
fromaman who was around selling it. It proved 
to be very good, giving a good gloss to the ar¬ 
ticles and not sticking to the iron. 1 used the 
last of it last week, and when I was making 
the 6tarch this morning, I said that I wished 
the man would come around again. 
“I wish you would just try some kerosene,” 
said Mr6. Balligau. “I know you would like it. 
1 have used it for a loug time, and it’s the best 
of anything I ever tried." 
She takes home washing aud has a great 
many shirts to do up, so I knew her experience 
was worth something. She used one table- 
spoouful to about two quarts of starch, and it 
is so convenient, for it is something oue always 
has in the house. I really never saw starched 
clothes iron nicer. I ironed one of Barton’s 
linen vests before dinner, so he could have it 
for this afternoon, aud it was really a pleasure 
to do it. 
July 29.—To-day was baking day. I am 
always glad when afternoon comes, and 1 have 
a pantryful of nice, fresh things. We do not 
use much cake in dimmer time, but to-day I 
made an extra quantity ot bread dough, and 
used part to make rusks aud a French currant 
cake. When I work out my bread for the 
pans, I take off as much dough as would ma^e 
two small loaves. Into it I work one cupful 
of sugar, two eggs and half a cup of butter; 
after it rises again, I take half foi rusks, work¬ 
ing them in the hand, and rubbing each one all 
over with melted butter, to prevent them stick¬ 
ing together, before putting in the pan. It is 
a little more trouble, but I think it fully pays. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
To the other half of the dough I put one 
pound of dried currants, well washed and 
dried, let it rise again and bake in one loaf. 
Harry and Della think there is no cake like it, 
and f know it is far better for them this warm 
weather than any other kind. Unlike most 
cakes with fruit in them, it is better fresh. 
Baby Katy is broken out so with the heat, 
and is so uucomfortable. Mrs. Glen was in this 
afternoon and she gave me the recipe of a 
wash she nses: Twenty-five drops of carbolic 
acid, one ounce of glycerine, half an ounce of 
rose water and two of pure cistern water. 
It will give certain relief from bites of any 
kind and heat, and i6 very cooling to the most 
tender skin. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
One way of 
Making Potato Bread. 
Boil five or six large potatoes, ma6h them 
smooth while hot, add a piece of butter the 
6 ize of an egg, a tablespoonful of sugar, a tea- 
spoouful of salt, and a pint of warm water. 
Beat three teacups of flour with another pint 
of warm water, till free from lumps, aud then 
mix with the potatoes. Dissolve a cake of 
yeast aud a teaspoouful of soda, each in a tea¬ 
cup of warm water, aud beat al I well together. It 
makes a thin batter aud should be set iu a 
warm place over night. Iu the morning sift 
three quarts of flour into the bread pan, with 
a little salt. Pour the spouge, which will bo 
full of bubbles if the yeast was good, into a 
cavity in the middle and knead for five or ten 
miuutes. Cover with a cloth and 6et in a 
warm place for an hour or longer, or until it 
has risen to double its usual size. Then di¬ 
vide into four loaves and kucad thoroughly 
and put iuto tins; when light again, bake iu a 
moderate oven, half or three-quarters of an 
hour. 
Baking Powder Biscuits. 
Having had several trials before reaching 
success with baking powder biscuits, I will send 
you the following recipe, which I know to be 
reliable. Sift two quarts of (lour, three even 
tablespoous of baking powder and a little salt 
together. Mix iu one tablespoon of butter or 
lard, or, better, half of each, and stir iu nearly 
a quart of sweet milk, carefully, so as to get 
just enough. Kuead as little as possible, roll 
out, cut iuto biscuits, and bake in a quick 
oven. Little kneading and quick baking are 
essential- Mrs. J. B. Potter. 
Young Chickens and Okra. 
Prepare and cut up two young chickens; 
put a tablcspoonful of butter into a skillet 
and fry until brown. Then put into a kettle 
with a quart of finely chopped okra, four or 
five tomatoes sliced thin aud two minced 
onions; just cover with boiling water and boil, 
or rather simmer, slowly for three hours. Sea¬ 
son with butter, salt and pepper, aud if liked, 
thicken with a little Hour. Mary B. 
Baked Egg Plant. 
Pare, cut iuto slices of about half an inch iu 
thickness aud place in cold, salted water for 
two hours. Then drain, wipe with a cloth 
aud boil until tender enough to mash like po¬ 
tatoes. Make very smooth, add two or three 
tablespoonfuls of sweet cream, salt aud pep¬ 
per with a little chopped parsley. Turn into 
a buttered baking dish cover the top with 
bread crumbs aud bake half an hour. 
Huckleberry Pie. 
A friend tells us that this pie is much im¬ 
proved by adding a couple of sliced harvest 
apples to each pic. Cover the berries with 
the sliced apple and bake with an upper crust 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Oat-Meal. 
Mrs. J. B. P. ask6 us to give some ways of 
cooking oat-meal. 
Ans.— For Mush —To three quarts of boiling 
water allow a teaspoouful of salt and a quart 
of coarse meal; stir while the meal is poured 
iu; let it stand where it will boil geutly for 10 
or 15 miuutes, stirriug frequently; then cover 
the kettle closely aud set ou the back of the 
stove to swell aud steam for an hour, not stir¬ 
ring in tliuc time. This may be eaten with 
salted milk, milk or cream aud sugar, or fill a 
saucer nearly full of the mush aud press iuto 
it ripe blackberries, peaches, pear6, or any 
fruit, aud eat with cream and 6ugar. This 
makes a very nice dessert. 
Oat-Meal Puffs. 
To a quart of sweet milk allow three weil- 
beateu eggs, two teacups and a half of oat-meal, 
oue teacup and a halt of Graham flour and a little 
salt; beat all thoroughly together aud bake iu 
hot gem irons. 
Oat-Meal Cake. 
To a pint of meal add enough water to make 
it stir like pancake batter, season with a little 
salt and bake in a shallow pan for 20 minutes 
iu a hot oven. 
Oat-Meal Jelly. 
Put half a pint of good oat-meal to soak over 
night in little less than a quart of water. In 
the morning drain through a sieve, pressing 
out all of the water, and to it add one pint 
and a half of hot water. Season with salt, 
boil up quickly, then set back to simmer ten 
or fifteen miuutes. Pour into molds, and in 
half an hour it will be set sufficiently to turn 
out into saucers. Eat with cream and sugar. 
The success of this dish depends very much 
upon the quality of the meal. 
Oat-Meal Pudding. 
To a quart of milk allow four tablespoonful6 
of Irish oat-meal, four tablespoonfuls of flour, 
and a little salt. Bring the milk to a boil— 
using a farina-kettle or a tin pail set into a 
kettle of boiling water—and stir in the meal 
and flour made smooth in cold milk. Stir con¬ 
stantly for fifteen or twenty minutes, then set 
back for fifteen minutes before turning out. 
Eat with cream and sugar. 
Dario ns. 
PAMPHLETS AND CATALOGUES. 
We have received the premium lists of the 
following fairs, in addition to the long roll 
published in our issue of July 5:— 
Consolidated Exhibition of the Maine State 
Agricultural Society, the Maine Darymcn’s As¬ 
sociation, and the Maine State Pomoiogical So¬ 
ciety and the Cumberland County Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, Portland, Me., Sept. 16-19. J. W. 
North, Jr.. M. D., Sec., Augusta. Me. 
Twenty-ninth Auuual Fair of the Vermont 
State Agricultural Society and Wool Growers’ 
Association, Montpelier, Sept. 9-11. Henry 
Clark, Sec., Rutland. 
Thirteenth Show and Fair of the Water- 
town Agricultural, Horticultural and Horse 
Association, Watertown, Conn., Sept. 23-25. 
Geo. Woodward, Sec. 
Annual Fair of the Onondaga County Agri¬ 
cultural Society, Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 16-19. 
P. A. Agan, Sec., Syracuse. 
Maine Agricultural Fair, Maine Village, 
Broome Couuty, N. Y., Sept. 16-18. N. P. 
Brown, Sec. 
Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition of the Penn¬ 
sylvania State Agricultural Society, the main 
building, Centennial grounds, Philadelphia, 
Sept. 8-20. Elbridge McCoukey, Cor. Sec., 
Harrisburg. 
Twenty-second Annual Exhibition of the 
York Couuty Agricultural Society, York, Pa., 
•Oct. 7-10. A. II. Glatz, Sec, 
Third Annual Fair of the French Creek Val¬ 
ley Agricultural Society, Cochrauton, Pa., 
Sept. 16-18. W. A. Logan, Cor. Sec., Mead- 
viile, Pa. 
Grand Exposition of the Agricultural Society 
of Delaware, Dover, Sept. 22-26. Richard 
Harrington, Sec. 
Thirty-third Annual Fair and Fifth Grand 
Industrial Exhibition of the Muskingum 
County Agricultural Society, Zanesville, Ohio, 
Sept. 2-5. T. F. Spangler, Sec. 
Twenty-seventh Annual Fair of the Lagrange 
Couuty Agricultural Society, Lagrange, Ind„ 
Sept. 24-26. Ira Ford, Sec. 
Eighth Aunual Fair of the Northeastern In¬ 
diana Agricultural Association, Waterloo, Ind., 
Oct. 7-10. J- N. Barnes, Sue. 
Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Agricultu¬ 
ral Society of Winnesheik Couuty, Hester, la., 
Sept. 23-25. E. M. Carter, 8ec. 
Twenty-eighth Auuual Fair of Switzerland 
and Ohio Counties, Agricultural Associations, 
East Enterprise, Ind., Sept. 9-12. W. H. Madi¬ 
son, Sec., East Enterprise. 
Twenty-seventh Annual Illinois State Fair, 
Springfield, Sept. 29-Oct. 4. 8. D. Fisher, 
Sec., Springfield. Also, Fat Stock Show at 
Exposition Building, Chicago. Nov. 10-15, aud 
the winter meeting of the State Board of Agri¬ 
culture. 
Grand Exposition of the Minnesota Agricul¬ 
tural and Mechanical Association, Minneapolis, 
Sept. 1-6. C. H. Clarke, Sec. 
First Aunual Fair of Floyd County Agricul¬ 
tural and Mechanical Association, Charles City, 
Iowa, Sept. 9-12. 
Twenty-second Annual Exhibition of the 
Marshall County Agricultural Society, Mar¬ 
shalltown, Ioa., Sept. 10-12. W. Bremuer, 
See., Marshalltown. 
Eighth Auuual Fair of the Hardin County 
Agricultural Society, Eldora, la., Sept. 16-19. 
J F. Hardin, Sec., Eldora. 
Twenty-fifth Annual Fair of the Jackson 
Couuty Agricultural Society, Maquoketa, la., 
Sept. 3-12. B. A. Spencer, Sec. 
Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Clake 
County Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Agricultural 
Society, Osceola, la., Sept. 9-11. W. S. Rich¬ 
ards, Sec. 
Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the Delaware 
County Agricultural Society, Manchester, la., 
Sept. 16-19. Wattson Childs, Sec. 
Twenty-fifth Annual Fair of the Fayette 
County Agricultural Society and Mechanics’ 
Institute, West Union, la., Sept. 9-11. C. R. 
Bent, Sec. 
Eighth Annual Fair of the Saint Francois 
County Agricultural and Mechanical Associa¬ 
tion, Farmington, Mo., Sept. 9-13. T. Stam, 
Sec. 
The thirteenth Annual Fair of the Cass Co. 
Agricultural 8ociety, Plattsmouth, Neb., Sept. 
17-19. J. N. Wise, Sec., Plattsmouth. 
Seventh Annual Fair of the Jackson County 
Agricultural and Mechanical Association, 
Holton, Kansas, Sept. 2-5. F. M. Wilson, 
Sec. 
Sixth Annual Fair of the Boulder County 
Industrial Association, Boulder, Colorado, 
Sept. 80-Oct. 4, C. M. Campbell, Sec. 
Tenth Annual Fair of the Montana Agricul¬ 
tural, Mineral and Mechanical Association, 
Helena, Montana, Sept. 29. C. G. Reynolds, 
Sec. 
Nineteenth Annual Fair of the Oregon State 
Agricultural Society, Salem, 8ept. 24-Oct. 3. 
E. M. Waite, Sec. 
Annual Fair of the Piedmont Agricultural 
Society, Culpeper, Va., Oct. 14-17. A. R. Al- 
eock, Sec. 
Annual Fair of the Georgia State Agricltural 
Society, Macon, Ga., Oct. 17-24. Malcolm 
Johnston, 8ec,, Mucon. 
Second Aunuul Fair of the North Georgia 
Stock and Fair Association, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 
2-26. G. W. Wrenn, Sec. 
Annual Alabama State and State Grange 
Fair, Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 10-16. T. G. 
Foster, Sec. 
A Summer and Fall catalogue of pot-grown 
and layer Strawberry plants. Also of Rasp¬ 
berry, Currant, Gooseberry and Blackberry 
plants, tor sale by E. P. Roe, Cornwall-on- 
Hudson, Orange Co., N. Y. 
Choice Strawberries (pot-grown and other¬ 
wise) and other small fruits grown aud for 
sale by F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown-ou-the-Hud- 
son. N. Y. 
Summer Catalogue, of Pot-grown layer and 
other Strawberry plants for sale by J. T. Lovett, 
Monmouth Nursery, Monmouth Co., N. J. 
Descriptive Price-List of Strawberries of¬ 
fered for sale this summer and autumn by Ell- 
wauger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. 
H fins of t|f ®kclt 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, August 4th, 1879. 
Yellow fever Is still spreading In Memphis, al¬ 
though the number of those liable to It Is con¬ 
stantly diminishing. Special policemen who have 
been taking a census ot the city reported last 
Wednesday that the population then remaining 
amounted to I«,ll0 out of a normal population ot 
close upon so.ooo. The whites numbered 4,283, the 
negroes, 11,827 ; adult, 10,531; children, 5,559 ; of 
these, 8,743 have had the fever, leaving 7,367 sus¬ 
ceptible to It. At Camp Marks, close to the city 
200 refugees are assembled and a much larger 
number at Camp Father Mathew. Two Baptist, 
two Presbyterian, two Episcopal and one Metho¬ 
dist clergymen have remained to attend the sick 
and well. All the Catholic priests have stuck to 
their posts, and two of them are dangerously 111 of 
the plague, but their places have already been 
taken by volunteers from elsewhere, one of them 
from this city. Throughout all the neighboring 
country refugees from the stricken city are spe¬ 
cial objects of aversion, and In many places the 
shot-gun quarantine la rigidly' enforced. Small 
store-keepers in cross-road places have raised the 
price of provisions, and every other kind of wares, 
extravagantly, as none can now be had from the 
Memphis market. No railroad now runs care 
nearer than from is to 20 miles from the place, 
while the ascending and descending boats on the 
Father of Waters, in passing the plague-spot,closely 
hug the other shore. Much anxiety exists In the 
city on account of the large preponderance of col¬ 
ored folks and their threats of violence unless ra¬ 
tions are distributed to them. No supplies how¬ 
ever, are given out within the city, except to the 
sick; all others who need help must go to the 
camps to get It, This the “ niggers” refuse to do, 
and as no business Is being done In the place, much 
distress exists among the laboring classes. There 
are two companies of colored militia still In the 
place, and all the able-bodied whites have organ¬ 
ized for defense. All the arms In the city have 
been collected from the gun-shops and elsewhere, 
and stored In the armory. 
Refugees from there are still stricken down 
here and there either at their journey's end or 
on the way to It. There are halt a dozen or more 
of them at quarantine here now; several deaths 
arnoDg them have occurred at 8t. Louis, Louis¬ 
ville. Nashville, cinclnatil, etc. The Health officers 
In New Orleans report five undoubted cases of yel¬ 
low fever in that city. Private physicians, how¬ 
ever, say there are at least 18 cases; but as all 
reported Instances are Isolated, the doctors do 
not like to put their patients and their families 
to the annoyances Incident to such a measure and 
consequently fall to report cases among their 
well-to do patients. The disease there, too, Is 
said to have been developed from germs left un¬ 
destroyed from last year’s plague. Mobile has 
quarantined the Crescent city already, and 
doubtless other places will soon follow this exam¬ 
ple. It's a sad thing, not for the afflicted region 
only, but for the entire country. Even already 
the breaking-out of the disease lias contributed 
materially to lower the price of wheal and other 
products In our markets East and West, as it has 
parallzed trade through a large section of coun¬ 
try and threatens to do so more extensively. 
The wheat market has been unusually unsteady 
of late. That Chicago corner of Keene and hla 
clique has been heavily unloading the stock they 
have been accumulating since last October, and 
