CATALOGUE 
for it is one of the wasteful “straws” I 
show how the winds of extravagance blow 
had cream cakes, cream sauces, cream pie 
crust and cream everything, but I was in 
despair about ever getting any more butter 
till “John” suggested a dairy thermometer. 
He immediately got one and some one advised 
us to scald the milk when fresh, just enough 
to make it look “crinkly” a little. We did 
that too, and now there is no more trouble. 
Earth is no longer a desert, and life is once 
more serene. With the cream at about (13 
degrees, ten minute's churning is usually suf¬ 
ficient to do the work and the butter is firm, 
yellow and sweet every time. Perhaps we 
should be equally successful if the scalding 
were omitted, but a “burnt child dreads the 
fire,” and while things work so well this way, 
I don't feel like launching out into any new 
experiments even for the cause of science. 
RENA ROSS. 
WINTER BUTTER. 
It is not very difficult in Summer to make 
good, sweet butter. But when December 
comes and the streams are frozen over, and the 
fields covered with snow, and the cows have 
nothing but dry feed, and the milk cools while 
bringing it to the house, then is the time that 
worries the housekeeper and brings the poor, 
white, bitter butter into market. 
I have pursued a plan of my own for sever 
al years, aud think it about as good a one as 
anybody can follow. Of course I am writing this 
for women who have no creamers, and are 
obliged to keep the milk in the pantry, as the 
majority of farmers’ wives do. The greatest 
harm to butter made in Winter is iu letting 
the milk stand too long before skimming. 
Some old butter-makers that I know think it 
must stand until it sours, or they do not get 
all the cream. The consequence is, it becomes 
bitter ancl full of white flakes. I chum every 
third day in Winter, uo matter how little 
cream I have, ami do not wait to get a large 
churning, for I would rather churn a little and 
have it good. The milk that is strained one 
morning I warm the next morning by setting 
the i»ans on the range or Over a kettle of boil¬ 
ing water. Let it get just milk-warm, not hot; 
then let it stand until night or the next morn¬ 
ing, and skim. The night milk I serve in the 
same way; it takes but a few minutes’ time. 
I never have but three or four milkings on 
hand at once. 
While I was sick a few weeks one Winter, I 
had an old lady, experienced in all household 
affaire, to attend to the milk. The first day I 
was able to walk, I inspected the milk room 
and found 11 milkings that needed skimming. 
She was waiting for it to “sour,” with the 
thermometer down to zero. 
I always try to keep my pantry doors shut 
while sweeping aud while cooking cabbage, 
turnips or any vegetable, and raise the win¬ 
dows a little, never forgetting to stir the 
MAKE MONEY. 
The long evenings are at hand. 
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The best way to buy lamp-wicks is, uncut, 
at three cents per yard. 
Best fastening for shoe-buttons: a small 
brass disk with a tongue cut out iu the center; 
can be used time and again. 
Best food, except milk, to raise tiue pigs on: 
wheat shorts. 
Best way to prepare clothes for washing 
easily is to put a pailful of warm, soft water 
into your tub, set iu your washboard and soap 
clothes, one garment at a tune, all over, giv¬ 
ing extra soaping to extra dirty places; roll 
up each piece as fast, as soaped, like damp 
clothes for the ironing, aud put into the warm 
water behind your board; let lie an hour, if 
done on washing-day morning, otherwise do 
it the evening before. Saves two-thirds the 
rubbing. 
The best mitten for men’s wear in chopping 
wood, handling stone, lumber, etc., in very 
cold weather, is cut from heavy ducking (I 
use Stark Mills A grain sac ks). Cut inside of 
the hand double, line with heavy woolen—old 
pieces from coats and trowsers will do. Can 
make a hundred pairs ill a day on the machine 
after they ape cut aud basted, 
Best way to use stocking feet after they are 
past mending: cut off with an inch or two of 
ankle aud slip over your shoes when the walks 
about the yard are icy or the floor is cold. 
Saves putting on aud fastening up overshoes 
a great many times. 
Best use for a tomato jug that is cracked 
around the top: hold an iron against it to 
make it break true, and tap carefully with a 
rather light hammer, firet breaking off the 
handle, till the dome is all off; it makes a 
good soap dish or drink dish for chickens, etc. 
Best way to scald meal for johnny-cake, if 
you have not milk to do it with, is to use the 
water in which you boiled your potatoes. 
Best johnny-cake is made by thoroughly 
scalding nice yellow' meal with new milk, 
sweeten a little, let cool and then thin with 
well-beaten eggs; shorten with two table¬ 
spoons melted butter to the pint of milk; 
dou’t forget to add a pinch or more of salt. 
Best w r ay to ventilate and dry a damp 
cellar is our way: a four-inch tin pipe runs 
from near the cellar floor into the pipe of the 
kitchen stove through a hole cut in the floor. 
COUSIN E. 
Is a symptom of disease. It may be 
caused by Rheumatism, or by Neuralgia, 
but it usually indicates a disordered con¬ 
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action of the vital organs, ami removes 
every trace of disease from the system. 
Last fall and w inter I suffered from a 
dull, heavy, pain in mv side. I did not 
notice it much, at. first, but it gradually 
grew worse until it became almost un¬ 
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time, disorders of the Stomach and Liver 
increased my troubles. I began taking 
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continuing the use of this medicine for 
some months, the pain disappeared and 
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Through the failure of a lortre man¬ 
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there has come into our baud' a large 
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Please men tion this paper. 
WINTER BUTTER MAKING EXPERT 
ENCES. 
Makes more Butter than any other process. 
Calls for toss Inbor and lee. W111 raise all the 
cream wit hout lee. Automatic Butter-work 
ers. Churns, etc. One at wholesale. 
Agents wanted. Send for circulars. 
CHURNING TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS. 
I want to have a consoling talk with some 
of the younger housekeepers who, like myself, 
have boon in the depths of despair on account 
of churning day. I have discovered a glim¬ 
mer of light, a star of hope, aud would like 
to say something to comfort and help some 
of you for the rest of your natural lives. 
Oh! the anguish of butter-making when 
you churn ou and on for hours, und the cream 
looks every minute as if it might t urn to but¬ 
ter, but doesn't! Your arms ache—every bone 
in your body aches, aud your heart aches worst 
of all, while the stubborn stuff iu the churn 
still smiles up at you with provoking sweet- 
uess aud tail tali zutiou. You old experienced 
housekeepers who never make mistakes or 
have such butter battles, know nothing what¬ 
ever of Our sufferings. This letter is not for 
you—you would only laugh—and you nets! 
not read auy further. Neither is it intended 
for you who have large dairies, spring-houses, 
big patent pans, patent churns anti butter- 
workers with ull the other appliances aud 
regulators that make butter-making so easy 
aud stue. It is for those who, like us, have 
one solitary cow, and churn in an earthen jar 
with an old-fashioned dash—or beat the cream 
iu a large bowl with u spoon or egg-beater. 
Last Winter we had a memorable scene— 
“John” and I—over some particularly frac¬ 
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we shook it, we added milk, we applied hot 
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A FARM DINNER IN FEBRUARY. 
Boiled ham; boiled potatoes; hot corn bread; 
pickles ; celery ; buttermilk or cold water. 
No butter—uo dessert. Rule for corn bread: 
One quart of buttermilk, three eggs beaten 
thoroughly, three spoonfuls of melted shorten 
mg, a good pinch of salt, soda to neutralize 
the acid of the buttermilk [the quantity must 
he learned by experience), one cupful of flour 
aud corn meal enough to make a rather stiff 
batter. Now I cannot say two or three cup¬ 
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the kiud of meal you will use. Bv making 
corn bread of one kind several times iu suc¬ 
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APPLE SAUCE FROM SWEET APPLES. 
TV e are very fond of a good, sweet apple 
cooked as follows; Cut in halves and take out 
the core; put iu a dish with a little butter aud 
u little sugar and some water, aud set in the 
oven and bake, so that the juice and sugar 
will be as thick as honey, pour it over the 
fruit and let it cool. Sweet Russet suits me 
best of any we have here. Can you tell me of 
u sweet apple that, will keep at. least two 
months longer and Ikj as good to cook I h. 
(The Winter Sweet Paradise is an excellent 
cooking apple aud a better keeper than the 
Sweet Russet.— e, m.) 
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