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Managing Cream. 
A neighbor came to us one cold day 
and said that, some of his customers had 
complained of his cream being sour. He 
did not understand how it could sour in 
Winter. Upon cross-questioning it was 
found that he skimmed his cream into a 
bowl from day to day, and not till he 
carried it out on his route did he bottle 
it. He did not seem to know how long 
the milk ought to set before being 
skimmed. We have kept cream in per¬ 
fect condition for a week, and we have 
very nice cream, so our customers say. 
Through the Winter we set our milk in 
shallow pans. As soon as it is strained 
we set the pan over another one of boil¬ 
ing water on the stove, and allow the 
milk to become very warm, taking it off 
just before it “crinkles,” if possible, and 
never allowing it to stay on an instant 
after it begins to crinkle. It is then set 
away in a cold pantry. We are careful 
not to keep any strong-smelling food 
in this pantry, and when it is not too 
cold we have the window open a little 
way. The milk is set for 24 hours, or 
for 36 if the air is very pure. It is 
skimmed directly into the bottle, using 
a small flaring tin funnel, and the bot¬ 
tles are capped at once, and kept where 
it is cold but not freezing. There is an 
untidy habit that I have observed iu two 
milkmen lately; they carry the paper 
caps for milk and cream jars in their 
pockets. Now a coat pocket is not the 
cleanest place in the world, and it seems 
as though there must be a few germs ad¬ 
hering to those caps. If they must be 
carried around, why not keep them in a 
paper bag, or small tin box? Then they 
would be cleaner. s. b. k. 
Pork and Pansies. 
From time to time T have noted the 
various articles in Tins R. N.-Y. which 
tell of ways by which a woman or girl 
on the farm may make spending money; 
I would like to add a couple of ways 
more to the list already given. On page 
878, last volume, I made brief mention 
of having cared for two pigs during the 
Summer. “Thereby hangs a tale,” iu 
this case a pig tale. Knowing I would 
have a great amount of work before me 
during the Summer and help was scarce 
I decided to let chicken raising alone for¬ 
th e Summer, and invested $8 in the pur¬ 
chase of two small pigs weighing about 
65 pounds apiece. Pork was high for 
our section at the time. This was early 
in July. They were put in a small pen 
made of fence panels, under the cherry 
and crab-apple trees. Over the south 
side was placed a sort of roof also made 
oi a strip of fence boards nailed to- ' 
getlier. A small trough nailed in one 
corner completed their outfit. This pen 
was situated only a few steps away from 
the well, which was not many more re¬ 
moved from the back door. (The well, 
being a drilled one of 152feet depth, 
was in no way affected by this.) Being 
so near it was very handy to run out 
and give them feed or a drink many 
times a day. It was mostly vegetable 
parings and waste from the house, upon 
which they thrived until corn time. All 
the odd bits of extra milk, emptyings 
from the separator bowl, etc., went out 
to them also, so they grew till when I 
sold them December 10 they weighed 
420 pounds, and brought $22.68! 
Another way, by which a bright young 
boy made some money for the past two 
years (and 1 do not see why a girl could 
not do the same), was by raising young 
pansy plants up to blooming size, and 
then when everyone was enthusiastically 
setting out flower beds and planting 
seeds he went around selling his pretty 
pansy plants for 15 to 20 cents per 
dozen. Each year his stock has been 
eagerly purchased, and usually he does 
not have to travel over very much 
ground to make his sales. 
MRS. g. L. BOSS. 
MOTHERS—Be sure to use‘‘Mrs.Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adc. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Rural Recipes. 
Peach dumplings.—Use two halves of 
canned peaches for each dumpling. Make 
a dough of one pint of flour in which is 
rubbed a piece of butter the size of a 
walnut and one dessertspoonful of bak¬ 
ing powder, mixing with enough milk 
to make a soft paste. Pat out into five 
round pieces, like biscuits, and pinch up 
around the peaches. Bake in a brisk 
oven for about half an hour in a syrup 
made of half a cupful of sugar water and 
the same amount of peach juice. 
Entire Wheat Pudding.—One cupful 
entire wheat flour, one cupful molasses, 
one egg, one cupful sweet milk, one cup¬ 
ful raisins, figs, dates or prunes, 
chopped; one teaspoonful soda; sift the 
flour; warm the molasses slightly and 
stir in the soda, then stir into the flour. 
Beat the eggs light and add to the milk. 
Stir into other ingrediants, then add the 
floured fruit. Butter a pudding mold or 
basin and pour in the mixture and set 
in a steamer or over a boiler of hot 
water and steam two hours. Serve with 
cream or foamy sauce. 
Gossamer Gingex-bread.—This is a new 
recipe, and one very highly recommend¬ 
ed. One-third cupful butter, one cupful 
sugar, one egg, one-half cupful milk, one 
and seven-eighths cupful flour, three 
level teaspoonfuls baking powder, and 
one teaspoonful yellow ginger. Cream 
the butter, add sugar gradually, then 
egg well beaten. Add milk, and dry in- 
gi - edients mixed and sifted. Spread in 
a buttered dripping pan as thinly as pos¬ 
sible, using the back of mixing spoon. 
Bake 15 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar 
and cut in diamonds before removing 
from pan. 
Trifling that Costs. 
Neglect 
Sciatica and Lumbago \ 
And jrm may b« disabled and 
Incapacitated for work Ur 
loa« days. 
StJacobsOil 
WUI cure surely, rlgM away, 
and acre Hme. money and 
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Price 
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CARRIAGE & 
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