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rHE RURAL iNEW-YORKER. 
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Be careful to give each letter its full value. 
Do not say (join’ when you mean going, or 
child'll when you mean children, or make 
any other similar error. If you have not 
time to say all you want to say, and say it 
correctly, try leaving something unsaid 
for a time. You will very soon find, if you 
really do your best, that you will get into 
the habit of speaking correctly, just as be¬ 
fore your habit was to speak incorrectly. 
If you have time to give yourself some 
practice in good utterance, or wisn to 
teach your children, try something like 
this: write a list of about a dozen words, 
in each of which there is the same sound of 
one letter, as this, them, there, those: or 
rich, rare, rice, ran; or laugh, half, calf. 
Have some of your lists with vowel sounds 
and some with consonants. Then practice 
repeating your words out aloud quite 
rapidly, being careful to give each letter 
its full value. 
Another good drill is to repeat, one after 
the other, the different sounds of each 
vowel, which can be found in the front of 
almost any Reader or Speller, and in utter¬ 
ing these sounds, see that all the organs of 
the voice are well opened, as the principal 
object to be attained by this practice is the 
full and easy expansion of the vocal organs. 
The tones of the voice are largely con¬ 
trolled by the temper of the person. When 
we are happy and wish to give pleasure to 
others, the voice naturally takes a bright, 
pleasant tone ; but when we are tired or 
cross, we find it too much trouble to give 
our voice a bright tone. 
If you want to give your friends pleasure 
in listening to your voice, how desirable it 
is that you should have perfect control 
over your temper, so that it does not in¬ 
fluence your voice. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
I N the famous charge of Pickett’s 
Division at Gettysburg a clump of trees 
in Cemetery Ridge was selected as a point 
for the concentration of the troops. What 
we need is a point of concentration toward 
which to direct all our efforts. We may 
not reach the goal but our work will be 
all the better for having been wisely direct¬ 
ed. 
At a recent Sunday-school meeting in 
Chicago, a long-winded clergyman con¬ 
sumed too much of the time with a wordy 
address. When he sat down the leader of 
the meeting unwittingly announced the 
hymn beginning, “Hallelujah! ’tis done.” 
Look at sin-cursed humanity to-day, 
yearning for that broad charity that will 
utter words of encouragement, and extend 
a helpiug hand to raise them into a higher 
life. There are multitudes who have been 
saved by a word, a look, a grasp of the hand. 
If the great world is to be brightened and 
glorified, if the millions chained to the 
chariot wheels of vice are to be rescued, it 
will be accomplished only by the exercise of 
the broadest charity. 
There is no flower born on earth so pure 
as love; no influence so ennobling, no 
power so potent in softening, purifying, 
and elevating a hardened and degraded 
nature. 
Domestic (Eccmointj 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
BUTTER MAKING NOTES. 
I DO not claim that field turnips amount 
to much for butter, even while they do 
increase the flow of milk. Their chief 
value lies in preparing the cows for the 
sudden change from grass to dry food. 
They must be given to the cows immedi¬ 
ately after they have been milked quite 
clean. Then there will be no trouble aris¬ 
ing from any turnip flavor either in milk 
or butter. The effect upon the cows is not 
nearly so good when beets are fed a while 
and are then followed by turnips, as it is 
when the turnip precedes the beet crop, 
there fore, hold the beets for the last. They 
keep better than turnips, and as the tur¬ 
nips prepare the cows for the change from 
grass to dry feed, so the beets (still bet¬ 
ter) prepare them for the change again 
from dry feed to grass. 
Our best grained, best colored, and “ nut- 
tiest-flavored ” butter is made while the 
cows are fed field pumpkins. It, however, 
makes a vast difference when the puinp- 
kinsare cut up quite fine, the seeds taken 
PUt, fifld ;i mixture of pom-meal ami bmp, 
is added, and the cows are each given a 
regular ration, over the effects when the 
pumpkins are thrown over the fence into 
the field. Then some ’of the cows gorge 
themselves and others get nothing. Even 
if all do get a like amount, when the roots 
are fed in that way they seem to do “ no 
good.” 
Our milk-room is a stone spring house in 
which is a tank six feet long, 18 inches 
wide, and 12 inches deep, into which flows 
a stream of water conducted by pipes from 
a spring. The tank is made of oak planks 
doubled so as to contain an air space be¬ 
tween its walls, and the water is gauged to 
any depth desired up to 12 inches. The 
temperature of the water is about 54 de¬ 
grees. 
The milk cans—patent water-sealing— 
containing the milk are placed into this 
tank and allowed to remain usually 24 
hours, when the cream is dipped off while 
the milk is still sweet. It is churned just as 
it begins to sour,or in its “ first” acid state 
at a temperature ot 62 degrees. The churn 
used is one of the patent revolving kind. 
The time required is usually 15 to 20 min¬ 
utes. As soon as the butter comes and the 
grains are about the size of fish eggs, the 
churn is stopped, a bucketful of cold water 
is poured in and left to stand a few mo¬ 
ments until the butter all floats on the top, 
when the butter milk is withdrawn, and a 
weak brine is poured in and the churn is 
then given a few turns. This brine cuts the 
caseine, and is I think an improvement in 
washing butter. The brine is then allowed 
to drain off, the butter is taken out, worked 
a little on a wooden tray, with a wooden 
ladle, salted with about 1% ounce of Ash¬ 
ton salt to the pound, then set aside for a 
few hours, when it is again worked. The 
aim is to work out all the butter-milk, and 
yet not work so as to injure the grain of the 
butter and make it waxy. We find a good 
way to keep packed butter is to place the 
jar or firkin in a box, or barrel, and then 
surround and cover it with salt, or, in 
other words, bury the entire package in 
salt, and store it in a cool place. 
Having practiced both plans I unhesitat¬ 
ingly decide in favor of the deep setting as 
having great advantages over the “shallow ¬ 
setting” system, the chief of which is in the 
vast amount of labor it saves, and a much 
more equable temperature can be main¬ 
tained. I think the majority of the farmers 
would adopt the “deep setting” were it 
not for the fact that they must be at the 
exppnse of buying a “creamer.” pay for 
the patent right on it, and for the puffery 
used in selling it as well as for its paint 
and varnish. 
I will say for the benefit of such, that it 
is entirely unnecessary to buy a patent 
creamer to practice ‘ deep setting.” If one 
can secure a depth of eight or 10 inches of 
pure, cold water, it will make no difference 
whether it is in a wooden trough made by 
yourself or dug in the ground, or whether 
the water is dammed up or whether it is in 
the most costly creamer, the effect is all the 
same. The cold water is the sine qua non. 
Now set your can (which may be 10 inches 
in diameter and 12 inches deep) containing 
the milk, in this cold water. On top of 
this canful of milk set an ordinary tin pan, 
a little wider than the milk can as a cover. 
This makes the same cover for the milk as 
any sheet of tin would, no better and no 
worse. Now invert the tin pan, place it on 
upside down loosely so as to leave little air¬ 
spaces between the inside of the pan and the 
top edge of the milk can, let the rim of the 
pan dip down into the water, and you have 
now both “submerged and water sealed ” 
it—all that is claimed by the best patent 
creamers: but, then, you have also, it is 
claimed, infringed patents. Strange as it 
may appear, by setting the tin pan on top 
of the can right side up, you are all right, 
but when you turn it up side down and let 
the edge dip into the water you infringe 
patents. But what I want to get at, is to 
show the difference, otherwise, between 
placing the top pan right side up or upside 
down and to “ water-seal.” The difference 
is simply this. The cream is of a much 
thinner consistency when covered with the 
pan upside down, or any other patent 
cover, so as to “water seal,” than it is 
when ordinarily covered, but the quantity 
and quality of butter made by either 
way of covering are precisely the same, 
showing conclusively that any ordinary 
deep tin can, or stone jar filled with milk, 
set nearly its whole depth in cold water 
and covered with an ordinary cover, ans¬ 
wers every purpose just as well as any pat¬ 
ent creamer covered with paint and var¬ 
nish. 
The “white specks” often found in but¬ 
ter are not caused by the cream drying b\ 
Ktafldiflg‘24 hours in cans oydinarjiy covered, 
I am never troubled with “white specks,” 
except when I sometimes unavoidably put 
off churning too long, and let the cream 
become too sour, then, and only then, I am 
sure to have them. T. s. strohecker. 
Poverty is not disreputable, but igno¬ 
rance is.—Henry Ward Beecher. 
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BAKED APPLE PUDDING. 
PEEL and slice thin, tart cooking apples, 
stew in a sauce-pan with a very little water 
until almost done, sweeten and turn out to 
cool. Cut some thin slices from a stale 
loaf of bread and cut to fit the sides of a 
pudding dish of the requisite size. Butter 
the bottom thickly, cover with a layer of 
bread then with apple and so on until the 
dish is sufficiently full. Pour over as much 
milk as will cover the whole. Bake 45 
minutes. Eat with sweetened cream. 
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\ This grape orlg'oat- 
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J cender, sweet and 
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_ N one genuine 
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BARLEY PUDDING. 
Soak a tea-cupful of pearl barley over¬ 
night in water. In the morning drain off 
the surplus water, add to the harlev two 
spoonfuls of sugar, a spoonful of butter, a 
quarter of a pound of raisins stoned and 
chopped. Mix these ingredients together, 
turn into a small buttered pudding dish 
and cover with a pint of milk. Grate a 
little nutmeg over the top and hake in a 
slow oven one hour and a-half. 
BREAD AND RAISTN PUDDING. 
Cut some thin slices of stale bread and 
butterT Arrange them in layers in a but¬ 
tered pudding dish with a sprinkling of 
raisins, stoned and chopped, between each 
layer and coverall with a custard made in 
the proportions of four eggs and a small 
cup of sugar to a quart of milk. Flavor 
with lemon and bake in a well-heated oven 
until the custard is set and the top deli¬ 
cately browned. 
sweet croutons. 
Cut bread half an inch thick and cut out 
in small rounds about three inches across. 
Put these rounds together in twos with 
jam or jelly between and press them gpntly 
together so as to make them adhere. 
Brush over entirely with beaten egg and 
fry in hot fat a golden brown. Drain care¬ 
fully, pile up tastily on a hot dish and 
serve with a hot liquid sauce. 
MRS. ECONOMY. 
W HEN tea or coffee has been spilled 
upon table linen, I pour boiling 
water through the stains as soon as the 
clyth is taken from the table. Slip a bowl 
or pan under the spot to receive the water, 
allowing the linen to remain in soak until 
the stain has disappeared. Obstinate cases 
may require a second application of water. 
MRS. C. K. 
WANTED. 
Will some one give through the R. N.-Y. 
a recipe for making mixed pickles—the in¬ 
gredients and their proportion. H. s. 
miscellaneous! gulvevtising. 
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CRATEFUL-COMFORTING. 
COCOA 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS. 1878. 
W. BAKERS CG.’S 
BreaMastCocoa 
Is absolutely pure and 
it is soluble. 
No Chemicals 
are used in its preparation- It has mure 
than three times the strength of Cocoa 
mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economical, 
costing less than one cent a cup. It is 
delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EA¬ 
SILY Digested, and admirably adapted 
for invalids as well as persons in health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
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