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March 4, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A Flower Bed. 
Last Summer I planned to fill the long 
bed at the foot of the terrace with some 
unfamiliar flowers. For a background 1 
chose the pink Cosmos. I started the seed 
in the house the last of March, but I 
found the plants were not started early 
enough, as the frosts cut them down in 
all their feathery beauty, laden with buds. 
The Cosmos is certainly one of the most 
charming of Autumn flowers. 
One portion of the bed I devoted to 
the golden Bartonia. I had promised my¬ 
self much enjoyment from the golden 
blossoms, but some foe claimed the plants 
one by one, until but one remained. This 
was growing thriftily, and its soft large 
leaves promised a fitting frame for the 
golden blossoms, but, alas, this one too 
fell, as I found it one morning neatly cut 
from its roots. I was as successful with 
Browallia as I was unsuccessful with the 
Bartonia. I started a few of the plants 
in the house, starting a few in the flower 
bed in case the plants did not bear trans¬ 
planting well. I found that the seed ger¬ 
minates readily, and that the seedlings 
bear transplanting remarkably well. This 
is the most satisfactory blue flower I have 
yet raised. The plants are of a neat, 
bushy growth two feet high, the blossoms 
a deep, bright blue with a white center. 
The separate blooms are something over 
half an inch in diameter, but the plant 
bears so profusely that the result was a 
mass of beautiful blue, from middle Sum¬ 
mer until frost came. The white touch 
for this bed was furnished by that good 
old stand-by, sweet Alyssum. 
Last year I planted the Chinese Kudzu. 
Its growth was slow, but for this the cat¬ 
alogue had prepared me. It is claimed 
that the second season it proves itself 
worthy of the name of Jack-and-the-bean- 
stalk vine, so in case that the Winter does 
not prove too severe I shall expect to be 
shaded next Summer by its handsome 
foliage and refreshed by the delicate fra¬ 
grance of its Wistaria-like flowers. 
HELEN C. ANDREWS. 
Notes from Virginia. 
A line in The R. N.-Y. caught my eye, 
“Spring is near.” A glance out of the 
window, where an awning of ice and snow 
projects four feet beyond the edge of the 
roof without support of posts or brackets, 
on its way off, let-us hope, and the drifts 
from the last blizzard are from two to 
five feet deep, with the addition of sev¬ 
eral snows and three sleets as reinforce¬ 
ment. “Ossa upon Pelion piled.’ It does 
not look very convincing, yet the sun is 
shining brightly to-day, and quite a strong 
southwesterly wind blowing will wear 
away some of it. 
The pork question is being viewed from 
all sides, which is the right way to learn 
about it. Circumstances, place and hogs, 
all go to make a difference as to profit. 
Good breeds and good care, and seasons 
when fruit was plentiful and garden stuffs 
grew well, have made hog-raising quite 
profitable with us. Our hogs have nearly 
always had range of field and woods; 
later the orchard fenced in two lots and in 
severe weather their sheds with yards for 
exercise. AVe have never lost any but 
twice, the first from eating poisonous 
mushrooms, and the second from the chol¬ 
era, which was brought on the place when 
we bought shotes for fattening. For 
meat for home use and for sale we have 
always considered them an indispensable 
part of the furnishings of the farm stock. 
For sausage, we have used the follow¬ 
ing formula for years, and it gives general 
satisfaction: To every 10 pounds of meat 
use three ounces of salt, one of black pep¬ 
per, one-half ounce of sage rubbed fine. 
Having all ingredients weighed, put a 
layer of the meat cut in strips, sprinkle the 
mixed seasoning over it, another layer of 
meat with more seasoning, distributing as 
evenly as possible. Run twice through the 
grinder, and when it is put on the table 
it is surprising to see how quickly it van¬ 
ishes. 
For chilblains, dip the frosted feet or 
hands in lye made from wood ashes or 
soda, so hot they cannot be held in, but 
dip again and again until it is cool enough 
to hold them in. This is best done at 
bed time. You may need to repeat it if 
the first application does not entirely re¬ 
lieve. .Oil of peppermint will relieve in 
some cases. 
Thanks for the formula for Bologna 
sausage; I have often wished to know 
how to make it; also crackers. Can any¬ 
one tell whether the bread machines ad¬ 
vertised will work dough for crackers and 
Maryland biscuit? If so, it will make sale 
for at least one of them. The biscuit 
would be made oftener if it were not for 
the inevitable “pounding.” 
Will some one tell how to make the 
“Frankfurters” used for picnics and 
lunches? R. l. m. 
R. N.-Y.—We do not think the bread- 
mixer would be effective in making beaten 
biscuit, though it is admirable in its reg¬ 
ular use. One of our Virginia friends, 
however, tells us that she makes her 
beaten biscuit by running the dough re¬ 
peatedly through the meat chopper until 
experience shows that it is mixed, and 
this lightens labor wonderfully. 
We have no recipe for Frankfort sau¬ 
sage, and hope some reader will con¬ 
tribute it. A recipe given in a book de¬ 
voted to pork merely advises chopping 
both fat and lean pork, moistening with 
water and filling into skins, which is very 
sketchy information, since commercial 
Frankfort sausage tastes as though both 
pickled and smoked. 
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Several improvements In the 
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Barrels are especially bored 
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ounces of No. 8 chilled shot are 
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325 pellets In a 30-lnch circle at 
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The omission of the take-down 
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and enables us to offer the gun 
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has ever been regularly sold be¬ 
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New Haven, Conn. 
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When sold return me the money and I 
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ONECO, FLORIDA 
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Rochester, New York, 
Roses 
Strawberries 
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Vaughan’s 
NEW BABY RAMBLER ROSE 
THE EVERBL00MING DWARF CRIMSON RAMBLER 
This beautiful new French rose flowers in dusters 
of from thirty to fifty blooms. They are in every way 
like those of the Climbing Crimson Rambler and are 
produced perpetually. We have closely watched this 
new Rose in our greenhouses since November. 1903. 
and they have never been without flowers from that 
time until the present day. We had a large bed in 
our grounds and the plants were constantly in bloom 
until November—even in the hottest weather. This 
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Prices: 2 INCH POT PLANTS, ready March 20,each 
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DORMANT one year old field plants, ready now. 
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X2f ~We also have a few hundred of extra large 3-year- 
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84-86 Randolph St., Chicago 14 Barclay St., New York 
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