1914. 
THE RURAT 
NT E\V-YORKER 
89 
MAPLE SUGAR A DESIRABLE 
SWEET. 
(Continued from page 87.) 
fuls of sifted flour, and the chocolate 
mixture, and bake in layers. For the 
filling and top, cook two cups of maple 
syrup with a speck of cream of tartar, 
without stirring, until it spins a thread, 
then cool and pour slowing on the beaten 
whites of two eggs, and beat until stiff 
enough to spread. 
For a delicious maple ice-cream, heat 
in the double boiler one quart of rich 
sweet milk until boiling hot. Mix one- 
half cup of. maple sugar with two table- 
spoonfuls of cornstarch, a speck of salt, 
and one-half cup of milk, then add grad¬ 
ually to the hot milk, and cook ten min¬ 
utes, stirring Often. Beat three eggs un¬ 
til light, and pour the hot mixture over 
them, return to the fire and cook until 
the eggs are set; remove from the fire and 
cool. When cold add one pint of cream 
whipped stiff, and one cup of thick maple 
syrup. Turn into a freezer and freeze. 
ROSAMOND LAMPMAN. 
PIN MONEY FROM FLOWERS. 
It is sometimes a bit of a problem for 
the woman and the cluTdren on the small 
cents each for the little bouquets. The Sum¬ 
mer resort season is short, and we started 
rather late, but the first year we sold 
$12 worth. I made two trips a week 
and sold from 50 cents to $1.25 each 
trip. This does not seem so much now, 
but it was a good deal then, when money 
was scarce. I had enough to make my 
visit and some left over towards buying 
a new suit of clothes out of my half of 
the $12. The next two years we sold 
nearly $20 each year. After that I had 
grown large enough so that my time was 
worth more to work at home. I was 
always rather timid about offering my 
flowers, and I have no doubt I could 
have sold more if I had been more for¬ 
ward. 
Of course there is not always a Sum¬ 
mer resort available, but usually some 
market can be found if searched for. 
If near a fair-sized town, arrangements 
can probably be made to have them sold 
at a grocery store, allowing the grocer 
a commission of a cent a bunch for those 
that he sells. It may take two or three 
years before people buy very readily, but 
it will be surprising how much may be 
sold when people know fresh flowers are 
always to be had during the Summer 
months. The grocer may feel that the 
profits are not large enough to be worth 
WHITE PHLOX, A FINE GARDEN PERENNIAL. 
farm to earn a little extra spending 
money. Of course there is the old stand¬ 
by, the chickens, but sometimes these do 
not do their full duty, or there is need for 
more money than the chickens yield. 
During one of the “hard times” periods 
of quite a number of years back, while 
I was a youngster, my mother and I 
went into partnership to earn a little 
extra money. I wanted to visit a friend 
in Madison, 40 miles away, but lacked the 
carfare, and mother always could find use 
for an extra dollar or so. A lady visitor 
suggested that we might be able to sell 
flowers at Devil’s Lake, a Summer resort 
four miles away. We had quantities of 
pansies, sweet peas and Asters, as well 
as other flowers, so we decided to try 
the plan. Mother picked and bunched 
the flowers the afternoon before, and I 
would take them over and sell them to 
the guests at the hotel and those living 
in the cottages around the lake. Sweet 
peas sold the best, and 20 or 25 stems 
were tied in a bunch. Six or seven As¬ 
ters made a nice-sized bunch and were 
popular also. Two or three leaves of 
rose-scented geraniums tied in with a 
dozen or 15 pansies sold quite readily. 
While we had other kinds of flowers 
those three sold tin* best. I received five 
bothering with, but he can be reminded 
that a chance customer, attracted by the 
flowers, may become a permanent buyer 
of groceries later. This argument, to¬ 
gether with the fact that there is no 
risk of loss, will usually attract favorable 
attention. A 10-cent store or a popular 
drygoods store might also be good places 
to try. In a small town or village where 
there is no regular florist some business 
may be done furnishing flowers for fun¬ 
erals or other occasions if people are in¬ 
formed that flowers are for sale. In the 
smaller places people are so used to hav¬ 
ing flowers given to them it may be a 
little slow to get them into the notion 
of paying out good money for flowers, 
but if one has good taste in arranging 
the money will come in time. 
For the Summer resort trade probably 
pansies, Asters and sweet peas, with 
possibly daisies and bachelor's buttons 
are enough to grow. For very early 
Spring flowers pansy seed should be sown 
in August and the young plants wintered 
over with a little protection of coarse 
hay. Quite early flowers may be had 
from young pansy plants that have been 
started in the house or hotbed the latter 
part of the Winter. For Summer and 
Fall flowers the best results will be had 
mi seed sown outdoors as soon as the 
ground can be worked in the Spring. 
Pansies bloom best during the cooler 
weather of Spring and Fall. 
For very early flowers, Asters should 
be sown in hotbeds, but for a general 
crop and for later flowers the seed can 
be sown during April and transplanted 
to their regular quarters as soon as large 
enough. The Queen of the Market is a 
very satisfactory variety of Aster for 
early cut flowers. The Giant Comet and 
Ostrich Feather varieties are later flow¬ 
ering and many like the long-petalled 
feather flowers of this class. These, as 
well as the Queen of the Market variety, 
may be had in a variety of colors. The 
(Togo Pink is another very beautiful 
kind of the feathery class. The Branch¬ 
ing varieties of Asters are very useful 
for cutting, as the stems are long and 
the flowers large, with beautiful incurv¬ 
ing petals. 
Sweet peas should be sown early to 
succeed best. More of the pink and 
white colors will be needed than any 
others. When bunching either sweet 
peas or Asters, a little taste must be 
used in combining the colors if bunches 
of mixed colors are made up. The pinks 
and purples mixed together are especially 
displeasing. 
If the flowers are to be sold thx-ough 
grocery stores or direct from the garden 
a succession of flowers must be planned 
for from Spring to Fall. The heaviest 
sales will be made during Spring and 
early Summer and in tbe Fall. For «arly 
Spring the tulips, Narcissus, and Iris 
will give a variety and later will follow 
peonies, daisies, Iceland poppies, Canter¬ 
bury bells, oriental poppie-, roses, bach¬ 
elor’s buttons, larkspurs, Gaillardias, 
Coreopsis, Pyretbrums, Golden Glow and 
other varieties. Of course the bulbs will 
have to be bought, and also the roots for 
a start of Iris and peonies, and the roses, 
but almost all the others may be raised 
from seed. It is not necessary to have 
all of these the first year, but the collec¬ 
tion may be added to from year to year 
as the demand for cut flowers grows. 
The county fairs often offer a good 
opportunity to make money from flow¬ 
ers. At many of the fairs there is not' 
much competition in the flower depart¬ 
ment. and a showing of well-grown flow¬ 
ers is almost sure to take several pre¬ 
miums. If possible, flowers should be 
cut the afternoon or evening before be¬ 
ing used or - sold and the stems placed 
well down into water and set overnight in 
the cellar or other cool place. During 
the night the flower stems till up with 
water and they will keep much better 
after being sold than if put into a warm 
room as soon as picked. w. A. toole. 
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FINE FARM AND HOME 
acres wood and timber, balance cultivated: woven 
wire fenced. A dandy, 15-room house; two barns; 
basement; 18 cow stalls; concrete floors; granary. 
EVERYTHING UP-TO-DATE. Apples, pears, plums; H 
mile school and creamery. Last year's income, 
$1,975 Price. $ti,0(>0. part cash, balance, plenty time. 
Hall's ]■ arm Agency, Owego, Tioga Co., New YorK 
FARMS of all Sizes PURPOSES 
Cheapenongh. Mildclimate. For information write 
State Board of Agriculture, Dover, Delaware 
Farms forSale 
Fertile and beautiful farm lands, water fronts 
and timber land on the Eastern shore of Maryland. 
SAMUEL P WOODCOCK, • Salisbury, Maryland 
C.D.Rose Farm Agcy. 
SELLS FARMS. Send for list. 
State & Warren Sts , Trenton, N.J. 
j C t 'RHS FOR SALE—Hear Phil,T. and Trenton markets: 
IdU good It.It. and trolley facilities. New catalogue. -Es¬ 
tablished 25 years. HORACE G. REEDER. Newtown, Pa. 
New York State Dairy and Fruit Farms 
acres. $80^»~ r\ 0 CO. C. W. STREETER, Fulton. N. Y. 
35 BUSHELS PERACRE 
of WHEAT 
on many farms in West- 
ern Canada in 1913. some 
yields being reported as 
high as 50 bushels 
per acre. As high as 
100 bushels were record¬ 
ed in some districts 
for oats, 50 bushels for 
barley and from 10 to 
20 bushels for flax. 
J. Keys arrived in the 
country 5 years ago from Den¬ 
mark, with very little means. He 
homesteaded, worked bard, is 
now the owner of 320 acres of 
land, in 1913 had a crop of 200 
acres.which will realize him about 
$4,000. His wheat weighed 68 
I lbs. to the bushel and averaged 
I over 35 bushels to the acre. 
Thousandsof similar instances mightbo 
related of the homesteaders in Manitoba, 
Saskatchewan and Aiberta. 
The crop of 1913 was an abundant one 
everywhere in Western Canada. 
Ask for descriptive literature and reduced 
railway rates. Apply to 
Superintendent of Immigration. 
Ottawa, Canada, or 
Canadian Government Agent, 
J. S. Crawford, 
301 E. Genesee Street, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
LET US TAN 
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Cattle or Horse hide. Calf, Dog, Deer 
or any kind ot skin with hair or fur on. 
Wo tan and finish thorn right ; make 
them into coats ifor men and women), 
robes, rugs or gloves when ordered. 
Your fur goods will cost you less than 
to ouy them, atnl be worth more. Our 
illustrated catalog gives a lot of in 
formation which every stock raiser 
should have, but we neversend ont this 
valuable book except upon request. 
It tells liow to take oil and care for 
hides; liow and when wo pay tho Iroigiit 
both ways ; about our safe dyeing pro¬ 
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to the customer, especially on horso 
hides and calf skins ; about the fur 
goods and game trophies we sell, taxi¬ 
dermy, etc. If you want a copy send us 
your correct address. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave.. Rochester. N. Y. 
GASH i!5 BAGS 
Turn your old bags into money. We buy them in 
any quantity, sound or torn, at a liberal price and 
pay the freight. Write for particulars ami state 
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