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Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
The slioofl oabbngo was put into a large 
tub and pounded with a heavy ax pre¬ 
viously washed. Now and then a handful 
of salt Wits Jtdded. The pounding must be 
done rapidly to keep up witli the eon- 
stant addition of sliced cabbage. When 
we got tired of slicing or pounding, we 
changed off. Then the juicy mass was 
set iiway to ferment, and the lottst said 
about it for a time the better. By and 
by it was ripe enough to make a cooking, 
and a pock or so wtts boiled until tender. 
If very hungry for kraut, we ate a little 
of thi.s first cooking, hut usually waited 
for it to he “warmed up.” and the more 
times this was done the better it was. At 
about the fifth warming over, it begtin to 
get good, and at the sixth or seventh it 
was in condition where we felt like tttk- 
ing a small bite and dwelling on the flavor 
thoughtfully. The ambrosia said to have 
been fed to the gods could have been no 
better. 
Stories After Supper. —When the 
long evenings of Fall came, the bo.ss liked 
to sit in the kitchen and talk with the 
hired men for an hour or so after supper. 
■ He htid an interesting stock of stories 
I about ettrly local characters or happen- 
! ings. As a ho.v he remembered President 
A it 11 Huron, who often came through that 
valley on horseback from his farm, a few 
mile's away. He knew all of the farmers 
h.y their fir.st names, and stopped to talk 
with any one who were near the road. 
Crops, weather and home interests were 
discussed, or he might dismount and go 
to look at the fattening pigs. If in his 
carriage with some visitors from Wash¬ 
ington, he would tap the coachman on the 
shoulder with his cane as a signal to stop, 
while he talked with .Tolm or Harry, who 
Avits making fence or feeding the jiigs. 
How he got rid of the doetor was a 
story that the boss specitilly liked to tell. 
When a boy he was (piite sick one Win¬ 
ter, and the doctor was called. Tie kept 
coming and leaving bitter medicine long 
after the boy was apparently well, giving 
an occasional hint of weak' lungs and a 
l)ossible_ “decline.” The parents thought 
there might be something in the doctor’s 
fears of later complication.s, and did not 
dismiss him, hut the hoy got tired of the 
hitter doses and hatched up a plan tluit 
worked well. The doctor’s carriage could 
be .seen some distance away. The hoy 
watched, and just as the doctor arrived, 
was out AV’ith a btisin of com calling the 
chickens with anything hut a wetik-Iutiged 
voice, and jumping around in a way that 
showed that his muscles were all right. 
AO hitter doses were left that day. 
In the two years that I worked on this 
farm, throe of us annuitlly raised 10 acres 
of corn, 15 or L'O of rye, 10 of oats, two 
or three of jiotatoes, attended to a large 
garden and got in nearly 100 tons of hav, 
.so it is not hitrd to see that we did some¬ 
thing besides etiting and listening to 
stories._ IIIBED MAN. 
Pennsylvania Farm Notes 
Our local mills are paying ,$1.80 for 
whont, 00c for old corn and SOc for new, 
requiring 80 lbs. for a bushel. This is 
about right, for most of the corn is still 
too moi.st for good milling and will dry 
down the full 10 lbs. of the bushel. They 
pay 50c for oats and .$1.25 for rye. Goo'd 
fair hay is bringing $15 to $10. Straw 
IS not to be had, as owners won’t sell 
and tcntiuts cannot owing to the sy.stem 
which gives the tenant all of the straiv 
and fodder produced, but requires him to 
feed it and use the manure on the phice. 
Locftl butchers are ptiying l.Tc per pound 
for dressed pork and farmers who at¬ 
tend locitl market seem able to sell all 
the sausage_ they can make at 22c per 
pound. It is custoniiiry to raise a hull 
and use him on the herd until li/> years 
old and thou .sell him. Such cttttle and 
old cows are tibont all the beef aniniiils 
sold. The eustoni is to lump them olf, 
hut as nearly as I can estimate a good 
young bull will bring 7 to 8c per lb. and 
a fat cow about 4c. Sheep are not 
grown here, although plenty a little 
north of us. (Jrocei's are offering .$1.50 
per bushel for potatoes, and this is only 
a little below the market price (I mean 
the curb market) in bushel lots. Dur¬ 
ing the Summer sweet corn, cauttiloupes, 
cucumbers and potatoes were high. 
Other crops about average in price but 
good sale. Strawberries wore an ex¬ 
ceptional crop and the quality was fine, 
but prices wore_ low, at retail on market 
from G to lOc in the main season, with 
some carried home. Other berries fttir 
prices. Sweet cherries from 6 to 12e 
on market. Mine went to a State hos¬ 
pital at 8c straight. My neighbor’s 
jieaches averaged him $1.05 for standtird 
IG-quart baskets weighing full 24 lbs. 
The crop was very^ short and peaches 
were shiiiped in, which is very unusual. 
Grocers htive been paying SOc and GOc 
for apples, but the quality is by no means 
good. They are imsprayed orchard run. 
Hutter is 48c now and eggs 45c; milk 
9c and cream 24c per qinirt retail iu 
each ciise. a. w. s. 
^Montour Co., Pa. 
Hutter .82c; eggs .88c; potatoes $1.50; 
hity $10; oats 58c hu.; buckwheat $2.50 
cwt. (Jows $40 to $80 a hetid; other 
cattle 5c to 7c lb. Hogs, dressed, 12c 
Ih. .s. B. 
I’otter Co., Pit. 
Hay $10; straw $10; oats 70c; corn 
$1; wheat $1.()0, wholesale. Heeves 8c 
live; hogs 1014 to 11c. Ohickems. live, 
18c to 22c. Eggs 45 to SOc; butter 42 
to 45c. Apples $1; potatoes $2 retail; 
celery 8 to 10c. u. l. F. 
Blair Co., Pa. 
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