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as I have cold meat, fresh bread, cheese, 
and have decided upon canned peaches for 
sauce. Some may think these meals are 
not “balanced” well. Perhaps they are 
not, and perhaps they could be with no 
extra work, but most of the farm homes 
with which I am familiar are. .dependent, 
like our own, upon one pair of hands, and 
the meal question resolves itself into w’hat 
may be prepared and cooked with the 
time and strength that one ha^- iwhat 
one’s family will eat and enjoy and what 
there is on hand. There are meats- and 
vegetables that must be ^watched ^K^nd 
cooked when at their best, and if a stnaU 
stove is in use one must also, plan in 
order to have room for the different ket¬ 
tles, etc. The woman in town rqay do 
the marketing and cook her “balance^, ra- 
tion.s.” but we farmers’ wives may have 
all our plans upset by a trip to the cellar. 
We may find a squash that is beginning 
to “speck” and must be prepared and 
cooked at once, or something else must 
have attention promptly. On washing 
and clnirning days I try to have easily 
and quickly cooked meals, and find my 
dried sweet corn, soaked over night, and 
my home-canned tomatoes a great help in 
the vegetable line. 
While I clear away the supper John 
and I talk things over; he tells me that 
he has finished filling the ice-house and 
there are nearly 20 cords of wood piled 
ready to season in the back yard. We 
read a while and then the warm kitchen 
is turned into a bathroom while I gather 
the clean clothes. One starts for bed, 
then another, glad for the prospect or 
Sunday’s rest. Sunday morning proves 
cold and rough, but when chores are fin¬ 
ished we start for church and find but 
a few present. The minister discourses 
of model homes and also of Mary and 
Martha. I think to myself that there are 
too many Marthas, “careful and troubled 
about many things,” and that I must 
try to be more like Mary. But after din¬ 
ner T decide that many Marys would be 
quite uncomfortable were it not for the 
Mai'thas; that after all it is but the dif¬ 
ference in temperament and if we are 
true fo our best selves little else matters. 
We spend a pleasant afternoon writing 
to our absent ones and reading. The 
chores finished and luncheon over, our 
folks, father, mother and brother, walk 
in for a chat. Apples and walnuts are 
I)assed and nearly all subjects are touched 
upon before they bid us good-night. We 
prepara for bed, rested and ready for the 
duties of another week and with more 
courage for whatever the week may bring. 
For we know that we love the farm and 
its work, and for that reason it is the best 
place for us. buth babtlett. 
Notes From Vermont 
I have long been an interested reader 
of The R. N.-Y. and the inquiry of G. 
S. T.. Connecticut, in regard to keeping 
ducks and hens in one yard tempts me to 
give our experience. Our boys were given 
a setting of eggs from Pencilled Indian 
Runner ducks, and after as many haps 
and mishaps as the Parson’s first lone 
goose, we raised a pair of ducks. Now 
Ring-neck is a perfect lady except that I 
sometimes suspect she is a suffragette, 
from her long and noisy speeches. But 
she can be forgiven, for in spite of our 
ignorance in duck feeding she has laid 
over 150 eggs each year for two years, 
and one of her eggs is equal in weight to 
two average hen’s eggs. The boys de¬ 
clare her eggs are better fried than hen’s 
eggs, and are fully eqtial to double the 
number of hen’s eggs. Her presence in a 
poultry yard is not objectionable—but 
Bandy Drake is another person. 
If a young cockerel shows any sauei- 
ness to Dan he lowers his head, and grabs 
the offender by the toe, often drawing 
blood. If the cockerel runs, so does Dan, 
until the punishment is complete, and it 
is wondei’ful how those little short legs 
and webbed feet can run. Nor is this all. 
Our fowls have free range, so one of 
Dandy’s amusements the boys call “hal¬ 
ter-breaking the hens.” He takes them 
just back of the comb and leads them 
until the feathers give way or the hens 
flutter and the feathers slip out of his 
bill. Dan has received a few whippings 
for this, so now he seldom touches a hen, 
but in . Winter, when shut in the house 
with the hens, the first Winter he pulled 
the feathers from the head and neck of 
three or four hens and left them so bare 
they died from the severe cold before we 
discovered Dan was to blame, and now 
Dandy and his wife live alone in a vacant 
horsesrull Winters. 
We can also testify that young wood¬ 
chucks are good meat, as at the boys’ 
earnest request I cooked one this Pall. 
In the interest of conservation I also 
tried out the fat and had a pint and a 
half from one ’chuck. Mother says her 
brothers found it excellent to oil shoes. 
1 wonder if it has other uses, or could be 
used in soap-making. 
The men have been finishing digging 
potatoes, and each year we wonder why 
we never see catalogued the black or 
purple-skinned potato, the Cow-horn or 
its improved variety. Farmer’s Pride. 
Each year we raise eight or 10 bushels, 
as it is the finest baking potato in the 
world, we think, and they are also good 
boiled. We also find them heartier than 
the white or pink-skinned ones, less apt 
to blight, and the foliage is tougher, so 
bugs do not like them as well. And year 
after year, wet or dry, they yield about 
the same. 
I think there must be many students 
of the Old School on the Hill who, like 
myself, appreciated the picture of Rev. G. 
Gilbert’s old home for, if I am not mis¬ 
taken, it stands at the foot of the mile- 
long coasting hill, and the latch-string 
was always out, so we could go in and 
get warm and incidentally eat apples and 
popcorn. VEBMONT BEiADEB. 
Conventional Edging 
'This edging may be used very well 
with the conventional insertion, where a 
wide edging is not required. 
Chain 22. 
First Row.—1 d. c. into 7th st, from 
the needle, 3 spaces, 1 block, 1 space. 
Turn. 
Second Row.—1 space, 4 blocks, 1 
space. Turn. 
Third Row.—1 space, 1 block, 4 spaces. 
Turn. 
Fourth Row—4 spaces, 1 block, 1 
space. Turn. 
Fifth Row.—Same as second. 
Conventional Crocheted Edging 
Sixth Row.—Same as third. 
Seventh Row.—1 space, 1 block, 1 
space. Turn. 
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Rows.—The 
same as the seventh. 
Eleventh Row.—1 space, 1 block, 1 
space, l.S ch. Turn. 
Repeat from the first row for the length 
desired. 
Then make a row of s. c. around the 
edge of the scallop and the edge will be 
much stronger. 
EUZABETII MCSPAEBAN. 
Apples In Many Styles 
Apple Pancakes.—Make a batter with 
two beaten eggs, one cup and a half of 
milk, half a teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon 
of sugar, flour to make a drop batter and 
one large teaspoon of baking powder. 
Into this stir one large cupful of chopped 
tart apples and cook on a griddle or in a 
pan; a soapstone griddle is ideal for such 
cakes. Serve with plenty of butter and 
maple syrup or honey. 
Apple Bread Pudding,—Mix two cup¬ 
fuls of brown bread crumbs with an equal 
quantity of diced raw apple; add three- 
quarters cupful of finely chopped suet, 
one cupful of seeded raisins, one beaten 
egg, one tablespoonful of flour, half tea¬ 
spoonful each of salt and all kinds of 
spices, and finally add one cupful of milk. 
Turn into buttered mould, boil two hours 
and serve with hard and liquid sauce. 
Dutch Apple Cake.—Two eggs, one and 
one-half cups milk, one-third teaspoon 
salt, one tablespoon melted butter, two 
cups flour, three leve], teaspoons baking 
powder. Separate eggs and add to yolks 
the milk, melted butter, flour and baking 
powder. Beat well and pour into shallow 
baking pan. Cover the top thickly with 
apples that have been pared, cored and 
quartered, putting the rounding sides up. 
Dust over all one-half cup powdered 
sugar. Bake in, moderately quick oven 
about one-half hour or until apples are 
soft. 
Apple Dumplings.—Make a short pie 
crust, roll it thin and cut into squares 
large enough to cover the apples. Select 
apples of the same size, pare them, re¬ 
move the core and fill the space ivith 
sugar, butter, a little ground cinnamon 
and nutmeg. Place an apple in the center 
of each square of pie crust. Wet the edges 
with white of egg and fold together, the 
points meeting on the top. Give the edges 
a turn and flute; bake in a moderate oven 
about 40 minutes, or until the apples are 
tender, but not until they have lost their 
form. Brush the top with egg, and 10 
minutes before removing from the oven 
dust them with a little 6ugar to give them 
a glaze. Serve with a hai’d sauce. 
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