The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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village. I wonder what changes 
thV years have brought to that country. 
T went there straight from Gape God and 
I knew onlv too well that Plymouth Rock 
* f ar more popular in Massachusetts 
than it ever could be in Mississippi. My 
father had been killed at Fredericksburg. 
I struck the town a complete .stranger, 
without even the price of a return ticket 
in iuv pocket! For two years I worked 
side by side with a man who also fought 
it Fredericksburg, but on the other side. 
I suppose he stood within a few rods of 
thf. place where my father’s company was 
mowed down. And now as we go back to 
it I am forced to admit that of all the 
towns in which I have ever -lived, next 
to my native town, there is no place that 
scent's more like home to me. We expect 
to help out at the commencement exer¬ 
cise- at the big agricultural college, and 
it has puzzled me for long weeks to try 
to think what a Jerseyman can say to 
Gulf State farmers. What is the common 
language of agriculture? I confess that I 
do not knotc. 
When I left Mississippi cotton sold at 
seven cents a pound. I was told that 
fully 00_per cent -of the crop in some 
counties was mortgaged before it was 
planted. Now cotton brings 40 cents, and 
it will be interesting to see how the in¬ 
creased price has affected ordinary life. 
When I left the State there was some 
little money due me for teaching. Pike 
other teachers I was paid ih school war¬ 
rants. and ns I could not wait until the 
cotton harvest, when money was plenty, 
I sold these warrants at a discount of 50 
per cent. Now the whole condition of 
farming has changed. The year I went 
there the entire hay crop of Mississippi 
was worth barely $.‘>5,000. This year its 
value will he nearly $30,000,000, or 
about as much as the cotton crop of that 
old day. It seems that for the past 25 
years Mississippi has been '‘going to 
grass.” Where I came from if a church 
member told a man to go to grass every¬ 
one understood .iust wliat lie meant. When 
a State goes to grass, however, it is more 
like going to glory. It seems that for 
years Bine grass came creeping down the 
lime ridges of Northeast Mississippi from 
Kentucky and Tennessee. It came as a 
friendly immigrant, hut the cotton plant¬ 
er- would not have it so. They fought 
ir out of their fields with plow and hoe. 
and stuck to cotton. In spite of them it 
worked in, and Alfalfa. Johnson grass and 
other companions have joined it. It has 
been a glorious quarter century of grass. 
We are going back to see what it has 
done. I wish some of you were along 
with us. II. w. c. 
A Wisconsin Woman’s Notes 
Barbel Smoke-house. —On page 844 
the Pastoral Parson is wishing for a 
smoke-house. The kind I have used siuce 
being married, and what my mother used 
in days gone by, was a-barrel (common 
salt barrel). Make your smoke in a pan 
' or kettle with ashes in the bottom, then 
live coals, aud put on corncobs to make 
the smudge; set in the barrel, hang ham 
and bacon on a broomstick, cover top 
with clean white cloth first, then an old 
mg, and weight down with a couple of 
short cuts of plank. It can be set by the 
kitchen door, and using a new barrel will 
have to be tended but once in a couple 
of hours to keep a steady smoke. With 
medium-size hams oue day’s smoking 
makes them just right. 
Smoked Herring. —The past Winter 
we purchased fresh herring from green 
Bay at five cents per pound, and they 
were kept frozen, thawed out a few at a 
time as we used them. One day when 
smoking ham I took a few of the herring, 
cleaned off the scales, and smoked them 
a half day; then removed the head and 
intestines, salted liberally inside aud out, 
and baked half an hour in the oven, and 
for something delicious it was great, and 
“filled up,” too. In smoking the ham my 
way you need smoke but one at a time 
if the family is small, and the others 
remain, in the brine, so avoid the danger 
of spoiling. Freshen in water as you 
slice it to fry. 
Overalls for Berry Picking. — A 
word about overalls. One place they are 
worth the trouble of making them is 
"lien a woman is picking either black¬ 
berries or raspberries, you can crowd 
among the hushes without fear of tearing 
J’our clothes, and in wild berrying step 
over dead branches, logs, etc., and not 
trip and spill all you have gathered. The 
city office men, iu wearing the overalls 
to reduce the price on other clothes, are 
iust handing the farmer and laborer 
another burden, because the price of the 
overalls will surely go up to meet the 
demand, and the farmer must have the 
clothes, so will again “pay the price” of 
his necessity. 
Keeping Up with Lizzie. —The Hope 
harm man has never mentioned reading 
“keeping TJp with Lizzie.” by Irving 
Batchellor. He should find it interesting. 
w , a . very good moral. Wliut ails the 
world iu general, and especially the city 
people, is that they are trying to “Keep 
P with Lizzie.” If we could only get 
i.izzie headed the right direction toward 
simplicity and the necessary things of 
ije the problem would be solved. F.ver.v 
yillago and community has their “I.izzie,” 
ami they struggle to keep up with her. 
" iscousiu. MRS. M. o. 
ii irI 'v s ' Old Man Brown died he left 
all he had to the children's asylum.” 
How good of him. How much did it 
amount to?” “Twelve small children.”— 
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