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Stirring Ground around Trees

Opening or tightening the soil around
the roots of trees, either in the spring or
fall, for the purpose Ok letting in warmth,
and atfording a freer medium for the ex-
pansion and development of the roots, is Of
great value in promoting the health and
vigor Of the tree. All trees, whether fruit
or ornamental, young Oh old, indigenous or
exotic, are vastly benefited by this process.
In old orchards the soil about the trunks
of trees, and to a considerable distance
from them in every direction, should be
carefully broken, and the upper surface to
the depth Of three or four inches removed
in the spring, every four OF five years. The
eggs Of the curculio and other insects are
insects, the Tayages of which the succeed
ing year will be productive of far greater
loss than the expense of removing the soil
and replacing it with compost or loam 1t
is an utterly hopeless undertaking to at
tempt the cultivation of good fruits, when
no measures are resorted to to obYiate the
fatal ravages of this detestablc and insidu-
Gus foe, and the remedy now suggested is
by no means expensive, if we take into
consideration the advantages otherwise re-
sulting to the trees from its application.
Any good soil, taken from the open fields
or cultivated lands, may be used as a sub
stitute for compost, and very small guam
tity viii suffice. Even if no fresh matter
is applied, would recommend the remov-
al of the surface soil, and would replace it
when convenient Chip manure, or old
dung covered with straw, answers well for
that purpose Germalt01ca telegraph
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Domestic Recipes.

JELLY CAKE-One cup Of sweet cream,
two cups of sugar, two eggs, one teaspoon
fill soda, three of cream tartar, and flour.
FEEEcH LoAF.-Three egg. two cups
ut sugar. two of sour cream, one-half cup
OF butter, one pound Of raisins, one tea
spoonful Of soda and two of cream Of tar
tar. Flour in sufficient quantity.
JOHNNY CAkE.-Take good, fresh but
termiIk, and soda sufficient to neutraIize
The acid. STIR in enough meal and only
CROUCH to make very thin batter, and if
sweet johnny cake is preferred, add little
sugar
FRUIT CAKE.-One pound of -four, one
pound of sugar, three-tourths Of a pound
of butter, one pound of currants, two lbs
Of raisins, one nutmeg, a tablespoonful OF
ground cloves, four eggs, one gill of sweet
milk. one teaspoonful of soda, and three Of
cream Of tartar
To Color YELLoW.-For about five
pounds Of goods take three ounces of sugar
oflead, one-and-a-half ounces bichromate
Of potash put as much soft water as will
cover the goods; boil for a short time over
a gentle fire, and rinse A bright yellow
is the result If an orange is required
finally run through lime water.
To Color WOODEN ORANGE.-For one
pound Of wooden take four ounces quercit-
ron and ueand-a-half ounces lac dye
wet the quercitron and lac in hot water
and add one-and-a-half ounces maddel
compound prepare your kettle with suf
ticient water and when near boiling, ado
the mixture; boil ten minutes; then put
in the wooden and boil one hour then air
rinse well, and dry
LEMON CUsTARD PIE.-For two pies
take one good sized lemon, two cups 0
sugar, three cups of water, six eggs anC
two tabespoonfuls of corn starch Nj,
the starch and sugar, then add the yolk
0 the eggs, next the water, next the juic,
and grated peel of the lemon, and lastly
the whites OF the eggs beaten to astitf froth
Put into two plates lined with crust, anC
dust powdered sugar over the top. Bak
slowly, as a custard pie is nearly spoiled
by boiling.
To Color BROWN.-This recipeis equal
ly good for cotton, linen, silk, or woolel
goods, and makes a beautiful color on Ell
ther. To four pounds of goods take on
pound of clutch and one-half pound of bi
chromate of potash. Dissolve the bichro
mate in hot water in boiler and the
turn out and put the clutch into the boile
and dissolve, having water enough on bot
to wet the goods and keep both dyes hot
wet your goods in hot water or weak suds
wash, if not clean, and dip first in tn
clutch, then in the bichromate of p0tas
until YOU have the desired color; the
rinse in cold water; or, if your goods ar
to wear, wash in suds until it will not crocl
For carpet rags, rinsing two or three time
in cold water will be sufficient.
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The Average Sunday Schools.

Last weeks Christian Advocate OMetho-
dist truthfully remarks:
The average Sunday School fails to in
terpret the bible to childhood. We GER
tainly do not expect from it the work Of a
theological seminary. Even in bible elias
ses we may not hope to secure a critical
study of the sacred volume, or 4 thorough
exegesis Of all its difficult passages; prob
ably something less than that is all need
ed but we ought to obtain. through its
fundamentally, for the children of the
church schools who remain in them for a
period of from ten to fifteen years, clear
conception OF it as 4 perfect and harmoni-
Gus whole, with all its parts singularly re-
lated together, and sharing alike the divine
office Of presenting the one full and COM
peted revelation of the will of God to man
Its rich treasures should be unlocked, or AT
least the key left in the hands ofthe child
How much about the bible it is desirable
to know in order to better understand anC
appreciate its divine truths-about its his
tory, the languages in which it was writ
ten, the customs Of the people described il
its pages, the character and condition o
the country where its recorded events oc
Cured, the relation of the Old Testamen
to the New, and how and where Christ i
/ found in the former, as He says Heis. Thi
is a wonderful, progressive and fascin
ating study. No child could be properl.
introduced to it, and aided in its earle
lessons, who would not find in it an mex
haustible resource for pleasure and profit
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A Solemn Hour.

The fearful tragedy in Richmond enfold-
e some most solemn lessons. One of them,
at least, is emphasized in what is related
below;
A member of the legislature describes
the fall as follows: Il heard low. rumb-
ling sound, and felt myself sinking rapid
ly. was facing the gallery, and saw it
falling toward me, but fortunately it did
not reach me. l saw men scrambling over
each other in the gallery, and heard what
seemed to be one unearthly yell of agony
then came the crash, and Isank into dark
ness found myself under a mass ofrub-
Dish, with a dead man over me, a wounded
man under me, and another at my side
T e poor fellow under me said, % me! il
b ID only feared God always as do now
How wicked l have been all my days. Q
God, forgive me-spare me, and l will be
true follower of Jesusp Thr man at my
side exclaimed, % death, where is thy
sting? O grave, where is thy victory
heard number of cries all about me- some
speaking about their wives, others Of theiI
chi dren, while others were begging for air
believe many of them died from suffoca
ton, for although but little hurt myself, ]
should have died from sufocation if ] haC
not been removed when I was"
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Hearing and Keeping.

Men do not Away, think Of these things
as they hcedIgs,ly listen to spiritual truth:
Mere bearing and intellectual perception
IF the Word Of God is not keepingit. List
ching without seeking to make the truth a
Iuickenjng power in our life may be pos
tive injury. These words, upon which all
rue spiritual teaching Is founded, are not
simply maxims or pearls Of wise suggestion,
such as might have fallen from the lips of
a Plato. They reveal the divine life to the
soul. The letter may be known to us,while
it has no effect upon the inner experience,
it is the spirit which lies hidden in the let
ter that we are to keep and cherish. 1t is
through communion and fellowship with
Christ, learning of his mind and spirit, that
We receive that Elimination Of soul which
makes the word Of God to glow with light.
How precious is the truth to those who
thus keep it. 1t is treasure that is con-
stantly b e5sing and increasing. 1t becomes
more and more an operative force in the
life
They are keeping it and feeding upon it
Tread from eaven and water of life; how
he word strengthens and nourishes them
They see Gods universe, they hear its mu
sic, they receive its fragrance; but, abov,
Il q csc things which make them partic
ipapts, in common with others, of the gooC
things Of the earth, their souls are open t,
spiritual revelations, They see Christ
They see as none others can that divine life
They hear notes of victory borne to then
from the celestial city. They know wha
it is to walk in the garden of the Lord ant
amid its rivers and trees of life to be re
freshed and be prepared for earthly car
and duty. BLESSED" says our Saviour
care they that hear the word of God am
keep it, E. B. S.
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History of the PopeS,

The Neue Freie Presse of Vienna sums
up in the following severe terms the history
of the Popes From St Peter in suppos-
ing that he ever was at Rome to Plus TX.
there have been 297 Popes, including a
anti-Popes and one female Pontitf; 10 of
them left Rome, and 80 reigned in foreign
countries; ruled a month only; 10, one
year; -, two years; "a, five; 81, fifteen );
IS, twenty; and only for a longer period
Among the 297, 81 were declared usurpers
and herectics Out Of 266 legitimate, 81
died a violent death that is to say, is
were poisoned and four straugled, the rest
perishing in other ways. independent OF
the Popes Of Avignon, % Pontifs were de
posed, expelled and banished from Rome ;
IS others could only maintain themselves
by the aid Of the foreigner. Out of the
whole number, l53, or more than half,
showed themselves unfit for the office s,
in spite of their vows, had children. Leo
", it was said was a woman. Urban V.
confessed his intallibility, and submitted to
the censures of a Council twoother Popes,
Victor III. and Adrian VI, confessed in
public that they had sinned, &c..............
Certain it is that in this long history OF
Christs Wears, note may be taken Of fire.
quent absences of the Holy Spirit"
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ance of wet weather occurs, SOW when you
can. or you can defer the sowing until ear
ly in the spring, as soon as the ground Is
bare, and | would also recommend the
sowing of about two bushels of plaster,
once in two years on grass land, for | think
that it will pay. Farmers should not adj
nit cattle into their moving lands in spring,
even for an hour. Allow them to run in
fields in fall but very little, if the fall be
wet, they should not be allowed at all in
grass fields.
If this course is followed think our lay
crop would be increased yearly, and our
fields would hold out much longer than
they do now. Farmers should not take
up more land than they can dress well and
be sure that they can make it better when
they seed it to grass again. The best crops
that ever got ofgrass, and the pieces to
hold out the longest were those that were
dressed with green manure, spread on the
burrows and seeded down Immediately, on
land that had been cropped one year with
out manure. The turf had then got well
rotted, and | also got the full strength of
the manure in the grass crops.-A. E.
| TAUGHT in Name Farmer.
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Count Over the Mercies.

Countthe mercies which have been quiet
ly falling in your history. Down they
come, every morning and every evening, as
angel messengers from the Father of heav-
en-. Have you lived these years, wasting
mercies, renewing them every day, and
never yet realized whence they came? If
you have, heaven pity you. You have muir
INJURED under affections, but who heard you
rejoice over blessings? Ask the sunbeam,
the raindrop, the star, or thequeen of night
What is life but mercy? What is strength,
friendship, social life Had each the pow
er of speech, each would say, II am mer-
cy." Perhaps you have never regarded
them as such. If not, you have been a
poor student of nature and revelation
What is the propriety of stopping to play
with thorn bush, when you may just as
well pluck sweet flowers, and eat pleasant
fruits?
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Varieties.

This life is like an inn, in which the soul
spends few moments on its journey.
Temptations, like noxious weeds, are best
killed by putting the knifeto the root.
To speak the truth and to do good is to
resemble in some sort the Deity we worship.
The heart of a wise man should resemble
a mirror, which reflects every object with
out being sullied by any.
Youth scatters its affections with a iber-
al hand, like young heir, ignorant as yet
of the value OF his possessions.
Sanctifed Affections are like so many ar
titicers, working on pious mans crown,
to make it more bright and massive.
Many calumnies are injurious even after
they are refuted. Like the Spanish flies,
they sting when alive and blister when
dead,
Mems lives should be like the day, more
beautiful in the evening; or, like the sum-
mer, aglow with promise, and the autumn,
rich with the golden sheaves where good
works and deeds have ripened on the field
Some one has said of til ose that die
young, that they are like the lambs which
Alpine shepherds bear in their arms tc
higher, greener pastures, that the mothers
of the flock may follow.
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Preparing and Seeding Land to Grass.

In order to raise good crops Of grass,
there are three points which it would be
well for farmers to remember. FRS, the
land should be well prepared secondly, it
should be well seeded, and thirdly, well
taken care of atterward. And l will jot
down few rules and observations that
have found to be useful in this line Of
business.
Land should not be seeded to grass until
the turf is well rotted, 50 that it can be
laid down smoothly. I think that all land
that is intended to be seeded to grass,
should be plowed in the spring and seeded
Immediately, and if your land has not been
properly dressed previous to this, apply
enough to make it so. IfnO manure has
been applied, then put on at the rate Of
twenty or twenty-five cart loads, or about
eighty heaps per acre (such heaps as farm
ers generally drop previous to spreading.)
If manure is made by young stock, itwould
be advisable to apply more peracre. Then
cultivate or harrow with a sharp heavy
harrow, until the manure is thoroughly in
| corporated with the soil, after which, SOW
your grain, Or whatever you intend to seed
down with, and here l would say, be sure
and not SOW too thick. Then harrow with
fine harrow until it is smooth enough to
suit your taste. This done, SOW your grass
seed, which do not harrow in, but use a
roller or bush harrow for the purpose. 1
will give rule, which taking in general,
will be found, l think, applicable to the
large portion of farmers who seed land for
the purpose of moving a number Of years.
OF herds grass, from twelve to sixteen
quarts, and of clover, not more than twelve
pounds, and if you wish, about eight quarts
of red top, this will be found sufficient for
one acre. And here will say SOW grass
seed with liberal hand, especially herds
grass, for when it is sown thick the hay
grows finer in quality, and consequently is
much better for the farmer to feed out to
his stock, an object of no small account
when rightly considered.
Now in regard to taking care of the grass
lands afterward. After cutting your grain
crop, or the crop you have seeded down
with, it would be well to SOW plaster al
the rate of about two bushels per acre, sow
ing it when the weather is wet, or Just be
| fore shower if possible, but if no appear
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Hufy People.

One Of the oldest things to witness, If
not one of the interchangeable to encount-
er, is the facility which some have for tax
ing offense where none is meant" takin.
huff" as the phrase goes, with reason 3
without-and making themselves and ever,
one else uncomfortable, for nothing dacpe
than a mood or more than fancy. Huff
people are to be met with, Of all ages and
in every station, neither years nor cOndi-
ton bringing necessarily wisdom and un
suspiciousness but we are bound to say
that the larger proportion will be general
ly found among women, and chiefly anon
those who are of an uncertain social pos
ton, or who arc unhappy in their circum-
stances not to speak of their tempers.--
Hufiness, which seems to be selfassertion
in what may be called the negative form,
and which the possessors thereof classify
as high spirit or sensitiveness. accordin
as they are passionate or Sullen, is in reals
ty the product Of self distrust The per.or
who has self respect, and nothing TO fear.
who is Of an assured social status and Of
happy private condition, is never apt to
take offerse.
Many and great are the dangers of action
with hufy people; and sure az you are to
founder into the bog with them. while you
are innocently thinking you are walking
on the soidest esplanade, the dangers OF
speech are just as manifold The dangers
ofjesting are, above ALL great. 1t may be
laid down as an absolute rule, which has
no exception anywhere, that no huffy per
son can bear joke good humoredly. or take
it as it is meant. If you attempt the very
simplest form Of chatting you will soon be
made to find out your mistake; and not
unfrequently the whole harmony of al
evening has been set wrong, because thin
skinned, hufy person has taken a pleasant
j st as personal affront, and either blazec
out or gloomed suddenly, according to hi,
or her individual disposition and direction
of the wind ut the time. And even chat
which was not meant to he applied by on,
more than another of the company-chat
which touched no one and Included all
Is continually taken a. specially designed
Should chance cap, flung off at random
be felt to fit, it is perfectly useless to pro
claim that it was chance cap. and of ran
dom manufacture; your hufed friend, sci
hated, will not believe you to her dyin
day, and will always hold you guilty {
having crowned her Intentionally with
disfgured head gear.-Te Queen.
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Washes for Fruit Trees.

Twice a year, at least, every fruit tree in
the orchard should be washed with some
liquid strong enough to destroy the eggs
and pup2 of insects, and the roots and
spores of moses and fungi. Inusing caus-
tic I've for the destruction of bark lice, sew
eral persons have killed their trees. as
sometimes the bark turns black and peels
off after the application Of this wash, and
the death of the tree follows. Lime white
wash is recommended by some persons,
but it is unsightly and disapproved of by
the most experienced fruit growers; soap
suds are harmless, but are too mild for the
purpose for which the application is re-
quired. The most suitable wash is solu-
ton of one pound of soda to a gallon OF
water. Rain water is the best for this pur-
pose. This wash will not injure the bark.
but will kill the eggs or pupa of insects,
and will clear away moses, etc. 1t will
remove dead bark and produce a healthy
surface Western Rural
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Experiments in Potato Growing.

Mr.. L. P. Eaton, of Dublin, gives the
following as the result of experiments in
potato growing, having put to the test five
varieties of potatoes, viz: the Early Rose,
Excelsior. Coebrook, Seeding, Harrison,
and Early Goodrich.
Field No. This field was planted
early, upon well rotted manure. In con-
sequence of the dry weather, the yield of
all the varieties was much less than it 9TH
erwise would have been, particularly the
Rose, which ripened during the drOuth.
The Excelsior exceeded the Rose fully one
third in yield, ana were ahead of all the
other varieties they continued growing,
and the tops remained green till the frost
came. A part of the Early Rose that were
planted were quite large and cut in single
eyes; the rest were small, not many as large
as hens eggs. The large sized ones came
up first, and grew more rapidly and stocky
than the others, and ripened some days
the soonest, but the small potatoes eventu-
ally made the largest tops, and slightly in
creased yield from very small seed the
Weld was much reduced
Field No. was planted quite late, upon
/ fresh manure The vines were small and
weak till the last of the season, when they
made a vigorous growth, the potatoes max
ing most Of their growth after the fall
rains commenced. Here the Excelsior and
Rose were alike in yield, while the Cole
brook wa one-third, and the Davis Seed
ling onc-half less. Two rows of Excelsior
were planted with one eye to hill, two
with Two eyes, and two with three as was
most of the field the yields from one and
three eyes were equal, while from two eyes
it wa, slightly increased; with the Rose
tile result was nearly the same.
Field No. 3.-Here the Excelsior yield
I'd one-iourth better than the Rose and
one-third better than the White Peach
blow, and while but few of the former were
adccte with rot, the latter were more than
oue-tlird; and another seeding variety
that promised well on account Of It's fine
quality, were nearly all decayed, This
ie,d wa, a strong hill soil, while the first
two were sandy loans
He says. in the Excelsior we have a va
riety Of the highest quality for the table
and that retains its good quality till other
potatoes grow again, the tubers lying
near together in the Hill, while the tops art
-tocky and spreading, earlier than tht
White Peachblow, yields better and is full
ly its equal in quality, but not quite a.
handsome in appearance. There may b,
better varieties, but if so they have not yer
been introduced into this section