The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24

ing over is given it. In six weeks the musb-
rooms will begin to appear, and viii continue
producing for about three months. Success
sional beds should be made up according to
the requirements.
Make GOOD BUTTER.-Mr. ID. w. Dase,
of Beloit, got very warm in exhortation the
other day, as will be seen below. He had
right to speak, for he practices as well as
breaches. He said: " have worked, and
used what little influence 1 possessed, but
nv efforts seem to me to be but partially ef-
fective: and the tendency among many Is TO
settle down to a lower standard, and travel
in he old ruts rather than put their shoulder
To the wheel to raise it up TO that high emf
nence of which it is possible. You farmers
look to this and help us to organize into
oranges? No; but three, four, eight, doz-
en-, as many as can work handily together.
fix up a milk room and churhIng depot. take
your milk there, have it weighed. credited
to YOU, handled by one competent person,
milk set. cream SKINNED, churned, tins
cleaned, butter weighed and sold; do away
with one hired girl; pay apart OF what sne
would cost for taking charge OF the milk
room; have milk enough in the house for
coffee; bring your butter to churn TO the
butter factory from all directions, and get
from one to five cents more for it. Then you
can make more money, take your sour mix
home. fatten pigs, let the women have rest,
abroad. Bring markets to your door; do
something to let the world know there s
west and people in it who know how TO
make butter. LApplause.
MAPLE SUGAR 1t would be well for
western sugar makers, who talk about
stree rnolasses," to study the plain and full
directions of A. B. Caldwell, Vermont
sugar-maker. The lesson below contains
the whole subject IN nutshell: At the
commencement of the season the under
side of the roof of the sugar-house, together
with the rafters and beams, should be
swept, and all dirt and leaves removed. The
reservoirs should be placed on the OUTSIDE
of the building, or at least In an addition
built for their accommodation. In warm
weather. if the reservoirs are in the main
building, near the fires and steam, the sap
will be more or less affected, and sour sap is
fatal to the production of the best sugar. In
this vicinity a tub is used to gather the sap,
in place of the hogshead formerly In vogue.
The tub is made for the purpose, IS about
thrss feet in height and diameter, and
largest at the bottom, so that it may set
firmly on the sled. The top or the tub Is
sunk little and has an opening foot
square with hinged cover, in the middle,
and a pailful of sap can be turned In in
stantly without splitting. The tub is arranged
with faucet for trough or hose connecting
charges itself into the watts. The sirup is
taken to the house, strained through felt or
flannel, and poured into high, conlcal tub,
largest at the top, TO settle, and next day Is
drawn off above the dregs into the sugaring-
off nan. This is a square, heavy sheet-iron
pan. made to order, and is just the size of
the top of the cooking-stove. No eggs, no
milk or other foOlery is put into the strip,
for il is certainty that the scum, with a
slow fire, will rise just as rapidly and thor
oughly without as with yeast The sirup
should be removed from the fire and strain
ed through flannel, to take out the hmous
sediment, which can be most readily extract
ed before the strip reaches the consistency
of molasses. This point can be determined
by the scales, gallon of sirup at the right
point for mOlasses weighing 1O% or IL
hounds. If the strip is boiled lower than
this. it will "grain" when cold. For caking
the sugar should be done to point indi-
Gated by chairs" following a dipper when
lifted from the boiling mass, or when a
teaspoonful in a saucer can be rubbed dry
in a moment To make the incest, whitest
cakes. take two or three pounds in a pan,
and stir brskly until the mass is as cool as
it can be worked, then dip rapidly into tins
which have been dipped into cold water. Do
not oil or butter the tins. as this gives a
flavor which is not wanted, and, moreover.
effsctually prevents the very white feathery
appearance of that part of the cakes which
so noticeable where water alone Is used.
A. B. CALDWELL.
RUTLAND, VI, Feb. %.
The st. Louis Democrat says mourn
fully: 1t has never, in the memory of our
oldest merchants, been as dull in financial
and commercial circles as it is just now at
this time of the year. All classes of bust
ness are almost perfectly flat, and one of the
most discoursging features in the matter is
that there is no prospect of a change for the
better as tar as can be discovered at this
time. Congress has delayed the settlement
now in a perfect muddle, and is no nearer
the solution than it was when the matter
was first brought forward.
The following terse summary of the pro
gressive notifications which have taken
place in the instruments with which civilized
man affects his exchanges under the benefi-
cial system of division of labor. is from
" Problems of Life and Mind" by George
Henry Lewes, the great English thinker:
Men begin by exchanging things. They
pass to the exchange of values. First money,
then notes or bills, is the symbol of value.
Finally, men simply debit and credit each
other, so that immense transactions are eff
fected by means of this equation of equa-
tons. The results of the complete process.
es of sowing, reaping, collecting, shipping
and delivering quanty of wheat are con-
densed into the entry of a few words and fig
ures in ledger"
The New Orleans city railroad the other day
sunk in the river bag containing forty
seven thousand counterfeit coins of tin, the
returns of one years business. The said
coins make an average of counterfeit money
paid to the company OF six dollars per day
enough to feed twenty mules; one hundred
and twenty passengers per day thus manage
to travel on this road without pay. And
this is only one of some eight or ten railroad
companies in full operation in that city.
The railroad companies have offered a re-
ward of one thousand dollars for information
which will lead to the discovery and punish
ment of the counterfeiters.
MONEY IN RICE.
Habersham 81 Co., of Baltimore, say in
their circular: More than l, O0O, 900 persons
az. al Led IL ianinn starvatinn in Rannal Ran