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The Portland daily press., 1880-10-06
AGRICULTURAL
The Household.
About JellieS.

This is the season to put down jellies,
and the following directions will therefore
be especially timely to our domestic readers.
The ounce will form very nearly repre-
sentative of the other fruit, though differ
ing SO materially from them.
Pare and core the ounces, and cut into
halves or quarters as suits the size of YOUR
Jars Let them stand over night in enough
cold water to cover them. In the morning
put them in the kettle with the same water,
and let them cook gently till you can just
stick fork in them. Take the fruit out
with skinner. weigh it, and to each
pound OF fruit allow a pound of sugar, Put
the fruit and sugar into the kettle, with
enough of the water to make good syrup.
and let them boil gently until they are clear.
Take out carefully with skinner and put
in the jars; fill the jars to the top with the
syrup. If there is large quantity of fruit,
and the kettle is not large, it is best to put
the fruit in the syrup little at time
Jelly.-Take the cores and parings of the
ounce, put them in enough cold water o
cover them, and boil them until they are
soft. Squeeze them, and add the juice to
the water, and any syrup which may be left
from the ounce preserve, and strain it. To
each pint of juice allow pound of sugar.
Spread the sugar in pans, and put it in the
oven to heat; it must be watched and
stirred to prevent burning. Let the juice
boil for five minutes, then pour in the hot
sugar, stirring until it is entirely dissolved,
and skimming any scum that may rise;
there will be very little. Let it come to a
boil, then take from the fire and put in jars
or glasses. The jelly will be clear, of a
good color, and keep well.
All kinds of jellies can be made in this
way, and it saves much labor in the time of
boiling the juice and the trouble of skim
ming. Marmalade.-Such ounces as are
too klotty or defective to made good pre-
serves may be pared and cored, cut into
small pieces, and put in the kettle with
three-quarters Of pound of sugar to each
pound of fruit; put a small cup of cold wa
ter in first to prevent burning. When the
ounce begins to soften take potato masher
and mash it to pulp without taking it from
the fire. Let it boil gently for fifteen or
twenty minutes, not longer than twenty;
take from the fire and put in jars This is
very nice with bread and butter for children.
Boston Cultivator.
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The Sl1rnlus Annles.

A young farmeTinquires "What shall we
do with our surplus apples? and will it pay
to pick them up and feed them?" Yes; it
pays me if have anything to feed to. can
fat hogs, if have them, but if | am to eat
the pork would like to feed corn to harden
it up before killing. / prefer apples to roots
OF any kind. They are cleaner and less
trouble to raise they will make beef as fast
as potatoes, and the worms are no objec
ton when manufactured over by cattle and
hogs. AS to cider, / neither drink nor sell
boil and replenish the vinegar barrel pays
as other luxuries pay. am now feeding
four mich cows from three to four bushels
daily. They save feeding meal or corn fod
der, and gain in flesh. We shall have
enough Fall apples to keep up the feed till
we can get the crops in; then the aftermath
will supply their want till winter apples will
do to feed after the others are gone. Thus
all fodder we can dry is reserved for winter.
We have thus far given away to any one
who came for them all they would take, and
THANK you," pays better at home than 10
spend half day in selling forty cents worth.
have from one to three hundred bushels a
season in bearing years and am satisfied it
pays me, even if fed to young stock. L
would not let them lie and rot on my now
ings if had to dump them in heaps. No
need to put meal on them, as cattle and
hogs will eat enough without coaxing. l
make no choice and see no difference in
sweet or sour, but ripe apples. Green APP
Piles are of little worth, and apples in the
pasture are nuisance unless you " ill shake
them off so as to give good meal at time.
Now if you do not believe me, come and see
the COWS and butter, and then do as you
please. Corr. Greenfield Gazette.
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Evaporating Fruit.

In recent issue of the Farmer some in
quiries appear about drying fruit. Four
years ago last winter 1 procured a dryer.
and have had it in use ever since, drying
nearly all kinds of fruit, raised on a fru i
farm; also pumpkins, sweet corn and sew
eral garden vegetables, all of which retain
their natural flavor so nearly that many
persons eating them prepared for the table
do not discover that they are dried products
until told. 1 have dried of apples each year
from 800 to 5000 pounds, and realized from
eight to fourteen cents per pound in Phila-
delphia and Pittsburg, while common fruit
sold at the same time from one and one
half to three or four cents per pound. My
dried peaches, pared, brought me twenty
five cents per pound readily, and last year
thirty for my best. Raspberries l sold for
from twenty-eight to thirty cents per pound
requiring fraction over three quarts to
make a pound of dried ones. l did not sell
any pitted cherries last season, but did some
unpitted at nine cents per pound. I cannot
tell how many cherries it will take to make
one pound after drying. 1 am satisfied that
if we can sell at home or anywhere else so
as to net us five or six cents per quart, we
would not do better to dry them, though
think pitted cherries sold in our markets for
about twenty-five cents per pound last sea-
son.
When cannot get forty cents per bushel
for green apples dry all can get and
think it pays better. Peaches will net us
at least one dollar per bushel green, when
pared and dried, and from fifty to seventy
five cents per bushel to dry them without
pairing. Since have used this dryer the
raspberries I have dried have Melted me
more than those 1 sold without drying.
Last season I dried one thousand five hun
dred pounds, and sold most of them at thir-
ty cents per pound.-Corr. Ohio Farmer.
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Bogus Certificates.

1t is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to be
made of wonderful foreign roots, banks, &C.,
and pulled up by long bogus certificates Of pre-
tended miraculous cures, but simple, pure,
effective medicine, made of well known, val
liable remedies that furnishes its own certif-
Gates by its cures. We refer to Hop Bitters,
the purest and best of medicines See anoth-
err column Republican.
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TO LET.
TO LET,
To Let.

A HOUSE containing twelve rooms, arranged for
"A 2ftmilies, now being put in thorough repair,
and will be ready in few days. Being central would
make good house for boarding Rent low Also
two small rents on Munjoy HILL Apply to w. W.
CARR, No. 1877 Newbury st. sep28 diff
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Spring or Fall.


We have two or three inquiries now before
us as to whether Spring or Fall is the best
time to set out trees. We can't tell how Of
ten we have treated on this subject, but it is
natural that the question should continue
to be asked, as young men grow up, marry,
and either go to farming, or in other ways
possess land, and desire information as to
what fruit trees to plant, and when to plant
them. In a very few words we would say
that there is not much choice in the seasons.
If the soil is naturally moist, Spring is prob
ably to be preferred for setting-out; if dry,
Fall. If the trees are large, early Fall should
be chosen, and as soon as the trees are done
growing, and the leaves begin to drop. In
both cases the trees should be taken out of
the ground carefully, and with as many Of
the small roots as possible, and be planted
as soon after as possible, before the roots
become dry. To prevent their becoming so,
they should be well covered, kept out of the
sun in transporting, and ''heeled-in" or bur-
led, and literally watered, as soon as they
arrive, until ready for planting. The hole
should be large enough to receive all the
roots carefully spread out, and the ground
put about them should be fine and rich. If
the roots are too big, they should be some
what pruned, and the branches of the tree
also. Sometimes the branches, where the
roots are few and have been injurey in TAX
ing up, should be severely shorteneo to save
the life of the tree.-Germantown Telegraph.
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Business Habits of Farmers.

There is probably not one farmer in ten
thousand who keeps a set of accounts from
which he can at any moment learn the cost
of anything he may have produced, OF even
the cost of his real property. A very few
farmers who have been brought up to bust
ness habits keep such accounts, and are
able to tell how their affairs progress, what
each crop, each kind of stock, or each ami
NAL has cost, and what each produces,
Knowing these points, farmer can, to a
great extent, properly decide what crops he
will grow, and what kind of stock he will
4-eep. He will thus be able to apply his
labor and money where it will do the most
good. He can weed out his stock and re-
tain only such animals as may be kept with
profit. For the want of such knowledge,
farmers continue year after year to feed
cows that are improbable, and frequently
sell for less than her value one that is the
best of the herd, because she is not known
to be any better than the rest. Feed is also
wasted upon ill-bred stock, the keeping of
which costs three OF four times that of we'll
bred animals, which, as has been proved by
figures that cannot be mistaken, pay large
profit on their keeping. For want Of know
ing what they cost, poor crops are raised
year by year at an actual loss, provided the
farmers labor, at the rates current for COM
mon labor, were charged against them. To
learn that he has been working for so cents
a day, during number of years, while he
has been paying his help twice as much,
would open the eyes of many farmer who
has actually been doing this, and it would
convince him that there is some value in
figures and book ccounts.-American Ag-
riculturiSt
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Cotton Seed Meal,

This ought all to e.consumed in our own
country, instead of exporting SO great pro-
portion of it, as it is not only highly nour-
ishing, but health-keeping food. The oil
in it lubricatss the bowels of animals, and
keeps them in good condition, while the
other elements of which it is composed
assist in building up the muscles rapidly
But it should be fed sparingly, and mixed
meal. From pint to two quarts per day is
fair ration with other food, according to
the size of the animal, although at the
south, we are informed, they feed il still
more abundantly. There they usually
ally feed the seed whole as ginned from the
cotton, and after boiling they let their ami
mails eat as much as they please with i'm
punity, almost fattening their swine with it,
finishing off with corn two weeks or so be-
fore aughtering.-Rural New Yorker.
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BATH LOCALS.
Notes-Fish-Shi Delegates Squashes
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Gossip.

TUESDAY, Oct B.
Raft of logs passed to Winnegance this
morning.
Hitchcock & Moses will build shin imme-
diately.
Lots of farmers with produce in to-day from
the suburbs.
Two bass weighing 9 lbs. were caught off
Wakefeld's wharf last evening.
A special train will be run to the Knox and
Lincoln musical convention.
Goss Sawyer have purchased the shin
frame of the Moses and will build ship this
season.
We were shown to-day a specimen of lead
found ON farm near the junction of Twenty
Five Mile and Androscoggin rivers at Turner,
Me-, near the mills of DR.. A. K Gilmore of
this city.
The well-known ship builder Mr.. d. o.
Blalsdell died at his residence in this city on
Monday, the 4th inst, of consumption of the
bowels at the age of At years 5 months. Mr..
Blaisdell was one of Baths most enlerprising
and successful shipbuilders, has always been a
resident of this city, has been member of the
city council and board of aldermen, and was
a thorough Christian gentleman. He leaves
large family, who, with his many person al and
business friends, will mourn his loss.
The fishing schooner Mary Odell which,
having beaten a crack yacht recently in Bos-
ton Harbor, was purchased by the owners of
the yacht proves to be the schooner built four
or five years ago by Donnell & Deering, the
well-known Bath ship builders
Adams & Hitchcock are resting on their
oars awaiting supply of hard pine due ON the
schooner Satilla.
The delegates from Bath to the Shipbuild
ers and Ship Owners convention left Bath on
the noon train to-day. They are as follows:
Board of Trade-Dr. A. j Fuller, Capt.
Jarvis Patten.
Maritime Exchange-T. NJ. Reed, j. R.
Houghton.
Ship Builders and Owners-sG G. Goss, VIM.
Rogers, ]. H. Kimball, John Macdonald.
Mr.. F. Reed Of Utah, formerly of Bath, son
OF Francklyn Reed, Esq, will visit this city
this month
Mr. Fred E. Percy has established himself
in Brookline, Mass.
Jospeh Wood, formerly of the Seaside Oracle
and now of Skowhegan, has been gone and
done it. His wife is beautiful young lady of
sweet eighteen.
When is the prize fight to take place?
Mr.. j. e. Stinson has on exhibition in his
window three squashes the aggregate weight
OF which is something like $50 lbs.
The ice dealers in this vicinity have scarcely
ton of ice unsold
Miss Hight of Bangor is making visit in
this city.
Republican parade tonight
Business is very good.
S. f. E. No. 3 "Kennebec'' was out for
trial last evening at the South End.
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When to Water.

Horses should be watered in the morning
before they are fed. A full drink of water
Immediately after being fed is sure way of
producing indigestion, if not Inflammation.
When water is drank by horses, the bulk of
it goes directly to the large intestines, and
little of it is retained in the stomach. Some
old and worthless horses, by way of expert
ment, were fed with split peas, and then
supplied with water, Immediately before be-
ing killed. 1t was found that the water had
carried the peas from fifty to sixty feet into
the intestines where no digestion took place
at all.
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TRADE CIRCULAR.
WHOLESALE
AND
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS
OF PORTLAND. NE.

The following Trade Circular is re.
spectfuliy presented by the undersigned,
representative Wholesale Dealers and
Manufacturers Of Portland, who desire
to promote the general trade interests
OF the City, and present convenient
ana reliable buyers guide, which can.
not fail to prove Of great interest to
Merchants and Manufacturers generally.
Now is the time to take advantage of
returning prosperity and the increase in
trade and manufactures, and we con.
fidently invite the attention of both
purchasers and shippers to our excellent
facilities for securing stocks direct from
first hands, and for the prompt shipment
OF goods to any point desired, and to the
following list of Warehouses, as an in
dication of the Importance to which the
Commercial and Manufacturing interests
of the City have attained.
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For Lewiston and Auburn.

Passenger Trains leave at 1880 and 6. los D. No.
The train leaving at H. p. IL. also has passep-
ger car attached, connecting at Brunswick with
passenger train for Lewiston. The IL .15 pm.
is the Night Express Train with Pullman sleeping
car attached making close connection at Bangor
for all stations on the Bangor & Piscataquis X. r.
the E. & N. A. Railway, and for st. John and
Halifax, Honiton, Woodstock, ~. AM
drews, st. stephen, Fretsel iciOu, Fort
Fairfield mad Carbon,
Passenger Trains arrive in Portland as
diner, Bath Brunswick and Lewiston at s. SIS and
$40 a. M The day trains from Bangor, Dexter,
Belfast, Skowhegsn. Pennington, X. 3 L. r. r.,
m. The afternoon trains from Augusta Bath,
and Lewiston at $40 p. m. The Night Pullman
Express train at 1.5O a. NJ
PAYSON TUCKER, Sup't
Portland June 81, 1880
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PORTLAND, CONN.,, August 9th, $780,
THESMITH MEDIC ATED PRUNE Co., Hart
ford, Conn.
Gentlemen:-I am at loss to find words
in which to praise your wonderful Medi-
Gated Prunes. | have found them of the
greatest possible use in my own family and
large number of my friends are using them
with equally good results. AS Laxative
and Cathartic, l know they are unequaled,
being effective, yet free from all nausea or
gripping. After many and thorough trials of
them, | gladly give my endorsement of their
uses for constipation, biliousness and indi-
gestion. l remain,
Yours truly, GEO. G. MCLEAN.
Mar12eod&w1y.
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Eastern Railroad,
SUMMER SCHEDULE,
COMMENCING JUNE eth, 1880.

Trains Leave Portland
a. na. Daily (Night Express from Bangor) for
Saco, Biddeferd, Portsmouth. Newburyport, Sa-
lem, Lynn and Boston, A special Pullman Sleep
ing Car will be ready for occupancy in Portland
at p. m. every night except Sunday, and will be
attached to this train. Passengers have a full
nights rest and arrive in Boston at $50 am. in
season for all morning trains South and West.
$40 a. m. Daily except Sundays. For Boston and
way stations, arriving at LIS y. m.
Lilo p. nm. Daily except Sundays. Express train
with Pullman Parlor Car for Saco, Biddeford
Portsmouth, Newburyport, Salem, Lynn and Bos-
Rail connections South and West.
b p. nm. for Boston Daily, except Sunday for all
way stations, arriving in Boston at 10. 90 pm.
For Portland, leave Boston,
7.3O and sac, a. m. 1890 and p. M, arrivin
in Portland at 1900 m. 1890. and IL D. N.
The p. m. train runs daily.
Through tickets 10 all points SoRtsa and
West at lowest rates at Depot Ticket Office Com
mercial street, j. NJ. French, and at the Union
Ticket Office, e. A. Waldron, Agt., 40 Exchange
street.
Pullman Car Tickets for Seats and
Ser'hs sold at Depot Ticket Office.
Until further notice there will be train
leave Portland Sunday P. M. at 2.30 for
Boston and all way stations
LUCIUS FUTILE,
General Passenger and Ticket AGENT
d. W. SANBORN, Master Transportation.
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INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP co.
Eastport, We, Calais, Me-, Yarmouth,
Ms. st. John, N. B., Halifax.
N. So Charlottetewn, II. E. s.
SUMMERS ASRANG EMENTS
THREE TRIPS PER WEEK.

+esze-v The steamers of this line will
A,s1A ~ Bleaee Railroad Wharf, foot of
E-lasszds szszsfazS State street, every Monday,
w ednesday, and Friday, at d
pm, for Eastport and st. John. with connections
for Calais, kobbinston, ST andrews, Pembroke
Houlton Woodstock, Grand Menan, Digby, Annap-
oils, Yarmouth, Windsor, Halifax, fIoncton, New
castle, Amherst, Pictou, Shedac, Bathurst, Dali
housie, Charlottetown, Fort Fairfield, Grand Falls,
and other stations on the New Brunswick and Can
ern Counties and Prince Edward Island Rail
Roads, and Stage Routes.
GS Freight received until o'clock D. m.
For Circulars, with Excursion Routes, Tickets,
State Rooms and further information apply at
Company's Office 40 Exchange ST., t. G.. HER
SEY, President, and Manager, to A. r.
STUBBS, Agent r. X. Wharf. je12dtf
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CAYDE'S
Philadelphia & New
England
STEAMSHIP LINES
FIR q M d 9 STON

in connection with OLD COLONY BAIL.
ROAD.
BOSTON TO THE SOUTH,
SeEni-Weelly Line, Quick Time. Tow
Rates. Frequent Departures.
Freight received and forwarded daily to FALL
RIVER, there connecting with the Clyde Steam
ers, sailing every WEDNESDAY, and SATUR-
DAY to Philadelphia direct, connecting at
Philadelphia with Clyde Steam Lines to Charles
tom, 9. g., Washington, ID. g., George.
town, Id. G., Alexandria, Va, and all Raj
and Water Lines.
Through Rates named and Bills of Lading iyeD
from any point in New England to Ph1adelIh .
For rates of Freight and other information apply
ID. d. G. MINK, Agent,
1876 Washington Street, Boston, Mass
Wm. p. Clyde g. Co., General Managers,
No. IL So. Delaware Ave-, Philadelphia.
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Portland, Bangor & Machias
STEAMBOAT CO.
Fall Arrangement, 1850.

ssEses>-- Fast Steamer CITY OF
s,Eia H. sRlCHMOND, Capt. w. f. Den
G sz=s nison, will leave Railroad Wharf
every Tuesday, md FRI
day evenings, at l1.a5, or ON arrival of ex-
press trains from Boston, for ROcIland, Cas-
tine, Deer Isle, Sedgwiclk, y. w. EEarbor,
Bar alarbor, Millbridgc, 5onesport, and
MachiaspOrt.
Returning, VIII leave Machiasport, every Mon
day and Thursday Morning, at 4.30, ar
irving in Portland, the same evening, connecting
with the Pullman night train and early morning
train for Boston, and the West.
VIII also connect at Rockland with Sanford Line
of Steamers, each trip to and from Boston, Also,
each trip to and from Bangor and River Landings.
Steamer Lewiston is withdrawn until further no.
tice.
Passengers anu Freight forwarded to Bangor at
usual rates.
For further particulars inquire of
GEO. L.. DAY, Gen. Ticket Agent
Railroad Wharf,
E. CUSHING. General Manager.
Portland, Sept 16, 1880.
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'What is the first thing to be done in case OF
freq asked Professor Stearns. ''Sue the in.
surance company promptly answered the
boy at the foot of the class, whose father had
been burned out once or twice.-Burlington
HaWkeye
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M aine Central
RAILROAD.
SUNDAY, JUNE .7, 1850,

Passenger Trains leave Portland for Han.
Cor. Dexter, Belfast and WaservilIe at
1880. I2.55, and IL. 10 P. NJ.
For Skowhegnu at 1880, 1255 and IL .15 PM
For Waterville, Augusta, HalIowelI, Gar
diner and Brunswick at 100 a. M, 3d.
5.15. and IL. 15 D. m.
For ROckland and all stations on Knox g. Lin
coin K. r., and for Lewiston and Farnlingtcu
via Brunswick, at 100 m. and 1885 pm.
For Ruth at 100 a. NJ, and 2.55 and 5. 1 8 D. m
For FarmingtOn, Monmouth, Winthrop,
Readfeld, West waferviIle and Water
vile via Lewiston at 1850 pm.
The 515 p. m. train to Watervile via Au-
gusta, Saturdays only. The night Pullman trains
run each way. every night Sundays included.
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'How unsteady his hoof-beats sound" ex-
claimed an enthusiastic lover Of the turf, as
st. Julian speeded around the course at Brigh-
ton las week. Yes replied his matter-of-
fact companion; she is beating time. Dos
ton Transcript
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Wit and Wisdom.

Your train beats cow-catcher," said an
Englishman at a recent ball, as he stumbled
over lady's dress. NO" rejoined she sit
doesn't quite equafo one; it has caught only a
calf"
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The fayorlte Steamers Forest City and John
Brooks will alternately leave FRANKLIN WHARF
Portland, at z O'Clock p. m. md INDIA WHARF,
Boston, at o'clock p. daily, Sundays excepted).
Passengers by this line reminded that they Sc
cure comfortable nights rest and avoid the expense
and inconvenience of arriving in Bostoa late at night
81 Tickets and Staterooms for sale at d. H.
YOUNG'S, 272 Middle Street.
Through Tickets to New York via the various
Rail and Sound Lines for sale at very low rates.
Freight taken as usual.
j. B. COXLE, Jr., General Agent.
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To la.

ST0RE under City Hotel, now occupied by Shaw
81 q 90. Possession given August list. Apply to
RUFUS DUNHAM, 21S Fore St. je14tf
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For Sale.
DRICK HOUSE on Pine and frame houses on
Nd Spring Street, for sale at bargain.
c. P. MATTOCKS 311a Exchange st.