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will destroy them
A lump OF wax tied in rag and
some salt sprinkled on a paper will pol
ish Il hot ilat-iron. First apply the wax
rag. then rub with the salt sprinklcd on
paper.
Mr.. W. ID. Philbrick. explains in
the Aem Engiand Farmer that too
weak brine causes over much fermenta-
ton and consequent sottness of cucum-
Der pickles: if too strong they wilt and
wither. 1.-The proper strength is just
enough TO float potato
Canned Fruits. - Boil peaches.
pears. plums. cherries, citron or ounces
in thick sirup--a teacupiul of water
TO a pound of white sugar-until ten
der. Take from the fire and let remain
in the strip two DAYS. Take out, drain.
sprinkle sugar over each piece and dry
in cool oven.
To Clean Gold Ornaments.-Di
solve little salammoniac in spirits of
wine ana wash the gold in it; or. try
the following method: Mix some jewel
ers rouge with little salad oil. and
with tooth brush rub the ornament
till perfectly clean. Then wash il in
warm soap and water with clean
brush and dry it with wash leather.
The canker worm, which Injuries
the foliage Of the orchard, and which is
also known as the measuring worm and
black span-worm, can be promptly de-
stroyed by the use of Paris green. Lon
don purple or arsenic. in the proportion
of one pound of the first TO a barrel OF
water, or one-half a pound of either OF
the Others to the same quantity ofwater.
TO press flowers, catherine flowers
10 be pressed when the dew has quite
dried off from them. and before the sun
has become so warm as to wilt them;
put them between newspapers or any
other porous papers, and place them
under press; change them every day
to fresh paper until they are dried: all
the thin-leaved flowers it will be found
best to use for this purpose.
Corn Soup. only the top of the
kernels from the cob, scraping off all
that remains. To quart of this corn
add two quarts of hot water. Boil for
an hour, then pass through a colander.
Into a stew-pan put two spOonfuls of
butter, when it rlelts stir in large
spoonful of flour. Stir in the corn, add
a pint of hot milk and cupful of cream.
When it comes to a boil season with
salt and pepper.
Dutch Toast.-Loaf of Graham
bread, three eggs. two large spOonfuls
of milk. butter. cinnamon. sugar. Mix
the eggs. milk and cinnamon together.
cut the bread in slices and dip them in
it. Melt nee butter in the frying pan.
put in the bread. and when little
brown turn it over, serve on Il hot dish.
butter it slightly. and sift little sugar
hot for dessert.
The cause of rust in wheat is the
growth Of fungus. which appears I'M
der certain circumstances. such as
damp, hot weather, followed by bright
hot sunshine. The seeds or spores OF
the rust are floating in the air at all
times. being very small and light, and.
falling on the leaves of the wheat, ger
inmate and produce verv minute orange
colored plants. These are the rust. A
second stage of rust is supposed to be
smut. There is much difficulty in study
ing the natural history Of these minute
fungi, and so far we have no knowledge
OF any methods of preventing damage
to crops by them. Rusts of different
species affect the leaves of many plants;
wheat, oats. the bean, strawberry, rasp-
berry, pear, apple. ounce. hawthorn.
mountain ash, oak, beef, cabbage.
fern. ilay. barberry. rose, sorrel. thistle
and many others, both wild and cuiti-
tivated- 1t is question if one kind
will not affect plant OF another varie-
to; it is known that some rusts infect
other plants than their own native sort.
British India supports population
of 2i5 persons to the square mile.