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place during the warm season.
III. w. Hill q Co.. Decatur, ILL.,. re-
port 100. 000, ,000of Hills triangular hog
rings sold since 1872, using $780, 800
pounds Of wire measuring 3, 40S miles.
Oatmeal Mush Soak the meal
over night in bowl; set this in kettle
with little hot water and steam twenty
minutes or longer. Eat with salt and
cream.
Stuffed Potatoes. Bake some largo
potatoes in their skins; when quite
done, scoop out the insides. and mash
them well with q little butter or milk;
mix some finely III need beef or mutton
with the mashed potatoes, adding pep
er and salt to taste; refill the empty
skins with the mixture, and place them
in the oven again till thorous lilly hot,
putting a small limp of butter on the
top OF each TO prevent their becoming
too dry. Serve in cloth. This is al
ways favorite dish with children.
-Gooseberry Jam. White or Green.
Equal weight OF fruit and sugar. Sc
lect the gOosebcrries not very ripe,
| either white or green, and top and tail
them. Boil the sugar with water (al-
lowing a quarter of pint to every
pound) for about quarter of an hour,
carefully removing the scum as 1t rises;
then put in the gooseberries, and SIM
mer gently till clear and firm; try lit
tie of the jam on plate; If it jellies
when cold, il is done, and should then
he poured into pots. When cold, stow
away in a dry place.
"A French journal states chat chic
ride of lime scattered about where rats
! tfa tNil1 tn
I desert the spot. A solution OF it
! brushed over plants will eifectually
1 protect them from insects. If scattered
| over ground infested with grubs il will
/ free Il from them entirely. Bunches of
| cotton or tow smeared with a mixture
/ OF chloride OF lime and hogs lard, and
tied about in different parts Of tree
| viii guard il against the attack OF in
sects, slugs. grubs, etc, and drive away
those already in possession.
Ice Cream Cakes. Ice cream; half
| pound butter; half pound sugar. eight
eggs; pint of cream; rose water; half
| pount -Four. Beat the butter and sugar
till very light, also the eggs. into which
stir tho cream; add these TO the butter
and sugar, alternately with the flour
and rose water. When well mixed put
in small, deep pans, and bake in hot
oven delicate brown; when done turn
from the pans, and when cold open
them on one side and ill with leo cream.
Serve them on Hat dish keep them
on ice till wanted.
Iced Fruit. - Select very fine
lunches OF grapes, currants, raspber-
ries, etc, etc, on their stems; remove
all imperfect berries; dip them In white
of egg tempered with water, or weak
gum arabic water. Sift finely.pulver-
lied sugar over them set away to dry
and then serve. ANY larger fruits of
rich iavor, such as apples, pears,
plums, peaches, may be iced in the
same way, whole or sliced into orna-
mental shapes after removing the
seeds. In the hands of a lady of taste
in decorating iced fruit is always a great
success on table.
Frequently we find sick people
whose stomachs reject all kinds Of
nOurishment until conditions follow
that are in many cases fatal. l have
never known the simple saucer OF
parched corn pudding refused The
corn is roasted brown, precisely as we
roast coffee. ground as fine as meal in n
coiee-mill, and made either into mush,
! Cruel or thin cakes, baked lightly
brown and given either warm or cold,
| clear, or whatever dressing the stOm-
ach will retain. Parched corn and
meal boiled in milk and fed frequently
! to children suffering from summer
diarrhma will almost always cure, as it
will dysenteTy in adults. Cor Detroit
Free Press.
The banker cannot invest a million
dollars safely without knowledge of
finance; the captain with no knowledge
of navigation, would sink his ship. In
no business is the serving of an appren-
tceship more necessary than 10 him
who plants an orchard for profit. He
must know how 10 select the site and
the varieties best adapted to his locali-
ty; he must select fruit that can be
marketed to the best advantage; under
stand lust how much 10 manure for the
best results; know about cultivation,
pruning, thinning, sorting, packing,
shipping and selling, and these may in
vove innumerable qualifications. IL
would be interesting 10 inquire how
many millions of trees have been set
out for market orchards by persons who
knew nothing Of any Of these particu-
lars, aud who supposed that all they
had to do was to buy the trees and set
them, when they would grow, take care
OF themselves. and, without further at
tention. bear heavy crops OF silver dol
lars. - Rural NeU Yorker,
"A woman school teacher at Water
bury poured ice water down the barred