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of cheese are made in Franco from
the milk of Sheep, and in some of
the European markets it brings the
highest prizes,
Shelter saves feed, and where
there is no natural protection for
stock it should be provided, even
if it be only a wlndbreak of straw
hay and fodder.
An organization has been formed
in Madison Nalley, N. T.. with this
significant motto: "You had better
mind whose range you are on and
whose cattle you are branding.
Milk pans should be immersed
some minutes in boiling water, as
it has been demonstrated that
when not so treated they breed a
host of fungus, which poison the
milk.
In the South white and black
carpenters work side by side. l
never saw this IN tho North, and
yet we are charged with discrim-
mating against tho negro.-Macon
Telegraph.
On the silver question, which
each made the chief feature of his
message and report respectively,
the President and his Secretary APP
parently will be supported only
by Republican Senators through
out the session.--Albany Journal,
Rep.
II you are going to farm at all
farm we'll. Raise good crops, keep
good horses, cows, sheep, hogs and
poultry. Cultivate the land thor
oughIy, drain it where needed,
feed stock literally and have good
fertilizers and apply 1t TO the best
paying crops.
The Cultivator well says that
many insect pests are destroyed by
late fall blowing. The upturning
of the earth exposes them to wet
and cold by breaking their re-
treats, and 1t does this at too late a
season as to find new places in
which to hide.
The Southern Cultivntor rightly
thinks that boards are much cheap
er than grain. Cows forced to
take the winter storms require
much more food to keep them in
condition than if suitably housed.
A COW cannot make milk it she is
partially frozen.
At meeting of the swine-breeders
in Chicago recently a resolution
was adopted recommending that
Congress enacted rigorous legisla-
ton concerning imports from Ger
many and France in retaliation for
the course pursued by these coun-
tries in regard to American pro-
ducts.
A good plan to stop washes is to
plant row of willows across the
washes. An exchange recommends
a double row; a dam will be event
ually formed and the wash stopped.
Cut off willow stake and drive il
into the ground 1t will take root
and grow. Try the plan, if you
have never done so.
The late Winthrop Walton Gil
man in 1885 purchased Tor $4,000
lots in Milwaukee which are now
worth 100000. He never spent
a dollar to improve his property
and never erected q building IN
the city, but an old citizen says
she appeared regularly once a
year to collect his rent and fight
off taxes"
Sponge Cake.-Ono pound of
sugar, ono of -four, ten eggs; STIR
yolk of eggs and sugar till perfect
ly light; beat whites of eggs, and
then add them with tho flour after
beating together lightly; flavor
with lemon. Three teaspoons
baking powder in -four will add 10
its lightness, but 1t never fails with |
out. Bake in a moderate oven.
Until 1870 Virginia ranked first
as tobacco State. Now Kentucky
has the lead, and produces over
one third of the total production
of the United States. The late
crop of that State is the largest
ever raised, with the exception of
that of 1877, which amounts to 49,
4s4, 900 pounds. For the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1885, the value
of exports Of tobacco was s24,s57,-
405.
SNOWFALL Custard.-Add whites
of three eggs, well beaten, TO one
pint of boiling milk, dipping them
into the milk in tablespoontuls.
AS they rise, turn them, and when
done, put them into pudding
dish then put the beaten yolks,
sweetened to taste, into the milk
stir until it tbickens, remove from
the fire, and flavor with lemon.
Turn this custard into a glass dish
and lay the whites on the top. 1t
is delicious.
An immigrant at Castle Garden
asked a few days ago tor informa-
ton with regard to Dakota terri
tory. and was handed to the fol-
lowing: "Pull Dakota up by the
roots and throw it over the fence
into the British possessions, and
you have q hungry-looking hole
big enough to bury Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and what
the tornadoes have left of Iowa.
Cut the vacancy up into knot
holes, and put wood around them,
and you have enough lumber to
build houses for all the United
States and part of New Jersey"