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Grafting-Wax.

A postal card correspondent writes
to us to say that our formula for max
ing grafting-wax, recently printed in
these columns, is Objectionable because
it is made with tallow, and sends us
the following, in which linseed oil is
substituted. This objection, we may
remark, is entirely theoretical one,
which we have only heard from amateur
fruit-growers. All extensive nursery
men and grafters use tallow, and it has
been used in this way ever since the
old-fashioned composition of clay and
cow-dung was abandoned. We have
no doubt, however, that linseed oil is
equally good, though we have never
tried it. This is the recipe received:
White rosin, four and one-half pounds
bees-wax (pure), one pound; linseed
oil, one pint. Warm the oil slowly, and
when hot put in the rosin and wax;
stir well till all is thoroughly melted,
and pour into pail of cold water; work
like molasses candy, and form in sticks
of convenient size, say about as large
as sausages. This will keep for years
in cool cellar. 1t is an excellent APP
plication to all wounds of trees.
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How They Do 1t i'm Michigan.

The Michigan HorticulturiSt, recently
established under the editorship of
Charles w. Garfield, the accomplished
secretary of the American Pomo-
logical Society, and published by the
w. H. Burr Publishing Company, De-
troit, is a most worthy candidate for
public favor. The price, 81 year, puts
it within the reach of all, and its
monthly issues are filed with genuine,
thoroughly useful, boiled-down infor-
nation for practical gardeners, fruit
growers and florists. The following
article on " How we Grow Peaches in
Minnesota" by p. M. Gideon, the
originator of the Wealthy apple, will
interest Vermont fruit-growers. 1t is
from the March issue:
OF course we have to cover the trees
in winter, but just how we do it is the
point of greatest interest to those in a
cold climate that would like to grow the
luxury. In the first place, we set the
tree with the intent of laying it down
with the least damage to the roots. We
dig the hole the proper size and depth
that the roots require; then make a
compact cone of dirt across the center
in that direction that the tree is wanted
to be laid down, divide the roots as near
as can be done in two equal parts and
straddle them across the cone, keeping
each side parcel of roots compact, and
then fill in and pack the dirt as in plant
ing any tree. When you come to lay
down in the fall, dig down on the side
you want it to turn to, and it will drop
over as if on hinge; put the dirt back
around the roots, and over that put a
good layer of forest leaves or stable
litter, and cover that and the entire top
with hay, eight to twelve inches deep,
and something to keep it there. Put
no dirt on the top of the tree, and it
is best to sprinkle little litter, say one
inch of hay or leaves, where the top is
to lie, to keep it from direct contact
with the bare ground. We uncover in
the spring as soon as all danger of hard
freezing is over and the frost is all out
of the ground; we then remove the
dirt and straighten the tree up and
again pack the dirt around the roots,
taking care to cut off all roots that start
out in a wrong direction. Keep the
roots to each side and dig little deeper
in laying down, so as not to strain or hurt
the bark on large roots. Never lay down
until after hard frosts, and remove all
leaves if any remain when put down.
The above is our process in full, and
by it we grow as fine peaches as are
grown in the South. A good peach,
ripened on the tree, is healthy luxury
that all owners of land can enjoy with
care at proper time.
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Crab-Apple Pickle.


Dear Household:-While eating my
crabapple pickles, the past winter, 1
wished had sent you my recipe for
making them last fall. AS / did not,
l will send it now. 1t may be of serv-
ice for another year. Will some sis
ter please send good recipe for sponge
cake?
CRAB-APPLE PICKLE.-To every two
quarts of vinegar add one pound of
sugar, one heaping tea-spoonful each of
cloves, cinnamon and allspice. Have
pan of large, smooth crab-apples
ready; remove the blow of the apple,
but leave the stem on. When the vine
gar, sugar and spices are hot, put in a
layer of the apples. Boil till tender.
Then skim them into jar and add
more apples to the vinegar, and so on
till you have as many apples in the jar
as you think the vinegar will cover.
Then pour over the hot vinegar, and
the next day cover tightly and put down
cellar They are good to eat as soon
as made and will keep nice all winter.
AT this time of year / pare, quarter
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Household Hints.

If you want to see your plants I'd
use one tea-spoonful of phosphate
two quarts of water once a week.
To make a Goldfish relish, take d
slices of Goldfish which have been frd
ened and broil over hot Goals until d
light brown color. Add a little but
and set upon the table at once.
A COMMON error in the use of all
secticides is the want of persistence
their use. 1t is much better to us
weak application of any insecticide
quently than stronger dose of it
less frequent periods.
SUPERIOR mucilage can be made
dissolving an ounce of dextrine in
ounces of hot water and adding {
ounce of acetic acid and one ounce
alcohol. These materials can be
cheaply at any drugstore.
A GOOD remedy for frost bite is s
to be to rub the part affected with D
oil of peppermint. 1t will also prev
the after effects of chilblains. Only
pure oil of peppermint should be us
as the essence will not have the desi
effect.
: A SHOULDER of mutton, according
a London scientific journal, conta
one-third more bone than a leg,
considerably more fat and connect
tissue. Hence a shoulder at fit
cents pound is dearer than leg
twenty cents.
Seeding verbenas are easily rails
making remarkably vigorous pla
that flower freely and profusely fl
early summer until the severe FROST
autumn. When grown from a che
strain and selection of seed, there
be an almost endless variety of co
and shades nearly all good, and sc
strikingly new and beautiful.
Miss CLARA: brother Jack
me of lovely compliment paid me
young Mr.. DeLyle." Miss Ell
Indeed! What was it?" Miss CT;
d" He said that 1 am beautiful a
dream. Wasn't that nice of hir
Miss Ethel with a little coug
"Very. Was it the day after Thar
giving that Mr.. DeLyle made the
mark?"
" MY husband is so poetic" said
lady to another in a street car, the OF
day. " Have you ever tried rubbin'
jints with hartshorn liniment, muir
interrupted beefy looking woman v
a market basket at her feet, who
sitting at her elbow and overheard
remark; "that will straighten him
as quick as anything 1 know of, if
amt got it too bad"
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ScrofuIa

No disease is generally distributed among our
population Scrofula. 1t is liable at any time on
the slightest provocation to develop itself in some
unexpected form. Consumption and many other
diseases outgrowths of this impurity No rem
edy has been successful as Hoods Sarsaparila in
every form of Scrofula from the human system
Read the following:
" take great pleasure in telling what Hoods Sar-
saparilla has done for my little boy. Six months
ago ulcers began to come on his right eye The
doctors said the cause was
sCRoFULoUs HUMoR IN THE BLOOD.
After time he could not open his eye at all; the
humor grew worse and his face became Then
his left eye began to be affected and thought he
would be entirely blind. l bought bottle of Hoods
Sarsaparilla just for trial. What my surprise,
before the bottle all gone, his face had all
healed up. and he could open his eye just little
bit, something he had not done for four months.
He continued to take it, and | am happy to say
can now
SEE AS WELL AS HE EVER DID.
He has left off the shade which he his
eyes so long. l feel that if it had not been for
Hoods Sarsaparilla my child would have been
blind, l cannot find words to praise it enough.
My boy is six years old and in general health is
now better than he has been in his life before
Every word here is true" Mrs A. W. LEONARD
Middleboro, Mass.
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is easy to see that if this last sample
was practically water-free Gas it was
probably made, to save postage on the
sample), this would have made the
first sample, equally dry, worth be-
tween nine and ten dollars a ton, leav-
ing a difference in favor of the last
specimen of little over fifty per cent,
which may be easily accounted for by
difference in feed. Hens fed entirely
on wheat screenings, and the dried and
ground meat and bone mixture sold for
the purpose, would undoubtedly yield
manure which, when fairly free of
earth and well-dried, would be worth
S15 or SIG ton. But we do not see
much of this sort.
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of water, one teaspoon of soda; mix
Bake in quick oven.

of water, one teaspoon of soda; mix.
Bake in quick oven.
OATMEAL GRUEL.-Four heaping
tablespoons of oatmeal, three quarts
of water; boil three hours; add one
cup of sweet milk and boil half an hour
longer. This is delicious for sick people.
INDIA WHEAT CAKE.-Two cups of
sour milk, one cup of white or graham
flour, one cup of India wheat flour,
three tablespoons of molasses (scant)
one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of
soda, one tablespoon of butter.
CUsTARD FOR A PIE.-Two eggs
four heaping tablespoons of sugar, one
teaspoon of -four, beaten in a pint
basin till light. Fill the dish even full
with milk. Put it in the crust on the
plate and CRATE nutmeg over it. Bake
in hot oven. This is delicious.
CoRN-sTARCH CAKE.-The whites Of
three eggs beaten to a froth, one cur
of sugar, one-half cup of butter; beat
one-half cup of corn-starch dissolved il
one-half cup of sweet milk, one-hal
teaspoon of cream of tartar, one-fourtf
teaspoon of soda, two cups of flour
flavor with extract of lemon. Bake a!
soon as mixed. This is very good.
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Hoods SarsaparilIa

Is prepared from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Man
drake, Dock Pipsissewa, Juniper Berries, and other
we'll known and valuable vegetable remedies The
combination, proportion and preparation are pecu-
liar to Hoods Sarsapara giving it curative power
not possessed by other medicines. II effects re-
markable cures where others fail,
81 was troubled with bols, having several of
them at a time. After suffering about all l could
bear, took Hoods Sarsaparilla, which entirely
cured me. | cheerfully recommend Hoods Sar-
saparilla to all like afflicted, being they will
find permanent relief" L. N. NIGHTINGALE,
Quincy, Mass.
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Agricultural.
T. H. HosklNs, M. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.
Three "White" Grasses.
Which is It!

Our friend" Farmer Joe" OF Corlnth,
Vt, writes:
Dear Mr.. Editor In your cor
respondence from Worcester l think
G. II. probably does not mean June
grass (Blue-grass) at all, but different
kind altogether, known here as White
grass Unlike June-grass, it sends up
no second crop after being cut, and if
not cut it dies and becomes entirely
dry. 1t can be mown in the fall with a
stick, it breaks from the roots so easily"
1t is in cases like this that the value of
the distinct names of the botanists be-
comes evident to the farmer. The
common name White is applied to
three very different grasses. First we
have the White Grass, or False Rice
(Leersia oryzoides), very handsome
grass, but of no agricultural value,
growing in damp and swampy spots all
over the Union, and known to the
negroes of Carolina as rice's cousin. :"
1t is often collected by ladies for orna-
mental purposes, and undoubtedly is
not the grass meant by &C. H." or
" Farmer joe" Second, is the better
known and more valuable "White
Top" or White Bent" sometimes
called Bonnet-grass, because OCCASION
ally used to make fine braid. This
grass (AgrostiS alba) looks much like
Red-top, but can be distinguished by
the leaf-sheaths being rough to the
touch when passed through the fingers
from above downward, and by the top
being greenish, with light shade of
purple. 1t is not native grass, but
is very common on the Connecticut
river, where it has been introduced,
and is called English Bent. This, too,
is probably not the grass referred to,
which we have no doubt is the one
known as White-top, Wildcat Grass
and Old Fog, common everywhere in
old WORKOUT fields and pastures. This
grass (Danthonia spicata) was treated
of at length in paper by G. G. Pringle
of Charlotte, VT, printed in the YER
mont Agricultural Report for 1873,
pages 240-243, where it is fully de-
scribed and pictured as "A Pest in
Agriculture" Mr.. Pringle says that
under careless husbandry this grass is
sure to spread rapidly in Vermont.
But as it increases only by the seed,
good farming will easily eradicate it.,
for no good farmer will tolerate so
worthless a grass. 1t is one of that
kind of plants which, like sorrel, come
in and occupy vacant spots, where better
grasses have been killed out, or will
not grow. The heads of Danthonia,
as "Farmer Joe " remarks, easily de-
tach themselves at the joints when dry,
and are spread by the wind, but it
makes little or no Roadway in land oc-
cupied by strong growth of better
grasses. AS these perish for lack of
sustenance, or other causes, the Dan
thonia and the sorrel take their places,
together with five-fnger, all-heal, the
everlastings, pennyroyal and straw
berry vines. These plants have their
use, for by their growth and decay they
gradually improve the soil, but the good
farmer will always find this process toe
slow for his purposes.
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Questions About Ashes.

Mr.. EditOr:-In recent issue of the
WATCHMAN you state that you brought
up your crop of potatoes from eighty to
four hundred sixty bushels to the acre
solely by the use of ashes. Now /
would like to ask few questions: %
How many bushels Of ashes did you
use per acre? (2) How was it applied?
60 What do you consider ashes worth
per bushel when used as fertilizer?
(4) How should it be applied for
grain? S., Roxbury, vt.
REPLYBY AGRICULTURAL EDITOR.-
O Sixty; that is, we spread six hun
dred bushels over ten acres the first
year, 1867. Since then we have I'M
doubtedly applied between one and two
thousand bushels more. We have
never been afraid to invest our money
freely in good fertilizers, bought cheap
enough to make profit on them. One
would suppose that no courage is
requisite to enable man to exchange
81 for 81. But there are lots of farm
ers who, if they had 5000 in bank stock
and could buy good ashes for fifteen
cents bushel equal to about three
cents a pound for their potash, and
three cents for all their other fertiliz-
ing materially, could be no more in
duced to lay out that money in ashes
and apply the ashes to their moving
than they could be induced to cut a
hole in the ice and drown themselves.
They have faith in the bank that it
will pay them seven or eight per cent
dividends and return the principal on
demand, but they have no such faith
in their land. We are just the other
way. We should be ashamed to take
unlawful interest on loaned money,
but we are as bold as brass when it
comes to getting one hundred per cent
out of the ground, and we can make
three hundred per cent in three years
out of money invested in ashes at that
price. This is not joking. When hay
is S12 a ton thirteen hundred thirty
three bushels of ashes spread on forty
acres of moving otherwise properly
fitted, and laid down to grass without
grain. will give one ton per acre per
year more hay than would grow with
out the ashes. This makes one
hundred twenty tons, which at $12
will bring 81 ,44o, and he is poor
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M arch April May

Your blood may he full of impurities, but Hoods
Sarsapara will thoroughly cleanse, enrich, and
vitalize it, The most of scrofula, salt
rheum, bos, pimpes-in fact all affections arising
from impure blood, yield to Hoods Sarsaparila, the
great bloodpurler. 1t also dyspepsia bilious
ness, sick headache kidney and liver complaints,
sharpens the appetite, and builds up the whole
system.
Henry Bggs. Campbell Street, Kansas City, had
scrofuous all his body for fifteen years.
Hoods Sarsaparila completely cured him,
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That Tired Feeling

Which is so distressing and often unaccountablt
in the spring months, is entirely overcome by
Hoods Sarsaparilla 1t gives strength and vigor il
place of weakness and languor, rOuses the torpit
liver, braces up the nerves. and clears the mind.
" l take Hoods Sarsaparilla for a spring medicine
and find it just the thing. 1t tones up my system
and makes me feel like different man. My wife
takes it for dyspepsia and she derives great benefit
from it," FRANK c. TURNER, Hook ~ Ladder No
|, Friend Street, Boston, Mass.
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Spring Medicine
What Everybody Needs

Everybody needs and should take a good sprin
medicine for two reasons
First-The body is now more susceptible to benef
from medicine than at any other season.
.Second-The impurities which have accumulate
in the blood should be expelled, and the syster
given tone and strength, before the prostratng e
fects of warm weather felt.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the best spring medicine
purifes the blood. 1t sharpens the appetite.
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PurifieS the Blood

81 had been troubled with hives and pimples for
some time. Other remedies having failed, was ad
vised to try Hoods Sarsaparilla. have taken two
bottles and am entirely cured. think Hoods Sar
saparilla has no equal "A blood-puriher" EFFIE
NJ. PETRIE, Portsmouth, Ohio
" Last spring was troubled with boils caused by
my blood being out of order Two bottles of Hoods
Sarsaparia cured me. and recommend it to
Others" j. SCHOOL, Peoria. ILL.,
81 have taken Hoods Sarsaparilla for dyspepsia
which have had for the last nine or ten years
suffering terribly, 1t has now entirely cured me- +"
MRS. A. NORTON Chicopee, Mass.
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Are the months in which to purify your blood, and
for this purpose there is medicine equal to Hoods
Sarsaparilla 1t puries vitalizes and enriches the
blood, removing all trace of scrofua or other dis
ease 1t creates an appetite and imparts new
strength and vigor to the whole body. 1t is the ideal
spring medicine. Try it this season.
"when began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla was
dizzy in the morning. had headache, and no ap-
petite; but now l can hardly get enough cooked
to eat" EMMA SHEPARD Coral Street, Worces-
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How to Live.

Life is wasted II we spend 1t
Idly dreaming how to die;
Study how to use, not end It,
Work to finish, not to fly.
Cody living-best preparing
For life with God above;
Work. and Danish anxious caringl
Death ne'er comes to active love-
Norman HAIL.
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Gbe 9ouseboIo.

" Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor, DR.. Hoslins, at
Newport, Vt.
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Dyspepsia

Dyspepsia is caused by carelessness in diet, high
living eating too rapidly too rich food, overtaxng
the stomach with indgestble food, etc Constipa-
ton, headache. heartburn sour stomach, distress
after eating faintness, dizziness, and caprcious APP
petite are some of the many distressing symptoms
Persons troubled with dyspepsia are miserable,
hopeless, confused and depressed in mind, very ir-
ritable, languid and drowsy. Dyspepsia requires
careful persistent attention, and remedy to throw
off the causes and up the digestive organs till
they perform their duties willingly Hoods Sarsa-
parilla has proven just the remedy in hundreds
of cases,
Hoods Sarsaparilla was a Godsend to me for 1t
cured me of dyspepsia and liver complaint with
which | had suffered twenty years" j H. HORN
BECK, South Fallsburg, n. Y,
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists 81; six for g. Prepared only
by g. /. HOOD a CO., Apothecaries, Lowell Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
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and core sweet apples and cook t
in the same way. You will find Il
an excellent pickle. Mrs. S. A.
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Hoods SarsapariI|a
100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for IS. Prepared by
c, |, HOOD CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
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Analysis of Hen Manure.


Our correspondent "E." is entitled
to all the sound proof eXtant in regard
to the value of hen manure, and as we
gave what we thought about the average
analysis of this very variable fertilizer
from the Connecticut Experiment Sta
toms report of 1873, we now give
another which we have just come across
in the same stations report for 1884:
CHEN MANURE.-Sampled and sent
by ID. II. Van Hoosear, Wilton, Conn
The material was very dry and did not
contain as large an admixture of earth
as usual
ANALYSIS.
Potash, per cent 59
Nitrogen per 2e
Reckoning nitrogen at twenty cents
per pound, potash at four and one-fourth
cents and phosphoric acid at six cents,
the valuation of this article would be
Sl5.5l per ton"
The percentage of water in this
sample is not given, so that no proper
comparison between the two is posi-
BILE. The first analysis gave the hen
manure as much dryer than usual, yet
it had fifty-nine per cent of water. 1t
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100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by all druggists 81; six for IS. Prepared b
c. l. HOOD a Co., Apothecarles, Lowell, Mass
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A BRUTAL FIGHT
lNTERRUpTED by THE POLICE
j ust as the BsfSrss Had Decided 1t a draw
FOrty.siEht Witnesses of the sluggiug,
and tho Principals Arrested and
Treated to q nIlld Dose of the Law.

PaILADEIPHIA, March l6.-A hard glove
fight took place this afternoon in the rear
of the saloon kept by Thomas CLARK,
24O6 North Front street, between
James Brannon and John Coburn,
the local light weights, The fight was fol
purse $3.50 aRd the gate money, and
iorty.eight admission tickets at s. each
were sold, Six desperate rounds we're
fought, both men fighting furiously, aud
great excitement prevailed among the
spectators.
When called for the seventh round both
men were very weak, Branuon's second,
Jack MGCann, had to assist him forward,
He seized him from bshind and
pushed him against Coburn, This
aroused the Ire OF "NltChy" Golden, Co.
burns second, who struck MCOann. While
they were settling their differences, and
Just as the referee had decided the
light draw, a squad of poliCs
in citizens clothes appeared and placed
all in the room under arrest, B0rty'eight
men, including the principals and proprie.
tor OF the place, were marched TO the
police station, where Aue OF 81
each was imposed, In addition to the
fine BrannoR and Ooburn and Clark, the
saloon proprietor, were placed uuder bail
10 answer at Court, and tho others under
$500 bail to keep the peace.