The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-31
9sarrm, 4ton1e and Oardem.
ON THE FARM.

ways pay to allow the stock hogs to have
the run after the fruit begins to ripen
and especially if the orchard is seeded
down to clover. The hogs will derive
considerable benefit as we'll as the or
chard.
Allowing poultry the run of the or
chard will aid materially in keeping
down injurious insects.
Where there is large quantity of
fruit on the farm, as there will be this
year, and with the probability of low
prices for the fruit in market, summer
and fall fruits cannot be put away with the
expectation of keeping sufficiently longto
secure a much better price. Dried fruit
is already low with the prospect of 60
ing still lower when the new crops come
in. For the past three years dried fruit
has hardly sold for enough to pay for the
labor Of drying to say nothing of the fruit,
the labor of gathering and marketing.
Men sound in soul and limb, can be
bred land reared only in the exercise of
plow and spade, in the free air and sun
shine, with country enioyments and
amusements; never amid foul drains and
smoke blacks, and the eternal clank of
machinery.-Froude.
A teaspoonful of permanganate of pot
ash will remedy an impure cistern.
A whitewash made this way will not
rub off. To pail of whitewash made the
,,e,, oil NOV III fba r, IT. 10 ro,-,4
teacup of -four, mix with cold water to
make smooth, add sufficient boiling wa
ter to make thick paste, and pour while
hot into the whitewash; stir it we'll and it
is ready for use.
Why does not the horse-radish pro-
duce seeds?
Why do peach trees sometimes pro-
duce nectarines?
Why does the Canada egg plum fail to
grow on the peach while most other vari-
cites succeed on it?
THE HOUSEHOLD.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges of
doors will prevent them from creaking.
In making paste for wall paper, have
it quite thin and we'll boiled. Use it cold.
1t is said that sassafras bark scattered
through dried fruit, will keep ous worms,
Easily tried.
To beat lwhissa q asss aziskly: aisa 0
pinch of salt. Salt cools and cold eggs
froth rapidly.
New tins should be set over the fire
with boiling water in them for several
hours before food in put into them.
To scour knives easily, mix small
quantity of baking soda with your brick
dust, and see if your knives do not polish
better.
To clean white fur rub with flannel
dipped in heated, but not Drowned bran.
Oatmeal without husks. is preferable, and
dry -four will do.
Rice buildings are usually made too
stiff with rice to be palatable Two ia
blespoonfuls of rice to quart of milk is
sufficient 1t should be cooked slowly
until rich and creamy. A few raisins add
ed with the sugar will not spoil it at all.
Is your sleep ing room thoroughly ven
tilated? If not, it may be the cause of
that tired and listless feeling you COM
plain of every morning,
Sending Butter to Market.--In these
days Of imitation and adulteIstion, it
would be very good idea for the farmer
who makes frst-class butter for market
to have stamp made with the initials Of
his name thereon, with which to stamp
each pound or half pound of butter as it
comes from the print box. In short
time those initials will become a recog
nized proof of the quality of the butter,
as much SO as his signature to a note OF
edged prices are obtained only for but
ter put up in fancy prints, and is recog
nized as "gilt edge" oftener by the stamp
than by the appearance. OF the immense
amount of artificial butter now made,
not one pound in five hundred is know
ingly used by consumer g; consequently
the consumer is defrau ded as well as
the honest farmer. But if the above
plan we're generally adopted it would
soon put an end to competition from
that quarter. Indeed, many of the farm
ers in the west are now protecting them
selves in measure against such imposi-
ton by having their butter prints no
gagged that as each parcel is made into
pound prints it is by the same operation
stamped with the initials of the owners
name, and sent to market in box made
expressly for the purpose, the cen ter OF
the box being occupied by a zinc apart
ment filed with broken ice, against which
the end of each print rests on its way to
market. Put up in this way, the butter
comes to market in as good shape as it
leaves the hands of the butter-maker, and
commands the highest price.-BaltimoFe
San.
Premiums for Farm DairieS. The En-
glish agricultural societies practice one
thing worthy the attention of like associ-
atoms in this country. 1t is the giving
of premiums on farm dairy as whole.
The judges visit the farm and inspect
everything connected with the dairy. A
farm OF 100 acres must have at least forty
cheeses on hand at the time of inspection.
For such dairy the first prize is $50
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