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The Flower idea at Weddings.

There are to be half dozen swell
weddings Immediately after Easter,
and in honor of the vernal season, most
of them are to be flower weddings, for
which, as it happens, the names of the
prospective brides give the cue. One
Of these young women is known to her
friends as Lily, and the lace of her
beautiful gown and veil is made in pat
terms of wreaths of lily of the valley.
She will carry in her hand a great
nosegay of the little white odorous
blossoms tied with long floating white
satin ribbons. The six bridesmaids
will be all in green and white, the
first one wearing green Of the delicate
tint of the lime leaves, and each one
after her wearing slightly darker
shade, so that the dress of the last will
be of the clear dark hly-leaf green.
The dresses will be made with under
skirts of green silk over which falls a
straight full skirt of white lace, the
green MORE Directoire coats opening
over lace waistcoats and trimmed with
big silver buttons; the hats are of
white Leghorn with green feathers, and
the gloves and slippers are of white
suede; there will not be touch of
color about the whole party except
white and shades of green, and all Of
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Butter will not keep we'll under any
condition unless it is we'll made, sound
and sweet when packed. If made in
warm weather without proper facilities
for cooling the milk and cream, the
butter is likely to be oily and without
the grain" SO characteristic of high
grade article. Good butter that has a
perfect grain will not stick to the knife
that cuts it. There are several preserv-
ing processes that have been adopted in
different countries, and all no doubt
answer the purpose, provided the butter
is sound and sweet when packed away.
The Orange County, N. Y, dairymen
are said to practice the following
method of preserving butter; to ten
ounces fine salt add two ounces of the
best brown-sugar. The sugar and salt
are evenly mingled and one ounce Of
the mixture used for every pound Of
butter and we'll worked in. The butter
is then closely packed and set away in a
cool, well-ventilated room or cellar.
Other dairmen use one ounce each of
white sugar and saltpetre and two ounces
pure salt, and these ifferent ingredi-
ents are mixed and one ounce of the
mixture added to each pound of the
butter. Some Of our farmers who make
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them will carry lilies of the valley set
in their own green foliage. Another
one of these brides is named Margaret,
more commonly known by the diminu-
tive Daisy, and hers is to be wedding
of field flowers. All the floral decora-
tions at the house and church are to be
of daisies, and she herself will wear
diamonds made in this form and carry
the real blossoms jim her hand. Her
bridesmaids number ten and Will go in
couples as to dress, the first two wear
ing Josephine gowns of the palest pink
China crepe, with huge sashes tied I'M
der their arms, and on their heads wide
hats wreathed with wild roses, their
gloves and shoes will be suede of the
same tint, and on their arms they will
carry baskets full of these hedgerow
blossoms. The next couple are to wear
pale lilac, the color of the wood violet,
and will have their baskets filled with
these pale, scentless flowers of the early
spring. Following them come two in
pale green, a wreath of ferns upon
their hats, and their baskets filled with
ferns, grasses and vines; next are the
two buttercups, with the little yellow
satiny flowers as their decoration, and
last two handsome brunettes dressed
in the scarlet of the poppy and carry
ing the flowers of slumber. Another of
the coming brides, who is not named
after any flower, but who has passion
for roses, will make hers a rose we'd
ding, she herself carrying white ones,
the first two bridesmaids being. in pink
Of the shade of the Catherine Mermet
buds of their bouquets, the next follow
ing in the deeper shades of their Gloire
de Paris roses, with the last two
dressed in the deep shade of tbs Jacque-
minot -NeaU York World
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POULTRY RAISING.
Marketing Poultry,

If you are near a market for dressed
poultry, it will pay you to know how to
prepare it, in order to obtain the best
price. To know this, study your mar
ket, find out what manner of dressing is
demanded and dress yours in that way.
There are some general directions that
will always come to play.
First, in fattening poultry give them
all they will eat--corn is preferable, as
poultry fattened on it is more yellow
and better than that fattened on any
other grain; and remember that you will
not only get pay for every pound your
poultry gains in fattening, but by inn
proving the quality you gain one fourth
to one half in price on the whole.
Second, food in the crop Injuries the
appearance, is liable to sour, and pur-
chasers object to this worse than use
less weight; therefore keep the fowls
from food twenty four hours before
killing. All poultry, but more especially
turkeys, should be killed by bleeding in
the neck, and picked while the body is
warm.
For the Boston market an old shipper
followed this plan. Never scald poul-
try. AS soon as picked, take off the
head at the throat, strip the blood out
of the neck, peel back the skin a little,
remove portion of the neck bone, then
just before packing in warm weather,
draw the skin tightly over the end and
tie and trim neatly. Draw the intestines,
making the incisions as small as posi-
bic. and leave the gizzard, heart, eG.,
in. Pull out the wing and tail feathers
clean.
Third, pc try should be entirely cold,
but not frozen, before being packed. II
packed with the animal heat in, it will
be almost sure to spoil. Sort your poul-
try carefully, and have the No. stock
Of uniform quality. Pack the No. 2
stock in separate packages. It You have
any old tom" turkeys, put them in a
separate package or with the No. 2stock.
Line the boxes with clean paper, but
never use straw in packing, and as. o1
paper wrap poultry. Pack as closely as
possible, back upwards, legs out straight,
and see that the boxes are so full that
when the covers are nailed on there can
be no possibility of the contents shift
ing about. Boxes are tho best packages,
and should contain from 100 to 200
pounds. Larger boxes are announcement,
and more liable to get injured.
Fourth, mark the kind on the cover,
the gross weight and correct tare. Never
practice any deception in tares Of pack
ages, or IN packing the poultry, for the
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ocean, thus describes this splendid
American palace: The entrance is
through the court The vestibule is
large and lofty, and gives the note of
the house. It is lined with Sienna mar
BILE with a deep frieze of marble mosaic
in upright slender floral forms. A
crystal lamp hangs from the vault, and
broad marble steps lead up to glitter
ing glass doors that open into the main
hall.
The hall runs at right angles and
into the central room of the drawing
room suite, and into the mushroom at
the other. Here it broadens and re-
ceives the wide sweep of the marble
stairway.
The hall has superb proportions, and
it is fioored, lined and ceiled with mar
BILE. The marble is Sienna, the soft,
warm, creamy tint of which is 50 agree
able. The side walls are paneled and
the panels are separated by narrow
strips of lighter tinted marble. The
ceiling consists of series of shallow
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vaults carried down to the side walls,
and these are ornamented with shells,
garlands, and ribbons in marble of
lighter tint. The principal feature of
the hall is the fireplace, above which is
hemicycle containing the gracious fig
ure of Hospitality, with two smaller at
tendant figures. These were modelled
by Mr.. Augustus Saint Gaudens and
are carved in low relief. Balancing
this panel is another opposite, contain
ing an heraldric emblem with it's leg
end in marble mosaics.
Where the grand staircase enters the
walls are carried up two flights to a
ceiling composed of panels filled with
flowing ornament in relief. The walls
are lined half way up with Sienna
marble. tehe stairs are marble and the
balustrade is also of marble cut in
some different design. But the beau
tiful and salient feature of the stair
way is the clock placed in the wall
above the wide spaces of the lower
landing. This is carved in the marble
paneling in the form of a square made
Of the signs of the zodiac in low relief.
These indicate the hours. In the CEN
ter of the panel, amid waving silver
rays, are the clock hands, and above
these the silver-rayed pendulum
flashes across the creamy marble. A
table of white holly and hall seat re-
produce as nearly as possible the tints
of the marble.
The drawing-room consists of three
rooms, or rather it is one room sepa-
rated by panels and pillars into three
divisions. The pillars, pilasters, and
wainscoting are mahogany, but the
wood is everywhere only the basis for
ornament. This consists of light,
graceful designs, in in4ays of white
wood and mother Of pearl, and amid it's
interlacings the monogram H. V. The
wall panels are hung with light yellow
silk, covered with an all-o;er design
embroidered in red, or with these tints
reversed. TheSfurniture is upholstered
in the same manner The mantels
make panels of great beauty. The in
lays are fit for museum pieces the fire
facings are of Mexican onyx. The
dining-room is opposite the great stair
case, and is entered through double
oak doors. One end of the room is re-
cessed by perforated screen of oak
into a small breakfast-room. The
mantel is of Verona marble, cop
led from an old italian piece, and
has procession of buffaloes. covered
In low relief as frieze. The walls
are wainscoted to the ceiling in small
panels, plain, except where they merge
into the frieze as German legends
written in inlays. The ceiling is spanned
by eross-beams, and within these are
color decorations of garlands and
wonen's faces. The end of the room is
paneled to the ceiling in Sienna marble
Above the mantel there are three fig
ures Joy" Hospitality" and "Mod-
Grafton. The popularity of these
figures is that they are full length, but
seated, the arms clasping the knees;
in this manner they form bold medal
lions that are connected by broad rib
hons. On each side of the mantel are
inches Lined with marble, which has
been carved to represent dolphins
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BEE CULTURE.
ia ssvoOd Honey.

I believe Eastwood to be the greatest
honey pro Queer in the world, says G..
M. Doolittle in the American Bee Jour-
aal. In fact mo report has ever been
given if I ann correeD of an average
yield of twenty pounds per day from a
single colony for thirty days in success
sion, except from Eastwood. Mr.. Gallup
had colony do this. had one which
stored that for about ten days, the best
yield being sixty-six pounds in three
days.
By going back over my account with
my bees for the past sixteen years, find
that from Eastwood alone, my yield of
honey has mot been far from sixty
pounds, ON an average, from each col
ony, each year; the lightest yield being
about thirty-iive pounds, and the heav-
lest 12O pounds. This is the average
yield of the yard, not the yield of an in
dividual colony.
The fruit buds and leaflets of all trees
with which / am familiar, are formed in
June and July of the preceding year, so
that the results OF the next seasons
honey yield, as far as buds and flowers
are concerned, are already formed in
embryo, on the apparently bare and life
less branches OF the Eastwood trees.
They wait only for the warmth of
spring, to bring this dormant life into
growth.
never knew season when the bass
wood did not furnish some honey. The
shortest yield which ever knew gave a
three days yield, in which honey was so
plentiful that the bees could not pre-
pare room fast enough to store it, with a
gradual tapering off OF two days more,
Ii Hra in, oil ho oct
gave yield of twenty five days, with
three of them SO cold that the bees could
only work little in the middle of the
day.
The state of the atmosphere has much
to do with the secretion of honey in the
Eastwood flowers. The most unfavor-
able weather is cold, rainy, cloudy
spell, with the wind in the northwest.
If Eastwood bloomed at time of year
when we were liable to have much of
such weather, there might be such a
thing as an entire failure of honey from
it. But as rule, we have very little
such weather at this time of year.
The condition most favorable to a
large yield is, when the weather is very
warm, and the air filed with electricity.
This nectar is honey and not sweerened
water, which makes Eastwood doubly
valuable over most of the other honey
secreting plants and trees.
One bee load OF nectar from the bass
wood, in dry, warm time, is equal to
three from the white clover, or five from
some other Of our flowers. In q rainy
time there is not so marked difference.
At times when Eastwood was yielding
it's best, have seen more than a bee
load of honey in a single flower. have
taken one stem Of blossoms, when the
yield was great, and Jared it over my
hand, when [ would have several drops
of nice honey in it. At such times rs
this, 1000 colonies of bees could find
all the honey which they could carry, if
times, l think from 100 to 200 colonies
would be ample for any locality.
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The Whole Truth.

The stupidity of servants is trial
to the most even-tempered mistresses,
but it sometimes serves to amuse the
other members of the household, says
the Youths Companion. There was
g girl who belonged in the familiar
category of "children and FOOLS.
"lf any one should call this afternoon,
Mary, say that [ am not WE'LL" said a
mistress to newly-engaged servant
"I'm afraid ate little too much of
that rich pudding for dinner, and it,
or something else, has brought on 3
severe headache. I am going to lie
down."
A few moments later the mistress,
from her room near the head of the
stairs, heard Mary say to two aristo-
cratic ladies who called for the first
time:
"Yes'm. Mrs. B is to home, but
she eat so much pudding for dinner
she had to go to bed"
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,lunging downward beneath ripping

plunging downward. beneath ripping
water.
A pretty feature is the elevator,
which belongs to small concealed hall.
This hall may be entered from the ves-
thule, and is intended to be used on
gala occasions that guests may reach
the dressing-rooms unobserved.
Within this inclosure, which is lined
with small squares of mahogany, is a
winding stairway with light, gay bal
ustrade. Above is a gilded dome and
lantern.
These complete the state apartments,
but the house Throughout, with the ex-
ception of small boudoir, which is
French, is carried out with the same
careful attention to consistency in the
detail.
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LIVE STOCK.
Stock Statistics.

It is we'll to frequently refer to the
increase or decrease of the numbers and
value of the live stock on the farm of the
United States. Sometimes we imagine
We are ruined by depressed prices, when
probably the real facts would prevent
real case of the blues. The Agricul-
tural Department at Washington, has
exercised great care in obtaining and
compiling the stock statistics of the
whole country A recent report of the
department gives the following interest
ing facts as to the number and value Of
farm animals:
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Dairy Dots.


The prefts of dairying are made up
of the small daily savings, of the differ
ences between the cost of production
and value of the milk or butter. A saw
ing of 10 cents per day in herd of fifty
COWS amounts to IS; in month to $3.50.
TILE dairyman needs to be taught to
test each COW separately, both for
quantity and quality, and to have the
nerve to dispose Of the non-paying
ones, while building on those which
turn him profit.
Tile weighing Of the milk, testing of
the cows, and knowing to dollar what
one is doing, is great help to the dairy
farmer. It.enabies him to get rid of
poor mixers and replace them with good
ones, and. the latter cost no more to keep
and handle than the former.
PROF. E. w. STEWART, who is noted for
his experiments in stockfeeding, states
that one ounce, or less, Of oil'meal to a
gallon of warm, sweet whey will make
it nearly equal in feeding value to whole
milk for raising calf to three weeks
old, and after that another quarter of an
ounce may be safely added. The OIL
meals hould be dissolved in hot whey
before mixing with that Of the right
temperature to feed.
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The Cooks Fault.

Hungry Guest Whose fault is it
that am kept waiting SO long for my
order 2"
Waiter The cooks, sab, The cook
don't Like me this mo'ning."
u HE don't, eh? ?"
mo, sab. You see, I didn't hab no
quarter to CUB him. Thanks, sab.
I'll go win his affections, sab. Ne,O
York Weekly.
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HE house which
Henry Will ar d
built in New York
when he was in
the zenith of his
financial prosper
|ity is one of the
finest private res
fdences in Amer
fca. It is now
It h e HON e o f
IWhitelaw Reid.
st is built in the
Renaissance style
of architecture. A
CORRESPONDENT of
the Chicago Inter
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shipping. Send full advice and invoice
by mail Immediately after the goods are
shipped.
The Value of Poultry Culture.
In the American Poultry Journal l.
K. F. says poultry industry is SO evenly
distributed and the products thereof SO
largely consumed at home that we have
failed to consider it as a means of
wealth.
The individual earnings of fowls are
small and for this reason few appreciate
the value, the the aggregate is i'm
mense.
Have you computed the number of
fowls necessary to give Uncle Sam s
twelve millions of families two dozen
eggs per week and a, chicken and fowl
once month for year?
1t involves the keeping of stock in the
nations poultry yards Of one hundred
and thirty eight millions laying fowls,
with their attendant males. In round
numbers one hundred and fifty millions.
This is no means the limit. In 1870 the
encyclopedia gave the hotel consumption
at $62,000,000 worth. Now, eighteen
years after, with vastly increased con-
sumption per capita, our increase in
population, the restaurant, the cheml-
cal, the medical consumption-all this
must be provided for. There is still
another item of vast Importance, to wit:
The game laws of our land protect all
through the season of the vast demand,
at our summer resorts, all game, duck,
geese, brant, ETC., care you aware that
that four fifths of all birds served as
game are of domestic production)? All
green geese, ducks, turkeys, and pigeons
come in here and swell our number,
until careful calculation places it at two
hundred and sixteen millions which are
each year produced and consumed with
| all their product Of eggs. These at the
prices paid by the consumer reaches the
oyerwhe Inning sum of $540,OOO,000 fol-
family use, and largely over 100000,
600 for all purposes. This is Uncle
Sans poultry and egg trade for year.
Surely it is one of the grandest factors
| i'm the wealth of our nation.
During the season of 1885, from June
Is to September Is, one hotel in Sara
toga paid to one marketman in one bill
for supplies $125.O00. The bill included
$4,000 chickens, $1,000 $50 called) game,
800 squads, 1000 dozen eggs.
We introduce this list that the farmer
and poulterer may see what large pro-
portion is produced in the poultry yards
| and lofts, which is fully one hundred
and twenty seven thousand pounds. Is
mot this a substantial backing for our
estimate of the magnitude of America
poultry trade?
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AN AMERICAN PALACE.
THE MAGNIFICENT HOME OF NEW
YORK EDITOR.

Description of the Willard House, Now .he
Home of 'Whitelaw Reid-The Marble
Hall, Grand Stairway, and Breakfast
Room of This PalatiaI House.
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RURAL TOPICS.
INFORMATION FOR THE HUSBAND.
MAN AND HOUSEWIFE.

Some Practical Suggestions for The Farmer,
6tOOk-Breeder, P0ulterer, Nurseryman,
and HOusekeeper.
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Increase
Increase. Decrease.
VALUE OF FARM ANIMALS.
or
* Increase, + Decrease.

In connection with the foregoing
statement, the following table, showing
the average value per head of each class
at the same date, is presented:
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but moderate quantity of butter pre-
serve it 10y packing in stone jars and
keep it covered with pure brine, as this
will exclude the air and offensive odors.
- Practical Farmer.
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THE HOUSEHOLD.
How to Clean Carpets.

For a carpet of about twenty yards or
SO, take pound of hard white CASTLE
soap and scrape fine, add quarter of a
pound of washing soda, and as much
spirits of turpentine as will bring it to
the consistency of dough; make it into
ball. When it is time to clean the
carpet take pail of clear, hot water
and large flannel cloth; wet the carpet
with the flannel, then rub over with the
ball of soap, and wipe off the soap with
the flannel wrung as dry as possible. If
the carpet is very much soiled scrub
brush may be used after the soap is ap-
piled. Clean about three quarters of a
yard at time, and let it become thor
oughly dry before it is used. Brussels
and velvet carpets may be washed while
on the floor, but great care should be
token not TO let the water soak through.
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DAIRYING.
Packing Butter.

* Increase. t Decrease.