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Farm and Garden Notes.

Cnbleached ashes are the best fertilizer
known for the vineyard So says Presi.
dent Phillip, of the West Michigan
Horticultural Society. They also make
a good fertilizer for the orchard.
For feeding milch COWS corn meal is
good. as every dairyman knows, but
when mixed in suitable proportions with
wheat bran its effect is much better than
when fed with coarse provender alone.
A ton Of hay to the acre is poor return
from land that cost hundred dollars
an acre, especially when it is considered
that two or three times this yield may
be secured by suitable care of the sod.
If field is infested with grub worms
to the dctriment Of the crop or grass
sward, there is no better way to eradi-
cate them than to give the field over to
the hogs with the freedom of their
noses.
There is always a demand for really
good stock. Strictly tirst-clas| animals
will always command a ready sale, and
tile better the Individual and choicer
the breeding the greater is the demand
for it.
Salt should be regularly supplied to
stock to maintain the elements of
digestion, thrift and growth. 1t in
creascs the flow of saliva and facilities
fat,ening, and is essential to maintain
the health of the animal.
The Germantown 1eleGranh has never
been able to discover sufficient reason
for adopting the silaee system. but be-
lieves that dry fodder supplemented
with grain, rs ensilage is. will prove as
we'll for the farmer, if not better.
Rye as green manure is rapidly
growing into favor. 1t has the advan-
tage over clover, inasmuch as it can be
sown in the fall and will attain growth
in the spring sufficiently early to be
plowed under in time for late spring
crops.
The peach and plum are nearly enough
related to be budded or grated on each
other. The plum endures the cold
better than the peach, and the latter
fruit grown on plum stocks can be much
more easily protected than when grown
on its own.
Mr.. Stephen Powers tells Popular
Gardening he burned bushes of dccaycd
apples in the house-furnace last winter
''without smell and lesscning use of
other fuel, while destroying all insects
in the fruit. which was the main OBJ; ;ect
in firing it."
There are men in every neighborhood
that sell their hog crop to disadvan,
tace. and with more or less loss to thcn-
selves; notably when man sells hogs
at seven months old weighing
1926 pounds that are healthy and have
good frames. when there is on alum
dance of good corn On the farm that must
be fed or sold.
Taking the amount of food required
to make a pound of gain on swine
weighing 80 pounds, 3.3 per cent. more
food is required by swine weighing 70
pounds, IA per cent. more by swine
weighing 1875 pounds, 10 per cent. more
by swine weighing l15 pounds, 22 per
cent. more by swine weighing 22O
pounds, 55 per cent. more by swine
weighing 27O pounds and "a per cent.
more by swine weighing 325 pounds.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Use for Old Brooms.

When my broom becomes worn and
stubby, use it to make brushes out of
it. cut the wire that holds the brush
part to the handle. Selecting the best
parts. I wash them thoroughly in hot
soap.suds, and rinse in warm water.
Then I tie them into punches, using
strong twine, which wrap round and
round the stem end, making kind OF
handle. These I use to clean pots and
kettles. The more worn and stiff parts
I make up in the same way, and one
use to brush out the stove oven, another
l find excellent to scrub out swill pals,
and still others l use to wash the mud
from vegetables, as potarotes, turnips or
parsniDs. .--irail'ie Farmer.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
10 FARM AND GARDEN
Taking Care OF Farm Tools.

"Too much care cannot be takon in
preventing loss from exposure of the
farm implements when not in use," says
a farmer in the New York World.
'Nearly all farmers now house them
through the winter, but qaite frequently,
through neglect, some will be left out.
standing until late in the fall before
they are put away in dry place, and
then in a foul and rusty condition. Every
tool or implement should be thoroughly
cleaned as soon as 1t is out of use, and
before it is stored away for the season.
I give my recipe for mixture for coat
ing the metal portion of farm imple.
ments: To two quarts of kerosene add
one gill of linseed oil and an ounce of
powdered rosin, and apply with a paint
brush. This will prevent rust by ex-
cluding the moisture which causes it..
To the wood apply coat of pure kero-
sene."
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Wood Ashes in rhe Horpen.

1t is believed by many that liberal
supply of wood ashes IN the hogpen
serves to promote the health of the oc-
~cupants, and is o sure preventive for
many forms of disease. The following
from an exchange shows that ashes are
highly valued by some swine growers.
A certain farmer and his neighbor to
whom the sec ct had been communicated,
had been very successful in kecping their
herd Of swine healthy and thrifty, while
those of their neighbors were dying.
The secret of their success was due 10
the tree use of ashes on the feeding
places. When corn feeding commenced
these farmers would haul load of ashes
and scatter over the feeding place, re-
peating from time to time during the
fattening period. Coal ashes was found
to answer as well as wood ashes when
the cobs accommodating about the feed
lot were raked together frequently and
burned, allowing The ashes to mix with
the coal ashes. By practising this, these
two men saved their hogs each year, pat
ting them on the market healthy and
well fattened. During two years, when
cholera ragged in the neighborhood, some
men lost all their hogs, while those of
the farmers above named were exempt.
Yet these losers would not adopt the
simple preventive that gave immunity
to two farms in their midst from disease.
The remedy is so simple that they scotfed
at its supposed etficucy. Too much tes-
timony has accumulated in the favor Of
ashes contributing to the health of
swine. when they have constant access
to them, for farmers to ignore their
value. This preventive is in the reach
Of all men, and there is no reasonable
excuse for not making free use of it
American Cultiput1r
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RinGOOne.

A celebrated authority on the diseases
OF horses describes II ringbone as IAN on
ostosis "a growth of bone from bone)
situated around the coronet, mostly near
the pastern joint, at other times just
above it; and not unfrequently the joint
becomes auchylosed, owing to the spread
of ossi6cation; that is, the coffin bone
and the pastern bone become united to-
gether by bony growth Ringbones
are usually the result of hereditary dis
position or accident. Farmers often raise
colts from nearly worn. out, coarse.
limbed, spawned and ringboned mares,
and then seem to be surprised because
the colts are afflicted with the same dis
eases as their dams. At the first appear
ance of ringbone there is usually con-
siderable inflammation of the membrane
covering the bones, aud this may be al
layed by cold-water dressings, changed
every hour until the parts are restored to
their normal temperature, then apply
counter. irritants. But our herb au.
thorities differ in regard to the kind of
counter-irritants, which should be ap-
piled. For instance. DR.. Law in his
Weterinary Adviser" says: IF there is
very active Inflammation, adopt soothing
measures first and then blister Sc
verely, or even fire. Corrosive
sublimate and camphor, twenty
grains of each; muriatic acid, ten drops,
and oil of turpentine, one ounce, is often
useful in such cases. but should be
watched and washed off when sufficient
exudation has taken place, otherwise it
may blemish." But DR.. Geo. II. Dodd
in his "Amerita an Reformed Horse Book"
condemns bl.stcrs and firing with hot
iron, and says that they "savor too much
of barbarity," and that he has never
found them any more efficacious than
some milder remedies. He recommends
lotion composed of two ounces spirits
of camphor, one ounce fluid extract of
wormwood, and five ounces of good
strong vinegar,t to be applied twice daily.
In cases of chronic ringbonc apply
lotion composed of equal parts of cod
liver oil and kerosene. Apply this once
or twice daily until crop of pustules
appears; then omit the application, and
reapply it at the expiration of two or
three internitting periods. AS the ring
bone on your mare must now be we'll
advanced, we would advise you to try
The cod-iiyer oil and kerosene first, using
more severe remedies if it becomes abso-
lutte necessary. AL ow her to rest as
quietly as possible while applying RENE
dies.
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From Republican Headquarters.

NIoRAv1A, N. Y, May s, 1870. F. WOOD
WARD: have been using Kemp's Balsam and
find it very effectual in relieving a cough
with which have been afflicted OF late. Our.
druggists tell me they sell more Of this than any
other cough remedy. can cheerfuly recon-
mend it, Yours Truly, ]. J. PEAsE, Editor Re
publican. At all druggists. Large bottles, 50c
and 81.
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If Sufferers from Consumptton.
Scrofula, Bronchitis and General Debility will
try SCoTr's EMULSION of Cod liver OIL with
Hypophosphites, they will find immediate re-
II and permanent b nefit. The Medical Pro
greatest value and very palatable. Read: u
have used Scott's Emulsion In several cases OF
Scrofula and Debility in Children. Results
most gratifying. My little patients take it
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To Make 1faiSed Pics.

This is little difficult to do, and the
learner should practice on small pies
trst-say pork pies though any meat OF
game con be put in the raised crust. Put
tour ounces of lard and half pint of
cold water into a saucepan; put pound
of -four into a bowl with little salt.
Boil the lard and water, and when 1t is
quite boiling pour it over the -four ana
mix 1t with a wooden spoon to a smooth
paste. 1t will be too hot to touch with the
hands at first. Previously have pound
of lean pork cut into small pieces. and
put to it some chopped sage leaves and a
seasoning of pepper and salt. But this
must be done first of all, because the
moment you can touch the paste, while
it is vet warm and soft, you must mold
it with your hands. Cut oil as much OF
the paste as you will require to make q
lid to the pie, put it on plate and set 1t
over a saucepan of hot water to keep it
soft lit must not get cold), then take
the rest of the paste and form 1t
into an oval, p..tting it on the
toured paste-board. With the knuck-
les of your right hand make
a hollow place in the lump OF dough; !;
nut YOUR thumb inside 1t. the four
fingers outside it, and, with the help Of
the left hand, work the paste into the
shane of an oval crust. Thus ''the wall, y
as It is called, of the pie is formed. 1t
should be thin and firm, and straight
up; it must not bulge outward, and
should incline inward. If it stretches
at the top you must pinch the stretched
part over in q fold, and press it quite
smooth. There must be no thin places
in the crust: the cook must make the
pie-walls of equal thickness everywhere.
it must be done very quickly, as the
wall can only be nodded while the paste
is soft, for it hardens if it coois. When
the pie-crust is thus made fill in the meat
and seasoning into the hollow center,
then roll out the paste lid (kept over
hot water. to the proper shape aud size,
and lay it over the meat. Egg the sides
and pinch them together, and make a
hole in the middle of the lid, through
which some good gravy is to he poured
after the pie is baked. Brush 1t over
with the yolk of an egg, and ornament
as you please. with leaves, etc., OF
the paste. Bake in a moderate oven for
two or three hours fo- small pies, and
four hours for large ones.-lanhfe BSttde.
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Put castor oil on the soles of your
shoes, letting them absorb all they will
in several applications, and this will
stop the creaking noise.
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Radical Cure for Rpilep,ic Fits.

To The Edito1-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
worst cases. So strong is my faith In its vir;
tues that will send flee q sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who Will give
me his p O. and Express address. Respy,
H.G. ROOT. NJ. c.. 1S3 Pearl St.. New York.
Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses
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IF fsuferers from Consumption.

TIE production of the silk manufactures OF
America now amounts to S6QOOO,OO year.
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Cooking Fool for Fowls.

How to feed we'll aud at the same
time economically is often the question
with people who must make their fowls
pay in dollars and dimes, as well as in
pleasure and recreation. And even the
wealthy fowl owners are not avcrsc to
having their fowls pay for their food and
care, even if they are not expected to
pay for their expensive houses and fancy
runs. With persons living east of the
Rocky Mountains corn must always con-
tinue to be the cheapest food, but it has
been Objectionable a, Il constant food on
account OF its fattening properties. We
believe BY cooking the corn whole until
quite soft and swollen to the fullest ex-
tent that flock of hens may lie kept in
good laying condition when fed corn al.
mcst exclusively. We have been expert
menting with corn boiled very soft,
roasted and parched until we'll baked
through and very little fed in its
natural state, and find our hens laying
splendidly upon it. They have been
fed as much as they cared to eat. were
running upon good grass run, and fed
no other kind of dry or green food.
This food, We may say, is very cheap,
! costing fifty cents per bushel, and kept
4 the hens in finer condition and at less
cost than anything else that We could
afford
Corn, oats and wheat are increased
almost douUle size by cooking, and as a
natural result the hens will not get fat
because they get only half as much >olld
matter when fed cooked as when led dry
grain They relish it greatly. All soft
foods and vegetables make better food
for fowls if cooked or scalded we'll. If
a large kettle and plenty of water and
fuel is accessible it is very little trouble
cooking the rations of several hundred
hens. If only q small flock is kept
enough food can be cooked in small
dish or pan to 40 them a day. Cooked
food should not be kept until sour and
stale, but should be led sweet and whole
some. We are satisfied that saving of
nearly one.half can be effected by the
proper use of water, steam and fire.
american Poultry Iard.
Wire as a Farm Convenience.
Soft steel galvanized wire, such as is
used for the cheap telephones, is won
derfully useful about the house or farm
With good pair of pliers, it can be
- used almost like string. When this
cannot be had, common copper wire will
answer Just as well, but is a trit1e more
Expensive and not as strong. In the
absence of these the soft iron wire used
by stove men for putting up stove pipe
will answer. The latter, however, is
rather large. Having either of these
soft wires we may sew button upon
stiff cloth, fasten the ear of tin pail i'll
place, or bind volume of periodicals.
With the copper wire leather can be
fastened in many places, as for example
about harness where ordinary waxed
ends will fail. For training plants
against the house wire is far better than
string. For this purpose copper is first,
Fhe galvanized second, and plain iron
wire last. Old fence wire may be worked
n for this purpose. In the garden two
pr three strands of it can be made partly,
4 not entirely, to take the place of
brush for peas. A pretty stout stake is
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Recipes.

MAYoNNAIsE SAUcE.-Three yolks OF
eggs, pinch of salt. pepper and dry mus:
tard: dilute this with spoonful of good
vinegar, aud add oil at leisure until con:
siStent, and all to be worked with good
whip; finish with the Juice of lemon.
Noopl.Es.-Add rs much sifted -four
to one egg as it will absorb, and Il little
salt; roll as thin as wafer, dredge very
lightly with -four, turn over and over
into a large roll, slice from the ends,
shake the strips and drop into the soup.
MASHED PoTAroES. Pare and boil q
dozen large potatoes; put into hot
crock half cup of cream, tablespoon
full OF butter aud little salt and pep
Der: set where it will heat; take the
potatoes up the moment they are done
and mash them: beat perfectly smooth
and send to tie table very hot.
APPLE FRlrTEKs.-SiX tart apples,
two eggs, one cup of flour, two table
spooafus of milk: salt. Beat the eggs,
-four and milk together in smooth
batter. Peel and slice the apples, dip
the slices in the batter and Try in hot
lard until of a dclictte brown. sprinkle
with powdered sugar and serve at once.
PIlMnosE HG.--Pr:mrosc pud-
ding is the attractive title of a quaint old
English dish, which, says the recipe may
be made with either primro>es, cowslips
or roses. Make good. light batter. with
three pints of milk, and let 1t stand for 4
little; then stir into it about q quart of
the freshly gathered flowers, and pour the
mixture into buttered pudding basin,
tie buttered paper over it. and boil or
steam for about an hour an half. Serve
with sweet sauce.
ROAST MUTToN. rubbing with
melted butter, sprinkle with salt and
pepper; add a cup of hot water to baste
with. and bake IN a hot oven. Allow
twenty to thirty minutes to the pound.
Thicker the gravy with Drowned flour,
or serve with mint sauce and fresh salad,
Another way is to make mixture OF one
tablespoonful of vinegar to one pint of
cold water, wash the meat, and wipe
dry. Put into the baking pan with one
cup of hot water and one-half cup of
butter: baste frequently. Serve wiz
mint sauce.
CncKhy SN.An.-Mince the meat OF
chicken fine; then chop the white parts
of Celery, and prepare d dressing a. fol,
lows: Iiub the yolks of two hard .boi.ed
eggs smooth; to each yolk put one tea
spoonful of made mustard, half as much
salt, two raw eggs, wine glass OF vinegar
and tablespoonful Of the best olive oil.
Putt the celery in salad bowl: lay the
chicken on that and then pour over it the
dressing. Lettuce cut small may be used
instead of celery, but the latter is murh
more delicious. Cut the whites of the
eggs in rings to garnish the salad.
Germany will connect her railway sys-
tenn with the new direct route to Con-
stantinople, saving twelve hours. This
action is to be taken with view to
competing with the French route to the
East.
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DYSPEPSIA,

SICK HEADACHE, FOUL STOMACH,
BILIousNESS, will be avoided, and
tho food that is eaten eontributo its
nourishfns properties for tho support OF
tho natural waste OF tho body. SOLD
BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price. $50. psr
box, OK, On receipt OF price. will bo
sent by mail. boxes for One Dollar.
RADWAY & CO., 80 Warren St., n. Y.
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For SPRAINS, BRUISES, BACKACHE,
PAIN in the CHEST or SIDES, HEAD
ACHE, TOOTHACHE, or any other Ex-
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For CONGEsTIONs. AUTHORIZATIONS
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RALGIA, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, PAINS
in tho Small OF the Back, etc., moro AK
tended, longer continued and repeated
applications arc necessary to effect .
cure.
All INTERNAL PAINS I'm tho Bowels
or Stomach), CRAMPS, SPASMs, SOUR
MACH, NAUsE A, ,yOMITIN g,
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Cooed Mans Of each State and Territory in the United S1aes'
Also Maps Of every Country in the WoTld

The letter press gives square miles of each State time OF
settlement population chief cities average temperature; sa
Of officials and the principal in the State number
FARMS with their productions and the value thereol
manufactures of employees etc., etc. Also the area
of each Foreign Country form of governments pr1n
ca1 products and their money value amount OF trade religion
size Of arv miles of railroad and telegraph number OF horses
CATTLE sheep and vast amount OF information Valuable TO @
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The most Ger.

The most csr.
tain and ssfs
Pain REMEDY
in tho wo rld
tn at instanuy
stops tho MOST
excru o 1atinH
pain 8. II IL
truly the great
coNQUEROR>
OF PAIN, and
has done moro
good than any
known remedy.
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Germany will connect her railway sys-
tenn with the new direct route to Con-
stantinople, saving twelve hours. This
action is to be taken with view to
competing with the French route to the
Fast
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Go HAND IN HAND.
ENGLAND FRIENDLY WITH GERMANY.
So Prince Bismarck Declares in the Reich
stag.
DISCUSSION IN THE CABINET.
German Scheme Of Colonization Of Pacific
Islands.

BERLIN, January 26-In the Reichsiag
to-day Prince Bismarck in debate delivered
a speech with unusual animation. In re-
ferripg to the occurrences in East Africa,
the Chancellor said:
"On that point l can only cay that we
have proceeded and shall ever proceed
solely in agreement with England, the
greatest colonial power in the world. 1
deny, therefore, emphatically the hugges-
tion that We have any intention to proceed
against the Sultan of Zlnzjbar, also in
Samoa. We are in the fullest accord with
Eugland, and advance hand in hand with
ter. Cheers We are absolutely re-
solved 20 be one with the English govern
ment, and to uphold the unity we have
shared with the English in Africa "
[CbeeIs.
The Chancellor, EEK adyeItsd to the
criticisms of Herr Bamberger, taunting
him with his change of colonial policy
lie read pls ages fTcm speeches made in
1885, ard admitted that he had departed
from the opinions ther in expressed, but
his present action wss detailed tolely by
immediate circumstance.
''For the sake of two million marks, !"
he continued, Il cannot throw myself
sg ,inst the great impulse cf the nation or
,tfr opp sition to the Will of the whole
c'untry. TO this dsy, I SIN not a
Colonial man. l entertain tie gravest
appTehensicns or the mat =, but have been
compelled to yield to the general demand
of the nation.
At all events, the coast territory aCquir-
ed by the German company is ve,y import
ant, and must be retained. cannot bur-
den myself with the reproaeh of posterity
that failed 10 project Germans and Ger
man possessions. We cannot look for re-
sults in three mOnths-no, ror in three
years. Perhaps thirty years hence the
people may bitterly rue to-day's neglect Of
duty. If the locomotive Of empire has
struck out track for itself, 1 will not be
the one to thTo stones in the wsy.