Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-07

This makes the wheat land very rich, but has an opposite effect on railroads. The hotels, too, suffered 8 great deal. And so did the guests. There were two or three cities where the best hotels had been flooded with water. First the bar Der came up stairs and opened in a sam- pie room. Then the electricity, and the heat, and the elevator gaveup the ghost, and the billiard balls could be heard knocking against the floor of the office as the water rose. The weather was in tensely cold, and even the clerk had to live by an oil stove and make change with pair of yarn mittens on. Guests ate their meals in their ulsters and then went out around town to loaf at the stores where there were coal stoves.
 But this does not interfere with agri- culture. If the river goes down early enough to sow and plant, the soil will do its part. Hailstorms sometimes destroy crops in certain localities, but the legis- lature votes more seed to these counties, and they try it again.
 Cyclones sometimes cross Dakota, spreading desolation everywhere and set ting at naught the works of man, but the soil remains rich and full of yigor.
 Schoolboys even are aware that the cause of all this is the fact that the Red River of the North runs into the arctic regions, and the mouth of the stream does not open till Decoration day. Thus the great valley is flooded, and the allu- vium for centuries has made an almost bottomless bottom, if I may be allowed to use this seeming ganachronism.
 It is strange land, full of atmospheric and political surprises. The horticultural exhibit at the legislature this year was remarkable.
 Pomology does not do we'll, as a gen. eral thing, owing to the cold of winter. The Siberian crab apple, of which jelly is made, grows here, and the Kamchat- kan watermelon. Grain, however, is the ratural product of the country, and in ;u"l seasons it might feed the world.
 With cracked wheat from Dakota and oranges from southern California and Florida, steaks and chops from Texas and the west, French fried potatoes from Ohio and the middle states, corn bread and bacon from Illinois, Iowa and the Carolinas, and coffee made from the split peas of New Jersey, what breakfast we could give the world!
 Guinea eggs fried on one side could be obtained from my farm. The guinea egg is destined at no distant day to be- come the universal remove for breakfast. If better known, there would be a great scramble for this egg (sic).
 The guinea hen has never pushed her eggs as she might have done, and other fowls have thus crowded out her handi- work, but can truly say that it is one Hr1Ff tho ,,,oOk 1,1a horl IDDS1aJ ar,rru fo~ those intending to visit the open polar sea and carry their yictuals with them of which know.
 With the guinea hen herself I have nothing in common. Our paths are widely divergent. She can go her way, and can go mine, but her egg if prop erly and promptly collected can be made into light, spongy wedding cake for the table of wealth, or boiled hard by a well trained cook may surprise and delight the maw of the peasant.
 The yolk of a hard boiled guinea egg powdered in deep soup plate makes a good relish when covered at once with three or four inches of hot green turtle soup. am trying this on my farm hands this year to make an agricultural life as attractive for them as possible.
 You ask me what put on my aspara- gus bed during the summer, but that is hardly necessary if you will pause to think of my justly celebrated refrigerator.
 have an ice box, too, that I made my self when Twas at home during the holi- days. did not do as well as I can dc now. Still it keeps the largest and coarsest pieces of ice from coming out.
 It also keeps COWS and grownup cattle | put.
 | It was made from Q recipe in the column of our home paper headed "The | Preside and Spare Room"
 What get out of this ice box is what
 put on the asparagus bed. Yours truly, 1 1-n AH