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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
PRESERVING EGGS.

There is no known method by which
eggs can be kept to be equally good
rs fresh eggs, but there are many
ways of preserving them so as to make
n fair substitute for use in the kitchen.
The great object to be obtained is 10
prevent evaporation. Cutting off the
air from the contents of the shell pre-
serves them longer than any other
treatment. AT present cold storage is
considered the best method of pre-.
serving eggs, but few have the neces-
sary facilities, and where the amount
is small one Of the following recipes
will be found acceptable:
Eggs may be preserved by packing
small end down in salt, sand or dry
bran, care being taken that they do
not touch each other. They must be
well covered with the packing mate.
rial and kept in a cool place. If pre-
ferred, they may DO wiped before
packing with vaseline, to which sali-
cyclic acid has been added, or given
a coating of salt butter, or covered
with spirit varnish made by dissolv-
ing gum shellac in alcohol.
For preserving in lime a pickle is
made in the following way; Take
twenty-four gallons of water, twelve
pounds of unslaked lime and four
pounds of salt, or in that proportion,
according to the quantity of eggs to
be preserved Stir several times daily
and then let stand until the liquor has
settled and is perfectly clear. Draw
or carefully dip of the clear liquid,
leaving the sediment at the bottom.
Take five ounces each of baking soda,
cream of tartar, saltpetre and borax
and an ounce of alum. Pulverise and
mix these and dissolve in a gallon of
boiling water, and add to the mixture
about twenty gallons of pure lime.
water. This will about fill cider
barrel. Lower the eggs in carefully
in a basket or colander, so as not to
crack any of the shells, letting the
water always stand au inch above the
eggs, which can be done by placing
barrel head little smaller upon them
and weighting it. The eggs should
iemain in the brine until ready for
1se. If it evaporates, more water
may be added, but the pickle should
never be used more than once. These
proportions will give brine enough to
preserve about 80 dozen eggs. New
York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
FERNS IN THE GARDEN.

If one has q shady place, with good
soil, ferns may be successfully raised
in the garden, but it is the extreme
of folly to attempt to grow them in
the glare of sunlight or in dry or hard
earth. Neither should they be grown
under large trees, unles they can be
placed some distance from the roots,
as the trees absorb most of the GOOD
from the soil, and the ferns would
starve to death or grow thin and
ragged. Deep, rich and loamy soil is
best for ferns, and even this should
be removed in part, and its place sup
piled by the black earth from the bot
tom land where ferns flourish most
luxuriantly. One can go to any
swamp and take up and bring home
ferns enough to make beautiful bed,
with very little trouble. Always Sc.
lect small plants, and lift them with
plenty of earth attached to them,
water them thoroughly for number
OF days, and never allow them to be.
come rarched. II the ground gets
dry, they can be kept in good condi
eAOA W COfSIiuB tue EOOlS Wllu IOtJSu
wood or the sweepings from the lawn,
taken up after the lawn mower is used;
but the best of all is decayed wood
from the forests. Some day when you
go out to drive, put couple of bags
in the carriage, and when you pass
through some piece of thick wood
land stop and gather your bags full of
scraps from the trunk OF some decayed
tree. In the absence of these, pieces
of board or sticks of any kind are
tolerable substitute, or bricks or
stones may be laid around among the
plants. This will keep the earth moist
and do much to promote the health
and vigor of the ferns.
One may buy greenhouse ferns in
the spring and put them out, and de-
rive great pleasure from them all sum-
mer. Many OF them will not live out
through the winter; some of them
may, but they can be removed at
small cost, and the little expense is
well worth while.-New York Ledger
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
TREATMENT OF SHEEP scAD.

The Australian sulphur and lime
dip is made as follows: Take of flow
ers of sulphur 100 pounds, quicklime
$50 pounds, water 100 gallons. AIiz
and stir, while boiling, for ten min.
ates, until the mixture assumes q
bright red color, then add three gal
Ions of water. Hold the sheep in the
mixture until tho scabs are thorough.
ly soaked, Immerse the head at least
once. Use the dip at 100 to 10 de.
grees.
In various sections of the United
States the following proportions are
used:
Texas and New Thirty
pounds Of tobacco, seven pounds OF
sulphur, three pounds concentrated
lye, 100 gallons of water.
Nevada Sulphur ten pounds, lime
twenty pounds, water sixty gallons.
California Sulphur four pounds,
lime one pound, water enough to make
four gallons.
hansas--SulpLnr twenty-five pounds,
limo seven pounds, water 100 gallons.
sulphur and lime are probably the
cheapest recipe, but the lime is apt to
iniurc the stable Tobacco and sui
phur form the best combination
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

ANN AM bAhDEN NOIES.
Hold fast to your mutton sheep.
Linseed meal is excellent food for
the colt.
Solitary confinement in dark sta
bic will make horse vicious.
Breed to suit your market, and not
according to your individual taste.
See that the collars fit the shoul-
ders and that the names fit the col.
lars.
Usually the swine pasture should
be larger than is the case on many
farms.
Paving is often caused by indiges.
tion, worms, constipation or disor-
dered kidneys.
You are feeding your hens too much.
They are too fat. That's why they
don't lay any more.
A good sheep is good friend to
the farmer. Do not abuse him even
though he is not on top just now.
A lean hen seldom wants to sit, while
q fat one generally does. Moral /:
Don't feed your hens too much inwarm
weather.
1t is an excellent plan to treat hy.
drangeas with liquid manure till the
blossoms appear. 1t should then be
discontinued, abundance of water be-
ing given.
If the dry weather affects the lawn,
leave the grass little longer; its
shade will do something for the protec,
tion of the roots, that otherwise
might parch and dry.
A hog should be kept for every COW
on the average farm, provided there
are at least two acres in the farm for
each hog kept. Piggy needs room,
so do COWS, horses, sheep and poul-
try.
One point in favor of sheep is that
a moderate-sized flock can be kept on
very many farms with but little cost;
sometimes with actual direct advan.
tage to the farm aside from the money
return for wool or mutton.
If your pasturage is short, feed
corn-fodder and help out the corn
with some fall pasturage, barley, for
instance, or winter rye. Sow these
now where the earlier grains have
been taken off and you will get we'll
paid.
The Towering period of hybrid
roses may be materially prolonged by
faithful attention to watering; and
after the blooming has ceased water
should be given with equal fidelity, be.
cause at that time the new wood is
formed which will give the next crop
of blossoms.
If two and a half.year old steer
can be turned off at better profit,
weighing 1850 pounds, than if kept
until three years old and brought TO
weight of 1000, it would be folly to
hold him. The older an animal gets
the more it costs to put or flesh, and
cattle men are adopting the policy of
feeding off earlier.
6 Ensilage is largely used by some
poultrykeepers. 1t is easily prepared.
Take large barrel, or hogshead, or a
tight, strong bin is best, and after
cutting your clover, weeds, grass or
any other gIeen stuff fine, pack it in
Il receptacle, and cover it over with
boards that you can weight down by
piling on stones. The main thing is
to exclude the air. When this is done
perfectly your silo is u success, aud
you will have plenty of green stuff fer
winter.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18

AMERICAN IRISrs.

American irises do not seem to have
received the attention from cultiva-
tors that they deserve. 1t is doubtful
if there be at this time a complete col
lection even of TIE different species IN
any one garden, while there are, no
doubt, good varieties which have never
been cultivated, and probably not
even collected for herbariums. Again.
there are varieties which have only q
local reputation, aud which have not
been generally distributed. l have
found number of varieties of this
kind some of these are not yet flow
cred here. Some of our irises are most
difficult to establish, and it will task
the skill Of an Eastern grower to flower
some of the West Coast species, which
resent removal and naturally are at
rest during our summer season. Gar.
den and Forest.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
OLD STONE Walls.

When the country was new many
farmers put as much stone as they
could into walls for their fences.
These were deemed much more i'm
portant then than they are now. How
ever great the satisfaction when the
wall was built in thinking that it was
fence forever, the time has come in
many places where the stone wall is a
nuisance. Its material is all there,
but the work of relaying it and OF
keeping it in repair is greater than the
interest on cost of most fences. Be.
sides, the stone wall is q harbor for
weeds, and it often is q refuge for
skunks, weasels and other farm YER
min. On most farms the best use of
the old stone walls is to build base
ments for barns or cellar walls, or in
the underdrains. Good drains can be
made from stone alone, or after laying
the tile layer of stone may be placed
above them, coming to within foot
or so from the surface, SO the stone
will not likely be ever in the way OF
the plow.-Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
HARVESTING AND MARKETING GRAPES.


Picking, packing and marketing
should be done Systematically; care
less pickers or packers cannot be toll
Grated. In Western New York bushel
tray or box is used almost exclusively
for picking. This is too cumbersome
and requires both hands in moving it.
We use shallow half bushel box, or
basket, which is readily handled with
one hand. A good picker will gather
from 1900 to 1900 pounds per day
without dropping or crushing any,
and a good packer will pack 100 to
l25 baskets and get them full enough
so they will open up smooth and level
on top with no stems in sight, but not
so full as to crush the fruit in putting
on the cover. Pick grapes at least
twenty-four hours before they are
packed. Ifpicked andpacked at once,
they settle SO the basket is only two
thirds full when it reaches the con-
Lumer.
Plan the harvest work so that full
loads can be hauled to the depot each
day. If the roads are good, as they
should be, 400 or 500 baskets can be
as readily drawn as half that number.
Have the packing house cool and airy,
with room and conveniences for the
packers to work to the best advantage.
If you ship to a commission house,
don't listen to every drummer that
comes along, but select two or three
reliable firms and give them your fruit
exclusively. The plan of forming all
growers into cooperative union has
not proved a success here. A better
plan is for several growers who can
work tremendously to load their own
cars and ship or sell in carlots. -AmerI-
can Agriculturist
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
RECIPES.

Baked Apples-Pare and core six
tart apples. Fill the hole from which
the core was removed with butter,
sugar and grated nutmeg, put in pie
tin with little water, dust over with
very fine sugar. Bake.
Tea Biscuit One quart OF -four,
four heaping teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, little salt, two tablespoon.
fuls of butter. Whip together until
thoroughly powdered, then add one
pint of sweet milk. Roll out, cut and
put in buttered pans. Bake IN hot
oven twenty minutes.
Plain Omelet-Beat stiff the whites
of three eggs, add the yolks, beat
again until stiff. Put piece OF but
ter the size of a walnut in q frying
pan. Shake it over the fire until
melted. Turn in the eggs. Shake
over the fire until set. Sprinkle with
salt and pepper. Boil. Turn out on a
hot plate. 1t is much better to make
two small omelets than one large one
Rolls-One quart of flour, one
pint of sweet milk, butter the size OF
IN egg, little salt, three heaping
teaspoonfulls OF baking powder. Mix
the baking powder thoroughly with
-four, add salt, rub in butter. Make
a hole in the -four, pour in the milk.
Stir until it is smooth, roll out, cut
with g biscuit cutter, moisten the
edge with milk and fold over. Put in
hot CREASED tins and bake in a quick
oven.
White Soubise-Peel and cut four
good-sized onions into small pieces,
put into a stewing pan with two
ounces OF butter. Put the lid on and
cook over q very slow fire for three
quarters of an hour. Be careful not
to let the onions brown. When tender
add one pint of milk, one pint of
white stock, one pint of stale bread
crumbs. Simmer five minutes, steam,
return to the fire to heat. Add white
pepper and salt.
Feather Cake-Beat two ounces of
butter and one-half pound of pulver.
lied sugar together until we'll mixed,
then add one gill of milk and beat
again very light. Weigh out one.
half pound of flour, add one-third to
the mixture, beat again. Two eggs,
beat whites stiff, then the yolks, add
to the mixture, then beat. Add to
remaining flour one heaping teaspoon.
full of baking powder. Add it to the
mixture and beat Flavor to taste,
Bake in modern oven thirty minutes
Charlotte Russe-Cover half a box
of gelatine with cold water, let it soak
half an hour, line a good-sized mold
with one-half pound of lady fingers,
put cream into large basin aud place
in pan Of cracked ice. Add to the
gelatine enough boiling water to dis
solve it. Add three-fourths of cup
of powdered sugar to the cream and
stir in gently half a teaspoonful of
vanilla. Add to the gelatine and stir
gently until it begins to thicken, then
pour in the molds and set away on ice
to harden.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
VICTIMS OF INrEMpERAvcE.

We are appalled, and shocked at the
accounts from the East, of widows burnt
upon the funeral piles of their departed
husbands. But what IL these devot ses OF
superstition, the Brahmins, had discovered
mode Of prolonging the lives of the victims
for years amid the flames, and by these pro-
tracted burnings were accustomed to torture
life away? We might almost rouse up Il
crusade to cross the deep, TO stop by force
such inhumanity. But, alasl we should
leave behind us, on our own shores, more
wives in the fire than we should find widows
thus sacrificed in all the East fire, too,
which, besides its action upon the body
tortures the soul by lost affections, and
ruined hopes, and prospective wretched.
ness.
1t is high time to enter upon the business
OF collecting facts on this subject The
statistics OF intemperance should be pub
lished; for no man has comprehended as vet
the height, aud depth, aud length, and
breadth Of this mighty evil.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
Highest Of all in Lesyenns Pove-Iatest u S Govt Report
RH:a!!I! q! RSxassE RRskiaRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Tho Oldest Man in tho World.

Tho Frankfurter journal has dis
covered, by sheer accident, tho old
est man in tho world. A "Kommor-
zienrath," who dated his letter from
Heilbronn, observed at the end of the
epistle; 81 have been n subscriber TO
your paper ever since its first appear
ance." The editor remarks in note
that ''such an example of fidelity to
one and the same newspaper deserves
praise in 80 changeable u generation.
But what is still moro remarkable is
the phenomenal longevity of its corre-
spondent. "The first number of our
Journal" observes tho editor, "ap-
peared $50 years ago" Hence tho
respected subscriber must be about
800 years old.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Francis Willard thinks that poverty Is tho
chief cause Of the drinking habit
A boy called a doctor 10 visit his father.
who had the deliriun tremens; not rightly
remembering the name Of the disease he
called II the DEVILS Notwithstanding bad
Latin, but very good English.
The city Of TeXarkana voted the saloons
out, and Immediately the Cotton Belt Rail-
road moved its machine shops from Pine
Bluff to Texarkana. The company prefers
to have its shops where there is no whisky
sold.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad inserts in
every title deed TO property adjoining its
stations provision that II tho property Mt
any time be usel rs place for the sale OF
liquor the property Shall revert 10 the rail-
road.
Idly, vaInly shall we seek to stop excessive
drinking so long as We permit drinking at
drift over Niagara Falls, but exhort them to
be sure to stop when half way down..
Greeley.
Finland has demonstrated that spirits are
not necessary in cold countries, having be-
come practieallya total abstinence country
Ihis change has been effected under loca
option.
Robert T. Smith, one Of the old-time tem.
peranee lecturers, is still living in Baltimore
'.4N NSie"t ltle Slllclu anniversary OF his
Dlrth on Monday. He began his crusade
against the cup that inebrlates more than II
cheers in 1887 as Secretary of the Franklin
Society, Of Baltimore County
There are 5000 saloons in New York CITY.
OF which ninety per cent. are controlled by
the brewers and moro than fifty per cent.
mortSaged TO them. 1t Is predicted that Il
large proportion Of the saloons aud brewer
les will be driven out Of business if the en-
foreement Of the Sunday law continues.
Some idea Of tho enormous consumption
OF alcohol during the last century NAV DO
gained from the statement made by Middle
ton In his survey OF Middlesex, that among
coal-heavers and other laborer5 a consumpI
lion OF malt liquors of from five hundred 10
one thousand gallons a year was not rare.
while the average consumption was almost
ono hundred gallons.
Dlondin has always been singularly alb
stemious man in his personal habits and at
'eventy-two Is still able to perform on the
dghtrope,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
Slnnrhtnrinr Horses for Fond.

The slaughter Of horses for food has
began at Linnton, Oregon, in an abat.
toir especially constructed for the
purpose. The San Francisco Examin-
CT says:
The operation is about the same as
killing n beef. The horses are driven
up the inclined roadway from the cor
rails and each is enclosed in pen.
The executioner strikes them in the
head with sledgehammer. The doors
of the pen are lifted and the carcasses
are drawn out on the floor and expe-
ditiously dressed and hung up.
Trenches in the floor and chutes con.
vey the offal out of sight, and, in a
short time, a number of carcasses are
suspended by the gambrels from iron
tracks above.
The pile of hoofs in one corner, a
pile of horsetails in another, and the
length and slimness of the legs on the
carcasses are oil that would indicate
to an inexperienced person that any
thing unusual had been going ON.
The flesh of the horse is darker than
that of good beef.
There are certain variations to the
customary method of converting live
horse into an edible one which de.
serve mention. Horses which have
been killed in the cars, or had "brok-
en- their necks running down an EN-
bankment trying to get away" as one
butcher said, must not be allowed to
go to waste. So they are gotten out
of the way very expeditiously. The
legs were cut of at the knees, the
name and tail removed, a slit made
the whole length of the skin and the
head and part of the neck divested OF
the epidermis. Then rope was
made fast TO the loosened skin and a
chain put around the neck and fas
tened to the trunk of an apple tree.
A team Of horses was hitched to the
rope and the entire skin thus pulled
off a few cuts and slashes and the
carcasses were in tho steam tank being
converted into fertilizer.
This is, in brief, the way horses arc
killed for eating in the first establish
ment of its kind in America. 1t is
not intended that any of the meat
shall be offered for sale here; nor is
there any part of the establishment
devoted to canning. The company
will not can horses, at least at pres
ent. Only the hams will be picked
for export. The offal will be convert
cd into fertilizer and made into other
marketable products by methods in
use of all first class abattoirs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
TEMPERANCE.
PROFITABLE LossEs.

PROFITABLE IQSshHs
The following good speech Is nearly n ver,
bal report Of one heard at temperance
meeting.
"Ihave been thinking, since came into
The meeting tonight about the losses Two
met with since l signed the total abstinence
pledge. tell you there isn't a man IN the
society who has lost more by stopping drink
than have. Wait bit till tell you what
mean. There was q nice lob Of work to be
dono In the shop to-day, and the boss called
fg me.
hand in the shop
well, l told my wifo at supper timei and
said she:s
"'why, Laurie, he used to call you the
worst. You've lost your bad name, haven't
your
"'Thats a fact wife, said l. And II ain't
all I've lost In the last sixteen months either
had poverty and wretchedness, and l lost
them. | had an old ragged coat aud a
shockln' bad hat, and some waterproof boots
that let the wet out at the toe as fast as they
took II In at the heel. I've lost them. had
red face, q trembling hand and q pair OF
shaky legs, that gave me an awkward tum-
BILE now and then. had habit OF curslng
and swearing; and I've got rid of that.
had an aching head sometimes, and heavy
heart, and worse than all the rest, guilty
conscience Thank God! I've lost them alln
"rhen I told my wife what she had lost.
"'You've had an old ragged gown, Mary,
said l. And you had trouble, and sorrow,
and poor, wretched home. and plenty OF
heartaches, for you had a miserable drunkard
for husband. Mary Maryl thank the Lord
for all you and have lost, since / signed
the temperance pledgerh
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18

known for the treatment of scab. To
every 100 gallons of water there
should be used thirty-fve pounds of
good strong tobacco (if stems or other
inferior parts are used there should
be more), and ten pounds of flower of
sulphur. This should DO used at a
temperature of 100 degrees, and will
leave the wool in healthy condition,
while killing every sort of parasite.
Where tobacco is used, care should bo
taken to keep the wash out of the
eyes, nostrils and mouth of the sheep.
To insure success, dip again within ten
days or two weeks, so as to catch the
larvae which may have Matched OUT
American Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
POISONING THE cuTwoRMs.

We notice in one of our aericul.
tural contemporaries statement to
the effect that "a prominent entomol
ogist fortunately name not givenl
proposes placing tablespoonful oi
sweetened bran mash containing poi.
son by the side of each hill of corn
for the purpose of poisoning cutworms.
We doubt very much if any promi.
nent or other entomologist has or could
be induced to recommend such an ab-
surd thing, because all of the dozen or
more species of the cutworm feed en-
tirely on green and succulent plants,
and would be no more inclined to eat
bran mash than smoke cigarette. A
man who should set out such a tempt
ing poisoned dish for wild birds and
domestic fowls might find himself
amenable to laws enacted for the ex.
press purpose of preventing stupid and
vicious persons from placing poisons
in exposed positions on their grounds
or elsewhere. New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-09-18
AllOiing Indian Ian Is.

II. w. Patton, alloting agent, an
Cave j. Couts, chief engineer, are en-
gagged at Santa Isabel in alloting to
the Indians the lands of that reserva.
tion. There are 126 Indians at Mesa
Grande and seventy-fve at Santa
Isabel, and the lands comprise about
5000 acres in the valley. Heals OF
families are allowed maximum OF
twenty acres of arabic land, and sin,
gle persons over twenty-one are al.
lowed ten acres of arabic land aud 80 }
acres of grazing land. The balance is
kept in common for the whole reser.
walton, - San Francisco Chronicle.