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slice of veal in butter until well browned on both sides. Fill the frying pan with sliced onions. add two bay leaves. four pepper corns and enough boiling water to cover the meat. Cook lntil the meat is tender.
 Noodles and ham.-Butter a quart mold. sprinkle thickly with fine bread crumbs and line with cooked noodles which should be cold. Then put a .ayer of chopped ham. highly seasoned. layer of noodles until the dish is full. Cover with Q plate and bake one hour Turn out on a platter and serve with spinach or sauerkraut.
 Spieed Carrots-Cook until tender young carrots. sprinkle with four, powdered cloves. butter, lemon juice, reheat and serve with parsley as a garnish.
 Apples and Onions (Fiemish onions) Slice thinly green apples and onions. sprinkle with four and brown in butter. using equal quanti- ties Of apple and onion. Place in layers in a baking dish with buttered crumbs. season with lemon juice and finish the top with buttered crumbs. When the crumbs are brown the dish Is ready to serve.
 May Day cake.-Soften half a cup full of butter, add cupfui of sugar two-tbirds of a cup of milk alternately with two and a half cupfuls of flour which has been sifted, with two tea spoonfuls of baking power and haii 8 teaspoonful of salt. Fold in the whites of three eggs. Divide into three portions. Color one portion rose, and flavor with rose extract color one green and flavor with pis tachio. Bake in layers. putting the layers together with boiled icing tC which is added chopped raisins and nuts. Frost with white icing and dec crate with pink and green candies
 A quick dessert and one always liked is this-cut fine two or three kinds of fruit. serve in sherbet cups with little sugar sirup to sweeten
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MAKING MONEY IN
 PORK PRODUCTION
Quality Is More Important Than Size in Breeders-Avoid
 Elephantine Animal.

It is mighty hard work to correct sour lack of ability as a feeder by buying a coarseboned breeding boar.
 The best type of swine have been evolved from the experience of breed CTS and packers.
 Quality is more important than size in selecting the breeding stock.
 We are at the beginning of a pc riod' of enlightenment concerning the possibilities of hog farming.
 Heavy feeding does not always pro- duce proportionate gains.
 At five months of age. the pigs most valuable asset is about one hundred and twenty pounds of bone and muscu- lar development, aided and supported by keen and natural appetite.
 Avoid the elephantine hog or steer -they are freaks that cannot be re- lied upon to give a carcass of great value or weight.
 The liberty of pasture affords the growing pigs the exercise necessary to produce perfect health and body development.
 Get farm, young man, and raise good hogs
 It is a mistake to think we can find profit in buying milk feeds to supplement our corn crop, and neg lect to provide pasture and forage crops.
 Coarseness indicates low vitality. sluggishness and slow-feeding quail ties.
 The ideals Of the breeder and pack. CT are coming more and more toward one common standard. The demands of the packers are the reason for show-yard excellence.
 When farmers recognize the possi. bility of exclusive pork production as . specialized branch of animal indus. try, and evolve systems of farm man. agement adapted to the business. it will become attractive as a business proposition, and herds of well-bred hogs will become common in many To. calities where few good hogs are now seen.
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over the germ. due to separation or the cuticle from it's attachment Again, fl the whole area over the germ is deeply sunken, it indicates lack Of maturity and consequent excessive shrinkage. Failure of the grain to separate readily from the cob is ans other indication of lack of ripeness. A brown or pink discoloratioH about the germ or the attached end of the seed is very objectionable. as is also the presence of mold or rotten seeds.
 Again, upon the general shape Of the seed depends to some extent the quantity of grain produced.
 If the seed is very wide, contracts rapidly to its attachment. and is space is left between the kernels that might just as we'll be filled. The grains should fit snugly against each other at all sides. md a medium wedge-shape, with a small shoulder at each side above the attached tip best serves this purpose. As already stated in considering the germ. the seedsmust not taper too rapidly. other wise a vacant space will be left next the cob. and the taper should be alike on the two sides, the germ being in the nlddle- A very thin seed is to be avoided; it gives too little room for the germ, and generally denotes im- maturity.
 Tn a weil-ripened. well-cured ear. the seeds should not give way when the ear is given a slight twist with the hands. They should support each other firmly, and when shelled ought to come free from the cob. with no adherinx chan and with the tips en- tire.
 The general shape of an ear of corn may range widely with variety. Some should. according. to present stand ards. be cylindrical from butt nearly to tip. others should taper slowly. and still others more rapidly and decid- edIy. Yet 1t may be said that in work ing for high yield the best results are likely to be secured with the cylindri- caI ear. Ears which taper are likely to hear shallow seeds toward the tip ., the cob. and when shelled out give too small . total weight of grain. This may be said. think. in the face os the fact that the majority of rec oeuized varieties, and some of the very best, taper more or less. The t.ne, ear seems to me likely in the end to be displaced by its more shape ly competitor.
 The cob should neither be very .u.II nor excessively large. The for mer indicates lack Of visor. the latter cosrseness. and is generally developed
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BUCKWHEAT IS BEST
 GRAIN FOR POULTRY
Chickens and Turkeys Allowed to Harvest Crop -Trampling
 Down Does No Damage.
IBy A. J. LEGG.)

Buckwheat is the best grain crop that We have ever tried to furnish a foraging ground for poultry.
 I SOW late in July and allow the chickens and turkeys to harvest it. They are all the better for the exer- else and the only cost is for the seed and work of preparing the soil and sowing it.
 Late in last July l sowed about one acre where the chickens and turkeys could have free access. They began to work on it as soon as the grains were filled and were at work on it for nearly two months.
 If it is trampled down on the ground the grains will not damage unless it is warm enough to sprout them. Buck wheat will lie on the ground all win ter and grow in the spring
 A buckwheat stubble makes an ex- cellent feeding ground for poultry dur ing pleasant days throughout the fall and winter season and the poultry en- joy the exercise
 Our hens. outlets and Seotemher matched chicks are all in fine condi- tion. largely due to the ouckwheat to which they have free access.
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half cupful of rice. cover with cold water, and let stand over night. Drain and add slowly three pints of boiling water; cook until soft throughout. Take a cupful of the drained rice, add a cupful of pecan nuts. finely chopped, one cupful of cracker crumbs, one cupful of milk and one egg slightly beaten, one and half teaspoonfuls of salt and few dashes of pepper. Turn into a small but tered bread pan, smooth and spread with a tablespoonful of melted butter. Bake in a moderate oven one hour. Remove to . hot platter and surround with white sauce and carrot umbales. For the sauce use two tablespoonfuls each of flour and butter and a cupful of thin cream. When the butter Is melted and bubbling hot add the flour, and when well mixed add the cream Cook until smooth. Season with salt and pepper
 Pea Roast.-Take three cupfuls of dry bread that has been rolled and put through a sieve. Drain a can of peas and rinse well with cold water. Put in a saucepan and cover with cold water; bring to the boiling point and boil three minutes. Drain and force through a sieve fthere should be a half cupful of pulpl. Mix the crumbs and pulp. add fourth of a cupful of chopped walnut meats. one egg slightly beaten. one tablespoonful of sugar. salt, pepper. fourth of cupful of melted butter and three-fourths of . cupful of milk. When well blended turn into a parafin lined bread pan. cover with buttered paper and bake forty minutes in a slow oven. Serve with tomato sauce if so desired.
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then sliced cucumbers, sprinkled with a bit of chopped onion and pepper Cover with French dressing made of four tablespoonfuls of olive oil. one of vinegar and salt, and paprika to taste.
 Spanish Rice and Cheese.-Cook a half cupful of rice in a quart of boil ing water. drain and dash on cold wa ter so that each grain stands out full and white. Put into bowl glass Of currant jelly. pour over it cupful of boiling water and stir rapidly until the jelly is dissolved Pour over the rice and cook twenty minutes. Then take from the fire. add two cupfuls of walnuts, chopped fine, one-half cupful of grated cheese, one-half cupful of cream, whipped. Arrange lettuce leaves for individual salad dishes. Put two heaping tablespoonfuls of the rice on each. and garnish with table spoonful of whipped cream.
 Salmon Saiad.-Take a can of sal mon. add equal measures of chopped celery. a few olives finely minced and sour pickle also chopped. a haA cupful of freshly grated cocoanut ant serve on lettuce with a plain boiled dressing which has been made rich by the addition of whipped cream.
 Quick Graham Bread.-Beat togeth' CT one egg and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and a cupful of sweet milk in which a teaspoonful of soda Is dis solved. Melt a tablespoonful of butter and add one-half cupful of sifted flour and two teaspoonfuls of cream of tar tar Sift and add one and half cup fuls of graham four Beat well and bake in single loaf bread pan. This is best eaten warm.
 Water cress often, with no dressing but salt, makes delicious and espe cially wholesome spring salad.
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and lessen labor involved in rcplant. ing.
 Samples are sometimes seen at corn shows with scattered grlins differing markedly in thickness and width from the others. They are objectionable, both because such seed does not plant well, and because it shows cross pol ienization with other varieties Pre- mlums can be given to such samples only when the competin. samples present more serious defects, such as traces of the mold causing sickness in stock. decayed kernels and imperfect development of germs.
 separate seed plot for each farm CT. where his best ears can be plant ed and the plants kept from contain nation. or a strip from his choice seed planted through the middle of a large planting of the same variety. have both been suggested as means of keeping seed corn from the pollen of undesirable corn grown in the neigh. borhood- This matter is an impor- tant one.
 When one has selected the variety best answering his purpose, his work is only begun. He should not rest satisfied as long as anyone has a bet ter strain of the variety. When he gets crop from it, the very best ears should be selected for seed from the very best plants, and these ears ought to be thoroughly cured before severe freezing weather arrives, either by placing on shelves or suspending by wire in an attic or other dry place. or else by the careful use of artificial heat A common practice among those who handle large quantities of seed is 10 cure on narrow shelves. the ears being placed in single layer. or at any rate not in very deep layers, so that the air may circulate freely about each one.
 A well-maturej corn so preserved germinates better than corn kept in a crib. or in a box. or bin. Good seed corn should germinate 99 per cent. and any ears not giving this per centage should be rejected The only way to determine whether or not it Is up to this standard is by testing each ear in the spring before planting time. and it is customary among those who have taken up the task of improving seed corn to construct shallow trays, three or four inches deep. and. mark ing of a piece of Canton flannel in tTo-inch squares, place it in the bot tom, or on a layer of moist sand. and with each square numbered to core spond with an ear, take out a half dozen kernels from each and place them in the corresponding square. Then another piece of moist flannel is placed over them. and. covering with a lid or piece of glass to preserve the moisture. the tray is set in a warm | place. If kept in a room where the temperature ranges from 70 to 80 de | grees Fahrenheit for five days. the | kernels in some squares may be found to have germinated feebly. unevenly or not at all, while in others they will have germinated well. showing | that the seeds of the ear they came | from are of strong vitality. The ears | so terminating are the ones to save
 They greatly increase the prospects of a perfect stand and more vigorous
 subsequent growth.
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standing his protest that he was out of work and hungry and killed the rabbit for food only.
 The prisoner was Jasper Svarka. twentyfour years of age. a former farm hand who had been out of work for some time. Svarka saw a rabbit near Short EilIs and he hurled a stone at it. His aim was good and he killed the rabbit. He picked it up and was carrying it under his arm when Spe- cial Game Warden Charles Meyers es- pied him. Svarka admitted that he had killed the rabbit. anc be also admitted
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Nu. NlAt~s ~saQ
Fern Was Peeved.

According to an eminent botanist, plants are SO sensitive that they re sent neglect and are susceptible to kind treatment, showing their grati- tude in charming ways. We are there fore the more ready to believe . story told us a day or two ago by a lover of nature. He was watering a fern on a cold morning. He forgot to tenn per the water. The fern, incensed by the shock. leaped from the pot and bit him savagely in the leg Philip Hale. in Boston Herald.
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dish and season with a dash of cay enne pepper. Pour over the cauliflow- CT a sauce prepared as follows: Melt a half cupful of butter, add two table spoonfuls of four and two teaspoon fuls of curry powder. Cook together until well blended. stir in a curtul of hot milk and a shaving of onion, add ing salt to season. Mushrooms are delicious served with curry in the sauce.
 MuIIiaatawny-Fry a minced onion till brown in half a cupful of butter. with a chopped green pepper and a few chilies and a clove of garlic. Add any bits of cold fowl cut in dice and half a cupful of cold minced lamb or add half a cupful of boiled rice. one tablespoonful of curry powder. a chopped green apple. half a cupful of finely sliced egg plant or squash or other vegetable, and equal amounts of green peas or beans cooked. Cover with a pint of chicken gravy and sea- son well. Serve hot
 curried Esss-Mince a green apple ard fry with an onion in little but ter until brown. Stir in three tea spoonfuls of curry powder, add half a dozen pounded brazil nuts or al monds. Mix a teaspoonful of four with a cupful of seasoned stock. add to the curry and simmer ten minutes. Have ready six hard cooked eggs cut in halves; add them carefully to the sauce and let stand to get we'll heated. Serve with crisp crackers or toast well buttered.
 Curry and rice is such a standard dish tha. it hardly needs to be men toned. Cocoanut and curry with a
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filled butts and with exposed tips of cobs should be rejected.
 In the best-bred corns grown in the southern states the rows range from l6 to 24. the number present being always even in any normally developed ear. In flint corns grown in the northeastern states the num- Der may be reduced to eight or ten rows.
 Before we can make progress in improving corn. We must select an
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knowing that this is the closed sea son."
 The game warden arraigned Svarka before Justice Lane at Far Hills. who. when the circumstances were ex- plained to him, imposed fine of S22.. 35. Svarka said he did not have any money to pay the fine and he was sent to jail for 90 days in default-Somer. vile tN. JD Dispatch to New York Sun.
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CBy JAMES G. FULLER. Wisconsin Ex-
 pertinent Station)
 Sow a patch of rape. It will furnish the growing pigs, with wealth of pal atable green feed. and if given a chance to come back" will produce crop after crop of excellent succu- lence.
 The most satisfactory method of growing this crop for swine is to pro vide three yards of about equal size and seed them three weeks apart with one and one-fourth bushels of oats and i've pounds of rape to the acre. The drst lot, of course. is generally sown
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Feared fo. Grandma.

Billy is fond of attending the pic ture shows with his grandma and he considers himself her chief protector. Che evening . large black bear was performing all sorts of antics in the picture, which Billy was enjoying i'm nensely until suddenly the bear turned towards the audience. Billy slipped down from his seat. and. taking hold of his grandma's hand, said: "Tum an, danma, let's do home l don't like the looks of dat bear change
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by the planter each time. With biz seeds and little ones. wedge-shaped and broad-oval. mixed in the trough of the planter. the number dropped has been found to range wider, with a costly percentage of hills lacking sufficient number. and some without any at all. Uniformity of the seed thus, besides denoting high quality. tends to increase the stand and yield
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AtsSu tue ldllueT can oes,ow upon it. Perfection of form .ho size. straightness of rows. uni .ormity In size of kernels, and a high peentase of grain to cob may all be presented by an ear of corn that is us'eriy valueless. when the essential cred.
 one of the first points a judge
 uooia give attention to is the seed Nonoition of samples. Is the germ s0uhd and win 1t produce a good p.ant A examination test is the best means Of settling these questions, but anioHunately cannot be employed
 n-ie one Is judging corn shows. The plants.
 'ne germ Is slender and small. tue pant is likely to lack vitality. nm seeds tapering to their attach ment produce weak germs, and con seeuenty ears with such seeds must De discriminated against in scoring ehnioits- The seed should be deep. put It must also be of medium width ana thickness. for upon this depends tne size of the germ. and the amount or iood stored in the seed for the carry maintenance of the plant.
 Badly matured seeds sometimes present small blisterlike eminences
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By h. CARAVAN.

at the expense of the seed. A me dium-sized cob is always best
 There should be no vacant space at the tips of ears and rene at the butts. Good ears shown at, fairs sometimes have the tips completely and symmet- rically covered with seed. This should be the condition Of the majority of the ears produced by a variety. and in saving seed. ears with imperfectly
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top two sliced green pep D e r s. Season and add a pint of boiling wa ter. cover and bake two hours.
 V C a [ W IL h Onions.-Brown a
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HUNGRY, KILLS HARE, JAILED
I~,a Out of Job, Secures Food With Rock. But is Caught
 and Fined.

Another rabbit killing case which in
 -. ,.xpects rivals the famous Oscar s nu n,;,s arrest in North Piainneld. vas
 s.sore Justice Peter D. Lane at Far sR ss,,,~ and as the prisoner had not the money to pay his fine be was sent 70 .ss county jail for 90 days. notwitn-
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m our WdIhttS IlH! Ut bought various combi- nations called curry powder which suit diff ferent tastes. Those put up by reliable firms are satisfactory.
 Curried Caulifiower.- Have ready a we'll cooked, seasoned cauli- flower. Place it on a
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Carrots With Peas-- Cut carrots in three inch slices and cook un. til tender. Scoop out the center. leaving a well-shaped receptacle to hold the seasoned peas. Use these as a garnish around any loai or around pecan loaf.
 Pecan Loaf. - Take
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ideal and adhere to it. rigidly casting out anything and everything that does not comply with our standard.
 Uniformity in shape and size of seed is especially important, and no one feature tells more unmistakably the care sample has had in the way of selection and breeding. Seeds pro
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If there were no such thing as dis play in the world we might get on great deal better than we do. and might be infinitely more agreeable company than we are.
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SOME DISHES OF CURRY.

Curry is made up of various spices; the word itself means bazaar stuff. !"
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with a garnish or
 red pepI CT. cut in
 strips. Rub the salad bowl with the cut side of a clove of garlic. ar range the crisp leaves of lettuce. well dried in 1t.
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Athens and Piraeus may soon bs connected by taxicab service.
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SPRiNGTiME DISHES.

A most crisp and refreshing sala is that of head lettuce and cucumber
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OLD ECONOMICAL DISHES.

Take a slice of round steak, cover with a layer of sliced potatoes. layer
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He who Is not conscious of pleasure when he eats is not worthy to sit at table with the elect
 For the masses in all lands the usual diet Is still mainly of foods locally and inexpensiyely produced.
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good dash of cayenne is a favorite combination. Rice should be cooked so tender that it may be easily crushed between the fingers.
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TOOTHSOME DISHES.

For the vegetarian here are some good dishes to add to the list:
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Valuable Lessons From Corn Shows

GOOD seed must be the iosp iation of success in growing any crop. and the question Us to what consti- tates a sood seed may well receive all the thought and
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duced at the extreme tips and butts of ears of necessity differ somewhat in shape from those in the middle of the ear where each seed is restricted by its fellows. But the greater part of the length of an ear the size and shape should be so close that the same number of seeds will be dropped