Year: 1876

= WnoA = FARMER can so manage his
farm as to make "both ends Of the year
meet" even it be with the most rigid
economy, he should be ccntented with
his lot. II we take a survey Of the
business men of our villages and cit.
les, we find that only three or four in
hundred realize competence for old
age. Then ima0ing the unhappiness of
those who, sooner or later, fail to sup.
port themselves and families respecta-
:bly-and cares and anxieties that con.
stantly produce pangs and tortures that
no farmer ever felt: These men may
apparently lead pleasant lives, as the
outside world cannot witness the emo
tions OF q man who daily strains every
financial nerve to meet his notes fall
ing due at the bank. The time be.
tween one and three o'clock every day,
in the city Of New York, brings more
anxiety to the business men than all
farmers Of the United States realize in
a lifetime.


No, farmers, your lot is not hard
one. Your food may be plain and the
cuts of your coats may not be as fash
ionable as those Of the merchants of
the day but when you lie upon your
pillows your repose is sound and
sweet. The horrors of protested notes
seldom keep you awake at night and
in the morning as you go around to
feed your tlocks and view your crops
that have visiblygrown while you were
in the arms of Morpheus, you may take
more real enjoyment of life in one
hour than many city merchants and
manufacturers do in a year. Our ad.
vice therefore, is, be net discouraged.
The times may now be hard ; but you
are promised ''seed-time and harvest
to the end and, with hard labor and ju-
dicious management, you come out in
the end victorious.


Tho Common House Fly.


Professor Packard in summing up
the life history of the common house.
fly, says:


''1f in its winged condition it is one
Of the most disagreeable features of
the dog days, and people wonder why
flies were ever made at all, it should
be remembered that flies have an in.
fancy as maggots, and the loathsome
life they then lead clenses and purifes
the August air and lowers the DEATH
rate of our cities and towns. Thus
while stables and piggeries are tolerat-
ed by the city and town authorities,
the young Of the house fly and the flesh
and blow flies, with their thousand
allies, are doing something toward pu.
rifying the pestilential air and avert.
ing the summer brood of cholera, dys-
entery, diphtheria, typhus and typhoid
fevers, which descend like harpies up.
on the devoted cities. 1t may be re-
garded as an axiom that where flies
most abound, there filth, death.dealing
and baneful is most abundant, and filth
diseases such as we have named most
do congregate.


1.-The life of the house fly may he
summed up as follows: 1t lives one
day in the egg state from five days to
a week as a maggot; from five to seven
days in the pupa state--in all from ten
to fourteen days in the month of Au-
gust--before the winged, adult period.
It is often asked how long lived a fly
is. Most of the flies which are born
in August live for a month or six
weeks, and die at the coming of frost,
either of cold or from the attacks of
fungoid plants. A few, probably win
ter over and thus MAINTAIN the exist
ence of this useful species, to which
civalized man owes more than he can
readily estimate, and with which he
can dispense only when the health of
cities and towns is looked after with
far greater vigilance and intelligence
than is likely, perhaps, to be the case
for several centuries to come.


Apple Dumpliuxs.


For boiled dumplings, make a paste
of q pound of beef suet, chopped as
fine as possible, to two pounds Of sift.
ed flour two teaspoonfuls of salt, and
wetted with as little ice-cold water
as possible. For baked dumplings the
paste should be made OF -four, two
pounds, one teas poonful of salt, one.
half pound lard, wetted with very lit
tie ice-water then rolled out in a
rather thin sheet, and spread over
with one-half pound butter; then