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 ^pp ^1 'Wmmw^W^'^^W^If!^^""'ff^^WT'^lW"""9 mm m • 'f If |- Ns â- â-  HOUSEHOLD. The !rhe greatest uWmjiiiipMiJI% » next to a sink tiJiwide^ ^ijK lt miming water, •* Md-fflHone -with its wide, CTipadyns ibJNfea «!»««!, «bd its pot and kettle ^6aets'1»|i(^w. JtaMing in foil light againat the wall, it has no dark cvners for khe harboring of unseen accomn- lations, and fnmiahed with its great, tall, wide glazed doora, it most of necessity be neatly kept, or at once expose the carelees- ness of its owner, or her deputed helper. And apleasing sight, too, is a wdlhept dres- ser, with its rows of shining china and glass flearaiog through the clear panes of its great oors. And tius brings me to the expression udl kept, so I hasten to explain what that means. \\«U kept means carefully and cleanly kept, and not only that, but carefully and con- Tcniently arranged. In the kitchen dresser will be the china or semi-pcarcelain for every- day use, also the glass goblets, tumblers and dies accompajiying them, also the meat^ toven. platters and the vegetable dibhes belonging to the every-day set, the tea set, with its be- longings, and the knife-and-spoon basket, crumb-tray and brush. A well-devised dresser generally has three wide shelves, furnished near the back with a moulding of wood to prevent large meat dishes from slipping down, and to keep them in a standing position, and shelf space af- forded by the top of its lower division. It has also three compartments at the battom or lower part, witn a wide drawer above each, 'n the middle lower compartment should be placed the household dimicr pots on either side, in the other compartments, the kettles, saucepans, griddles, broilers, etc. In the three drawers may be kept many arti- cles, such as, in one drawer, clean kitchen towels and dish-cloths in the second, the table-cloths neatly folded in the third, the napkins, doyleys, and napkin rings, and per- haps the best carving knife, fork and steel. On the shelf -space, or room afforded by the top of the lower part, it will be found very convenient to arrange certain articles, for example, the coffee and tea cannisters, the cocoa or chocolate box, and the tea, coffee, and chocolate pots, bright as polishing can make them, ranged in front of the cannisters. On this shelf-space, the knife and spoon basket or box of plaited willow, the knives in one side and the silver or plated ware in the other next to this the caster, with its mustard, vinegar, oil and pepper cruets, all neatly kept and sparklingly bright also in- dividual "salts," "oils, and "vinegars," and lastly, the crumb brush and tray, and the neatly-joined vooden table-mats, also fresh and clean. Above, on the next shelf, ranged in front of the meat dishes of graduated sizes, should be the dinner and soup and dessert plates, also the vegetable dishes and above this the every-day tea set and the daily glass. There should be a fixed place for each pile of plates and saucers, also for the cups, and the glass and vegetable dishes, so that there will be no confusion, and hence less liability to breakage. Make your rules and see that they are en- forced, so that any dish may be found at the moment wanted, and always found brightly polished. The kitchen dresser, by its capability for being attractive, offers an inducement to and a reward for neatness not attached to the ordinary closet. By all means encourage the kitchen dresser. iiittle Helpers. Mothers,'do you ever realize, how much help our little four-year-old girls are Mine is a perfect treasure and I often wonder what could I do without her If I would permit it she would be at work all the time. She seems to think if she is only helping mamma, she could not be happier no difference how disagreeable, or hard the task to her unaccus- tomed fingers, it mamma will only say " You are a dear, good littJe girl," she feels amply rewarded. Her little hands can do 80 many things, such as picking up things and putting them away, so that it is no trouble to sweep, and on a few occasions has sioept the sitting-room â€" to use her own words â€" " Oh, so bright and clean " Going to the cellar or pantry/ for needed articles, paring apples, potatoes and turnips, in a surprising manner a task she roill do, and one which most people do not particularly like but she evidently thinks it the nicest work in the world. Setting the table as nicely as any one can do but I will not al- low her to wash or wipe dishes yet, though she often begs to do so dishes, when wet, are slippery things to hold, and if broken would cause one to feel vexed in spite of themselves. She almost always pjits them in the cupboard sometimes (oidy when she teases, however,) she scours knives and forks helps chum, brings in chips, and when brother wheels a load of wood to the door, brings it in as it is needed feeds the chickens, waits on little brother, and â€" oh, I will stop or you will think that^hild must certainly do all the work. No, of course she does not do any very hard work. I have a dreadful time to keep her from trying to do everything. She is large of her age and very active but I would never think of put- ting her to work, if she could only stay away and play contentedly. She wtches how everything is done, " so I can do it just as yon do, mamma," and is constantly lament- ing because she does not grow faster and when she plays, the wildest, roughest. play suits her best, or play that is most like work such as playing she has a large wash- ing to do, or must clean house. She loves to dust if I will tie a soft cloth on a stick and let her use that for a duster, she will keep the furniture and zinc shining, and all such places as under clothes-presses and lit- tle nooks and comers, where one cannot sweep with a broom, Nellie, with her "poke stick," will keep out everything in the shape of dirt. Dear little hands so willing and helpful Do we appreciate them as we should I often look at them and kiss the dimpled fin- gers and think what tiny hands they are, to begin the fieht with this rough world but work is a blessing and nothing in life will bring us more reu pleasnre than being able to do our work, tohcUtver it is, well. (.one dmycmnnft wl in CHicKKir iSA^^.â€" SMI MM cMdca tim- der, and chop fine chop fine the whites of tw^ve hard-boiled egEs add equal quanti- ties of chopped celery and cabbage mash the yoUu fine odd two tablespoons but- ter, two of sugar, one teaspoon mustard pepper and salt to taste and lastly, one- half cup good cider vinegar pour over the salad and mix thoroughly. Nice Biscuits. â€" 1 quart of flour, 3 tea- spoonfuls of baking powder, a pinch of salt, three tablespomfuls lard or butter. Mix soft, roll out half an inch thick, spread witii butter and sugar, and sprinkle cinnamon over and acme nice English currants. In tiie summer berries are very nice used in this way. Roll up same as jelly cake, cut in strips 1^ thick, and bake in a quick Plain Biscuit. â€" Dissolve one rounded tablespoon of butter in a pint of hot milk when lukewarm stir in one quart of flour, add one beaten egg, a little salt and a tea- cup of yeast work the dough until smooth. If in winter set in a warm place, if in sum- mer a cool place, to rise. In the morning work softly, and roll out a half -inch thick, cut into biscuits and set to rise for thirty minutes, when they will be ready to bake. These are delicious. Ice Cream Cake.â€" 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 cup of corn- starch, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder, the whites of eight eggs. This makes four or five layers about an inch thick. For the icing to put between the layers the whites of three eggs, beaten stiff, one pound pulverized sugar. Boil the sugar with four tablespoonf uls of cold water until it candies. Four it into the whites slowly, beating until nearly done. Flavour with vanilla. Delicious Corn Bread. â€" 1 pint of com meal, 1 pint of flour, i cup shortening (half butter and same of lard) 2 eggs, 3 heaping teaspoons of baking powder, and cold water or sweet milk enough to make it very thin, just so it will drop nicely from the spoon. Bake it thin, so it will not be more than 1^ inches thick when done. Sour milk can be used in place of sweet milk with water, and soda in place of baking powder, but only one large teaspooaful of soda should be used, just enough to make your milk foam nicely; This is nice baked in gem pans for break- fast. What Molasses will do for a Sick Man- " I am going to open a molasses cure establishment," said a young man, who was recently laid up with a complication of troubles, and then explained that he was a firm believer in the magic virtues of molas- ses as a cure-all. He said that he had been studying up the subject and found that mo- lasses was recommended for all the diseases known to humanity. " First I sprained my wrist by falling from a bicycle, and before I got home three people told me to ,put brown paper and molasses on it. Kheuma- tism caught me by the knee before my wrist was well, and nine different people told me to use molasses on it. Molasses and opodel- doc was one remedy and another was mo- lasses, salt and vinegar. I caught a bad cold on my chest last week, and was told to try molasses and rum internally. The cold got worse, and when I proposed to try the effect of a mustard plaster I was told to mix the mustard with molasses so that it would not blister my cuticle. The first time I got out of the house I was walking up Broad street in company with a pronounced limp, and was asked what was the matter. I told two or three people that I had the rheuma- tism and learned that I ought to try molas- ses and camphor or salt and molasses. I got tired of these suggestions, and when the next man asked what aUed me, I answered that my corns troubled me. " Tell you what to do. Sure cure. Take a little piece of kid, daub it with molasses and stick it on the corn. ' I broke away from him and savagely told the next sympathetic, inquirer about my ailment that it was none of his business what was the matter with me. I stopped on the comer to rest, and while there heard a man telling a victim of malaria to take molasses and red pepper to break his chills. I am be- ginning to think that the molasses a«re should be developed. I understtind that the sticky stuff is a favorite remedy for every- thing out in the country, where they eat it on all sorts of things, and use it for all sorts of complaints. Up in Sussex you will find lots of people who eat molasses on salt pork, sweeten their tea and coffee with it, u^e it on lettuce and tomatoes, and drink it with vinegar and water in harvest time. I am be- ginning to think that half of my life has been wasted, for I never knew enough to use molasses on anything but buckwheat Original Beoeipts. Cookies. â€" ^Two eims Ei^;ar, one and one- third cups. of lard and butterj two-thirds of a cup of sour niilk, and two-^iirds of a tea- spoonfnl of sbda one ^rg and fionr to roll cat. Berwick Sposgb Cake.â€" Beat six eggs two minntes add three cnps of mgar, beat five minntes tWo capo of floor, with two teas p oomf n ls of baki^ powder, beat two auButes one ci^ of ecM. water, beat one Li a Ghangiiig World- Geologists have described Britun as swarm ing with a multitude of forms of gigantic reptiles, some of them 60 feet or more in length, during the reptilian age â€" the middle period in the earth's geological history, when mollnsks and reptiles attained their culmin- ation and declined, and when the first mam- mals of England at a later epoch â€" the middle of Quartemary â€" is ^ven by Owen " Gi- gantic elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Ceylon and Africa, roamed hwe in herds, if we may jn^^ from the abundance of their remains. Two-homed rhinoceroses, or at least two species forced their way throufh the ancient fiMrests, or wallowed in the swamps. The lakes and rivers were ten- anted by hippopotamuses, as burly and witii as formidable tusks as those of Africa. Three kinds of oxen found subsistence in the plains. There were also gigantic deer, wild horses and boars, a wild cat, lynx, leopard, a British tiger larger than that of Bengal, and another and even more terrible cami- verous monster with sabra' shaped canii.es eight inches long. Troops irf hyenas prqr^d upon carcasMB and feebler qnadrapedi; There was a aava^ bear lai^er .than the Biocky Montain gnzzly, a gigantic beaver, wolves, and various smaller animals, dbwn t bate, moles, rats and mice." Old Friends. It does old friends good to meet now and then, for they have a pleasure in it that ihej could haurdly have guessed beforehand, and they tighten up the threads of kindli- ness that for any reason had begun to slack- en. In these days of active, busy life, the friendships are not forgotten but they are apt to lose their freshness, simply for want of renewals by handshaking and kindly words. It is possible that a correspondence is kept up for years, even a lifetime, by a few, but how many of us know of such a thing Usually, there is regular exchange of letters for a time, then an occasional neglect, followed by contrition and vows to do better, and then a total lapse from fidel- ity, and frantic attempts to justify it on the ground o' "business" and the "exactions of a large family." The friendly feeling re- mains in such conditions, dulled, of course, as it must be, and with only a hasty thought of the one who uded to be alwavs in mind, and whose companionship in some form seemed to be necesiary to happiness. It prevents this degeneracy of feeling to meet, see each other face to face, and quicken all the sensibilities by exchanges that shall be made vital by the aid of voice, tones, laughter, the eyes, and probably tears and the touch ef the hand, which, though it is so much alike all the world over, has an in- dividuality in it that is quick and keen as a spiiitnal interpreter. If we show ourselves human and true we will gather new friends wherever we are and value and use them â€" even set them up against all others as ex- amples of kindness and congeniality â€" but there is something in the- greeting again after many years of the friends of youth that, like the atmosphere of the early ho Ae, has nothing like it Happy are they whose friends remain to them. It becomes very lonely when the roll of school and colleg days is called and there are only a few, far- off voices to answer. Tunied Abdfnifc ' "Wooiien.ve anreasimahle creatores," Qhsenred Broiin; ar he (ird«r«d another round for the boys. "Now, there's my wife. Before we were married, when 1 went to see her she always thought it waa toe early for me to go home, and now I cant go hrnne early enoagh to rait her." A Fortonatd fisoape. Lamartine the French poet was once visit- ed by a deputation of " Vesuviennes," furi- ous female Bupublicani of the petroleuse type. The captain was the spokeswoman. She told him that the " Vesuviennes " had come to tell him how much they loved him. "There are fifty of us here," she added, " and our mission is, in the name of all the others, to kiss yon." This announcement made the poet shudder. The captain of the gang was tolerably goe4-looking, but the others were ahorrible-lotking, half -drunken and half -crazy set of viragoes. He was equal to the emergency. Citisens," said he, " I thank you from the bo^m of my heart. This is certainly the haipiest day of my life; but permit me to say thit splendid patriots like yon cannot betreatol like women. Yon moat be regarded as me i and, since men do not kiss one another we must content onraelvea yriih a hearty. and-shakin((." The ladies considered them slves highly com- pBmented. " Vive Lanu -tine P' wey shout- ed, and each grasped hh latiid. When tiiey wwe gone, ha looked li ifrji man who 'm Qst escaped from a deai y peril. ngEFUL AWSUOGESTIVE. steeped I a nhttioB of ooppMit harder uic more indeslruotiblAp remedy f â-  bonu, and^igat^jtthaC is at hand,|ia paste ma^ol Aott water. Wet the hands h yinc^gar and oamphor •ftarteviqe them ii soapy water jit kills alkali and keeps thim ao^ When cleaning astove if a small quantity of sugar is pnt into the stove-blacking it will not born off w quickly. Women while setfinsBhonld never cut the tiuread with their teeth, as by ao doing they injure the enamel, ipd in a uttle while the t^th decay. Ordinary c .rriag« varnish is a good ce- ment for broken ciina, and if the pieces are joined neatly, She fracture will hardly be perceptible. It is claimed than holding a shovelful of hot coals over varnished furniture will take out spots and stains. Bub the place while warm with fianneL If your fence is too old for padnt to stick on it, a solution of water, glue and lime will form a syndicate that will make it as white as the new fallen snow. Brick made of a mixture of coke, sand and Ume, for light partition walls, excludes sound better than brick-work, and is light and a non-conductor of heat. For cleaning brasses belonging to mahog^ any furniture, use either powdered whiting or scraped rotten-stone, mixed with sweet oil, and rub on with a chamois skin. To clean tins, making them almost as nice as new, wash in hot soap 'suds, dip a dampened cloth in fine, sifted coal ashes, scour well, thenpolish with dry ashes. To remove paint and putty from window- glass put sufficient saleratus into hot water to make a stron? solution, and with this saturate the paint or putty which adheres to the glass. Let it remain until nearly dry, then rub off with a woolen cloth. Never be alarmed if a living insect enters the ear. Pouring warm water into the canal will drown it, when it will generally come to the surface and can be easily removed by the fingers. A few puffs of tobacco smoke blown into the ear will stupify the instsct. To mend china Into a solution of gum arable stir plaster of paris until the mixture assumes the consistency of cream. Apply with the brush to the broken edges of china and join together. In three days the article cannot be broken in the same places The whiteness of the cement adds to its value. A Mixture to Erase Spots.â€" Equal parts of strong ammonia water, ether and alcohol form a valuable cleaning compound. Pass a piece of blotting paper under the grease spot, moisten a sponge first with water, to render it " greedy, then with the mixture, and rub with it the spot. In a moment it will be dis- solved, saponified and absorbed by the sponge and blotter. Gear Teeth. â€" Gear teeth, says Wood and Iron, generally have one corner broken off first, after which they rapidly go to pieces This may be avoided and the teeth made much stronger, by thinning down the edges with a file, thereby bringing the whole strain along the centre of the tooth. Gear teeth fixed this way will not beak unless the strain is sufficient to break off the whole tooth. TwoSidMtoIi n Striker (conung hjijp a^ll^m.) Bid- pnt i3'«n. *^ P ' •*"^- '" K"f f i FockeflBic an tomiA. " A small physique at times is a ^reat disadvantege to a man," he said. " Recent- ly I was grossly insulted by a great big duffer, and I could only pocket the insult.^ " In what way did he insolt yon J" "He offered me a bribe. " Mc to McGoiimees Foots the Bill. Mrs. Flahertyâ€" " Phwat's this, Mrs. Guinness? Ye're but jist married to a sicond husband and it's comin' out in a new mourning dries ye are " Mrs. McGninness â€" "Oi alwiz mi it to wear moumin' for poor Mike, but Oi niver had the money till now. McGninness is well fixed, praise the saints 1" The Moral He Drew. Sunday school Teacher â€" " Who were the children of Israel?" PupUsâ€" "Jews." " What did Joseph's brethren do wi|h him " " Sold him into bondage." "What moral do yon draw from this lesson " " Look out for Sheenies if you don't want to be sold." Getting Even- " My neighbor has thrown her dead cat over in my yard ?*' announced a female call- er at police headquarters the other day. " Yes'm." " Can you do anything " " No, ma'am, I'm afraid not." " Well, I cam I've got a dog four times as big as her cat, and I'll poison him and| throw the body into her yard this very night â€" so there I" She Found Out- "Do you like a mustache?" he asked, as he sat beside her gazing on the rising moon; "I ask because there are young ladies who say they are horrid." "I don't know," she replied innocently, " whether I like one or not. I never had one on my lip." ' Oh," he exclaimed, with a long-drawn breath then he drew her closer, and there was a sound as if a bird had chirped. Had a Few. A lawyer who was consulted by a young woman from the country in regard to a breach-of -promise case asked her if she had any letters to put in evidence. " Why, yes, 1 believe I have," she replied. She was told to send them in that he might look them over, and in a day or two he got a package on which was written " I can't find but these fourteen hundred just now, but will hunt np the balance week." this His Last Hope- To say that he was hard up would but faintly convey the state of impecuniosity to which he was reduced, and he was seriously considering the advisability of retiring to the nearest country poorhouse, when he suddenly remembered about five dollars that was owing to him, and off he rushed to try his luck at the debt-collecting business. "All right," growled the indebted one. " You don't suppose I am going to run away from my creditors, do you " " I don't suppose you are. But I am." And that brought him half a dollar on ac- count. The Way to Say It. " Which am de properest way to suppress oneself Does yer say ' We eated at the table, or ' We has dun ate at de teble ' " asked one Toronto darkey of another, they being engaged in a grammatical discussion. As they could not agree the question was referred to Uncle Hose for bis decision, which vas " In de case ob you two niggahs none ob you am right." " What am de proper way to say ' We eated at de table,' Uncle Mose V" " De properest way for sich cattle as you two am • We fed at de trof t. ' " She Becognized the Symptoms- "Mary," he murmured fondly, "did you ever feel a restless fluttering of the heart be- cause some one was absent a sort of vacant longing which needed the dear presence of some loved personality to dispel it " " I have, Augustus, I have." " Did you ever feel as if the absence of some one individual from this earth would make it uninhabitable to you â€" ^would leave it a void through which yon must wander aimlessly and alone " " Why, yes, Augustus. I felt just that waj' when some cruel, wicked person went and stole my darling little pug." And Augustus gave it up in despair. The Meanest Ensband in the World. ' I think I've got rather the meanest husband in the world," exclaimed a little woman on a car the other day. Her friend asked her to explain, and she continued "I found that he was smoking fifty cents' I worth of cigars per day, and I got him to agree to give me as much pin-money per week as the cigars cost. He stuck to it one In ]^onghing a^ plai ii^~a quarter TmmTdL, tion at laM near Betiuu ' kiUed 160 rattleanakes, |(Hne fdlowi. ' -ajti-.i-j:;'.,. sec- two farmers of them big "And then what?"' " He bought him a clay pipe and a pound of ten cent smoking tobacco, and my income is cut down to two cento a week." Toronto. PABM. •^A getod mM farmers hive L ii^ I wSl ia itot fnib Ht^t W pi«'i!k» â- Sred.;: Thi» «s a very\e%Sig'*« «» KjB.«»mble^(od can come from soS?^ I fcvt Twy seno^ harm. After you tS* **. the cream and the water, the mo»ttt ' I mains is caseine and sugar of milk t " are valuable. But when you sonr 't change ihe sugar of milk inti lacti ^^ and lose nearly half the entire valne o'f " aiilk. Feed milk sweet to calves r-^ °* I Never let it sour if you can help L^ will you throw away half its value " llie Farmer a (Irish) Gazette gives the I â-  ' lowing different ways of trealbg w horses, which are recommended for w I First, pat the horse on the neck him carefully, first cue side, then the if you can get him a handful of .grag. T?"' it to him, and speak encouragingly^ K Then jump into the wagon, and give I word worn go, ana ne will generally ol». Second, taking the horse out of the ghnfh 1 and turning him around in a circle omS is giddy, will generally start him. Third asother way to cure a balky horse b I your hand over his nose and shut off^ I wind until he wants to go. Fonrth, then. again, take a couple of turns of stout twS aronnd the fore legs, just below the bet, tight enough for the horse to feel it tie u l a bow knot. At the first click he willprc. bably go dancing off. After going a short distance you can get out and remove the string to prevent injury to the tendoia Fifth, agam, you can try the followiM Take the tail of the horse between the hind legs, and tie it by a cord to the sadiJlt girth. Sixth, the last remedy I know, it at follows: Tie a string around the hone' ear, close to head. This will divert Mi attention, and start him. Poultry Notes. The farmer who keeps a flock of twenty- five to thirty hens, with the usual accom- paniment of a hundred or more lively chiskB, and allows them to share his domain in I common with himself, his other stock and farm utensils, finds perplexity and most abominable company at every turn. The hen at large, in her multiplied form, i: worse than an army of locusts, and her following as offensive as a pestilence. An experienced poultryman thinks the essential cause of failure in so many of the attempts to keep fowls in large numben is due to a lack of care. A farmer will rise st ' four o'clock in the morning to feed and milk his cows, wilt carefully clean out the I stalls and prepare the beds for the cows, and his work does not end till late but he wiE not do so much work for the hens. Yet the hens will pay, when properly cared for, five times as much profit, in proportion to labor and capital invested, as the cows. If young chicks and turkeys appear I stupid and ailing examine them for lice. I A little grease put on top of the head under the wings will generally prove effics- 1 cious. Treat the mother in like manner. Fumigate the hen house by burning sulphur therein, making the htuse as close as possi- ble for a few hours. Also wash every part I with kerosene, or whitewash with caustic lune at least twice a year, ajad give the fowii plenty of dust or dry ashes, and there vill be no trouble from lice. The only sure way to clean out a nest I should the contents become soiled, is to carry the box outeide, bum the hay, then dip a sponge in kerosene and applja lighted mateh to the box, first rubbing it over with the sponge. The oil will bam for a few moments over the box and then cease, If there are any lice they will have but i poor chance. If an e£;g is broken in the nest the result is usually lice, unless tie nest is at once cleaned, and the best mode is to begin anew with the box very clean and fresh cut hay put in. A correspondent of the London Journal of Horticultural says, in reference to the question of sex in eggs Last winter an old poultry keeper told me he could distinguish the sex in eggs. I laughed at him, andwM none the less skeptical when he told me the following secret Eggs with the air bladder on the centre of the crown of the egg will produce cockerels those with the bladder one side will produce pullets. The old man was so certain of the truth of this dogiMi and his poultry yard so far confirmed it, that I determined to make experiments upon it this year. I have done so, register- ing the egg bladder vertical, or bladder on one side, rejected all in which it waa notcne or the other, as in some it is cnly very slight- ly out of the center. The lollowing is we result Fifty-eight chickens were hatched, three are dead, eleven are yet too young'" decide upon their sex of tho remauu^ forty four, every one has turned out true to the old man's theory. This of course, may be an accidental concidence, but I certainly try the experiment again. shali Dairy Notes. •tides Butter shrinks as well as other and such is often the cause of errors in r*' ports of sales when butter is shipped loM distances and remains unsold for seve weeks. man. T. Cabsi^ey. I Too Much Enthusiasm- "Teadung, to me," said an enthusiastic onng school ma'am, "is a holy calling. ?o sow in the young mind the seeds of future knowledge and watoh tiiem as they f-ow and develop is a pleasure greater than can UXL I never weary: o£. Ay work. I think only ofâ€": â€" " " I am very sorry," inieirrnpied the young man to whom she was talki%, H that you are so devoted to your prefvMiQQ, itiâ€" C^Harm I bftd hoped tiiat some day I might aik yoti^i face I califtd tbiiwlit to^bot I hardly dare go on, in tiie MA\ iO{ 'wHilb you " " "Ton may go on, Mr.Smitiiu' aid the youni; lady, softly. "Tma Httto too en- ttaasiaabc at timM, perhapa." There is no time, says a wise waste with kicking cows. If you have o^ just pnt a hame-strap in her mouth m buckle it tightly behind her horns, ^o^" it off when done milking, of course. It is always best to milk rapidly, so as » get the mUk out of the stable as soon » possible, in order to prevent the absoipn of gases by the milk, as the cooler it comes the more readily the milk is atteciw by odors. An Iowa Agricultural College buUe^ makes the following classifications oi reUtive values of foods as mUk prodacei»^ Potatoes, per 100 pounds jq Com, per 100 pounds 50 Timothy, per 100 pounds 55 Barley, per 100 pounds jo Oats, per 100 pounds a, Wheat, per 100 pounds ' Wheat Iran, per 100 pounds. Clover hay, per 100 pounds j ijj Oil meal, per 100 pounds ' ' j^. A great many people are under tW^ pression that in feeding ground i^^ 8to it n- better to make it in to » "° W hi. V* • A 70 the animal can drink. Prof. .Mtmc art *QiJy says " The saliva w.afTV ant 8090^7 in the digestion " ^^f^^- saUvals caused to flow by the act oinj^ ;, cation. When sloppy food is piven tn 5, no mastication. 'This sloppy food, lo deprived of the usual propor**"" ' ^. and must depend wholly upon Q.tier -» dea of digection." MiHi mmm^ ^jMajam^:,