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Oh, he that gets a good, good wife,
Gets gold enough and to spare:
And he that gets an ill, ill wife,
Much may make and may still be bare.
For a man must ask of a wife he weds,
“Can I be rich? May I be great?"
And he that mates with an evil wife,
He mates with an evil fate.

For a man may spend, and have to the end,
if his wife on his fortune wait,

He may give to the poor and help a friend,
And may still grow rich and great.

But a man may spare and still be bare,
He may toil through smooth and rough,

If his wife he naught, ill—luck is caught,
He never will have enough.

0h 3 man that gets a good, good wife,
Has pleasure enough and to spare;
Outside, his life may be full of strife,
May be full of trouble and care.
But his heart can sing—“ At home I‘m king,
At home there is pleasure and rest,
I’ve a wife to hide at my own ﬁreside,
. And her love, of all loves, is best."

But a man who gets an ill, ill wife,
Gets trouble of every kind;

He’s a weary part. and a hopeless heart,
And prosperity’s hard to ﬁnd,

There’s a bitter drop in his sweetest cup, '
in his joy there is great pain,

And through all his strife for a broader life,
He works like a man in a chain.

Don’t marry for beauty, don’t marry for gold,
And on nobody else depend;
For your own life you choose a wife,
And for your own home, a friend.
And he that gets a good, good wife,
May easy be rich and great,
While he that weds with an evil wife,
Mates life with an evil fate.

 

A VISIT T0 NASHVILLE.

 

During a recent visit to Nashville, when
about seven miles from the city, we came
in sight of a very regularly laid out ceme-
tery ﬁlled with white tombstones of uni-
form size. We were told that sixteen

, thousand ﬁve hundred boys in blue are

sleeping there. This is one of the re-
minders of the “late unpleasantness.”
The Union cemeteries are well taken care
of by the government. I walked over
one of the roads in North Nashville
which is paved with cobble stones; it was
the work of Federal soldiers while in bar-
racks here. At one time there were about
60,000 troops in and around the city; the
hillsides were dotted with the white
tents, and the earthworks and barricades
thrown up for defence. Fort Negla is
being rapidly leveled, still enough can be
seen to deﬁne the inner and outer works.
Fort Morton, on St. Cloud hill, is in a
much better state of preservation. On
the inside of the earthworks there is a

 

solid stone wall around the brow of the
hill, and a succession of earthworks
lower down. On the side nearest the crty
is a frame dwelling which was the officers’
headquarters. Between these two forts
is the Franklin Pike, and farther on be-

yond Fort Morton is Granny-white Pike. .

These were well guarded during the oc-
cupation of Nashville. One of the most
important battles fought near here was
that of Franklin. Bullets and shells have
been plowed up all about here ever since.
We saw two boxes of bullets in the Capi-
tol Museum, each one of which cost a life,
the most of them having been taken from
the heads of the victims.

This is called the Rock City, and the
name suits it well. There is rock be-
neath it, rock around it, and layers of
rock form natural steps in many parts of
the city. I found pieces of rock formed
of minute shells, and crinoid stems were
frequently found as we walked. Only a
few feet of soil cover the ‘rock in many
places. The cellars and foundations are
blasted instead of being of masonry, and
some of the burial vaults in Mt. Olivet
cemetery are blasted out of the side of the
rock, with marble fronts and doorways,
while others build small houses of stone,
finished in marble, for the resting places
of the dead.

The capitol building is of bluish—grey
(fossilized) limestone, beautifully varie-
gated. The corner stone was laid July
4th, 1845, the last stone of the tower July
2lst, 1855. ' Standing on the brow of a
hill, with its wide porticos and rows of
columns, it presents a beautiful appear-
ance. Massive stone steps at the four
corners lead up to the capitol from the
streets below. A statue of Andrew J ack-
son is on the east side of the grounds.

The new custom house is a beautiful
building, all of Tennessee stone and mar-
ble. The stones forming the walls are
carved at each edge. (We of Detroit would
like to see one like it, only larger, in our
beautiful city.) A number of ﬁne
churches and many ﬁne dwellings orna-
ment the streets.

Several cotton factories are doing a
very successful business. One very large
one employs 700 people, men, women and
children. The work is not hard, and is
fairly well paid. The day is long, begin-
ning at a quarter past 6 a. m. and ending
at 6 p. m. Large tanneries are ﬂourish-
ing, and the lumber business is doing
well. The cityseems to be in a prosper-

ous condition, and has grown very fast
since the close of the war. . A number of
Northerners are 39mg busmess there.

 

This is the educational center .of the
South, many of the friends of the city and
education having remembered it well in
bequests. The Vanderbilt University has
extensive and well laid out grounds, with
three handsome buildings and a gymna-
sium. There are theological, literary and
scientiﬁc departments. The dental and
medical departments are near the business
center down town. Commodore Vander-
bilt endowed it with the interest of $700,«
000 at six per cent. Not very long ago
the college received a large amount from
W. H. Vanderbilt.

Here is also the Fisk University (color~
ed) endowed by Gen. Fisk; one building
called Livingston Hall is for boys. and
Jubilee Hall for girls. This is largely as-
sisted by the proceeds of the Jubilee Sing-
ers. These buildings have not been long
erected.

The Baptist Institute, a theological col-
lege (colored), and the Central Tennessee
College for general education are also 10- -
cated here, and complete the list of
colleges. '

The University of Nashville has a very
complete normal department. There is a
Peabody fund of $200 to the successful
high school candidates of the South.
There are three large and a number of
smaller private schools. The Watkins
Institute, named after the donor, a large,
handsome building, not yet ﬁnished, is to
have a free library,

I spent some time in an art pottery very
pleasantly. The friends of Detroit who
are wealthy seem to think we can stand
alone in the matter of education, but the
wish often came to me, in hearing how
much had been done for Nashville, that
some friends might arise to start a boom
towards an art school like those of Cin-
cinnati, Philadelphia and other cities;
and towards the completing and furnish-
ing of the art gallery. '

The tomb of J ames K. Polk can be seen
from the street in the garden of his old
home, where his widow still resides.
Twelve miles out of the ‘city is the old
home of Andrew J ackson. called The
Hermitage. It is kept in nearly the same
condition as when he left it, and is own-
ed by the State. In the Capitol library
are pictures of Daniel Boone, David
Crockett, Andrew Jackson and his wife,
and many others famous in history.
There is a great deal there to interest a
stranger.

On the absorbing topic of the weather
you might like to hear something. The
past has been the coldest winter that the
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have two months of rather cold weather.
Farmers usually plow in February; but
this season is about three weeks late.
During most of March and the beginning
of April the weather has been pleasant—-
nights cool, warm and pleasant in the
daytime.
Some of the farmers I heard about have
faith without works; they did not plow,
as the season was so late, but planted
their seed without, and trust in Provi-
dence to have a good crop. They are like
the Turks I have heard of, who dur-
ing cholera seasons eat cucumbers in ear-
ly evening, trusting in fate, and calmly
die at midnight; it is the will of Allah.
The easy- going ways here would rather
astonish the Northern farmers; but suﬂi
cient for the time, if I have not already
tried your patience. There still remains
plenty to be seen and of interest in a trip
to the South. L. D. T.
—————-O—O-O——'——

A FLORAL LETTER.

 

A few hints in regard to the classiﬁca-
tion of ﬂowering plants may be of use
to some at least who are ordering and
making selections for spring sowing of
ﬂower seeds. The ﬂowering plants for
gardens, besides shrubs and trees, etc.,
are termed bulbs, biennials, annuals, and
herbaceous perennials. Bulbs comprise
three sorts, hardy, Holland and tender.
The last, those like Gladioli, etc., which
will not endure a northern winter; the
hardy those that will; Holland bulbs are
the several kinds grown in and imported

' exclusively from Holland; but I will give
notes on them with the bulbs in autumn.
Annuals bloom the ﬁrst season from seed,
after ripening which the plants die, except
at the south. where some of our hardy sorts
are perennial or biennial. Hardy annuals
are those which may be sown in autumn
or very early in spring in open ground;
half-hardy those that will not endure
frost, and must not be planted until the
soil is thoroughly warmed and the weath-
er favorable.

The tender annuals, which are few in
number, should be started under glass;
the cypress vine, for instance, although
we admire that so much we can well af-
ford the extra pains to start it into
growth. Biennials usually die after
ﬂowering, which they do the second sea-
son after sowing. Herbaceous perennials
are those that bloom the second year from
seed, and the plants die down every
autumn and start again in the spring, and
the roots live and increase indeﬁnitely,
while the imperfect perennials, as Dian-

thus and Sweet William, must be divided
and reset to insure continuance and

healthy growth.

0f the hardy class of annuals seeds
may start up in early spring, self sown.
Some of them do not show so perfect a
“willingness” to come up after being
gathered and remaining dry through the

winter.

When we understand that moisture and
warm th are the essentials for the germina~
tion of seed, and light is not required, 3.1- and care of personal appearance which
though so important to the healthful
growth of plants, it becomes easy to ac-

”after the German method is so simple of
construction, and cheap, that I wonder

every farmer with any ambition for a
vegetable garden does not have one. I
prefer it to glass, and have described it
here before. For early forcing glass
would be preferable. I have seen so
many lose seedlings by drying out and
damping off when boxes are used by in-
experienced hands, that I think for hardy
seed it is best to inake a light wellworked
bed in a warm place in the garden, with
if possible a partial shelter from the north,
and sow the seed in that, being careful to
make the soil for the ﬁner seed smooth
and ﬁrm, and after sprinkling the seed
evenly sift a slight covering of soil over
them.. If storms come on or the bed
becomes too dry either difﬁculty is more
easily obviated than if sown separately.
A frame to about ﬁt the bed, covered
with cloth of any texture, is the best and
easiest for temporary protection against
such extremes in weather as we are
pretty certain to see even after the soil is
warm enough for sowing, and I think the
10th of May early enough to make a be-
ginning.

Sweet Pea, Fpur o’clock, Morning
Glory, and such coarse seeds, should be
soaked in warm water and planted where
they are destined to stay. Verbena,
Stock, Glaucium, and others so hard to
start, should be well soaked with quite
warm water, and after sowing a wet
paper or woolen cloth pressed down over
and shaded by a pane of glass will soon
bring them to light. Without such pre-
caution those Seeds may be dormant for
weeks and ﬁnally hoed away with weeds.
Verbenas from seed are more brilliant in
bloom than from cuttings, and better still,
fragrant, which is not owing to difference
in variety as many suppose.
There is in every garden some shady
spot. not under trees, however, where the
soil may be kept moist a long time, and
that is the place to make a perennial bed.
If the seed is put in early the plants will
be strong and bloom early the next
spring. Such plants cost nearly or quite
as much as bulbs if bought of a ﬂorist by
single sample, while by getting from seed
more plants and many varieties are easily
secured. I have seed of the Yellow 001-
umbine (Chrysanthe), Gypsophila, Ne-
mophila, Sweet Alyssum, Asperula, and
Valerian, which are so desirable I men-
tion them. Many others, too. Five dif
ferent colors of Phlox for 50 cents, and
almost any variety of herbaceous plants
at same rate. Mas. M. A. FULLER.
FENTONVILLE, Genesee 00., Mich. Box 297.

_____..___.—.—o———--—

GOOD WORDS TO MOTHERS.

 

I read F. E. W.’s letter of April 15th
with interest, and believe she has learned
to order her household rightly. No
housekeeper can ignore those duties
which promote the comfort and happiness
of her family.

Healthy, wholesome food, with the
same courtesy between husband and wife

was observed before marriage, would en-

may be limited—that will come later.
The most important thing is to develop
those whom God has‘ placed in our care,
for usefulness, and for Him. Enter into
their sports and pleasures, and don’t for-

get that their sorrows are more to their
little hearts, than our griefs in mature life.
Comfort them. Many a mother’s heart
would be less sorrowful, after she has
laid the little one away for the last time,
if it were not for the memory of a lack .of
sympathy for the tried little heart. Read
to them until they can read for them-
selves, and then often read to them from
the books they are reading, to keep up
the interest. that they may not be dis-
couraged by their slow progress; thus you
will cultivate a taste for literature, which
will be invaluable in mature life. Gain
their conﬁdence—even the boys—while
young; make them feel that they can tell
you everything, even of the most delicate
nature; then when they go out into the
world they are aware of the many temp-
tations awaiting them, and the memory
of your counsels, and trust in God, will
enable them to be strong to resist. They
will acknowledge that through right
home inﬂuences, they have been kept
from evil. The memory of such a home
will be sweet to them through life, and
they will “ call you blessed” and the
Master will say “She hath done what
she could.” E. n'.

WATERVLEIT, April 23rd.
—_-—o—.—O-——‘-"

THE COOKING SCHOOD.

 

A gentleman once remarked, “ When I
go visiting I always feel that I am wel-
come till they begin to warm up the pota
toes.” But even this fastidious individual
would not have caviled at the Lyonnaise
potatoes which Miss Parloa handed round
at one of her cooking lessons, and which
were prepared as folloWs: One quart of
cold boiled potatoes, cut into dice, were
seasoned with salt and pepper. Three
tablespoonfuls of butter were put in a
pan, and one tablespoonful of chopped
onions fried in it. When the onions turned
yellow the potatoes were added and
stirred with care not to break the pieces.
A tablespoonful of chopped parsley was
added as soon as the potatoes were
thoroughly heated; cook two minutes
longer and serve in a hot dish.

For creamed potatoes one quart of cold
boiled potatoes was sliced very thin.
Heat one pint of cream, turn in the pota-
toes, season with salt and pepper, cover
the stewpan and cook till thoroughly hot,
not longer. They will not require stirr-
ing.

Mock Bisque soup is a dish which can
grace any farmer’s table and prove amost
palatable addition to the bill of fare. Put
one quart can of tomatoes over the ﬁre to
stew. Heat three pints of milk (Miss
Parloa used a double boiler, and the
many uses she found for it demonstrated
that no well regulated family should at-
tempt to keep house without one,) reserv-
ing half a cupful to mix with one large
tablespoonful of ﬂour, into which the hot
milk is to be stirred, and the whole cook-

 

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strainer to take out the seeds. Add a
piece of butter the size of an egg and
pepper and salt to taste to the milk, and
then the tomatoes. Serve immediately,
with no further cooking.

A poorly cooked ﬁsh is the most un-
palatable of foods. Miss Parloa took a
medium sized Whiteﬁsh and deftlyr remov-
ed the glittering scales, almost before you
could' say “Jack Robinson.” With asharp
knife she cut the ﬁsh alongthe backbone,
removing the ﬂesh in one strip, along
each side. These strips she cut into half
a doZen pieces, salted, and dipped them
into the beaten yolk of eggs, then drop-
ped them into a dish of breadcrumbs
which adhered in a liberal coating. The
pieces were then laid in a wire basket,
just touching each other, and plunged in
a pot of hot lard where they cooked done
in ﬁve minutes. Other kinds of ﬁsh can
be cooked in this manner.

Breakfast mufﬁns are made as follows:
“Into a bowl put one and a half pints
of graham ﬂour, one cup sugar, one tea-
spoonful salt. Into a sieve put one-half
pint flour, one teaspoouful soda, two
teaspoonfuls cream tartar; mix these
thoroughly and sift them into the bowl
and mix thoroughly again, then add two
well beaten eggs and one pint of milk.
Fill the muﬁin cups about two-thirds from
the top and bake in a quick oven. This
mixture will give about two dozen muf-
ﬂns.

Miss Parloa considers hot bread or bis—
cuit made with baking powder as more
digestible than hot bread raised with hop
yeast.

—.—.—.—.—-————

MAYBELLE ON THE WAR PATH.

 

As Bruneﬁlle gave me so warm a recep-
tion before, I will come again. How nice
our little Household is, with its many
valuable hints to all! I was much amused
at Beatrix’s humorous description of the
farmer’s wife’s start on a “journey to
town” behind an aged, broken down
equine, in the “one hoss shay.” It isatrue
picture, yet in many instances the women
folks have young, intelligent and high
lifed horses to drive. The bread question
has been pretty thoroughly discussed. E.
S. B.’s rec1pe far surpasses any I have yet
tested, andI thank her for it. The spring
has come, and with it the disagreeable task
of making new carpets to those of us who
have not a supply. I will send some
recipes for coloring green, blue and yellow
in good permanent colors, and which do
not rot the goods as some do.

I feel like saying three cheers for
Bruneﬁlle, the noble defender of the
weaker sex, who sympathizes, as we all
should, with the down-trodden, ill-used,
greatly" snubbed creature called man.
Bruneﬁlle writes: “A woman with tact
manages her husband with such ﬁnesse
that he never knows what is the matter
with him as he revolves round the orbit
of her little ﬁnger.” Now, please tell us
how you manage your Philander; does
he revolve with perfect submission, or
does he grasp at the reins of government
and come in contact with your apron
strings? Please tell us. You vividly

”Job Trotter” women for wives, who
never know what it is to have the house
dry and cheerful. On the other hand,
does not the average farmer’s wife rise at
break of day, or at least as soon as her
lord and master; does she not work from
morning till night, cooking appetiaing
things for her husband, a troop of hired
men and perhaps three or four children?
She scrubs, bakes, churns, milk, per-
haps, and does she not do he'r full share
in the battle for the means of support?
and support includes the Whole she does
receive, or deserves, according to Brune-
ﬁlle’s article. If she asks for a new
machine to lighten her labors, or a new
garment to enable her to appear decent
outside the garden fence, she can have it
if she can wrestle it out of her husband
by a royal dinner. I am thankful I never
am compelled to resort to the good din-
ners nor the hammer and tongs process

Bruneﬁlle recommends.
MAYBELLE.
CLINTON, April 19th.

[Will Maybelle kindly furnish the
Householders with the recipe for making
the hard soap she mentio ns ?—HOUSEROLD

Eu]
—-,o—o—o———-—

FOR “ONE OF THE GIRLS.”

 

I will try to answer “One of the Girls.”
Her question I consider an important
one. Yes, mothers have been bitten, as
you please to term it, and their experience
teaches them a better way, therefore their
dont’s to the1r daughters. And as we
all have nearly the same capacities the
mother only wishes an improvement in
living out or putting away the natural
inclinations, that have been glven
through hereditary law of mind, as well
as matter. Many of the girls of to day
can look at facts, and mothers should
give them facts, and study for the im-
provement of human laws.

I think I almost see that waste basket,
but have the satisfaction of feeling that
if this goes into it, the subject will come
up again, and no doubt in better form.

One word on the bread question: I
think that good salt rising bread is better
and more nutritious than yeast bread.

_ ONE OF THE MOTHERS.
GRAND BLANC, April 23rd.

 

 

BREAD MACHINES.

 

I was always an attentive reader of the
few columns allowed us in the FARMER,
and since we have been given us a paper
by ourselves, I think it our duty to do all
we can to make it a help in every farm-
er’s home. Already I have found a great
help in bread making from the old
fashioned salt-rising. I have been a
farmer’s wife for ten years, and had lots
of hired men. My average baking per
week is about 20 loaves during the year.
I saw E. S. B.’s recipe for making bread,
tried it, and found it splendid, and last
week found “L.’s” much easier yet. And
now what I want to know is, have any of
you a bread machine? If so, please write
and let us know where one can be bought,
and if they are as much help as claimed.
Please answer through the Household for
the beneﬁt of all our readers.

 

picture the poor burdened husbands with

SALT RISING BREAD.

 

I notice there are a great many recipes
for making hop yeast bread in the House-
hold, and I often wonder why some one
does not give us some ideas on salt rising
bread, as is is termed, although there is
no more salt in it than in any other bread.
There must be a greater or less number
who make salt rising bread, and why not
have our different opinions in the House-
hold, and not let it appear like a Hop
Yeast circular?

I will tell you my way of making bread:
I make a yeast of middlings or Indian
meal, preferring the latter. Put a pinch

each of salt, soda and ginger in abowl
and pour one teacupful of boiling water
on it; then stir in the meal and set it in a
warm place until light: then it is ready
for use. If it is kept in a cool place it
will answer to bake with until it is used
up.

When I want to bake I take a little
warm water and make a few emptyings
of white ﬂour and stir in one or two tea—
spoonfuls of. this yeast I have previously
made. When light I make a sponge as
follows: One tablespoonful of salt, one
quart of boiling water to scald the ﬂour

and enough cold water to cool it, then stir
in your emptyings, and set in a warm
place to rise. (I raise my bread in the
warming oven.) When light mould into
loaves. I do not mould my bread very
hard, nor make very large loaves, so it

will have plenty of chance to rise, and I
bake it from twenty minutes to one— —half
hour.

I hope some of the members of tke
Household will try my way of making
bread, and report. S. M.

PITTSBURGH, April 23d.

 

HINTS ON DRESSMAKING.

 

The last Bazar gives a few hints on the
making of wash dresses. There is really
nothing very new, except the fashion of
buttonholing the edges of the rufﬂes and
draperies with cotton of the prevailing
color of the material, a fashion which we
think would be extremely pretty for the
little people. A blue plaid gingham
would be scalloped with blue. The best
colored embroidery cottons used for such
work are warranted fast colors. A white
ground dotted with red, blue or black,
would have scallops worked in the color
of the ﬁgure. The newest ﬁounce for
ﬁnishing the foot of a skirt is bias, gath-
ered, with an inch wide hem and two
tucks of the same width above. It is
gathered in two rows at the top, is sewed
to the skirt, and the ﬁounce turned over
to hide the seam, thus dispensing with a
heading. The yoke and belt is a favorite
model for nearly everything washable,
though many polonaises closed in front
to give an apron effect are seen. Many
of these polonaises are quite fully shirred
in front, to the despair of the novice at
the ironing table. Some of the skirts
worn under these polonaises are of ﬁve
straight widths of goods, tucked across
the bottom or trimmed with antique lace,
then gathered and sewed to a foundation

 

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skirt, the top coming up under the
polonaise.

 


 

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SGRAPS.

Poe’s celebrated poem “The Raven,”
which has been quoted. set to music,
illustrated by Gustave Dore’s wrerd fancy,
and withal spouted from the rostrum of
every schoolhouse in the country, is read
by many who are unaware of its deepest
signiﬁcance, and the meaning which un-
derlies its musical rhythm. I had never
been able to catch its spirit and subtle
import until I learned that in the poet’s
mind the “lost Lenore ” represented lost
Innocence, the raven haunting, uncon-
querable Memory, and “the pallid bust
of Pallas,” overtopped by its shadowing
wings, Reason. With this key, the poem
gains anew beauty and import. Inno-
cence once lost, cannot be regained, and
Memory, conquering Reason, becomes a
Nemesis with voice never to be silenced.

I have just ﬁnished reading “Guenn,”
the new book by Blanche Willis Howard.
While it lacks somewhat of the sparkle
which characterized “ One Summer,” the
author’s ﬁrst effort, it is stron‘ger and more
earnest in tone. It is not in the least de
gree sensational, yet it is intensely in-
teresting. The scene is laid in Brittany,
and the descriptions of life and times in

that far off province are no small part of.

the charm of the book. Beautiful, wild,
unconventional Guenn Rodellac, a Breton
peasant girl, whose ambition is to be
known as the swiftest runner, the gayest
dancer at Ihe village fete, the shrewdest
at a bargain with the ﬁshermen, mother-
less and worse than fatherless, meets an
artist from Paris, who is sketching in her
native village of Plouvenec, who is to her
a very superior being, whom she at ﬁrst
hates for that superiority, and for those
other reasons which a girl sums up in
“Because,” but whom she ﬁnally loves
with all the passionate fervor of her un—
tamed nature, hardly aware herself how
much he is to her. To him, she is the
one beautiful girl of the village, Whom
he specially desires to paint, believing
with her as his model he can produce a
picture which shall make him famous.
Good humored and genial, he is a favor-
ite with all; ambitious, careless and
absorbed in his art, so he carries out his
purpose, he is indiﬁerent as to its results
to others. He gives a glimpse of his
character in a remark to a brother artist,
who half jealously , speaks of his popular‘
ity among the simple ﬁsher folk: “I’d
see them all drowned before my eyes if
it would help me to paint as I want to
paint!” There is notasuspicion of in

trigue; he is an honorable man and re-
spects his little model too much for that.
But he is selﬁshly blind to his own in-
ﬂuence over her and its results; she is
simply his stepping stone to fame; when
he gains the prize he forgets the means;
he'wins her heart unthinkingly, unknew-
ingly, and sees only in her abandonment
of all former pleasures and delights a
model’s desire to forward his great pic-
ture which shall make the little Breton
girl in her coiﬁe and kerchief, with lithe
form bent to the oar, the great charm of

the Paris Salon. There is a priest,

Thymert of the Lannions, whose strong,

earnest, self‘forgetful life is in direct con-
trast with that of the volatile stranger-
artist, and whom we half suspect of lov.
ing the bright-faced Guenn in spite of
priestly vows. The story is exquisitely
told, but ends sadly.
pure in tone, simple in detail, yet not
easy to lay down till ﬁnished. A mother
may read it with absorbing interest, and
give the volume into her daughter’s hands,
sure it will do her no harm.

I cannot say as much for F. Marion
Crawford’s recently published book, “ To
Leeward.” I wonder if the author cher-
ishes the idea or the hope that the drift
of the book sets in the direction toward
which the wind of popular opinion blows?
I believe it may safely be said that we are
still “ to windward” in that respect. The
story, epitomized, is that of aman who
falls in love with his neighbor’s wife,
said wife having discovered herself to be
a person of greater culture than her hus-
band. He feels it coming on with some-
what of the premonitory symptoms of an
ague, makes a feeble resistance, then
basely succumbs to “ fate,” with the
usual result of wrecked lives and the
other not infrequent accompaniment, a
murder. Through the whole of this re-
pulsive plot there runs an undertone of
excuse and apology for the guilty parties,
condoning their sin and palliating its
enormity by pleading that “ LOVe is lord
of all,” as if principle and duty were sub-
ordinate to passion, and illicit love at
least excusable, if not justiﬁable. The
book is unhealthy in tone; it “leaves a
bad taste in the mout .” B.

“—

HOUSEIIOLD HINTS.

“Aunt Addie,” in the Country Gentle-

man, says: " When you have spilled any-
thing on the stove, or milk has boiled
over, and a suﬁocating smoke escapes,
ﬁlling the room and your breathing tubes,
sprinkle the spot with a quantity of salt,
and it will cease almost immediately.”

It is a great convenience to have a tin
dish, made small enough so it will go in-
side the teakettle, furnished with a long
handle and a close cover, so that gruel,
custard, eggs or panada may be cooked
at short notice, and without danger of
burning. This is especially convenient
when there is sickness in the family,
and such things are wanted at irregular
hours.

The Household Editor does not recom-
mend the use of canned, or tinned (as
they are called in England) goods. There
have been quite too many cases of acci-
dental poisoning resulting from their
use, for one to feel perfectly safe in par-
taking freely. Yet to many they are al-
most the only frnits to be obtained, and
their good quality, convenience, and
cheapness highly recommend them and
tempt us to ignore the danger, which we
consider remote. Unless the acid of the
fruit affects the lead with which the tin
of the package is adulterated there is no
danger. In buying, test the can by ap-
plying the thumb to both ends of the can.

 

It is absolutely .

 

If it resists pressure, its contents me
good; if it “gives,” don’t buy. Always
empty the can as soon as it is opened,
even if only apart of its contents are
wanted for immediate use. It is to be
hoped that “some of these days ” man-
ufacturers will furnish us goods put up
in glass, of which we need not be sus-
prcious.

A correspondent of the N. Y. World
says: “ Perhaps some reader would like
to hear howImade a new photograph
album out of an old one. I removed the
pictures, erased the soiled places with a
rubber, drew a border around each leaf
and painted it with gold paint. Then I
took a strip of plush large enough to
cover the outside of the album and lap
about half an inch around on the inside
edge, and covered the album. I lined
the inside of the cover with satin of the
same shade, fastening it with mucilage.
This makes a pretty and inexpensive
album.”

If you wish to restore the pile of an old
piece of velvet to trim your spring hat, or
make a vest and collar for a made over
dress, do not resort to that old expedient
of wetting the velvet and ironing it on
the stovepipe, by which you draw the
velvet out of shape and leave your ﬁnger
prints as shiny spots. Heat a ﬂatoiron
quite hot, ﬁx it so its ﬂat surface is up;
ward, lay on this a wet cloth and on this
the velvet, back down. The steam raises
the pile, and the goods will look almost
as well as new, if after the pile is raised,
the velvet be laid on top of another iron,
just warm, to dry it, and should be hand]
ed as carefully as possible till quite dry.

A QUESTION ANSWERED.

‘ Mrs. M. B., of Portland, inquires con-
cerning the De Laval cream separator and
its adaptability to a small dairy, of per-
haps a dozen cows. The principle in-
volved is that of centrifugal force, and
the cream is separated by revolving the
milk very rapidly in a machine especially
for that purpose. As it requires an engine
for operation, and is also quite an expen-
sive affair, we incline to the opinion that
our friend would ﬁnd a cabinet creamery
better adapted to her wants.

A NEW TOPIC SUGGESTED.

We take the FARMER, and I am inter
ested in the Household. I have tried E.
S. B."s recipe for bread, and ﬁnd it is all
right. But now we have learned how to
make such nice bread, what about the
butter to go with it? We hear so much
about poor butter, would it not be well
to discuss that for a little time, and ﬁnd
out if possible where the blame lies? I
do not ﬁnd any trouble in making butter
that my husband is proud to carry to mar-
ket, and he always gets the highest mar—
ket price for it. I pity the woman who
works hard to make butter, and never
succeeds in making any that is ﬁt to eat.
I guess this’ will do for the ﬁrst call of a
stranger. FARMER’S WIFE.

NAPOLEON. April 17th.

[The subject suggested above is an ex-

 


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cellent one, and well worth consideration.
Since “Farmer's Wife” proposed it, we
move she “ open the discussion ” by giv-
ing the method she employs in making
the article which makes her husband
proud of her skill on market days.—
HOUSEHOLD ED.]
————O—.—o——

WE have received from parties purport-
ing to reside in Ohio a seductive epistle,
telling us how women may rise to fortune
by the aid of a plating machine, with
which the writer claims to have earned
fabulous sums in a very short time. The
scheme hath a ﬁshy look. We have
heard of that “machine” before. It
savers of the Rain Incubator and the
chicken vaccine business. No; we don’t
want any “specimens’-’ plated, and we
are just mean enough not to want our
readers to have any either. We always
distrust those very philanthropic people,
who are so anxious the world at large
should share in the beneﬁts of their “dis-
coveries"; there is generally a goodsized
axe to grind somewhere, and the MICHI-
GAN FABMER does not propose to “turn
the grindstone.” So we advise our read-
ers to take the Dutchman’s advice, and
“look a leedle oudt,” and we decline to
give this benevolent-minded individual
any gratuitous advertising.

—o—.—o———

WE must again remind our readers of
that newspaper rule which requires all
communications not intended for the
waste basket to be accompanied by the
writer’s name. The real name is never
given, unless indeed, as happened recent—
ly, the nom de plume is undecipherable.
Nor does personal or written application
to the Household Editor gratify curiosity
as to the identity of correspondents.

——-—o-O—o——-——-
Contributed Recipes.

“MAYBELLE,” of Clinton, sends us the fol~
lowing recipes for coloring carpet rags:

To COLOR BLUE—For ﬁve pounds of rags,
take four ounces of copperas, boil and dip 15
minutes, then dip in strong suds, and back to
the dye; let lie ten minutes. Then make a new
dye of one ounce of prussiate of potash, and
three tablespoonfuls of oil of vitriol; boil half
an hour and rinse in cold water.

To Coma YELLOW.-—FOI' ﬁve pounds of
rags take seven ounces of sugar of lead, dis—
solve, and dip goods two hours. Make a dye
of four ounces of bi—chromate of potash; dip
until the color suits. -

To COLOR GREEN.-—-Dip the blue colored
goods into the yellow dye.

To COLon Bnowx.—For ten pounds of wt
ton goods take three pounds of catechu, and
boil in as much water as will cover the goods
nicely. Boil till well dissolved, then add four
ounces of blue vitriol, stir well, put in the rags
and let boil up well and lie in the dye over
night. In the morning make a new dye of six
ounces of bi-chromate of potash in boiling wa-
ter. Put in the goods and let lie ﬁfteen or
twenty minutes. Wring out in cold water.

There will be suﬁici t; h -
color the warp. 8“ strengt 1n the dye to

LEMON Pm——Cut oil the ends of a lemon,
grate rind and all, taking eat care to remove
all seeds; cup sugar; cup oiling water; table-
5poonful corn starch, mixed n cold water;

il one minute. This Will be suﬂlcieut for
two pies; bake with top and bottom crust.
Serve cold.

D'TROI'I, MRS. J- W. P.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

JAM rLE's

TIIE BEST THING KNOWN

FOB

In Hard or Soft, Hot or Cold Water.

SAVES LABOR, TIME and SOAP AMAZ-
INGLY, and gives universal satisfaction. Na
' y, rich or poor, should be Without it.

Sold b all Grocers. BEWARE of imitation!
well designed to mislead, PEARLINE is the
ONLY SAFE labor-sawing compound, and talc
ways bears the above symbol, and name 0!

JAMES PYLE. NEW YORK.

 

WI LSON’S
Cabinet Creamery & Barrel churn

AND ALL DAIRY SUPPLIED.

The woman’s friend. It saves three-fourths'of the
labor in butter making; easily operated; you raise
sweet cream from sweet milk; you have sweet
milk to feed which trebles its value. Send for a
circular. A ents wanted. Address

FLI T CABINET CREAMERY 00.,
l2-13t FLINT,mICE.

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Gathering
cream.

Sound for Catalogue to

Davis 8: llanlrln,

SUCCESSORS 1'0
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Chicago. Ill.

UCED

This cut repre-
sents a scale that
will weigh from
half an ounce to
240 lbs., made by
theChicago Scale
Co.,and warrant-
ed true. We wi 1
send one of these
scales and the

a FARMEB for one
. r - year to any ad-
dress for 85.00, cash with order
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DETROIT, MACKINAW & MARQUETTE
RAILROAD.
January 3d, 1884.

Pioneer East and West Line through the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan.
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Exp. Accom‘n. Accom’n. Exp
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Michigan Central Railroad for Detroit and all
points in Michigan and in the east, south and
southeast. Trains leave Mackinaw City 8 50 a. in.
and 9 50 p. m. The Grand Rapids & Indiana R.
R. for Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne and the South
and East.

Connections made at Marquette with the Mar-
?uette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad for the

ran and Cop er Districts, and with boat lines for

Duluth snd t e Northwest.

Trains daily except Sunday.

Trains run by Central Standard Time.
D. McCOOL, FRANK MILLIGAN,

Gen’l Sup’t., Gen’l Frt. 87. Pass. Agt.,

Marquette, Mich Marquette, Mich.

 

ABASH, ST. LOUIS & PACIFIC R. R.

Depot foot of Twelfth Street. Trains run on
Central Standard time.
Leave.
*9.38 am

Arrive.
Chicago 85 Indna‘s. Exp $.48 pm
Ind. and St. Louis Exp. *3.48 pm H223 pm
Chicago Express. . 110.08 pin $.28 am

Q’Trains leave Fourth Street depot, via To 6-
do, at *8.45 am; 13.35 pm; +9.35 pm.

Trains arrive at Fourth St. Depot from To-
le 0 at *7.50 pm; 1:12.30 pm and $1.00 am.

iaDaily. * Except Sunday. 1- Except Saturday
ullman sleeper through to Indianapolis and
Louisville.
City Ticket Oﬁice 167 J eﬁerson Avenue.
A. F. WOLFSCHLAGER, City Ticket Agt
FRANK E. SNOW. General Agent.

 

MOSHER’S
Hand Seed Drill, Hand What] Harrow
and Wheel Hue Combined.

This drill is for the garden or the ﬁeld. It plants
in hills or sows in drills. Invented and made only
by E. MOSHER, HOLLY, MICE. Circulars free.

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b THE HOUSEHOLE.

Beecher on the Government of Chil-
dren.

Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent ser
men at Plymouth Church, said:

“There are two ways of governing a
family. One is to teach the children to
govern themselves; and then you save
them. The other is to do all the govern-
ing yourself, and then you lose them. It
is said that ministers’ children are the
devil‘s grandchildren. I don’t believe it;
but certain it is that some men are so
religiously conscientious, and so earnest
for the welfare of their children, that
they watch them incessantly night and
day and prescribe everything the child is
to think, everything he is to say, every-
thing he is to do, and everything he is not
to do, so that when he emerges from un-
der them, and is of full, strong rebound-
ing nature, he goes out utterly unable to
decide for himself; and coming under all
the ﬁery inﬂuences and temptations of
life, it is found that the father and mother
have betrayed the very foundation of
duty in regard to those children. They
have not taught the child how to take
care of himself. It is better for achild to
lie when he is a child, and be whipped
out of it; and there is often a good deal
of conscience that goes in through the
skin. The child is made ashamed of 1y
ing, and trained out of it, before he goes
into Wall street and has no conscience of
any kind. It is a great deal better, often-
times, that a person should stumble and
fall in the family, because then an inves—
tigation takes place, and the child comes
under such inﬂuences that he begins to
see himself that it was a mistake. Give
him liberty, and let him stumble again;
for there is nothing that teaches a man so
much regarding the boundaries of his
ground as running his head in the night
against his fence, and thus ﬁnding the
gate. So he very soon learns—what he
ought not to do anyhow.”

 

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moving the work from the machine.

The LOOSE BALANCE
WHEEL is actuated by a
solid bolt passing through a
collar securely pinned to the
shaft outside of the balance
wheel, which bolt is ﬁrmly
held to position by a strong
spiral spring. When a bob-
bin is to be wound, the bolt
is pulled out far enough to
release the balance wheel
and turned slightly to the
right or left, where it is held
by a sto ~pin until the bob-
bin is ﬁl ed. Where the ma-

great convenience to the o erator.

greatly to the value of this machine.

Address all orders to

 

 

Only $18.00 !

nines» "SINGER SEWING MACHINE !

—-——-——-:o:—-———

The “ Michigan Farmer ” One Year and a Machine
For

We have made arrangements
to have manufactured for us a
large number of one of the best
Sewing Machines ever in use,
which we shall sell at about
one-third usual prices. Each
machine will be nicely ﬁnished
with a Box Cover, a Drop Leaf
Table, and Four Drawers, and
will contain a full set of the
latest improved attachments.
This illustration is an exact
representation of the Machine
we send out.

The out below represents the
“ Head ” or machine part of the
Sewing Machine. All parts are
made to gauge exactly, and are
constructed of the very ﬁnest
and best material. It is strong,
light, simple and durable. Does
to perfection all kinds of sewing
and ornamental work that can
be done on any machine.

Each machine is thoroughly
well made and ﬁtted with the
utmost nicety and exactness,
and no machine is permitted by
the inspectors to go out of the

shop until it has been fully tested and proven to do perfect work, andrun light and
with as little noise as possible. This machine has a very important improvement in
9. Loose Balance Wheel, so constructed as to permit winding bobbins without re

chine is liable to be meddled with by children, the bolt can be left out of the wheel
when not in use, so that it can not be operated by the treadle.
The Thread Eyelet and the Needle Clamp are made SELF-THREADING, which is 8

THE BALANCE WH EL is handsomely ﬁnished and nickle plated.
The IMPROVED TENSION and THREAD LIBERATOR combined adds

ALL THE STANDS HAVE

The New Driving Wheel.

This Driving Wheel is the invention of John D. Law-
less, secured by patent, dated Feb. 7, 1882, and is claim-
ed to be the best device yet invented, being the simplest,
easiest running, and most convenient of the many that
have been tried. It can be easily adjusted and all wear
taken up by turning the cone-pointed screw. It is the
only device operating on a center that does not inter-
fere with other patents.
machines will appreciate this fact.

The Stands have rollers in legs and the Band Wheels
are hung upon self-oiling adjustable journals. Each
stand is run up by steam power after it is set up until
it runs very light and smoothly.

, We have selected this style and ﬁnish of machine as
being the most desirable for family use.

We furnish the Machine complete as shown in above
cut, and include the following attachments, &c. One
Johnson’s Fo'ot Rufﬁer, one set Hemmers one Tucker,
one Foot Hemmer or Friller, one package Needles, six
Bobbins, Screw Driver, Can of Oil. Extra Check Spring,
extra Throat Plate, Gauge Screw, Wrench, Instructions

Each Machine is Guaranteed as represented and to give satis-
faction, or it may be returned and money refunded.

Dealers who wish to sell these

JOHNSTONE Gt GIBBONS, Publishers MICHIGAN FABMEB,
44 Larned St, West, Detroit, Mich.

 

 


 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

sultry garb.

 

 

THE LANGSHAN FOWL.

 

VERNON, Mich, April 17th, 1884.
To the Editor of the Michigan Farmer.

The Langshan is comparatively a new
breed, sometimes called the sacred bird
of China, and, like most Chinese names,
carries with it a meaning—lung signify”
ing “two” and slum “hills,” the place
occupying two hills; and of the many
different pure bred fowls that we ﬁnd in
the yards of our American fanciers to-
day there are none more deserving of
praise than this welcome visitor.

The Langshan will surely become very
popular, as the breed has so many good
qualities to recommend it to all who are
lovers of ﬁne poultry. If there is any
one particular fowl that may be claimed
as a perfect one, it is this admirable bird;
but as no one variety answers for all pur—
poses, it is ‘safe to say that they come
nearer to that point than any other. They
are alarge fowls, nearly as large as the
Brahmas, and the pullets sometimes lay
at less than four months old. When we
. say this much in their favor, it is not all,
for they lay as steadily after they begin
as any of the smaller breeds. As layers
in winter they have no equals, which is a
well established fact. Eggs during this
time are much higher than at any time
during the year, making them the most
proﬁtable fowls to keep for the produc—
tion of eggs alone; while their beauty
of form, ﬁne plumage and upright car-
riage enable them to compare with any
other breed, either upon the lawn, in the
place of exhibition, or in the fancier’s
yards. They thrive well while in con-
ﬁnement;but if given a free range will
hunt a good part of their living. Taking
into consideration their good qualities as
, egg producers, their ﬁne appearance,

"‘ their excellence of ﬂesh, and the rapidity
with which they grow, I think they will
command a host of friends wherever they
are introduced. 0. S. BINGHAM.

__.._..._.______.
Roup.

The Country Gentleman says: “There
are two phases of roup known to the
poultry-keeper—the acute and chronic—
both of which, if not taken in hand,
prove fatal. The acute is produced by
sudden changes of the weather, especial-
ly when the change .is accompanied by
high winds, during the six months from
October to April. In the earlier portions
of this season it is produced by drafts;
later by wet and a sudden cold gathered
from the damp chilliness of early spring,
The ﬁrst indication of the acute is ahoarse
rattle in the throat accompanying every
breath. These cases should be taken in
hand immediately, and delay is dangerous.
Catch the fowl and turn two tablespoon-
fuls of castor oil down the throat, which
will generally act like a charm, giving
almost instant relief. Another form in
which it makes its appearance in the

- acute form is indicated by the bright
pink of the comb and face, which is often

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Lungs-halls.

swollen, with either one or both eyes i
closed, and a yellowish gummy substance 1
exudes from the nostrils and mouth. ‘
Treat this case to a liberal dose of the oil =
also. Swab the eyes and mouth with j
tepid water, removing the bad humor,
and wash the eyes and face with a solu-
tlon of sugar of lead, being careful not to
allow much of it to go down the throat
Place both cases .in dry, warm quarters,
and give soft feed until better or worse,
which will be in a day or so, according to
treatment and the diligence and experi-
ence of the keeper.”

 

Poultry Hints.

DESTROY the old nests when the hens
come oil? with their chicks. Burn the
straw and the vermin if there are any,
and cleanse the box.

 

 

FOR cramp or rheumatism in chicks or
fowls, Fanny Field recommends us to
rub ihe legs with hot mustard water or
with some good stimulating liniment;
afterwards keep in warm, dry quarters
and give plenty of nourishing food.

 

FANNY FIELD, when the supply of cab-
bage which she had saved for green food
for her poultry, gave out, used late cut
rowen, cut ﬁne, steamed and then
sprinkled slightly with bran or meal.
Fifty hens would get away with a peck
measure full of that provender in a day.

 

 

THE Rochester Post-Eavpress says: “For .
the prevalent disease of scaly legs ina

fowls, caused by aminute insect, rubbing

the legs with an ointment of sulphur, i

kerosene, etc., is advised. The remedy
is good enough, but a better one is im-
mersing the feet and legs in a tomato can
of kerosene.
until a cure is effected.

 

As soon as one hen in the yard begins
to sit every other hen in the yard feels it
to be her duty to lay in the same nest.
The nest must either be protected or both
hen and nest be moved to a hatching
room or coop. The removal should be
made at night and the hen kept in Dar
tial darkness for a few days. Hens that
will not be transferred in this way are
not ﬁt for incubators.”

 

MRS. F. M. COOPER says, in the ladiana .

Farmer: “There is a great change in

' teen.

Do this every three days 'I

 

Bred and Owned by C. S. Bingllam, Vernon, Mich.

the attitude of the farmer toward chick-
ens within the last few years, and in-
stead of allowing them to depend entire
ly upon foraging for their feed, and be-
grudging the corn they eat from the
hog-pen, and allowing them to look out
for the warmest limb of the apple tree on
which to spend the cold nights of winter,
he is making special provision for them
and ﬁnds that it pays. There is no bet-
ter proof that the farmer is progressing
than the change in the manner of treating
the stock which has been made within
the last few years.” Mrs. Cooper highly
recommends the Plymouth Rocks from a
three years’ experience with them.

 

 

WIANDOTTES.

E!y 's from the best strains.

First-class Weston -
stoczli.

Price $2 .50 and $3 00 per 13.

LAN GSHANS.

Eggs from Croad and Samuels strains
2 50 per 13.

Rose-Combed Brown leghnrns.

Eggs from Mapes and Forbes strains.
82 50 and $2 00 per 13.

PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Upham strain. Price$2 50 per 13. Address
815 —3t E. O. DEWEY, Owosso, Mich,

HOUDAN S

One of the very few breeds trat are superior
table~fowls; also non-setters and excellent e g-
producers. Eggs from pure and choice fow s,
carefully packe , at $1 per 13. Address

329-4 HENRY KING, South Haven, Mich.

Bronze Turkey Eggs.

Bronze Turkey Eggs at 34 for sitting of th1r~
Only a limited number for sale. Address
MINOR DAVIDSON, Tecuu seh, Mich.

Price

Price

 

 

a15-4t

light Brahma Eggs.

For hatching from stock fully up to the times in
style and breeding. Price $1 gar setting of 13.
a15-tf - . A. ()L xP , Milford, Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE.

Van Gieson Bros., Clinton, Lenawee 00., Mich.
breeders of

Pure-Bred White Leghorns,
settings of 13 eggs for sale at $1 25. m481

WYANDOTTES.

A record hard to beat! Twenty hens avcra ing
six pounds each laid during January and Fe ru-
ary three hundred and sixty-four eggs, and during
March four hundred and eighty-six. Eggs for
sale, two dollars for ﬁfteen. Address

~ . (7. C. NELSON, P. M ..,
218—41; Cassopolis, Cass 00., Mich.

 

 


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THE HOUSEHOLD.

piatian.

 

 

Two Methods of Treating Foul ‘
Brood.

Dr. A. B. Mason, in apaper on the cause
and cure of foul brood, read before the
Southeastern Michigan Bee Keepers’ As-
sociation, gave three methods of treating -
this .much dreaded disease, as follows:

“ The ﬁrst I tried was Mr. Muth’s
method, with salicylic acid.- I took dis-
infected hives and put in frames ﬁlled
with foundation, and set the hive near
where the diseased colony stood. I then
shook and brushed all the bees into, or in
front of the new hive, (none of the bees
should be allowed to enter any other
colony). I then removed the infected
hive and combs to a place where no bees
could ﬁnd them, till I had time to extract
the foul honey, melt the combs, and boil
the hive. « I then fed the colony about a
pint of boiled honey each day for a week-

To this honey Iadded salicylic acid as

directed by Mr. Muth. His directions
are sixteen grains of borax, sixteen grains
of salicylic acid and an ounce of
water, and put this amount in each quart
of honey. I boil all infected honey be-
fore using it to feed bees. Some have
reported that this method has proved a
failure with them, but with myself and
others in this locality, it has been a per-
fect success.

“Another method of curing the dis-
‘ease, is the starvation plan, and I was as
successful with this as with the acid plan.
I shook the bees into a clean hive and
conﬁned them until they had consumed
the honey taken in their honey-sacs,
which was shown by their beginning to
fall from the cluster. A more conven-
ient way would have been to put wire
cloth on the top of a hive, or box, and
place it on its side. so as to be able to see
when the bees fall from the cluster. I
then gave them clean hives with founda—
tion. I had two colonies that seemed
bound not to starve. One held out for
nine days, and the other for ten days, be-
fore showing any signs of giving up the
struggle.

“ The other method I call the California
plan; and it proved to be so much more
troublesome. that I tried but few colonies
by it, In the evening, cage the queen;
the next evening tie the queen cage to an
empty frame; place it in a clean hive
and shake all the bees into the same hive;
leaving them so that they can ﬂy for three
days, and then shake them into a clean
hive, and release the queen. I pre—
fer Mr. Muth’s plan with salicylic acid;
because the bees can be at work, drawing”
out foundation and gathering honey, and
the queen may deposit eggs.

“All infected honey should be boiled
before feeding to the bees; all combs
melted; and all hives boiled before being
used again. Washing with the acrd solu«
tion, I believe, will answer the same pur-
pose as boiling, but is more trouble for
me. I have kept a bottle of the solution
on hand with which to disinfect my
hands, smoker, knife, etc, before going

 

to any other colony or work, after hand-
ling a foul broody one.

“Failure has been reported from all
these methods; but I believe something
has been omitted, or something over-
done where such failure has occurred,
and here is such a case: A party trying
the California method reported it a fail-
ure, but they did not follow the instruc-
tions. Instead of putting the bees in a
empty hive, he put in ‘some drone combs
for the bees to cluster on,’ and the bees
put the honey taken with them, in the
empty cells, and so had a good start for

foul brood.”
—.+.—————

DR. MILLER, who has been examining
bees dead of diarrhoea by aid of a micros-
cope is said by H. C. Whitlow, in the Bee
Jozmwl, to have discovered as follows:
“Bees that had been dead 24 or 48 hours
were taken, and the yellow brown matter
(the same that is discharged by the live
bees before death) was mixed with matter
to clarify it, and when submitted to ex-
amination under the microscope, a mass
of pollen grains could be plainly seen.
Most of the pollen grains are so perfect.
that the class of plants from Which they
came can be identiﬁed. The contents of
the bodies of many dead bees were ex-
amined carefully, and in every instance
this yellowish-brown mass was pollen,
and sometimes mingled with honey. The
fact that all the bees were full of this
pollen, and that being in a state of partial
decomposition and undigested, strongly
points to the conclusion that pollen is
the primary cause of the disease.

...—......—

THE American Agriculturist says: “As
is known, bees become irritable if handled
after gathering ceases in the autumn. To
take out extra comb, extract the uncap-
ped honey, and prepare for winter, is
often the most dreaded work of the sea
son. The bees seem cross at the failure
to obtain labor, and cannot endure dis
turbance. By using a bee tent, made of
wire gauze or mosquito netting, and large
enough to set over the hive and operator
all this danger and trouble is avoided.
The bees are apparently frightened into
good behavior, and are as amiable as
though in the midst of the honey harvest.
The bee tent also prevents robbing, which
is quite likely to be induced if we work
with the bees when they are irritable
from enforced idleness.

————.—.—.—————.

IN Germany the hives used are about
the same size as those used here. That
the hives were placed, as a rule, closer
together than we do in America. That
almost invariably the hives are placed
under a cover something like a pavillion
and that not infrequently a house is built
open at the base, where a great number
of hives are placed, while in the next
story the family of the apiarist take up
their abode.

IN answer to a question put at the Tus-
cola County Bee-Keepers’ Convention, as
to the proper time to remove 'bees from
their winter quarters. W. Z. Hutchinson
said he would not remove until willows
and soft maples were in bloom.

» Adrian, Toledo,

 

Michigan Central R. R.

Depot foot of Fourth street. Ticket emcee. 154
Jefferson ave., and De t. All trains arrive and
depart on Central Stan ard time, which is 28 min—
utes slower than Detroit time.

Leave.
going west

Arrive.
from west.

511.59 a m
l$.10 p m
*6.25

Chicago Trains

New York Limited Ex. .
Mail,via Main do Air line
Day Express. . ....
Ka . & hree Rivers Ac
Jackson Express .......
EveningEExpress .......
Paciﬁc xpress ........
. GRAND nsrms '1'
Fast Express.... . . .
Day Express ...........
Grand Rapids Express.
Night Express .........
ssemxw AND BAY crrr TRAINS.
Bay City & Sgg. Exp..
Marquette & ackinaw
Night Express .........
ronnno rmns.
Cincinnati Express....
St.L. Cin. Clev. and Col
Cincinnati Express. . ..
Toledo Express. ... .. .. . 5

Canada Division.

Leave.
going east.

INS.

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Arrive.
Buffalo and To- from east.
ronto Trains. ——-——
Atlantic Express .......
Accomt‘n from Windsor
Fast Day Express ......
New York & Boston Ex ‘7.30 pm
Limited Ex ress ....... 512.15 a m 58. 0 a m
§Daily. 1' xce t Sunda s. +Except Saturdays.

f Except onda s.'
CHAS. A. WARREN, 0. W. RUG
City P. 85 T. Agt. . . A ..
Mar. 9, 1883. Detroxt, Mich.

FLINT & PERE moon's-rm BAIL-
WAY.

56.15 a in
ms a m
511.59 a m

 

Depot Foot of Third Street. Ticket omce
154 Jefferson Avenue and in Depot.

Trains run on Central Standard Time.

' —'Arrive. Depart.

Bay CitydtSaginaw Mail.. l"10:250a in *8:40 a in

Bay City & Lndmgton Exp ‘3:45 p in *12210 p m

Bay City & SagiilnlawEx . *9:55p to *5:00 p 1:

Bay City a Lu gton Exp 1 8:05am +11:30 p m

Sleeping Car on Night and Parlor Car
on Day Trams.

*Daily except Sundays fDaily.

C.A. ARREN, P.&T.Agt.

AXE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTH-

ERN RAILWAY.

Trains run on Central Standard Time.

Cincinnati, Colum’s and Leave. Arrive.
Cleve. Express ..... . 7 12 am 1 02 pm

Chicago Express ........ 8 52 am 6 42 pm

Cleve-

land&BuﬁaloExpress 3 10 pm 7 25 pm

Fayette, Chicago & Cin-
cinnati Express ......

 

1022am

The 7 25 p in train will arrive, and the 3 10 m
train depart from the Fourth street depot. Ogre:
trains w111 arrive and depart from the Brush street
de t. Daily exce t Sunday.

p-town ticket 0 cc No. 154 Jefferson Avenue

DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
WAUKEE RAILROAD.

612 pm

 

De at Foot of Brush Street. Trains run by Cen-

tra Standard Time, which is 28 minutes slower

Detroit time. In eﬂect December 30th, 1888.

~ Arrive.
11 :45 a m
4 :50 p m
9 :50 p m

*MorninglExpress .......
*ThrougR Mail ...........
*Grand apids Express.
iHolly and Saginaw Ex... . 8:00 a m
+Night Express ......... 10:30 1;) m 5:25 a m

* aily, Sundays excepted. t aily. i Daily,
Saturdays exce ted. _

Through Mai has Parlor Car to Grand Haven.

Chic 0 Ex ress at 8:309. m has through coaches
and Pul man arlor Day Car to Chicago. A

Chicago and Owosso Express at 8:35 p in has
through coaches and Pullman Palace Sleepers to

Ch cage. .
Nig t Express has Wagner Sleeper from Detroit
to Grand Rapids.
Sleepin Car berths can be secured at G. T. R’y
Ticket 0 ce, 156 Jefferson Ave., and at De t.
T. TANDY, Gen’l Pass. Agt.. De roit.

HOMES IN TEXAS SABKANSAS

Low prices. Lon credit. Rich agricultural and
grazing lands, ‘pr ucing wheat, rye, oats. corn,
cotton, grasses and all the choice fruits. near
schools, churches and railroads. Chea laud ex-
cursions every month. Forms s of exas, Ar—
kansas, Missouri and Kansas, th all information
address J. B. FRAWLEY, Pass. and Land Agent
Missouri Paciﬁc Ry. 00., 109 Clark Street. Chicago
Illinois. . 114!

 

 

 

