Show ilens as a rule about an equal number ot their ill stand second seasons utter which the prodico rapidly decreases A minnesota hockmaster hock master had great with wolves they would get inlo tho folds nt night aud kill his sheep of all iho watchfulness lio could exercise ho finally tried hanging a lighted lantern or two in the corral and alic marauders kept aloof grapo cordial grapes sugar water wash and bruino abo fruit well add a walar aud let it stand overnight strain a cloth and u each gallon of juico add two pounds of sugar let it stand a week then drain oil anil bottle this makes a very acceptable cep table drink for invalids with a little water potato pudding one pound potatoes boiled and ono quarter pound of butter stirred in while warm two ounces of sugar alio rind of halt i lemon chopped line with the juice a toi cupful 0 milk butter the tin put in the mixture and biko b iko in a oven for half an hour two eggs may bo added A correspondent of the new york after trying various ina tying fodder I 1 have adopted rye straw 1 was for many years troubled by petting ryo scattered through my by this nie in but sonic years ago I 1 adopt oil alic nilo of cutting tho ryo when in blossom and hare hid no trouble since an acre of i vc will furnish straw enough to bind the fodder of lefly to seventy live joics of corn and iaci in bo cut early enough so that a crop maybe grown after alio arc is cut cattle thu bands as readily as alicy do alio fodder an english former once told us thit lie could catch as many rats as lie wanted by taking a liello oat moal ami kiik ing it into a dough with whisky and flavoring it a little oil of break it into crumbs and it where rats frequent they rat it and alic whisky mikes drunk and drunken rats simply fools and lose all their cunning and self control you can pick them up and kill them at leisure and throw them out this is far better alun poisoning them and allowing to return to their liolis iud die iowa lii to wild grapes gather alio grape when they arc vry nearly or quite ripe take them from the stems put them in a preserving celtic and pouring boiling water over lliam them stand ono or you may anish them with a potato masher if they arc soft skim them out into a wire fiovo and rub them through it this takes out tho skins and seeds put them over the diio aud let boil fifteen minutes add sugar to our taste or you can take equal parts of sugar and grapes but adding iho sugar after the gropes arc boiled put in airtight cans and keep in a cool dry place our rulo has been to pick out our seed coin from the earliest husked bo foro any very heavy freezes the wagons como from alic bield it lias been our practice to unload those wagons alio llio men arc eating dinner or supper aud then wo can select just such ears as we please it they aru in that load 0 o pick for long deep kernels cobs ends well covoio ii and tho car heavy and solid such corn cardul up in abo chamber herc it is dry lias never failed to grow ly this way wu can constantly improve alic character of the corn this is our way if any ono has a belter way will he give it L S cocjin in iowa stale preserved pepper for this purpose take small round peppers chuy with a sharp penknife extract tho core cores s and seeds and put them into a kettle with vino leaves ami a little to keep green and make them firm pour wilar over them and cover them to keep in alio which will help hem to green let simmer not boil for two hours on taking out of aliis water it you find aliey taste of thu alum binimow them for taruo hours ia weak ginger tea mako a of a pound of sugar and a little less alinn halt a pint of water act it boil until the scum cease to riso put in alic peppers anil lot them simmer ono hour take them oat and spread on a dish to cool when cold add them to tho and lot them stand until the morning then put them over the no n o and let boil a few moments first adding alio juico of one lemon to one pound of the fruit and put up tight with paper over the top of the preserve rind will be found cry nico preserved this 6 inc way and cut in rings and diamonds it is useful to ornament alio llio top of creams jollies jams etc citron may bo preserved in tho same manner birst paring oil the outer rind |