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Show FARM AND HOME. Good compost can be made by mixing mix-ing dry dirt and fresh horse manure, equal parts, keeping the mass moist with soapsuds. It wjll be found excellent ex-cellent for the flower beds. Renew the earth in' the flower pots, and when so doing trim off the damaged dam-aged roots of the plants, should they be injured during the removal, to allow al-low of fresh earth. By changing the earth the plants will have new feeding material and may get rid of diseases existing in the old earth. When you can buy a cow at low price it will be to your advantage to make some inquiries regarding her, as no wise farmer will sell his good cows if he can avoid it. She may be vicious, vi-cious, hold up her milk, diseased, or have some other fault, which can only be discovered when it is too late to rectify rec-tify the mistake made in purchasing. A pretty way to serve strawberries is in individual dishes with the hulls on, and in the center of the dish a smaller dish of powdered sugar, into which the strasvberries are dipped and eaten from the stem. Strawberries are very frequently fre-quently eaten in this vay in England, where the fruit is more solid and sweeter. sweet-er. If the berries are piled closely around the smaller dish of sugar, the contrast of red and white is very pretty. |