| Show agricultural preserving TENDER FLOWER ROOTS quite a number of beautiful summer flowers may be preserved by the most simple means the ile danilla may be taken as the type of the class we have hare reference to many no doubt lose their roots during winter and wonder why they should be cut off close in the ground after the first sharp frost has destroyed their beauty taken out of the soil without breaking the roots and placed in the sun till they have lave become perfectly dry in winter winters faey require to be just kept from the frost and in a natural dry cellar or where fires do not dry 1 the he atmosphere if kept in a damp place they will rot and if in a place much cirii fire heat beat is asod they will dry up tip if placed in a box with some perfectly perfectly dry sand among t them and kept as above a ove success wiil will be certain the following are plants that are easily kept way the first two doing better than if it raised by seed the usual way four jalapa scarlet flowering bean multi florus nah dah has jacobean jv lily amaryllis Amary ilis lils mas maa tig tiger ier jer flower ferrari ferraria a and co con n chal cb flora ra corn flag glad giad iol lol as gran davens is I 1 and uon bunda bundi i T thus some of the he ins iris and lilies that are tender and the riad llad mad ira vine country gentleman valoe VALUE OF or FOR FARM WORK worx at c cinoc of the s of the massachusetts legislative A 11 rk tit iral society dr fisher of fitchburg B sated aard that lie he purchased a pair of mules last spi sei pounds each and lie he found hit they could be kept cheaply compared wi 1113 ilia horse which weighs om orn 1100 to 1200 pounds eats more than both of the he mules while they will perform twice ap ip amount of labor tabor that he will they will wok wo k 1 more lio lin h rs irs are less liable to diseases adrid nd accidents aud need little it if any grain they will draw as much as a pair of oxen that weigh 2800 p inda nid rid will do as much work as a pair of hors q th it weigh 22 2200 2300 pounds angwill and will not eat more hul hol hm hui half hilf ds as much mr Em emerson etson eXson ot boston a iett n th it the life of mules is much lonter longer than h hit it of horses and that it is said in vir virginia lnla inia that a mule never dies the working life ilfe of a mile moile m ile lle is near nearly y fifty years he thought hought them a better working animal than any 0 hr h r L ex true TRUJE there are just two classes of peo le pe in this cu country who take no paper the hirst first rbt are a class of ignorant cusses that never knew anything that dont know anything now and never will wilf the second are a class of j fellows that imagine they know it all but are really greater than the first there used to be a third class but they have gone out of date they were those who were really too poor to take a paper of all those who took no paper in hit times past this was decidedly the most respectable class but they have become too high spirited now to acknowledge themselves too poor to take a paper once in a while you will overtake a fellow ellow who says he is too poor but in live minutes after you will see him disappear behind the red curtain of a gro I 1 shop where he lie will spend gen ten atwi twice c e th the e s subscription ab s crl cri eption price e e for wh whiskey iskey true r e as preaching and ana a good deal truer than an anti nebraska nier nie r sermon paste this in your your hat if y yoa you ou dont believe it southwest democrat KEEPING GRAPES IN WINTER I 1 have packed grapes in var various ious lous i ways i in n cotton batting s in cotton wadding with the stems tied with twiney twine and with paper between the layers and have arrived at the conclusion that none of these thing are necessary unless the th 0 grapes are put into tight boxes tf if so packed there must be some dry substance to absorb the moisture always passing off more or less until antil the fruit becomes perfectly y dry otherwise it will mildew and rot the grapes the fruit keeps the best I 1 think to let it hang on the vines as late as it can and not freeze pick in a dry day place it in shallow boxes not more than two clusters deep keep keey it in as cool a place as you can and not let it freeze and where there is sufficient circulation of air to carry off thoi thoo moisture I 1 have kept hem in this way until ap april ril rii and though towards the last t they 11 ey were indented like raisins they still retained their delicious flavor rural new yorker kueng sc IN WINTER the way I 1 keep my turnips and vegetable oysters ia a tiie tho wi winter liter titer so aa as to have havo them available avail abla f or usa at any time and to preserve their good ies les ties ibs from froth frost or exposure to tho atmosphere may bo be new to most of the readers of your excellent paper henc benca s tilis tills communication As late in tho fall RS its is prudent to wait walt I 1 take adiv any old barrel and put good layer of dry leaves on the tiie bottom tilen put a layer of turnips or pars nips theu then another course of leaves and so alternating being careful to put in a good supply of leaves between the roots and the barrel and also between each course of vege vego vegetable tables turnips properly property put up in this way will not liot be corky will kemp kerp good all winters winter and can bo be got at anytime any time lime parsnips Par snips put up in this thu manner will vill i bo be bettor belter rural new ney yorker large CURRANT BUSHES A correspondent of the indiana farmer gives his experience in in the he cultivation of currants to be very profitable by care and attention I 1 erectly increased the size of odthe the bushes and the quantity and quality of the fruit my bushes are now about leht feht feet kinhei and are remarkably thrifty the cause of this large growth I 1 attribute in a great measure to the fact that I 1 have been in the lla liA bIlof pouring soapsuds soap suds and chamber lye around their roots during the summer season I 1 ani aai satisfied from my own experience and aad that X of some somo of my neighbors that this treatment will produce a most astonishing astonish inz effect unon upon the growth and product of the bushes and would advise others to give it a trial CARROTS are worth f full fuli uli all hlf hit h halt half af a as 3 much as corn in the ear to feed either horses or cattle our oar neighbors sometimes offer us oats in exchange alian a e for carrots bushel for bushel and we can raise two bushels of carrots cheaper than one of oats we can feed our horses more carrots than grain every winter and spring for years and never have one sick prairie farto mer FARMERS if it you allow your animals to shiver your fortune will be shivered in consequence that is the farmer who leaves his cattle cattie to the wind will find his also given to the wind ORDER IN SCHOOL there is often a ve very ry great error committed in allowing any of the I 1 exercises of the school to proceed while the order is in any degree below the standard let every teacher on the first day and first hour and on all succeeding hours and days see that there is just fust the right standard of quiet and order before any exercise is commenced and let any and every exercise be promptly and entirely suspended unless this standard is maintained but how long should the teacher wait I 1 for quiet to be restored the s spirit i r it of our advice vi e on th is point may be gali gall gathered ered from the following reply of an eastern railroad superintendent to the conductor of a tram how chow jonm long iong shall I 1 wait at station for the th L U up trains tr aa il wait walt 1 sir ir until the axletrees axle trees of your car wheels have hav e rusted off then get a new supply and wait till they rust rut off so let the teacher wait until the solid walls of his schoolroom school room shall crumble to decay before before edin with an any sort of exercises in in a disorderly school welther geither neither re reading nor spelling algebra nor philosophy are matters of such infinite consequence that they are to be taught at the expense of martyrdom of everything thin else valuable but we have one method to suggest by way of securing I 1 and maintaining I 1 this order and we the then n cism dismiss iss the topic it is the imperative never ceasing duty of the teacher to provide lovide every child with something to do alf al of the stu study y hours of each class 0 with the specific time set for hor the preparation of each lesson should be most carefully and judiciously arranged by each teacher it is idle to expect that the simple announcement of a lesson to a young child will be sufficient to insure its proper proportion of attention in comparison with and in connection with all other duties and lessons it is 19 indeed in scarcely safe to leave this to the option of the older P pupils up i 8 in any school if not absolutely sol soi required i ed the practice should be very strongly recommended to the most mature students to have fixed hours for preparation for each recitation with all the young pu u ra ilis eils ab NV we e regard this in connection with what as been een previously said respecting communications cat ions as a sort of point poi to future success ohio journal of education SPICED PEACHES there are many ways N in in which this delicious fruit may be served up to so as to suit the palate but none I 1 think superior to pickling them the best recipe to have them nice and aud every housekeeper likes nice preserves is the fol foi following lowin pare your peaches and leave them whole then to eight pounds of peaches put three pounds of sugar sumar sugar one pint of the best cider vinegar and about about a tablespoonful of cloves pounded up and enclosed in a linen bag allspice is equally as good as cloves to those who prefer the taste of that spice and should be left teft with the peaches as long as they are kept these will be of very light color and of a delicious flavor cor of germantown telegraph |
