a \i: ‘I‘ ‘ \ \.\)&\\\\\\\\I\\\ \_._ \ ,\\\\\\“ r“ , . \‘k ”among ’A‘P‘Rii 29’ 1884' THE HOUSEHOLD===§upplememm WYVE’S. . ‘ 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 oldest inhabitant, etc. Generally they 2 THE HOUSEHOLD. 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- sure happy homes. While rearing our complish these by some device. A hot-bed families, thsbpportw for Self culture . ed ten minutes. Stir a scant teaspoonful ’of soda into the tomatoes, run through a M» f. ~w 4 ’ i 1? , THE HOUSEHOLD 3 in“. . ‘a 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 FIRST TIME . skirt, the top coming up under the polonaise. 4: 5 THE HOUSEHOLE. ._‘ . . a~ /..~m 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- 1.. .~ 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. rmfifimm Gathering cream. Sound for Catalogue to Davis 8: llanlrln, SUCCESSORS 1'0 Davis 1- Fairlamb, DEALERS 1N Ureamerytuinlies. Zita 28 Milwaukee Av. 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 J OHNSTONE' ct GIBBONS. Publishers. with each 0rd 00., North Branro 53 DETROIT, MACKINAW & MARQUETTE RAILROAD. January 3d, 1884. Pioneer East and West Line through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. las'r. srs'rious. wns'r. Exp. Accom‘n. Accom’n. Exp 1’. n. A. M. P. M. 900 830 L....Marquette....A 550 10 i2 9 42 Quote. ...... 4 3‘3 1037 1085 ...... Au Train.... 400 11 22 11 ...... Munising ..... l ....... Sency 2 ..... McMillan ..... 2 ..... Dollarville. . . .. 2 ..... Newberry ..... 6 A... St. Ignace....I Via M. C. R. R. , 6 ...... Bay City ..... 9 ...Lapeer Junctn.. 0 ....Port Huron... . :UEHHHMAUIOIQ? 3&888.‘ 5888358!“ 8§§S88§588F 8 .. . Saginaw City . . 0 ...... Lansing ....... 2 ..... Jackson ..... 9 .......Detroit ...... . . Via G. R. 8: I. R. R. 6 .. ..Grand Rapids. .. 4 ....HowardCity.... 1 ....Fort Wayne... ...... Lansing. .. ....... Detroit. . . . .. :6 Seneca $585§€33585883838§835 H“? CD-lfi" H roan-nous umber-‘6 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. f5eow3m 4 wrrrrrur Agents, of either sex, to sell Teas, Comics and Groceries to Families by sample. Liberal terms to re liable parties. Choice goods repacked ready for de livery atJobbin rices. Exclusive sale. Good profit. No risk. A 0011 nine Business which pays we] from the start. articulars free. dress at once the old re- liable San Francisco Ten. 00.. Jobber-s. 1441 State 815.. Chicago. Mention this paper. al5eow4t Send six cents for pos e, and receiVe free a costly ox of goods which will help all to more money right away that anything else in this world. Fortunes await the workers absolutely sure. At once address Tans a Ca Augusta, Maine 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.” ‘ Jr"? A E -. rma.m . . wl . .B.‘—'u_‘_.'. chip. and gum: Ham“, we I urn-gm u h 7153'"ng ”Trix . e e. . n . / " new I‘cos'cmhn “lib" ! M (II-o mes-led with land “I to l. . '~.-.. I. book and bill's-{fl , 8h. Our son now added elk Ion-on. Blank Col-1|- at who sale warm CARD 00- Noflhford. We will send you awatch or a cm: -- IY MAIL 0R EXPRESS, C. 0 D.. to L- - examined before paying any money and if not satisfactory, returned a: : our expense. We manufacture al.= our watches and save you 30 per cent. Catalogue of 250 styles free. Evan? me quxmn. Annals: STANDARD AMERICAN WATBII 60., PITTSBURGH. PA. § WANTED. 1 Agent wanted in every place to sell our new goods. Big Pay. — 40 samples only 100. None free. Cut this out. Acme Novelty 00., Clinton— aB-St ville, Conn. Hand-Book FREE. R. S. & A. P. LACEY, Patent Att’ys, Washington, D. c. AMONTII. A ’tswanbed90bestsell. $250 i articles in t. 9 world. 1 sample fire. A dress JAY BRONSON.Detr0tt-.Mleb Farms for Sale. 0 VIRGINIA free. Maps of Va. S0 H.L.Stuptcs&-Co. . a (1884) Chrome Cards, no 2 alike. with name loo ‘I 13 pks..81. GEO. I.REED& comm“ my ‘t fl... at 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 7r 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. i. 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. '3 S“ a e: 'U B 288 see ass .5 div-55 new new no ’3‘ 9‘!"‘° '6 BBB BBB BBB '13 fiérfi 8 I 5 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!