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THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. SEPTEMBER 6, 1902. -OUR GRANGE HwMES ERESTS WOMEN INT sr the home of a very popular Princeton girl, a young maid hit upon a clev Cow -Ease eream, or lemon or orange water ice. The bit of skin which was removed refitted and the oranges are IN PICKLE TIHE. CATSUPS, SWEET AND SPICY CONDIMENTS.

DE LAVAL Cream Separators possess the protected "Alpha Disc" and Split Wing Improvements. And are as Much Superior to other Cream Separator as such other Separators are to gravity setting IS GUAR ANTEF.D TO KEEP THE FLIES OFF THE WAY TO PUT IT OU If it is used as directed. It does not gum the hair or blister ttu skin. If your dealor does not havo it we will send a gallon can, prepaid, for one dollar. Carpenter-Morton Boston, U.

S. A. A Grand New Book Animal Breeding By THOMAS SHAW Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Minnesota. Autnor of The Study of Breeds. Forage Crops Other Than Grasses, Soiling Crops ami the titlo, etc.

This book Is, beyond all comparison, the most complete and comprehensive work ever published on the subject of which It treats. It Is the first hook of the kind ever given to the world which has systematized the subject ot animal breeding. It Includes thirty chapters, each of which treats of some particular phase of the subject. The leading laws which govern this most intricate question the author has boldly defined and authoritatirely arranged. The chapters which he has written on the more Involved features of the subject, as ser and the relative influence of parents, should fro far towards setting at rest the widely speculative views cherished with TefeTmr.e to these questions.

The striking originality In the treatment of the subject is no conspicuous than the superb orter and'renujai sequence of thought from the beginning to ibe end of the hook. Kven a hasty examination must convince the reader that the author has handled a difficult and com-nlei subject In a way that brines It down to the level of the comprehension of everyone. The book Is Intended to meet the needs of all persons Interested In the breedlug and rearing ol live stock. Illustrated. and rinnd-sotiiely hound In cloth, hv 7 inches, 405 pp.

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AG ER Machines machine which we have offered foi given universal satisfaction, we ou Machine mm we fWM er idea. She procured a square of orange colored linen" and had the seal of Princeton college stamped in the centre. Then she asked all those who had contributed in any way to her pleasure during her stay to inscribe heir autographs in radiating lines from this centre, and these she worked in black. With a black back and a frill of range silk the result was a beautiful cushion for her choicest cosy corner, and woe betide the one who imagines for an instant that it was ever intended for use. Another way of designing an auto graph pillow is: Take fine gingham of the large plaid variety, yellow and white being the most artistic.

Have the friends you wish to contribute to he collection write their names in ink upon either the white or yellow squares. On the white squares em broider the names in yellow silk and on the yellow squares In white. Line the pillow with either yellow silk or satin and finish the pillow with a uffle the same material as the lin ing. Fall Renovating. If every year sees improvement in a house nothing can ever get very shabby.

Sometimes when the purse strings must be tightly held this is impossible, but a certain outlay each year is always really necessary unless the wear and tear is to become noticeable. Pass nothing by. If an article of fur niture seems to have outlived its use fulness give it to the flames to be consumed. Save nothing that can propel ly be termed rubbish, unless it has an excellent stowaway place in which to await its restoration. Every shabby article should be looked at in a strong light, newly covered or painted or stained btefore it is allowed a place in the spotless house that the termination of housecleaning should mean.

Modern Priscilla. A Tenement House Opinion. No more farmhouse for me," she told her neighbors on the third floor left. "It was the most awful lonely place I ever saw. The little ones cried when I told them" we were com ing back and I had to give Willie a good trouncing.

Why, it was the most ridiculous summer place! There wasn't a board walk or merry-go- round or anything else there should liave been and if you looked out of the window till Christmas you couldn't see a crowd. Would you believe it, there wasn't a thing for a mile but trees and fields of corn and hayseed things like that and you couldn't get a can of beer if there was a furnace in your throat." COST OF MILK. Can It Be Produced at Two and a Half Cents a Quart? The New Jersey experiment station recently made some figures on the cost of producing milk. The kind, amount and cost of foods for 30 cows for one year, April 1st, 1899, to April 1st, 1900, was: Pounds. Cost fed a ton.

Wheat-bran ....31,700 Dried brewers' 27,500 15.00 Corn meal 14,000 18.00 Linseed meal 2,100 28.00 Cottonseed meal 3,500 27.00 Rice meal 5,400 14.00 Buckwheat 3,200 12.00 Soiling crops 350,000 fl.30 Silage 210,000 2.60 Dry cornstalks 40,000 5,00 Hay- 15.00 The grain cost $728.53, and the roughage total cost of food, cost per cow per day, 13.23 cents. Total yield of milk was 90,984 quarts; average per cow per day, 8.31 quarts; cost of food per quart, l.o cents. The cost of grain represents -what was actually paid. The cost of hay, clover and timothy, Is fixed at the price which would have been obtained for it, and not at what it cost the farm. The cost per ton of soiling erops represents the actual cost of la bor, seed and manure, the farm ma nure being charged at the rate of $1.50 per ton.

The average cost of the daily ration was 13.23 cents per cow, of which 6.35 cents, or 50.3 percent is due to pur chased feeds, and 6.58 cents or 49.7 percent to thei cost of farm cropa. The total cost of producing miUc, itt' cludjng the cost of labor and the de crease in the value of the herd, the latter item being estimated, was: Total cost of producing milk. Food as per statement $1,449.03 Labor 5600 5 percent decrease In value 60 669.00 Total $2,109.03 Cost of food per at. of milk 1.59c, Cost ot work 73 Total cost per quart 2.32c. THE WEEKLY PAPER.

It Has an Important Field In the Ad vertlsing World. The weekly Is successful as an ad vertlsing medium, not only because ot the frequency of its Issue, the ample proportion of Its page, the value of position alongside of reading matter, and the ability to pile up argument in the minds of the reader, but be cause It stands, In point of vital in tereBt to the public, next to the daily newspaper, without which the busl ness and commerce of the world would placed in a box in ice and salt until PATCHES AND DARNS. Mending a Rent Properly Repairing Kid Gloves Stocking Stitches. The French patch is a piece insert ed without turning the edges. The hole is cut out, the piece fitted in, both basted smoothly on stiff paper, nrl the edsres are darned together, as closely as possible, with the tiniest of stitches and finest of silk.

In darning a rent, says the Delin eator, place a pieoe under, the threads running the same way in both, draw the liDs of the tear closely together. and run back and forth with fine, even stitches, taking care not to pucker the darn. The thread used should the material exactly: use the ravel- ings if they are strong enough. Ordinary sewing silk split and waxed is excellent, the idea" being that thread which is hard twisted does not sink into the goods and is, therefore, more likely ito show. When mending gloves let the sew ing silk match the color of the kid, and overseam for a rip; for a tear button hole-stitch the edges of the rent around closely, once or twice, as the size of the hole many require, then join-the buttonholed edges together with a single row of close button-hole stitch es.

Kid gloves may be patched beautifully by inserting a piece of kid and overseaming neatly on the wrong side; this is the method practised by French women. American girls sent to school in Germany surprise their teachers in no small degree by ignorance of the art of stocking mending. A German woman fills in the hole so that it looks like the original garment, a tedious process which does not pay, except for fine silk stockings. The ordinary method practised by our grandmothers is good enough for all others; that is. weaving in a fillms-, with threads across one way and in and out the other.

When the hole is large use a darning egg. and draw the edges of the hole not together but into position, with long stitches of white basting cotton; otherwise, it will stretch. Leave a tiny loop at the end of each thread, for the stocking will stretch while the darning cotton will not: in filling in do this closely, but not heavily. Let your work ex tend far enough to form a bolder to the hole which, you mend, else the darn will pull away from the stock ing, leaving breaks all around it. Stocking darning, in these days of cheap hosiery, is a virtue which may be carried to excess, but within lim its iit is both necessary and praiseworthy, Floor Treatment.

The only excuse for a carpet nowadays is a worthless or unsightly floor. If the boards be uneven, badly matched or full of knots, or badly worn, or splintered, whether the wood be hard or soft, better cover the floor at once. A carpet of some plain color with a border and a few good rugs laid here and there, has a certain beauty as a floor cover. It is better to the polish of the floor or where they may be of service to lend additional warmth. Almost any hardwood may be stained to carry out a scheme of color and then kept in good order by being oiled or waxed.

If the floor be of soft wood and well laid it may be filled and oiled and varnished, and mad; quite attractive, but a varnished floor requires protecting and frequent revarnishing. The same floor finished with oil stain is less care and toler ably satisfactory. Some householders have solved the vexed miestton, of what to do with a bad floor, by covering it with hardwood veneer. Others lay matting about the edge a width of two feet or so and cover the remaining space with a carpet rug. But if one owns the house he lives in it will be a good investment to lay new floors over the old ones.

A hardwood floor is clean ly and therefore hygienic. It is much easier to keep free of dust than a carpet and is durable. The Household. Successful Shirking. Half the mental and more than half the bodily ills women undergo would be lightened if they could learn to shirk scientifically.

This 13 a faculty that must be cul tivated. Few women north of Mason and Dixon's line are born with it When the Puritan fathers bequeathed to their descendansts brown bread baked beans and alleged liberty of thought they threw in what is still known as "Puritan conscience." From the onus of this conscience must the woman free herself who would make a science of shirking. As a matter of course the woman who makes a science of shirking Is a diplomatist. When she shirks bread-making because there is something else of more importance on hand, she buys a breadstuff so pleasing that the family feel they are having a treat If the has shirked going to church for several Sundays she compliments the clergyman judiciously on his sermon or his prayer the next time she at tends service. If she shirks her duty calls she invites the slniied-agalnst friend to a meal at the house or writes her a flattering note about her last club paper.

Christine Terhtme Her- rick in Collier's Weekly. Autograph Pillows. Wlsfilng to possess a Bouvenlr ct a very happy time spent in visiting at Saving Geranium Slips New Variety of Fancy Knitted Shawl Miss Farmer's Cooking School. Every experienced housekeeper has her own tried and true recipes for making pickles, but each year there are beginners. I will give a few hints of what I shall do with the box of pickle materials which comes to me from the old home garden every year.

First there is the sauce which has been, recommended by physicians as a tonic and condiment for convalescents. Chop fine 18 large rine tomatoes, six good sized onions and six medium sized peppers that have just turned red. Add one and one-half cups of granulated sugar, one-third cup of salt, and three cups of good vinegar. Cook all together one hour. "When I first began housekeeping -sweet pickle was something of a novelty.

I learned to make it by the following rule, using the little tomatoes if they are available, if not the common sized tomato. In the morning slice a peck of tomatoes thin, discarding stem and blossom end. Sprinkle one and one-quarter measuring cup of salt through the tomatoes, and let it stand in earthen bowls until the next morning. Drain and boil in two parts water and one part vinegar for one hour. Drain again.

Make a syrup in the proportion of three-quarters of a pound of sugar to one quart of vinegar, one teaspoonful ot cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of cloves, allspice, mustard and peppfer. Pom-over the tomatoes and boil about ten minutes. Vary this rule by adding a chopped green pepper and three sliced onions to the tomatoes before sprinkling with salt. If preferred whole or cracked spice may be used instead of the ground spices. An excellent cucumber catsup is made as follows: Peel 3 full grown but green cucumbers, and eight white onions.

Chop very fine and sprinkle on one and one-half cups of salt. Put the whole in a cheese cloth and drain over night. Mix one-half cup of mustard and one-half cup of black pepper and stir through the cucumbers and onions. Put in jars, cover with strong vinegar and close tightly. Sot away in a cool dark place, and in four days it is ready to use.

Do not cook tins catsup, as it will spoil the flavor. A recipe which I shall use later in the season comes from the Boston cooking school book, and is called venison jelly, as it is suitable to serve with meats. Put one peck of wild grapes, one quart of vinegar, one-quarter cup each of whole cloves and one-quarter cup of stick cinnamon into a preserving kettle and heat slowly to the boiling point, and then cook until the grapes are soft. Strain through a double thickness of cheese cloth or a jelly bog, and boil 20 minutes. Heat six pounds of sugar in a granite dish in the oven, leaving the door ajar and stirring occasionally.

Add tvi hot sugar to the boiling liquid and boil five minutes longer. Turn into glasses. It will soon be time to take in the geraniums, and although cuttings should have been rooted long ago there will be many taken when the larger plants are put in the cellar, The rule given by florists is to cut a quarter of an inch below a joint and take off the large leaves so hat but one whole leaf and two partly opened are left. Set the cutting firm in the soil, water it well and then let it alone until rather dry, just the same as if it were a plant. Constantly moist earth causes them to turn black.

I have had success rootfng geranium cuttings in bottles of water and also in earth. A beautiful shawl which I have seen is made from white Germantown and blue Saxony. The directions arc to wind the yarns each into a ball, then cast 50 stitches on to coarse wooden needles so that the shawl will be light and fluffy. Knit once across and back with the Germantown, then join the Saxony, and knit across and back. Continue alternating the yarns, which will make ridges that give a pretty effect.

Crochet blue shells on two sides with the Saxony and make a fringe for the ends of Germantown. For the fringe wind the yarn round small book several times, and cut Loop through the edge of the shawl, then cut. This is a pretty variation from the umbrella and the ice wool shawls that have been worn so much. Miss Farmer will open her school of cookery at 30 Huntington avenue, Sept. 24.

There are to be classes in ithiee courses of cookery, advancing from plain every day dishes to elaborate dinner menus. The waitress course is arranged for young liouse-keepVrs, and will teach the serving of food, arrangement of tables, care of dining room and the preparation of salads, sandwiches, and ninny fancy dishes. The course in sivfc room cookery is especially thorough. Demonstration lectures will be given Wednesday forenoons and evenings, and under Miss Fanner's ablu management the new school is assured success. Alice E.

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