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AOUCULTURAL Winter Dairying. Thii brun h of farming i* usually dil- cuseed from the standpoint, of it* profit ableneasas compared with summer dairy ing. The difference in ilie coet of production and the price of dairy product* in theee two halve* of the year, ha* been talked and written about a good deal. In addition to tne ueul remark* made in favor of winter dairying, oue very attractive feature of the work in winter i* the fact thai, batter maker* then have more easily available mean* of controlling the temperature of cream ripening, churning, etc. Butter i* made in many dairie* that can't afford to have the lateet patent of ammonia refrigerating apparatus, or even ice in the hot eummer *ea*on, but in winter they are provided with *ome way of heating, and are surrounded by an inexhaustible supply of cold outside, that c*n be turned on or off by prewiug the button, and Jack Krost doe* the re*t. It undoubtedly coet* lee* to obtain the neceeaar) heat in winter than to supply m the summer seaann the cold temperature that U essential for rirst class butter- making. Next to cleanliness in the dairy come* the proper temperature at which all the different operation* should be conducted. When a dairyman has mastered theee two points, cleanliness and utrperalure in the dairy, he is a long way on the road to sue- t-ee* m producing dairy product* of a uni- formly high quality and quality i* what money U Marching for. In winter the dairyman doee not run so many risks of having hi* ir.nk or cream our too far and spoil the butter by the development of bad flavor*, a* i* often the caie in summer when dairies are not lap- plied with ice or other mean* of cooling the milk and cream. Another point in favor of cold- weather dairying, is the fact that the cooler the temperature at which cream is churned, the lean butter there is left in the buttermilk. The time required to churn cream is in- fluenced a great deal by the period of lactation of the cow* producing the milk. Cream from freeh, new milch cows, churn* quicker than that of the lame cow* when they are (tripper*. Annie from this factor and alao the well known precaution of not having the churn more than half full of cream when chanting, warn cream will chara quicker than cold. It is generally true, however, that the quicker the churn- ing cf cream to butter, the richer the but* termtlk will be in fat, so that it is not ad- visable to warm the cream too much in order to have the butter come quick. < Jood butter maker* itriv* to get cream cold rather than waim. Many of them aim to churn cream at a temperature of about 90 degrees Kahr. , and do the churning in a place where the temperature doe* not go much above this degree. Cream that can be churned at this temperature i* almost invariably obtained by the use of a separa- tor for ikimmmg the milk. Such cream is, or cen be, obtained much thicker than by any prooee* of cream separation by setting the milk in deep cans surrounded by cold water or ice. Thu is the seoret of being able to churn cream at so low a temperature. The cream must be thick. '1 he paint* in favor of winter over summer dairying, from the standpoint ot the buttet maker who doe* not nave ice in summer, are thu* seen to be ; 1st, the opportunity n give* to obtain cream with lees bad flavor* which may be transferred to ihe butter ; '.M. , a solid butter with a good grain, because the cream can be kept cool when churned ; and 3d., a more thor- ough churning of all the butter out of the cream, for the reason thai the buttermilk contain* almost no butter if the cream U col<! enough when it is churned. not become beepatitred with clay or sand. It seems to be rather benefited than dam- aged by winter graxing, and with melt has never shown any sign of rust. * I put in barley in September, soaring two and one half to three bushels to the acre. It succeeds well on almost any well drained land that nas not been exhausted. A Eundr*d nound* of barley, clean grain, contain twelve ounce* more nutritious mat- ter than 100 pounds of clean corn. The barley, I think, i* more wholesome, especi- ally for growing animals. Arabian hones in their native country are fed almost wholly upon it. " Bariey requires nice care in harvesting. It should be cat a* toon a* fully ripe, tied in small bundles and dried thoroughly as soon as pcaclinable. The long beards and abundant chaff hold much moisture from dew and rain, and the grain whea ripe is liable to injury from this source. It should be threshed as soon as possible, spread in airy rooms and stirred till fully ineil. In threshing, the machine should be run alow ly and the pins should not be so close a* for wheat, so the germs may not be broken and the (train thu* be worthless for seed or for brewing." Some plead poverty, but there'* DO one so poor that he can't provide a simple shelt- er of some kind. When the writer began farming he was not financially able to build a costly shed, but he set poets in the ground covered with pole* and straw, and "weath- er-boarded " with cornstalks. We know men who cannot or will not build oven such a shed ; but they always manage to have money for whisky and tobacco. No. it ii not poverty, but pure and simple shiftless ness, carelessness, and lazmars. Sometimes ins stinginess. Some think it i* good economy to leave five or six hundred dol- lars' worth of tools lying out ut save the ten or twenty dollars it would take to build a shed or house. During the working seasoii, while a tool i* in the field at night, and during a rainy spell, it i* covered with a canvas. If there is any liability to rust the bright metal l>aru are rubbed with lubricating oil. When done the implement is carefully washed and cleaned : all polished metal (urfacee carefully greased or coated with some rust preventive and then put in a good shed. Some may think thi* " a good deal of sugar for a cent,'' but it pay* a pood dividend on the outlay. But there i* another animal in the cage that need* stirring up. In every communi- ty there aie men too penurious to buy tools, but make a practice of "sponging '' on their more generous neighbor. Theee ire term the "borrowing fiends.' We are always willing and glad to help or accommodate a frieud or neighbor in ev- ery conceivable and reasonable way, but ws draw the line at costly farm machin- ery. Not one farmer m twenty take* proper care af hi* own tool*, aud it i* not reason- able to suppose that those who are too tingy to buy will take care of others'. Those who have lent much know in what condition borrowed tools are utually re- turned. THE HOHE. Electricity In the Kitchen. The time is approaching and much more rapidly than any of us are aware when electricity will be the universal heat went, at l*sst, ID so far u cooking purposes are concerned. The way is not yet open for economically heating large spaces, and the hot-air furnace or steam boile>r will continue to supply heal for this use until Kdison or another genius (hall delve yet deeper into electrical possibilities. However, my reference is to heat for cooking purposes, and the introduction of thj new agent in thu particular direction is no longer in experimental itages it is an established thing, and many large hotels are cooking by electricity to-day. Com- panies are introducing the system into the domestic economy of the average home, as well, and wherever there is an electric light plant, wire* may be attached for the newer us*, with economy and comfort very suggestive of the "t. olden age for women," of which she ha* drrame-i, when she hope* to see the kitchen range displaced with its smoke and "contrarm***," its exasperating action and its undying beat on a sultry summer Jay. Bat fine table linen will not retain its beauty unless properly oared for. Abuse m the laundry will rum a good cloth lu about threw washings. It i* a very difficult point to wash table linen at home unless there be a properly established laundry. In the first place, all repairs to linen should be attended to before it is washed, snd if there are any fruit or ink stains salts of lemon should be used before water touches the article. If possible, always dry linen in the open air. As to starching, every one should do as they like. Some people prefer no stif- fening, other* wish a little; at any rale, it wants much care, a* an overstiff tablecloth i* a moat objectionable tning: weak (larch, thsrefore, should be used, if any, with a good quantity of glaze. After starching dry the linen again, damp it down with cold water and fold carefully, right side outward; this, in the case of tablecloths, must be done by twu person*, as each ar- ticle should be pulled into .nape. If tne linen (how* any signs of wear at the places where u is usually folded, of course the plan of folding must be altered to three or four, as the case may be. Just so as to change '.he mark and wear. Wrap each cloth when folded in clean linen clothe U> draw out the ilaup. After ironing always hacg the linen uu to dry ;wheo this point is overlooked the tablecloths and eerviettesare of*en objectionably limp; finally, they must an no account be put away until they are quite dry. L'se the best nee starch, mixed witii a little Slue, some borax and good glaze. A NLW FIEND. ipt>* Player Ba* War e TM* Ce*nlry. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Siam has tailless cat* with purple eyes. Then are eight colored physicians in Baltimore. A rocking-chair that is moved by elec- tricity i* a recent invention. The amethyst i* not popular for jewelry, a* it loss* its color at night. The amethyst which automatically steers AX Ki.crntn: KITCRIN. Well, a part or that dream has come true, a* witness the accompanying illustration of a modern kitchen. The stovepipe is left, bat attached to it is a small concave disc, under which the " oven " is placed. This may be of any desired size and capacity, of course. The pots and kettles are all set upon a marble slab, ana under each is a small " heating plate " connected by wire* with a distant plant. The size of the wire will govern the power attainable. The heat can be started under each of the vari- ous utensils there shown, by simply insert- ing a " ping," *o called, and which appear* at the ends of ea.-h of the several abort putting in of such plugs into their respec- tive boles make* i tarted ' A new street nuisance ha* arrived in this country in the shape of a band of Italian musicians, recently forced to leave France because of the prejudice against their race due to the assassination of President Car not by Caserio, who abhor the organ and essay to delight the ear with more musical, ,1 more primitive, instruments, which they play with i kill. The chief of the newly arrived musicians plays what is known in Italian as the earn- pogna, or shepherd's bagpipe. It consists of the whole skin of a sheep ir goat which is made air tight by tying up the aper- tures in the skin. The reeds which are attached are fashioned from corn (talks and iron keys are crudely fastened to th* reeds. The sampogna dn nes out a sonor- ous accompaniment to the corna moss, as the pipe played by the other performers IS called. The sampogna player ha* a bass drum attached to his bagpipe. The drum u a small-sued one, striped around the . rim with red and gteen. and bearing the i K ll h rl ".?- national coat of arms of Italy, the drum has c/mbais and a triangle on top of it, by a string THE HOG IS KING. Th* rrlee er r*>rk *** IP While ikai f Wh*al Ceee > Mr l.iffoid, of Meaford, express** ths opinion that it is not to any saving of freight the farmers should look to improve) their present returns from wheat. Such a eavmg, at the utmost, could be but a (mail addition to the price. A much greater one, le holds, could be made by keeping the wheat on the farm, feeding it to hog(, and selling the pork. In this way h* baa dis- of his own wbsat at 80c a buanel. If is hsd sold th* wheat instead of feeding he would have realized s little over hat a dollar a bushel. Of oourre, no saving la freight even if transportation were free, .ould give the farmer a premium of 25 to 3Oc a bushel on the current price. Mr. Gifford is not the only farmer who has proved that it pay* better to feed wheat than to sail it. Many othan have demon- trated by experiment that it i* possible to increase the money retu'n from wheat one- half by converting it into park. An indi- cation tnai the farmers as a class Have found out that pork-raising is A ruoriTABI.1 jr m.*E>T to whsat raising is th* increasing number of hogf n.arketed every year. The prios of rork keeps up, while that of wheat goes down. Even at ordinary price* pork makes a better return for the wheat of which it is tbs product than the wheat market doe*. In Manitoba and the North- Wesl more hogs an raised on th* farms than then used to be. This is s conse- quence at cheap whee'. Since a-meri aim to te.l all their produce at the high*** price, and since they generally know ths particular way they an to proceed to get the highest price for their wneat, is a matter of some surprise, at tint sight, thai they sell so much of it. Ths chief reason is that it is the quickest way of realizing, and tne whea. i* sold because the money is wanted. The holder i* often unabU to wall until the value of ths wneat u repro- duced in pork. Moreover, if all went into pork raising to a very large extent befoca th* export market had time to expand, would be a fall in pork. piece* of wire to ue uoticed. Tbs r i"*V I which are worked -, _ . connection, and tb* , tbloagn lh . b^y o f th . J ruln ^.J bre i. started' Now within twenty ed u, ? h e heel of the playet. mutates the "wash water will be boiling, , Taere4r , two otn . r men w ho play the soup i* red hot, the coffee water is bub- bling, ready to be poured, the beefsteak is broiled a* it stood upon the oven top, the pudding placed inside the oven to " heat up again ' i* done, and the fat IS liquid and hot in tne spultr. Not a match ha* been (truck ' Not a particle of ash dust has been deposited group buxon How to Salt Butter. Mr. F. C. Curtis give* th* following method of salting butter : " I assume that it i* generally considered that butter ah- sorb* *lt, which it doee not. In proof whereot I will Hate that some two month* ago I worked up a pound of butter into a solid ball without salt. This butter was kept immersed 10 strong brine un'.il the present time, when 1 found, ou cutting it open, no trace of salt, except near the outer surface of the ball. Sal', properly exists in butter only a* dissolved in tbe water re- maining in butter ; if found In the butter in an undissolved state, objection is made by any good judge of butter. From this reasoning it will be seen that the amount of salt in butter depends somewhat upon the amount of water in the butter when the salt is added. Let us suppose we have a quantity of drained granular butter with JH per cent of water in it our object is to alt only half ths water, but that is an im- possibility ; we must salt all the water in the butter. Hence, if we are required to have one ounce to the pound in the finished product, twice as much salt must be taken, lor half of it will com* out in exuded brine. There i* no danger of getting in too much ealt, provided no more aalt is put in than will dissolve. Sometime* twenty pound* of bttlter.afur salting in the granular state, will exude three or four quarts on revolving the churn and working it into a mass, and sometimes not more than one pint. The difference is undoubtedly in the fineness or coarseness of the granules when the salt i* added" Barley for Winter Pasture. Prof. Phares say* that h* grow* bailey, . almost solsly for winter pasture, tbe gram being a secondary consideration, and noth- ing ha* given him greater satisfaction. " When grated down, l-arley grows again, so that it may be grazed two or three times o ones of other grains, it makes larger and more denes foliage than any other grain, and is greatly preferred by animal* to th* others. This is not due probably to the chemical composition, bat to it* being % cleaner. It* growth eeiog upright, it does of the French Navy. In Francs, if a wife become* an actress without her husband'* consent, he can *e- con a divorce from her. A little machine that makes forty-two cigaretus in a miaute has been invented by a Frenchman. It is run by (team. An apple tne owned by a Baltimore fruit-grower produces apple* every one of which is sweet on one (ids and (our an th* other. The national hymn of China i* so long that the singing of it occupies half a day. Very few people c*re about listening to it a second time. The Japanese have three different forms ol salutation. On* i* for saluting an inferior, one for aalulating an iqual.and another tor saluting a superior. Pneumatic matting, for use under stair carpets, i* a recent invention. It saves the carpet, and reduce* the noise made in ascending or descending the stair*. The largest library in the world is the National, at Paris. It has ^000,000 bound volume* and 160, '100 manuscript*. The British Museum baa a library containing 1,500,000 volume*. Hollow glass bricks, in th* form* of cubes, parallelogram*, octagoua, et.\ ,. are used for building purpose* in Lyons, France. They admit light, and afford protection from both heat and cold. heal is instantly cut off and all's ready and all'* done. Is then sickness in ihe night' Plug ! and then'* the heat working away for dear life without any noise or effort the) corna m.isa. These ir* short pipe* a foot long, mad* of corn (talk. They look like a clarionet without key*, and make a similar noise. Th* woman who accompanies the 1p and plays the tambourine, is a Italian of ihe peasant type. he dresses in a bnght-coloied skirl and waist, and wean a colored silk handkerchief on her head. She u Ihe wife of the sampogna player. All the playen come from Abruzzi. in Italy, when nearly evrey one plays the sampogna or corna muss. They begin to play the pipe* when they are children ju*t able to blow slrong enough to make sound. apparent, i ou do not have to buy coal or | T ^ m th .,, JJJ ,%. Mt M j f^^ sill ashes and then wash it off the fnrni- to become wandft ture latei on. Your aluminum utensil* last, piactically, forever. Th* upright column appearing in the engraving illus- trate* the hot-water boiler. From it pipes run to faucet* overhanging ihe sink. Every- thing i* clean, and por able, and bright, and will stay so. Hasteo thf glad day when home* throughout the land shall be suppli- ed with this current, mysterious hut bless- ed. Our live* will all b*> fuller and bright- er and broader than they can now be made. That day is not far distant. musicians. A Dress Model. Women who for various reason* do their own dressmaking well know the trouble and difficulty of properly fitting a waist. Tbe draping of ihe skirt is more easily accomplished, even if Aunt Abie's method of calling in the hired man and draping it upon him has to be adopted at last. A woman set her wits to work recently and hit upon a anique idea. She took an old waist that fitted her to perfect ion and which buttoned down tbe front. She A Parisian book-collector, Mr. Geoige buttoned it, then sewed the buttonhole* all Saloman, ha* the largest collection of the ! tight and cut tne button* off. then (he smallest books ID the world. He has over ! took a piece of cardboard the sire of and this seven hundred of them, and the largest i* only one inch wide by two in length. A woman in Sewallville, Me., noticed that ht ironing board had a big wrinkle in it. She tried to smoothe it out with her hand, when out popped an ugly snuke. The woman dropped the board, and fainted. Sirius, the dog-star, the brightest (tar in the heavens, move* through (pace at a velocity of thirty-three miles a second. It* distance from Ihe earth exceed* about a million times tho distance of Ihe sun. An ox with a natural knot is the middle of it* tail belong* to Zeke Clolts,of Mobile, Ala. Several surgeons have attempted to untie the knot, but their effort* caused the animal such pain that they desisted. When Vim. Sumner, of Bayard, Neb., awoke the other morning, he felt some- thing cold beside him in the bed. It was a rattlesnake. It took him just three) sec- onds to bound from the bed and leave the snake in possession of the room. the neck and sewed it in a* a cover, and upon this she raised a pincushion by means of rags and sawdust. The sleeve* were cut off at the elbow and lightly tied, and then the figure was nvertl and tightly packed with sawdust. This was allowed to kettle for two days, and was then again punched and pounded until every crevice wai ra-nmed tight. Then another piece of cardboard was cut to fill tbe bottom orifce, and this The Old Man's Advice. He" If you don't intend to break your engagement wiih me. why do you allow young Kichmann to mak* you *UOB valu- able presents?" She" My father advised me t> accept them." "He did? Why?' "He said that if I married you the; might com* haniy ou rent days." A peculsr feature of the music u that u i* com posed by the playen themselves, and they have no regular airs, but (imply play whatever sounds pleasant to themselves. I'hi oorna muss's playen do this wbil* ths sampogna keeps up his lias* droning and crashes m witn has* drum, and cyiobala. and triangle whenever he gets a favorable opportunity. Thisseenn to occur often in his opinion, for he bang* away indiscrimin- ately and at timee with the energy of a convict driven in the treadmill. The action is somewhat similar. The woman thumps the tambourine until a crowd forms then (he moves around soliciting coppers. The uniforms worn by the musicians are the same as those in use in the Italian infantry. The coat and trousers are of dark geen irimmed witn red, and the hats ate low crowned and oval shaped, with straight briins and a bunch of green feathencurling over the top like a rooster' tail. THAT OPEN LETTER. The particul*n of a remarkable cure o' consumption, after the patient had reached the last stages, related in the article pub- lished in last week'* issue under the head- ing " An Open Letter from a Prominent Physician," ha* caused much comment. It is well known thai physicians, a* a rule, are averse to speaking word* of praise for an advertised medicine, however meritorious it may be, and when one of them casts this prejudice aoida and givea in plain unvar- nished language the parncula<-* of a case that must lake rank among tne most re- markable in the practice of medicine, it is ol only a noteworthy triumph for the mslicine in question, but also reflects credit the result would be a fall in pork, and thenforj in the returns from wnemt. Canadian bacon has for some time been a favorite w:tb liriush consumer* Oar supply has increased every year, and the British demand ha* kept pace with it. Canadian brands oak* rapid hsadway id competition with Irish, Danish, Sweedish. and other Continental bsoona on the On that market doubt less, tiiere will constantly be more room making for our bacon. Then is a little Janger that th* cheapness of wheat may tempt farmers to go into hog-raising on a seals that will overcharge tie English demand. So far, nowever, it cannot bo aid that they have yielded to that tamp tation. Hog* an not the only animals to which wheat is now being fed, nor u Can ana th* only country m which it is tho* n**d a* the substitute of the ooaresr feeding grains. IntheL'mtsd Slatse the lower grade*) have for some years been used to fatten cettle. This year some farmers will have feed wheat, no', from choice, bat from ne ceesity. The crop of corn hai been cut down to A* BilORMOCS I\TI>'T. The expected surplus for export has been cut off by the drought, and the price re. mainsalmost ona parity with that of wheat Not only will then be little or no corn for export, but also it is doubted by several unprejudiced observer* thai the United State* will have very much of it* big whsat crop to (pare. V> heat will have to take the place of corn to a largo extent in home feeding. With the shortage in corn, with it* value so close to that of wheat, with the I'm ted States export* of both materially cut down, snd with the profit* derived from wheat-fed pork in this country, tho price o! our leading cereal should be more buoy- anl than it is to-day. These circumstances ,ive a more favorable aspect to the wheat market :han it presented at this time a year ago. Whatever the cause, there was much Tee* Canadian and United State* wheat sold in th* British market in August than there was in the earn* month last year. Last year American farm en rushed their wheat to market out of sheer necessity tonalize, for their couut.-y was just the in the crisis ot that mmv famine which mad* trade almost impouible. Pos- sibly this year then is a disposition to bold until the influnoce of lh* corn shortage be- come* definite and pronounced in its action. But until prices do improve farmers will take more and nion to hog raising in order to help themselves out in wheat. A Great Principle Upheld. The Shopper "I'd like to buy that lovely amp (bade, but 1 can t afford to pay $10 for it. Tb* Salesman-" Well, madame, I'll make he price $9.99. The Shopper "Oh, how good of you : Ml take iu'' sewed in and the whole figun covered with j tne physician who has call aside hie muslin to prevent the sawdust leaking and j professional prejudice and gives the result of his use of the mwiicin* for to afford a good pinbold. The model is now the exact shape of the individual the dree* is intended for, and all (he need* to do is to place the model on the table, put on it a pair ol ooresits and fit the material over the**. When th* model grew " flabby'' she tightened it by forcing the sawdust ou* of the arms into the bust and nfilliug tbe arms with fresh sawdust. Care of Table Linen Hardly anything give* more genuine sat- i*tac.tio<t to th* housewife than tho posses- sion of exquisite table linen. To feel that her linen cloeet is stocked with damask cloths and napkins as rich and lustrous a* ths finest satin brocades readen her house- keeping duties quits easy and simplifies dinner, luncheon and breakfast giving to a wonderful extent. hi* use of the medicine for 'he benefit of suffering humanity. In the article* puo- hihed from time to tiir.s, vouched for by reliable newspapers, ihe public ha* had th* strongest evidence thai Dr. Williams' Pink IMls for I'ale People is a medicine ot re- markable merit, and now to these is added on the authority of a well-known physician, over hi* signature, the particulars of a cure of consumption through th* timeiy use) ol Or. Williams' famous Pink Pills. It oannot be too widely known that a remedy has been found that will cure thi* hitherto deadly and u90ODo,uerd disease), and if any of out readen nave not read ths article to which wo refer we would advise them to look u| last week's issue and give it a careful per usal. The facts related may prove of valu able assistance in a time of need. "Bie population of Peru under ths Incas I was) twelve tuues greater thasj it is to-day Thousands of Dollars I tpent tryiaK to find a rm- for Halt (BbeeiSB, hu-h 1 had 13 yeart. rinMfian* said they never uw M severe a ease. My leg*, back ami arms were cover*.! by the humor. 1 was unable to lie down In bed. ceMsM ex walk wt(St*Nsi crutch**, and had to tK > O. PIII. have my arms, back and legs bandaged twice a day. I began to taka Hood'4 Sartaparllla and soon I could Me a 1'hanne. The flrh became more healthy. th ism MM kM*l*4. the calm fell off. I wa* soon able to give up bandage* and crutch*), and a happy man I wita. 1 had been taking Hood's Sarsapari Ha for seven month* ; and tlnce that Urn. . 2 yean. I have worn no bandage* hU'er and my lags ami arm.* are *ound and well." S. ('. I'EKHV 4.% Bradford st . Providence, R I. HOOO'e PlLLS -' r lll>. constipation. iUiiiiisii,jaaBdlce,a4sk:kbsdicbe Try toast. A