HE FARM AND HOME. he picking, packing, and SHIPPING OF FRUIT. rult Unlit for Market—Paints In Feeding —To Remove the Turnip Flavor in Milk—Farm Rotes anil Home Hints. Marketing Fruit. The following advice regarding the licking, packing and shipping of ruit waa written for the benefit of nnadian fruit-growers, and appeared ii the ••Farmers’ Advocate.” The idvice given is equally applicable to growers here; and is worthy of their iltention: The amount of fruit that is sent to niu-ket by wagon, train or boat every cason that is unfit for market ,s uirething enoriioap. Why is it that ariers, or fiu't glowers; who ap ea ’ to have enough ten.e in many ■ atte.s, w.ll persist in trying to sell o their city customers or friends ■ uit that they know is not fit for sale mil pa kages that they know they lave i a ked with the best bemies on op of the basket or pu:kage and hat the bottom of said package what sver kind it may be, basket bag o: larrcl, is filled with poor, miserable i:uml 1 and wormy tru.k, and entirely mfit for food! Farmers and fru t -rowers, if you have been doing this itop at on e To those who are free roai the vi e Isay, don’t commen e; rou can’t do it and make money, •i k and pack your fruit hone tly and airly, if you want to sue.eed in the >nd. If you get a good customer, don’t ry lo cheat him by giving him an in ei ior article for a good one; if you io. he is lost to yop. If you ship al ogether to commission men. the buyers know ypur brand or package n a day or two. and if you are caught kith false packages you will be the me to lose, for they will buy your ruit at about half price on account of ,ho previous bad packing. Remember hat trade once dropped because of bad packing and poor fruit is hard to regain, if it ever can be. If you have :>oor fruit ship it as poor fruit Send ,'our good fruit sorted by itself, and if ,-ou send poor fruit don’t top out ,'Our package with good fruit; you will rue it if you da If you don't do ho packing yourself, watch the man who does. He will not be likely to pack right if not watched and in ■tructed. The idea is just this: If you ever intend to succeed in fruit culture, you must strive to grow the host fruit possible and pick at the proper time; pack and ship right good fruit and you need have no fear uf the consequences. The buyers are in the market ‘among the sellers every day. and ' it only takes a few days to find out what kind of fruit the grower is sending, and the buyer is there to buy it on its merits. Many ship in dirty baskets, pack pood grapes and culls all together, tiio whole badly smashed. After the best grapes are picked and shipped wine cun bo made of the balance if de sirablo, or they can be gathered and shipped to market I have found the ten pound basket is large enough for all table grapes, and for choicer varieties five and eight pound boxes, packed in crates, bring the best prices, though in very hot weather the crates do not afford ventilation enough; but late in the season, grapes shipped this way very oTten bring jtwo cents per pound more than ten pound baskets. Everybody buys and eats grapes, and they would buy’ tnore if put up in more tempting packages. Let all fruit be picked at •the proper time and in the best man pcr. put in the neatest packages, and. i.V word for it, you will have less ouble in selling fruit at paying prices, forgot to mention that in this ction we are using only the 24-box ft crate for strawberries, raspberries id blackberries; having discarded ie old box crate that was returnable, it which we rarely did get returned, his gift crate costs only 20 cents :r crate; including boxes; and is peat and easily handled; each having P handle, two can easily be carried. [You will require covers. I J-ook them up in time, and be sure k ou get the right colors. Good bright cardinal is best for peaches, pears, kind white and yellow plums, and Is Nearly as good for the dark plums p1 s any. Red and white grapes also Require the cardinal but dark grapes must be covered with purple or plum Colored material which is also often pised over dark plums. Never use green. yellow, dark red or blue, if possible to avoid it; the color often sells the fruit, in making it look good jor bad in color. ; Fbr those who drive to market and retail their own fruit this will be of no interest; but there are hundreds of people who have to ship .or prefer to ship. To those I would say. there is no trouble in finding good, honest commission m9n in any city, who will handle your fruit to the best advant age and remit the proceeds, if you will only take the trouble to look ttiem i up Many who are now selling their j fruit or produce to others would | make more money if they shipped di- j rect themselves. If you are shipping j every day. ask the consignee to wire i you the price your fruit sold for ira- j mediately after 6ale; thus you know what to do again. Many a time the writor has made from $10 to $2,5 more on a shipment by using the wire a little thus learning where the best prices are obtainable. Very often you will find that if you ship to a fiat market, by the time your shipment reaches its destination the market is up. and the high market down fiat. Point* In Feeding. Muring the fattening period the fol owing points bearing upon feeding should receive prompt attention. 1. The meal ration should be moderate at first as to quantity, and should gradually increase as the time goes on. until a maximum quantity Is waehed This period will depend on (ho length of the feeding term, but It should not bo near the commence' i ment In any case. 2. The strength of the meal ration should also be in creased as the season advances. 8. The appetites of the animals should be carefully watched and no more food be given to them at any time than they will eat with a relish. i* uuu uuuc jiuii on meir ieoa oy over feeding, they seldom regain their former tone while the experiment iasta There is no necessity for giving them more than three feeds perday. Some old feeders have practiced giving five feods per da.-. It may turn out that two feeds per day will answer every purpose, but I am not prepared to affirm this In the meantime. The feeder should be careful not to finish the animals before the probable date of sale. If they are not expected to take the market until May they should be so fed that they will not be ripe a day sooner. When they are ripe the tiesh assumes a solidity which is easily discerned by the practiced hand. After this condition is reached the gains are slow, no mat ter what the nature of the feeding may be. It is also wise to sell before the warm weather cornea when this can be done as after that period the gains will not increase rapidly.— Thomas Shaw in National Stockman. To Remove Turnip Flavor 1'rJin Milk. The only way to get turnip flavor out of milk is to heat the milk in a water bath to 135-140 degrees im mediately after milking. This will completely eradicate the turnip flavor, and the milk will make good, sweet butter. This heating of the milk will also cause the cream more per fectly to rise if set in shallow pans, and will thus increase the amount of butter. We have often described the mode of beating milk in a water bath, which ia in short, to set the vessel containing the milk into another ves sel containing water, allowing the water to circulate under the vessel containing the milk by raising it on two thin bars of iron. The milk will then be heated by hot water and can not be scorched. The taint of milk from sour or mouldy ensilage is removed by heating it to 130 degrees. We have made butter quite satisfac tory to very particular customers after thus heating the milk.—Farming World. Farm Notes. Land can hardly be manured too highly for corn. It pays to sbarpen the harrow as well as the plow. Experiments in removing corn tas sels have not been satisfactory so far. One important point in farming is to reduce to the minimum the cost of growing crops. Poor soil well cultivated frequently gives fetter returns than much bettor soil poorly worked. The ground for strawberry beds should bo prepared some time before putting out plants, in order to kill out weeds and gross. , Lands that are liable to wash would be benefited by being sown to rye, as it would form a sod which would pro tect the ground. W. S. Chamberlain, of Ohio, thinks that the best material for a drain pipe is round or cylindrical tile without collars or joints. Nearly all experienced wheat grow ers are agreed that land for wheat should be well pulverized and the seed bed made firm. On barbwire fences at least ono plank should be used to show the stoctc where the wire is. It would save lots of bad scratches and some times severe injuries. A New Jersey horticulturist in or der to give his trees two heads cuts back the youug trees within a foot of the ground and keeps the ground well cultivated and troated with bone and potasli. A writer for a Canada paper says that the Canada thistle can only be checked at blooming tilde. .If a small patch, they can be dug up but if a field is infested, it is best' to plow under at thut time. Home Hints. Sort butter the size of an egg weighs one ounce. l our teaspoonfuls are equal to one tablespoonful. One pint of coffee • A" sugar weighs twelve ounces. One pint of best brown sugar weighs thirteen ounces. One quart of sifted flour (well heaped) weighs one pound. Two teacupfuls (level) of granu lated sugar weigh one pound. Two teacupfuls of soft butter (well packed) weigh one pound. \ One and one-third pints of powdered sugar weigh one pound. ' One pint (heaped) of granulated sugar weighs fourteen ounces. Two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar or flour weigh one ounce. Two teacupfuls (well heaped; of coffee • A' ’ sugar weigh one pound. Two and one-half teacupfuls (level) of the best brown sugar weigh one pound. Bice flour wafers, which are slightly sweet are the correct thing to serve with five o’clo.k tea. * One tablespoonful (well heaped) granulated coffee ’A” or best brown sugar equals one ounce. When gelatine is used for creams, it is better to soak it for an hour in luke warm water, kept in a warm place. If the fishy taste in wild game is objectionable, it can be removed by putting a small onion, cut fine, into the water it is cooked in, or carrots if onions are not liked. When young chickens are to be baked, with a sharp knife cut open the back at the s'de of the backbone, press apart and clean, and place in a dripping-pan. > kin side up Tli» llplmbct 1» Mnvle IciilahfM, A few years ago this department contained a "note'' entitled “An Al phabetical Sentence” which ran as follows: "John P. Brady gave me a black walnut box of quite small size.” The Republic's editor commented on the ingenious littlj piece of word car pentry ana supplemented it with an other in which "Blocks of Five” was curiously interwoven with the results of such political tinkering. The Bra dy sentence containing forty-seven let tcra and at the time it was published was thought to be the shortest alpha betical sentence in the English lan guage. Since that time "ye editor” has succeeded in capturing the fol lowing: J. Gray Pack my box with five dozen quill*. Z. Badger: Tby vixen Jumps quick at fowl The educated half-breed hunter, af ter he had fired all save his last ar row into a herd of wild cattle without effect, cried out: "Quick! Glad ze phyr, waft my gravelin to ox. ” The first contain* 33 letters; the two last 32 each. If you notice closely you will see that the last sentence lacks a ••b,” a fact which seems tc have been entirely overlooked by Prof. Morrison, its author. Mrs. Nancy Wirt'*, 1201 Carol ine St., Bal timore, Md., thus gives her experience: “rt e have used Dr. Cull’s Couith Syrup and have never fouud its equal'for our ch;l-. dren." _ Backward Eyes. An ingenious inventor has discover ed a means for providing "eyes in the back of the head.” No longer will the schoolboy bo able to indulge in his pranks when the master has turned his head, for by means of the new in vention the master will be able to ob serve what goes on behind his back, and punishment sure and swift will overtake the offender. This new op tical instrument, which performs this extraordinary feat, consists of a new kind of spectacles, on whioh bluish glass of which a small round reflector or mirror is fixed, which enables the wearer to watch—without turning around—the features of those behind him as plainly as though he had a pair of eyes in the back of his head. They do not impede forward vision, nor can they be distin rulshed from ordinary spectacles. 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"This he presented to her, together with a hundred dollars. “Now, my dear, ” said he, "I want you to put down what I give you on this side, and on the other, write down the way it goes, and in a fortnight I will give you another supply.” A couple of weeks later he asked for the book. ‘ ‘Oh. I have kept the account all right” said his wife, producing the li\tle leather volume; "see, there it is,” and on one page was inscribed: ^Re ceived from Algy. $100,” and on the one opposite, the comprehensive little j summary: "Spent it all.” i '3 Joat a* a rotten tenement collar*** when too Itreat a weight or atraln la brought to bear upon the upper floors, so does a puny physique collapse and cove In when su elected to the atraln of disease which must oome sooner Of later If It Is not reinforced and built up. Hos tetler's Stomach Hitters Uof Immense service to the debilitated, the norvons and the dyspep tic, because It strengthens and prevents them from caving In. It Is not necessary to have the biceps o! a Samson to be healthfully vigorous. Many slender apparently fragile and under sized people enjoy phenomenal health. Vigor means the ability to digest, sleep and eat well. This power Hosteller's Stomach Hitters will confer. It will, besides, cure malaria, bilious, rheumatic and kidney ailments, mitigate the infirmities of age ana overcome nervousness. Too Effaatlyo. Mrs. Rnggs—“Why do you dislike Dr. Curem.” Mr». Mttggs—“He cured my hua banda rheumatism, ao he can never tell when ita going to rain, and last week I spoiled a bran new hat." Csaghlng Leads to Constimptlon, Kemp's Balsam will atop the cough at onoa Go to your druggist today and gat a tamale bottle free. Large bot ties 50 eta and He that would have flue guests, let him have a fine wife.—lien Johnson. Balter’s Norwegian Cod Liver Oil Quickly 1'ellevuH tlintuuniul Imitf fl.stmtieBmid Im parts vigor ami now life. Hold by druggists. Rcrueml er woman is most perfect when mo*t wmnar ly. 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