How To Keep Geraniums Over The Winter

Take them up on a dry day. Knock all the mould off their roots. Shorten them down to two or three joints. Lay them in the sun for a few hours if you can. Mind there are no leaves on them. Have ready some quite dry pit (not sea) sand. Bury them four inches deep in the sand, the roots downwards. Keep them dry all winter; you may do that in a good cold frame which does not drip. Fine coal ashes will do as well as pit sand.

If you have conveniences for keeping frost out you need not bury them, but may keep the ends out of the sand.

How To Make A Small Fruit Farm Pay Its Way

First

Never run in debt for land or improvements or stock. Interest to pay will eat up all your profits.

Second

Spend on manure all you can spare. Manure is like judicious advertising, sure to come back again with double interest. Keep cows, and make manure; keep a good compost-heap under way. Never spend a cent off the farm for fertilizers.

Third

Do not depend upon fruits exclusively for a living, but have some extra land to give you corn, potatoes, beans and other farm produce for home support and comfort. Raise enough hay, grass and grain for your horse, cows, and keep some pigs and poultry. Eggs, chickens and butter will help pay your store bills. The sale of your calves and hogs will help give you a good winter outfit.

How To Make Wine

Every man who wishes to know how to cultivate grapes well, and especially how to make wine, should get a copy of Husmann's work on the cultivation of the native grape and manufacture of American wine - a practical book by a practical man; fully illustrated. Sent by mail, post-paid, from this office, for $1 50.

Carnations and the varieties of pinks may all be layered this month, and make good plants before the close of the season.

How To Prepare Okra Soup

Stew a shin of beef thoroughly, and until the meat falls away from the bones, strain the liquid and set away until cold, then remove all the fat from the surface, when, if good, the under contents will be a stiff jelly; put this into a stewpan, with a dozen sliced Okras, six or eight tomatoes, according to size, the grains of three heads of sweet corn; boil one carrot until tender, and afterwards chop up with two onions, one ox-heart pepper, a small handful of parsley, a little celery tops, and a small portion of summer savory, or common thyme. Simmer all together for two hours, salt to taste, and serve up hot.

How To Remit

Procure a draft, if possible; if not, send notes; but let it be a matter known only to yourself; the fewer you let into the secret, the more certainty there is of your money coming to hand. Bo not register your letters, as this at once informs everybody that money is in your letter. If you send gold dollars, secure them carefully in the letter; otherwise, they are apt to work out of the envelop. Stamps over three cents are only taken for the fractional parts of a dollar. Be careful and pay the postage on your letter, and direct it to Robert Pearsall Smith, Philadelphia.