Art o’ Letter Writm By KIN HUBBARD

« uttle Guldf V CorT«*poBd«nce, Apt an' Hu PopnlaHty Wu* Only Blvnled by ■Ud Become an EaUbllt'-ed Favor-

a coral bracelet; bow f write a 1Mter of ad rice f a EonUeman who contemplates 1 earin' tfa' farm, an' other matters reuntrln’ delicate handlin’. Fullerin' Is a sample letter lifted from Th' Ready letter Writer, supposedly from a young gentleman f a young lady, o' whom he has become enamored at first sight:

Bloom Center. O, April 10. 1870.

Deer Miss Maitland: No doubt yon wfll be at a lots f .jess who the writer of this letter Is. I confess that inkin' this method o'( addresain' one whom I hare met but once. U rather a rude one; hut not knowin’ when 1 should see you agin. II erer. 1 rentured upon this plan of Informin' you that the Impression produced by vour charmin' disposition, amiability an' accomplishments is a pleasin' remembrance, an' If I ke not. a tastin' one. If by your permission, an' th' approval o' your parents. I shall be granted th' privilege r wait upon you. th' wiltin' o' this 1 ;lpr will never be regretted. I am well an' I hope these few lines will find yon thl same.

< SICKLE.

Note th' excellent English, th* fault- ' leas composition an' th' true ring o’ sincerity an' genuineness In th' fore1 goln'. Note how trite an' unmistakable th' writer expresses th' feelln* that burns within him. at th' 1 l -Umr spellin' AMIABILITY righl supplyln' th' required number 4 . In ADDRESSIN': Study th' letter ' ever' angle nr.' then try C Imagine j what a girt o' th' present generation I-, would do t* Clarence Van Slekle. t How th' love IstWBS.p' • trashed with love au' sentiment! tlW- Tday th' affairs o' th' heart are —B breathed by word o' mouth or bsni; died o'er th' 'phone. We seem C be ’ afraid f put 'em down In black an' white lest they git in th' courU. (Protectrd ty Adams Kswyper BenAce.)

Few Delicious Dishes May Be Made From the Ju'ce and Pulp of This Probably Moat Popular of All Fruits. Orange Rated.—Cut off the tops of targe oranges. Carefully remove pulp. Mix pulp with an equal querl'T of nanas and one-half th. ,-uitHy of walnut neats Marinate with French dressing. Place In orange Chill thoroughly and serve with toasted crackers. Orange Delight.—Soak half a box of gelatin In one gill of cold water fifteen minutes, now add three gills of boiling water, stir until dissolved; put Into it half a pint of granulated sugar, throe gills of sour orange Juice and the strained Juice of one lemon, stand In s cool place; harden In the refrig-

erator.

Place a couple of rounds of sliced orange In each Individual dish, cover with the Jelly, then s layer of soft custard or whipped cream as a mask Serve Ice eold with lady fingers. Orange Icing.—Put one runningover tablespoonful of strained orange Juice in a bowl, oae teaspoonful of lemon Jnioe and one teaspoonful of ■berry wine or brandy, with s grated yellow rind of one small sour orange: let It stand for twenty minutes, then stir In half a cupful of confectioners’ sugar, thin the slightly beaten yolk of one egg; stir, now add autficient confectioners' sugar u> make It the consistency to spread easily over the It should not run; spread even then put "in a cool, dry place to

stiffen.

This icing will be rich and creamy, lever becoming * rocky," Uke so many people make, if cake Is nibbed on the edge with sugar the Icing seldom runs off the sides. Orange Pudding—Take two eggs, two-thirds cupful of sugar, grated rind and Juice of one large orange, one pint of milk, one tablespoonful of but ter, four tables poonfuls of bread crumbs. Beat the eggs until light and add sugar and orange Juice. Scald milk and add butter and pour over the crumbs and add to the eg and orange Juice. Mix well and bake slowly and serve very eold.

Tapioca Pudding.—Soek one cupful of pearl tapioca over night In one quart of water. In the morning pare and core six tan apples or peaches. Stew them slightly and lay In a deep baking dish. Add sugar (and a little lemon Juice if apple* are used) to the tapioca and pour It over the fruit. Bake until the uploca becomes Uke Jelly and eat either hot or cold with or without sugar and cream. Chocolate Puddingy-Heat a quart of milk with lour level tablespooululs of grated chocolate; and three level tables poonfuls of cornstarch dissolved In a Uttle cold milk, a pinch of salt and sweeten to taste. When cooked thick, flavor with vaaUla. and whan sufficiently cool pour into a glass (' * Serve very cold with whipped cr

pUed on top.

Prune Pudding.—One pound Stewed prunes, whites of four eggs, one cupful of sugar. Drain the juice from the prunes, remove U>6 stones chop. Beat the eggs stiff, and the sugar gradually, then stir In the chopped prunes. Bake SO minutes. Serve cold with whipped cream flavored with vanilla. Rice Pudding.—Mix four cupfuls of milk, one-third cupful rice, one-half cupful seeded raisins, one-third cupful sugar and one-half teaspoonful salt. It is necessary to stir occasionally to prevent rich and raisins from settling to bottom of dish. If raisins are not some flavoring should be added.

Cut stale * and soak ui mixed with delicate brown die or spider, minced soft bread L~ or with mlTfc-

MANY USES FOR SARDINES jggeatiof^ for Dishea That Will Be Apprrd» d by Those Fond of

baR Delicacy.

Combined with tomatoes, sa.'dines make delicious aaadwirues. Pound a doren of them to a paste with a little butler, squeeze some lemon Juice over tbetr and rtason with cayenne pepper. Butter thin slices of broad and cover with the mixture. On this place some thin slice* of tomato, add pepper and salt, and cover wKh a slice of broad. A pimento-sardine salad Is both unusual and toothsome. Remove the bones from the sardines, chop and mix with an equal quantity each of chopped pimentos and celery and onothlrd the quantity each of olive# and nut meats. Chill and serve In a border of Jellied tomato with a rich mayonnaise Stuffed sardines are tasty for Informal lunches and suppers, and are easily prepared. Select the boneless variety which are put up In oil. open and All with Parmesan cheese press together and serve with sliced lemon. drilled sardines are good. Wash a can of large sardines and beat in a tablespoonful of butter. Pour over them a white sauce seasoned with a table luce, lemon and parsley. Serve on

First Move Should Be in Direction of Cleanliness—Disinfect Before Furnishing New Litter. Before the cold weather comes on. put the hen hoitie In winter shape, says a raloer of chickens in an each ang-v The first move should be in the direction of cleanliness. Remove every movable object, boxes, barrels, etc., sweep too roughly overhead nod underfoot, after scraping out aU dropping#. Thun disinfect before refilling scrateb-lltter. Whitewash with unclacked lime to which kerosene has been added. If other Insecticides neem too expensive, and lay It on generously. Paris green In the wash is excellent aa a germ killer, but fill all cracks

everywhere.

Next, it water is prone to freexe in the coldest weather, make the hennery warm with a dead air space between the walls and a sheathing of building paper. I recommend a cheap grade of paper because it wUl need to be torn off In the spring when the periodical drive against Insect* Is Inaugurated. Then put ou a storm door, however rude. u> overlap the cracks around the ordinary entrance, disinfect drinking dishes, look to ventilation without drafts, and make sure that the floor is n. even If a banking of earth or sawdust has to be applied. Put In a big supply of road dust for baths and plenty of gravel and sharp grit. Now cull the flock and get the reot adapted to the changed appearance of things early. 00 the laying which la revived after molUng. will not receive a setback, as is usually the caae after any abrupt alteration.

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age of lemon gelatin orange*, one large ha

of chopped English walnuts. Mil these all together *woetcn!ng fruit to taste Fill college ice cups threequarter* full of gelai * j. the rest with fruit and nut mix/ .-e and *Ur It around, mixing they wall In cup. Put tahlnapoouful Of unsweetened

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Scallop Salad. Soak one pint of scallops for one hour in aalted water, drain, cover with boiling water to which one tablespoon of vinegar has been added, let simmer five minutes, drain again. cblU and cut Into thin slices. Add half the quantity of finely cut celery, mix with mayonnaise or boiled dressing, and sprinkle with one tea*poonful each of finely chopped chives, gherkins and olives.

Lemon Fop. Half cake yeast, two pounds granulated sugar, two ounces ginger root, eight quarts boiling water, two ounces cream of tartar. Juice of seven lemons. Place ginger root (crushed) In pot, add sugar and boiling water, lemon Juice and cream cf tartar. Let stand until lukewarm, then odd yeast dissolved In half cupful water; stir well. Cover and let stand eight hears In a warn, room: strain through flannel hag and bottle. Set bottles In a cool place and put on Ice as required for use. This is a most refreshing summer beverage: as a thirst quencher nothing Is superior.

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Baked Squash With Cheese. The squash should be scraped free from seeds and baked In Its shell, after It has first been cut In quarters. When well baked It Is scraped tram the shell, put in a buttered silver baking dish, spread with butter and seasoned with salt and pepper, after having been mashed. When It is sprinkled with a generous quantity of grated panneean cheese It is browned very quickly In a hot oven.

Tomato Soup (Belgian Fashion). Boll together six medium potatoes, a celery, two leeks, two carrots and a pound of fresh tomatoes, with pepper, salt and a leaf of bay. Pass all through the sieve. Fry two or three chopped onions In some butter and add the soup to them. Boll up again for 20 minutes before serving. If you have no fresh tomatoes. lh« tinned onee can be used, removing the akin at the same time that you add the fried onions.

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CHICKENS IN LIMITED SPACE Houst Shown in Illustration Is Particularly Constructed to Give Ample Protection. The poultry house shown In the a com pa uying Illustration will appeal particularly to thote who wish to keep the largest pqf "le number of egg producing bk' a limited space, and le iiart^ ' Jt/onstructed to give protection 7 4 cola, damp and wind. It r. (consists of an-outer shed with a'fcfblod roof covering the entire floor space, and an inner construction with s non-conducting roof to neutralize changes of temperature. The whole floor, with the exception of a passage at the back, is scratching -pace. V*je perches arc hung from the Inner roof by Iron books, thus being vermin nroof. and beneath are the nesting boxes Food sod water are supplied on the raised platform outside the roosting place, the hena getting additional exerctae from going

If It is desired to oring. it should be ad Juat before churning. Stop churning whore about the size of wheat, and draw off Wash the butter 01 ter st the churning taling three or four Wash a second th

about four degrees above churning

Fish Balls.

Cut enough salt Uah lu small pieces to make one cupful. Faro and cut Into sma'l pieces potatoes to make two cupfuls. Cook in water to cover until potatoes are done. (Put the fi«h In at the same time.) Drain thoroughly the fish arid potato and add half l* bleapoonful of butter and one beater,

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pleasure. Yet I doubt If any.

Creamed Sardines. Melt four Ublespoonfuls of butter, add one-fourth cupful of soft, stale bread crumbs and one cupful of thin cream, and bring to the boiling point. Add one box of sardines, two^fcrdboiled eggs finely chopped, ode-half tea*poonful of salt and one-eighth teaspoonful each of pepper and paprika Again bring to the boiling point, and serve on flnger-ehapod pieces of toast Garnish with toast points.

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Take half pint of cream, one cupful confectioner*' sugar, three dessert -poonfuls of cocoa halt tea*poonful of vanilla. Mix all tcxrther. then let vtand ou'i hour, and thru beat until thick, and spread on cakn. Apricot Pie. Two pound* evaporated apricot* slowed In enough water to cover them and more: add two cupful* of sugar and proceed as with any other plehakn with two crusts. This make* throo pie*.

Tongue and Egg Salad. Cut cold touguo in thin alice*. then cut again into piece* about one Inch square: arrange n layer of tongue on fresh lettuce leave*, and on the tongue c a layer of bard-bollod ers* sliced thin; than another layer tjUapaur. and cover all with a «#al9<;. Decorate the dl*b w* ' t cold beets cud parsley. '

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water, drain, and ti red baking dlih

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*ger for their meals «!. 'weaned. I first give thci milk, putting the oat* id pouring the milk over the: cannot get too much milk at If 1 am short on milk. 1 pm and middlings In milk and pc;, the oats. This plan eating while they arc their mother and It 1* tbW have uaod for this purpovV get older I feed oats sc pa make slop of oil meal one q> dllngs three gallons, milk'’ *0 gallons. Then put 20 p r bran in the troughs and slop and turn them In. only enough so they will well as If they wanted a This keeps tbolr appetit enough. A JltU# corn Is at eight months old thc makc as good as y

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temperature, agitating seven or eight (lines, and drain. Add the ealt wet while the butter Is in granular form, using about one to one and one-half ounces for each pound of butter, according to the demands of the market. Work the butter Just enough to tribute the salt evenly. If the butter Is to go on the market It should be pul up In neat, attractive packages.

Winter H*n House, and down ladder ways to their meals. The ventilation both day and night Is perfect, the air coming 1" through an open wire front, circulating between the roof* and under the floor of the roosts, etc., and through the nesting compartment At night, when the birds are rootling, (he scratching space can be left open ex cept for wire door*, and the Utter turned and thoroughly sweetened ready for next day The entire floor ■pace i* 323 feet, but the hou»o can bo extended Indefinitely and economically.

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PREPARE FOR COLD WEATHER Breed* of Chlckent Scattered Her* and Ther* Must Be Gathered InIdle Hena Don't Lay. When the cold winds of autumn txgtn to blow new cares *nd responsibilities confront the poultry-man and woman. Brooda of chlckeua which have been scattered here and there in order to keep them separated muat ' gathered In and housed, fur the wcvi weather of the winter U at hand. Supplies of vegetable* must stored, gravel for the hens and sand fur the ducks must be boxed or ►lured away In the dry. while *1111 finer Mind or fine earth must be procured i< - much needed dust bath Straw or kind of clean litter must be forth iv tag for scratching material to kthe biddic* busy through the long dark day* of winter. Idle ben* ure not lay lug ben* Even the forest and Irull tree leave* may bu utUl/ed for thb

purpose.

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they are better protected In ventilated sheds or houses during th*

winter season.

BEST TOP LATER- OF. SILAGE Heavy Green Stalks From Which Ear Have Been Removed Form Heavy

Covero-Packa Well.

For the top layer of the silo a good practice is to uze heavy green sulks from which the ears have been removed. This forms a heavy layer that packs well and at the same time coniilus a smaller amount of food materials *0 that the minimum loss is

sustained if It spoils.

Various methods and materials have been used for covering the top of the silage to rrevent lu spoiling. None have given complete satisfaction, but the one mentioned above has given a* good results as any. especially when tho top layer was thoroughly wet down and packed firmly by tramping. The best practice is to commence feeding as soon as the silo is filled. In which case there will be no loss of atlage through decay. SPRAYING PAID IN MISSOURI On One Orchard Net Profit Was Found to Be $161.12 Per Acre—Insects

Are High Livers.

Insects are high livers. On an acre of apple tree* they may destroy a hundred dollars' worth ol fruit. The ar-i-rago -slue of the fruit of an acre of unsprnyed applo trees In the state of to laaouri Uas been found to be flS.05. Four careful (prayings made thin value Jump to an average of $187.19 au acre On one orchard In ISIS th* net profit du-< to spruAng was found to be $161.12 an u-W The averagco*t per tree f r < ie (U spraying «a» 6C ccnlo, IS relit* fi* he aocond. 9.5 rents lor (be third, and 8 cent* for the fourth—a total of S7.1 cent* a tree, or an average of $22.26 an acre.

American Farming. Way to Pack Fruit.

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Practical farm g worth a second thou, recently patented by There Is a keeper pc spaced diagonally off* > being mounted hi tho poata. Brack't* posts are disposed ntle'fJif. center of the lengtl#"

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baring a roller connect) ‘g end. on which the gate : * support the gate again * . Tt ‘ e

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k* In Winter. I parked In bo»c= or baskets stumped laving oui in «t>ir t «iui the nemn uf ibu grower, and If Dd this i» best I Jin! fie will seloet s name tor hi* product lutnmer acunrii. ouiii a sort of trade-mark in addition to

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