Cooking Cauliflower

Cauliflower is a vegetable easily raised, and would be more generally used if it was better known. A dozen can be raised in a small space on the north side of a house. Soak them in salted water one hour to expel worms, and put into boiling water and boil thirty-five minutes. Serve with butter or white sauce. - Boston Suburb.

Cornell University Experiment Station

A part of this bulletin is devoted to the very important subject of "Deterioration of Farm-Yard Manure by Leaching and Fermentation," by Professor I. P. Roberts and H. H. Wing. The results of the experiments were as follows: " The results of one season's trial seem to show that horse manure thrown in a loose pile and subjected to the action of the elements, will lose nearly one-half of its valuable fertilizing constituents in the course of six months ; that mixed horse and cow manure in a compact mass, and so placed that all water falling upon it quickly runs through and off, is subjected to a considerable, though not so great a loss; and that no appreciable loss takes place when manure simply dries." Three excellent plates accompany the bulletin, two showing the condition of many farm yards, where manure undergoes a shameful loss, and one showing the covered yard in the basement of the University barn.

Corozo, Or Vegetable Ivory

This curious substance is the seed of the Phytelephas macrocarpa, a near relative of the palms. The fruit, which weighs several pounds, contains seven or eight seeds or nuts. The juice of these is at first clear, then milky and sweet, and finally it becomes hard enough to be worked on the lathe. The only known means of distinguishing it from ivory is the application of sulphuric acid, which has no effect upon the elephant's trunk but stains the vegetable counterfeit pink. The color, however, is very fugitive and is easily washed off. * The plant grows in New Granada, in moist localities. - L. B. F.

Cosmos. Helen H

Cosmos can be made to flower before frost, if treated in the following manner: Grow the plants in four-inch pots until they are pot-bound • then they will show buds, when they may be turned out into the open border, and they will come into flower in August and continue in bloom until cold weather sets in. But why grow cosmos when the single dahlia can be grown with half the trouble and is far more beautiful ?

The Cranberry Crop

The cranberry bogs in Mid-dleborough and Lakeville will perhaps yield three quarters of the usual crop. In Carver, Wareham and on the cape the crop is about as usual. At East Head, just over the line in Carver, at Ellis Foundry, there are some four hundred acres of bog that will yield 15,000 barrels. The berries are fair size but not large. Middleborough and Lakeville will produce several thousand barrels. The Makepeace bogs in Plymouth and Barnstable counties will this year yield upward of 30,000 barrels, and it will be several weeks before the work of gathering them is completed. - Boston Transcript, Sept. 24.