... a potato race; an arithmetic race; obstacle cycle race for ladies; a costume cycle race; apple race, in which competitors had to run fifty yards, take out apple from a bucket of water with their teeth, and to run back again; and a tug of war for married ...

... ' ! Juice may be made into jelly ut else mixed with stewed apples and cream. The blackberry Harvest, however, is more apt to prove remuneri- | to cottager's wife and children than to ; -he farmer whose hedges the blackberries grow. Still, he will feel ...

... in ripening. Therefore, it will have be blended ciders instead blended apple*. There is every indication- a huge blackberry crop, and this leads strong demand for sour or jam apples, and it is these that are eo deficient this year, that prices should rule ...

... been a quince season. How the old housewives made quinoe jam and jelly. Where do meet with it now! The hedgerows are veritably black with the blackberries, and there are very few crab apples to boil down with them into that rich jam. Are our seasons getting ...

... Education for Ireland, for obtaining e best results from the blackberry crop; but the great bulk it is left to the birds, , become seedy or to rot. Can there anyt nicer than blackberry and apple rellyf have heard it remarked—it requires mu.-n sucar. The ...

... begins to dry. autd a group of children with baskets come along to seek blackberries. cannot eat they take home for mammy stew, else . into jelly, and they must take few crab apples well. little later materfaxmhas | appears, she has beard a good nut year ...

... * Erie Robin- ;jfford. per eon; old spectacles. Mrs plxim e. Scerre-Ut Dickinson: pears. Mr Meaden. p . apple* apples and beans. Mrs carrots, cucum- Mrs Samuel lies: broccoli, j , a ght: National bers. and flowers, Mrs and committee Friendly Society. ...

... nightingales. 4 pairs socks, hot-water bottle covers; Mr and Mrs I. H. Clark. surgical shirts; T. B. Clark, Esq., crab apple jelly and 40 lbs jam; Miss Edith Clifford, 6 bed jackets, handkerchiefs. 3 pairs bed socks, 4 dozen pairs day socks (fourth parcel); ...

... 1 scarf, old linen;. Mrs Stratton Coles, 651b. blackberry jell?, 12Tbs. blackberry jam, Gib. apple cheese: Collen, 2 pairs socks, nightingales - Miss Collingwood. parcel linen; Cother, hamper of apples; Mr and Miss Crosby, 6 pairs socks, jam, marmalade; ...

... hedges before he blackberries have been gathered in, hundreds of tons will Tost and blackberries are amongst the fruits of the earth given for man's sustenance which should be most carefully preserved this year. Blackberry jam and jelly are ->oth delicious ...

... 2 pots jam, blackberries; Misses Budgett. blackberries: Mrs Thompson, bag of vegetables: Mrs Weeks* bag of vegetables: Mr H. Fisher, bag of vegetables: Mrs Hall, vegetables; Mrs Fisher, 2 marrows; Mrs Stock,'Thubarb; Mrs Stuckey, apples, marrows; A Friend ...

... lbs. lbSchool 1?2 lbs- blackberries, school Chddren at Olveston, apples, marrows ' School Children at Wi-iterbournc, 1 cwt. blackberries ' ' Mrs J. Sea ton .157 eggs 5 walking sticks ,12th): C. 5.. pairs at 1 basket blackberries; per Miss Simpson, 27 ...