Items For The Earm

Crude honey keeps better than olanfied bonoy. Beet-root sugar is only about twothirds as sweetening as cane sugar. A Cotswold cross on the Merino makes first class, early maturinjf sheep, good grazers, and hardy. A correspondent of the ühio Farmer sa} s larns should be mowed upou the New York rule, f or voting - "early and often. " Too much care cannot be exercised to guard against the Texas uattlu fever. Don't allow good stock to go where Texans have been. It is more profitable to dispose of cattle at two years old than to keep them until thay are three years old. Early maturity [fl the watchwordof suc cessful stock growing. Dr. Goessman, of Amherst, by treat ing a wild grapevine with phoxphale and potash so increased the sugar anc lessened the acid that a grape as swee as the Concord was produced. Albert Pitcher, a Greenrille farmer spread some chloride of lime orer lanc that he was about to plow. Three val uable cows managed to get into the lot and two of them died from eating the Mme. The suds from the washtubs can no be put to a better use thanto be pourec about the newly planted fruit trees anc vines. Itwill often literally '-savetheir lives," ana under any circumitances is a raluable fertilizer. The rheubarb plant can be g-reatly strengthened bj rernoving tUe seed roots as often es they appear. Allowing them to mature greatly weakens the plant, vrhich shows itself in subsequent years by the slender stalks. If the hogs mttst be confined, see to it that they have plenty of clover to eat, and they will do all the better for it; or cu„ hay or grass and put in toe pen. It will keep the hogs healthier, and they will fatten faster. Too niuch corn is injurious. When potatoes are first put into the cellar they exhale an unpleasant odor. To absorb this, and also to excludo the lig-ht and air, they niay be covered with a little dry sand, and if there is any tendency to rot, this can be counteracted by a sprinkling of air-slacked lime. The Germaniown Telegragh says: "The cucumber, it is 8aid, wiTl always produce more abundantly if furnished with a trellis of lath and string for its support, as it is a c'imber and not a creeping plant. Brush laid on the ground aróund the hihs is better than no support." Open ditches are a relie of the past Drain tile not only carries off the water efteetually, but enables the fielda to bo cultivated" without the necessity of building crossings cyer ditches. Ditches get filled up, and become harborsfor weeds, insects, mice and othcr sorts of vermi L. H. Bailey picks off the wormy apples in his orchard by nieans of a curved )'nife or hook fastened to a Ion opole. Wormy apples, he says, seldom drop until the worms Lave left them, and the popular notion that the worms in devouriug the fallen apples are not exlermating the worms, is a mistake. Fowls do not like to scratcli in their own manure. Advantair maj' be taken of this fact to keep tbem i rom scratchingup seeds sown in the gardon. If the droppings of tLe hen roost are scattered ovor freshly plünted beds the fowls will scratch elsewhere. The rains and culdvation will soon carrv the fertility given by the manure where root can reach it. Whitewash should be applied as often as once a year to ecllars, outbuildings, and to rough board fences that cannot be painted. Take a lump of lime and slack it with boiling water; cuver it during the process; strain it and add little salt dissolved in warm water, half a pound of Spanish whiting, two cunees of glue. This is good for ceilings, walls, wood, brick or stone.