Hints For The Farm

Paint fok Kough Buildinjs.- A correspondent in the Country Gentleman give8 the following recipe for cheap coluring for rougb. buildings : Takö '1 oz. of sal-aminoniao and 2 oz. of potesV; áissolTe these Vn tiirso quarts of Water; tfaea add oue quart iavr finseed oil : then take, say ten pounds dry red paint (that was what we used) and add water enongh to makt it thin enuugh to put on with i wiiitewash-brush (wu used fish piokle). Add one gill tarpentine to the linseed oil. If red does not snit, add anytbing to alter tho color. Ve used paint made as above on rough buildings twelve yeaw ago, and it isalmost or quite as briglit now as wlien wc put it on. To make the building look wel), you want tö paint tho eoriïer beards with white lead aud oil. Cheap Paint for Fr-ooss.- The following is from tBe sume excellent journal: If the kitchen ftoor needs painting, a cheivp paint can be made from ii va pounds of French ocher, and a quarter of a pound of glue dissolved in ono gallon of boüiiig water; dissolve the gluo tborOUghly, and stir In the oeher, and apply io thn ïoor wliila hot. When perfectly dry, put on one coat of linseed oil. Tlns paint will dry very quickly, hardéning over night, but it is better to let it dry fur twenty-four hours before stepping on it. "Remkjjv'fo!: SlVüGS. - A corresxjondent of the Qardener't Chrouide Baya that he bas found gaa-tar water, diluted to the color of weak coifL-e, to b tlie best preventive to thu ravagea of sluga on ail garden crops, and also excellent inanure. Apply it by night from an ordinary wi tering pot, and half the slugs will bc killed, and tli rss, mucli roabened. A second dose, after an interval of a week, is sufficient to banisu them altogether. PRF.SERYrNU ORINDSTONES. - A grilldstone should notbe exposed to tho weather, as it not only in jures the woodwork, but the sun's rays harden the stone so inueh as, in tirao, to render it useless. Neither should it stand in the water in which it runs, as the part remaining in water softens so mueh that it wears unequally, and this is a common cause of gl'iudstoncs bteouiing "out of true."