Agricultural And Domestic

Do NOT lot fowls eat pumpkin seeds tinless you are anxious to get rid of .the fowls. I The grindstone is a self-sharpening tooi ; and after having been turned in one direction for some time (if a hard stone), the motion should be reversed. Sand of the right grit applied occasionally to a hard stone will improve it. Those wan tin g soft maple seed must not let the opportunity pass unimproved. The seed ripens in two or three weeks after the leaves on the trees are fully developed. The seed soon perishes or is destroyed if not obtained jiist as it falls. A writer in the Fine Stook Oazetf.e, in an able article on "stuffing" fine stock, comes to the following conclusión : " That our State and county fairs shall exclude fat bulla, boars, stallions, etc., from their expositions, but that such stock shall be in what is termed ordinary condition." Bees consume large quantities of water when building comb and raising brood. Want of water is one of the causes of dysentery among bees. Knowing the great iiwportance of water for bees, we again cali attention to it. A bucket, tin pail or trough filled with water, with a few pieces of old combs or sticks for floats, for the bees to alight upon and drink in safety, should be kept near the hives, unless some stream of water is near. Some farmers have reported favorably on salted hay, and others think it an injury to stock, and that it does not assist much in keeping. If only two or three quarte per ton are used, it wenld not hurt the cattle, nor would it assist much in preserving it; and if enough is nscd to preserve it, in jury would result to stock. We think it of doubtful utility to salt hay. First, nature has salted it sufficiently, and any attempt to salt it ia the mow, usually resulta in a very unéqual distnbution, some portions having too much, and some not any. The best way, where hay is to be stacked, is to euro it well in the cock, and then stack. It will come out a biight color. Pneumonía in Sheep. - Tliis recipe for the treatment of imeumonia in rams and cattle is givon by the Country Gentleman : Solution of acétate of ammonia, l ounce; tindture of aconite, 5 drops; water, ounce. Eepeat in four hours, using only three drops of aconite, and again in four hours with two drops. This will allay the fever, probably, after which any good cough medicine will cure the disease. Clater advises mixing one-half drachm of tincture of perchloride of iron in the food, morning and evening, after the animal again begins to eat. "Sowbd" Corn pob Foddeb. - Mr. Webb, a large milk farmer near New Haven, had, this year, in Howed corn, flve and a half acres, that yielded twenty-two tons of green fodder to the acre. It is cultivated in rows two f eet apart, and all the cultivation is dona with the smoothiag harrow. The variety of corn used for this purpose is the Norfolk white. It makes a large growth of stalk. When cut up by the roots, it is tied in small bundies with straw after wilting, and is then put in shocks and tied with stout yarn, and left to cure in the field. If perfectly cured, it keeps well ia the barn, and makes an excellent fodder for cows in miik. It is hardly possible to produce so large a bulk of good food, at so small a cost, in any other erop. Pot atoes fob Hobses. - I once carne near losing a very valuable horse from feeding him dry hay and oats with nothing loosening. I have never believed j in dosing a horse with medicine, but something is actually necessary to keep a horse in the right condition. Many use powders, but potatoesare better, and safer, and cheaper, if fed judiciously. If those who are not in the habit of feeding potatoes to horses will try them, they will be astonished at the result. I have 1 known a horso changed from a lazy, I dumpish one to a quick, activo, headstrong animal, in five days, by simply adding two quarts of potatoes to hisfeed daily. If very much clear cornmeal is fed, they do not necd so many potatoes. Too many potatoes are weakening, and so are too many apples. When I was a lad, I was away from home at school one winter, and had the care of ono horse, one yoke of oxeu, and one cow, every one of which I had to card or curry every day. The horse had three pails of water, four quarts of oats, two quarts of small potatoes, and two quarts of corn extra every day he worked, with what hay he wanted, and a strenger and more active horse of his inches I have never yet seen. - Country (Jentleman. About the House. New linen may be embroidered more easilv by rubbing it over with a fine white soap. It prevents the threads from cracking. A scheen or blower of -wire gauze, from thirty-six to forty wires to the inch, placed in front of range or stove lires, will prevent, it is said, smoko coming into the room when the chimney fails to draw well. Light Pudding. -Put two tablespoonf nis of sago, tapioca, or rice in a pie disb, pour over a pint or a pint and a half ot milk; add one and a half tablespoonfnls of sugar, a little grated nutineg if liked; bake two hours in a slow oven; if rice is used, bake tliree hours. For Washing Stbiped Stookings.-- Make a jelly, the night before it is wanted, of the best yellowsoap; wash the stockings in warm water, with fchttfe salt in it, using the jelly lastend of soap; rinse in clear water, ako with a little snit in it; wring as dry as possible, and dry quickly. Thebe are many receipts given lor boiling coffee. If the ground cotfee is placed in a tin biggin, and absolutely boiling water ponred upon it, it wüi take loss coft'ee, lea time and less trouble, and make better roifre, is well as a more whole3ome beverage. Physicians in this country and in Bngland teil us that the iujurious quality in colïee is extraeted by boiling. Meat boiled for table use should b pluuged at once into boiling water, as I the heat contracta the outer surfaces, and coaguktes tlio albuaien, thus preventing the ese.ipe of the juicos. Prepared for stock or broth it should be placed on the tire in polo water, as then ! the unconfined juiees are free to pass into the liquor surronnding it. Until thekitchrnbecomes thoroughly I and systematienüy organiHl, and is ta1 gardeil as one of" tlie most- if not tlie ! most- important of hoiis"hold depnrt! ments, there caü be n. Btteh thu habitual heali in he tanuij. Badcook ing poiBons more persona tlmn all the nauseous drug erer administered to poor hamanity, and it aflords the remote cause for the employmeut ot tbivds of uil the divorco lawyera in f xiHtence. Without a doubt, the old nenseless faahiou of dressing babies in garments witli low uecks aud short sleoves is now quite pifeaed away. Pretty as the bare, plump bécka and m-rns wito, common House told uu they ware a i'ruitfiil sourco of crampsaud coids and complaints of the little ones, swelling to fearful proportions the list of infnnt: Mioi-tlity. It mny well bo n, source of röj'öijing tliat tbo absurd aud roally wicked (üistom is abjored, and the outire liuibsand bouies of ourprecions little ones incaséd iu comfortable clothing.