Agricultural And Domestic

Keep up Kepaiks. - Wlieu anythiug aboiit the farm gets out of repair, seO to it at once and don't let it remain until it is all gone to pieces. A large expense can be saved to eveiy farmer annually by atteution to this. Valtte op Manxtbe. - As sho-wing the value of manure in Nngïand, h company at Brighton advertises that they wiÜ fumish boxe of horse stable mnnnre, eacli coiitaining iifty-six pounds, at the of 60 cents including box and delivery, to gardeners or persons who need tlie nrticle for compostB. Testing Seeds. - One of Mr. Vick's correspondent gives the following as his way of testing seeds: A sod cut f rom an oíd pasture is placed, grnss up, in a pan or on a board, and boiling water poured on; on this is laid a pieee of straw paper, and the eed is sprinkled on this and covered with another paper, then another sod, graas down, well wet with warm water. Keep wet and warm, and in a few days the Beed, if good, will sprout. Spking Caee of Stbaweehby Beds.- Do not be in too imich of a hnrry to uncover your trawberry beds in the spring. Leave them until the grotmd is entirely done freezins: at nicht, and until the planta are nbuut ready to begin their season's growth. It is possible that this will make tho frnit two or three days later in ripening, but 011 the other hand the fruit will escape all harm írom the late spring frosts. Wlien the covering is removed the groundbetween the plant should be hoed and a coat of fine manure or ashes applied. Cube por Stringhait. - Colcnian's Rural World, in discussing the diaeasea of horses, is responsiblc for the following which has never before been made public : It is almoat universally believed there is no cure for tringhalt. Every veterinary surgeon will say it cannot be cured. But we saw a gentleman in Greene county, Mo. , last summer who says he can cure every case. His method is, to go into a stable having a dirt iloor in the stall, where the horse stands, and dig a pit about four fcet deep under the hind legs of the horse, the fore feet standing as high as formerly. Tliis throws all the weight of the horse on the hind legs. The horse is compelled to stand in this position about half a day, and suffers a great deal of pain, his legs freqiiently swelling badly. But when taken out of the pit he is cured, and is never knowu to have stringhalt again. Root in Poultby. - The New York Times, in answer to a question for a remedy for rotip, gives the following : Take all the sick fowls and put them in a warm, dry, clean place, the floor of which is sprinkled with lime and then with water, in which one ounce of carbolic acid to the gallon of water has been dissolved. Wash the head of each fowl with warm vinegar, and then touch the eyes, throat and nöstrils with a feather dipped in a solution of ten grains of carbolic acid in one wineglassful of rain or snow water. Take two ounces of caetile soap, half an ounce of hyposuiphite of soda, half an ounce of ground ginger, half an ounce of cayenne pepper, and grind the whole together with enough warm water to work it up into a stiff paste. Mix thoroughly together, and divide into pills the size of peas. Give each sick fowl three of these pills twice a day. Watoh the Pros.- Do not neglect tho pigs and leave them to "root hog or die" during the winter. The less rooting they have to do now the better off they will be in the spring. Help them to grow through the winter months, and they will be able to help themselves through the balance of the year. Do not allow them to occupy the same straw for bedding longer than a week at a" time ; bum tip the old leaves and replace them with fresh bedding ; this will prevent them from becorning lousy. A bed in an open lot away from a shed of any k.5 d, and where the rays of the sun can it, is preferable except in severe weather. It will secure them from the dust that is sure to accumulate in a bed under shelter. Keep them clean and well provided with fresh water and plenty of food, and yon will have no occasion to look for a receipt for hog cholera. Alout the House. A corbespondent of the New York Tribune, who claims to know, says that oommon copal varnish will cure cracked hands. For Walndt Stains. - Tho juice of ripe tomatoes will remove the stain of wahiuts from the hands without injury to the skin. To Km, Ants. - A etrong solution of carbolic acid and water poured into holes kills all the ants it touches, and the survivors immediately take themselves off. Oatareh Recipe.- Take one-third pulverized saltpeter and two-thirds pulverized sugar, mix well, and snuff two or three times a day, and it will prove a sure cure. Oiiilblain Lotion. - Dissolve ono ounce'of muríate of ammonia in half a pint of eider vinegar, and apply frequently. Oiie-half pint of alcohol may be added to this lotion with good effect. CoiiLODion for Freckles. - The following preparation is recommended as being effectual and harmless : One gramme of sulphocarbolate of zinc is reduced to a very fine powder, and then incorporated by trituration with one gramme of essence of lemon (or other flavor) ; 5 grammes of alcohol and 45 grains of collodion. T Water as a Dye.- Tar-watermay be employed for dycing silk or wool ashen gray. The stuff is first mordanted with weak perhloride of iron, by soaking in the solution some hours. It is then drained and passed through the bath of tar-water. The oxygenate of iron, which is thus preeipitated on the fabric, gives a very solid color. Remedy fob Deafnkss. - Drop three or four drops of glycerine in the ear before retiring at night ; in the morning syringe the car with warm water, and continue this pmetice faithfully for some time. The deafness and singing often result from a collection of wax on the tympanum, or drum of the ear, and the glycerine has the effect to loosen it, while the water removes it. CiiEANiNG Silk. - The following modo of cleaning silk garments has been successf ully tested. The garmeut must iirst be ripped and dusted. Have a large flat board ; over it spread an old sheet. Take half a cup of ox galJ, half a, cup of ammonia, and half a pint tepid soft water. Sponge the silk with this on both sides, especially the soiled spots. Having flnished sponging, roll it on a round stick like a broom-handle, being careful notto have any wrinkles. Silk thus washed and thoroughly dried needs no ironing, and has a luster like new silk. Not only silk, but merino, barege, or any wooleu good, may lx1 tiras treated with the best jesults. It is not only the extremely holy who accompany the religious pilgi-iniages of France. Among the visitors to the shrino of Genevieve, the patrón saint of Paris, were two youths, who have been taken into custody by the pólice for practices which do not imply fanatieal asceticism. They had been observed during the time of the devotions actively engaged in the occupation of relieving the pockets of the faithful of their purchases and handkerchiefs. The young pilgrimB confessed that their objects were to secure as mnch booty as they could in this marnier, then to reinain in the ehurch after the others had left and break opi 11 the collection box into which they had een a number of valuable coins dropped.