Agricultural And Domestic

Takb timo by the fore-lock and your rake by tlio hancllo during the pleasant flays, and clean up your yard - clean ofC the boards and rubbish and give the 51'ass a chance to grow. Wakts on Horses. - A remedy ia to lisaolve three teaspoonfuls of blue vitriol in a pint of water ; keep well corked ; imd apply with a feather, or small camel's hair brush twice a day. Tuis is the season when we may expect an increased number of colds and lnng affections. Be-ware of wet feet, careless and unnecessary exposure during these sudden changes in the weather. CoNDmoN Powder. - The following preparation is very good, andwill probably answer most purposes : Powdered saltpetre, one part ; black antimony, two parts ; fiour of sulphatc, four parte ; all oy weight. Mix these iugredieuts together, raid give one table-spoonful once or twice a day, mixed in ent i'eed or shorts. The literal New Yorker says: "Beta tomato plant into each hill of cucumbers or melons, and you will have no difftculty with bugs on the vine of the latter. The plants can be tied to stakes, and,if well pruned when largo, both they and tlie vinos they proteet can proceed with their fruiting without detriment to one another. " Seeds which fail to germinate readily may be made to come up at once by oaking in camphor water. Pnlverize a small piece of gum, and put it into a bottle of pure water, shakirig it once in a while, and iii a short time it will be ready for use. In this oak the seeds to be plantod for a few hours. Beet seeds, etc., treated in this manner rarely fail. This method is equally good for hasteniug and insuring the germination of fresh seeds. Windgall. - Blistering is sometimes resorted to for the removal of windgalls and similar puffy enlargements, but the remedies applied are generally only of temporary benefit. Their removal is also effected by compression. Tmsses, especially adapted for this purpose, are in use. Oontinued use or hard work will cause the reappearance of these pnffs, which are miiinly due to a relaxed state of the synovinl capsules. Eveky owner of a garden should devote a small portion of it to the growth of useful herbs. When gathering for use all herbs which are to be dried should be washed, separated, and carcf ully picked over, then spread on a paper and kept in a room until perfectly dry. Those which are intended for cooking should be stripped from the sterns . and rabbed tmtil very fine. Then put into bottles and cork tightly. Those which are intended for medicinal purposes should be put into paper bugs, ïabeled and kept in a dry place. How to Choose a Plow.- Plows frequently annoy those who use them in a most mysterious manner. They refuse to run evenly through the ground, and refuse to keep to the land as they ought to do. On examining them nothing seems to be wrong. Every properly shaped plow ought to have a slight concavity along the base of the landside, of oneeighth or three-sixteenths of an inch, st that the implement will "suck" into the soil and run steadily. This concavity niay be shown by holding a steel square to the bottom of the plow. If this part is convex, as it not infrequently is, no matter how high a reputatien the maker of the plow ha, it will not stay in the ground, and will annoy the, plowman till the evil is remedied. The landside of the base should also be slightly 3ave to the same extent of one-eighth of Ml íbcIi or inore, and never ought to be sonvex or buiging, ünflei any ciroumstances. If these apparently triflingitem are properly attended to at the time of aelecting a plow, more trouble may be avoided which often seriously perplexe the plowman, and causes him to lose so much time which may thus be saved. - Prairie Farmer. Imphovement in Corn. - A writer in the Southern Cultivator relates his experience as follows : The seed com is a variety I have been improving for four years past. When I commenced propagating the corn, the ears had, as is usual, 14 to 18 rows, and would require from 90 o 125 ears to shell a bushel. The second year, under my systern of propagation, the com had 18 to 20 rows to the ear, and 80 to 90 ears would shell a bushel. The third year the corn iiicreased to 20 to 22 rows per ear, and 70 ears made a bushel. The fourth year- the present - my corn has 22 to 24 rows to the ear, and CO ears, taken just as they come, shell out a bushel. I have a few fine ears that have 32 rows to the ear, whieh I expect to plant, and I conlidently anticípate a yield of seed corn therefrom that will only require 50 ears to the bushel, taken as'they giw in the field, with anything like good land and average seasons. I will add that it has been a specialty with me for four to six years to examine minutely the flnest specimens of corn in various corn-growing States, and I have never yet seen any corn to equal mine.