Agricultural And Domestic

Arouncl the Farm. Thinning the Potato Cbop.- I have found out one thing about potatoos that perhaps you don'tknow; that is, potatoes need thinning to insure a good, early, markctable erop. At the seoond 'hoeing pull out all the tops except from one to four, taking the small and weakly ones, and you will sec the benefit of it. - Oor. Mainc Farmer. Splitting Cabbages. - When the gardener is troubled in consequence of his nice drum-head or stone-mason cabbages sphtting open, he will find it a good practice to pull them up partly, or give them a sufficient start to sever a portion of the roots. It will enable him to keep the cabbages a week or two longer in the ground. - Exchangc. Setting Stbawbebry Plants. - A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker describes his method of setting strawberry plants, by which he did not lose 300 out of 10,000 plants. After having selected hardy plants, he placed them in a pail and covered the roots with water. He planted them as soon as possible, taking them singly from the pail. His instrument was a planting trowel. He has also found this method euccessful in planting seedlings, evergreens and small plant. The War Against Weeds.- The labor required to kill 100 weeds, well grown and firmly rooted, will kill 10,000 -vrhen just sprouted. It is easier in every respect to go over your ground three times when weeds are in the earliest stages of their existence than once after they have become firmly established. Another point of mucli importance is a proper arrangement of the erop and the use of suitable implements. A prominent New England hortícaltnrist plants every thing, when that is practicable, in drills, as straight as a line can be drawn, thus greatly facilitating culture, either by hand or by horse power. A Timely Warning. - Cooling off suddenly when heated sends many of our farmers' youth to an early tomb. It is often a matter of surprise that so many farmers' boys and girls die of consumption. It is thought that abundant exercise in the open air is directly opposed to that disease. So it is; but judgment aud knowledge of the laws of health are essential to the preservation of healtli under any circumstances. When ovei-heated cool off slowly - never in a strong draught of air. Gentle fanning, especially if the face is wet with cold water, will soon produce a delightful coolness, which leaves no disagreeable resulta. - Economist. Collar Britises and Harness Galls. - The following is recommended for collar bruises in horses : Camphor gum, 2 ounces; alcohol, 10 ounces; tincture of iodine, 3 ounces; tincture of cantharides, 3 ounces; mix. It is very necessary, particularly in warm weather, to keep the harness perfectly clean, as the dirt which accumulates from sweat and dust is a great source of irritation. The sore shoulders may be bathed occasionally with some of the following lotion : Liquor plumbi sub-acetatis, 4 ounces ; alcohol, 6 ounces ; tincture of camphor, 2 ounces ; water, 6 ounces ; mix. The following is an excellent liniment for general purposes : Alcohol, 12 ounces ; gum camphor, 2 ounces; tincture of arnica, 4 ouiices; tincture of aconite root, ' 1 ounce; mix. Lioe on Cattle. - In the Country Gentleman are several new recipes furnished by correspondents. One recommends sifting ground piaster along the back and neck: "Two or three applications did the work effectually. The piaster should bo very fine and dry. Another method used with great satisfaction is carbolic acid. One ounce of carbolic crystals, one pound of common bar soap, melted together by the addition of a little water. Íjpí an animal be waslieil in a strong suds made with this, and it is sive death to all parasites, and will cure all skin diseases. Both these remedies are simple, harmless, and effectual. Lice will live for a long time in the woodwork about the barn; it is a good plan to whitewash about the lean-to, and prevent their spreading in that way." Here is an internal remedy guaranteed to kill the lice without killing the cattle: " Give a teaspoonful or so of sulphur at intervals of a day or two, and apply lard with kerosene oil enough to thin it so as to rub it in easily cold, with a little sulphur in ; the lice will die or leave in disgust. Usually the intemal remedy will suffice. There are cattle, however, that seem to breed lice, as they will return again and again, after the most heroic treatment, and while the remainder of the herd are clean. A little sulphur in the meal will sicken hen lice also." A third correspondent say. "Twist lightly a few strands of yarn, and draw through mercurial ointment nntil thoroughly saturated; tie this around tlie animal's neck tolerably tight, and it will kill every louse on it in a short time." Again: " Put two quarts of air-slacked lime into a cotton-cloth bag, and shake it over the cattle, whipping them lightly with it under the beliy and between the legs." About the House. To Keep Mjtk erom Turning. - Wet the dish with cold water bef ore using. A Belief for Chilblains. - A lemon cut in half and rubbed on the feet will relieve chilblains and the tenderness following. Relief for Bheümatism. - Four drops of fluid extract veratrum, taken once in three or four hours. There is nothing dangerous about it, itis itsown antidote; if any one gets a little too much they will throw it up. Neupvlgia and Rheumatism. - Two table-spoonfuls each of beef's gall, laudanum, spirits of turpentine, hemlock oil, sassafras oil, and amber oil, half a pint alcohol; mix all together. Apply three or four times a day. Pneumonía. - Crude petrolenm (pure Pennsylvania) is good for pneumonia; outward application; rub well (taking care not to blister) once or twice a week; take flve to ten drops of same in coffee; keep oil from lamp or fire, as it is very inflimmable; refined oil will not do, as there is acid in it. More medicines can be taken with safety at the regular meáis and in our dailyhabits than people generally believe. An excellent lesson in this sort of remedies can be taken from the domestic animáis constantly surrounding us. Where many human boings would take violent purgatives, the house dog will go out doors and eat grass, and where many others would take a concoction of nervines, the domestic cat will find a comfortable place and take quiet naps. A real remedy for sea-sickness is said to have at last been discovered. The formula varíes with the state of the water, the eonstitution of the individual, and the more or less liability to suffer from that distressing malady. The following is the recipe for very rough weather: Ohloral, three grams; distilled water, fit'ty grnma; eurrant sirup, sixty grams; Freneh rssence of mint, two drops. Half the mixture to be taken on embarking. Mildew on Preserves. - Aunt Acldic, in the New York Times, tells her frieiidu that they will find that tissue-paper rut the exact sizs of their jara of preserves and laid on doublé will jirovcnt mildew ; or a muslin eloth, dipped in melted luitter or sweet olive oil, will also anawei the purpose, or equal parts of tallowand beeswax melted and a cloth dipped in it and put on worm. Also that they may take the whiio of an egg and wft slightly both sides of a pieee of letter paper, sui'üciently large to cover over the top of the preserves snugly ; I have kept them iyee from mold and spoiling two years,