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The soot from the chimneys should be savcd. A pint of soot to a pailfnl of water will make a litjixid rnauure of great value for flower beds and plant of all kinds. If a hen be not sitting so that her nest and eggs absorb a little moisture from the earth, sprinkle her nest and eggs every few days with water when slic i off to fecd. Fon a fall or winter cabbage none of the new diaeovered varietiea are equal to the old flat Dutch. And it will do yefc to sow the seeds for plant, for June transplanting. No not put flowers in straiglit rows anywhere. Do not crowd your flowers, and especially not crowd a large number in the front yard. A very few and very choioe is the best tasti A legal bushei of oats must weigit 30 pounds in Maine, New Hampshire and New Jersey; 34 pounds in Oanada, 3(J pounds in Oregon, 35 in Missouri, 33 in Iowa, and 32 pottnds in Massachusetts, New and most ether Btates. WoESifs Ín Hokses.- The Chicago Ocean gives the following a a sure, safe, and reliable cure for worma in horses: Arsenic, 1 drachm; snlphate iron, 2 ounces: mix, and divide into sixtectl papers - one powder to be given every niglit and jnorning mixed in the bod. An English exchange says paraffine oil will destroy ' ' crops of insects" when two ounces of oil are mixed with six gallons of water and poured- sprinkled- oyer them. It is effectual, too, when sprinkled over the seed before sown, md the subsequent growth ís t&id to be wonderful. In grape culture it seems tliat the fine varieties, which grow weak and liable lo disease, can be grafted on Concord and Clinton roots, and then grow as well and as strong as these popular varieties. The French have foünd this out, and a.te im23(irting largely of these American kinds for graftmg their own kinds for tlieir vineyarfs. The Vaiüe oj? Bünflo"tebs. - flowers are rich in honey and are consequeutly good neighbors for bees. Oil, hardly to be distffiguished from olive oil by any one but KA expert, may be extracted from the seeds in proportion oí one gallon to ono busliel, One acre will produce someüiing like fifty btwhels of seed. The seeds, too, make lood not unpalatable for human beings, and very good for animáis and ponltry. The Portuguese and American Indiaas mako a kind of bread from them, and roasted they mny be ground and used as a substitute for coffee. The stalks may be used as bean poles while growing. Dry they make passable roofs for sheds and the like, and burn readily on the hearth. The ashes are very rich in potash. Altogether it is a very useful plant, and, to crown all, it has a reputation which the ohemists have never disproved, for absorbing malaria, and acting as an effectual screen against that oourge of krw-lying districts - fever and ague. How to Raise Eably Potatoes. - ïlie procesa is called the Felliez plan, and comes to us from France, and consista in being able to have new potatoes in January and February, equal to those ordinarily produced in May and June. Having selected a light, friable soil at least twelve inches in depth, make a hole ten inches deep, place a little manure, then fill in the soil. The lióles ought to be two feet [apart. The seed potatoes sliould i "e preserved in charcoal dnst till the lst of Augnst, the moment for planting, and be steeped for one liour beforehand in a solution of half it pound of salt and one quart of -water, about the middle of September inold, and at the same period in October weed, and earth up irrespective of the faded sterns ; then cover with a little straw ; the tubers will increase under ground, independent of all exterior vegetatión, and may be gathered in the early part of January, although they will not be fully ripe till the close of the nionth of February.