Agricultural And Domestic

The Waving of the Corn. Plowinan, whoac gnarly hand yet kindly whecled Thy plow to ring this soliüiry tree With clover, whose round plat, reserved afleid, In cool green radius twico my length may be - Scadting the eorn thy f urrows else might yield, To pleaaure, August, bees, fair Uionghtf, and me, That here come oft togeth'r- daily I, Stretched prone in sumrner's mortal ecatany, Do 8tir with thunka to thee, as stirs this mom With waving of the corn. Uiikccu, the farruer's boy irom round the hill Wbisuee a Bnatob that secks hiBaoul unsought, Ainl tilla Home time with tune, howbeit shrill; The cricket tella straight on his imple thouglit - Nay, 'ris the cricket's way of being atill ; The peddler bee dronca in, and gossipa naught ; Far down the wood, a one-desiring dove ïimea me the beating of the heart of love ; And theBe be all the sounds that mix each morn, With waving of the corn. From hcre to whcro the louder passionB dweil, Green leagues of hilly separatiou roll ; Trade ends where yon far clover ridgCB awcll. Ye terrible towne, ne'er claim the trembling otü That, eraf tlcB all to buy or hoard or soll, From out your deadly complex quarrol stol To compauy with large amiable trees, Suek honey nummer with imjealoua bees, And tako Time'e Btrokea aB eoftly as titis morn Takes waving of the corn. -Sidncy Lanier, in Harper or Augutt. Aroiiiid the Farm. J. T. Ellswohth, oL Barro, Mass., says : " Experienoe has taught me that tt, cow's milk very deficiënt in butter often fattens a íincr calí' than that of a first-class butter cow." - Chatauqua Farmer. My currant bushes have been attacked by the currant worms for the last two years. I gprinMed buttermük on the leaves of the bushes, and by this means destroyed the worms and savod by bushes. - Farmers' Advocate. We eonsider a f owl at its prime at 3 years old. The vitality of the egg is not gone at the end of a month if they can be kept in a temperature of about 50 deg. , and if they are occasioually turned at the end of that time they will hatch. - Zand and Water. Cuebant worms may be effectually destroyed, says Prof. Riley, by sprinkling with solution of white hellebore, one table-spoonful in a bucket of water, or the powder may be sprinkled on while the dew is on the bushes. Hot water has also been successfully used to niake the worms drop oñ' without injuriiig the foliage. N. B. White gives a simple contrivanee to prevent the cut-worm from getting eït garden plants. It is a strip of tin two incb.es wide and about ten inches long, formed iuto a cylinder and set over the plant. They wil 1 last a lifetirar-, and probnbly cost half a cent each. - Country Gentleman. Weeds need constantly to be looked after and taken by the foretop. Kemember tliat every weed that is allowfd to go to seed this "year "will be replaced by Imndreds and thousands next year. "Oneyear's seeding-" of weeds is said to produce "fifteen years of weeding," and it is not far from the trutli. The most successful fruit-growers, East and West, have decided that there is no better remedy for the coddling moth than to pasture hogs in the orchards, to eat the wormy apples and the worms therein. If the orchards are too large for the number of hogs kept, sheep are turned in. If we will all unite in this system, we shall soon see its good resulta. There is no doubt about its being effective. - Sural Home. I have learned that wheat can be hoed with horses as readily as corn, and as fast as it can be drilled, the implement occupying the same space and the number of hoes being the same as a drill ; and when hoed it looks as much improved as a corufleld dressed out with a cultivator. It does not destroy any greater percentage Of the plants than is done in cultivating corn. Any man that can manage a plow well can manage a wheat hoe as readily. I can't see any reason why it won't help wheat as much to hoe it as any other erop, so as to let in light, heat and fertilizing gases of the atmosphere to give vigor to the plants. - Western Rural. Good Seed. - Don't put in any but fchje best seed. This is au important item in successful farming. Good land and hard labor will not produce the best crops from poor seed. Let the best seed be planted, even if it has to be purchased ; yet most farmers can generally select good seed from the best of their wheat and other sinall grain. In harvesting, save out the best bundies, and in corn, by going through the fields and carefully selecting the best-filled ears ; then, by an occasional renewing of freeh seed from a distance and exchanging with the neighbors, all our crops may be greatly improved. Liberality in this interest pays handsomely. Procure the best seed at any reason ablo amount of labor or expense. - Western Agriculturist. Alxfut the House. Fan's Cake. - Two cnpfuls flour, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful cnam, salt, four eggs, creamtartar, soda. Bakbr's Potjnd Cake.- Two cupfuls sugar, three-fourths cupful butter, three eggs, one cupful milk, salt, three cupfuls flour, nutmag. To Cook Cbabs.- They do not reqnire dressing exoept to wash well m salt water ; tuen 117 in pieui.y 01 butter ; season with popper just bef ore gerving. In the mwttei of salt meat, it should ba remeinbercd that the brme, if it bas been osed wveral times, occasionally beoornes an active poison, and very dangeroiis. Exi'ERiENCK prOVes that two kinds of ódffee mixed make, a better beverage t!i;ui any one quality alone, Thus Java alf and Mocha one-half mixed make a superior coiï'ee to either singly. Black Cake.- One cupful butter, one and a half cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful molasses, tliree eggs, ono cupful milk, one nutmeg, one teaspooniul each of cloves and cinnamon, four cupfuls ilour, two pounds raisins, one pound inirrants, one-fourth pound citrón. Chaiíooaí has been discovered to be a surc curé ioi buritó. By laying a piece of cold charcoal upon the bnrn the pain Bnbmdea immediately. By lenving the charcoal on one hour the wound is healed, as lias been demonstrated on soveral occasions. To Do Up Point Lace.- Fill a goblet or any other glass dish with eold suds, made of the best quality of washing soap ; put in your lace and place in a strong sunlight f or several hours, of ten squeczing the lace, and changing the water if it seems necessary; when bleachecl, riaee gently in three or four waters, and if yon wish it ochre or yellowish white, dip it into a weak sohition of olear cold coffee liquid ; if you desire to stiften it slightly, dip it into a very thin Provide yourselt with a, paper of fine noeilles, ïeeall the form and looks of the lace wh 11 lirst purchased ; take a pin-cushion, and arrange your lace in the right ïorin, gently piek it into place, aud secure with the needies every point and iigure in the pattern as it wás when pnrehased ; leave it to dry, and either press between the leaves of a heavy book or lay betweu two pieces ot flannel and pass a heated iron over it Applique lace can be nicely washed by hrst sewing it carefully, right sitie down, toa piece of wolen flarnel, washmg, stiftening slightly, and preésiüg beforo removing i'rom the flannel. During the past year more than 60,000 applications have boen made to the British Postoffice for missing letters, most of whioh coHtainecl property, and largely remittancfH Lu ome ahap Pf apotber. In about 20,000 oases the ïmpury and search made for these letters proved raocessful, leaving, however, more than 40,000 letters tmaccounted for.