Agricultural And Domestic

Around the Farm. Nearly all sick animáis becomc so by improper feeding in the first place. Nine cases out of ten the digestión is wrong. Oharcoal is the most efficiënt and rapid corrective. It will cure a niajority of cases, if properly administered. - Rural New Yorker. The importance of means of saving liquid rnanure is apparent from tüe fact that in every 100 pounds of cow's urine there are 65 pounds of water, 5 pounds of urea, 5 pounds of phosphate of lime, 12 pounds of sal-ammoniac and muríate of potash, and 10 pounds of carbonate of potash and ammonia. While the solid excrements from one cow, during the year, will manure half an acre, the liquid matter, properly applied, would fertilizo three times that amount. The carrot erop is rendered useless in many gardens by grubs eating into the roots. This takes place in many wellmanaged gardens. The best remedy that I have tried was to scatter a quantity of S0)t and lime over tiie surface of the ground beforo f orking it over for the carrots. This works it into the ground, and keeps the soil free from all sorts of grubs for the whole season. The next best way is to sow the lime and soot between the rows and hoe it into the ground. - Gottage Oardener. A contemporary says: "Western cheese, like Western butter, is being made with such close care and ftttention as to command respect on its merits alone, and it is rapidly wiping out prejudices against the geographieal position of the points of production." This is true. The tub butter of Ohio - that is, crenrny extra - is equal to the best of that description that eomes to market. The cheese also is as good as the best New York f'actory, and will be so acknowlodged soon. Hand-Pickixg the Potato Bug. - I have about two acres of potatoes, and, after trying many ways of destroying the bugs, hit on the followiiig plan. It is cheaper, better, and less work thali to use poison. Take a large tin pan, say twenty inches wide by eight inches deep, and arrange a handle so that a man can walk upright and push the pan before him, close to the vines. and held in such a position as will best catch the bugs ; then with a thin piece of board about three feet long, shaped like a paddie, give the vines a gentío slap toward the pan, and you will knock most of the bugs into it. - Correspondence Boston Herald. To prevent saddle-galls, the saddle should be lined with soine smooth, hard substance. Flannel or woolen cloth is bad. A hard, finished, smooth rawhide lining, similar to those of the military saddles, is preferable. Then, if the saddle is properly fitted to the horse's back, there will be no galls unless the horse is very hardly used. Galls should be washed with soap and water, and then with a solution of three grains of copperas or blue vitriol to one table-spoonful of water, which wiil harden the surface and help to restore the growth of the skin. White hairs growing upon galled siots cannot bc prevented. - Nebraska Farmer. I will suppose the gate, when simt, to hang on the west side of the post, opening southward; dig the post hole at least three feet deep, natten the east and west sides of the post (the part in the ground), then nail a short board, say 10x12 inches, on the east side even with the bottom of the post; now put in the post, placing it where you want it; fill in the dirt and beat it down thoroughly till within sixteen inches of the top; then take a two-inch board, 16x24 inches, nail it on the west side of the upper edge even with the top of the ground, and dirt well, and niy experienee is thatyour post will not sag. - Indiana Farmer. About the House. A mole on the face may be removed by repeated applications of colorless iodine. A TABTiE-SPOOMFUL of ground horseradish, added to every quart of catsup or pickles, will keep the mold from the top. Fob Cbeam Cake. - One cup of cream, one cup of sugar, two cups of flotar, two eggs, a teaspooníul of soda, flavor with lemon. A COFT JiOME-MADE JJISHCLOTli. - i. aice, soft dishclotii can be made of -andlewicking loosely kuit or croclieted on large afghan needies. To Teii Good Eggs.- Put tbem in Water; íf the buíts turn up, they are not fresh. This is an infallible rule to distinguish a good egg from a bad one. Gingersnaps.- One-quarter pound of butter, one-quarter pound of lard, onequarter pouud of sngar, oue pint of molasses, two table-spoonfuls ginger, one cup sour milk, one quart flour, two teaspooníuls soda. Labd or butter to be used for pastry sliould be as hard as possible. If taitón the ice for a whüe before using the pastry will be lighter and better. It needs only to be cut through the flour with a ohopping knife, not mbbed. A EOTiGH towel or a piece of flannol is better to wash the face with than a sponge. The roughness cleanses the pores of the skin, and if a little soap be applied -will remove those little black specks, which trouble many people. Varnish fok White Woods. - üissol ve three pounds of bleached shellac in one gallon" of spirits of wine; strain, and add oue and a half more gallons of spirits. If the shellac is pure and white, this will make a beautiíul, clear covering for white wooden articles. Takb out the steels of a corset before washing ; use one teaspoonful of borax to a pailftd of hot water. Spread the corset on the washboard, and scrub with a clean brash and a very little soap. Bleach in the sun if yellow, but do not boil. Eub in staren, and when dry spriukle tlioroughly and i ron while damp. Equivalents op Wbight and Measube.- Wheat flour, one pound is one quart. Indiau meal, one pound two ounces is one quart. Butter, when soft, one pound is one quart. White sugar powdered, one pound one ounce is one quart. Best brown sugar, one pound two ounces is one quart. JAquida. - Sixteen large table-spoonfuls are half a pint. Eight large table-spoonfuls are one gill. Four large table-spoonfuls are half a gill or one glass. Twenty-five drops are equal to one teaspoonful. A comrnon wineglass to half a gill. A common tumbler to half a pint. Hebe is a recipe for a pudding, which may be made while preparing breakfast: Orumble four or flve biscuits into three pints of new milk, add ono cup of brown sugar, a pinch of salt, a spoonful of butter, and yelks of four eggs ; a little nutmeg when done ; spread the whites of the four eggs beaten to a foam with three spoonfuls of sugar and a little essence of lemon on top of the pudding ; set it in the oven till brown, which will be in two minutes. Make sauce with one cup sugar, half cup butter, scant spoonful of flouri pint and a half water ; season with lemon. It will be delicious either hot or cold. At the recent celebration of the 200th anniversary of the King's Grenadier Eegiment of the Prussian army, the ehief burgoinaster of Stettin, in presenting to the offleers of the regiment, on behalf of the citizens of the town, a silver table sarvice, mentioned that the regiment had been oonstantly quartered in Stettin ever s.ince 1715, or fqr more than ICO yèars. Affsm at Lawrence, Mass., has jast forwarded ari inyoice óf lager beer to I Liverpool.