Agricultural And Domestic

Aronnd the Farni. A FAST walk is one of the most desirable qualities in a horse. Agricultural societies should remember this in making up tlieir liats of prizes. FowiiS wilth canker or roup will communicate the disease to all the rest of the flock if allowed to use the same vessel. - Poultry Record. A little sulphur or dry carbolate of lime sprinkled in the nests of setting hens will keep off the lice. Either the sulphur or carbolate, mixed with dry dust or finely-sifted ashes, makes a capital dust bath for hens and little chicks. - Qerrn.ant.own Telegraph. To prevent trees from splitting, the Toronto Globe says: "Select a small limb from each fork and clear them of leaves and branches. Then bring the split up together, twine the two small limbs together and secure them. The limbs wül grow together in time, and keep the split from opening." Concrete walls do not give satisfaction. There are so many conditions, such as expanding, contracting, etc., that cannot be exactly dotermined, that they are very apt to settle out of perpendicular, or crack, or in some way f ail to make a perfect job. Stone and brick are more reliable. - Rural Home. Suel Foster furnishes f acts in relation to the superior advantages of using stocks of the Siberian crab for grafting apples. 3ome Western nurserymen plant the seeds of the crab for this purpose, and their young trees are doing better than on common apple seedlings, where the severe winters often destroy the tenderer roots. This practice would, of course, not be desirable where common-apple stocks prove sufftciently hardy and endure the winter. - Prairie Farmer. A gentleman writing to the Planter and Farmer gives the following remedy 'or a choking cow. "We suppose it will act as well with other animáis; it will be well to romember it. He says that it las never failed in any instance, and lias )een tried by hini and others hundreds of times. The remedy is to take a tablespoonful of saltpeter, open the animal's mouth, and throw it well back upon the ongue; let the animal go, and it will either go up or down in a very few minutes. - Kentueky Live Stock Record. Here is a valuable table, containing ;he number of pounds in a bushei of the different articles named : Pmmiln.i Poundê. Bran . . .12 Barley 48 jïlue graes 14 Flax aeed öö Shorts... ..' 18 Bye 66 )ried applea 25 SiielletT corn '. . . . .56 Oats 32 OniOHB 67 Jried peaches '.13 Wlieat 60 ïeinpsced 44 Clovcrsecd 60 l'iniothy seod 45 Mineral coal 70 Castor beanB 46 Salt 75 It is well eueugh known that an animal with a quiet temperament grows and hrives much better than one that i easily excited, shy orwild. Inthelatter he waste of material is considerably arger, the equilibrium between the or;anic processes is easily disturbed, and he animal, therefore, more predisposed .o disease. Every farmer knows that a ïorse, for instance, ■which is quiet and docile needs lees food, keeps better, is able to do more work, and is usually also healthier, than one that is always restless, easily excited or wild. Still, spirit and strength must not be mistaken 'or an excitable temperament. An animal may be spirited and be very docile and quiet.- Chicago Tribune. An orchard of Northern Spy apples contains about four acres, and is a hog and sheep pasture. It is well seeded in jrass, yields a great deal of pasture, and s the first orchard that we have seen this 'ear with anything like a erop of apples. f wo years ago we saw it, and it was ïeavily loaded with apples. Last year ir. H. eaid it bore a light erop, and this rear about two-thirds of the trees, we jhould think, are fairly filled with apa little manure is scattered over the sur'ace annually. The branches show a air annual growth of wood, and the 'oliage is dark and luxuriant. This orchard would seem to afford one evidence that plowing is not essential to the growth of wood or production of fruit. - Rural Home. About the House. To Tell Qoob Eggs. - Put them m water; if the butts turn up, they are not ïresh. This is an infallible rule to disíinguish a good egg from a bad one. To Stop Cracks in a Stove.- Wood ashes and common salt, made compact with water, will stop the cracks of a stove, and prevent the smoke from escaping. - Economist. Good Use for Soap-Suds. - Saveyour washing suds for the garden; if it is oured over the roots of the plum trees, t will kill the curculio; if turned at the roots of geraniums, roses, etc., it will enhance their beauty tenfold. The Heamng Power of Chabcoal.- Charcoal has been discovered to be a sure cure for burns. On laying a small jiece of cold charcoal on the burn the jiiin subsides immediately ; and if the iharcoal is held on for some time the wound is healed. - Western Farm Journal. Chili Sauce. - Eighteen ripe tornares, two onions, two green peppers, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one teacup of sugar, two and one-half teacups of vinejar, one teaspoonful eacb of cloves and jinnamon. Chop and mix, boil slowly, and put into glass cans. This makts an excellent sauce for meat. - Cor. Household. To Keep the Hair in Crimp. - Ladies who have difficulty in making their hair remain crimped will find the following of use : Let five cents' worth of gum arabic be dissolved in a very little hot water and lelt to stand over night in enough alcohol to make it thin ; then bottle. The hair should be wetwith the mixture beforebeing crimped. - Sprinafield Union. Bules for the Sick-Koom. - (1.) Bring in fresh flowers or something new every day; even the commonest green thing is better than nothing. (2.) Don't talk about anything unpleasant. Talk about something that will lead the patient's thoughts away from his aches and pains, and leave him in a cheerful and restful strite of mind. (3.) Follow the doctor'sdirectionsimplicitly. (4. ) Never ask a sick person whíit he wants to eat. If he asks for anything that will not injure him, get it if yon can. Never bring him much at a time. A iittle bit in a dainty dish will sometimes tempt the appetite when a large quantity would cause nausea. (5.) Expect sick persons to be unreasonable. They will iret and complain, no matter what happens, and must be borne with patiently. - Housekeeper. Poetry of Motiou. The poetry of motion may be seen in two ways at one and the same time. Just watch a bald-headed man in church. To look at him you would think his whole being was absorbed in wrestling with those great problems of theology that the preacher is rolling in upon him like a flood, btrt it is not so; look closely, and you will see the set teeth, the cocked eye, and vengeance standing out upon his brow. He knows that a fly lias been shinning for the last five minutes back and forth and all over his head, but can find no resting place for the sole of his foot. Suddenly as the lightning's flash his hand is describing a circle in the air, and the fly is gracefully making a straight line to further conquests in the other aisle - Yonkers Oazctte. Dress coats of various colors have been introduced in London. They are formed of marine blue, plum color, claret, and green of a medium shade, with pantaloons of corresponding color, and white waistcoats.