Agricultural And Domestic

By-the-by, is the great loss of weight that oconiB in eggs whieh nre kept long generally knowu? I haveweighed mine severa I times, and it lias proved fo be hghter .'it each suecessive weighing. - Mark Lanc Express. Stephen Bcukows, after tryiug for ".i'M ml jreürs te endtoste a patc.h of Canada "thisth s on liis farm, with yery indifferent Euccess, hit npon a plan liu.t f all that he claims finished up the joh. The poruace from his cider-mill applied to them (lid the work eftectuully. - Wliitewater Register. Warming yonr honey before the flro will ïKit prevent lerinentation, but rather increase it. Some American lx ekeepers boil their honey wlien fermf-ntation begin. Boiling mayact for a time, and is probably the best thing that can be done to hinder the i'ermeuting process. As soon as apy of our honey begins to fermeut we boil it, and tuen give it either to poor people or weak hives.- Cottage Oardener. To keep roots sound and piump, Mr. Benjamin P. Ware, of Marblehead, a suceeeshü gardener, cuts off the fine roots close to the body, and pares away the erown of the turnip or beet sufficicntly to destroy all biids or rudiments of büds. The thus doctored roots nre then placed in barrels of sand or covered with earth in the cellar to prevent wilting. Kimoving the buds and rooi Iets prevents that corkiness so oommon with tLiese roots when kept till hite in winter, which is caused by the support of sprouts and rootleta uising up much of the more tender and edible substance of the roots. Turnips and beets thus treated are as nice for the table in late winter or early spring as when first harvested. - Scientific Farmer. Animal manures of all kinds ore good but different in the rapidity of their fertilizing effects, as well as their duration. Hoin, hair and wool, as Prof. Johnson has well remarked, depend for their effieacy precisely on the same principie as the blood and flesh of animáis. They dififer chiefly in this, tbat they are dry, while the blood and flesh contam from 80 to 90 per cent. of their weight in water. Henee, a ton of horn shavings. of hair, or of dry woolen rags contaius vastly more fertilizing materials than the same weight in blood or flesh, but the effect of soft animal matter is more immediate and apparent, while that of hard and dry substances is less visible, but continúes for a much longer time.- Mural New Yorker. A Hint to Cabeless Boys and Men. - To make breachy cattle an excellent way is, when turning stock into or out of the pasture, instead of letting down all the bars, to leave two or three of the lower rails in their place, and then by shouting or beatiug to force the animáis to leap over them. This is capital training for teaching thf m to try their powers of jumping where a top rail happens to be off, ana, having achieved success in this, to set all fences at defiance, as inclination or the sight of an abundant meal of grass or grain in a neighboring field may prompt them. Another good way is to open the gate but a little way and by threats or blows compel the catflc 'to pass through it. Having learned this lesson, some of them will soon manifest a resolute spirit to force their way into yards, fields, or indeed into any" place where a gate or door may have accidentnlly been left epen. - Moore's liural. The implement we use is simply an Oidinary i ron beam plow with the moldboard taken off and the share lengthened out by putting on a piece of steel, about half an inch thick, two inches wide and twenty inches long. Wc attiieli two horses to this, and straddling the row to adjust the draught, tliat the standard of the plow will run to the left of each hill in the row, and the long steel cutter attached to the sbaro will pass under and cut loose the potatoes in each hill, leaving the hill apparently undisturbed, but loosened up cornpletely, so that the digger, with a four-tined íork, can throw the tubero out very fest, and with rnuch less hard work than without the use of this implement. We mve been digging during the last week, md in two days three men dug 800 Dushels; after this cutter had been run under the billa, and with nine-and-a-half lays' work 1,150 bushels were thrown out of the hill, or about 127 bushels for each day's work.- Detroit Free Press. About Ui e Home. To Cl-re a Bdnion.- Try binding on he pulp of a lemon every night. To Keep the Hands White. - Never ise hard wati-r; softe) it with a little orax; if the hands are very tender or become chapped, wear kid gloves all night. Subt Pudding. - One cupfnl of stoned and chopped raisins, one cuplul finelychopped suet, one cupful sugar, one of sour milk, one teaspooni'ul of soda, flour enough to make it stiff as bread dough. Steam three hours. Uses op Tukpentine.- It is stated that spirits of turpentme, sprinkled hrough the house once a week, is a sure sreventive agiiinstscarletfever ani1 othcr liseases. It is also said to keep moths out oí carpets. - Our Home Journal. Crkam Spon ge Cake.- Beat two eggs n a coftVe-cnp until light, and then fill ;he cup with sweet cream ; add one cup of sugur, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one of cream-oftartar and one and oneïalf cup of flour. Should sour cream se used, omit the cream-of-tartar. To Cbystallize Grasses. - Dissolve ibout twelve ounces of alum in two quarts of boiling-hot water; place the grasses (tied in a bunoh) in tlic solution while it is hot; do not disturb it; when cold separate the grasses: remove all unnecessary lumps. If the crystals are :oo large made the soluiion weai r. Kecipe fok Toilet Soap.- Take two ounces of glyeerine, an ouuce of oil of sweet almonds, and two ounces of powdered Florentine orris root, and melt with four ounces of mutton tallow and a pound of English white Castile soap. Before the soap sets, it can be cut with a knii'e in any shape the fancy dictates. - Fcononiist. Potted Pigeons.- After picking, drawing and washing well, cut off the pinions, dry well with a cloth, season with pepper and salt ; roll a lnmp of butler in chopped parsley, and put it nto the pigeons ; sew them up, placo them in a pot, cover them with butter, bake in a moderately-heated oven ; when done, put them in potting-pots, and pour clariñed butter over. Keep in a drv rjlace. GlYCEKINE FOE OlL bTONES.- AOOUt every one bas more or loss use for an oil stone, but in these days ft good oil is hard to obtóin', and kerosene is often used instcad. This isa bad plan, for. althongh it makes tlie steel "takehold," it ruins the stone. Glycerine is mnpji better, doos not dry on the stone, and is easily washod off when dirty. Use soap or soda and water to clean the stone, and then apply the glycerine. Clean water is only needed to wash the stone witn, and if treated in this way, the latter can be kopt bright for a, long time with the grit unimpaired. - Jlusbandrnan. Onions as a Disinfectant. - Ouions sliccd and put in plates in a siok room are an excellent disinfectant, and will prevent contagión from eruptive troiibles. They shonld be removed, and fresh slices put' in their places, as soon as discolored. Be sure tiiat these shcos are buried, or put -where they oannot be eaten, as soon as taken from the room. Tt is not safe to use onions that are not taken fresh from the earth, during any epidemie of eruptive diseases, fis they are bo quickly sensitiva to or irapreguated with any contagión or malaria m the fltroosplwre.- flafo I'rrmript,