Agricultural And Domestic

Around the Farm. M. Cobnao recommends that, to ae stroy the pea-bcetle, tlic peas intendei for sowing be plunged, after beini shclled, into boiling water, and imme diately withdrawn. The Journal d'Agriculture Practique says that the worms which injure pottet plants may be got rid of by watering the planta with water to which has been added a tenth part of grated horsechestnut. The wormB must flee or die. In preparing turkeys for market care should be exercised not to break or bruise the tender skin of the young birds. We notice in our city markets many specimens disfignred by contusions en either side of the body, produced by holding the turkeys tiglitly between the knees, during the process of picking, of ten causing a depreciation in value of from 1 to 2 cents per pound compared with those not similarly marked in appearance. - Germantown Telegraph. Midwinteb, the proverbially lazy season for the farmer, is so only to the lazy farmer. The graad trouble with iDdustrious people, no matter what their occupation, is that they always have too much to do. Industrious farmers need the hints of agricultural papers only as they may laybefore them the work whieh had best be attended to. For the others, the best advice is, shake off your laziness and go to work. There are hundreds of things to be attended to and you know it ! If you don't, sell your farm and hire yourself out to those who do. - Rural New Yorker. Colobino cheese is often neoessary to insure a fair piice, for, while the improvement of the article is confined to its color, the prejudice of the purchaser is thus conciliated. Pure annatto alone should be used for this purpose, and a good recipe for cutting it is the following: Take four pounds pf best aDnatto, two pounds concentrated potash, five ounces saltpeter, pound and a half salfoda, and ñve gallons boiling water. Put ingrediente in a tub and pouronthe boiling water. Inclose annatto in a cioth, and as it dissolves squeeze it into the liquid. Two ounces of this liquid to 100 pounds of curds and proportionately. - Mooro's Rural. Calves' or sheeps' lights and livers, which can always be obtained in the market-houses for a few cents apiece, are valuable to feed poultry, for two reasons. They are devoid of bones and they closely resemble insect diefc. We advise the cooking 6f any sort of meat food always. These "harslets" (or those of swine) should be boiled, seasoned with saltand pepper, and fed, say iwice a week, to fowls, where they can be had handily. For Jaying-hens, when confined in winter, this change of food from constant grain feeding is excellent. Wliere confined to small runs or loose jages, this meat, chopped up and mixed H.rao tmoo o -mnalr wi'+Ji tViaif crff. fr.,1 Exchange. Fob ordinary laterals, or side drains, I rarely fmd that the quantity of water bo be conducted requires more than onefourth of a square foot as a section of the gravel in the bottom of the drain, or six inches of width and sixth of depth. I have, in my experiments, found that a gravel drain, formed of pebbles from the size of a kernel of wheat to that of a partridge's egg, six inches by six inches, will convey, in a level ditch four feet in length, as much water as will flow through a section of two-inch drain-tile four feet in length, said pipe also to lie on a level bed. This rule may serve as a guide to the inexperienced. I have, however, used of similar gravel in main under-drains a cross section of one foot six inches each way. When shavings are convenient, I use them on the gravel, but, unless the soil returned on the gravel is a very friable alluvial or muck soil, no covering is required before the earth is returned. In case the veins break out of the bank higher than six inches above the ditch bottom, the depth of gravel should be increased so that it will receive the lateral water directly in tho gravel instead of the soil overlaying it. The reasons are obvious. Until lately I have found more difficulty in maintaining intact the discharge ends of main gravel under-drains than I have where stones or tiles are used; but I am now able to make them equally as durable as with other material. - Cor. Exchange. About the House. Oaepets having small figures are f ashionable. Pubb orris-root powder is a harmless and agreeabic tooth-powder, Kaisins are rendered quite digestible if boiled or steamed before using them in cakes or pies. To sweetbn the breath, pour a fow drops of tincture of myrrh into a wineglass of water and gargle the mouth thoroughly with it. An idea for mothers: Baste a pieceof work on the bottom of children's cloaks; this takes the place of a white dress in the street, and is f ar more easy to do up. To übsthot OocKBOAOriES. -Where borax and insect-powder have failed to extermínate cookroaches, sprinkle the floor with powdered white hellebore; they will eat it and be poisoned by it. Jumbles. - One cupful sugar and one of good butter, rubbed to a cream, onehalf cupful sour cream, one well-beaten egg, one teaspoonful oí soda dissolved in a very little hot water; flavor with nutmeg; si ft flour enough to make a soft dough or batter. Good Baked Ham.- Boil the ham till nearly done; remove the skin and cover with a layer of grated bread cruinbs, seasoned with sugar and n very little pepper, and bake an hour in an oven hot enough to brown the crumbs. The ham should be raised f rom the pan in whieh it is baked, that it may not taste as if fried in the fat which may exude f rom it. Fruit or Ourrant Cake. - Ourrants or citrón for cake should not be "rolled in flour," but dredged or well sprinkled with sifted flour, haviüg first made the fruit as dry as possible; that is, af ter washing and draining the currants, dry them on the stove and while warm and dry dredge them with sifted flour just before adding them to the cake, and the fruit should be the last thing added. To Bid a House from Bedbugs.- Take 10 cents' worth of qmcksilver and the white of an egg; beat them well together until the quicksilvor is like fine pepper all through the egg. It may take one hour to beat. Do not use an egg-beater, for the silver is poisonous. Then apply the mixture with a feather to all cracks or places where there are any bugs. This, if persevered in, is a certain remedy. Cure for Earachk. - Put about four drops of laudanum and four drops o: best kerosene oil into a teaspoon; put in a little bit of cotton-batting - abou enough to absorb the mixture; hol tl th spoon and contenta over a lighted can die or gas-light till it begins to liiss wit! the heat; turn the cotton over; apply spoon and contents once more to the heat; then pinch out the cotton; put it hot into the ear; tie a bandage over the ear to keep the heat in, and relief is immediate. If you are subject to earache, keep a little box with a small vial of each of the articles named, and you can get relief at all hours of night or day in a few moments.