Agricultural And Domestic

Around the Farm. Salt is very important for animáis. Large pieces of rock salt put into the mangers and feeding troughs are recommended. One-half the ash of animal blood consiets of galt; without the latter the blood cannot be natura! or in a healthy state. ■The Peaoii-Tiíee Borer. - Placing leached ashea around the base of trees was recommended is a means of preventing the beetle whioh lays the eggs frora depositing them. The ashes were first applied as a manure, and this effect was accidentally disoovered. - Moore's Rural. Valuable Manube. - It is estimated that filty head of poultry will make . more than enough manure for an acre of 1 land - seven cwt. of guano being the usual quantity applied per acre, and poultry manure being even richer than guano in ammonia and fertilizing salts. No other stock will give an equal return in this way, and these figures demand careful attention from the large farmer. Shelter Your Farm Implehents. - Every farmer not only wants shelter for his hay, corn and other grain - for his cattle, horses, mules, sheep and swine - out he wants shelter for his plows, harrows, cultivators, reapers and mowers, wagons, carts, etc. Has the f armer good shelter for all these? If not, now is the time and now is the hour to provide this shelter. Lose no time in doing it. The snow and the coid rain-storms are here. Make comfortable everythiog yoH have. For Discussion. - Sanitary laws for our homes. What farmers' gardens are and what they should be. Small fruits for family use. Trees for the lawn, the farm, the roadside. 'The adaptation of fraits to soils. The best evergreens fcr home decorations. The best trees for small grounds. The value of erperiments in the farm and garden. The value of botanical studies to country children. These are topics which we think worthy of discussion at our farmers' clubs, agricultural and horticultural conven tions, and in the family circle. - Mural New Yorker. Selecting Seed Oorn. - There is a difference, if we notice it, in the eara, which can be seen when husking, somo ears being much harder to break off than others. And herein lies the secret: Those with ,the large, tough sterns are the male or bastard ears, which I never take for seed, no matter how large the ear ; but those which are somewhat hollow and small in the stem end are the female, and the only kind that should be taken for seed. This being the true way of picking out seed-corn, it is of no matter whether it be the top or bottom ear, as it is all one. We very well know that mixture or fertilizins; between the male and female stalks takes place in the later stages oí' their growth. - Oerrnantown Telegraph. HOW TO BUXLD A POULTRY HOUSE.We adviss every man to build a hennery on the same principie that a farmer would build a barn: first for comfort, second for convenience, and then add as much for elegance and style as he is willing to pay for. The plan to would adopt for a poultry house is tl ds: Build on a southerly slope, if you can. Dig out for a back wall, to be cemented up; then lay upon it a shed roof, the roof and sides shingled, with tarred paper between the boards and shingles. It should be ten feet high in the front and five in the rear. On the inside have a walk three feet wide running the whole length, high enough from the ground to let the fowls under, to scratch and go out into the yard. Lay a floor over the rest with the roosts on the back part, with the shelves under them to catch the droppings, so arranged as to be removed and cleaned once a week. The nests for large hens should be a foot high, and small at the entrañen, mnning baat two reet. Wïth such nests as these hens seldom learn to set eggs. Fasten the nests on the partition which separates the walk from the coop. A building thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide may be separated into three rooms, large enough for twenty-five fowls to a room. Such a building eau be put up for $50, and is worth as much for all practical purposes as the most elegant building, while everybody that can afford to keop good fowls can nfford such a hennery. - Boston Transcript. About the House. Add your fuel to the fire slowly. Herbings are very strengthening. Do not make your bread too light. Stale bread may be steamed into freshness. Scamded skimmed milk will go as far as fresh milk. Salt meats should be simmered; they should not be fiercely boiled. To Prevent Scobchxng. - To prevent scorching, the secret is simply to keep a basin or cup of water in the oven. The steam generated not only prevents gcorching, but makes the meat cook nicer. Destróyer of Bed Bugs. - The quickest and best oure for them, I find, is to wash the bedstead with cold water and then sprinkle well with red or best black pepper, and also sprinkle well where there is any sign of bugs. Chocolate Cake. - Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, four eggs, one cup of milk, scant three cups of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, bake in layers. Por the chocolate mixture, grate one cake of sweet chocolate; beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth and add a cup of powdered sugar. To Gbt Rid of BirdLice.- Tokeep insects off birds put the least little bit of kerosene oil ivnder each wing, say as much as remains on the little finger after you have let the drop f all off; do this every ten days uu til all are removed; . clean the cage well every day; scour it in hot water; use powdered borax, but no soap. To Purify the Complexion. - Eat an orange or two every morning before breakfast, drink plenty of lemonade not sweetened; never drink tea, coffeo, nor any kind of stiniulants; do not use soap on the face or neck; take a spouge bath every morning, either cold or topid, in water made soft with powdered borax, a teaspoonful in a quart of water. Poünd Cake. - Eight. eggs beaten separately; not quite one pouud of butter; one pound of powdered sugar; not quite one pound of prepared flour, or flour with two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat the yelks, sugar md butter together, then add the beaten whites anff1 flour by degrees, alternating till both are stirred in; flavor with lemon. Hard Soap.- Pour four gallons of boiling water on to four pounds of washing soda, and three poumls of unslaoked lime; let it stand unt.il clearand then drain off ; place it on tiie flre in an iron pot; put in six pounils of good, i clean fat; boil two liours - stir most of the time; pour one gallon of cold water on to the mixture of soda and lime Üiat has been once used; let it settlo clear, and add this cold solu'iont) the boiling soap whenever it is in danger of boiling over; add only a pint or so at a time; try the soap by cooling a little in a saucer; about tbirty minutes ueiore reuioviuy from the fire, add four ounces of borax; ■wet a tub to prevent sticking; turnm the soap and let it stand uutil solid; cut into bars. ___ Mehbmet Ali explains that the BashiBazouks are the -worst ballast a Turkish army eau oarry, their priuwry object being plunder, and their ulterior aim to lodge their plunder in safety. The old I General saya their room yw alays bet- i ter tlifti thfiir oompaujr,