Agricultural And Domestic

Aronnd the Farm. Baked clay fence posts axe in use in Lehigh county, Pa. Agricültuke advances with the improved condition of the eomuion schools. Always feed your hands as well as you feed yourself , for the laboring men are the bone and sinew of the land and ought to be well treated. A man who leaves a farm to spend his days in idleness, proves conclusi vely that he is not adapted to any business, and will be sóoner or later a failure. An experienced farmer whO has fed artiohokes to hogs for upwards of ten years declares that they are a perfect preventivo of hog cholera. Cannot this be proved by actual trial the coming season ? - Prairie Farmer. Some farmers m Walao county, Me., are trying the Miller system of feeding stock in winter, which consists of corn meal alone, disusing hay entirely. One farmer in Unity has fed a cow for twenty days upon three quarts of meal daily, and the animal thrives. It is said that a cow can be wintered by this system for $12. - Exchango. These is no doubt but that an esculent root palatable to animáis, frostproof, and wholesome, either raw or cooked, is nrieh needed by Western farmers. It is believed that the artichoke will fill these wants, besides requiring very little culture, and on good soil, yielding very large crops. - Exchange. A THOROUGHBKED or grade is much more certain to make good use of his food than a common or scnib animal. Feed in warm places; feed regularly. Do not kick, and yell, and thrash your stock, if you care to have them thrive. Boots and bran have a good sanitary effect in winter. Their food value cannot be estimated by the amount of starch or albumen they eontain. - Rural New Yorker. Look to Yotjr Cellar. - Clear out all decaying vegetables, for the bad air will find lts way into the rooms above and poision your wife and chilclren, who niay pine away and die. Do not, in such cases, lay it to some mysterieus Providence. When the air is dry outside and near freezing, or a few degrees below, open the windows and cool and purify the air. Keep the windows closed on damp and warm and on very colil days. Piek up the rubbish; sweep up thelitter; white wash the walls and ceiling. - Morris Jiural. Five sheep will enrich one acre o old, worn-out mowing land in three ycars, so that it will produce one and one-half tons of hay per year, for several years, by a light sprinkle of seed each year, sown in the early spring. Five sheep will produce manure in winter to tlie value of $10, by giving them suitable bedding. Five sheep will get their living througli the summer on one acre of ground; the pasturing of same wouid be $8. Five sheep will raise five lambs, worth $15. Five sheep will shear twenty-ñve pounds of wool, ■worth $6. - New England Farmer. Planting Osage Okange. - Sow the seed in drills, having first soaked them in warm water for forty-eight hours, and keep them thinly between damp cloths, where they may remain warm and moist, until here and there indications of sprouting are seen. The time for sowing is immediately after corn planting time, or after the soil becomes warm. The preparation of the seed by soaking and sprouting should commence two weeks earlier. The rows in which the seeds are planted should be three feet apart, and the seeds be sown about two to the inch of row ; sow in correct lines abott three-fourths to one inch deep, and keep entirely free from weeds. In the autumn out the top?, about four about eight inches below ground ; dig, and, after sorting according to sise, heel in the earth in a dry place, covering the tops with litter and earth to prevent freezing. In tiie spring they are to be pianted m a properly-preparea ñedge row, where they are to remain. Some growers tie loosely in small bundies of say fifty plants eaob, and, setting npon their roots, cover all with earth, tops and bottom ; heeling in is preferable. The usual di8tance apart to plant in the hedge row is about ten to twelve inches; pack the earth firmly about the roots, and deep enough so when the earth settles the yellow portion will be entirely balow ground, o about two inches deeper than they originally stood. - Prairie Farmer. Alout the House. Best Food for Yottng Mothers. - Beef, mutton and cocoa ; oatmeal, arrowroot. Harvard Drink. - Mix equal parts of ale and soda-water, and add sugar and a lemon. Aleberry. - Boil ale with spice, sugar and toasted bread. An excellent and agreeable remedy f or a cold. Hydromel. - Boil eight pints water and one pint good honey till reduced one-half ; then add one glass brandy. This hydrorael will keep ten years. Egg Pudding.- One quait sour milk, eight beaten eggs, two teaspoonfuls of soda, flour to make a stiiï batter. Bake quickly; and eat warm with cream and sugar, flavored with nutmeg. New-England Brown Bkead. - Four cupfuls rye-meal, three of yellow Indian-meal, one sinall cupful molasses, one teaspoonful soda, one-half teaspoonful cream tartar ; mix very soft with sour milk or buttermilk ; little salt ; steam four hours and bake two. White Pudding. - Two pounds beef suet, two pounds leaf lard, ten pounds wheat flour, one-half pound salt, two tablespoonfuls each of thyme, summersavory and black pepper ; rub thoroughly together all the ingrediente and keep in a cool place. When wanted for use, tie the required amount in a cloth and boil until done; then remove to tiie oven and brown. Vegetable Salmagundi, - Take an equal quantity of carrots and turnips; ent them the size of almonds; peel a dozen small, white onions, and put all in a p;n with a lump of butter; let them brown gently; add a little gravy and some mushrooms, Fren oh peas, haricots, tops of cauliflower, salt pepper, and a teaspoonful of sugar; let them all boil gently, and, juat before s'Tving, thicken the saucs with a littlo flour. Potato Pie. - Peel and boil six gooclsized potatoes; when quite soft drain and mash through a colander; stir to a cream one-fourth pound of butter and three-fourths of suguar; add the potatoes and beaten volks of five eggs; beat the mixture until very light; flavor with one grated nutmeg, a wineglassful of brandy, and one of wine; stir in the whites of the eggs, haviug whipped them to a stiff froth; line the pie-pans with a rich pastry, and bake it a very light brown; Uien flll them with the mixture and bake until the tops are quite brown; serve cold. The Baptist year-book will show the following totals of the denomination for the United States: Associations at the close of 1877, 1,048; ministers, 14,596; congregations, 23,908; bap'isms, 102,292; members, 2,024,22-t. There is au increase over 1876 of 43 associations, 084 congregations and 817 ministers. There is a decrease of 7,394 in baptisms. The total cost of investigating the Presidential elections in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida last ycar was $58,358, distributed as follows : Ijouisiana committee, $34,426 ; South Carolina committee, $14,289 ; Floryin COmmittee, $9,643.