Agricultural And Domestic

Don't run in debt - never niiud, never mind, If the old clothes are faded and torn : Fit them un - make them do ; it is better by f ar Than to have the heart weary and worn. Limited means and gaudy pride have no business farming. Thf.be nre not half enough thoroughbred bulls in the world to furnish each good farmer with one. The younger steers can be presentad to the market fat, the better the satisf action, and the greater the profit on feed, investment and labor. If there be any leisure time, recolleot corn will stand manuie to the fullest extent. It not only pays in the amount of yield, but it ripens muoh earlier. If new orchards are to be put out, or if the old one is to be improved, now is the time. Order trees f rom reliable nurseries. Don't wait for a tree tramp. The prevalence of unpaid-for respectability among farmers is one of the inain causes of hard times. The wants of this generation are beyond the means to gratify. - Des Moines Register. A correspondent of the American Agriculturist recommends persons who have horses suffering f rom inflammation in tho joints or muscles to apply cold water to the suspected parts; the seat of the trouble will be found where the moisture dries off quickest. Now is the time to sow tomato seed in bed s. And as an incentive to action let us quote to you the prosepoetic appeal of the President of the Northwestern Iowa Horticultura! Society in behalf of tomatoes : " And the glorious, grand, luscious, life-inspiring tomato, do not forget it, but plant your tomatoes with care, let them climb on a trellis, or stair, exposé them to the sun and the air, if you would have them tho fairest of the fair." - Iowa State Register. To Break a Horse of Cabbvjng Hia Tonque Out. - Take a heavy piece of tiu, three inches wide, flve inches long; turn small wire around the edge, to keep it from outting his tongue: fasten this on a straight bit; raise the cheek pieces to keep the bit np well in the mouth. The suction of the piece of metal on the tongue mil keep it in place, and the horse suffers no inconvenience from the metal in the mouth. If the habit is recently formed this may produce a permanent cure. These tongue lilollers" are nearly always pullers and highspirited horses. - L. S. King, in Country Gentleman. The Country Gentleman gives a very carefully-prepared table of each sale of Shorthorns in the United States in 1877. It shows a less number than in 1876 or 1875, and a less average than any of the previous seven years. Omitting the irdividual sales, we give the aggregate by States as well as the aggregates f er previous years : StaU. No. Average. Total.' Kentucky 1,039 $143 $149,04X Illinois 720 242 174,570 lowa 722 238 171,906 Missouri 336 J65 65,415 Indiana 94 323 30 3 5 Ohio 97 114 11,015 Wisconsin 29 95 2,767 ilassachusetts 36 143 6,1.' 5 California 27 380 10,076 Total 3,100 $197 $610,265 Canada 137 .... 132,605 Sales of 1877 3,237 $230 $742,871 Sales of 1876 4,004 341 1,306,805 Sales of 1875 4,347 422 1,832,311) Salee of 1874 2,676 385 1.031,953 Sales of 1873 1,836 53J 996.527 Sale of 1872 1,014 313 317,625 Sales of 1871 407 290 117,914 Sales of 1870 495 343 169,557 Totals, 8 years 18,016 $365 $6 574,735 It is not suppossd that cows kept on a small farm are" placed there for the purxse of raising calves for sale. They are placed there for the butter they produce. The question is often asked, ' Which shall they be, blooded or scrub stock ?" The question is easily answered. Keep only such stock as is best aiapted 'or the purpose. Our opinión, and also ;hat of the principal dairymen of the country is, that the Jersey - commonly called Alderney - is, above all others, ;he best butter cow. They are easily ïept, very docile - a point not to be overooked - and beautiful, giving milk of superior richness, from which is produced fine-colored, solid butter, having an equal texture and flavor. Butter made from such milk has been known to teep, when placed in a dry - not cold - cellar, without the use of ice, and when alken out was in a hard, firm condition, and was then sold 12 to 18 cents a pound ligher than the best ordinary butter. The cost of Jerseys is not much more than for scrubs, and they will more than make up the difference iu price in a few months. - Live Stock Record. Abont the House. For Toothache. - Put a piece of lime as large as a hickory-nut into a quart bottle filled with water, and rinse the moutli with it frequently. Fok a Cold. - Drink a tea made by steeping together eqjial parts of catnip, spearmint and sassafras. Steep, but do not let the tea boil; put the f eet aiso in hot water. Poverty Cake. - Two oups of flour, one cup of sugar, one cup of cream, a small piece of butter half as large as an egg, one table-spoonful of buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, nutmeg and one egg. To Make Boots Waterproof. - Yellow beeswax, Burgundy pitch and turpentine, of each two ounces; boiled linseed oil one pint. Apply to the boot with the hands before the fire till well saturated. King's Pudding. - Beat six eggs; add ne quart of sweet milk, one pound of white sugar, one dozen of soda crackers, our large apples cut in very thin slices, nd a little aalt. Spice to taste. Bake bout two hours. Handkerchtefs with Colored Borders. - To wash such articles put in a ail of water one teaspoonful of sugar )f lead or one teaspoonful of spirits of urpentine; letthem soak inthis solutic ne-quarter of an hour before washing. Hints About Gltie.- Good glue, a ïousehold necessity, should be a lightjrown color, semi-transparent and free rom waves or cloudy linea. Glue loses much of its good by frequent remelting; iherefore, glue which is newly made ia jreferable to that which has been rejoiled. The hotter the glue the more orce it will exert in keeping the joined jarts glued together. A Nioe Cake. - One pound flour, one ound sugar, three-quarters pound of jutter, flve eggs, half pound citrón and he same of raisins, the grated peel of ,wo lemons and half a nutmeg, one cup of sour cream, and one teaspoonful of soda. Beat butter and sugar to a cream; hen add tha eour cream, then eggs, )eaten separately, and stir in the flour radually, adding the fruit afterward, and soda last, dissolved in atable-spoonful of warm water. The citrón must bo cut fine and thin and raisins stoned. Kothing New Under the Sun. A novel diseovery has been made in the library of Lyons, in France. It is a map of the entire system of the central plateau of África, which has been of late years explored by Grant, Baker, Livingstone and Staiiley. The system is traced upon a globe whioh was oonstracted in 1701, and eontains in detail the souroes of the Nile and the Congo. The map ■was exeeuted by order of Fathers Placide de Saint Amour, principal of the monastery of the third order of St. Francis, by Orispurien of Toulon, and by the monks of Bonaventuie and Gregoire, both connected with the above establishment. The report does not mention the names of the explorers. The modern maps place the source o' the two rivers alightly to fee northward nf that just djsoovered.