Agricultural And Domestic

The beet farmer is the farmer who cultivates himself. Prof. Beal tells the Michigan Farmer that, for a prime, long-lived orchard, where the soil, drainage, climate, etc., are all favorable, he would rather set the trees more thaa fortyfeet apart than loss. A Califobnia physician eleared his premises of rats by saturating one with carbolic aeid and turning him adrift. He thinks kerosene or any other strongsmelliug liquid would have the same effect. Administebeb in time a dose of paint wül save farm implements from an expensive attack of " rickets," whenotherwise they would become, by exposure, loose-jointed and brittle as to woodwork, and rusty as to iron. What trees have the power of precipitating most general moisture from the atmosphere and the greatest rainfall from the olouds ? The French Commission reports decidedly in favor of firsand pines, with their pinnacle tops and electrio condition. It is said that a fllthy man, with filthy liands, milking a fllthy cow, in a filthy coral, into a filthy pail, and settÏDg the milk in one corner of a hot, filthy kitchen, is the perfection of filth in but;er-making, and that the product will be anything but "gilt-edged." This is the time when unthrifty farmers save 10 cents by refusing to invest n a paper of tomato seed, because times are so hard and money scarce, and when he country peddler comes around at the end of the summer it will take the price of un acre of wheat to pay him for what might have been raised on a dozen steps square. Such economy is the road to overty and beggary. Every farmer should keep a pot of mixed paint in his work-shop, and should apply it liberally to plows wagons, harrows, reapers, and all implements that are exposed to the weather. This will cause them to last twice as long as usual. Farming tools and implements are less frequently run out by ïard service than used up by useless exosure to the weather when they are not n service. An orchardist, who greased trees with ard to keep rabbits away, tells the Oardener's Monthly that the applica,ion caused the bark to peel, and that new bark grew, on a part of them. A neighbor "rubbed carbon oil on a fine ot of trees" for the same purpose, and he next summer they were dead asdoornails. He adds that when he wants a roung tree to make a fine growth he ties ïay or straw from the branches to the ground, and thinks he has thus insured ;he life of several which could not otherwise have been saved. AiOKZo Cbafts has found a good use or sour eider. He had a sow with a itter of nine pigs, which she would not own, and toward which she was very violent, and but for their timely removal the little pigs would all have been dlled. He gave her two quarts of sour eider, and in a few minutes she ]ay down evidently " the worse for liquor." While she was in this condition the pigs were twice put to her to suck, and when she recovered from her debauch she acmowledged the little ones and now seems exceedingly fond of them. - Exchange. Fabmebs to the Fbont. - No Ccnneeicut Legislature in late years has had o large a proportion of farmers and so very small a proportion of lawyers aa tne present ; yet it seems the nearly unaninous opinión throughout the State that t has accomplished more work of a pracical, needed kind than any of its predeessors in recent days. There has been ess " chin-chin," less useless verbiage, ess discussion of fine points of no practical importance, and lessprophecies about ossible contingencies than usual, but nore of the work for which legisïators are elected and paid. This is a thoroughly utilitarian country, and what the vast )ulk of its inhabitants want is plain, racfcical common sense, in word and leed, not fine-spun theories or elegant verbosity. " No foot, no horse;" although every armer knows this maxim, it seems as if many (by the size they keep their animáis feet at) expected to doublé their ams by a eontrary interpretation of it. A hoof spread out of all likeness to its original íorm, cracked nearly to the quick, the frog pared till it is as thin as aper ; the sole cut away till the frog ouches the ground at every step, toes iurned in, and sore knees from frequent tumbles, are no credit to a farmer nowadays. ff every man who is guilty of ausing the above defects were comelled to keep his own feet in a similar nanner, there would be a revolution omewhere. It is not necessary to employ a faxrier to trim a horse's fooot. A lank to stand on, a sharp twoinch chis1, and a good mallet, in the hands of a areful man will, if used once a month, ïeep hoofs in perfect order and improve hem constantly. - Moore's Rural. Alxmt the House. Ginger Nuts. - Two and a half etips of molasses, one cup of butter or lard, one table-spoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of alum dissolved in one-third of a cup of boiling water, two teaspoonulu of soda dissolved in hot water. To Fbeshen Black Lace. - Lay it on a clean table, sponge it all over with a weak solution of borax - about an even easpoonful or less to a pint of warm water. Use a piece of old black silk, or )lack kid glove is better, to spouge with. While damp, cover with a piece of black silk or cloth, and iron. Yeast Cakes. - Boil a handful of ïops ; pour on Indian meal sufficient to make a thick ough ; when cool enough not to scald yeast, put in a cupful ; mix well. ' If the weather is warm, make nto cakes immediately; put meal on molding board, set in shade in airy place io dry ; turn every day till dry. Green Paint fbom Pique Drkss. - Soak the spots well with spirits of turpentine and rub gently ; if the dress tías been washed it wili take a longer ;ime thnn usual to remove the spots. After all has been removed with tupentine, there may a yellow stain remain ; bleach it out in the sun, using water made soft with borax, or lemon juice and salt. Use no soap. Prepabed Glue. - In half a pint of water in a wide-mouthed bottle put eight ounces of best glue, place the bottle in water, and heat until the glue is dissolved. Then stir slowly two and a half ounces of strong nitric acid. Cork tightly. Glue thus prepared is always ready for use, and may be applied to mending furniture, broken vessels, and other articles not exposed to water. Sopt Gingerbread, L - Dip up, shake off lightly, six even cups of fiour; put in a pan and add one table spoonful saleratus, two of ginger, one cup butter, two cups molasses, and two of good buttermilk; let the butter be soft enough to mix easily with the other ingredients, but not melted; stir all together enough to mix, and bake immediately in two tins about eight by twelve inches square. If the oven is right, twenty minutes will bake them. To Currt Eggs. - Wash and slico thmly an onion; fry to a nice brown in two spoonfuls of butter; add n. table-spoonful of curry powder; one pint of good broth, and a little salt; let cook until the onions are tender; thicken onefourth pint of cream with a little cornstarch, and stir into the other ingred': - ents; let simmer a few minutes; then ail'l twelve hard-boiled eggs cut into halves; warm through and arrange the egL.a upon a platter with the gravy poumi over them.