Agricultural And Domestic

Grated horso-chestnuts, mixed with ten times their bulk of water, will expel worms from the soil in pots. Spring is by far the best season, all over the Northwest, for setting out fruit trees, strawberries, currante, raspberries, aspnragus, and all permanent plantations intended to remain for years. Every moment is now of value to those who wish to grow good fruit in after years. Wooden floors are objeeted to for poultry-houses by The Country, for the reason that they tend to cause the birds to become footed, and, what is of more consequence, absorb and retain dampness from the droppingf, and so prove a source of cramp and other ailments. Planting Peas. - Inlight soil, for the main erop, they should be planted muoh dceper than is the common practice. Try this experiment, as we have, and satisfy yourself. Plant some four, and some six, and somo eight inches deep, and we think you will bo satisfled that those do the best which are down five to seyen inches. They are less liable to mildew, and they bear longer and more seeds. Sbedling Potatobs. - If you wish to raise new sorts, remember that they can be raised yery easily, by starting them early, and treating the young plants the samo as you would tomatoes. If well cared for, each of the best should produce a good yield of fair-sized tubers in the flrst year - we mean that there should bo found six to eight pounds of tubers to the plant. - Rural -Nciv Yorker. When seeds, either in the cold frame in pots or pans or out-of-door seed-beds, come up too thickly, it is well to cut off the flrst leaves with sharp-pointed scissors rather than pull them up, which deranges the soil and interferes with the delicate roots of those that are to reniain. The tiny plants are, at this stage, dependent upon the first leaves for life. The same may be said of radishes, lettuce, etc., which, sowed too thickly in rows, have to be thinned out. Chickens a Bemedy foe Insects. - For pickles, do not bo in too much of a hurry to plant cucurnber seeds very early. When the weather gets warm and settled the young planta grow faster. Arrange the matter bo as to have several coops of chickens scattered aroiuid amoog the planta. If you have no chickens, borrow some, for there is no better remedy to keep away the insects than plenty of young chicken3 a few weeks oíd. No one who has ever tried it will be satisfied to give up this plan. - Moore's Rural. As soon as we discover ary symptoms of gapes among our chickens, we know that there are worms - very small red worms - in tlieir wind-pipes, and we give them camphor in their vessels strong enongh to make quite a taste of the camphor. Then, if any get the disease quite badly before we discover it, we f orce a pill of camphor down the throat, about the size of a small pea, and the fumes of that dose will kill the worms. No kind of worms can live in camphor - henee, camphor must be a powerful vermifuge. - Poultry World. No medicine is such a complete specific for lice and other parasites on animáis and fowls as the dust, and finest dust that can be procured, coal ashes being excellent for the purpose. Nothing is more preservative of the health of animáis than dust, and in summer, when it can be procured by them without the aid of man, they always do beet. It should be well sprinkled and freely scattered from the head to the tail, along the backbone, using an abundance of this most excellent and cheapest of all cattle medicine. - Prairie Farmer. Rules fob the Care of Sheep. - 1. Keep sheep dry under foot with clean litter. This is more necessary than roofiug them. Never let tbem stand or lie in the mud or snow. 2. If an ewe loses her larnb, milk her daily for a few days, and mix a little alum with her salt. 3. Never frighten sheep if possible to ayoid it. 4. Seperate all weak, thin or sick sheep in the fall from those that aro strong, and give them special care. 5. If any sneep is hurt catch it at ouce, and wash the wound with a healing lotion. If a leg is broken, bind it with splinters tightly, loosening as the limb swells. 6. If a sheep is lame, examine its foot, clean out between the hoofs; if unsound, apply tobáceo, with blue vitriol boiled in a little water. 7. Shear at once any sheep commencing to shed its wool, unless the weather is too severe. Keep none but the best, and see that they are properly attended to. About the House. Lemon Pie, - One and a half cupfuls sugar, two eggs, two table-spoonfuls flour, one teacupful water. Soft Custard.- Two eggs to a pint of milk; boil milk; pour hot on eggs (well beaten previously), then return to pail; add two table-spoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful vanilla; boil until thick. Cinnamon Otjstahd Pie. - Beat six eggs thoroughly ; add three pints of rich, new milk and a tablc-spoonful of cornstarch, stirred smooth into a little milk; sweeten to taste, and sift in 8 tablespoonful of cinnnmon. Pour into tins lardea with crust and bake. Baked Rhubabb. - Many prefer rliubarb baked when served as a preserve. Cut the meces about an iuch in lengtli; weigli, allow as mucli moist sugar as rhubarb, and bake in an earthenwaro dish; put into the disk in layers; add a mite of 'water; cover closely and bake. Jeily. - One box Oox's geletine, juice of three lemons, rind of one lemon, one pint of cold water; allow this to stand one hour and a half; then add two and a half pints boiling water, two povinds crushed sugar, one pint wine; stir gently until the sugar is dissolved, thcn pour into molds. Haed Custabd.- Five eggs well beaten (reserving three whites for meringue), one quart milk, flve table-spoonfuls sugar, two teaspoonfuls vam'lla, pinch of salt; put in a pudding dish, which place in a pan of water in the oven and bake. When nearly baked, add a meringue made with the three whites and two table-spoonfuls brown sugar to each white, and any flavoring. Bake a light brown. Ehdbaeb Shobtcakk-Two hcaping teaspoonfuls of baking powdcr siited with a quart of flour, one-half teacup of butter, two table-spoonfuls of sugar; a pinch of salt and enough sweet milk to make a soft dough. Roll enough so that when baked it can be split open or roJl thin so therc will be three or four layers. When done, butter and fill with stewed rhubarb plentifully sugared. Oobn Bbead. - Two cvips of Indiau mcal, two cups of wheat flour, one cup of sugar, one beaten egg, one teaspoonfiü of soda, two teaspooufuls of cream of tartar; a little palt, and swoet milk enough to mako a thick batter. Bake in shallow paus -it shonld be when done, about an inch in thioknoss, and eat warm for breakfast. This makes tlic best corn bread over eaten, aocording to my taste. Ehubabb Pie. - Stew rhubard; ftdd the grated rind and juioc of aleuion, the well-beaten yelks of two cggs, and sweeten with white sugnr; line pie-tiiis with good crust and flll with the rhubarb; bake until the cruet is of delicate brown; beat the whites to a stiff frotli - it will be necessary to add the wliite of unotiicr egg - and add three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; flavorwith vanilla and spread over the top of the pies; return to the oven until of a light üiown, The eggs aud lemon givcn ar