Agricultural And Domestic

Song of the Gras. Here I oome creeping, creeping evcrywhcre ; By the dusty roadsidc, On the sunny hillnide, Close by the noisy brook, In every ehady nook, I come creeping, creeping everywhero. Here I come creeping, smiliug everywliero, All around the open door, Where fit the aged poor ; Here where the childron play, In the bright and merry May, I come creeping, creeping everywhere. Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere ; In the noiny city Btreet My pïeasant face yeu'll meet, Cheering the sick at heart, Toiling his buey part - SilonUy creeping, creeping everywhere. Hore I come creeping, creeping everywhoro ; You cannot see me coming, Nor hear my low sweet humming ; For in the starry night, And in the glad morning light, I come quietly creeping everywhere. Here I come creeping, ereeping everywhere ; More wolcome than the flowers In suinmer'a pleasant hours ; The gentle cow is glad, And the merry bird not sad, To Bee me creeping, creeping everywhere. Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere. When you're numbered with the dead, In your still and narrow bed, In the happy spring l'll conie And deck your pilent home - Creeping, silently creeping, everywhere. Here I come creeping, creeping cvory where ; My humblo song of praiee, Most joyfully I raise ïo Him at Whose command I beautif y the land, Creeping, silently creeping, everywhere. Hints for the Seusrm. [From the American Agricultnrist for Jnnc.] TOP-DIÏESSING F ALL GBAIN. Gram fields that look unthrifty and yellow after the drying winds of the spring will be beneflted by a top-dressing of active fertilizer ; this will help the clover and young grass. Piaster is often very useful upon young cloverfields - frequently doubling the hay erop. Thus applied it will serve to produce a good erop to be plowed in upon distant fields, where manure cannot be easily handled. Ono bushei (eighty pounds) up to four, six or eight bushels even may be used to the acre as early as practicable this month. EARLY POTATOES, that have not yet been planted, should be got in without delay. With this erop earliness is a great advantage where beetles abound. Pure Paris green is the best remody for the beetle. Last season we mixed it with piaster, which is much cheaper than flour, does not scatter so much when the wind is blowing, and adheres to the leaves equally well. As it is best to be prepared for the beetle, a supply of Paris green should be procured in readiness for his arrival. HOBSES. Now, with hard work, teams require good care. Horses will come from tho field in much better condition if they are protected from worry by the flies. The best protection is a thin sheet made to fit the neck, with holes for the cars, and to buckle under the throat, and to cover tho back, hanging loosely at the sides to give access of air beneath. It should be held by a crupper-band bcneath the tai!. Too much corn fed now is apt to produce irritation of the skin, and to make the animáis restless. Oleanliness will be found a great comfort to them. COWS AND CALVES. Caution should be exercised in turning cattJe on to the fresh grass. Young stock are especially subject to disease from over-feeding with succulent herb&ge. Black leg, black-quarter or carbuncular erysipelas, frequent at this season, is so caused. Where there is danger, a seton in the dewlap has been f ound effective to prevent it. To change the feed gradually, however, is the best preservativo of the health. In-coming cows that have been well fed should be watched to prevent garget. To reduce the feed bef ore calving, and to guard the cows against lying out during cold rains, will be safe. Every owner of a cow should possess a good book on the care of cattle. SWINE. Pigs given a run at grass will do best. The orchard, sown to clover, might well be appropriated to them in part. The etïect will be beneficial in two ways; the pigs will have good grazing, and many vermin will be destroyed. If the pigs gnaw the bark, wash the lower part of the trees with some thin mud mixed with cow-dung. A feeding coop is useful for young pigs. In this some milk in a shaílow pan may be given them without disturbance from older ones. SHEEP AND LAMBS. The most profit from a sneep is to raise a lamb that will sell for more than tho mother is worth. This can be easily done by caiing well for the earliest lambs. A lamb, 90 days old and well fattened, will often sell for $10 in the cities, and half that in country villages. A breed Cotswold lamb, fed now with a little mixed oatmeal and bran, and suckled by a naüve ewe, will make an excellent market lamb. Lambs now being fed should be protectod from cold storins, and the ewes should have some extra feed. POTJLTBY. Young chicks should now be oming forward. As a rule, thoso hatched this month, if in good breeds, will begin to lay early in tho fall, and, continuing through the winter, will brood early next spring. The profit of feeding hens when eggs are scarce is obvious. The loss of feeding "dead heads " through the winter, to lay only when eggs are plenty, is apparent. THINNINC4 OF FKUIT. Thoso who praotice this should begin as soon as the erop is fairly set. Others may doubt its value, but no one who grows choice fruit for market can afïord to negleet it. The experience of a single season with two trees side by side will decide the matter. Let one tree ripen all the fruit that sets, and from the other remove three-fourths of the erop. Keep an account of the cost of thinning, and oE the returns from the fruit from each tree. FROTT-TREE DISEASES. The black rot is not confined to plum trees, but attaoks cherries, and we have seen the same or something very similar on neo tarines. At its worst it is in tho f orm of large black, ragged excrescences ; it begins Vy a small swelling and breakitig away of the bark. Outting off and burning all affected branches is the proper remedy. When the excrescences aro not large and few, cutting them out down to tho sound wood, and washing tho wound with a solution of chloride of lime have been found useful. Tüo bliglit comes without warning ; we only know of it by the death of tho branch, several branches, or sometimes of the whole tree. Outting back to the .sound wood, if it takes the whole tree, and burning the prunings, is all that can be done. ______ For the Household. To K___ Flies.- A few chips of vurssia wood soaked in a little sweetencd water will kill them. Tea Biscuits.- Two pouuds of flour, two ounces of butter, one cup of milk, one or two eggs, half a cup of sugar, ono cup of yeast; set at night, bake in morning. Red Ink.- Take of carmine twelve grains; spirits of ammonia, three ounces; heat; add powdered gum arabic, eighteen grains, and stir till dissolved. - Western Mural. Lemon Meringce Pie. - Beat the yelks of four eggs, ten table-spoonf uls of sugar, three of melted butter, and the juioe of one lemon and a half, add thrr o table-spoonfnls of milk or water; bake in anundercrust. then beat the whites, pour over the top, and pn tyck in the, oven to biown.