Agricultural And Domestic

Around the Furm. Faembbs, if they did bnt know it, are under lasting obligations to the unassuming sub-soiler, the angle-worm. Aooobding to tbe Toronto Globe, the simplest way to -waterproof niuslin or canvas, for hay-caps or similar purposes, is to give it, on one Bidt? only, three or four coats of a dressing composed of a quarter of a pound of soap and a gallon of linseed oil. Ü'ebtilizeb fob Wheat.- One of the best artificial fertilizers for wheat, to be applied in the spriDg, is nitrate of soda. One hundred pounds of this per acre should be sown evenly over the wheat as saon as it begins to grow in the spring. American Agriculturist. No one, a Germán writer says, sueceeds well with bees who keeps them with only large profits in view ; for it is espeeially true here that "he who maketh haste to be rioh" will surely fall mto asnare. There must be agenumeenjoyment of the business and a real love for bees. Sulpjiub fob Cattle Vebmin.- Let every man that keeps a cow sprinkle an ounoe of sulplmr along the back of the animal from the horns to the tail twice at least during the eummer, and rub it well with a corn-cob so as to work to the skin; then the animal will not be troubled with grubs in the back or vermin of any kind, and will be more quiet every way. - Tropical. Cheese, as met with in the market, varíes greatly in composition. Good kinds contain from 30 to 35, and inferior kinds 38 to 45 per cent. of water ; rich sorts inelude from 25 to 30 per cent. of fats and about the same proportion of albuminates. Poor cheese often contains only 6 per cent. of fat, and 40 to 50 per cent. of water. Tbe amount of ash varies from 3 to 10 per cent. Simple Test fob Milk.- The Milch Zeitung communicates a plan for testing milk which possesses the merit at least of simplicity. A well-polished knittingneedle is dipped into a deep vessel of milk and immediately withdrawn m an upright position, when, if the sample be pure, some of the duid will be found to adhere to it, while such is not the case if water has been added to the milk even in the smallest proportions. Mr. Wm. Sandebs, Supperintendentof the Agricultural Grounds at Washington, says he has been experimenting i long time to try to prevent blight, and whether or not he has an infalliblo remedy he is unable to determine- he only knows that for ten years he has painted or washed apple and pear trees once or twice a year with a lime whitewash strongly impregnated with sulphur, and such trees have thus f ar escaped the blight, though it has appeared in the adjacent orchards. Apple Woems. - An extensive fruit grower of Western New York states that while seraping his apple trees he fouud lodged in the crotch of nearly every tree a nest of worms identical with those found in an apple ; mat tne worm wa safely secreted beneath the bark, whcre washing the eurface of the tree over its bed would not affect or even disturb it. By removing the scaly bark and applying a coat of wef k lye, the insects were at once killed, and thereby, in his opinión, an immense army of worms indirectly exterminated. - Exchange. CtJBRANTS AND GOOSEBEEEIES.- Mlicll pruning in the fall may be avoided by removing shoots which push now where sterns are not needed ; they are easily pulled out. Generally the bushes are too full of mod and leaves for the mot t abundant fruit. In sorne markets both these fruits bring a better price when picked green - indeed, gooseberries are rarely sold otherwise. By heavy nmlching, the fruit of the currant may be kept on the bushes a long while in good condition for table use. For jeily, currants should be gathered as soon as fairly colored. Chabcoal in Tubkey-Feeding.- An old turkey-raiser narrates the following experiment: Fout turkeys were confined in a pen, and fed on meal, potixtoes and oats. Four others of the same brood were also, at the same time, confined in another pen, and fed daily on the same articles, but with one pint of very finely pulverized charcoal mixed with theirfood- mixed meal and boiled potatoes. They had also a plentiful supply of brokèn charcoal in their pen. The eïght were killed on the same day, and there was a dilference of one and a half pounds each in favor oí the fowls which had been supplied with charcoal, they being much the fattest and the meat greatiy superior in point of tenderness and flavor. - Cultivator. About the Honae. Bbeakfast Cakes. - Two cupfnls of Bour milk, half a cupful of molasses, a teaspoonful of soda, a heapiog cnpful of flour and Indiaa meal to make a stiff batter. Add a little salt, and fry as griddle cakes. Beef Livbr. -Out it in slices half an inch thick, pour boiliDg water over ït, draiD, and broil it with thin shccs of pork dipped in flour ; cut it in mouthfuls, and heat it with butter, pepper and salt for three or four minutes. Deodoeizbbs. - A. pail of elear water in a newly-painted roomwill remove the sickening odor of paint. Ooffee pouuded in a mortar and roasted on an iron plate, sugar burned on hot coala, and vinegar boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture of tho sickroom are excellent deodorizers. Foe Burns.- Strong, fresh, clear lime watsr mixed with as much linseed oü as it will cut; shake the bottle before applying; wrap the burn in cotton wadding saturated" with the lotion ; -wet as often as it appears dry, without renioving cotton from burn for nine days, when new skin will probably have formed. Citkon Cake. - 1} cup butter, 2 cnps sngar, 6 eggs, 1 teaspoonful "royal baking powder," or teaspoonful of soda and f ditto cream of tartar, 1 pint flour, 1 cup citrón, ent in thin slices. Enb the butter and sugar to a smooth cream, add the eggs two at a time, beating flve minutes between each addition. Siit the flour nnd bakmg powder, add it to the butter and sugar with the citrón. Onion Toast.- Boil soine small onions, changing the water twice, ánd salting the last time. When done, take the onions up witb a skimmer. fhioken the water, whieh should be boiled away to about a pint, with a very little corn-starch; add butter, pepper and salt to taste. Have toasted soim thin slices of bread, lay thein in a dish, put the onions ou the slices, aud pour the gravy over. Celeby Lbavbs. -Most housekeepers throw away the leaves and green tops of celcry. There is a better way than this. Dry them thoroughly in the oven, then pulverizo to a fine powder, aud they make a very delicious sensoning for soup, the aroma and strength of the celery being remarkably preserved. Alter being pulverizad, the powder should be kept in a jar or closed" bottle to preserve the strength. Oooking Calp's ob Pig s Liver.- Put a littlo lard into a sauce-pan, and when hot throw in onion chopped fine, and the slices of caifa liver floured. Turn the liver several times, allowing it to cook well and imbibe the I aste of the onion. When done, drain out the liver, and put into your pan a picce of bnttea the size of a largo hickory nut and a heaping teaspoonful of flour, stir it until it assumes a fine brown color, then pour in a cupful of boiling water, otirrin it well with the egg-whisk, add pepper, salt, and a heaping tabk-spoonfnl of vinegar; put the liver slices into the sauce, and let them remain at the sjdr of the fire until ready to serve.