Agricultural And Domestic

Around the Farm. Give the poultry shade. Tom atoes are good for chicks. Steam oultivation is japidly extending in England. Onions, finely chopped and mixed with Indian meal, arehigbly commended by the Farming Afirror for iowls, once or twice a week at least. They are said to prevent and cure the gapes, and maDy other diseases to which fowls are subject. Asparagus btds are very of ten neglected after cutting is done. But they should be kept free from wccds, and a etrong growth, upon which their next year's valué dc-pends, be insured by liberal top-dressinps of manure. An applioation of liquid iranure and salt at this time would prove of great service to . beds whioh are not f airly vigorous. Db. Sturtevant says: " One of the best results which could happen to our talkin g agricnlturists would be to sweep from existence the. idea that cheap results can bo of other thun of cheap value. The true results are always costly of time and of thought. Let the agricultural thinker reccive recognition in aocordance as his thought is based on factp." M. de Viilepin employs refuee tan - chestnut - for cattle bedding ; he places flrst on the pavement a layer ten inclies thiok of powdered peat, and over this half the quantiy of tan ; he places the fresh materialn under the fore feet of the cattle ; as the bedding becemes soiled, a fresh quantity is_raked to recoive the urine, etc. The compost is mixed with other farmyard manure, watered with urine, and turned over onco in three months. - Paris letter to New England Farmer. A cobbespondent of a foreign exchange says that the only reliable means of ridding the hen-roost and pigeon-loft of vermin is a preparation of sulphur and carbon, technically known as sulphuret of carbon. A bottle containing the solution will last several days, and the cost of it is small. Put two ounces of the sclphuret of carbon in a bottle open at the mouth, and haug it by a string in the hen house. At the end of eight days the bottle should be rerilled. This remedy is said to bc infallifele. - Exchange. An experienced farmer says: "The only plan I can suggest to the man who ias aot been brought up a practical 'armer is to be in the yard before his men go to work in the morning. fut every man to his irtended work quietly and agreeably. See that every horee is slaced to the right implement, and every inplement in its right place, so as to do the best and greatest areoant of culiivation with the fewest men and horses. Be on the farm as muoh as possible, and &ee that two men don't get a job that ene can do." I have seen bloated cattle quickly relieved by the insertion in the mouth of a straw rope as largeas could be got in, and tied over the head ; and in one case whcre we had several bloatert at one time on clover, one steer was down, and we thought too near dead to wait for the "rope," so we stuck a common butcher knife in his pouch. He lay well over on his side with his f our legs sticking out like sticks. He was swollen large, but the knife was foilowed by gas, like escaping steam, and it made the boys laugh to see him jump and run. - Cor. New York Tribune. Dipfbbenoe of climate has a good deal to do with thrashing and eelling grain at harvest and immediately after. In England more than half the grain of all varieties remains in the straw unthrashed till the next spring. Oats are never put in barns at h rvest; they are stacked, very neatly and caretully ;hatched by a professional laboring ;uatcher. Wheat, barley, beans and peas also are chiefly put'into ricks and ;hatched, remaining till, stack by stack, they are reqnired to be thrashed for ;he straw quite as much as for the grain, excepting where capital is short. The safest way to get rid of rats is to llave a nimble little terrier on the premises, for they will soon destroy many rats, and will make the others so wary that they will eeldom care to risk their lives. When the rats have extra fine harbors, which old buildings always afford, it may sometimes be necessary to get the services of a well-trained ferret, wbick will drive them from their retreats, when the terriërs will quickly finish them as fast as they make their appearance. The Scotch, the Skye and tan terriërs are all good ratters, naturally, thougli in point of beauty and cleanliness about the house, the black-andtan is undoubtediy ahead. Good specimens can be bought at fair prices from pioiainent breeders. - D. L. Evans, Jr. About the House. To Eenovate Black Deess Goods and Silk. - Dissolve one-half ounce of pulverized camphor and an ounce of borax in a quart of boiling water. Besuscitatino. - To bring a chilled or wet chick or young turkey to renewed liie, hold it over a smudge or smoke from a wood fire. This remedy will resuscitate a chick when so far gom; as to appear lifeless. White Cake.- One and half cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one ciip of milk, tbree eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonf al of soda, three and a half cups of flour, nufcmeg or lemon, or neither. Bepotting. - The best time for repotting plants is from the latter part of July until the niiddle of September, according to the kind of plants; some require earlier potting than others. They do not need changiug of tener than twice a year. Good candles may be made tb lts: Melt togetlier ten ounces of mutton tallow, a quarter of an oance of camphor. four ounees of beeswax, and two of alum; and then run it into molds or dip the caüdles. These candles will furnish a beautiful light. Bkeakfast Rolls Without Soda. - Two eggs, one_ and a half cupfuls of milk, a teaspoonful of salt and flour enough to make a thick batter. These must be baked in an iron gem-pan, or they will be a comphte failure. Aquick oven is desirable. To Bestoee Colob.- When color ou a fabric has been accidentally or otherwise destroyed by acid, ammonia is applied to neutralizo the acid, aiter which an application of chloroform will, ín almost all cases, restore the original color. The application of aramonia is common, but that of chloroform is but litt[e knowu. Cüreant Wine. - To a quart of juice add three quarts of water and four pounds of sugar, brown or white. Another.- Two quarts of juice and two of water, to which add four ponnds of white sngar. Mix all, and put it in a nice keg, where it had botter remain a year, though it is very good to use in sis months. Oentekniaij Mead. - Mix one quart of boiüug water, two and a quarter pounds brown sugar, two ouuces of tartario acid, and one-half pint of molaasofl. When cool add one-half ounce of bdj flavoring extoct. Two fiugers of this sirup i a glasa of ino water makes a refreshing summer drink. Serve each glass with one-quarter tca-ipoonful of bi-carbonate of soda. Fobty-seven persons died in England and Wales from hydrophobi:;. in IS 7."), and flfty-three in 1876. Ton of these vwcurvod iu Yorkshire, hix in Durham. and six iu London. The munter of deaths from this ciuse from ] 8Gfi to 1876 Bvaraged thirty-five a year, but tliey have been more numorous of late,