Agricultural And Domestic

VJdviü Lile pvUllíy BIltu.lt Tomatobs aio good for ohicks. Elmira (N. Y.) farmers have proved by repeatsd experiments that " tliorough summer faüowing " is a gure way to rid fields of Ganada thistloB. When commeneing yonr agricultura! life, remeraber that industry, economy and integrity will insure success, and forra the best capital tbat eau bc employed. Tibe soü of a garden for the growth of common species of shrubs, perennials and annuals, should be a rich Jofim. If any plants require sand it can easily be gupplied. Expeiuence toaches us that the way to raise turkeys successfully is to give the whole charge of the flock to the mother hen, giving her fiee range to go and come at mil, Shear your sheep at the season when you ehed your coat for the season. Then be careful that some smart " traveling agent " does not pull the wool over your eyes and shear you. Jp you have convienent trees by all means let yo-ar young chickens roost in thom during the summer and early fall. Their condition when cold weather comes will repay your trouble. The average chemical composition of the flesh of poultry, when flt for the market., in 100 parts is 74 parts water, 21 parts nitrogenous or flesh forming, 3.8 parts fat and 1.2 of salt. Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant expresses the opinión that the growing of wheat in drills and cultivating by horse-power in the spring will be fonnd of such marked advantage as to justify attention to this erop, even in New England and other sections where its general culture has long been discontinued. Mh. M. B. Bateham, of Ohio, not having any soft soap at hand, cut a quarter of a pound of hard soap in thin slices, diiïsolved it in warm water, added an ounce of crude carbolic acid (costing a dime), stirred the whole into half a pail ol water, sprinkled it over infested currant bushes with a whisk-broom, so as to wet all the worms visible, and the next day scarcely a live one could be found. John T. Hendebson, of Pulton, Ark., writes to the Republican to say that he has discovered a certain cure for hog cholera. He gets an ounce of strichnine, divides it into eight equal parts and adds to each part one-half teaspoonful of calomel, and puts the mixture into sweet milk, or anything that hogs will eat. One part will serve for twenty hogs, and wiil cure them, Mr. Henderson says, in any stage of the disease. - St. Louis Republican. Growbto Extraordinary - . 3ome specimens of wheat have been handed us by Mr. W. H. Fouter, of Brookline, Mass., and they are of unususllyfine growth. Mr. .Foster plantod the seed singly one foot apart eaoh wuy, and when the plaats matured as many as forty-eight well-headed stalks five feet eight inches in height were found growing frcm a single seed. Mr. Foster estimates that if he had seeded an acre he would have required but 3 pounds of seed, while if the seed had been sown broadcast 120 pounds would hu-a been needed. He used common manure, and the variety of seed was the common Western wheat. This interesting experiment demoHstrates, in the opinión of Mr. Fosier, thafc thin seeding of wheat is much preferable to the ordinary broadast sowing. Certainly the experiment is worth trying on a large scale, ar.d, if the resnl'fc is satisfactory, it will bean important f act to ■wheat growers. - MasaachuseUs Plowman. Noxious Insects and "Wobms. - Frequent cultivating, if thoronghly dono, will destroy millions of cut worms while in the larva state. Cut worms do not come into the world already grown, just as our corn is gettir.g well to growing, but they have been living for weeks upon the weeds and grass which we allow to grow in our fields early in the spring. If one would keep his cornfleld thoroughly cultivated, an the weeds and grass from growiug, before planting and honing time, he would flnd fewer worms to eat his corn during the summer. So, if he can destroy the eggs of grasshoppers and crickets before they hatch, by exposure to the elementa, or if he can make his fields barren of vegetation for a few days just as they are hatching, he can check them very materially. The white grub is anotlier insect which can be starved or otherwise destroyed by repeated cultivation. Kill every green thing in and on the grotmd by a week or ten days of plowing and cultivating, and every insect that depends upon leaves or roots must die. The parent insect deposits her eggs just where the young larvse can flnd suitable food as soon as hatched. If we take this away, we as effeetually kill the yoang as we would a new-born calí or lamb by taking it away from. ite mother, and not otherwise providing for it. - New Eagland Farmer. About the House. A. transparbnt mucilage of great tenacity may be made by mixing rice flour with cold water, and letting it gently sinimer over tb e flre. Teanspaebnt Pies.- Line two plates with crust and fill with a mixture oomposf d of three eggs, two table-spoonfuls of jelly and one of butter, beatón together. Whortlebeery Cake. - Beat two eggs with one cup of sugar; stir in half the quantity of butter, and one cup of milk. Sift one teaspoonful of soda in four cups of ílour; add a pinch of salt, and one pint of fresh whortleberries. Eat ifc warm. Good Giageb Oookies - One cupful of molafises, one cupful of sugar, twothirds of a cupful of shortemng, twothirds of a cupful of buttormilk, two teaspoonf uls of ginger, two teaspoonfuls of soda, and roll as soft as possible without sticking. Chintz Odbtains.- In using cretonne or chintz for curtains the right side should be in the room. It is customary to lmo such curtaitis with colored silesia, buff, blue or rose color, to matck the ground of the chintz, and this makes a pretty show on the outside. Cjveaning Cistebn Water. - Add two ounces powdered alum and two ounces bórax to a twenty-barrel cistern of rainwater that is blackened or oily, and in a few hours the sediment will settle, and the water be clarífled and fit for washing and even for cooking purposes. Viotobias.- One cupful sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in one pint of water; beat butter and sugar together, add the water, stir in enough flour to make a thin batter; bako on a hot griddle without turning over; butter each one the instant it is done. Nice for lunch. Oream Pies - Six eggs, two cupfuls of sng.ir, two teaspoorf uls cream tartar, two teaspoonf uls of soda in one and ahalf cupfuls cold milk; this will fill four jc'ly-cake tina; bake like jelly cake, and spread with the " 3ream" made as follows: toe pint milk, one cupful sugar, two teaspoonfuls corn starch; lemen or vanilla flavor; when cold serve for dessert.