Agricultural And Domestic

Lice on Stock. - Calves and yearings, and cows and oxon as wcll, when nfested wilh lice, sliould be freed at mee by rubbing Üio skin with a mixtïrc of B#eet oil and kerosene in cqual t&rte. -Exchonge. The eailier grase lands ure topIressed in Uu: autumn the bfsttéi foj the ïext year's grass. There is 110 botter ila.c for fine manure tban gnase land, ispecially where in tlio rotation the neadow is regularly brought into tillage crops. Two on three quarts of -"as ïear icc-cold as it is possible, toget"tdded to tho cream toward Uie end of churning, will, says Col. Curtís, in the Weekly Rural, "canso tbc 1 tutter to gathei a great deal qtiiöker, and come liard and firm." Tlic temperábate of liis cellar is (i-í degrees, and the water osed as aboye piobably two légreos coldcr. The followiug uro tlie .steps of quick transit in the upward march of catüe improvement : Tlio produce of a common or "sorub" cow bya tkorojjgh-bred buil would bc a halí-blood: tliis lutlfblood and a fhoroupli teèd again coupled would produce a tlinr quarterblood; the next cross would be seveneigliths, and the next a lif teen-si xtee n (lis. ÏHE GbüB IN ÏHE Hk.Ui. Sojiic; montlis ago Mr. Crabb, of Oakvillc, Napa eounty, told me bis remedy Waë l batlio the head witli spirits of turpentine. I have bcon experknenting recently with several slieep affitcted with the above-named disease. After batliing the head well between the osirs, I pourcd one tcaspoonful into each ear. Belief was nianifested immediately. In a few days they were perfectly wcll. - Letter to San Francisco ('la-on iele. Goats YivKsrs Bats.. - It is a verv prevalent opinión that rafs will nol, 8tay where goats are kept, and, if this is a fact, wc must say we respect tlieir judgment. We cannot say from our mvn knowledge as to this, but a i'riend whp somc years ago took a farm that was overrun with rats assures us that they have disappearcd since somc Angoia goats were brought on to the premiaes. Our own farm was at onc time infested with rats, but they disappearcd pon the application of vigorous measures, although no goat was upon the place. So the question has two points of view, and may be eonsidered a doubtful one. -American Atjricullitrixt. The Germán way of prolonging tho enjoyment of l'resh currants is to train the plant in tree form, and when the frnit is ripe - not dead ripo - jnqlose with a cono of tall straw, not thick cnough tó cxcludc air, tying at the top. In the absence of straw, clotha niay be used. A correspondent says that the adoption of this plan enabled him to piek delicious currants so late as Octobor. The Prairie Farmer reminds its readers that the same rcsult is secured by setting the bushes on the north side of a high fencc, in the shade of trees, not forgetting to givc some liquid manure during the scason of growth. Mr. B. H. Warnek, of Livingston eounty, N. T., says, in a letter to liural Home, that the fertility of his farm, and many others, has been kept up by plowing undcr clover, by laying blind drains, by use of improved implements, by f ree application of piaster, and by feeding out iniostly to shecp, which were sokí off bcfore grass-time in the spring, horses and cattle enough being kept to run the farm), all hay, straw. com-stalks and coarse grains raiscd (and moie, it' requircd), and using the manurc in tlie right time and. place. Has boüghl Üo commevcial fertilizers imtil the last hm years - these years with good results. Eveky So mnchmay bc: accomplished in the spare minutes! If the farmer, while he is waiting for his dinncr to bc " dishcd up," would nail on tüat loóse paüng to tiio garden-gare, or do live minutes' wórk on the doorstep which nceds repairing, or tack up the vine which the storm has beatón down, hc will f cel none the worsc for it wlicn he sits down to dinner, and yet tlie piece of work will give him satisfartiou every time hc think.s of it. More fchan this, the mended gate will keep the ehickens from destroying the garden, thus saving him dollars of money and hours of time. The mended step inay save some mombers of the household a heavy fall, and perhaps broken boiies. ïhe vine over the window gives ai air of refinement to the house. The ïéssón can be apjilied in-dooi"s as wèll as ont. Tln womaa that is qnick to observe little things that need doing, "who mends garments ax soon as possible afler they are torn - who does nót think it too mnch troublo to get her needle and thread and sew a reut up in au odd rivo minutes -will never have her meeding basket piled np so high it half distracts her to look at it. The old ftdagé; "a stiteh in time saves ninfi" is as true as ever it was.