Various Suggestions

There are a number of good practices which farmers might be induoed to ailopt if orcasionally reminded of them. Anioug theni wu give thefollowing: Coppcr wire and copper straps are often yery convenient and of much use in repairing tools, doors, gratos and part of buildings. Coppcr wiro is about as easily handled as twinc, and is moro iwyielding and durable. Its llexibility gives it great advantage over ron wire, and it does not rust. Copper straps for nailing are better than leather on one hand and hoop iron on the other. Copper tacks are good for mending oíd harness, as they are easily clinched. Próvido boxes or shelves with aiartments, and place in appropriato divksions, distirutly marked, all refuse screws, nails, bolts, rivets, staples, tacks, etc., and repleuish them as needed by pnrokftSAS at hardware stores, procuring all the kinds and sizes you ever want. Such things always at hand, costing perhaps but a few cents, may save you dollars in time whon repair is needed at a busy time and laborers are waiting. Teach every person in your employ, as well as yourself, always to put every tooi back in its place as sooii as done with, no matter how great a hurry he may be in. Better spare half a minute now in doing so, than for you to hunt half an huur with a team or man waiting. We know men who waste whole days in Üie aggregale in lmnting for misplaced tools, and in asking eight or ten different persons on the place wherc thev are. Keep your cellar properly and well drained; allow no decaying matter in it; prohibit the throwiug of slops in puddles at the back door, and nevei allow sink pipes to beeonie choked ot to eruit foul air. Much of the aickness in the country is caused by sucli bad air. Keep all the hinges and latches about the house oiled, to prevent wear and sejueaking. Go over them once a week with oil aad feather; muke regular work of it. Keep gates properly greased at lateh and hinges, and see that they do not sag. The labor of dragging a saggiug gate is as hard as it useless. Use coal ashes or wood dust, or both, in all your vaults daily. This will prevent all bad odor, re idering the cleaning iis easy as shoveling saud. and will prevent all danger of wolls becoming poisonod by the drainage. üive pure waler to uiimals. Cow are sometime watèred fiom wes in the manuri; yard containing impurities, and the milic is thus more or loss defiled and poisoned, the butter taiute.l, and the ownci' wonders wiiy his fam ly suffers so much f rom siokness. lf you expeet good healthy pigs and wholesome pork, let them have pure water, pure lood and coustantly clean qnarters We have actually seen the careless and dirty character of some farmers photographiid in their til t li pig-peOs. Use petroleunias a preservativo of all exposed woodwork and tools. It is very cheap, and penétrate- the po res. It is good for all wood buildings gc#d lor gates, farm w.iirons, rakes and forks, and for all rustir work exposed to weathor. It will pay its coBt back again at least one tbousaad per cent. On rainy days. exam nu your moivers and reapers, and all oihei' maohinery o! a similar character; clear ott' all the grease on the axles which has been hardened with dust, and put all in good running order. Keroseue applied to such parts will enable you to ciean them easily. When any tooi, harness, wagon, or anvtliing else, breaks, do not wait till you neea it for use bofore repairing il, bui get it mended at once. If a horse lte; a shoe, do not wait till lie 'oecomes lame, but have it set immediately. - Qottntry (icntluman. - Grated Ham Sandwiches. - Grate linitly is much well-cooked ham as you are likely U require, flavor it with a very little cayenne and some nutmeg. KoÜ out 8omo good puit' paste very thinly, cut it into twoperfeotlyeven portions, priok in one or tvvi plaoes to prevent it rising too highlv, and hakc in a ijuick oven till of a golden bioun. Then take out and let it stand until cool, whun spread a little frc.sh putter lightly over the whole. This shmild not be done lili tlit paste is perfeetly cool. Now spread Iho grated ham evenly over the paste, lay the second piece of pull' paste ovor it, and with a very sharp knife cut into small-sized sandwiches, 'l'his is a charniing supper-dish. M.vuy Pvat . ejected John K. Arnold's ofi'ers of marriage for a long timo, at Kimberlv, Pa., but lus was persistent, and Kt lengtb she oooawitöd. Thern was : greftt wedding, and the couple went off on a tour. Vfter a week the bride returned to hoi lionip, déolaring in1 ha'l norecóllection of anvthing een her last refusal of Arnold and hor awakenhjg to iir.il. t.') her great surpriso :i:nl disbleiïsilrè, th:t she wai his wifo. She irtsists thrit sho ivas om ot hi'r mimi during 'thé interval, and dftcliuvs to oven see her huslimnl. A siiot:t tim" ngo tny poultrv honse Was swarininir with lire: il eould not be ciilcrnl v.iih.i'il hWVÍng thfl clothing gray with insi'i-ts herevanone touchon tht! nests or roosts, If i hen bruahed friy hand with vving, docena oí lice cbuld lie se.en ruun n tover il. Indeed, So desperate did affairs bécomo thai even lo lonk ál thc ]:t)ulii-v House produceri a Bens&tion ol tftuwling thins Swahbiiifi tlic nxisi.-. .■md spriaklinu' the nests uiUi kerosene luid uo perceptible effect. Futnigating wiili gas-tar añil gulphnr met with no better sücceSs. Thc. yüiinost lu'ooils ol ohickeDS'gTéw weaU, ixtoped around tor a time, and íinullv died. Sonie of the heus also gave evident signs of weakness, aud tlioir comba tnrned ft siekly cöloir. At this stage of allairs I appiie.l for a remecly lo a friend notetl in ponltryvaisiiii.1' .'is well as in otliui" thiigs (l'rof. J. 15. Turner). I learaed tlmi twentj yearè before 6ë had pain teel the incide of his poultiy house with gas-taV, and, nlt'hoiigh keeping constanllv a large humbei of fowls, had not bèea trouble i with liee sinee. 1 got i few juarts ol' gastar from the gas wojckfl, at the ratc oí ten cents per gallón. ïhis tar ia about the cbnsistency of v.vw naint. and was readilvajiplird toth"Q ins'nio walls oï my hen honse - with an old whisk bruoni - as high up as tbfl toattfl extended; the insidë of the ncsls and the foosts u'eiv alio thoroughly coated with tar. Tliis was done on tlic nfórhing of a clear day. and b. Öight tlie house was dry enough for the chiekens to toóM In it. lietore the tar jeaï app i(il tlie old nesting material was removed) and the Hoor. whieh is of dirt. w.-i vval] 3crapöl and sprinkled witli w'opd ashès. The chiekens hop-n to Inlröve irom that time forth. and in iess than t w liotan insect m-1 was lobefound about the house or chkkeus. - Qor. A'. ) Tribune.