The Farm

. I f your little cbickens are drooping, try lard and sulphur. The cause is very Hkely to be lice, and not any more compücoted discMsc. To preserve potatoes, they should be dried as Beon as possible, and placed imniediately in a position from which tlie sunlight is excluded. 1'he amount of hay required per liead per day for cattle, wiiilein transit from Hoston to Liverpool, is about flfteen pounds, or 210 pounds for 14 days. A cargo of G00 head would require about 63 tons of hay for the voyage. Those whohave the means of knowing, are positive that Pennsylvania has suffered a loss of fully $500,000 from pleuro - pneumonía. ïhis loss, it is averred, has fallen mainly on the farmers and dairymen in l'hiladelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties. Snow melia away upqn drained lands sooner than on those undrained, henee the drained soils are ready for ploughLng imich soonor. In Scotland it is Olaimed that the harvest is from ten to flfteen days earlier on drained than on undrained lands. Thisisonly one out of many advantages resulting from a good system of drainage. One reason why hens lay so few eggs in the winter, is that they are almost always insufficiently fed. When the ground is bare, and they can scratch around for themselves, hens are eating pretty much all the time, and few persons realize how large an amount of food of one kind and another they manage to stow away in thecourseof aday. In cold weather more feeding is required simply to sustain life, and uidess very liberally supplied it is impossible for thein to lay. There are several methods of destroying lice on cattle. A very simple and liai niless one is to apply an infusión made with quassia. Procure from a druggist a portion, say J lb. of quassia ellips; place them in a vessel and pour either cold or tepid water on them; the infusión is ready to use as soon as it becomes deeidedly bitter, and is to be applied by washing the parts of the animáis most affected by the parasites. The infusión is not poisonous, and cattle may lick themselves ás usual without danger. New Jersey has an area of about 5200 acres devoted to cranberry culture in Camden, Burlington, Ocean, Atlantic, Monmouth and Middlesex counties, and it is estimated that there are fully 19,000 acres of land in these counties especially adapted to the cultivation of this fruit. At present there are about 12,000,000 invested in the business. It is claimed that the JTew Jersey berries excel in flavor those of any other section of the country. The rot and the ■srald" are the two principal obstacles to contend with in raising tlie fruit, the cultivation of whicli is extended every year, though it is not so profltable as formerly. To grow pigs suceessfully and profitably requires that they should have a good appetite, good digestión, and strong assimilating powers, whicli can not be found tri any breed without vigorous healtli. If a pig be kept for a considerable time in a cold, wet, dirty pen, on bad lood and short allowanee, until the character and quality of secretions are changed, and the general growth of the pig is checked, that pig will not make a good breeder. By sub sequent good care, this pig may grow to be a fine-looking liog, and as a breeder may not show the check it has received, but abuse will be pretty sure to erop out in its offspring, causing late maturity, deficiency in size, or fattening qualities.