Evening star., 1869-08-31
HOUSEHOLD AND COUNTRY,

Land req uires more time 10 revive its fer.
tilIty thar is generally given IL.
- Miss Anna Smith, a Mills county. Iowa,
sri OF nineteen, Is working farm Of 100 acres
on her own account.
AN experienced English drainer says
properly laid underdrain will work well with
q fall OF one inch in seven hundred feet
-Under.drainage, strange enough in one
seLse, works Well both ways: in wet weather il
rs indispensable-in dry weather i: prevents
ScoIching by the heat.
No breed Of fowls are the equals of the
light Brahma5 in hardness, production of
eggs, and poultry tor the market. For early
market, winter laying, and hardness, they
have no superior.
during July, fifty farms in Alabama. EN-.
oIacing 4,264 acres, were added to tue produc-
nye area OF that State under the operation of
the homestead law.
If breeders, with their pigs, are confined in
small yards during the summer, and fed on
grain alone, it will take of the former TO make
shadow IN the tall, while the latter will be
% sIlaii and poor, and go into winter quarters
When milk is allowed to sour before il Is
SKINNED, the Iayer OF cream appears more
bulky and of greater consistency, but it does
not produce so much nor so good a quality of
butter Is cream properly raised from milk be-
fCTe II sOurs.
The seeds Of the plum, apple, potato, &C.
VIII not bring the same kind of fruit that they
Were taken from. 1t is only by grating the
former, and planting the potatoes, that we get
The fruit we desire.
All seeds are very plentiful at the West
this year. and he farmers who believe in the
theory that nature will take care of the seed
ihe year after they are provided, are looking
Tor large crops next year.
To insure The production Of q good loaf of
bread, the fiour should be from sound grain,
the yeast sweet, the dough well kneaded and
the baking so managed as to insure the thor
ough heating of the loaf to the temperature of
2l2 degrees Fahrenheit.
cherries were so plenty in Putnam county,
Ohio, this year, that hundreds OF bushels were
permitted to rot on the trees, the owners
not having time to gather them even the price
had been high enough 70 justify picking them.
The Niceroy of EEypt is said to have in
operation 30 sets of steam ploughing machin-
recent remarkable increase In Egyptian cotton
pTCduCt ton has been attained, and the quantity
Oi the fibre improved
- Messrs- Hamilton & Sons, of Toronto,
have succeeded IN producing the long desired
rotary engine. He thinks IT can be afforded I
one-fourth the cost Of ordinary engines, and
nat less skill Will he required TO run it, A
~ horse power will occupy space OF five
II VIII meet a want long felt by farmers and
Others who need a small steam power.
Salt undoubtedly aids digestion, and con-
tributes 70 the healthy performance OF the an
mai functions and a regular and bountiful
~upply Oft Is not only useful. but very graft
Tying 20 all our domestic animals, aud more
especially at that season Of the year when their
iood Is most Juicy and sueeulent.
The question whether we shall cultivate
cur bearing orchards or not seems 10 be about
settled tor US by the apple worm. Near, or
quite ali observing men adopt the theory that
logs IN apple orchards present a very great
obstacle 10 the propagation OF this pest OF the
iIuit-grOwer. When all accept and practi-
cally apply the remedy, We need have little to
ear from the second brood, and much less from
he first.