The Arizona sentinel., 1889-06-15
HOME AND FARM.
Look ont for the peach borer,s

It does not pay in the long run, or short run either, to buy cheap farm utensils or cheap stock. The best is the cheapest.
 Down in Texas they have super stition that an egg laid on Good Friday will never spoil. The same belief is held in New Orleans.
 Cooking dandelions in a frying pan with little water and thin slice of bacon is the latest recommended way for making healthful spring dish.
 To rid room of reaches and other insects, pour hot alum or cayenne pepper tea in the cracks, and, after closing the windows and doors, burn sulphur in an old tin pan till the fumes penetrate every part of the room.
 Two large oranges, sliced and mixed with two sliced bananas. will greatly improve the flavor ot the lat ter and will be quite sufficient for 8 breakfast for six people, as only a moderate quantity of fruit should be taken on an empty stomach.
 Baked Omelet: Beat two eggs lightly and stir in two teaspOonsful of four and half a teaspoonful of salt. Heat one cupful of milk hot and in 1t put one teaspoonful of butter. Pour the milk on to the egg, stir quickly and put into hot, buttered pudding dish and bake fifteen minutes in hot oven.
 To guard against rust on seed, soak it in strong solution of sulphate of copper. Corn should be treated in this way especially. If the spores are not destroyed the rust will appear in the crop. Too much care can not be exercised in selecting seed corn.
 When space and convenience per- nit, there is no better place for silc than in the barn. This makes it con- venient for feed and saves expense, as no roof is required. If the barn l. a basement barn. the silo may extend from the floor of the basement to the plates of the barn.-Dairy World.
 -One good fruit is worth more than several poor ones. Whoever aims to have the finest fruit must thin, begin ming soon after the fruit is set, and continuing until it is nearly full grown, ultimately removing three fourths of all set Thinning is now recognized as the key to profitable fruit growing.
 Wheat is the bestfood for animals. Oats for the horse. Corn is not good horse feed. Peas are the most nutritious food there is for stock. Corn-stalks are very carbonaceous. Milk and grass are complete foods. Wheat bran, linseed meal and cotton seed meal are the main carbonaceous foods; but they should be fed with hay.
 No sitting-room should ever be considered furnished without the pres ence of 8 good, cOmmodious scrap basket Its sides may flutter with rib- bons, or be as staid and matter-of-fact as possible. Nowadays we can have
 ny thing in this line, from the solid
 each-basket, lined with cretonne, to he most delicate wicker-work, laden with coquettish bows and exquisite flowers. Indeed, these are a blessing if placed in every room in the house, adding so much to the comfort of their inmates.
 Grating may be done even when the trees are in bloom, provided the cions are dormant At this time, when a growth has started, some form of crown-grafting is preferable to cleft grafting. At this time the bark readily from the wood, and unless great care is observed trouble some accidents may happen. The buds upon gratis will often start into growth before there is any union with the stock, growing from the moisture sup piled. just as if the ciOns were placed in water. When union has taken place the graft should be treated just as if it were a young tree planted in the soil, pruning, pinching, or otherwise shap- ing it, and cutting away all branches of the stock that may interfere with it's development American Agricult- llriSt