Year: 1877

on their eggs quietly, but are fdgety,
and break their eggs, is that they are in
tested with lice. Use carbolic acid about
nest and hen=hotises.


A LIBERAL use of printer ink has made
many fortunes, while it has blasted the
prospects of many demagogues. But it
is recommended as preventive of the
ravages of the banker worm. Wind
stiff paper round the trees, and smear it
with printers ink. It is far better than
tar. No worm can cross it, and it does
not harden as quick as tar.


SOME planters practice the following
| plan for providing their tables with sweet
coin earlier than it can be raised by the
ordinary methods: They plant the seed
in inverted sods, and keep the young
plants under glass until the season is far
enough advanced to make transplanting
safe. The sods are cut into squares, SO
that the transplanting does not disturb
the roots.


N is said to be good plan in trans
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any other tender plant from the hot-bed,
or fro11i one place to another, to prepare
a vessel filed with niantire-water and
rich soil, about the consistency of thin
mush; with this the roots of the plant may
be well coated, and then set in hole
made with a round piece of wood or dib-
BILE. After being rather firmly planted
they should be moistened again with
manure water.


THE sooner work is begun in the gar
den the better it will be for those who are
compelled to practice economy the pres
ent year. A good garden is one-half the
battle for the subsistence of family.
These should be looked to now, as the
weather gives q good opportunity, and
the hired man, mechanic, OF others who
have little patch upon which to plant
potatoes, beans, cabbages, ETC., can raise
enough to save good many dollars dur
ing the next year.


A WELL-KNowN vegetable grower in
England tells the Gardeners Chronicle
that he partly escapes the potato dis
ease by planting the late varieties first
and the early ones last. By this plan he
says he gets the late sorts into growth
earlier, and consequently they ripen
earlier; while the earlier or quicker
growing tubers are in no way injured by
being planted month later than usual
Both crops are thus ripe before the crit
ical period arrives


KEEPING WALKS CLEAN-It often re-
quires a vast amount of hard labor to
keep walks clean from grass and weeds
by using a hoe. We have known fine
salt to be sown bountifully along drives
and walks, and we have sometimes made
use of it on ottr own grounds to keep all
vegetable growth down. The use of a
hoe is Objectionable in walks and drives,
as it is desirable to keep the surface as
compact as practicable. Salt will kill
grass of every species, and nearly all
sorts of weeds, besidess keeping the
grounds as clean as dirt. More than
this the lame and The lazy can scatter
salt, and thus keep the walks clean, when
they would not do it with hoe.


J. G. WESTON, of Bangor, Me, says
that after trial of twenty years he finds
the following method of raising peas in
a small garden the most profitable and
satisfactory &c A warm, sheltered situa-
ton is selected, and trenches are dug
about foot and half wide and three
feet apart; the bottom is filed with old
manure, which is covered with loan.
The soil being light, he then sows the
peas and covers them six inches deep
with soil. After the first hoeing the
sticks are inserted for their support The
manure imparts great vigor to the plants,
and the depth of covering prevents the
effects of drought and furnishes peas for
nearly month"; %