Year: 1877

to one half with barley water forms
one of the best articles of food fol
infants, when it is necessary to
bring them up artlficially.


The best treatment for slight
burns is to apply cotton batting
soaked with a liniment made OF
equal parts of linseed oil and lime
water. Be careful not to break the
blisters, should any form.


A simple and effectual remedy
for ivy poisoning is said to be sweet
spirits Of nitre. Battle the affected
parts freely two or three times du-
ring the day, and the next mornin g
scarcely any traces of the poison
will reman.


To cure corns take a lemon and
roll 1t until soft; cut a thick slice
and bind it on the corn at night.
In the morning, if white and disin-
tergrated, pull it out with your fin
ger nails. Sometimes several ap
plications will be necessary.


Horse radish is said to be a sim
pie and effectual remedy for neural
gia Crate and mix it in vinegar,
the same as for table purposes,
and apply to the temple when the
face or head is affected, or the
wrist when the pain is in the arm
or shoulder.


The editor Of the London Horti
culturist asserts that among all the
fertilizers proposed for the grape,
none embody more of the necessary
ingredients than bone meal. 1t
should be applied as early in the
season as possible. About a ton
to the acre makes a dressing that
will prove valuable in two or three
years.


An Englishman, several members
of whose family had been sick with
typhoid fever, had room re-pa
pered, and found that there were
no less than twenty five wall papers
on the wall The presence of this
mass of decomposing paste and pa
per sufficiently accounted for the
disagreeable smell that was notice
able, although drains and water
closets were well-trapped.


Hog cholera can be wholly pre-
vented by feeding plentiful supply
of wood Goals and ashcs. and Civ
ing the hog copperas in their drink
in proportions to one-half pound to
ten of them. Farmers will find that
hogs will leave any food, to eat
Goals and ashes, 1t will be neces
sary to partake of the copperas wa
ter freely.


An experiment extending through
five years, made by a fruit grower
shows that the best time to prune
fruit trees is early in the spring, be
fore the sap begins to flow freely
The experiment was made with {
branch one inch in diameter cut
from tree on the first day of eacl
month in the year, and il established
the fact that. those cut in February
and March, just before the swell o
buds, decayed least.


Agriculture is an employmen
the most worthy Of the application
of men-the most ancient and tho
most suited to his nature. 1t is
the common nurse of all persons il
every age and condition of life; it Is
the source of health, strength, plen
ty and riches and of a thous
and sober delights and honest pleas
ures. 1t is the mistress and schoo
of sobriety, temperance, justice, re
ligion, and, in short, of all virtues
civil and military.


Should cattle be ct any time il
danger Of choking by reason of an,
foreign substance in the throat
take fine chewing tobacco enough
to make q ball as large as a hem
egg; dampen it with molasses, 81
that it can be compressed into a ball
and will adhere closely; elevate tn
animals head, pull out the tongue
and crowd the ball as far down tn
throat as possible. In fifteen min
utes it will cause sickness and vom
lting, relaxing the muscles so tha
the potato, or whatever may b.
choking it, will be thrown up.


The more abundant the food sup
piled to beasts, the better the quail
lty and the larger the quantity o
manure which is produced. Beast
fed on good, nutritious food, give
much more valuable manure thai
when fed upon indifferent kinds o
| food. The manure OF young ami
mails is less valuable than that iron
mature animals, as the young re
quire both organic and inorgani
food in larger quantities than full
grown beasts, which have only t.
keep up their weight and condition
by the food they eat.