Year: 1879



 time of the year without woodpile to open the gates and let your stock into the fields as soon as few bare spots ap- pear; or to keep it on short rations, so that when it does go to grass two months from now it will take half the summer to get thrifty and strong. It don't pay to leave the work of mending your tools and selecting and se- curing your seed unti the day you want to use them, thereby causing costly de- lay,

 It don't payto SOW or plant poor seed because you happen to have it on hand.

 It don't pay to plant more ground than you can manure and take good care of

 It don't pay to leave weak places in the fences in the hope that the cattle won't find them; and, if you keep sheep, it don't pay to let them run at large in the spring until they become tramps and cannot be kept home by any ordinary fence.

 It don't pay to neglect cows, ewes or sows when they are dropping their young.

 It don't pay to let the spring rains wash the value out of the manure that has accumulated in the barnyard this winter.

 It don't pay to let the hens lay under the barn, steal their nests and be eaten up by skunks.

 It don't pay to work with poor tools of any kind.

 1t don't pay to leave turnips, cab bages, beets, or even apples in the cellar to rot and breed disease; for, if you have more than you can eat or sell, the stock will be profited by them.

 It don't pay to summer poor COW simply because no one comes to buy her.

 It don't pay to sell a heifer calf from your best COW to the butcher, simply because it will cost more to raise it than you can buy q scrub for next fall.

 It don't pay to leave the banking around the house until it rots the sills.

 It don't pay to be stingy in sowing grass seed, or to try to live without gar den.

 Finally, it don't pay to provoke the women by leaving them to cut the stove wood or to carry it in from the door yard, or to remind you every morning n having and hoeing that r0u must saw enough before you go to work to last through the day.-4Hrror n1ld Turner.

 The Spade in Gardening.

 fla person has only a small garden in closed by fence, rs is generally the case in 1itipa and villa nn1 ,N1y should never be brought into it. The reasons for excluding them are many In the first place. the horses are likely to do considerable damage to the shubbery, bushes and vines. A blow does not work to good advantage on small plat of ground surrounded by q fence. It can not turn all the soil, and that which is turned is left in bad shape, ridges alter mating with dead furrows. Even under the best circumstances, as when very long furrows can be turned, the blow is not equal to the spade in preparing land for root crops, which comprise the bulk of the things raised in small garden. When one has less than a half-acre of land to till, he should prepare the soil in the best manner possible.

 For preparing small plats of land for crops, there is no implement equal to the spade. With it the soil may be loosened to a greater or less depth at will Witl, spade the manure that was thrown on the surface, may be buried out of sight and put in a position where it will not only decompose quickly, but be of the greatest use to the plants it is intended to benefit. With the spade for turning the soil, there will be neither ridge nor de- pressions like those causnd by the blow. Ifthere are natural deprcssions to be fill ed up and small elevations to be levelcd down, the work may be accomplished with very little trouble while the opera ton of spading is going on. For prepar- ing hills for squashes, cucum bers and melons; for digging about the roots of trees, vines and bushes, and for properly mixing the different portions of the soil, there is no implement equal to the spade.

 For gardening purposes it is not best to have all the soil prepared for planting at one time, though this course is desirable when plat of ground is to be sown with grain, or planted with one crop through out. The period for planting garden in which variety of veg tables are to he raised extends through six or eight weeks, and there is economy of time in planting seeds in freshly prepared soil. If land has been plowed month before if IS planted it will be quite hard, while the chances are that the surface will be cover cd with weeds. To get the soil in q suit able condition to plant will call for as much time and labor as would be requir. ed to prepare it had itnever been plowed. The spade in the hands of an expert is not difficult implement to handle, and every gardener who expects to reach the highest success should become an exper in the use of the spadc.-Chieago Times

 Health Hints.

 Bous.-Boils are the result of impure blood, but one can be cured by wetting it with the spirits of turpentine few times.

 HEADACHE. - Two teaspoonfuls of powdered charcoal drank in a tumbler of warm water, will often cure severe cases of headache.

 HoT BREAD.-One of'the most iniuri- ous dietetic habits of Americans is that of eating fresh hot bread, cake and bis cult. The Prussian government compels bakers to keep their bread at least one day before selling. If Americans would follow their example, there would be fewer dyspeptics than at present.

 GROUP PREVENTIVE. - An exchange recommends the following as eroup preventive. First get piece of chamois skin, make it like little bib, cut the