Year: 1877

Hints About Work.


PLow1Na. but a fertile soil
should be turned over very deeply. At
this season, this should be well remem-
bered, because there is no time for the
weather to mellow the fresh soil. For
spring crops, the soil should be turned
up mellow and rich, that the seed may
push into active growth at once.


FERTILIZERS. For the reasons just
mentioned, fertilizers for use on spring
crops should be such as are quickly solu-
BILE, and readily taken up by the plant.
Now that the uncertainty in regard to
the quality of Peruvian guano has been
removed, this is perhaps the best special
fertilizer to use without previous expert
ment.
I LIVE Stock. One of the most encour-
aging events of late, has been the open
ing of an export trade of beef and NUT
|: ton to England. If this succeeds, and
grows, as now seems probable, it will
provide a way out Of our heretofore
greatest difficulties. Instead of growing
and exporting grain, we shall grow and
use it ourselves, and export the produce.
This will leave our farms in-much better
plight. To meet this new demand, our
stock must be improved in. quality, by
the use of pure bred bulls and rams, and
increased in quantity, by sparing the
heifer calves and eve lambs from slaugh-
ter.


RAISING HORSES. As has always been
the case in the past, the increasing use
of steam engines makes more work for
horses, and horses of the working kind
are scarce. It is a question worth con-
sidering, if it would not be better to keep
mares upon the farms for breeding, in
stead of selling them to work in the
cities, where their productive powers are
not used. We have found mares equally
serviceable with horses for farm work.
and an annual colt will nearly pay for a
mares feed.


Brood mares, if rightly managed, may
come in after the springs work is over,
and can raise colt before the fall work
comes on. If the colt comes in June,
the mare is well able to plow and harrow
until the middle of May, and will be
ready for work again by the time haying
begins. But at this season a brood
mares work should be steady, although
it may be hard. Violent, jerky, and
long continued work is what Injuries her.


YOUNG STOCK. the change of feed
comes on, care must be exercised in re-
gard to young animals. 1t is best to turn
them on to grass for an hour or two
daily, before the pasture becomes full.
Well conditioned yearhngs are in more
danger than poorer ones, and with them
greater care should be taken.


SPRING CRoPs.-Where the lateness
OF the season has not permitted the SOW
ing of spring crops, the hints given last
month will be applicable.


PLASTER. bushel of ground gypsum
per acre will be found very useful ap-
plication for young clover, or for oats,
when they are little above ground.
Gypsum is useful for it's own constitu-
ents, without depending upon it's absorp-
ton of ammonia from the air. All the
ammonia we get that way will be very
poor help. At fifty cents a bushel, plas-
ter is q cheap fertilizer for clover, oats,
or corn.-Agricult,Tist.


Domestic Recipes.


VEAL CAKE.-This is a pretty, tasty
dish for supper or breakfast, and uses
up any cold veal which you may not care
to mince. Take away the brown outside
of your cold roast veal, and cut the
white meat into thin slices. Have also a
few thin slices of cold ham and two hard
boiled eggs, which also slice, and two
dessert spoonfuls of finely chopped par
sley. Take an earthenware mold, and
lay veal, ham, eggs and parsley in alter
nate layers, with little pepper between
each, and sprinkling of lemon on the
veal. When the moldseems full, bake for
hall an hour. Turn out when cold. If a
proper shape be not at hand, the veal cake
looks very pretty made in plain pie
dish.


CLEANING CARPETS. Take q pail OF
water, and add to it three gills OF OK
gall. Rub it into the carpet with soft
brush. It will raise lather, which
must be washed off with clear, cold wa
ter. Rub dry with clean cloth. In
mailing down carpet after the floor has
been washed. be certain that the floor is
quite dry, or the nails will rust and in
jure the carpet. Fuller's earth is used
for cleaning carpets, and weak solutions
of alum or soda are used for reviving the
colors. The crumbs of hot wheaton
loaf rubbed over carpet have been
found effective.


PoT AU FEU.-Take shin of beef or
cold beefsteak or roast meat of any kind;
add the same quantity of grated carrots,
which gives a flavor and nice color, and
add turnips, potatoes, little Drowned
-four, plenty of salt and pepper, little
garlic, half an onion and some parsley.
Boil two or three hours, and strain after
all is cooked. This will be found de-
ightful soup. The soup should be kept
on the range all the time. Throw in
ends of meat and poultry, outside
leaves of cabbage, green tops of celery,
etc.


A SAFEGUARD AGAINST RATs.-They
are accomplished rope walkers, and are
able to make their way even along very
small cords. Consequently, SO long as
they can mount upon the lines, nothing
edible suspended therefrom is safe from
their attacks. A correspondent uses
wires, upon which circular pieces of tin
are strung, and hangs his meat, grain,
etc., between the tin pieces. The rats
cannot pass the tin circles, because as
they attempt to climb over them after